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very year, there’s something new to see at Hyde Hall. “Hyde Hall is returning to prominence,” said Jon Maney, executive director. “History isn’t just the past – it’s all coming around again.”

Brooks Bottling Seeks 150,000-Sq.-Foot HQ

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Sara Scheeren accepts the Otsego County Chamber’s Environmental Steward Award Tuesday, March 28, at SUNY Oneonta. With her are directors Dan Sullivan, left, and Joe Homberger/MORE PHOTOS, A3

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leaning up Winter Storm Stella cost the village $61,000, Village Administrator Teri Barown has told the FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which may reimburse it.

There was about $2,000 hours of overtime in all, but most of the 57 hours put in by the village crew and 5.5 hours by the police was accomplished on straight time, she said. A truck lost its transmission, a $10,00015,000 part, she said.

RAZING SOUGHT: Contractor Josh Edmonds is seeking a hardship exemption from the village’s H-PARB to demolish 45 Delaware St. and build a new home there.

Hyde Hall is one of eight local enterprises named to the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame, to be honored at an April 27 reception.

“It’s an American treasure right here in Cooperstown,” said Matt Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal Hazzard, Chamber executive director.

Hyde Hall Executive Direcxtor Jon Maney, right, and Mar“George Clarke’s legacy continues to keting Manager John Bower descend the central stairPlease See MANSION, A6 case at the National Historic Landmark.

That savory soy sauce Jason Levigne packages on the line at the bottling plant behind Brooks BBQ requires 150,000 pounds of just one ingredients. Such demands have the company scrambling for shortterm warehousing and, within two year, a new 150,000square-foot building.

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yan Brooks was watching gallon jugs of a special soy sauce being smoothly filled for a national client – customers’ names are closely guarded – in the bottling plant behind Brooks Brooks BBQ east of Oneonta the other day.

“It uses 150,000 pounds a year of one ingredient – one ingredient!” he said, a fact that dramatizes the challenges his Oneonta-landmark company is facing.

Brooks was being interviewed a few days after the Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal Thursday, Oct. 23, monthly Please See BROOKS, A7

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By LIBBY CUDMORE Village Hall is plans to feature Fairy Spring Park on its website.

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On March 2, Norah, 15, who is homeschooled, opened the Old School Student Please See ARTIST, A6

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tate Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, knows there’s no economic development without energy Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal – and he’s concluded NYNorah Ashwood, 15, opened gallery. SEG is standing in the way.

“I got a call last year from Lutz Feed saying that they wanted to add a new gas-fired corn dryer,” he said. “But when they called NYSEG, they were told that they didn’t have the gas supply available.”

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ater locally. He served as an adviser to the company for 35 years, including 13 he Glimmerglass Fesitval as a member of the Board of Trustees. dimmed the stagelights on Francesca Zambello, artistic & genWednesday, March 22 to eral director, said Hardy “revolutionized honor Hugh Hardy, the architect theater design� in the latter part of the of the Alice Bush Opera Theater 20th century. “He was our modern-day who died Thursday, March 16.

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Chamber honoree Debra Marcus, Jamie and Caroline Reynolds and Dr. Reggie Knight, Fly Creek, go through the buffet line at the dinner.

Realtor Phil Wright socializes with, from right, Shayla Blasetti, Cait Smith and fellow Benson agent Lance Thomas.

THE BEST of THE BEST Otsego Chamber of Commerce honorees at the Tuesday, March 28, annual Spring Dinner accepting their awards are, front row from right, Al Rubin, NBT Bank Distinguished Business Award of A&D Transportation; Sara Sheeran, Stewardship Award for Otsego Land Trust, Cooperstown, Stewardship; Marie Lusins, Eugene A. Bettiol Jr. Distinguished Citizen Award, and A&D’s David Freed. In center is Deb Marcus, Family Planning of CNY, Quality of Life Award. Behind them, from left, are NBT Regional Executive Jamie Reynolds, and Chamber President Barbara Ann Heegan. The dinner was at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom.

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Sarah Patterson, Oneonta, retired NBT Bank vice president, shared a laugh during the social hour with Dan Buttermann of NYCM Insurance.

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Anne Marie Lusins heads to the podium to accept the Eugene A. Bettiol Jr. Distinguished Citizen award.

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EDITORIALS

John Sansevere, Patriot, Brings Back Democracy

THE LESSON: GROW SURE-FOOTEDLY, A STEP AT A TIME

Help Brooks BBQ’s Roots Go Deeper

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rooks BBQ’s Ryan Brooks is one intense guy. The other morning, he acknowledged not having slept the night before as he thought through the challenges of the latest nationwide food company that contracted for the services of the Brooks Bottling Co. In an interview, he asserted his company’s mantra: Quality, consistency, dependability. And he shared his sense of responsibility to his employees and his community – the Oneonta landmark restaurant is recognized nationally, a source of much local pride.

And his family: He is carrying forward the tradition of his parents and grandparents, and looking to the future as he launches a house brand, C&A Kitchen.

He hopes his young children, son Carter and daughter Abby, will carry forward.

He is focused. No time for nonsense. He has a vision that has been unbending since taking over the company in 2005. “Like a plant or a tree,” a family enterprise needs to grow organically, surefooted step by surefooted step, he’ll tell you.

pull together – to forge unity by meeting this exciting challenge together.

• After new and eager Otsego Now directors determined – unwisely, for now – to push for radical organizational change, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, met with the Reorganization Committee March 20, and advised a take-it-easy approach, judging from talk about it at the board meeting on the 23rd.

Jobs, the senator counThe Freeman’s Journal seled, is what the last four Third-generation Brooks BBQ owner Ryan Brooks, years of experimentation in with wife Beth, is thinking longterm. local economic development • Brooks’ dream come true in has been all about. Let’s The Otsego Now board an Otsego County location. stay the course. That was was assembled by some At first blush, the “shovelmentioned by the directors a political mischief-making. ready site” at the former couple of times.

That can’t be helped now.

Pony Commerce Park seems Certainly. Otsego Now But the directors can still ideal, with access to I-88, has been going through a learn to work together with the Norfolk Southern rail heroic period. And with their able administrators, line and the City of OneonOneonta’s DRI, Schenevus’ and should. ta’s municipal water and 600-job distribution center, Again, Brooks has no sewerage. the D&H yards redeveloptime for nonsense. He Individually, the Otsego ment, it isn’t over yet. Some is focused laser-like on a Now talent is exceptional on the board are pushing for 150,000-square-foot head– the retired J.P. Morgan a fulltime CEO and a less quarters, production line and managing director Bob flexible management model. warehouse for his burgeon- Hanft, the international busi- That’s fine. But not yet. ing bottling business. ness consultant Rick Hulse, “Like a plant or a tree,” Otsego Now has the and a promising new addieverything in good time. executive team – CEO tion, NYCM Vice President Ryan Brooks’ mantra – and Sandy Mathes and COO Cheryl Robinson, among his success – is worth emuElizabeth Horvath – to make others. The goal now is to lating.

To Egyptians, Baseball Original Rite Of Spring Editor’s Note: With the MLB season opening April 2, Wall Street Journal columnist Amanda Foreman took a pass at the game’s origins. (Hint: Not in Cooperstown!)

ball,” began as a fertility ritual performed in spring festivals. It’s believed that the ball represented the head of Osiris, god of the underworld.

Sacred wall paintings in Queen Hatshepsut’s t the temple near dawn of Luxor display civilizasome of the eartion, our ancient liest references ancestors learned to the combined how to write, use of ball and build temples, stick. sail the seas III, They show – and play ball. Thutmose original baseher stepson It will probball player?

King Thutmose ably come as no III (around surprise to base1479-1425 B.C.) ready to ball fans that the Egypbat a ball at two priests. tians placed the game (or their proto-variation of it) The inscription above on a par with life and sex. Thutmose reads: “striking According to Professor the ball for (the goddess) Peter Piccione at Charles- Hathor,” and the one above the priests: “It is ton College, the term the priest who catches it “seker-he-mat,” often for him.” translated as “batting the

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Lolling On Beach? ‘Retiree’ Bill Streck Earns Thanks To the Editor: When an executive who has endured Upstate winters for many years retires, one would expect him to head south to loll on carefree, balmy beaches.

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Bassett Health Care. He is speaking out as a person in the know – who could understand better? – on the dangers of the proposed health (I leave off the word “care”) bill to individual citizens, our regional health care centers and our state.

To the Editor: In a recent Letter to the Editor, Dr. Mary Jane Whelan faults Congressman John Faso for his attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as ObamaCare.

