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Venerable, The Otesaga Evolves As Times Change Otesaga General Manager Jim Miles pauses in the hotel’s elegant lobby.

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth of eight profiles of the first inductees into the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce’s Hall of Fame. By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN

hough central heating and telephones are hardly luxuries today, 108 years later, The Otesaga is still reinventing how to bring old world charm to a modern hotel. The Freeman’s Journal “People come up here and they

A smiling Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch and Lou Allstadt celebrate their reelection to the Cooperstown Village Board.

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ncumbent Trustees Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch and Lou Allstadt were reelected to the Village Board Tuesday, March 21, tallying 318 and 285 votes respectively. Second-time challenger John Sansevere got 104 votes, fewer than the 131 he garnered in 2015, but he drove turnout well over 300, a recent record. In 2014, when there was no contest, only 94 people voted. COUNTIES SPARED: U.S. Rep. John Faso was among five Upstate Republican congressmen who got a Medicaid Local Share Limitation included in the Obamacare replacement act to prevent New York State from passing an estimated $2.3 billion in Medicaid reductions on to counties like Otsego. NOTABLE PASSING: J. Mason Reynolds, former president of Bendix and a Cooperstown resident since retiring in the 1990s, passed away in Stuart, Fla., Saturday, March 18. Obituary forthcoming. IN APPRECIATION: For tribute to former county Rep. Betty Anne Schwerd, R-Edmeston, who passed away Saturday, March 18, see B6

say, ‘I can’t believe I’m still in New York,’” said General Manager Jim Miles. “The air smells fresher, the stars are brighter, they’re just totally relaxed. They say it’s like stepping back in time.” The Otesaga is one of eight local businesses in the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce’s first Hall of Fame class, to be honored April Please See OTESAGA, A6

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4-Town Merger Positions County For $20M Award From Ashes,

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By JIM KEVLIN

uring the go-go years after the American Revolution removed the threat of Indian raids and settlers poured in from crowded New England, the Otsego County towns of Maryland, Westford and Decatur were born in 1808 from the mother town, Worcester. After a half-century of going-going years in Upstate New York, what was may be again. Governor Cuomo’s Department of State has rolled out a Municipal Consolidation & Efficiency Competition, and the four south Please See MERGER, A3

A tearful Emily Welsh, Oneonta, shares memories of Milford’s First United Methodist Church during a service a week after it burned.

In Church Fire’s Wake, 4 Congregations Gather

If Passed, Trump’s Budget Would Hit County Poor Hard

By JIM KEVLIN MILFORD

ludgeoned by a raging all-night fire on Sunday, March 12, Milford’s First United Methodist Church Pastor is beyond repair. Barrett But the three stained-glass windows that were a source of inspiration to Pastor Sylvia Barrett the morning after the fire – particularly, on depicting Christ at Gethsemane – can likely be saved as a centerpiece in a replacement church, if and when it is built. Please See CHURCH, A7

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Mom Logan Schultes, now living in Otego, brought her family to the congregation where she grew up for the first service after the fire. With her is husband Philip, dad Lorin Campbell, and daughters Macie, 9 months, and Cellie, 2½.

f Congress were to pass the Trump administration’s “skinny budget,” Dan Maskin of Oneonta, the general in Otsego County’s battle against poverty, his Opportunities for Otsego would have to shut its doors. “If all of those were zeroed out, that could be the ball game,” said Maskin, OFO’s chief executive officer. More optimistically, he added, “I don’t anticipate it’s going to be even close to that.” Trump’s 2018 budget calls for the Please See OFO, A7

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GOP Backs Ruffles For Treasurer To Succeed Democrat Dan Crowell

‘Call to Action’ Rallies Opiod Summit

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he Otsego County Republican Committee over the weekend unanimously endorsed Allen Ruffles, Democratic treasurer Dan Crowell’s deputy, for county treasurer. “We are very pleased to have a candidate of this caliber,” said GOP County Chair Vince Casale. “Allen’s experience is second to none. He will be a great candidate and certainly a tremendous asset to our county as our treasurer.” The endorsement, made at a Saturday morning meeting at The Elm Inn, means Ruffles’ name will appear on the Republican ballot line in November. Ruffles, who grew up in Edmeston and now resides in Cooperstown, was Key Bank’s Cooperstown branch manager when Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal he was recruited by Crowell last August as Dr. Andrew Kolodny, center, co-director of opioid policy research at his deputy. At the time, he was an indeBrandeis University, was keynoter Friday, March 17 at a CNY Heroin & pendent, and was solicited by both parties Opioid Key Stakeholder Summit: “A Call to Action,” sponsored by Bassett before deciding to register as a Republican. Healthcare and Leatherstocking Collaborative Health Partners at The OteIn announcing March 7 that he won’t run saga. Others, from left, are James Anderson, PhD, moderator of the Community Response Panel, Dr. Richard Brown, Bassett outpatient psychology, again, Crowell nonetheless “wholeheartstate Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, a co-sponsor, Dr. Brian White, Bassett edly” endorsed Ruffles to succeed him. interventional pain management, Julie Dostal, PhD, LEAF executive direc“I am please to have the endorsement of tor, and Dr. Steven Heneghan, Bassett chief clinical officer. the Otsego County Republican Committee,” said Ruffles, who plans to make an official ON DEAN’S LIST: Lindsay Harloff of Fly Creek, announcement shortly. “I look forward to starting my campaign and getting a chance is on the President’s List at Genesee Community College to meet even more of the great people of this county.” for the fall semester.

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Allen Ruffles, right, when County Treasurer Dan Crowell announced his appointment as deputy treasurer last August.

The candidate has an associates degree in Liberal Arts from Broome Community College, a bachelor’s in education from SUNY Oneonta and a master’s in Geoscience from Mississippi State University. He was a teacher at Laurens Central School for five years. Then, a licensed financial adviser, he was an agent for New York Life in Syracuse for three years, before returning to the county in early 2016. Allen has been an engineer in the New York Army National Guard since 2013. He and wife Amy have two children, Cooper, 3, and Mia, 8. His parents are Allen Ruffles of Edmeston and Laura Bennett of Edmeston.

Zamelis Pro Bono Work Recognized

ttorney Douglas Zamelis, Springfield Center, was recognized for his pro bono work at the New York State Bar Association’s 16th annual Justice for All Luncheon Jan. 26 at the New York Hilton Zamelis Midtown in New York City. Zamelis was among 50 individual attorneys statewide in the Empire State Counsel program begun in 2007. A graduate of Cornell with a master’s from the SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry and a law degree from Syracuse University, Zamelis practiced law in Syracuse area, often in the area of environmental regulation, until opening his local office four years ago. Raised in Cooperstown, he is the son of Maria and Wendell Tripp of Cooperstown.

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4-Town Merger Positions County For $20M Award east Otsego County towns are among the contenders for piece of a $20 million prize. Otsego is competing for the money with Chautauqua, Montgomery and Ulster counties, and Brookhaven, the largest town in Long Island’s Suffolk County, but four towns – that Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA & The Freeman’s Journal Sullivan really piqued Former county Rep. Don Lindberg, now Worcesthe state’s in- ter town supervisor, has come to see possibiliterest, said Karen Sullivan, ties of a possible four-town merger. county planning director, the county board, veteran who is shepherding the local four towns. Decatur has the smallest county Rep. Donald Lindapplication. population of any county berg departed, returning to The local plan, due at town, 353. If the four comhis hometown of Worcester the Department of State bined, the new town would as supervisor. At first he reon June 28, will also look have 5,338 people, and sisted the consolidation, but at a central garage for the become the second largest has warmed up to the idea. county Highway Departmunicipality after the City “You can’t find people ment, ARC Otsego and of Oneonta, slightly larger right now,” he said. “You Bernie Bus, which now can’t find assessors.” Mayoperate their own garages in than the Town of Oneonta and more than twice the be the combined town could Hartwick hamlet and Town size of Cooperstown, now afford to pay for one fully of Richfield respectively. second largest. trained assessor, he said. Sullivan said she is also It would encompass The Decatur town superlooking for municipalities 153.4 visor, Grace Pongrac, had that may square resisted the merger idea, he have been miles, by said, but is more open to it talking far the now that she is planning to about largest retire. mergers, or muThe Maryland and Westjust shared nicipality. ford supervisors have their services, to Middleown enterprises: The first, join the unfield, now Harold Palmer, is a beef dertaking. the bigfarmer; the second, Brian The gest, has Larrabee, owns a hauling state will only 65.9 company, so are less depenannounce square dent on their town jobs. the winner miles, of the $20 County Rep. Peter Obermillion in acker raised the idea of the much of it Otsego August. four-town merger in 2015 while Maryland town super- Lake. For “What visor. now, the are you planning director is preparing a resolu- willing to pay for the words, ‘the town of,’?” Oberacker tion for the county Board recalled saying when he of Representatives’ April 5 meeting to hire Thoma Con- first spoke to the other supervisors a year and a half sultants’ Rich Cunningham to complete the application. ago. “Because that is what this is boiling down to. You That will involve bringing will always be known as the “stakeholders” together Westford, Decatur, Schento work on their proposals, evus, or whatever. For givsaid Sullivan. ing up ‘the town of,’ there There are 1,607 “genis potential for sizeable tax eral purpose governments” benefits.” – cities, towns and villages As Oberacker under– in New York State, and stands it, the state will Cuomo has been nudging contribute 15 percent of the them toward consolidation, local tax levy of each town including enacting the two percent tax cap, since taking if two consolidate. If a third comes in and then a fourth, office in 2010. he asked in a interview the “It’s only a matter of other day, could that benefit time” until state regulabe multiplied? tions and mandates force The towns are also havconsolidations, said county ing hard time filling vacanRep. Peter Oberacker, cies on four town boards, R-Schenevus, who began conversations with the three four planning boards and four ZBAs. Finding enough other towns while he was people to run a single town Maryland town supervisor. would be much simpler. As county rep since Jan. 1, When Oberacker joined 2015, he now represents all

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IF FIRE COMMISSIONERS UNREASONABLE, REPLACE THEM

On Fire-Protection Contract, Negotiate Fairness, Not Price

emember when retired SUNY Oneonta professors Lorraine and Rich Tyler’s log cabin caught fire on top of Franklin Mountain in March 2012? The home was within the purview of the Franklin Volunteer Fire Department. But it was a weekday, the volunteers were at work. And it was the professional Oneonta Fire Department whose trucks arrived at the scene first. Of course, there are dozens of such stories. As recently as Sunday, March 12, the OFD was second on the scene of the Milford United Methodist Church fire, after the local volunteers. That’s as it should be: If you have paid fulltime

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firefighters waiting at the station, response time is going to be better, property is going to be saved – and lives. • So with the Town of Oneonta Board of Fire Commissioners threatening to start a fire department from scratch to avoid marginally higher rates for professional coverage, you have to shake your head. The fire district encompasses Southside Oneonta (the mall, Walmart, the hotels), the east side (Brooks’ BBQ) and the west end

(auto row). Potentially, those would be complex fires to fight, with significant assessment (and tax) losses resulting. The fire commissioners haven’t fully explained their motives, which are hard to fathom. Still, this back and forth between the fire commissioners and City Hall – brinksmanship, if you will – has been going on far too long. Loath to leave the town fire district uncovered, state Supreme Court Judge Michael V. Coccoma, with the contract due to run out on Dec. 31, 2015, imposed a three-year contract, increasing the district’s annual payments from $880,000 to $1.1 million, with incremental rises in 2017 and 2018.

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From THE Hawkeye To CCS Hawkeyes To the Cooperstown Hawkeye basketball team: I say good job. It’s nice to win them all, but you had a great season. You played well and gave it all your effort. If you continue with the same amount of teamwork and do your best, you will be successful and go far in life. Best of luck and God bless. Bruce (Hawkeye) Shipman

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Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from the sermon delivered by the Rev. Sylvia Barrett, pastor, Milford First United Methodist Church, on Sunday, March 19, a week after the congregation’s church burned. She also reported it appears the stained glass window depicting Christ at Gethsemane can be saved. By Rev. SYLVIA BARRETT

ast Sunday morning, we worshipped together, little thinking that: within 24 hours, our church building was to become a raw, blackened building, consumed by fire. I heard the news as I was sitting down to eat supper with my two children in Cooperstown, and we left our meal and headed back to Milford. As we drove closer we could see large clouds massing above, and as we rounded the last bend, a huge column of flame shot up from the church, lighting up the sky. The scene was unreal. Fire trucks, firefighters, onlookers, water, more water, ladders, smoke, and the fire itself. As I walked the final few yards to the church, firefighters came up to me, one shook my hand, a couple laid their hands on my shoulders. I heard words of comfort, of sympathy, their eyes understanding the grief that was reflected in mine. One of my first reactions took me totally by surprise. It was a tremendous sense of belonging. As a relative newcomer it has taken time to get to know my church family and the locals. But that night underscored the fact that I was one of them. This was my church. This was our church. Time and time again, during the

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mine the costs, and divide the bill according to relative assessment. After Coccoma’s decision, both sides agreed to

In Tragedy, Milford Methodists Embrace Community

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In the first Sunday service after Milford’s First United Methodist Church burned, Pastor Sylvia Barrett attests that community soothes tragedy.

course of that evening, until 4 a.m., when the final firefighters left the scene, I kept on sensing the words. We are here. We are with you. Several local businesses opened their doors and provided food and drinks. We came together as a community, led by the firefighters themselves, with their training and their incredible commitment. They knew what needed to be done, and they did it. And we watched with pride and with such gratitude in our hearts, that

all that could be done for our church, was being done. We are here. We are with you. What wonderful words. You are not alone, struggling with challenges, with tragedies. We are in this together. The morning after the fire, I entered the sanctuary in search of one object: The altar cross. I emerged with more than one, but the altar cross was my holy grail. The symbol of faith that we look towards each week. The symbol of Christ’s presence in this world: Of Please See SERMON, A5

