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Otsego County Dairy Princess Megan Wilmot, Cherry Valley, provides wholesome milk to runners at the finish line of the Hall of Fame’s BASE Race Saturday at Doubleday Field, prior to the Coopesrtown Classic. Ambassadors Mikayla Vickerson, Richfield Springs, and Madisyn Reyome, Cherry Valley, assist. For slide show of Classic, visit
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he cost of staffing Otsego County’s economic-development effort is heading from $250,000 a year to zero by summer’s end. The question that remains is how much economic development that will buy. A few weeks ago, Otsego Now’s headquarters on the fifth floor of 189 Main St., Oneonta, included CEO Sandy Mathes and COO Elizabeth Horvath, and newly hired Corey Miglianti, who succeeded Office Administrator Joseph Hughes, who had resigned earlier. When the Otsego Now board of directors met Thursday, May 25, Mathes submitted his resignation, effective – as defined by
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Otsego Now CEO Sandy Mathes is leaving the county Aug. 31.
his agreement with the organization – on Aug. 31. “I have enjoyed the tremendous challenge of this mission,” he said, “transi-
tioning…to the dynamic organization Otsego Now is today.” Horvath had given her notice a month before, and her last day was Friday, May 26. At the meeting, she proposed a $5,000 “retention bonus” for Miglianti if she would remain on the job for Please See TRANSITION, A7
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andy spent three years building a brand, helping some of our largest communities develop more ambitious visions, and gathering support for larger projects in downtown Oneonta, the Oneonta Rail Yards, and, most recently, Schenevus. “Along the way, he has also taken on regional challenges in energy, broadband, and raising the county’s participation in regional, state, and even federal economic development. It was a very successful engagement that happily coincided with an increase in state economic development grants through the CFA, DRI, and URI processes. “I am proud of Sandy’s work and the projects that he has gotten started and cultivated state support for. He has successfully changed our collective thinking about economic development in Otsego County and what’s really possible.” DEVIN MORGAN Otsego Now board chair, in email briefing Otsego County Board of Representatives (Full text, A4)
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VIGIL AT ‘WALL THAT HEALS’
‘They Must Not Be Forgotten’ Dave Rees, well known in Oneonta and Cooperstown, looks for the names of lost Vietnam War comrades at “The Wall That Heals,” which was at Neahwa Park from Thursday, May 25, until Memorial Day.
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MLB Stars Doubted ‘Simpsons’ Prospects 25 Years Later, Homer’s In ‘Hall Of Fame’ By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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n a pre-recorded speech to fans gathered at the Baseball Hall of Fame’s Cooper Park, Nuclear Power Plant right-handed hitter Homer Jay Simpson told the audience to never give up on their dreams. “If the Cubs can win the World Series and a cartoon can enter the Hall of Fame, there are Helen Rees photo no rules,” said the star of Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal husband a few minutes alone to look at the “The Simpsons” and, as Cooperstown Mayor Jeff of Saturday, May 27, the Katz joins Homer himself to wall. open Hall of Fame’s “Hom“The first time we went in D.C. I remem- Hall’s newest inductee. er At The Bat” exhibit. As part of the 1992 bered nine people I knew who were killed,” in “The Simpsons” episode, Springfield Nuclear said Dave, who served in the Navy from “Homer at the Bat.” 1966-68. “When it came to Cooperstown, I Power Plant softball team, And the episode’s 25th Homer’s exploits with remembered a few more. Now I know 27 Please See HOMER, A6 Please See WALL, A3 Wonderbat were chronicled
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Cooperstown High School Kristen Lansing received the Cooperstown Leadership Scholarship during a luncheon at The Otesaga Thursday, May 25. Pictured, from left, are Baseball Hall of Fame Chairman Jane Forbes Clark, Lansing, past winners Christopher Harloff, Ellen Vibbard and Molly Mooney, and the first recipient, Sarah Deway (2011). The scholarship was founded by Rich McCaffery. Jane Clark spoke on the topic, “Reflections on Effective Leadership.”
WELCOME RUTH MARIE BOSTON! Ruth Marie Boston, the third child of Father Dane Boston and his wife Debbie, arrived at 11:11 p.m. May 3, 2017, at Bassett Hospital. She weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces, and was 20.75 inches long. Her father is pastor of Christ Episcopal Church, Cooperstown.
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Coaches on left: Matt Hazzard, Mike Donnelly, Ron Price (behind Mike Donnelly). Coaches on right: Frank Miosek, Bobby Hall (behind Frank Miosek). Front row from left: Sean Meyer, Kyle Meyer, Jackson Martz, Sam Bonderoff, Zach France, Riley Hall, Taylor Price, Ryan Lansing, Brandon Hage. Second row: Logan Haney, Kendall Haney, Ben Tafuro, Jesse Furnari, Erik Deysenroth, Ethan Niles, Kyle Santello. Back row: Dante Poole, (partially hidden) Christopher Ubner, (partially hidden) Nick Sharrat, (partially hidden) Aaron Mateunas. Front row from left: Sean Meyer, Kyle Meyer, Jackson Martz, Sam Bonderoff, Zach France, Riley Hall, Taylor Price, Ryan Lansing, Brandon Hage second row from left: Logan Haney, Kendall Haney, Ben Tafuro, Jesse Furnari, Erik Deysenroth, Ethan Niles, Kyle Santello back row from left: Dante Poole, (partially hidden) Christopher Ubner, (partially hidden) Nick Sharrat, (partially hidden) Aaron Mateunas.