Because the process would have involved several phases, she characterized his support “as buying a-pig-in-a-poke.” She listed her perceptions of the replacement’s flaws – higher insurance premiums, a bias towards the affluent, capped block grants, etc.) She ended her letter with paean of praise for “Entitlements.”

Eight years ago Congress was presented with the 2,700-page ObamaCare legislation. Then-

Whatever the outcome, I feel good and encouraged – a rarity today – that a knowledgeable and rational person has spoken out and explained without personal gain. Thank you, Bill!

MAY-BRITT JOYCE Cooperstown

Faso Ducking Public; Don’t Make Excuses

Pig-In-A-Poke? We’re Living With One Called ObamaCare

To the Editor: With some amusement, I read your satirical editorial advice to Congressman Faso: “Why don’t you organize a Town Hall meeting so I can bring 200 of my friends to shout at you ?”

Until I read the rest of the editorial and realized you were complimenting Faso on not having any public town hall meetings. Ostensibly out of fear that people might show up. And they might not approve of what Faso is doing – or not doing, as the representative of the people in his district.

Would not indulge Faso’s manifest cowardice on this matter. He can manage that all by himself. In the words of Governor Chris Christie, “I understand why members of Congress don’t like it,” he said of the town halls. “But you know what? You asked for the job. Go do it.”

And don’t make excuses for elected officials that duck the public.

CHIP NORTHRUP Cooperstown

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi famously advised her colleagues, “You have to pass it (the bill) in order to find what’s in it.” 20,000 pages of regulation followed. Talk about buying a pig-in-a-poke!

And what a pig ACA turned out to be!

With ever-rising insurance premiums and deductibles, crippling regulations and strictures, its unpopularity with the young, the individual insurance market in a death spiral, and so many other problems, ObamaCare became the catalyst for eight years of anemic recovery. It spawned the abysmal less-than-2-percent annual GDP that was passed off Please See DOWNEY, A5

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LETTERS

WHERE NATURE SMILES

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ohn Sansevere is a were elated. Of course: patriot.

They overcame a challenge.

For the second time That’s elating. And the act in past three Cooperstown of campaigning – though Village Board elections, limited pretty much to the Republican challenged participating in a League the Democratic of Women Voters’ bloc that has been forum – required a dominant since the renewed commitsweep of 2012. ment.

In 2015, he won Few can regret 131 votes. This that Tillapaugh and year in the March Allstadt kept their 21 election, he seats. (Although took 104 votes.

Sansevere had a No matter. In point: there prob2015, his chalably IS too much Sansevere lenge brought village government).

284 villagers to Both incumbent the polls, compared to 94 have been excellent trustees the year before. This year, and citizens can anticipate as an independent, he did continuing improvements to even better, bringing 393, village parks (her prime fobest in five years. Because cus) and upgrade to 22 Main of Sansevere, democracy (his prime focus), and more. lives. (In the U.S., you can’t Still, in a village that be “America’s Most Perfect fondly looks back to the Village” without contested days of the Unity Ticket elections, eh?) (the old boys of each party There’s another benefit. swapped the mayoralty back Election Night, Ellen Tiland forth for years leading lapaugh Kuch led the ticket, up to 1978), the usefulness with 318 votes. Lou Allstadt of a campaign in raising garnered 285. Both were voter participation and canelated. “These days, you didate commitment has been never know,” said Allstadt’s reaffirmed. wife, Melinda Hardin, obCongratulations, John served, channeling the Nov. Sansevere. And, again, well 8 surprise while waiting for done! Perhaps others will be the returns at the fire hall. inspired to accept the chalWhen the returns were lenge in next March’s village in, both winning candidates contests.

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Tax Levy Stable, But Check Your Bill

e must say, when we read about the Village of Cooperstown’s proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year, it seems the mayor has managed to realize that there is a difference between an increase in the village tax levy and a possible increase in an individual property owner’s village taxes.

As we have pointed out in the past, although avoiding a tax levy increase is no doubt a good thing, it does not automatically mean there will be no increases, or possibly decreases, in individual property tax bills.

Thus, while each year it is appreci-

ated when the village tax levy does not see an increase, it nonetheless guarantees nothing when it comes to the actual property tax bills. And we will CATHERINE not know what LAKE our taxes might be ELLSWORTH until such time as the tax bills make an appearance in mail boxes about the village.

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We were not only surprised, but quite pleased, to have gotten some response to our musing about the county poorhouse/farm debate. One of our regular readers shared the following information in an email which read: “In many rural counties in Upstate New York, the poor/homeless lived at an institutional farm called the county farm or county home or both. The interesting thing about these institutions is that the residents had an active life there. They got outdoors, performed chores and earned a little drinking money for the weekend. The farm ...

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

200 YEARS AGO

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April 3, 1817

125 YEARS AGO

Fitch lad jumped to safety. When Chaplin was reached he was gasping and died before his body could be carried to shore. Dr. Horle of Fly Creek was called and pronounced death due to accidental drowning.

March 28, 1917

75 YEARS AGO

The water of Otsego Lake claimed the life of Miss Irene Mereness, aged 48 years, of Oneonta on Tuesday. She had been in ill health and a highly nervous condition for a long time. Walking across the Otsego Lake front Tuesday at 1 o’clock, Albert Turp of 12 Pioneer Street was shocked to see the upturned face of a woman floating in the icy water near the edge of the ice sheet a short distance from the wall at the foot of the street. Mr. Turp immediately reported to the authorities. Enquiry revealed that Miss Mereness, a member of the Oneonta State Normal School faculty, had arrived in Cooperstown by taxicab at about ten o’clock Tuesday morning. She went directly to Sherry’s Restaurant where she ordered toast and coffee, but ate little. Upon departing she left behind her purse and other small articles.

Her hat was found on the shore at the foot of the street.

April 1, 1942

175 YEARS AGO

Our citizens were gratified on the evening of Sunday, March 20, with a lecture by Doctor Joslyn of Chenango, and Mr. Seaton of Oneida, on the subject of Temperance.

Both of these gentlemen are subjects of the reformation which is so happily progressing throughout the whole country. Their illustrations of the evil consequences of a habit of using intoxicating drinks, as exemplified in their own lives, were most striking and effective.

Total abstinence was their theme, and they pressed it upon the attention of a large and highly respectable auditory of both sexes, with a force of argument and eloquence that produced conviction in the minds of all that its sure consequences are: “More of good than we can tell; more to buy with more to sell; more of comfort, less of care; more to eat, and more to wear; happier homes with faces brighter; all our burthens rendered lighter; Conscience clean, and minds much stronger; debts much shorter, purses longer; hopes that drive away all sorrow, and something laid up for tomorrow.”

March 28, 1842

150 YEARS AGO

Mr. Editor: I write to you in behalf of the cause of education. What I have to say relates wholly to our Common Schools, because in them we all as a community are, or ought to be, interested. Many people entertain the notion that district schools are of but little account and should not be patronized except by the poorer class of people. Because there are so many select and higher schools (so-called), the people are dazzled by the names, and led away from supporting the school at home.

Another cause of this languishing state of our common means of education lies in the employment of young, incompetent, and inexperienced teachers. Trustees will too often hire the person that will offer to teach for the lowest wages. The low wages of teachers, for the past few years, has driven many good and experienced teachers from the field into more profitable employments. And so their places are left for a class of young teachers, totally unfit for the occupation.

March 29, 1867

Poorhouse Brought Feedback COLUMN/From A4 raised a wide variety of livestock, feed, vegetables and fruit. Processing took place on site with butchering, freezing, canning, churning and sugaring. Power, fuel and certain staples like flour were purchased, but the operation was otherwise selfsufficient. Residents (not all but many capable ones) took part and were glad to do so.”

As we read this explanation we were struck with the fact that it is much in keeping with the manner in which our late husband, the he-we, described what he always referred to as the county farm.

Thus we were delighted to learn that someone else had much the same thoughts about the county farm as we do.

• We also discovered that Sherlee Rathbone of Fly Creek has done a fair amount of research on this topic.

She told us that, based on theory and institutionalization of the poor in England, a law was passed by New York State in 1824. This law mandated that counties in New York “...purchase of one or more tracts of land, not exceeding the quantity of two hundred acres, and thereon build and erect, for the accommodation, employment and use of the said county, one or more suitable buildings, to be denominated the poor house of the county of _______...”

Sherlee believes from her research that the Otsego County Poorhouse was always a working farm where those who were able were required to work on the farm, with the animals, in the kitchen, as well as sew as needed. However, she does

not think it was referred to as a “farm” until the 1920s or ’30s. This would seem to be in keeping with what we learned about the Otsego County Poorhouse on the website http://www.poorhousestory.com/new_york_ poorhouses.htm.