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only do Republicans want to repeal the ACA, they want to replace it with a horrendous health insurance program that has the following meanspirited objectives: 1. Elimination or curtailment of federal regulators’ involvement; 2. Elimination or reduction of federal funding and subsidies; 3. Reduction of participant insurance coverage and benefits; 4. Increase in participant cost sharing; 5. Elimination of all restrictions and limitations on health-provider charges; 6. Increase to health-provider insurance reimbursements; 7. Elimination of any individual mandate to enroll in any health-insurance program; 8. Establishment of highrisk participant pools that will elevate participant premiums and/or diminish their coverage; and, 9. Substantially increase insurance-company control and profits. So, speak out loudly and firmly for your fellow citizens, and tell your congressional representatives, no way! Tell them that you want the ACA to stay! MARTIN J. WEISSMAN Oneonta Mr. Weissman is an actuary

Since, little progress. • In recent years, the city/ fire-district contract was based on a formula: Deter-

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To the Editor: The Republicans, now in all their power, want to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). They have been politicizing that singular objective since 2010 when the ACA was enacted. Can they succeed in that effort? They can’t if all Americans who care deeply about their health care and health insurance say no. They have to tell their representatives in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives that they don’t want the ACA repealed. They have to tell them clearly that, if they vote for its repeal, they won’t be reelected. This action by constituents is vital because, not

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Daughter Jessica surveys the ruins of Rich and Lorraine Tyler’s log cabin on Franklin Mountain. It was in the Town of Franklin Fire District, but the OFD was first on the scene.

bring in VFIS (Volunteer Firemen’s Insurance Services Inc. of York, Pa.), the nation’s leading emergency services insurer, in hopes a fresh perspective would make a difference. The resulting report takes factors beyond assessment into account: population, the size of the coverage area, and billing and related City Hall expenses. You would think more precision allows more fairness. Instead, the VFIS report arrived, and the fire commissioners decided to go their own way. The fire commissioners had scheduled a required public hearing on formation of the “Oneonta Town Fire Department, Inc.,” but Please See EDITORIAL, A5

In Search Of Situatedness

e recently received an email from a friend, who graduated from a well-known women’s college, asking us if we could decipher a conference which had been scheduled at the college earlier this month. Entitled “Haptic Bodies: Perception, Touch, and the Ethics of Being,” the explanation of the conference read as follows: “How are we, as global citizens, accountable to each other? This year’s Scholar and Feminist Conference explores the haptic – the perception and manipulation of objects using the

sense of touch – as an ethics of being in the world. Feminist scholars, artists, and activists come together in this utterly unique two-day conference to CATHERINE examine the many LAKE ways in which ELLSWORTH touch helps us better understand the politics and aesthetics of embodiment, situatedness, and performance.

Through a series of panels and artistic “happenings,” we consider how our senses – not only touch, but taste, sight, and sound – situate us as bodies in political and economic contexts (such as labor), as well as in personal and sensory ones.” Unfortunately, we were unable to explain exactly what the conference might entail. Our friend, obviously frustrated by it all, wrote the college and asked, somewhat sarcastically, if they could let her know when their conference on “Ouija Boards and 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 New York State Historical Association Library

200 YEARS AGO

The bill fixing the Salaries of certain officers of government passed the Assembly on Friday. Given in dollars – to the Governor, $5,000; Secretary of State, $1,500; Surveyor General, $2,000; Attorney General, $1,250; Treasurer, $1,500; Treasurer’s Clerk, $800; Adjutant General, $800; Commissary General, $800; Governor’s Private Secretary, $300; Clerks of the Supreme Court each $2,000; Judge of Probates, $250; Reporter of the Supreme Court, $1,500; Superintendent of Salt Springs, $300; Health Officer, New York, $2,500; Mayor of New York, $5,000. March 27, 1817

10 YEARS AGO

coffee put it down on the table and remarked quietly: “Well, they’ve got us this time.” For a moment no one spoke or moved as we did not think it was a serious matter. Then someone in the room laughed in mirthless fashion and we all went to our cabins to get our life belts. After putting on my big coat and belt I went to the top deck where I found a place in the last life boat to leave the Laconia.” March 21, 1917

75 YEARS AGO

The following men have been called under the third Selective Service draft from District 403 Cooperstown: Orrin Gage, Fly Creek; Albert M. Domion, Richfield Springs; Leon F. Backus, Burlington Flats; George H. Wilmot, Cherry Valley; Samuel Lucia, Cooperstown; Willise Rose, Edmeston; Geo. Hyde Clarke, Jr., Cooperstown; Ward H. Snedeker, Richfield Springs; Lewis C. Virtell, Mt. Vision; Clyde R. Shillieto, Burlington Flats; Rueben J. Preston, Worcester; Harvey Eckler, Cooperstown; Michael Dyn, Richfield Springs; Henry J. Joyce, Burlington Flats; Leon B. Fritts, Fly Creek; Wesley P. Vibbard, Cooperstown; Charles H. O’Brien, Dorloo; Charles W. Nellis, Cherry Valley; Paul VanHoesen, Edmeston; and Edgar B. Thompson, Cooperstown. March 25, 1942

175 YEARS AGO

The congestive fever which has been prevalent in this immediate neighborhood during the past four months, and in its ravages has swept off a number of our active business citizens, seems to have spent its power, as there have been no new cases for several weeks, and the few yet remaining subjects of its influence are recovering slowly but surely. The Sheriff of Albany County offers a Reward of $125 for the apprehension of the following person who escaped from the Albany jail on the night of March 4 – James Dooley, alias John Fisher, charged with burglary and grand larceny. He is well known at Syracuse and Auburn State Prison, and other places in the western part of the state; he has been in the Auburn State Prison for robbing the United States mail. March 21, 1842

150 YEARS AGO

How large is the Public Debt? According to the March Report the recognized debt of the United States is about $2,531,000,000. Authorities estimate the actual debt is over five thousand millions – and there are propositions before Congress greatly to increase this amount. Can the country stand it? Certainly we must pay our honest debts – but can we go on increasing those debts? General Banks said some weeks ago in Congress that there are various ways of repudiating the debt, and that one of them was by adding to its amount so largely as to make its payment impossible – and in the same speech in the same hour, General Banks declared that he would vote whatever bounties the soldiers might demand, whether that vote should add four hundred or eight hundred millions to the public debt. We gave his speech in the Journal. It was the utterance of a thorough demagogue, who looks mainly to popularity and votes from a class. March 22, 1867

125 YEARS AGO

Among the remarkable records that have been made by some of our industrious men of today, that of Herman

Save Earth. Stop Breathing COLUMN/From A4 Feminism” might be held. To this she actually received a response. The person writing from the college questioned whether or not it was actually scheduled as she could not find it on the college’s list of upcoming conferences. We must say we do not exactly know what to make of this, but it does give us pause as we think our situatedness just might be seriously out of sync. • Of course, we were also somewhat puzzled when we read about another college which is undertaking a study in order to plan how the college might reach carbon neutrality within decades. And while we found it a fascinating article, we were somewhat taken aback with what we thought to be the understatement of the year. The director of Green Initiatives at the college was quoted as saying, “You can’t just stop producing carbon dioxide.” We must say we were rather glad it is realized that it would indeed be impossible to stop producing carbon dioxide unless everyone, and we do mean everyone, stopped breathing. Nonetheless, we do applaud the college in not only undertaking the study, but also involving the students in the process. • We were interested to read in our recent Cooperstown Central School Newsletter that the school is now doing an e-newsletter which one can sign up for on the school’s website. Once on the website, www. cooperstowncs.org, click on “Quicklinks,” then on “E-blast Sign Up” and then follow the directions. It is pointed out that the Enewsletter “...is distributed during the school year. The newsletter contains a summary of the month’s events

at Cooperstown Central School and a look ahead to the coming month. It also includes important school news, including financial and academic information.” It would seem to be a good way to keep in touch with the comings and goings at the school. • We were surprised to open an email from The Fenimore Art Museum to discover that “On Monday, March 13, the New York State Board of Regents approved a request by the New York State Historical Association to amend its charter and change its legal name to Fenimore Art Museum. The change was sought by the museum to reflect the full range of its activities and to build upon the success of its popular art exhibitions and programs. The change will take effect immediately.” It was further pointed out, “The legal entity name change will not affect any aspect of the museum’s season schedule or the functions of the Research Library. In addition, the change will not have any bearing on The Farmers’ Museum, which has a separate charter and governing board.” What we did not learn from the email was the exact fate of the name “New York State Historical Association.” It almost seems as if NYSHA is now gone. Yet, in checking the Fenimore Art Museum website, it indicates that membership in NYSHA is still possible. We suppose it does not really matter, but it would be nice to know exactly what the effect might be on a long standing Cooperstown fixture. We suspect, we are not alone in having some fairly strong ties to NYSHA and the history it has promoted for more years than we can remember.

March 23, 2007 Wicks, of this village, now in the employ of Austin, Bolton & Bonner, will bear favorable mention. Mr. Wicks has handled coal for over 20 years in this village, and during that time has been idle but one month. He has taken care of his team through the week and all but three Sundays during this time. He has had his clothing wet through hundreds of times, delivering coal in all kinds of weather. An average delivery of ten tons a day by him amounts to 64,000 tons, all handled twice, and much of it carried in baskets upstairs. It would take 4,275 cars, 30 feet long, to transport the coal, and make a train twenty-four and a half miles long – reaching from Cooperstown to West Davenport. March 24, 1892

100 YEARS AGO

Arthur T. Kirby of Bainbridge, a cousin of John R. Kirby of Cooperstown is the first survivor of the Cunard ship Laconia to return to this country following the torpedoing of the ship without warning by a German submarine off the Irish coast on Sunday, February 25. “I was in the music room after dinner,” he said, “listening to the record of ‘Madame Butterfly’ on a talking machine when there was a loud blast somewhere in the interior of the ship that sounded just like the blasts that all New Yorkers are accustomed to hear along Broadway. One man, who was drinking a cup of

50 YEARS AGO

General current budget fund expenses for the Village of Cooperstown will total an estimated $183,466.24 for the fiscal year beginning June 1, according to the village’s tentative budget, as prepared by village Clerk and Treasurer Douglas K. Walrath. The gross general fund budget is $13,873 higher than the current budget of $169,593 adopted a year ago. The tax levy will total an estimated $142,631.37 compared with $133,349 raised by local taxation for the 1966-1967 budget. March 22, 1967

25 YEARS AGO

Douglas K. Walrath, former Cooperstown Village Clerk for 25 years, has returned to serving the village. Walrath was appointed trustee last week to fill the unexpired term of trustee Jim Woolson, who was elected Mayor. Walrath’s appointment to the post was unanimously approved by the village board. Walrath served the village as clerk until his retirement in 1990. “When asked to fill the empty seat, I thought about how I couldn’t work for 25 years in a place – then one day just walk away and ignore it,” he said. The trustees also voted to meet on the third rather than the second Monday of each month. March 25, 1992

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GOP Plan About Getting Re-Elected, Not Healthcare To the Editor: As the Republicans jockey to grind TrumpCare into law, it becomes embarrassingly obvious that this is all about ideology and getting re-elected, not about health at all. First they throw a bone to voters, who will no longer be penalized for not buying insurance. This, of course, will destabilize the insurance market by removing healthy young people from the coverage “pool.” So premiums will inevitably go up, but luckily for the Republicans, no one would feel that

pain until after the 2018 elections. To soften the disastrous impact of gutting federal support of Medicaid, they initially also kicked that can down the road by deferring the roll back to 2020. But even that is reconsidered for totally political reasons, with amendments offered to satisfy the recalcitrant Republican Freedom Caucus ideologues. Even the non-partisan, and hitherto sacrosanct Congressional Budget Office is vilified in advance, just in case they make the “wrong” calculations

about the financial implications of TrumpCare. Mr Faso: your website makes it clear that you think the proposed American Health Care Plan is just grand. Your constituency is watching carefully. Will you continue to shamefully participate in these antics so your party (and you) can remain in control, or will you cut out the lip service and stand up for the health of the voters in the 19th Congressional District? ANTOINETTE KUZMINSKI, MD Fly Creek

In Crisis, Milford Methodists Affirm Community SERMON/From A4 his sacrifice, and of the risen power of the Son of God. When I went inside, everything was black, and it was so hard to see. Underfoot it was crunchy with iced water and charred rubble. I kept my eyes down as I moved forward cautiously. As I got to the altar, I saw the cross. I put my hands on it, on either side of the horizontal bar, and tried to pick it up. The base had fused to the altar cloth. Just at that moment, sunlight came through the center stained glass window and I looked up. Straight into the eyes of Christ. I was not alone. Christ was there with

me. His robe was shimmering silver, lit up by the sun. He was praying in the Garden of Gethsemane, and I heard the words in my heart. I am here. I am with you. He was not in a distant Garden, 2,000 years ago. He was with me. In that shell of a sanctuary. Time stopped. Finally, I looked down at the cross, back at him, and then pulled with all my might, and the cross came away and up into my arms. I stumbled out of the sanctuary and returned a few times, to retrieve other items. Each time he was still there. He was praying for me. He was praying for you. He was praying for us.

And I knew right then, and I know right now, without a shadow of a doubt, that we would get through this, and that everything was going to be all right. Because we are not on our own. We are not alone. We are followers, disciples, of a man. The Son of Man and the Son of God, who lived and breathed and walked on this earth. Who knows what it is like to suffer, to feel sorrow, and to face uncertainty. And he continues each day to pray for us, to inspire us, seeking to re-connect us with our heavenly Father through a new covenant made by his sacrifice on our behalf.

Town, City: Reach A Fair Deal – Before Someone Gets Hurt sides, there EDITORIAL/From A4 Winter Storm Stella delayed EDITORIAL go any savings. it until 6 p.m. Tuesday, With resulting higher April 11, at the Elm Park insurance rates, volunteers Methodist Church. If you offer no savings either. live in the city or fire dis• trict, plan on attending. Regardless, breaking There are excellent away would put townsvolunteer companies in the people in danger, and would county, with the best growalso require the city to ing out of generations-long reduce its fire department traditions of service and by a quarter, endangering excellence. Replicating city residents as well. Lose, that would take years, even lose. But there are win-win decades, if ever. options. The commissioners have One, the best: The fire hinted they may be thinking about a professional depart- commissioners and City Hall go back to the table ment. That, likewise, can’t and reach an equitable happen overnight. And be-

agreement based on the VFIS report. Each side must simply pay what’s fair. No bargains here. If not, two: Town Supervisor Bob Wood, the town’s most influential politician, should field a more reasonable slate to replace the commissioners in December’s election. No more than a couple of dozen people have voted in recent elections, which simplifies that matter. Conceivably – the commissioners won’t say – there are other issues. If the fire district wants more of a say in OPD management,

that makes sense. Has City Hall been accommodating enough to this valuable customer? If not, it should be. Neither is insurmountable. • The other day, the OFD’s professional firefighters responded promptly to what happily turned out to be a small, easily doused fire in a storage room at Munson’s Hardware in Emmons, outside the city but within the town fire district. How many of us reading that item on www.allotsego. com asked ourselves, What if? Friends, let’s not find out.

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Renovations Enhance Otesaga’s Traditional Elegance OTESAGA/From A1 28. “It’s an iconic building and they’re an iconic business,” said Matt Hazzard, executive director of the chamber. “They’re a huge part of the community, and it’s hard not to appreciate all they’ve done.” The Otesaga was built as a summer hotel in 1908 by the Edward Severin Clark and Stephen Carlton Clark, current owner Jane Forbes Clark’s great-uncle and grandfather respectively. From 1920 to 1954, it housed the Knox School for Girls in the off-season. And in 2002, Thanksgiving Home residents stayed there after a fire gutted their Grove Street building. And although summer is its prime season, hosting Hall of Famers, blushing brides, opera singers and “Joe and Jane America,” Miles been focusing beyond the warm weather. “We’ve been able to extend the season substantially with conferences and winter weddings,” said Miles. “Over the weekend (of March 11-12), we were closed to bookings, but we had a full house for the New York teacher’s conference.” Because of the central location between Albany, Syracuse and New York City – and because of its elegance, The Otesaga has become a popular destination for corporate business, and a romantic getaway for a weekend wedding. “We’re booked every Saturday through 2018,” he said. “We do, on average, 60 weddings a year.” Miles credits the success to return visitors, but also to a bold, strategic approach to marketing. “We belong to a best

guests.” And this season, the venerable Hawkeye Grill is undergoing renovations. “Now, you enter through what used to be the Templeton Room and you’ll be able to see the lake from any seat in the house.” The bar will be relocated to the dining room, and the original bar will become private dining space, as well as a wine wall with over 1,000 bottles on display. “We wanted to create a Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal different vibe, while still General Manager Jim Miles passes the signature maintaining that old-world colonnades on the front of The Otesaga. charm,” he said. But at the end, it’s all practices group that meets tors can sip a drink around about customer satisfaction. once a year for a confera blazing fire every night. “When you’re here, you’re ence, and this year, they had “It combines fire, water, one of Jane Clark’s guests,” a speaker present on social sky and land, and you feel he said, “She wants visitors media,” said Miles. “Before at one with yourself and to experience her warmth, the panel, the speaker had the planet,” said Miles. “I her compassion. We want looked at the social media like to imagine our Iroquois people to have a good expeof all the hotels present and friends are paddling through rience not just on this trip, gave them a score. We had the mist, smiling at our but on their next 15 visits.” 98, the highest score they’d ever seen. “The lowest was 14. Glad Since 1947, our personal service has it wasn’t us!” always been Until recently, the hotel there when you need only advertised in “coffee it most. With comprehensive table magazines” and select coverage for newspapers. But with weball your S hannon site ads targeting affinity AUTO • HOME • LIFE insurance needs. Stockdale groups – including customBUSINESS ers of LL Bean, MLB.com Hours: M-F 8am-5pm and ESPN.com, and NationPhone: 607-432-2022 al Geographic – its market22-26 Watkins Ave, Oneonta, NY 13820 ers found new customers for the hotel. Thinking of Remodeling? Think of Refinancing! LGROUP@STNY.RR.COM “We have a company www.leatherstockingmortgage.com that monitors that traffic 24 607-547-5007 (Office) hours a day,” said Miles. “If 800-547-7948 (Toll Free) there’s an ad that isn’t getting clicked, we pull it, put New Purchases and refinances • Debt Consolidation it someplace else. It’s pretty Free Pre-Qualification • Fast Approvals • Low Rates sophisticated stuff.” But innovations aren’t Registered Mortgage Broker Matt Schuermann NYS Banking Dept. just digital. Loans arranged by a 3rd party lender. A Fire Bar opened in 31 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown 2013 on the lawn that leads (directly next door to Stagecoach Coffee) to Otsego Lake, where visi-

Faso Wrong On Trump Tax Returns To the Editor: I was very disappointed to learn that Representative Faso recently voted to block an effort in the House that would have compelled the president to release his tax returns. The motivation behind this decision is incomprehensible on any level other than one of deeply cynical partisanship. Every American deserves to know what conflicts of interest may be driving the actions of our president – something we will never know without this basic level of transparency. Every voter in the 19th Congressional District from

either party should feel outraged by this. What possible legitimate reason could there be for the president and the Republicans in Congress to keep this information from us? I suspect that we will eventually learn the truth and when we do it will be very awkward for those who abetted this secrecy. Mr. Faso still has the opportunity to set this right. If he takes bold action to put country before party and do the right thing I believe the voters will reward him in 2018. CHAD McEVOY Westford

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Gutted Church Pastor Sees ‘Exciting Challenges’ Trump Budget Would Hurt CHURCH/From A1 “They’ve always represented a strong connection with the congregation,” said Barrett in an interview Tuesday, March 21. Each window was donated in memory of a congregant, including one from the Wilber family, whose forebear David Wilber made a fortune in hops and founded the bank that bore his name for a century. Also, the plan is to save usable bricks from the old church to use if a new one is built. Beyond that, the congregation’s future is unclear – on purpose. At a service Sunday, March 19, at a packed service in the Upper Susquehanna Cultural Center, two doors south, the Rev. Everett Bassett, Oneonta, the Methodist district superintendent, called for a “season of prayer” before deciding what to do next. This Sunday, the 26th, the congregation will again worship at the Upper Susquehanna Center – its

the single digits, but that rose to three dozen regulars and on the 12th, District Superintendent Bassett delivered a sermon at the church attended by 75. A few hours later, the church caught on fire. Since the fire, there’s been an outpouring of support, evident in the more than 200 people from Schuyler Lake and Fly Creek UM and Cooperstown’s First Presbyterian who joined the congregation Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA & The Freeman’s Journal on the 19th, and from offers Thirty-two members of First Presbyterian Church, of space from churches Cooperstown, joined the Milford United Methodaround the county, and letists’ at worship Sunday, March 19, a week after ters and e-mails from near the UM church there burned. From left are Kaand far. tie Boardman, Lucy Webster, Karen Dunlap, Will Also, Barrett said, church Walker, Thom Rhodes and Richard Blabey. members who used to attend directors have offered the the congregation’s future. the local church are coming former Presbyterian church Regardless, a first order back, perhaps a half-dozen, for the Methodists’ use as of business is to settle with and people who have never long as they need it – and the insurance company and been members are being will meet afterwards to beclear the site on North Main drawn in by the crisis. “It’s gin talking and “brainstorm- Street (Route 28). quite exciting,” said the ing” about the future. Going forward, “we have pastor. “It’s going to be a There’s a “clear protocol to understand what and who challenge, but an exciting within the church,” the paswe are building for,” said challenge.” tor said, and she’s already the pastor, who serves both For now, the building is contacted people to serve on the Milford and Portlandbeing boarded up this week a task force to contemplate ville Methodist churches. and, fearful of a collapse, no Barrett was raised in Eng- one is being allowed inside. land as a Anglican, moved However, Barrett said, she’s to Canada, serving with been advised the stained the Church of Christ in the glass windows can probProvince of Ontario, evenably be removed from the tually retiring to Upstate outside. New York. In retirement, The fire broke out in the she sought and received an kitchen area at the rear of appointment as a chaplain at the building, but fire offiFox Hospital in 2013, and cials advised the pastor it’s that led to the offer to serve unlikely the cause will ever Milford and Portlandville be determined. They ruled, later that year. however, that it was not When she arrived, some suspicious. Sundays attendance was in

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he said, help working famiOFO/From A1 lies stay afloat. “Struggles elimination of Low-Income to just get by put a lot stress Home Energy Assistance on families and on kids,” he Program and the Weathersaid. “It’s important that a ization program, as well as lot of these programs exist.” Community Services Block In New York State, there Grants that help support the are more than 120 head start homeless shelter, domestic programs, and more than violence shelter, Build1,100 community action ing Healthy Families and action agencies nationally. Wheels to Work. These programs total “This budget is $13 billion, with the the president’s wish U.S. budget proposed list,” he said, “But at $13 trillion, so it’s Congress that these programs make actually approves the up a 0.001 percent of budget.” the budget. “They’re That means John not going to be savFaso, R-Kinderhook, ing a lot by cutting will cast his vote Maskin these programs,” said for whether or not Maskin. OFO can continue But this is not the first its mission to serve Otsego time they’ve faced threats of County. “We need to let our shortfalls. “Reagan zeroed representatives know that it out, George H.W. Bush, there’s a lot of support for these programs on both sides even Barack Obama, in his State of the Union, said it’s of the aisle,” said Maskin. time to close programs that Locally, the CSBG proare dear to my heart, like gram uses $230,000, weathCommunity Action,” said erization uses $300,000 and Maskin. “LBJ was our last Head Start and OFO using $3.3 million in federal fund- real fan.” OFO is calling for the ing. CSBC funding be restored to “We serve 400 families its current national level of and 160 employees,” he $715 million, Weatherization said, “It’s important our at $215 million and HEAP at employees hear the organi$3.34 billion, and for Head zation is advocating.” Start to be funded at its curBut there’s more to these rent levels, including adjustprograms than just dollar ments for cost of living. signs and numbers. “In a “Our staff sees firsthand cold winter, HEAP can be a these resources alleviate the matter of life and death,” he financial burden brought said. “But it’s often wrapon by underemployment, around services that are important to working families.” health-care expenses and ever rising costs in Otsego Day care subsidies, food stamps and SNAP programs, County,” he said.

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ay of family fun at Cooperstown Central School District PTA’s annual Crayon Carnival fundraiser. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, March 25. Food, games, cake walk, Irish step dancers, and more. Balloon animals from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Cooperstown Jr./Sr. High gym, 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-8181. FLY CREEK PHILHARMONIC: “Dress for Success,” 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 25-26 at the Fly Creek United Methodist Church, 811 Cty. Rd. 26. Don’t miss this annual humorous review, drawing on music from the 20s to the present, including some original songs. “Rag Doll” by the Four Seasons, Fats Waller’s “Clothesline Ballet,” and more. Intrigued? Get your tickets, $10, for this annual sell-out at Riverwood Gifts, Cooperstown, and the Fly Creek General Store. POP UP SHOP: Snooze and lose! Check out the garage, craft and vendor sale to benefit Ten Fold Plus, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, March 25 at the Carriage House (formerly Frazier’s Gables), 790 Southside Dr., Oneonta. Variety of items, snacks available, Ten Fold cookbooks for sale and more. YOUTH ENSEMBLE: The Dick Miller Performance Series presents the Little Delaware Youth Ensemble, designed for families with children ages 2-12, in two 50-minute interactive performances including introductions and demonstrations of string instruments played by children and teens. Singalongs and “instrument petting zoo,” too. Free! First show 9:30 a.m., second 10:30 a.m. at Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. ART AUCTION: Live, silent and Chinese auction of the art collection Dorothy Caswell Sunday March 26, 1-4 p.m. at CANO, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta to benefit the Catskill Choral Society. Bidding starts at $5, over 70 items available. Wine from Dietz and Wall Wines, hors d’oeuvres served.

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SHELTER/From B1 carpet event and the premier of “The Other Side of the Kennel,” a short film about what goes on in the day-today workings of the shelter. “People don’t think about what we do here,” said Rebecca Daly, the shelter’s Communications Coordinator and filmmaker. “This film is about everything that goes into running the shelter.” “We want to show people what their donations do,” said Stacie Haynes, exBecca Daly ecutive director. “It’s so much more than produced just adopting out cats the film and dogs.” that will The SAS traces its be shown at Friday’s history to 1917, when reception. animal lover Hyde became an agent for the SPCA (the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) – today’s animal control officer – and began taking in stray dogs. “She always wore a military uniform,” said Noel Dries, who works at Hyde Hall. (There’s no connection between the Historic Landmark family and Isobel Hyde, but Dries happened to know a bit about her.) “She had the sand-brown belt, but didn’t

Anheuser-Busch heir Lou Hager Sr. took an interest in the shelter and, when he passed away, his mother Alice Busch Gronewaldt endowed it in his memory. carry a gun.” And she soon got friends involved in taking care of strays. “People would just take these dogs into their homes,” said Haynes. “There wasn’t even a building.” Hyde’s placement of animals with friends and local veterinaries continued into the 1970s, when a formal shelter was erected in Pierstown, staffed entirely with volunteers. Hyde continued her involvement with the shelter until she died in June 1962. But the 1980s brought the biggest

changes, when Lou Hager Sr., the theater producer and Anheuser-Busch heir, took an interest in the shelter. “He really loved animals,” said Cooperstown’s Lucy Townsend, his stepdaughter. “He was always trying to save the horses in Central Park, checking to make sure they were being taken care of, writing letters to the mayor and to the newspapers.” He was appalled at the ramshackle conditions of the Pierstown shelter, and along with his mother, Alice Busch Gronewaldt, raised the money to start a new one in a former motorcycle shop on Route 28 in Hartwick Seminary – the shelter and thrift shop’s current location. “He really made it more professional,” said Haynes. “When he died in 1988, his mother gave us a huge endowment in his name, and we’ve been using that ever since. The building is named in his honor. “The only reason we’re able to be here is because of what he left us,” said Haynes. “Thanks to him, we’re able to celebrate 100 years.” Part of its strength is its countywide reach. Its board president, Gaylord Dillingham, lives near Springfield Center. The first and second vice president, Kathy Clarkson and Laurie Zimniewicz, as well as board members Patricia Riddell Kent, Merilyn and Peter Gould are from the

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SAS Board President Gaylord Dillingham casts a wary eye toward Oaks Creek during heavy rains at the end of February. During a flood in 2013, six cats had died, but changes ensured no animals were lost this time. South Kortright, and Shannon Stockdale is from Otego. In the 1990s, the shelter formally embraced the No-Kill movement. “There used to be a crematorium on this property,” said Haynes. “But we’ve always been progressive. We won’t put an animal down to make

too long.” But that doesn’t mean they won’t put an injured or sick animal out of its misery. “If an animal is suffering, we will euthanize it,” said Haynes. “Just like you would do when your pet was sick. But it’s never easy, and we cry every time.”