• According to an 1857 investigation of the Otsego County Poorhouse, “This house is located near Cooperstown, and consists of several buildings of stone...

The farm connected consists of 153 acres, and yields an annual revenue of $1,400.

The number of inmates was 86 – 44 males and 42 females, of whom 79 were native and seven foreign born, including 16 children...The sexes are partially separated by day, complete at night, and are all under the care of one keeper and his wife, who have charge of the family and the farm, assisted by the paupers.” And although the entire 1857 report is too lengthy to include here, it is very informative as it gives some interesting insight in to not only how the poor, but also the insane, were treated then.

Obviously, as the county governments moved away from poorhouses, replacing them with other forms of welfare, the county poorhouse transitioned over the years until it became Otsego Manor with its focus being a skilled nursing facility. And we have to wonder, when was it along the way, that the 1824 law was replaced with yet another law, or laws, that has eventually led to most counties in New York State divesting themselves not only of their poorhouses but also of their nursing homes.

50 YEARS AGO

Accidents are costing the people of New York approximately one billion dollars a year. Every year more than 2,500 persons are killed and hundreds of thousands are injured. We have as a nation more fatalities and injuries every day than we are sustaining casualties in Vietnam. Education is one of the basics of traffic safety. That is why the federal government is insisting that all states develop comprehensive driver education and training programs. Our state is well behind in training students. Only about one-third of March 31, 1892 New York State’s 300,000 eligible students now receive driver education. While 20 percent of the nation’s drivers are under 24 years of age, yet they account for 33 percent of all motor vehicle accidents.

An unusual drowning accident occurred on the farm of March 29, 1967 S.H. Elderkin in the Fly Creek Valley Monday afternoon as the result of which George Chaplin, a farm hand, lost his life. Linus Fitch, the fourteen-year-old grandson of Mr. ElFor the third consecutive year, the Cooperstown Middle derkin, and Hiram Conley, another hired hand, had narrow School Science Olympiad Team placed first at the Reescapes. The three had been tapping the Elderkin sap bush gional Contest March 1 at Siena College. For the previous which is located across the Fly Creek. They were returntwo years Cooperstown has finished fourth in state finals. ing to the house for dinner at one o’clock in a sleigh drawn The coaches are science teachers Harry Peplinski and Neil by two horses crossing the creek over a temporary bridge, Foote. Team members are David Selover, Jennifer Ballard, the strength of which had never been suspected. The high Amy Dalal, Alex Pearson, Ed Clow, Jamie Bordley, Jason water had evidently undermined it, for as the sleigh was Visco, Emily Deringer, Tim Hayes, Marc Insinga, Garrett driven onto the bridge, it gave way, precipitating the horse, Ellsworth, Peter Townsend. Tavis Austin, Tom Bonner and the sleigh and its occupants into the water. Chaplin clung Joshua Guyot. to the sleigh box which floated off the bobs. Conley, who April 1, 1992 was holding the reins, was pulled out by the horses, and the

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LETTERS

Will Claudia Tenney Adopt John Faso Orphans?

To the Editor: Your were apparently impressed

by John Faso’s recent telephone town hall, but I’d like to add my experience to the many recent complaints about Congressman Faso’s inaccessibility to his constituents.

A few months ago I reported to Congressman Faso’s office (by telephone) that when I tried to e-mail him through the regular “e-mail me” protocol on his official web site, the House e-mail system did not recognize my address as lying within his district, which it does in fact, like all of Otsego County. It would not accept my communication.

This probably means not only that

I cannot e-mail him but that none of his constituents in Schuyler Lake can e-mail him either, at a moment when crucial legislative issues such as ACA repeal are being decided.

I’m guessing that Kinderhook residents do not have this problem.

One wonders what other corners of his district have been disenfranchised in this way, so to speak, or how many other Congressional districts are similarly affected.

This problem still has not been corrected two months after I reported it to a very nice woman named Courtney in his Washington office.

No one in his Delhi office seems to be there during working hours.

Faso ran against Zephyr Teachout on the platform that she was an outsider who doesn’t know the district; it appears that he does not know his own district either.

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Saved From Demolition In 1960s, Hyde Hall Finally Getting Traction MANSION/From A1 be felt two centuries later by locals and visitors alike.”

The historic mansion, built in 1817 by George Hyde Clarke, was held by the family until the 1965, when the state seized it by eminent domain with the intention of destroying it to make tennis courts and cabins for visitors to Glimmerglass State Park.

“They had already drilled the holes for dynamite,” said Maney.

But the Clarke family and others intervened to work with Laurance Rockefeller, brother of then-Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, to try and save Hyde Hall. “Cooler heads prevailed,” said Maney.

“We were able to preserve the home as a tribute to the Clarke family and as a testimony to the grandeur of Upstate’s early history.”

Repair began in the 1970s, with the Friends of

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Hyde Hall raising money to repair the roof and rotting floor beams. “The house was in a very serious state of disrepair,” said Maney.

“When we gave tours, Doug Kent would have to

tell people to watch their step because they could fall through the floors.”

By 2007, the decorative details were starting to emerge, and the house had begun to come back to life.

But in 2011, when Maney came on as executive director, he ramped up their efforts, including restoring the original vapor-light chandeliers, ordering new, historically accurate carpets for the drawing room and repainting the dining room.

“We have 150 boxes of documents, so we know everything that was ordered for the house,” he said.

“We have 70 percent of the original furniture, and what we don’t have, people have donated to us.”

As a National Historical Site, Hyde Hall draws thousands of visitors every year.

“Last year the total number of visitors was around 7,500,” said Maney. “We

C-V Teen Artist Seizes Day ARTIST/From A1 Gallery, an art space dedicated to her mission. “I sent out letters to all the art teachers asking for students to send their work,” she said.

Anna Voss, a Cherry-Valley Springfield senior, joined her at the opening reception, displaying her sketches and watercolors. “I had never met her, so I went by her teacher’s word when she submitted!” said Norah. “We had about 30 people at the opening, and the Black Cat café donated goodies.”

Norah also displayed her own artwork: a “Flower Print” series and her abstract acrylics. “’3 Reflection Visions’ is my most recent,” she said. “It took me a long time, there were a lot of different steps. It’s very representative.”

She even sold one of her “Flower Print” series at the show, which continues through April 3. “It’s important for young artists to have this space,” she said. “It helps increase their confidence, it goes on their resumes, and it can show them the business side of the art world.”

Ashwood got the idea for the gallery while she was studying at the New York Summer School for the Arts at SUNY Fredonia. “Art has always been in my family,” she said. “My mother, Mary, is a painter and a poet, my brother Alexander is a photographer, my Uncle Lester and my grandmother Betty Ashwood were also artists.”

And she was further inspired by the exhibits at Bill Isaacs’ Cherry Branch gallery. “They show great local art, but there’s no place for kids,” she said.

The former Cherry Valley school was falling into disrepair when when artist Robert Sage, a family friend of the Ashwoods, formed a nonprofit in the 1990s, bought the building, and turned it into a community center.

Today, it also hosts a senior meal site, a space where Sage gives music lessons, the local post office, and Cherry Valley village offices.

“The Old School had wanted a gallery, but they never got around to opening

it,” she said. “The space was already in good shape; all I had to do was repaint the walls and floors.”

With a focus on printmaking and abstract acrylics, Norah’s work as been featured at the Cooperstown Art Association, several Congressional high school shows and the Roseboom Historical Society. “I think I even had a show here when it was still a school!” she said. “But this has been my dream to open this gallery.”

Norah is currently seeking submissions for a group photography show, and plans to open up the gallery for artist-curated shows over the summer.

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Hyde Hall Executive Director Jon Maney, right, and Marketing Director John Bower pause outside the neoclassical mansion.

had a 19 percent increase in tours. It has doubled since I arrived. It’s a place that appeals to everyone.”

“People come from all over to see Hyde Hall,” said Hazzard. “It’s a huge tourist destination for Cooperstown.”

In addition to history-lovers tourism, Hyde Hall hosts conferences, weddings and community events, includ-

ing the Mother’s Day tea and Easter Egg Hunt. It also partners with other local attractions, including the Fly Creek Cider Mill and the Glimmerglass Festival.

And this year, the restoration efforts will be focused on the kitchen. “Everyone always wants to see the kitchen!” said Maney. “We need to get a 1830s stove, a stone sink and put in a cook pot. We may have to do some excavations to show us where things used to be.”

And the famous “water closet” – the first flush toilet east of the Hudson River, is also slated for restoration.

“It’s easy to stay excited about Hyde Hall,” said Maney. “It’s a genuinely exciting place.”

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Otsego County May Be Competing To Keep Brooks’ Bottling Here BROOKS/From A1 meeting of Otsego Now’s Board of Directors, where Bob Harlem, representing the Otsego County Development Corp., reported Ryan’s company is going to need 150,000 square feet for production and storage, and is considering possibilities in Cobleskill and Albany for the expansion.

“That would be a terrible loss to this area,” said Harlem, accompanied by fellow OCDC members NBT Bank vice president Jamie Reynolds and Jim Jordan, the Richfield Springs architect.

The Otsego Now board agreed that CEO Sandy Mathes, COO Elizabeth Horvath and board member Craig Gelbsman should meet with Brooks shortly to

determine how his expansion can be accommodated locally. Mathes pointed out the “shovel-ready site” in the Pony Farm Commerce Park can handle a building of that size, with space left over for future expansions.

“You could be in the ground in 30 days,” Mathes said.

In an interview on this side of a plexi-glass wall from the bottling line, Brooks said he’s been shown an attractive option in Cobleskill – no contact with Albany has yet occurred – but there’s time for the local development group to get involved. For now, the company is likely to use part of the former Northern Eagle Beverage warehouse on Railroad Avenue for storage.

He has a pretty good idea of what he needs and wants, but still needs to have the plans drawn up. Two year ago, he had a five-year plan, but his business’s growth is shortening that time line, he said.

In describing what Brooks Bottling needs in a site, the Pony Farm site seemed to align: One, access to an Interstate – in this case, I-88. Two, railroad access – Mathes, coincidentally, walked the former D&H yards last week with Phil Fontana, Norfolk Southern’s industrial development manager for the region. The closing on Otsego Now’s acquisition of the railyards is expected in the next few days.

Three, Brooks said, is

water and sewerage: The company ended up spending $1 million on a wastewater treatment plant on its current site after the city and town couldn’t agree to extend the sewer line east from the city line.

The “shovel-ready site” is already served by city water and sewer services, according to Horvath.

Brooks said that, since 2005, when he joined his family’s company – he is third-generation – he recognized the future was in bottling but, “like a plant or a tree,” he believed the company needed to grow its capacity organically. The first bottling line, opened in 2008, had an 80-gallon kettle. Brooks anticipated

he’d never need more than a 150-gallon kettle; today, the bottling plant uses two 500gallon kettles.

Because food bottling is tied up with health, quality, consistency and dependability are essential, and Brooks BBQ’s reputation became known, it brought in customers faster than Ryan anticipated. He joined the Association for Dressings & Sauces, an industry group with international membership – he now serves on its Technical Committee – which also raised the company’s visibility.

The original plant filled 22 bottles per minute – 1,440 an hour. The new plant, which opened in 2014, fills 90 standard

bottles a minute – 5,400 an hour. Still, “we outgrew the expansion before we moved in.”

As the bottler began to attract national companies – it now has four; “products you see every time you go to the supermarket” – the need for expansion was soon clear. For one customer, the Brooks plant can bottle 1,000 gallons from kettle to pallet in 50 minutes.

Since opening the bottling company, Brooks has seen his workforce grow from 110 to 135. He is currently adding a second shift and hiring another 15 workers on the line. He anticipates that the new warehouse and bottling line will create another 45 jobs.

Seward Leads 9-County Coalition To Make NYSEG More Responsive NYSEG/From A1 On Tuesday, March 28, Seward, partnering with Otsego Now, announced the formation of a nine-county coalition to challenge NYSEG shortcomings – its aging infrastructure, energy shortages and weak electrical grid.

The nine signed an MOU – a memorandum of understanding – to work together force NYSEG (formerly New York State Electric & Gas) to serve its customers.

“NYSEG has a franchise here, and they don’t have the infrastructure in place to add one new piece of equipment,” said Seward.

“We’re here fighting for growth, but to accommodate, we need a reliable source of natural gas and electricity.”

A year ago, Otsego Now CEO

Sandy Mathes raised the issue of interruptible power: With 24-hour notice, usually during cold snaps, NYSEG can tell SUNY Oneonta, Fox Hospital and Seward other large power users to switch to more expensive, dirtier fuel oil.

“It’s a huge stumbling block to growth and attracting new businesses,” he repeated. “It’s becoming more frequent, and it’s unacceptable.”

And as he toured the region, Mathes realized that other counties are experiencing the same issues. “I heard horror stories,” he said. “We have nine agencies

who signed the memorandum, but there were plenty of others who didn’t because they were afraid of retribution.”

The coalition, which includes economic development agencies from Broome, Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Schoharie, Sullivan and Tioga counties, sent the MOU to the Public Service Commission, outlining six goals NYSEG must achieve.

“They need to be able to provide significant power to our business parks,” said Mathes. “We want to see them invest in new infrastructure and evaluate their master plan. They have a monopoly here, and they have a legal obligation to provide power. If they can’t serve us, they need to let other private companies come in.”

Complaints are not exclusive to big users.

In Cooperstown, Village Trustee Lou Allstadt has expressed frustration with NYSEG over the village’s attempt to convert from vapor to LED streetlights.

“They’ve been dragging their feet for two years,” he said. “And they want to charge us a higher tariff on the LED bulbs than they do for the vapor bulbs.”

Currently, NYSEG’s tariff on the village’s streetlights is $7.79 a month. With the LED lights, NYSEG has proposed a tariff of $8.38 a month. “They cost a little more to put in, but there’s lower maintenance and they last 10-20 years,” said Allstadt. “The posts have long paid off. It’s an absurd request to gouge us for more money.”

Allstadt alleges that NYSEG also hasn’t been forthcoming about updating regulation for solar projects. “To put it politely,” he said. “NYSEG is my least-favorite utility.”

“They need to do a complete energy master plan,” said Mathes.

“But right now, they’re stymied in their efforts.”

With the Memorandum sent, Mathes and Seward are now hoping to set up the coalition to meet with the Public Service Commission. “We need to enlist their aid to get NYSEG to commit to economic development and improving infrastructure,” said Seward.

“Hopefully, the commission will take us seriously so that we can begin to engage these conversations.”

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►FENIMORE ART MUSEUM opens for season 10-5 Saturday, April 1

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OLDEN SUMMER AT THE FENIMORE

Fenimore Art Museum President Paul D’Ambrosio reverently holds one of Dick Button’s Olympic Gold Medals, part of this summer’s “The Art of Figure Skating Through the Ages,” which opens this Saturday, April 1.

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Christ Church Parish Hall, Fair St., Cooperstown. Info, http://cooperstownchamber.org/calendar-of-events/ #!event/2017/4/1/empty-bowls. To volunteer or donate call (607) 547-2627.

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And he doesn’t intend to this Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill, and JoJo summer at The Fenimore Starbuck are expected at the “Fenimore On Ice” Weekend, July 14-15 weekend, Art Museum, which is including the annual gala. hosting a never-beforeseen exhibit, “The Art of And Button, the twice Olympic Gold Figure Skating through the Ages: medalist (1948 and 1952) and the The Dick Button Collection.” voice of his sport in almost seven Last summer’s gate at the decades since, is determined to top Fenimore was up 20 percent – paid that – to create the gold season, if patrons, up 40 percent – a record.

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HAWKEYE REVIEW: Cooperstown Central students and guest faculty members perform “Songs from Shows We Won’t Do,” 7 p.m. Saturday evening, April 1, and 2 p.m., Sunday, April 2 in the High School Auditorium. $10 adults, $5 children suggested donation.

ROCK MUSICAL SHOWCASE: The Apollo Music Club performs favorite rock musical hits from shows like Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspell, more.

Performance 8 p.m., Saturday, April 1 ($5) with an 8 p.m. open dress rehearsal Friday, March 31 at the Goodrich Theatre, SUNY Oneonta.

SOUTH AFRICAN BANQUET: The Mali Education Project annual buffet fundraiser 6-9 p.m., Saturday April 1, Chapin Memorial Chapel (12 Ford Ave., Oneonta) features South African cuisine with the inspiring documentary, “Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai,” Kenya’s 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner. $15 adults, $10 children over 5. Vegetarian, gluten free options.

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FAMILY NIGHT – 6:45-8:30 p.m. Splash around with hoops in the large pool. Admission, Free, members, $5 public, $18 family. Oneonta YMCA, 20-26 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, http://www. oneontaymca.org/ THEATER – 8 p.m. “Driving Miss Daisy,” by Alfred Uhry.

Presented by Stuff of Dreams Productions. Foothills Performing Arts Production Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Tickets, (607) 432-5407 or at the Green Toad Bookstore.