Gender Wellness Center Director Captivates Friends Of Bassett With Details Of Operation CLINIC/From B1 she could come talk to their business, schools and community groups.” “They did an excellent job explaining what they do,” said Kuhn. It started in 2007, when the phone rang and Dr. WolfGould’s life changed. “I got a call from a transgender man who was moving to the area and needed a doctor,” she said. “I told him I didn’t know anything about transgender medicine, and he asked if I would be willing to learn so I could continue prescribing him testosterone.” She had a few months before he arrived locally, so she began to study up. “I reached out to people in transgender health and learned from them,” she said. “But when he came to me, he told me he wanted

help quitting smoking. I had assumed he was seeing me only for issues related to being transgender, but what he was really looking for was primary care.” By 2013, Wolf-Gould’s initiative had developed into The Gender Wellness Center, part of Bassett Healthcare’s Susquehanna Family Practice. “It was completely by chance,” she said. “I was struck by how much of a need there was. This population was getting no service at all.” The Gender Wellness Center now has more than 500 patients, ages 4 to 81, from as far away as Watertown on the Canadian border, Pennsylvania and Connecticut, the physician told the Friends. “Transgender people face horrible healthcare disparities,” she said. “Ironically, when they finally reach out

for help, they’re discriminated against.” Worse, she says, is that very few doctors are training in dealing with transgender patients. “It was a real learning experience for me,” she said. “So often, transgender people have to train their doctors on how to care for them.” In addition to Wolf-Gould, the Center now has two providers who are able to prescribe hormones, her husband, Dr. Chris Wolf-Gould, and Physician’s Assistant Tania Villa, as well as mental-health providers – social workers Justine Woolner-Wise and Patti Noon, CSW, and Susan Turell, a clinical psychologist (as well as SUNY Oneonta dean of the School of Social Sciences). “So many doctors can’t get past the transgender piece,” said Wolf-Gould. “But the ma-

jority of these patients are just looking for someone to treat their bronchitis, get a check-up or other routine visits.” Dr. Diane Georgeson is also part of the team, providing gender-affirming surgeries, including hysterectomies, and top surgeries, such as mastectomies with male chest reconstruction, as well as breast augmentation. “Language is really important,” she said. “We do treatments such as pap smears and mammograms based on body parts, not gender identity.” And with their younger patients, they’re able to delay the onset of puberty in order to give the patient time to assert their gender identity. “We have youth who come to us so distraught,” she said. “They’re going through a puberty that

doesn’t match their identity, so we’re able to give them hormone blockers until they reach the appropriate age, then give them the hormones so they can undergo puberty in the gender that matches their identity.” This is especially important for trans women, who face disproportionate amounts of violence and danger when presenting as visibly trans. “Going through the puberty that matches your affirmed gender saves on costly surgeries down the line,” she said. The Affordable Care Act was a boon to transgender patients, allowing many of them to get insurance who weren’t able to access it before. “We used to see so many of our patients in the free clinic because even if they had insurance, it didn’t cover transgender

medicine,” she said. “But the ACA and Gov. Andrew Cuomo mandates guaranteed coverage. If we lose that, I’m not sure what will happen.” In 2016, the Center received $500,000 in a three-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program to focus on leadership training, establishing research and legal advocacy centers, and enhancing surgical options, including vaginoplasty. “Our goal is to become a Transgender Center for Excellence,” she said. “It’s remarkable what happens to someone’s well-being when they’re able to inhabit their own body.”

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Legal notice County of Otsego ss IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF TAX LIENS BY PROCEEDING IN REM PURSUANT TO ARTICLE ELEVEN OF THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW BY OTSEGO COUNTY. NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on the 31st day of January 2017, the Otsego County Treasurer, hereinafter, the “Enforcing Officer,” of Otsego County, hereinafter, the “Tax District”, pursuant to law filed with the Clerk of Otsego County, a petition of foreclosure against various parcels of real property for unpaid taxes. Such petition pertains to the following parcels: Oneonta City Roque George 288.17-1-57 Res 0.08A 50 Clinton St Kenik Karen 288.18-2-13 Res 0.18A 8 East St RBFD Inc 288.18-6-4 Res 0.06A 26 Gault Ave River Street Gardens LLC 299.12-2-17 Res 0.19A 26 Duane St Rock Richard S 299.12-3-29 Res 0.11A 81 West Broadway Howard Mary C 299.12-3-3 Res 0.11A 72 Gilbert St DeAndrea James P 299.12-3-47 Res 0.21A 19 Fonda Ave Betler Ruth E 299.7-6-4 Res 0.25A 34 Morgan Ave Davis Robert J 299.8-2-40 Res 0.21A 4 Telford St Case Andrew 300.5-1-3 Res 0.17A 39 Cherry St Volpe Virginia RC 300.5-5-41 Res 0.12A 24-26 Academy St DeAndrea James P 300.6-2-13 Res 0.28A 10 Division St Church Helen L 300.7-5-34 Res 0.21A 5 Wells Ave 50 Rose Associates LLC 300.7-5-38 Res 3.51A 49 Rose Ave Collins Leslie 300.8-1-23 Res 0.16A 36 Reynolds St Ingalls Joseph H 300.9-3-30 Res 0.17A 39-41 Burnside Ave Burlington Bailey Helen 109.00-1-13.01 Res 4.89A Mill Rd Bailey Helen 109.00-1-13.02 Res 24.69A Mill Rd Bailey Helen Gordon A 109.04-1-15.00 Res 0.79A 2331 St Hwy 80 Foster Gary A 109.04-1-19.00

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Res 0.97A 2343 St Hwy 80 Bailey Helen A 109.04-1-20.00 Res 0.15A 2339 St Hwy 80 Eldert Lucille 126.00-1-9.00 Res 1.37A Dog Kennel Rd Wright Richard W 78.00-1-14.03 Res 14.94A Norton Rd Cannon Daniel J 78.00-1-3.03 Res 6.29A 260 Washburn Rd Wright Richard W 78.00-1-43.01 Res 73.44A 223 Arnold Rd Wright Richard W 78.00-1-46.00 Res 0.64A Arnold Rd Peter Kara J 93.00-1-26.02 Res 6.75A 5769 St Hwy 51 Wright Richard W 93.00-1-35.01 Res 6.58A Arnold* Rd Wright Richard W 93.00-1-36.00 Res 10.22A Arnold Rd Delgado Damaris 94.00-1-23.09 Res 16.00A Co Hwy 16 Hernandez Brett 95.00-1-2.01 Res 54.80A 117 Hovick Rd Butternuts Leib Janine 282.06-1-27.00 Res 0.26A 3 Green St Lyons Alayne V 282.14-1-1.00 Res 8.29A 120 Spring St Price Christopher 251.00-1-15.01 Res 12.16A Brickner* Holmes Wayne W 251.00-1-55.00 Res 3.20A 346 Nelson Hill Michael 252.00-1-15.03 Res 2.92A 380 Coye Brook Rd Hill Michael 252.00-1-15.04 Res 2.38A Coye Brook Rd Roux Duane E 268.00-1-20.05 Res 25.31A 161 Oppermann Rd Offen Todd J 282.00-1-61.02 Res 37.54A Co Hwy 4 Lichwick Frank M 283.00-1-34.01 Res 6.58A 362 Lobdell Rd Dugan Duane 293.00-1-10.04 Res 59.31A 343 Oregon Rd Dugan Duane 293.00-1-15.00 Res 11.35A Oregon Rd Dugan Duane 293.00-1-16.00 Res 16.87A Oregon Rd Conley Robert N Jr 293.00-1-7.81 Res 6.98A Oregon* Rd Hoag Damion 294.00-1-28.00 Res 22.19A McCarthy Ln Gallagher James 295.00-1-12.01 Res 6.78A Lulu Coon Livolsi Salvatore 295.00-1-22.04 Res 24.95A 335 Lulu Coon Rd Bussiere Pierrette 295.00-1-33.03 Res 22.06A 1398 Co Hwy 4 Cifuni Robert E 295.00-1-35.01 Res 38.60A 1467 Co Hwy 5 Letson Terry Sr 304.00-1-12.01 Res 9.28A Butternut Rd Letson Terry Sr 304.00-1-12.03 Res 11.29A Butternut Rd Bryant Bridget 313.00-2-3.00 Res 0.23A 566 River Rd Cherry Valley

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Knorr Rayna I 58.09-1-16.00 Res 0.21A 41 Montgomery St Fletcher Argus E D Jr 58.09-1-17.02 Res 0.25A Montgomery St Lee Laura 58.14-1-1.02 Res 0.42A 28 Montgomery St Wannamaker Arthur Adam 58.14-1-60.00 Res 0.18A 20 Lancaster St Cadwalader Stephen M 58.14-2-6.00 Res 0.76A 72 Main St Cherry Valley Petersen, Theodore 31.00-1-32.00 Res 1.86A 564 Barringer Rd Wells Edward C 43.00-2-5.23 Res 22.68A Irish Hollow* Rd Short Alan 45.00-1-35.03 Res 8.79A US Hwy 20 Fields Nancy G. 46.00-1-13.02 Res 7.88A Ray Mower Rd Chapman Richard H 46.00-1-20.00 Res 7.95A Ray Mower Glen Wild Animal Rescue Corpor 73.00-1-10.00 Res 1.13A 3798 St Hwy 166 Fatigate David 75.00-1-11.01 Res 8.90A Palmer Rd Fatigate David 75.00-1-11.02 Res 9.85A 381 Palmer Rd Decatur Lum Larry 152.00-1-31.01 Res 28.63A 524 Co Hwy 37 Fuller Jeffrey 167.02-1-17.00 Res 0.28A 110 Co Hwy 37 Sharp Thomas 168.00-1-26.02 Res 4.93A Co Hwy 38 Baryk Michael D 169.00-1-14.00 Res 2.50A 194 Fish And Game Rd Edmeston VanVorst Tina L 108.13-1-12.00 Res 0.51A 56 North St Vanpelt Bridget 122.04-1-17.00 Res 0.30A 4352 Co Hwy 18 Barton Darryl W 122.04-1-6.00 Res 0.22A 219 Co Hwy 20 Mooney Kevin 124.06-1-33.01 Res 0.32A South St Simmons James L 138.00-1-3.01 Res 27.16A Co Hwy 18 Simmons Robert 138.00-1-3.06 Res 54.50A Michael Ln Simmons James L 138.00-1-4.05 Res 1.33A 4126 Co Hwy 18 VanPelt Ronald H 138.00-1-4.07 Res 52.70A 4137 Co Hwy 18 Simmons James L 138.00-1-4.31 Res 111.44A Michael* Ln Simmons James L 138.00-1-4.32 Res 35.86A 224 Michael Ln Hume Michael B 138.00-1-4.41 Res 6.40A Co Hwy 18 Hume Bruce 138.00-1-4.42 Res 9.00A Co Hwy 18* Simmons James L 138.00-1-4.44 Res 8.26A 4122 Co Hwy 18

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Bateman James J 140.00-1-27.00 Res 2.19A 1291 St Hwy 80 Baker Kimberly M 140.00-1-5.00 Res 0.63A 1392 St Hwy 80 Koniewicz Walter A 62.00-1-11.03 Res 44.82A Mill Creek Brown Dale L 62.00-1-19.04 Res 2.37A 128 Junior Hickling Rd Brownell Terry E 76.00-1-9.00 Res 2.52A 335 Coontown Mountain Rd Belden Elsie L 76.02-1-22.00 Res 0.49A 203 Co Hwy 18C Baldwin Glade L II 76.02-1-8.00 Res 0.33A 139 Co Hwy 18C Baldwin Glade L 76.02-1-9.00 Res 0.23A 141 Co Hwy 18C Hilts Enterprises, LLC 92.00-1-15.22 Res 2.09A 333 Louie Dickinson Rd Hilts Enterprises, LLC 92.00-1-15.42 Res 2.22A 300 Louie Dickinson Rd Exeter Wolcott Claude 50.00-1-29.00 Res 0.37A 2175 Co Hwy 19 Cahoon Richard L 50.00-1-30.00 Res 2.18A 2207 Co Hwy 19 Johnston Brian 67.00-1-16.01 Res 12.89A St Hwy 28 Travis Clarence 67.09-1-39.01 Res 0.31A 7352 St Hwy 28 Travis Clarence 67.09-1-39.22 Res 0.32A St Hwy 28 Shaw Richard Rev 81.00-1-11.01 Res 0.57A Co Hwy 16 Donnelly William J 82.00-1-8.00 Res 4.12A 7071 St Hwy 28 Hartwick Ruiz Wanda 129.00-1-10.00 Res 117.61A 396 Bush Rd Thering Henry J 129.00-1-33.00 Res 70.67A 3712 Co Hwy 11 Dimick Charles J 129.00-1-38.03 Res 3.72A 104 Persons Rd Schiavo John P 130.00-1-1.221 Res 37.36A 200 Bice Rd DiLorenzo Mark 130.15-1-7.00 Res 3.88A 742 Co Hwy 59 Chase Peter H 144.19-1-53.00 Res 0.19A 6 Park Ave Clivaz Elizabeth J 146.04-1-16.00 Res 0.21A 4889 St Hwy 28 Thorn Jeffrey S 160.00-1-16.01 Res 82.95A 178 East Hill* Rd Griswold James A Jr 193.02-1-5.00 Res 0.21A 45 Lake Rd Laurens O’Neill Brian T 208.01-1-18.00 Res 0.74A 183 Co Hwy 11B Weygand Freda E 208.01-1-43.00 Res 0.47A 2428 St Hwy 205 Falsetta Albert P 223.00-1-18.03 Res 3.06A Naylor Corner Rd Moxley Grant 224.00-1-17.01 Res 84.75A