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Cost, $8 adult, $5 children, free to children 2 and under. Oneonta Community Christian School Cafeteria, 158 River St., Oneonta.

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PANCAKES – 8 a.m.-noon. Open to the public. Includes choice of blueberry, chocolate chip, or buttermilk pancakes with sausage and applesauce. Cost $8, free to children under 5. Vets Club, 60 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-8282.

BOTTLE DRIVE – 9 a.m.

Cooperstown residents should place their clean, returnable bottles & cans on the curb or visible from the street. Support Cooperstown Boy Scout Troop 1254. Info/large pick-ups, call Bruce, (607) 267-6730.

SPRING CRAFT SHOW – 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Come find unique items for gifts from the many vendors. Includes drawings for door prizes and a basket raffle.

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HOT MEAL PROGRAM – 11 a.m.-1 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://www. firstumc-oneonta.org/ EMPTY BOWLS – Noon-2 p.m. Serving homemade soup in your choice of bowl crafted and donated by local potters.

Cost, $15 to benefit the local food pantry. Christ Church Parish Hall on Fair St., Cooperstown.

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To volunteer or donate call (607)547-2627 DRAWING WORKSHOP – 1-4 p.m. Begin your “Journey into Drawing” with Friend of Recovery of Delaware and Otsego counties. Materials are free. All skill levels welcome. Registration preferred. The Turning Point, 22 Elm St., Oneonta. Info, http://www. friendsofrecoverydo.org/events SELF AWARENESS WORKSHOP – 1:30 p.m. Three-hour interactive workshop for anyone in any kind of transition. Gain the tools for self-empowerment through guided portrait making. The Green Earth, 4 Market St., Oneonta. Info, http://www. greenearthoneonta.com/ WRITERS GROUP – 1:30 p.m.

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Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta.org/hml-writers-group/ POETRY – 2-4 p.m. Kick off National Poetry Month with a reading by Poet Dr. Craig Ciaran Lennon from his publication “My Beautiful Ruins.” The Green Toad Bookstore, 198 Main St., Oneonta. Info, https://www. facebook.com/TheGreenToadBookstore/ BROOKS BBQ DINNER – 4-6:30 p.m. Rib dinner $13, Chicken dinner $10, Children’s chicken dinner $7. Church of Christ Uniting, 22 Church St., Richfield Springs. Info, Teena Shypski, (315) 858-0126.

FOR-DO BOOK CLUB – 4-7 p.m. Feel like you don’t read enough, come to this book club. The group votes on the book to be read. At The Turning Point, 22 Elm St., Oneonta. Info, http://www.friendsofrecoverydo. org/events SOUTH AFRICAN BANQUET – 6-9 p.m. Mali Education project presents South African benefit bazaar, dinner and documentary film “Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai,” about the founder of the Green Belt Movement in Kenya and winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Tickets, $15 adults, $10 children over 5.

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Trophies and cash prizes available. New York Pizzeria, 75 Chestnut St., Cooperstown. Info, http://susquehannaanimalshelter.org/category/events/ JAZZ CONCERT – 7 p.m. The Bainbridge-Guilford Blues Jazz Band hold a joint concert with The Fabulous Moonlighters.

Bainbridge Town Hall Theater, 15 North Main St., Bainbridge. Info, call (607)288-3882 HAWKEYE REVUE – 7 p.m.

CCS Students and guest faculty members perform musical numbers. This year’s theme is “Songs from Shows We Won’t Do.” Each performance will be accompanied by a large student orchestra with a few professionals. Open to the public. Suggested donation, $10 adult, $5 children.

Cooperstown High School Auditorium. Info, http://www. cooperstowncs.org/hawkeye-revue-returns-to-cooperstown-csdon-april-1-and-april-2/ ROCK MUSIC – 8 p.m. Apollo Music Club showcases popular rock musical hits from Hair, Mamma Mia!, Hairspray, Rent, Rocky Horror Motion Picture Show, and more. Goodrich Theater, SUNY Oneonta. Info, http://oneonta.universitytickets. com/user_pages/event_listings. asp or call (607)436-3730 THEATER – 8 p.m. “Driving

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SPRING CRAFT SHOW – 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Unique items for gifts from the many vendors. Includes drawings for door prizes and a basket raffle. FoxCare Center, 1 FoxCare Drive, Oneonta.

VIOLIN RECITAL – 1 p.m. Performance by Imad Rajib Altaha with free will offering to benefit the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees. Mr. Altaha received his Bachelor of Music Arts from Bagdad University in 1994 and has played the violin for 30 years. Includes light refreshments, open to the public.

First Presbyterian Church, 25 Church St., Cooperstown. Info, call 547-8401 AUTISM AWARENESS DAY – 1-4 p.m. Learn about autism in our area, what services are available to affected individuals, and what you can do to support them. Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta.

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CCS Students and guest faculty members perform musical numbers. This years theme is “Songs from Shows We Won’t Do.” Each performance will be accompanied by a large student orchestra with a few professionals. Open to the public. Suggested donation, $10 adult, $5 children.

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First, there’s the exhibit itself, which opens April 1, dozens of artworks, from 17th century Dutch oil paintings to 20th century sculpture, plus costumes, photos, posters and antique skates.

Then, there’s a not-to-be believed weekend in mid-

Each winter, the Fenimore organizes a cocktail party in New York City for its patrons. A half-dozen years ago, a new venue was needed, and Dick Button, long associated with the museum, was asked to host the event in his Park Avenue apartment.

“Dick immediately said ‘yes’,” said D’Ambrosio, and turned out to be a very welcoming host, “the nicest guy.”

Entering the apartment, the museum president (and chief curator) was struck immediately by a giant skate in the foyer – adapted from an A 1,000-year-old skate in the exhibit is built on a stone antique skate-shop sign. (It’s in this runner. summer’s exhibit.)

D’Ambrosio soon learned July, beginning Friday the – and saw – that the for14th with “Art on Ice,” the mer Olympian had colFenimore’s annual gala, lected hundred of paintings, which will feature Button sculptures, photos, posters and fellow Olympians Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill and other skating-related memorabilia over his years and JoJo Starbuck among the guests. Performers from associated with the sport.

It turns out that, as a Ice Dance International will young man, Button would entertain throughout the stop by art galleries and ask, evening – at the height of summer – on a rink of Glice “Do you have any skating paintings?”

– artificial ice.

Invariably, the owner The next day, Button and would say no. his star cast will participate Then Button would ask, in Fenimore on Ice, includ“Do you have any winter ing figure-staking demonstrations and a panel discus- scenes?”

They often did, and sion with the Olympians. frequently the scenes would “We’re anticipating include skaters. a lot more,” said Paul Many of those paintings, D’Ambrosio, Fenimore president. “This is going to lithographs and other images collected over a halfbe a summer to remember.”

Paul D’Ambrosio examines an oil by the 19th century French artist Rene Gignoux, one example where Dick Button asked to see a winter scene, and discovered skating among the other activities.

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century will be on display that opens in the next few says. For instance, one by the 19th century French painter, Régis Gignoux, a landscape – the terrain looks a little like parts of Otsego County – with skaters in the lower left.

There’s a 17th century Dutch landscape, showing a handful of skaters outside a tall castle wall, encircled by spectators.

Another, from the late 19th century, shows the Schuylkill River at Philadelphia, with the famous waterworks in the background.

Skating had become very

popular, D’Ambrosio said.

“It was perfectly respectable,” he said. “And still, you could dance, flirt, seen and be seen – it was the perfect sport for the Victorian era. It took off like wildfire.”

One of the most recognizable is a colorful and energy-filled Currier & Ives lithograph of skating in Central Park.

The paintings are only part of what Dick Button’s collection offers. A few steps away is a collection of skates from centuries past, including one from Norway, 1,000 years old. The blade

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Fashion is another aspect of the exhibit – costumes worn by Fleming, Hamill, Starbuck and others in their moments of triumph are on display among the works of art and artifacts.

Born in 1929 and raised in Englewood, N.J., Dick Button began training seriously at age 12 in New York City and, during summers, in Lake Placid, according to his Wikipedia entry.

In 1944, he won the Eastern States Novice Championship junior title, qualifying for the National Novice event, which he then won.

Over the next eight years, he dominated the skating world, winning three North American championships, eight World Championships, and claiming Gold Medals at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics – still the youngest man to do so.

By the time he left skating to enter Harvard Law School in 1952, he had a number of “firsts” to his name: to land a double axel, to land a triple jump, and to invent the flying camel spin.

He joined the Ice Capades during his Harvard vacations and toured with Holiday on Ice and, while admitted to the Washington D.C. bar, he acted (in “The Bad News Bears Go To Japan,” among others movies) and produced made-for-TV sporting events and Dorothy Hamill specials for HBO. When the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame opened in 1976, he was in the inaugural class.

For decades, he was perhaps best known to the public as an expert commentator for CBS and ABC for national and world skating championships and Olympic Games until recent years.

The exhibit’s novelty won it a $120,400 award in Governor Cuomo’s 2016 regional economic development awards – the CFAs – for promotion, particularly to the many skating clubs in Upstate New York and Southern Ontario, an untapped market segment.

“They all know Dick Button as dean of the sport and a father figure,” said D’Ambrosio.

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A Peggy Fleming costume from her heyday as a competitive skater is among offerings from Dick Button’s collection at The Fenimore this summer.

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he venerable Fenimore House of yore reopens April 1 for its 2017 season with a new official name and new logo to match it.

Stephen Carlton Clark, Jane Forbes Clark’s grandfather, attracted The New York State Historical Association from Ticonderoga in 1939 and built the neo-Georgian building on Otsego Lake as its headquarter and museum that displayed his extensive collection of American art on rural themes.

Particularly since the addition of the Thaw Collection of Native American Art in 1996, The Fenimore Art Museum began to move beyond the NYSHA title – to some, it’s become confusing, said the organization’s president, Paul D’Ambrosio.

Over the past year, that led to a rewriting of the organization’s charter toward “cultural enrichment,” he said. The NYSHA board

approved the revised charter in November, and the state Board of Regents affirmed the change at its March 13 meeting.

Meanwhile, the organization had contracted with Paperkite Creative of Cooperstown to design a new logo, and a san serif “Fenimore Art Museum” – with “more” graphically emphasized – was unveiled on March 2.

The organization controls rights to the NYSHA name, continues to operate the research library, and will continue to host New York State History Day annually.

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20426. The first page of any filing should include docket number P-2788-017. m. The application is not ready for environmental analysis at this time. n. The existing Colliersville Hydroelectric Project consists of: (1) a 200-footlong, 35 foot-high reinforced-concrete Ambursen-type dam; (2) a 364acre reservoir (Goodyear Lake) with a gross storage capacity of 7,800 acre-feet at a normal pool elevation of 1,150.22 feet National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929; (3) a 550-foot-long reinforced concrete power canal, approximately 50 feet wide and 6 feet deep at the head gates, extending from a head gate structure adjacent to the dam (i.e., the intake) to the powerhouse; (4) a 103-foot-long by 33-foot-wide reinforced concrete powerhouse with trash racks with a clear spacing of 1.5 inches, and containing two turbines rated at 850 horsepower (HP) and 1150 HP, and two generators having a rated capacity of 650 kilowatts (kW) and 850 kW, respectively; (5) a 300-foot-long and approximately 50 to 60-footwide tailrace; (6) approximately 80-foot-long, 4.16kilovolt underground generator leads or transmission lines from the powerhouse to an adjacent substation owned by the New York State Electric and Gas Corporation; and (7) appurtenant facilities.

Goodyear Lake Hydro operates the project in a run-of-river mode.

The project experiences substantial seasonal and annual variations in generation, and generates an annual average of 5,985 megawatt-hours.

Goodyear Lake Hydro proposes to continue to operate the project in runof-river mode. o. A copy of the application is available for review at the Commission in the Public Reference Room or may be viewed on the Commission’s website at http:// www.ferc.gov using the “eLibrary” link. Enter the docket number excluding the last three digits in the docket number field to access the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support. A copy is also available for inspection and reproduction at the

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address in item h above.

You may also register online at http://www. ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription. asp to be notified via email of new filings and issuances related to this or other pending projects.

For assistance, contact FERC Online Support. p. Procedural schedule and final amendments: The application will be processed according to the following preliminary Hydro Licensing Schedule.

Revisions to the schedule will be made as appropriate.

Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary) April 2017 Request Additional Information April 2017 Issue Acceptance Letter July 2017 Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments July 2017 Request Additional Information (if necessary)

September 2017 Issue Scoping Document 2 November 2017 Issue notice of ready for environmental analysis December 2017 Commission issues EA or draft EA June 2018 Comments on EA or draft EA July 2018 Commission issues final EA October 2018 Final amendments to the application must be filed with the Commission no later than 30 days from the issuance date of the notice of ready for environmental analysis.

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary.

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Notice of formation of HIGH PEAKS BREWING COMPANY, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on March 21, 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

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upon him/her to: The LLC, P.O. Box 827, Oneonta, NY 13820.

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

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NOTICE OF A 30-DAY PERIOD FOR PUBLIC REVIEW OF AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT NO. 3 & AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT NO. 8 NOTICE that the eight-year review of Agricultural District No. 3 within the Towns of Springfield, Cherry Valley, Otsego, Middlefield, and the villages within the towns, and consisting of approximately 64,423 acres in the agricultural district, and the eight-year review of Agricultural District No. 8 within the Towns of Morris, Butternuts, Unadilla, Otego, the villages within the towns, and consisting of approximately 35,453 acres in the agricultural district, will commence with a 30-day public review period beginning April 6, 2017 pursuant to Article 25-AA of the Agriculture and Markets Law. Maps of Agricultural District Nos. 3 and 8 are on file and available for public inspection during regular business hours at the Otsego County Planning Department, Meadows Building, 140 County Route 33W, Cooperstown, New York.

During this 30-day review period any municipality whose territory encompasses the above agricultural district, any state agency or any landowner within or adjacent to the district may propose a modification of the district. Parcels may only be removed from the agricultural district during the eight-year review period.

Any proposed modification must be filed with the Clerk of the County Legislative Body within the thirty (30) days specified.

At the termination of the thirty (30) day period the district and proposed modifications will be submitted to the Otsego County Agricultural and Farmland Protection Board, and that thereafter a public hearing will be held on the district, proposed modifications and recommendations

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of said board.

Dated: March 30, 2017 Carol McGovern Clerk of the Board of Representatives Otsego County, New York 1LegalMar.30 Legal nOtice

NOTICE OF FORMATION of BANKICH ELECTRIC LLC Arts. of Org filed with the Sec’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/02/2017. Office Location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 627 Winney Hill Road, Oneonta, New York 13820. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FILING OF ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION IN NEW YORK

BY A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY 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.

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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 20143, Plaintiff -against JONATHAN D. SWIFT; MICHELLE L.

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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 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 $106,118.00 and interest, recorded in the Otsego County Clerk’s Office on July 26, 2007 in Book 1528, Page 1167, Instrument Number 2007-00056914, 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

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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 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. 6LegalApr27 Legal nOtice

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company, (LLC) Name: Cooperstown Escape Rooms,

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LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 3/2/17.

Office location: Otsego County.

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

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

Articles of Organization were filed with the New York State Secretary of State on March 3, 2017. The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County. The Secretary of State has been designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to: Tumble Hill Farm, LLC of 197 Algerine Hill Road, East Worcester, New York 12064.

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

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WhatCannaDo LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC) Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State on January 27, 2017. The office location within New York is in Otsego County.

The Secretary of State is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to c/o THE LLC, PO Box 108, Gilbertsville, New York 13776. Purpose: to engage in any lawful act or activity.

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NOTICE of FORMATION of LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: Marlinspike Operations, LLC.

THURSDAY-Friday, march 30-31, 2017

Monday, April 3

SILENT WITNESS PROJECT – All Day. Life sized silhouettes will show the story of men, women, and children who have been impacted by domestic and dating violence to commemorate National Crimes Victims Week.

Dewar Union, Hartwick College, Oneonta. Info, http://www.ofoinc. org/ EMPTY PLACE EXHIBIT RECEPTION – 5:30-7 p.m. Opening reception of “Empty Place at the Table” exhibit for national Crime Victims Awareness Week. Fine Arts Building, SUNY Oneonta.

Info, http://www.ofoinc.org/

Tuesday, April 4

SILENT WITNESS PROJECT – All Day. Life sized silhouettes will show the story of men, women, and children who have been impacted by domestic and dating violence to commemorate National Crimes Victims Week.