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452 Pool Brook Rd Ramsadeen Deonarine 238.00-2-17.00 Res 9.87A 2795 St Hwy 23 Roseboom Freeman 238.00-2-32.00 Res 2.33A 1205 Co Hwy 10 Dieppa Anthony 239.00-1-23.00 Res 3.54A 2957 St Hwy 23 Fraser Richard T 239.00-1-43.00 Res 26.47A Co Hwy 10 Roberts Kenneth J 240.00-1-56.01 Res 17.14A Co Hwy 11 Roberts** Gail F 240.00-1-56.02 Res 1.42A 705 Co Hwy 11 Poersch Joyce B 240.00-2-33.01 Res 1.75A 135 Co Hwy 11A McCarthy Otis L 240.00-2-33.02 Res 1.99A Co Hwy 11A Diescher Lisa 240.00-2-9.01 Res 7.65A 1102 Co Hwy 11 Cayne Alfred D 255.00-3-11.00 Res 5.46A Hathaway* Cayne Alfred D 255.00-3-13.00 Res 5.11A Hathaway* Cayne Alfred D 255.00-3-17.00 Res 5.02A Hathaway Rd Cayne Alfred D 255.00-3-4.01 Res 5.28A Hathaway Rd Melex, LLC 256.00-1-10.03 Res 22.37A 3146 St Hwy 23 Lincoln John H. 256.00-1-9.00 Res 3.60A 3100 St Hwy 23 Maryland Race Diane L 213.00-1-10.00 Res 0.95A 149 Norton Rd Stefanow Rand J 213.00-1-28.01 Res 5.13A 409 Co Hwy 34 Norton Robert A 213.00-1-4.00 Res 1.71A 327 Sperry Hollow Rd. Carotenuto Brando Francesco 213.00-1-5.05 Res 12.94A 176 Norton Rd Race Diane L 213.00-1-9.01 Res 3.81A Norton Rd Krom Vanessa 229.00-1-33.00 Res 0.82A 385 Dog Hill Rd Gregory Dennis 230.19-1-75.00 Res 0.15A 131 Main St Petrone Mary A 230.19-2-38.00 Res 0.00A 35 Arch St Plankenhorn Russell D 246.00-1-19.00 Res 3.64A 729 Center Degruchy Gerald M 261.00-1-25.02 Res 3.13A 257 Stone House Rd Becker Aaron 263.00-1-3.04 Res 5.11A Dragoo Ext Rd Emilio Richard John 263.00-1-3.31 Res 5.29A 1032 Country Rd Lambert Ann Marie 263.00-1-7.00 Res 157.05A 164 Dragoo Rd Williams Kenneth T 277.00-3-14.09 Res 65.01A St Hwy 7* Williams Kenneth T 278.00-1-3.00 Res 58.51A Easy* Ln Williams

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Kenneth T 278.00-1-4.00 Res 73.83A Easy* Ln Marcotte Stephen 278.00-2-2.00 Res 10.25A Easy* Ln Humphreys Robert L Jr 278.00-2-31.00 Res 8.03A Easy Pl Middlefield Yager Ida M 100.00-1-6.03 Res 0.50A 178 Fish Rd Stalter Joel 101.00-1-3.14 Res 20.49A 460 Hubbell Hollow Rd Stalter Caroline 101.00-1-3.15 Res 5.07A Boyd Rd Bonacci Brittany 117.00-1-27.62 Res 13.71A St Hwy 166* Romaine Richard A 132.00-1-9.44 Res 4.35A 402 Blacks Rd Ross J. Samuel A. 133.03-1Bear Kevin 148.00-1-12.01 Res 0.66A 3329 Co Hwy 35 Nathan Richard C 179.00-1-22.00 Res 88.50A 438 Co Hwy 33 Eggleston Jane R 179.00-1-31.02 Res 15.64A Eggleston Hill* Rd Hribar Patricia J. 180.00-1-9.02 Res 2.20A 934 St Hwy 166 Yaniga Robert 180.01-1-13.00 Res 0.24A 2657 Co Hwy 35 Milford Adair Hugh R Jr 194.20-2-31.00 Res 0.51A 15 Maple St Gibbons Edward 194.20-2-54.00 Res 0.19A 38 Division St DDN Properties LLC 194.20-2-60.00 Res 0.02A 94 W Main St Cowan Michael 193.00-2-12.01 Res 3.35A Bliss Gulf Rd Cowan Michael 193.00-2-12.221 Res 8.30A Bliss Gulf Rd Yager Julia 195.00-3-27.01 Res 266.14A 2096 Co Hwy 35 Foley Mark L 195.00-3-32.01 Res 2.62A Co Hwy 35 Kropp Dennis 210.00-1-26.00 Res 4.55A 286 Tansey Hill Rd Foley Mark L 211.00-1-7.00 Res 61.05A 1834 Co Hwy 35 Yager Robert E 227.00-1-19.00 Res 0.47A Co Hwy 35 Yager-Krol Katherine A 227.00-1-5.24 Res 5.38A St Hwy 28 Bradley Theresa 242.00-1-10.01 Res 57.27A 287 Upper Dutch Hill Rd Couse Richard S Jr 243.00-1-35.01 Res 12.39A 180 Friis Ln Couse Richard S Jr 243.00-1-35.05 Res 0.19A Co Hwy 35* Aho Erika E 243.14-1-31.00 Res 0.40A 2870 St Hwy 28 Leo Thomas E Jr 243.18-2-18.00 Res 0.44A 103 Happy Valley Road Spur Leo Thomas 243.18-2-24.00 Res 0.07A Happy Valley Spur Rd

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VanLoan Timothy J 259.00-1-3.00 Res 0.93A 697 Gifford Hill Rd Kropp Dennis 260.00-1-11.00 Res 1.31A 323 Co Hwy 35 Staats Frederick 260.00-1-56.00 Res 4.90A 159 Lichenburger Rd Eggleton Douglas E 260.06-1-1.00 Res 0.16A 136 Happy Valley Rd Blakeslee Patricia 260.09-1-5.00 Res 0.10A 183 Lake Shore Dr N Daley David K 260.13-1-64.02 Res 0.66A 119 Larsen Rd Duncan Donna Darlene 260.13-1-65.04 Res 0.42A 403 Co Hwy 35 Dimick Charles J 260.13-2-8.00 Res 0.06A Sunnycrest Rd Dimick Charles J 260.13-2-9.00 Res 2.01A 133 Lincoln Cir Rose Peter A 277.00-1-19.01 Res 0.61A 6349 St Hwy 7 Williams Kenneth T 277.00-1-56.01 Res 1.00A 168 Castle Lake Estate Ln Morris Stafford Peter A 221.13-1-38.00 Res 1.03A 23 Church St Henness Theron M 221.13-1-40.00 Res 0.29A 18 Liberty St Stafford Peter A 221.13-1-52.00 Res 0.19A 19 Church St Madero Joseph J 221.13-2-2.00 Res 0.20A 18 Church St Dunham Jason 221.13-2-6.00 Res 0.21A 117 Broad St Morris Shrodo Adrian M 205.00-2-5.02 Res 3.10A 399 Potato Farm Rd Humphris Terry 221.00-2-11.00 Res 3.84A 216 Co Hwy 49 Puylara-Boyd Joanne 222.00-1-56.00 Res 25.79A 595 Gulf Hill Rd DeLuca Michael 222.00-3-15.00 Res 4.47A 418 Pegg Rd Huntley Linda D 234.00-1-14.00 Res 0.38A 1683 Co Hwy 18 Burlingame Kenneth 234.00-1-23.00 Res 0.56A 1698 Co Hwy 18 New Lisbon Friedman Dorothea 141.00-2-22.00 Res 180.30A 914 Co Hwy 17 Friedman Sidney L 143.00-1-29.00 Res 63.08A Quinlog Rd Bundy, John 157.00-1-6.02 Res 41.37A 102 Bundy Rd Martinez Robert J 158.00-1-12.08 Res 6.96A Backus Rd Cold Spring Farm LLC 159.00-1-10.00 Res 79.76A Balcom Cold Spring Farm LLC 159.00-1-4.00 Res 219.38A 271 Texas Rd

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Cifuni Robert E 173.00-1-30.01 Res 38.76A Bardin Rd Bullock Robert 174.00-1-27.05 Res 5.51A 490 Bardin Rd Michelsen Matthew 174.00-1-49.00 Res 19.67A Co Hwy 14 Friedman Dorothea 189.00-1-30.01 Res 142.87A 3537 St Hwy 51 Eklund Robert 189.00-1-9.02 Res 13.88A 268 Myers Mills Rd Sanchez Beatriz 190.00-1-21.03 Res 26.24A 318 Wheat Rd Iniguez-Errais Bismarck Patric 190.00-1-23.00 Res 12.01A 299 Stahl Rd Seymour Thomas E 190.00-1-3.03 Res 7.25A Co Hwy 14 Bradley Jennifer Lee 190.00-1-9.04 Res 11.86A 418 Wheat Rd Oneonta Davis Mark 274.00-2-26.00 Res 29.02A St Hwy 205 Kropp Dennis 275.00-1-28.00 Res 34.75A East St Kropp Dennis 275.00-1-47.00 Res 0.91A 350 East St Stilson Dolores 287.15-1-13.00 Res 0.11A 250 Winney Hill Rd Rotolo Anthony 289.00-1-16.01 Res 0.71A 5539 St Hwy 7 Rotolo Anthony 289.00-1-6.01 Res 16.84A St Hwy 7* Liddell Robert T 299.07-1-11.00 Res 0.17A 5 Raymond Ave RBFD INC 299.073-60.00 Res 0.15A 24 Ceperley Ave Marsh-Kamerling Cynthia 300.00-3-10.02 Res 1.29A 142 Glen Dr

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Frailey Mark E Jr 285.00-1-33.03 Res 2.26A 1034 Co Hwy 7 Preldakaj Vere 306.00-1-24.00 Res 1.48A 952 Co Hwy 5 Thayer Shawn 307.00-1-36.00 Res 0.92A 626 Co Hwy 7 Chambers Jeffrey W 308.00-1-22.04 Res 5.03A 1169 Co Hwy 48 Hurlburt David 308.00-1-53.01 Res 29.82A 1085 Co Hwy 48 Sousa Frederick J Jr 324.00-1-47.03 Res 0.37A St Hwy 7 Mugford Daniel 324.00-1-7.04 Res 0.73A Tiffany Ln Mugford Daniel 324.00-1-8.29 Res 0.07A Underwood Dr Thompson Gary 324.18-1-15.00 Res 0.94A 102 Maplecrest Way Mugford Daniel 324.18-1-57.01 Res 0.34A Underwood Dr BRS Real Estate LLC 325.00-1-2.01 Res 107.90A 162 Co Hwy 48 Otsego Andrews Phillip 115.18-3-38.00 Res 0.11A 96 Main St Bailey Richard J 131.05-1-49.01 Res 0.24A 100 Chestnut St Johnson James V 131.05-1-50.00 Res 0.35A 96 Chestnut St Phinney n/f 131.06-2-83.00 Res 0.05A Elm St Summers Linden D III 131.06-3-65.00 Res 0.22A 1 Elk St Otsego

Marsh Michael A 317.15-1-31.00 Res 0.29A 67 Fair St Sullivan Jeffrey J 317.19-1-1.02 Res 0.46A 197 Main St Barron Marvin 317.19-1-33.00 Res 0.36A 12 Averill St Ford Marion J 317.20-1-49.00 Res 0.31A 72 River St Bonacci Brittany M 317.20-1-51.00 Res 0.14A River St

Senchyshyn Joseph 113.00-1-74.22 Res 4.16A Cook Rd Clinton Dale R 114.00-1-79.01 Res 8.55A St Hwy 28* Groom Thomas 52.11-1-10.00 Res 0.23A 141 Marble Rd Rasbach Patricia W 52.11-1-29.02 Res 0.20A 202 Bibik Rd Quarmby Robert 53.00-1-17.00 Res 99.51A 2255 Co Hwy 26 Francis James M 67.00-2-10.00 Res 6.76A 788 Keating Rd Thompson Gary A 68.00-1-5.01 Res 0.84A 2101 Co Hwy 26 Cooper John A 84.00-1-15.04 Res 2.30A Reiss Rd

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Lent Donald 272.00-1-12.01 Res 16.12A 1125 Co Hwy 6 Mahmood Tariq 272.00-1-15.00 Res 89.72A 1595 Co Hwy 8 Chickerell Debra Lee 272.00-1-72.02 Res 6.73A 114 Stoneybrook Rd Barron Vickie 272.00-1-74.03 Res 9.95A 1937 Co Hwy 8 Volckaerts Laura I 272.00-1-74.07 Res 0.18A 1302 Co Hwy Dugan Michael J 272.00-2-31.00 Res 5.00A Co Hwy 6

Green Daniel Jr 154.00-1-14.00 Res 63.40A 3584 Co Hwy 18 Salvatoriello Keith 154.00-1-22.03 Res 1.59A 186 Parker Rd Vossbrinck Jonathan H 155.00-1-37.03 Res 4.75A E Parker Rd Ext Vossbrinck Jonathan H 155.00-1-37.05 Res 6.08A E Parker Rd* Ext Dacastafaro Kelly Jean 156.00-1-2.01 Res 1.81A 144 Nichols Rd Olsson Lillian 156.00-1-23.00 Res 12.81A

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1407 Co Hwy 49 Patrick Faye A 170.00-1-12.00 Res 0.50A 157 St Hwy 80 Green Daniel Jr. 170.00-1-19.00 Res 0.49A 148 St Hwy 80 Davisson Barry L 170.00-1-28.00 Res 0.71A 103 Clarence Howe Rd Green Daniel R 171.00-1-38.03 Res 0.80A 120 Dunham Rd Terwilliger Carl 172.00-1-30.02 Res 43.83A 119 Jennison Rd Bear Tammy L. 186.09-1-30.00 Res 0.17A 101 Park Ln Patrick Alyssa N 186.09-2-12.00 Res 0.25A 106 Grove Ave Harrington Brian G 187.00-1-30.00 Res 0.53A 1207 Co Hwy 13 Tooley Kathy J 187.00-1-41.01 Res 92.08A 147 Young Rd Drzal Jerald T 187.00-1-51.00 Res 18.44A Co Hwy 13 Tooley Michael D 188.00-1-27.04 Res 1.61A 290 Hawks Rd Miller Timothy L 188.00-1-6.03 Res 2.20A 210 Hawks Rd Papasidero Jeffrey D 202.00-1-1.224 Res 14.18A Co Hwy 18 Papasidero Jeffrey D 202.00-1-1.226 Res 18.57A Co Hwy 18 Noriega Esther M 202.00-1-1.32 Res 10.05A Co Hwy 18 Noreiga Joseph H Jr 202.00-1-1.33 Res 14.97A 2662 Co Hwy 18 Plainfield Reckeweg Frederick 20.00-1-1.32 Res 5.22A 372 Griffith Rd Ostrander Elmer E 20.00-1-16.01 Res 38.41A 977 Co Hwy 21 Ray Surr Trust 20.00-1-32.00 Res 46.88A 270 Griffith Rd Voorhees Lester R 33.00-1-68.00 Res 25.02A 6358 Co Hwy 18 Richfield Werner Brian 13.20-3-41.00 Res 0.19A 16 Elm St Gibson Cosby 14.17-1-28.00 Res 0.30A 5 Sylvan St Stefanec Lisa M 14.17-1-38.00 Res 0.35A 16 Sylvan St Thompson Gary A 24.08-1-13.00 Res 2.34A Prospect St Moss Erik ** 12.02-1-29.00 Res 1.41A 977 Co Hwy 25 Yerdon Alberta J 13.00-1-37.00 Res 1.40A 2714 Us Hwy 20 Lawson Evan F 25.00-1-28.00 Res 0.11A Bloomfield Dr Scerra Mary Ellen 38.71-1-5.02 Res 0.21A 128 Cooks Rd Roseboom Rickard Brian Scott 102.02-1-25.00 Res 0.42A 3200 St Hwy 166 Grimm Eloise 103.00-1-12.04 Res 1.60A 122 Grimm Ln Buschmann Gregg J. 104.00-1-25.22

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Res 71.21A 876 Co Hwy 50 Sawyer Brittany 105.00-1-18.00 Res 0.38A Rosenburg* Rd Giammarino Lucio 120.00-1-14.00 Res 10.77A 200 Adair Rd Phillips Alexis 120.00-1-17.00 Res 4.67A St Hwy 165 Ellis Timothy 120.03-1-27.00 Res 1.94A 1155 St Hwy 165 Calabrese Marina 89.00-2-28.01 Res 3.56A Co Hwy 50

Brandenburg Delores 323.00-1-15.01 Res 5.85A 105 Merriman Hill Rd Brandenburg Delores 323.00-1-15.10 Res 5.39A Co Hwy 3A* Higbie Steven D 323.00-1-69.01 Res 27.92A Co Hwy 4 2365 Wells Bridge Trust 324.03-1-19.00 Res 0.26A 2365 St Hwy 7 Higbie Steven 324.03-1-20.00 Res 0.28A 2367 St Hwy 7 Higbie Steven 324.03-1-22.00 Res 0.07A St Hwy 7 Higbie Steven Daniel 324.03-1-38.01 Res 0.28A 2391 St Hwy 7 Clow Shawn A 324.03-1-4.02 Res 0.29A 116 Pitcher Ln Seymour Frederick H 327.00-1-21.21 Res 1.18A 101 Hutchinson Hill Rd Queb-Cantun Maria G 328.00-1-5.03 Res 0.35A Lockwood Hill Rd Brownell Cale 329.00-1-13.22 Res 2.51A 142 Hardknocks Rd Wright Roger O 329.00-1-14.01 Res 12.33A 563 Co Hwy 3 Thompson Gary A 329.00-1-42.02 Res 0.57A 536 Co Hwy 3 Hunt William A Sr. 329.00-3-23.00 Res 7.34A Hardknocks Rd Grow Richard W 332.00-1-8.00 Res 0.72A 351 Co Hwy 1 Torres Juanita 333.00-1-39.21 Res 11.24A 197 Ingalls Rd Davis Brian 334.00-1-19.00 Res 13.03A Kilkenny* Rd Barnes Timothy P 336.00-1-19.00 Res 2.72A St Hwy 7 Barnes Timothy P 336.00-1-20.00 Res 1.77A 271 St Hwy 7 Barnes Timothy P 336.00-1-22.01 Res 21.71A St Hwy 7 Barnes Timothy P 336.00-1-23.00 Res 0.49A 293 St Hwy 7 GR Enterprises of the Northeas 336.00-1-46.01 Res 1.82A St Hwy 7 Hunt William A Jr 336.02-1-44.00 Res 0.67A St Hwy 7 Hunt William A Jr 336.02-1-46.02 Res 0.25A 25 Plan A Home Dr Eastman Johnny N 336.02-1-73.00 Res 0.22A 378 St Hwy 7 Bonacci Brittany 336.02-1-81.00 Res 0.13A 333 St Hwy 7 Air Tight Builders, LLC 337.00-1-54.00 Res 4.78A 654 St Hwy 7

653 Co Hwy 36 Yacono John 182.00-1-5.00 Res 50.46A 355 Greenbush Rd Jablonski David M 183.00-1-6.03 Res 2.03A 486 Co Hwy 36 Yager Julia 195.00-2-1.00 Res 34.67A Co Hwy 35* Pacherille Anthony 196.00-1-1.01 Res 17.11A 1267 Co Hwy 42

Springfield Hartmann Steven J 15.00-1-34.02 Res 1.42A St Hwy 80 Macaluso Joseph 41.06-1-27.00 Res 0.75A 7667 St Hwy 80 Macaluso Joseph 41.06-1-57.00 Res 0.64A St Hwy 80 Owner Unknown 54.00-1-48.00 Res 2.77A Buddle Rd Boyce, Inc German F 69.28-1-17.00 Res 0.17A St Hwy 80 Opto Generic Devises Inc 7.00-1-4.01 Res 107.23A 174 Pumpkin Hook Rd Unadilla Davis Brian 334.14-1-2.00 Res 1.65A 74 Kilkenny St Conley Robert N Jr 334.14-1-29.00 Res 0.62A 10 Ontio Ter Shaffer Mathew 334.14-1-54.00 Res 0.70A 11 Lyons St Rosenberg Jeffrey M 334.15-1-40.00 Res 0.55A 53 Maple Ave Brown Anthony T Jr 334.18-2-23.00 Res 0.26A 138 Main St Steinbacher Shelley 334.18-2-64.00 Res 0.38A 13 Fellows St Rodriguez Louis A Jr 334.18-2-68.00 Res 0.33A 8 Bridge St Connors Michael A 334.19-1-54.00 Res 0.08A 192 Main St Rudolph Richard 334.19-2-57.00 Res 0.26A 23 Martin Brook St Gass Dustin William 334.19-2-63.00 Res 0.23A 5 Martin Brook St Innes Jamie Santic 338.05-1-1.00 Res 2.66A 17 Main St Unadilla Livolsi Salvatore 305.00-1-33.00 Res 3.67A Lulu Coon* Rd Bryant Bridget 312.00-1-8.00 Res 0.44A River Rd Christianson Robert P 313.00-1-14.00 Res 0.75A 639 Ideuma Rd Thompson Gary 313.00-1-6.05 Res 5.01A 139 Black Ash Swamp Rd Smith Richard L 313.00-1-6.07 Res 4.50A Prentice Gorge Rd Andrews Clark E 314.00-1-34.00 Res 1.57A Butternut Rd Lent Janet 314.00-1-61.31 Res 5.02A 708 Co Hwy 3A Stark Barry D 322.00-1-34.02 Res 0.42A Co Hwy 3*

Westford Reed Jacob W 150.00-1-18.01 Res 43.39A 414 Middlefield Rd Makzides D 166.01-1-39.00 Res 0.26A 1760 Co Hwy 34 Banks Mae 180.00-2-27.07 Res 4.98A 730 Badeau Hill Rd Franklin Lucy 180.01-2-13.00 Res 0.90A 2654 Co Hwy 35 Evans Donald T 182.00-1-13.00 Res 116.86A

Worcester Race Daniel L 184.00-1-22.02 Res 1.74A 912 West Hill Rd Norton William 184.00-1-32.00 Res 1.80A 969 West Hill Rd Reina Dorothy F 185.00-1-59.01 Res 1.50A 100 Alvord Rd Sperbeck Michael 185.13-1-10.00 Res 0.28A 47 Main St Eager Bruce A 185.13-1-82.00 Res 0.50A 30 Main St Rost Deborah 198.00-3-18.00 Res 2.22A 108 Up County Rd Schiltkamp Adriaan 199.18-3-43.00 Res 0.13A 10 Mill St Roe Josephine B 199.18-3-62.02 Res 0.53A 38 Mill St Dennehy Robert 199.19-1-5.00 Res 0.19A 285 Main St Carneiro Paulette 200.00-1-47.02 Res 1.24A St Hwy 7 Chesla Christopher 200.00-1-5.00 Res 0.33A 144 Brighton Rd Thompson Gary 200.00-1-60.00 Res 2.96A 10099 St Hwy 7 Gavett Richard R 201.00-1-22.00 Res 48.77A 177 American Way Kisiolek Malgorzata D 215.00-1-29.313 Res 8.99A Co Hwy 39 Sawyer Brittany 215.00-1-48.03 Res 2.48A South America* Rd Ives Douglas C 215.06-1-23.00 Res 0.36A 10 Depot St Ives Douglas C 215.06-1-8.00 Res 0.09A 2 Church St Currie Bria 233.00-1-4.00 Res 3.32A 495 Mooney Rd F. Pops’ Property Inc. 248.00-1-18.01 Res 13.59A 522 Hall Rd F. Pops’ Property Inc. 248.00-1-18.22 Res 14.11A Hall Rd Stevens Donald R. 248.00-1-6.02 Res 6.43A 391 South America Rd McGuckin Elizabeth J 249.00-1-10.01 Res 6.88A 373 Center Valley Rd. Effect of filing: All persons having or claiming to have an interest in the real property described in such petition are hereby notified that the filing of such petition constitutes the commencement by the Tax District of a proceeding in the court specified in the caption above to foreclose each of the tax liens therein described by a foreclosure proceeding in rem. Nature of proceeding: Such proceeding is brought against the real

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property only and is to foreclose the tax liens described in such petition. No personal judgment will be entered herein for such taxes or other legal charges or any part thereof.

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fail to appear or to answer within the aforementioned time frame, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

Persons affected: This notice is directed to all persons owning or having or claiming to have an interest in the real property described in such petition. Such persons are hereby notified further that a duplicate of such petition has been filed in the office of the Enforcing Officer of the Tax District and the Otsego County Courthouse and will remain open for public inspection up to and including the date specified below as the last day for redemption.

NOTICE OF FILING OF ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION IN NEW YORK BY A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY

Right of redemption: Any person having or claiming to have an interest in any such real property and the legal right thereto may on or before said date redeem the same by paying the amount of all such unpaid tax liens thereon, including all interest and penalties and other legal charges which are included in the lien against such real property, computed to and including the date of redemption. Such payments shall be made to Dan Crowell, Otsego County Treasurer, 197 Main Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326. In the event that such taxes are paid by a person other than the record owner of such real property, the person so paying shall be entitled to have the tax liens affected thereby satisfied of record. Last day for redemption: The last day for redemption is hereby fixed as the 1st day of May 2017. Service of answer: Every person having any right, title or interest in or lien upon any parcel of real property described in such petition may serve a duly verified answer upon the attorney for the Tax District setting forth in detail the nature and amount of his or her interest and any defense or objection to the foreclosure. Such answer must be filed in the office of the County Clerk and served upon the attorney for the Tax District on or before the above date mentioned as the last day for redemption. Failure to redeem or answer: In the event of failure to redeem or answer by any person having the right to redeem or answer, such person shall be forever barred and foreclosed of his or her right, title and interest and equity of redemption in and to the parcel described in such petition and a judgment in foreclosure may be taken by default. Enforcing Officer Dan Crowell Otsego County Treasurer Attorney for Tax District

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Name: Chestnut 76, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with sec. of state of NY(SOS) on 6/10/2004. Office location: Otsego County. SOS is designated as agent of LLC for service of process. SOS shall mail copy of process to c/o Oxford Group, 388 East Main Street, Branford, CT 06405. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. 6LegalApr.27 Legal nOtice SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO Index No. SUMMONS AND NOTICE Mortgaged Premises 34 Ontio Terrace Unadilla, New York 13849 Section: 334.14 Block: 1 Lot(s): 37.00 Mortgaged Premises: 34 Ontio Terrace, Unadilla, New York 13849 Kondaur Capital Corporation, as Separate Trustee of Matawin Ventures Trust Series 2014-3, Plaintiff -against-

JONATHAN D. SWIFT; MICHELLE L. SWIFT; BASSETT MEDICAL CENTER; TRI-TOWN REGIONAL HOSPITAL; “JOHN DOE” and “MARY DOE”, said names being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants, tenants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises being foreclosed herein, Defendants To The Above Named Defendant(s): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service. If you

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECTIVE of the above captioned action is to foreclose on a Mortgage to secure $106,118.00 and interest, recorded in the Otsego County Clerk’s Office on July 26, 2007 in Book 1528, Page 1167, Instrument Number 200700056914, covering premises known as 34 Ontio Terrace, Unadilla, New York 13849. The relief sought herein is a final judgment directing sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. Plaintiff designates Otsego County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the Mortgaged Premises is located. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. This Communication is from a debt collector in an attempt to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. FRIEDMAN VARTOLO LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff, 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004 T: (212) 471-5100 F: (212) 471-5150 4LegalApr.13 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY The name of the entity is P & L Properties VI, LLC, for which the Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State