Hunt Union, SUNY Oneonta. Info, http://www.ofoinc.org/ ADDICTION WORKSHOP – 10:30-11:30 a.m. Study “The Heart of Addiction” with Pastor Jack Klosheim. Bring your own book and workbook. Friends of Recovery of Delaware and Otsego County, 22 Elm St., Oneonta. Info, call (607)2674435 or email kyle@friendsofrecoverydo.org or visit http://www. friendsofrecoverydo.org/events JOB FAIR – 1-4 p.m. Come see what jobs are available in the area and listen to employers give a 10 minute presentation about their business and the opportunities you could have. Holiday Inn, 5206 NY-23, Oneonta. Info, http://otsegocc.com/events/ #id=228&cid=673&wid=301

KNITTING GROUP – 1:30-3:30 p.m. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown, http://www.villagelibraryofcooperstown.org/calendar HEALTHCARE LECTURE – 67:30 p.m. Dr. William Streck, former president and CEO of Bassett, presents “Repeal and Replace the Affordable Care

HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO Act? What Social and Economic Impacts for New York?” Q&A session to follow. Craven Lounge, Morris Conference Center, SUNY Oneonta. Info, Gina Keel Gina.

Keel@oneonta.edu ROUNDTABLE – 6:30 p.m.

History presentation on “Joseph Brant’s 1780 Attack on Canajohary” by Wayne Lenig. Van

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Wednesday, April 5

SILENT WITNESS PROJECT – All Day. Life sized silhouettes will show the story of men, women, and children who have been impacted by domestic and

dating violence to commemorate National Crimes Victims Week.

Pioneer Park, Cooperstown. Info, http://www.ofoinc.org/ SOIL HEALTH MEETING – 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Presenters will discuss cover crops, quality grazing to improve soil productivity, the transition from conventional tillage to limited or no till, and

mobile soil lab demonstrations.

A must attend for land owners, crop farmers, livestock owners, and any with an interest in improving the soil for the future.

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Articles of Organization were filed with the N.Y. Secretary of State on February 22, 2017.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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

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

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO Index No. 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 un-

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

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Michael V. Coccoma, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Otsego County dated Feb. 2, 2017 and filed with the complaint and other papers in the Otsego County Clerk’s Office.

THE OBJECT OF THE ACTION is to foreclose a mortgage recorded on the 22nd day of October, 2008, in Book 1586, mortgage page 1077, covering premises k/a 3-5 Canadarago Street, 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.

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NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: March 29, 2016 Carle Place, New York Pranali Datta, Esq. Stein, Wiener Roth, L.L.P. Attorneys for Plaintiff One Old Country Road, Suite 113 Carle Place, New York 11514 (516)-742-1212 71083/ SANTANDER #91093 4LegalMar30 Legal nOtice

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COUNTY OF OTSEGO NS0153, LLC, Plaintiff, -againstJILLIAN BOS A/K/A JILLIAN E. BOS; LINDA SCHUERMANN; JOSEPH A. GALATI, JR.; UNKNOWN HEIRSAT-LAW OF THE ESTATE OF CARMEN GALATI, NEXT-OF-KIN, DISTRIBUTEES, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, TRUSTEES, DEVISEES, LEGATEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST AND GENERALLY ALL PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING UNDER, BY OR THROUGH SAID DEFENDANT WHO MAY BE DECEASED,

BY PURCHASE, INHERITANCE, LIEN OR OTHERWISE, ANY RIGHT, TITLE, AND INTEREST IN AND TO THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT; GEORGE GALATI; JOSEPH A. GALATI, III; DOMENICA SCOLES, Defendants.

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Mortgaged Premises 165 Wileytown Road Hartwick, New York 13348 Section: 128.00 Block: 2 Lot: 14.00 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE Mortgaged Premises: 165 Wileytown Road, Hartwick, New York 13348 To the Above Named Defendant(s):

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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 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

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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 Attorneys for Plaintiff.

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Notice of formation of

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

The office of the LLC is to be located in 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. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 23 January 2017.

Office location: Otsego County.

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

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

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company.

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

Office location: Otsego County.

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

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

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Oak River Park, LLC Arts of Org. filed with Sec’y. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on February 15, 2017.

Office location: Otsego County.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION of DIAMOND CONCRETE & DEVELOPMENT LLC

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Arts. Of Org. filed with the Sec’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/30/2017.

Office Location: Otsego County.

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

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

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

6LegalApr6 Legal nOtice Notice of formation of Balance By Day LLC. Articles of Formation was filed with the NY secretary of state on February 13, 2017. The office of this LLC is to be located in Otsego County. The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. The NY Secretary of State may mail copy of any process to the LLC at 25 grand St apt#2 Oneonta NY 13820. The purpose of the is to abide by all lawful acts and activities.

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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.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2017

OBITUARIES J. Mason ‘Mace’ Reynolds, 90; Top Executive At Bendix, Allied-Signal COOPERSTOWN – J. Mason “Mace” Reynolds, who rose from a junior draftsman at Scintilla in Sidney to top executive positions at Bendix and Allied-Signal, passed away on March 14, 2017, in Stuart, Fla., with his wife and children beside him. He was 90.

A thoroughly gregarious man of exuberance, business acumen, impeccable honesty, and generous spirit, Mr. Reynolds was utterly

devoted to Rhea, his wife of 68 years, their three children, seven grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.

Mr. Reynolds retired from Allied-Signal, Inc. in 1989, where he had served for eight years as head of the corporation’s worldwide automotive operations. Allied-Signal Automotive was then a major OEM (original equipment manufacturer) supplier of automobile and truck components, with such

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brand names as Bendix, Fram, Autolite and Garrett.

Born in East Orange, N.J., Mr. Reynolds graduated from New York Military Academy and, mid-World War II, accepted an appointment to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. He served as a midshipman engineer below decks aboard lightly armed Liberty and troop ships in Pacific theater convoys – under constant threat from typhoons, submarine and aircraft attack.

With his degree in mechanical engineering from Kings Point, Mr. Reynolds began work in 1948 as a junior draftsman at Bendix Aviation Corp.’s Scintilla Magneto Division in upstate Sidney, New York. A gifted leader, his management capabilities were soon recognized and subsequently challenged by a series of increasingly responsible assignments in aerospace and automotive manufacturing plants. His career with Bendix and its subsequent corporate incarnations

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spanned locations from Sidney to Davenport, Iowa, Denver, Mexico City, South Bend, Ind., New Hartford, New York, European headquarters in Paris, and world headquarters in Detroit.

After retirement from Allied-Signal, Mr. Reynolds continued to serve in business as a director of the National Bank of Detroit and, responding to an emergency, as interim chairman and CEO of InterMet Corp., then one of the world’s largest independent makers of automotive castings.

Since 1989, Mace has mostly delighted in the company of his lifelong partner and sweetheart, at home with Rhea on the Indian River in Stuart, and spending summers together in Cooperstown, where they lovingly restored and maintain the 1808 Robert Campbell house on Otsego Lake.

Mr. Reynolds’ Cooperstown roots include his first boyhood summer job as a field hand assisting his grandfather Edric Mason, who managed Grasslands Farm and other agricultural operations for renowned equestrian F. Ambrose Clark. In recent years, Mr. Reynolds has cherished the regular company of many golfing pals, frequent visits from out of town friends and family, and neighbors whom he warmly engaged by chance from the sidewalk, often with sleeves rolled up, rake in hand, and perspiration glistening on his brow.

Son of Cooperstown

natives Frederick L. and Bernice (Mason) Reynolds, Mr. Reynolds’ children are Jeffrey, of Waterville; Jennifer and John Brickley of Gilbertsville; and Mark and Susan Reynolds of El Paso, Texas. Grandchildren are Benjamin and Heidi Reynolds of Pucon, Chile, (great-grandsons, Alexander and Oliver); Edric Reynolds of Denver, Colo.; Christopher and Ashley Brickley of Niles, Mich. (great-grandchildren, John, Ella and Nora); sisters Lauren and Dana Reynolds of Washington, D.C.; Evan Reynolds of Chicago, and Zoe Brickley of Greensboro, Vt. Mr. Reynolds’s sister Jerry and her husband Charles Boutin reside in Denver.

Services were private for the family, but an announcement of a memorial gathering in Cooperstown later this year will be forthcoming. Friends are encouraged to consider contributing in Mace’s honor to their neighborhood hospice-palliative care organization.

Richard Emerson, 83; Master Carpenter, Museums To Dollhouses Grandma loved her farm, her family, and playing her old guitar.

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

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

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COOPERSTOWN – Richard W. (Dick) Emerson, 83, master carpenter, passed in Cooperstown on Monday, March 20, 2017, the first day of spring.

Dick was born in the Town of Butternuts, the son of Maynard and Edna (Strong) Emerson. He was an Army veteran, serving in 1950-53.

A master carpenter, Dick was a jack-of­-all-trades

and recognized by many in Otsego County for his fine craftsmanship. Projects ranged from museums to barn restorations, motels to tour boats, and even dollhouses.

He enjoyed time spent with family and friends, especially his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Richard was predeceased by his parents, the mother of his children, Ruth Emer-

son, and his brother-in-laws, Grady Holder and Russell Wilsey.