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on May 12, 2015. The office of said entity is to be located in Otsego County, New York. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the limited liability company, upon whom process against it may be served, and the post office address within this State to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon her is 168 Sugar Hill Road, Cooperstown, New York 13326. The purpose of the business of such limited liability company is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the Limited Liability Company Law. 6LegalApr.27 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company, (LLC) Name: Cooperstown Escape Rooms, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 3/2/17. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 73 Main St. 2nd Floor, Cooperstown NY 13326 Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 6LegalApr.20 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION of TUMBLE HILL FARM, LLC A Limited Liability Company. Articles of Organization were filed with the New York State Secretary of State on March 3, 2017. The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County. The Secretary of State has been designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/ her to: Tumble Hill Farm, LLC of 197 Algerine Hill Road, East Worcester, New York 12064. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. 6LegalApr.20 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WhatCannaDo LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC) Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State on January 27, 2017. The office location within New York is in Otsego County. The Secretary of State is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of

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any process against the LLC served upon him/her to c/o THE LLC, PO Box 108, Gilbertsville, New York 13776. Purpose: to engage in any lawful act or activity. 6LegalApr.13 Legal nOtice NOTICE of FORMATION of LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: Marlinspike Operations, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the N.Y. Secretary of State on February 22, 2017. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County, New York. The Secretary of State is the designated agent of the LLC, upon whom processes may be served. 6LegalApr.13 Legal nOtice SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO Index No. 2016-248 Date Filed: 4/21/2016 SUMMONS Premises being foreclosed: 3-5 Canadarago Street Richfield Springs, NY 13439 ACTION TO FORECLOSE MORTGAGE ON PROPERTY SITUATED IN OTSEGO COUNTY Santander Bank, N.A. f/k/a Sovereign Bank, N.A. f/k/a Sovereign Bank, Plaintiff, -againstSilvio V. Villavicencio, Rosa J. Villavicencio, Seamus Enterprises, LLC “JOHN DOE “ through and including “JOHN DOE#25”, the defendants last named in quotation marks being intended to designate tenants or occupants in possession of the herein described premises or portions thereof, if any there be, said names being fictitious, their true name being unknown to plaintiff, Defendant(s). TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your Answer, or if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorneys within twenty (20) days after the service of the Summons exclusive of the day of service or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State. In

THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 2017

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OBITUARIES Betty Anne Schwerd, 65, County Representative, Burlington Town Supervisor, State Senator’s Aide BURLINGTON – Betty Anne “BA” Schwerd, 65, of Burlington, the retired Otsego County representative, went to join her parents and son on Saturday, March 18, 2017, at Bassett Hospital, with her loving family at her side. BA was born on March 22, 1951, in Cooperstown, the daughter of the late Frederick W. (Bill) and Maxine Walter Schwerd. She attended Edmeston Central School, graduating with the Class of 1969, and has remained friends with many of her classmates. As a teenager, she be-

gan her working Sen. Jim Seward, Rcareer as a chamMilford, was elected bermaid for the Burlington town F.W. Woods Motel supervisor, and was in Cooperstown. elected to the county Later, she was the Board of Representasales manager for tives for five twoThe Otesaga and a year terms, (January personal assistant at 2006-December the NYS&W RailBetty Anne 2015). Schwerd road. In addition, She was a compasBA worked with the sionate person, who Migrant Education Program, helped anyone in need. and for the Alzheimers AsBA is survived by her sociation. sons: Todd Hovick of Along with working full Burlington, Scott (Danielle) time, and raising four chilHovick of Burlington, and dren, BA was active with the Shane (Kathryn) Hovick of Otsego County Republican Guilford, Conn. Party. She worked for state Also surviving are grandchildren: Sarah Hovick, Kaitlyn (Kyle) Hovick, Mason Hovick, Kaylee Hovick,

Ryan Hovick, Reed Hovick, Sam Hovick, and greatgrandson Blake Hovick. A brother William Schwerd of Ballston Spa, and several nieces, and nephews. In addition to her parents, she was pre-deceased by a son T.J. Hovick in 2014. Services will be at the convenience of the family. There will be no calling hours. Expressions of sympathy may be made to the Edmeston Emergency Squad in memory of BA. Arrangements are by the Delker & Terry Funeral Home, 30 South St., Edmeston. To send condolences, visit www.Delkerterryfuneralhome.com

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

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Michael V. Coccoma, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Otsego County dated Feb. 2, 2017 and filed with the complaint and other papers in the Otsego County Clerk’s Office. THE OBJECT OF THE ACTION is to foreclose a mortgage recorded on the 22nd day of October, 2008, in Book 1586, mortgage page 1077, covering premises k/a 3-5 Canadarago Street, Richfield Springs, NY 13439 a/k/a Section 25.5, Block 3, Lot 29. Plaintiff designates OTSEGO County as the place for trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: March 29, 2016 Carle Place, New York Pranali Datta, Esq. Stein, Wiener Roth, L.L.P. Attorneys for Plaintiff One Old Country Road, Suite 113 Carle Place, New York 11514 (516)-742-1212 71083/ SANTANDER #91093 4LegalMar.30 Legal NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO NS0153, LLC, Plaintiff, -againstJILLIAN BOS A/K/A JILLIAN E. BOS; LINDA SCHUERMANN;

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JOSEPH A. GALATI, JR.; UNKNOWN HEIRSAT-LAW OF THE ESTATE OF CARMEN GALATI, NEXT-OF-KIN, DISTRIBUTEES, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, TRUSTEES, DEVISEES, LEGATEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST AND GENERALLY ALL PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING UNDER, BY OR THROUGH SAID DEFENDANT WHO MAY BE DECEASED, BY PURCHASE, INHERITANCE, LIEN OR OTHERWISE, ANY RIGHT, TITLE, AND INTEREST IN AND TO THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT; GEORGE GALATI; JOSEPH A. GALATI, III; DOMENICA SCOLES, Defendants. Index No. 0501/2016 Mortgaged Premises 165 Wileytown Road Hartwick, New York 13348 Section: 128.00 Block: 2 Lot: 14.00 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Mortgaged Premises: 165 Wileytown Road, Hartwick, New York 13348 To the Above Named Defendant(s):

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YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service. If you fail to appear or to answer within the aforementioned time frame, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECTIVE of the above captioned action is to foreclose on a Mortgage to secure $140,000.00 and interest, recorded in the Otsego County Clerk’s Office on May 23, 2007 in Book 1522, Page 915 Document Number 200700055188, covering premises known as 165 Wileytown Road, Hartwick, New York 13348. The relief sought herein is a final judgment directing sale of the premises

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described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above Plaintiff designates Otsego County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the Mortgaged Premises is located. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. This Communication is from a debt collector in an attempt to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that

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purpose. FRIEDMAN VARTOLO LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 85 Broad Street, Suite 501 New York, New York 10004 T: (212) 471-5100 F: (212) 471-5150 Attorneys for Plaintiff. 4LegalMar.30 Legal NOTICE Notice of formation of BAILE PROPERTIES, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on February 10, 2017. The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail. a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to: The LLC, 273 Southside Drive, Oneonta, NY 13820. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. 6LegalApr6 Legal NOTICE Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: Cooperstown Beaver Valley Campground LLC

IN APPRECIATION

Light As A Feather, But What Vitality!

t was mentioned at the March 1 meeting of her Otsego County Board of Representatives that Betty Anne Schwerd had been transported to Focus Rehab. Still, it was a shock Sunday afternoon, March 19, to learn of her passing the day before. Betty Anne was a wisp of a woman – the slightest breeze, you might think, could carry her away – but what vitality! She burned with energy and commitment. And opinions. She had strong views about everything, and was unafraid to express herself. Certainly, public boards needs politicians and business people and scholars and the like, but for any board to succeed, it needs one member who anyone and everyone feels comfortable approaching with any problem. Betty Anne was that person in her 10 years on the county board – and,

no doubt, before and since. No silver spoon in her mouth, no college degree, no powerful patrons, but through grit and personality she rose to the heights of county governance. In recent years, she suffered a number of setbacks, but proceeded with courage and determination – proof of her inner strength. As her final term on the county board was coming to an end, she appeared downcast one day, slumping a bit as she walked down a hallway at the County Office Building in Cooperstown. Hailed, she threw back her head, squared her shoulders and, just like the old Betty Anne, was soon laughing and – as the saying goes – giving back as good as she got. She was one of a kind, and our county is diminished by her passing from the scene. – Jim Kevlin

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Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 23 January 2017. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 704, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws. 6LegalApr6 Legal NOTICE Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: Cooperstown Baseball Camp LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 23 January 2017. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 704, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws. 6LegalApr6 Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Oak River Park, LLC

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Arts of Org. filed with Sec’y. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on February 15, 2017. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, PO Box 404, Cooperstown, New York 13326. Purpose: any lawful activity. 6LegalApr6 Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION of DIAMOND CONCRETE & DEVELOPMENT LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with the Sec’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/30/2017. Office Location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 173 West Hill Road, Hartwick, New York 13348. Purpose: Any lawful activity. 6LegalApr6 Legal NOTICE Notice of formation of Balance By Day LLC. Articles of Formation was filed with the NY secretary of state on February 13, 2017. The office of this LLC is to be located in Otsego County. The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon

whom process may be served. The NY Secretary of State may mail copy of any process to the LLC at 25 Grand St apt#2 Oneonta NY 13820. The purpose of the is to abide by all lawful acts and activities. 6LegaMar30 Legal NOTICE Advisornet Property & Casualty, LLC . Filed: 12/1/16 . Office: Otsego Co. Formed in WI: 4/24/08. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 1121 N 7th St PO Box 289, Sheobygan, WI 53082. Foreign add: 1121 N 7th St, Sheobygan, WI 53701. Arts. of Org. filed with Wi Dept Of Financial Institutions Secy Lon E Roberts, 201 W Washington Ave # 500, Madison, WI 53703. Purpose: General. 6LegalMar.30 Legal notice Notice of Formation of Avery-Burdick Stable, LLC Art. of Org. filed with SSNY 2/10/17 Office LOC: Otsego, CTY. SSNY desig. As agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 1078 County Hwy 6, Otego NY 13825 Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 6LegalMar23

THURSDAY, march 23, 2017

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OBITUARIES

HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO

Larry M. Thompson, 66, Barber Shop; Center Of Community Life For 36 Years

CHERRY VALLEY – Larry M. Thompson, 66, whose Larry’s Barber Shop was a center of community life for decades, passed away unexpectedly of a massive heart attack on Saturday, March 18, 2017, at his home. Larry was the son of the late Edward Thompson and is survived by his mother, Helen Thompson. He graduated from Cherry Valley Central School in 1969, and attended Royal Barber & Beauty School in Schenectady, where he obtained his barber license. Upon graduation, he enlisted in the Navy where he served honorably. Larry married Doris Yale

on Oct. 31, 1970, Larry and Doris had two daughters, Tammy and Cary. Larry owned and operated Larry Larry’s BarThompson ber Shop for 36 years. On retiring, he worked part time in security at The Fenimore Art Museum, as caretaker of the Cherry Valley Cemetery, and most recently for Springbrook as job coach for his “beloved buddy” Chris Hogan. Larry was a pillar in his community, reflected in his involvement with the Cherry

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Valley Fire Department where he served 20 years. He was a Boy Scout leader for numerous years, an active member and an officer of the American Legion Whiteman Hall-Snyder Post 1360, an active member of the First Presbyterian Church of Cherry Valley, and an active member of the Cherry Valley Fishing Game Club. Larry also loved acting and being a co-director of the Drama Club for the Cherry Valley-Springfield Central School District. Larry’s greatest joy came from his love and dedication to his wife, daughters, grandchildren (whom he adored), mother, and his close group of friends.

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Larry was always there to lend a helping hand to anyone who needed it. He was a great mentor to many. His passion was fishing with his good buddies George and Andy. He is survived by his wife, Doris Thompson; two daughters, Tammy and her husband Mitchell Hotaling, and Cary and her husband Ryan Reed; four grandchildren, Mikayla and Camden Reed, and Chloe and Mason Thalheimer; brother Gary Thompson and his wife Michele, along with several nieces, nephews, cousins, and many special friends. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, March 23, at First Presbyterian Church in Cherry Valley. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the First Presbyterian Church in Cherry Valley or the American Legion Whiteman HallSnyder Post 1360. Larry’s passing has left a void in his community. He will be greatly missed by all who had the honor of knowing him. He has left us with many “Larry-isms” that we will remember him by. In the words of Larry; “Here’s to us and those like us, damn few left.” Arrangements were entrusted to Ottman Funeral Home, Cherry Valley.

AllOTSEGO.opportunities The City of Oneonta seeks an

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This entry level engineering position requires the performance of professional level duties to complete various engineering tasks & projects.

Applications and a full job description are available at the City of Oneonta Personnel Office, 258 Main Street, Oneonta, N.Y. 13820 or at www.oneonta.ny.us/personnel. First review of applications will take place on March 31 The position may be filled as a provisional appointment, subject to a competitive civil service examination. The city offers a comprehensive benefits package. A competitive salary will be based on qualifications EOE

The Watershed Agricultural Council, a non profit organization working to protect the NYC Watershed while supporting farm and forest land uses, is seeking an Engineering Specialist for its Small Farms Program. The Engineering Specialist will be a member of the Small Farms Team and serve as a conservation technician to work cooperatively in the planning, design and implementation of Agricultural Best Management Practices (BMPs) in the Watershed Agricultural Program (WAP) in the West of Hudson Watershed. Qualifications and requirements detailed in position description available at www.nycwatershed.org. Salary: High $40,000s. To apply: Send cover letter and resume to Amy Faulkner, Watershed Agricultural Council, 33195 State Highway 10, Walton, NY 13856; or e-mail afaulkner@nycwatershed.org. Equal Opportunity Employer.

Rewarding Career Opportunities

Review of applications will begin April 3, 2017.