He is survived by his children, Kathie Armstrong, Springtown, Texas, Richard, Jr. (Julia), Rapid City, S.D., Jeffrey, Fly Creek, and Staci, Fly Creek. Also, his brothers and sisters, Charles (Evelyn) Emerson, Sidney, Kenneth (Linda) Emerson, Milford, Carol Holder, Meridian, Miss., Donna Wilsey,

Melbourne, Fla.; and Shirley Emerson, Fly Creek, as well as his grandchildren, greatgrandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.

A private family service will be held at a later date at the Hartwick Seminary Cemetery in Hartwick Seminary.

Funeral arrangements are entrusted to the Ottman Funeral Home, Cherry Valley.

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CHILDREN’S STORY HOUR – 10:30-11:30 a.m. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St.., Cooperstown. Info, http://www. villagelibraryofcooperstown. org/calendar ART DISCUSSION – 12:302:30 p.m. Join director of exhibitions Chris Rossi for this weeks Food for Thought discussion “50 Years, 50 Works, 50 Reasons.

Maurice Sendak: The Memorial Exhibition.” Registration required. Cost, $25 members, $30 non-members. The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. Info, http://www.fenimoreartmuseum. org/lectures or call (607) 5471461 CAREER FAIR – 1-4 p.m. Holiday Inn Oneonta, 5206 NY-23, Oneonta. Info, http://otsegocc. com/ DISCUSSION GROUP – 35 p.m. Discussion of current events. 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.

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Space is limited. Friends of Recovery of Delaware and Otsego, 22 Elm St., Oneonta. Info/reservation, (607)267-4435 or visit http://www.friendsofrecoverydo. org/events PASTA DINNER – 5-7:30 p.m.

All you can eat dinner to support area Catholic charities. Ticket, $10 adult, $5 children, free for children 5 and under. May be purchased at any of the charities in Cobleskill, Oneonta, and Sidney. Holiday Inn, 5206 NY-23, Oneonta. Info, http://charitiesccdos.org/ YARN CLUB – 6:30-7:45 p.m.

For knitters and crocheters of all skill levels and ages. Come learn a new skills and work on your current projects. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta.org/calendar/ LIONS CLUB MEETING – 6:30 p.m. Scoutmaster Henry Nicols updates members about the educational initiatives Troop 1254 has been involved in. Tunnicliff Inn, 34 Pioneer st., Cooperstown.

Info, https://www.facebook.com/ CooperstownLionsClub/ POETRY READING – 7 p.m.

Reading by Jamaican poet Ishion Hutchinson. Author of 2 collections, “Far District” and “House of Lords and Commons.” Martha Daniel will open the event by reading her poem “On the Table.”

Celebration roo, Shineman Chapel Hall, Hartwick College,

Join Our Team of Dedicated and Caring Professionals

Head Start Program Assistant Classroom Teacher Center Associate Assistant Teacher Residential Associate (works at OFO shelters)

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

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The Watershed Agricultural Council, 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.

Review of applications will begin April 3, 2017.

SILENT WITNESS PROJECT – All Day. Life sized silhouettes will show the story of men, women, and children who have been impacted by domestic and dating violence to commemorate National Crimes Victims Week.

Muller Plaza, Oneonta. Info, http://www.ofoinc.org/ 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/ OPEN HOUSE – 5-7 p.m. The Otsego Area Occupational Center open house includes display’s, games, open enrollment for adult education classes, child fingerprinting, and demonstrations from the CTE programs. Otsego Northern Catskills BOCES, 1914 Co. Hwy. 35, Milford. Info, https://www.facebook.com/ONCBOCES/ LIFE SKILLS WORKSHOP – 5-7 p.m. Learn to manage your time and money with the Friends of Recovery of Delaware and Otsego. Space is limited. Registration required. The Turning Point, 22 Elm St., Oneonta. Info, http://www.friendsofrecoverydo. org/events YOUNG PROFESSIONALS – 6-8 p.m. Come meet young professionals from the Otsego area in this networking event.

J&D’s Wagon Wheel, Main St., Oneonta. Info, https://www. facebook.com/YoungProfessionalsNetworkYPN/ ORAL HISTORY – 7 p.m. The Cooperstown Graduate Program hosts “The Oral Histories of Women’s Rights.” They will share stories from their archives and discuss how women’s roles in society have changed over time in Otsego County. Cooperstown Fire Hall. Info, Kate Webber webbkj79@oneonta.edu or call (607)547-2586 ALDEN SCHOLAR SERIES – 7 p.m. “Rethinking Clutter: An Anthropological Take on the Stuff that’s Hard to Let Go” presented

by Dr. Sallie Han. Free reception to follow. Alden Room, Milne Library, SUNY Oneonta. Info, E.K Lee, (607)436-2159 MUSICAL – 7 p.m. OHS pres-

ents Disney’s “High School Musical.” Bring school supplies to donate and half the proceeds of the show go to the Family Service Association “Back to School” drive.

Oneonta High School Auditorium, 31 Center Street, Oneonta. Info, http://www.oneontacsd.org/ FIREFIGHTERS SEMINAR – 7 p.m. The NYS Association of Fire Chiefs presents this Seminar for local firefighters “The Active Shooter and the Fire/Rescue Service” presented by Lieutenant

PROF. OFFICE RENTAL PROF. OFFICE SPACE ONEONTA 3000 sf, Main St. near hospital. Will reconfigure to suit. $4000/mo. Avail.

May 1. Joan Fox, Broker KW Upstate NY Properties 607-434-4679.

6ClassApr6 HOUSE FOR RENT Year-round home rental in the center of Cooperstown village. 2 bedrooms, 2 ½ baths, in historic 1823 home, completely refurbished.

Available April 1, 2017. $1650.00/ mo. includes heat, HW, electric, wireless, trash & snow removal. Lease, security, references. (607) 643-1931 dgeurtze@yahoo. com 3ClassApr6 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) 8737727.

2017-2018 Anticipated Teaching Positions: Earth Science 7-12 Elementary Teacher Elementary Teacher (1-Year Substitute) Library Media Specialist – Elementary Performing Arts/Instrumental Music Teacher Performing Arts/Vocal Music Teacher Special Education Elementary Visual & Creative Technology Arts Teacher

Appropriate and current certification is required. Interested candidates apply on-line at www.olasjobs.org/southern E.O.E

SILENT WITNESS PROJECT – All Day. Life sized silhouettes will show the story of men, women, and children who have

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 607287-1559.

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 607287-1559 TFN

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The Customer Service Division at NYCM Insurance is seeking a positive and friendly individual for the position of Workflow Coordinator.

The Workflow Coordinator is responsible for scheduling the Call Center staff in order to maintain 24/7/365 staffing needs required to meet the needs of call volume, processing, and meeting divisional goals. This individual approves or denies vacation requests for all Call Center locations. The Workflow Coordinator also organizes and schedules training and other meetings that involve Customer Service Representatives and Interviewers.

Cooperstown Central Schools Employment Opportunities Immediate Long-Term Substitute through June 23, 2017: 7-12 Social Studies Teacher K-8 Art Teacher

Friday, April 7

been impacted by domestic and dating violence to commemorate National Crimes Victims Week.

Southside Mall, Oneonta. Info, http://www.ofoinc.org/ AUTISM CONFERENCE – 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. “Autism and Challenging Behaviors: Teaching Coping and Self Management Skills” featuring Dr. Daniel Mruzek and Dr. Bobby Newman. Registration required. Holiday Inn, 5206 State Hwy 23, Oneonta.

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Visit our website www.nycm.com/careers to learn more about the requirements and to complete an online application.

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Gary Benedict (FDNY EMS) and Detective David Norman (NYPD Emergency Service Unit). Worcester Fire Department, 36 Church St., Worcester. Info, http://www. nysfirechiefs.com/calendar_list. asp

Museum Teachers & Interpreters The Farmer’s Museum is seeking enthusiastic and engaging part-time and seasonal museum teachers and interpreters to share their knowledge and expertise about rural life and the trades of the 19th century. If you enjoy speaking with students and visitors of all ages, this is the job for you! Spinning, weaving and broom making are some examples of the crafts that museum educators demonstrate to the visiting public.

Qualified candidates must possess strong communication skills with the ability to engage visitors and educate by drawing connections between the past and the present and providing an informative, enjoyable and authentic experience. Training is provided. Must be willing to work weekends and holidays if necessary.

To apply, visit farmersmuseum.org for an application or contact Human Resources at j.zinger@fenimoreart.org or 607-547-1462. EOE

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