Consider a career with The Arc of Delaware County, a leading human service organization in Delaware County with a 50 year history of supporting adults and pre-K children with disabilities. You could be part of a team that makes a difference in people’s lives every day, while making a difference in yours, too! Review the current opportunities and discover a rewarding new career with opportunities for advancement: Review the current opportunities and discover a rewarding new career with opportunities for advancement:

• Registered Nurses • Leadership Positions • Direct Support Positions • Administrative Asst • Carousel Children’s Services (CCS) How do you apply? Simply review the complete list of positions available on the careers page of our website to find a position that matches your career goals, skills and interests, and then apply right online at www.delarc.org EOE

The Watershed Agricultural Council, a non profit organization working to protect the NYC Watershed while supporting farm and forest land uses, is seeking an Easement Program Stewardship Specialist to assist in the stewardship of agricultural conservation easements designed to protect agricultural and forestry viability and water quality. Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in supporting field; Three years related experience in land conservation or natural resource management; as well as additional requirements further detailed in position description available at www.nycwatershed.org. Salary commensurate with experience; excellent benefits package including but not limited to 8% employer contribution to 403(b) pension; health, dental and vision insurance (employer pays 95% of cost of plan); and portable term life insurance policy. To apply: Send cover letter and resume to Amy Faulkner, Watershed Agricultural Council, 33195 State Highway 10, Walton, NY 13856; or e-mail afaulkner@nycwatershed.org. EOE. Review of applications will begin March 27, 2017

Sunday, March 26

SUGARING-OFF SUNDAY – 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Historical and contemporary maple sugaring demonstrations with a pancake breakfast and fun activities for kids. The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown. Info, http://www. farmersmuseum.org/sos ART AUCTION – 1-4 p.m. Bid for artwork from the collection of Dorothy Caswell. Benefit for the Catskill Choral Society. Auction begins at 2 p.m. Final bids at 3:30 p.m. Wine and hors d’oeuvres served by Dietz & Wall Wines. Community Arts Network of Oneonta, Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, http:// www.canoneonta.org/ NATURE WALK – 2 p.m. Educator and naturalist George Steele leads a stroll to discover what animals have survived winter and which birds are present. SUNY Oneonta College Camp, one mile from intersection of Bugbee Rd. and East St. Info, (607) 4363455. SUNY THEATER – 2 p.m. Student Theater Club production of “Eurydice.” Hamblin Theater, Fine Arts Building, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, oneonta.edu/academics/theatre/ DANCING – 5-9 p.m. Round and Square Dance with the Dirt Road Express band by the Tri-County Dance & Social Club. Open to all ages 18+. Oneonta Moose Club. 119 W. Broadway, Oneonta. https://www.facebook. com/pages/Oneonta-MooseLodge/120062891416318

Monday, March 27

WORKSHOP – 6 p.m. “Annexation” presented by NY Conference of Mayors Attorney Wade Beltramo. Focus on reservoir and airport properties. Common Council Chambers, City Hall, 258 Main St., Oneonta. Info, City Clerk (607) 432-6450. STRESSBUSTERS – 6:307:30 p.m. Monthly class giving you the tools for self-care and empowerment. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta.org/calendar/ DRAWING GROUP – 7-9 p.m. Come practice drawing with a live model. $10 donation. Cooperstown Art Association, (607) 547-9777. ADDICTION WORKSHOP – 7-9 p.m. Explore the chemical changes of the brain of a person struggling with Substance

Use Disorder. Free workshop with David Ramsey, founder of Friend of Recovery of Delaware and Otsego. FORDO, 22 Elm St., Oneonta. Info, http://www.friendsofrecoverydo.org/events or call (607)267-4435 or email kyle@ friendsofrecoverydo.org OPEN MIC – 8 p.m. Black Oak Tavern, 14 Water St., Oneonta. Info, https://www. facebook.com/Black-Oak-Tavern488508661211560/

Tuesday, March 28

3-D DESIGN WORKSHOP – 10:30 a.m.-noon. Tinker with your designs for 3D printing. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta.org/calendar/ KNITTING GROUP – 1:30-3:30 p.m. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown, http:// www.villagelibraryofcooperstown. org/calendar NARCAN TRAINING – 3-4 p.m. Learn how to administer NARCAN to someone in need with Project Safe Point. Friends of Recovery of Delaware and Otsego, 22 Elm St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 267-4435, kyle@friendsofrecoverydo.org, http://www.friendsofrecoverydo. org/events 3-D DESIGN WORKSHOP – 3:30-5 p.m. Tinker with your designs for 3D printing. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta.org/calendar/

Wednesday, March 29

CHILDREN’S STORY HOUR – 10:30-11:30 a.m. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, http://www. villagelibraryofcooperstown. org/calendar CURRENT EVENTS – 3-5 p.m. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, http://www.villagelibraryofcooperstown.org/calendar MINECRAFT – 3:30-5:30 p.m. Open hours, no registration required. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta.org/ youth-programs/ GUITAR BASICS – 5-7 p.m. Learn to play guitar with John Arlet. Must have your own guitar. Limited space. Friends of Recovery of Delaware and Otsego, 22 Elm St., Oneonta. Info/reservation, (607) 267-4435, http://www.friendsofrecoverydo. org/events MORE CALENDAR, B8

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PROF. OFFICE RENTAL PROF. OFFICE SPACE ONEONTA 3,000 sf, Main St. near hospital. Will reconfigure to suit. $4000/mo. Avail. May 1. Joan Fox, Broker KW Upstate NY Properties 607-434-4679. 6ClassApr.6 HOUSE FOR RENT Year-round home rental in the center of Cooperstown village. 2 bedrooms, 2½ baths, in historic 1823 home, completely refurbished. Available April 1, 2017. $1,650/ mo. includes heat, HW, electric, wireless, trash & snow removal. Lease, security, references. (607) 643-1931 dgeurtze@yahoo. com 3Class.Apr.6 Townhouse for rent Five Mile Point, Cooperstown, fully furnished. 2 br/2.5 ba; 2 terraces with lake views. Fireplace, modern kitchen, lake access (boat slip available), 24 hour security. $1600/mo plus utilities, 12 mo. lease min. (212) 873-7727. 3ClassMar31 APARTMENTS FOR RENT Hartwick Studio Apartment 2nd floor…cozy…small deck…newly redone… parking…475.00+elec…no smoking or pets…references…Dave 607 435 2405. TFN Cooperstown village apartment. 2 bedroom, 1 bath, in house laundry, garage, heat, lawn care, snow removal included. $950/month, one month security. Available Feb 1. Contact Rob Lee, Benson Real Estate. 607 434 5177.

TFN Nicely Furnished Two Bedroom, 2nd floor apt. Located off I -88,Exit 16 and approx. 1 mile east of Price Chopper Plaza. $950 per month includes electric.MLS#107485. Call Benson Agency Real Estate at 607-432-4391. TFN BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY TURN-KEY BUSINESS FOR SALE! Thriving Downtown Oneonta Eatery seeks new business owner/operator. Smart interior renovations and updates coupled with a rare 2nd to none outdoor seating area venue makes your operation run at the heart of center city Oneonta. For more Info Contact Rodger Moran at Benson Agency Real Estate, LLC 607-287-1559. TFN LAND FOR SALE FINANCED READY TO BUILD LOTS FOR SALE: Prestigious Winney Hill Commons address can be yours! School, tennis court, pool all walk-able, along with gorgeous views! Shovel ready lots feature underground utilities and public water/ sewer/natural gas. Owner financing: $35,000 price, $5,000 down, $30,000 @ 5% for 5 years $566 per month. Call today, build your future home tomorrow! Contact Rodger Moran at Benson Agency Real Estate, LLC 607-287-1559 TFN

THURSDAY, march 23, 2017

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INFORMATION SESSION – 5-7 p.m. For individuals with developmental disabilities and their families looking to have more choice in their support and services, Cynthia Spann and Vanessa Smith present about Self-Direction. The Arc Otsego, 35 Academy St., Oneonta. Info/register, Marty Kuhn, (607) 267-3210, kuhnm@ arcotsego.org, https://www.facebook.com/arcotsego/ FILM SERIES – 5:45 p.m. “Citizenfour.” Includes vegetarian meal and childcare. Free, all welcome. RSVP requested. Unitarian Universalist Society of Oneonta, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info,

5056 Commercial Drive, Yorkville 315-736-6660 www.CooperKia.com

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uuso@uuso.org, (607) 432-3491 or visit http://uuso.org/ PARENTING WORKSHOP – 6-8 p.m. Two-day workshop for single parents, caregivers, co-parenters, and the children in their lives. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Register, Family Service Association, (607) 432-2870. HISTORY MEETING – 7 p.m. Monthly meeting of the Fly Creek Area Historical Society followed by a presentation “Healthier Living with Essential Oils.” Fly Creek United Methodist Church, 811 Cty. Rd. 26, Fly Creek. Info, Melanie Boyer (607) 547-2555 ext. 250

RED DRAGON READING SERIES – 8 p.m. Marc Kelly Smith, the founder of the Poetry Slam. Free, all welcome. Info, (607) 436-3446.

Thursday, March 30

PARENTING WORKSHOP – 10 a.m.-noon. Two-day workshop for single parents, caregivers, co-parenters, and the children in their lives. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Register, Family Service Association, (607) 432-2870. PICKLEBALL – Noon-2 p.m. Come learn the sport. Gym floor, Clark Sports Center, 124 Cty. Hwy. 52, Cooperstown. Info, http:// www.clarksportscenter.com/

2017 Kia Forte LX Just $175* per month

2017 Kia Sorento LX AWD Just $259* per month

2016 Kia Optima LX Just $195* per month *All leases are 36 month and 10,000 miles per year with just 1st payment, tax and fees due at inception, $500 owner loyalty incentive has been applied to Sorento and Optima and are based on tier 1-3 credit that not all customers will qualify for.

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2014 SENTRA S

FP, NS, 23K, #944570, $12,988 .......... $159/mo FP, NS, 44K, #944510, $12,995 .......... $161/mo

2014 ALTIMA S

AT, FP, 28K, #C101588A, $15,632...... $202/mo

2015 OPTIMA CX

FP, LTHR, 23K, #C101575A, $17,984...... $235/mo

2013 TARUS LIMITED

FP, LTHR, 35K, #101533A, $18,300 ........ $246/mo

2014 ALTIMA SL

FP, LTHR, SR, NAV.,22K, #944050, $18,995 ........... $254/mo

TRUCKS/SUVS

2013 ROGUE S AWD

FP, NS, 50K, #C101894A, $14,162...... $179/mo

2012 SORENTO LX AWD

3RD ROW, FP, NS, 67K, #101743A, $14,899 ........ $193/mo

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2013 OUTLANDER SPORT SE

AWD, FP, NS, 60K, #944210, $14,995 .......... $194/mo

2014 JUKE S AWD

FP, NS, 34K, #C944610, $15,319 ........ $197/mo

NOW JUST

PER

012 SOUL 2FP, NS, 6 SPEED,

MON

Y $8 , 4 9

NOW JUST

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2012 ROGUE S AWD SPECIAL 2014 ROGUE S AWD FP, NS, 43K, #1017419, $15,795 ........ $207/mo

FP, NS, 20K, #C944080, $19,423 ........ $263/mo

FP, NS, 37K, #101651A, $16,495 ........ $215/mo

FP, NS, 10K, #944560, $19,662 .......... $264/mo

2014 SEDONA LX

2014 SORENTO LX AWD

FP, NS, 64K, #101800A, $16,995 ........ $226/mo

2014 SORENTO LX FWD

FP, NS, 36K, #C101618A, $17,095...... $227/mo

2014 SORENTO LX AWD

FP, NS, 54K, #101856A, $17,632 ........ $233/mo

2014 ROGUE S AWD

FP, NS, 37K, #C944120, $18,089 ........ $243/mo

2015 SPORTAGE LX AWD

FP, NS, 15K, #101883A, $19,162 ........ $256/mo

2014 ROGUE SL AWD

FP, LTHR, 60K, #C944150, $18,957 ........ $256/mo

2015 SPORTAGE LX AWD

Y $8 , 1

2014 SORENTO LX AWD VL

2013 FRONTIER CREW 4WD

2015 CHEROKEE LATITUDE AWD

2016 SEDONA LX

FP, NS, 52K, #C101693A, $19,495...... $264/mo FP, NS, 20K, #R943400, $20,217 ........ $276/mo

2014 PATHFINDER S AWD

FP, NS, 41K, #C944330, $20,495 ........ $280/mo

2013 PATHFINDER S AWD

FP, NS, 39K, #C944320, $20,495 ........ $280/mo

2014 ROGUE SL AWD

FP, NAV, SR, 57K, #C944360, $20,995 ........ $288/mo

2015 ROGUE S AWD

FP, NS, 14K, #C101715A, $21,432...... $295/mo

Everyone Wins at Country Club! ELANTRA G 3 1 FP, NS, 70K, #101733B

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FP, NS, 59K, #C944516, $21,995 ........ $299/mo FP, HTD SEATS, 22K, #CR944270, $21,750...... $300/mo

2013 PATHFINDER SL AWD

FP, LTHR, 44K, #C101321A, $23,595...... $328/mo

FP, NS, 16K, #C101531A, $15,995...... $208/mo

VERSA NO 2 1 FP, NS, 78K,

2015 ALTIMA S

Y $7 , 2

2015 SPARK LT

FP, NS, 6 SPEED, #C045910, $12,495 ........ $155/mo

MON

FP, 63K, #943730A, $12,248 ........ $152/mo

on every vehicle on the lot

2013 ALTIMA S 2013 SOUL

NOW JUST

FP, NS, 64K, #944190B, $11,495 ........ $140/mo

2012 OPTIMA LX

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SEDONA 9 00 FP, NS, 96K, L

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2015 ROGUE SL AWD

FP, LTHR, NAV, 19K, #C944100, $24,882 ........ $348/mo

2014 FRONTIER SV CREW 4X4

FP, NS, 24K, #C944290, $25,995 ........ $366/mo

2008 TACOMA EXT 4X4

FP, NS, V6, 88K, #101635A, $18,995 ........ $380/mo

Payments based on $2,500 down or trade equity plus sales tax, title and fees. 2011 and newer 3.49% for 72 months, 2010 3.79% for 66, 2009 3.79% for 60 months, 2008 4.49% for 48, 2007 4.99% for 48 months. See dealer for details.

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M-Th 8-8; F 8-6; Sat SALES: 8-5, SERVICE & PARTS: 8-1