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8,500 Visitors View Wall During 2nd County Visit WALL/From A1 people whose names are on that Wall.” And some of those names, like WO2 B. Dave Townsend Jr., are local boys. Townsend, a 1965 OHS graduate died when his helicopter was shot down over An Loc, Vietnam. “It feels like yesterday,” said his brother, Barry. “Certain times, I still can’t even talk about it.” “So many of the people who came to The Wall had stories,” said Helen; she her husband summer on Otsego Lake. “They say, ‘That’s my brother, my cousin, an uncle I never new,’” she said. The first time Dave Townsend was shot down was in 1969. “He was really badly wounded,” said Townsend. “He broke his shoulder and his collarbone.” He was airlifted to a hospital in Tokyo and called his best friend, Dave Constantine. “Dave called me and said that he had been shot down, that he was okay and not to tell your mother.” Townsend kept his promise until his brother was able to inform his parents himself. “He got from Tokyo to the west coast to Fort Dix,” he said. “My dad called Senator Sam Stratton and asked if he could get permission to bring him back to Oneonta, where Doc Constantine could take care of him,” said Townsend. “He flew down to New Jersey in a friend’s plane and checked him out of the hospital, then brought him back to Oneonta.” He stayed with the Constantines for six months, recovering from his injuries. In an interview he gave while he was home, he expressed his frustrations with the war. “If I’m sent back to Vietnam, I’ll go back,” he said. “But I don’t really want to.” He also expressed understanding for those protesting
the war. “He always said, ‘I don’t agree with them, but I’ll defend to the death their right to do so,’” said Townsend. After his recovery, he was offered a job to train the South Vietnamese to fly Cobras. “He loved flying helicopters, but he wasn’t sure he wanted to go back,” said Townsend. “He asked me, and I said, ‘Dave, you did your time, but it’s your decision.’” In early 1972, he was sent back to Vietnam. “We started getting funny letters from him,” said his sister, Pam Rabidoue, Middleburg. “We didn’t know he was flying again, but he just had to.” But on June 20, 1972, he was shot down over An Loc. He and his navigator gunner, Lt. Lewis Brewer, Richardson Texas, were killed. He was 27 years old. In addition to Townsend, eight other Oneonta boys were killed in Vietnam. In total, 8,500 people visited The Wall, which was set up from the previous Thursday evening through 4 p.m. Memorial Day, and 150 people volunteered. “For the weather we had, that’s a darn good turnout!” said organizer Gene Schmidt. And volunteer Berndette Cannon was on hand to share information about the Memories program, a yearly event where family members can give tribute to Vietnam veterans who have since passed away. “My husband Dennis and his brother, Timothy Michael, both served,” she said. “My sister-in-law and I both submitted an application and a little biography, and we were invited to this year’s ceremony.” This was the Wall’s second visit to Otsego County. The first was Memorial Day Weekend, 2013, when the moving monument was set up in the Doubleday Field parking lot in Coopertown.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 2017
EDITORIAL
IN OTSEGO COUNTY, WE CAN ONLY KEEP LOOKING AHEAD
After Mathes, What’s The Option To Soldiering On?
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or want of a nail … Certainly, epochal changes can turn on small events. Twenty-four hours before the county Board of Representatives’ reorganizational meeting Wednesday, Jan. 4, supporters of county Rep. Len Carson, R-Oneonta, were confident he would be elected board chair the following day. For reasons still unexplained, overnight county Rep. Jim Powers, R-South New Berlin, shifted his support to the incumbent chair, Kathy Clark, R-Otego, who he’d been trying to unseat in the two previous reorganizations. No love lost there. Carson was and is a firm advocate of the economicdevelopment regimen that grew out of our state Sen. Jim Seward’s two “Seward Summits” in 2012 and 2013 and flowered with the recruitment in January 2014 of Sandy Mathes, one of Upstate’s most successful economic developers.
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In the beginning, Friday, Jan. 10, 2014, in Oneonta’s Old City Hall: State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, announces the appointments of Otsego Now CEO Sandy Mathes, right, and COO Elizabeth Horvath, left, both who have now resigned. Behind Seward are, from left, IDA then-chair Sharon Oberriter, county board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, and Oneonta then-mayor Dick Miller.
Since Clark, likewise inexplicably, dug in her heels on the Mathes appointment and, by packing the Otsego Now board with like-minded directors, engineered his resignation. Happily, it’s
not effective until Aug. 31, providing three months to smooth out the transition. • Coulda, shoulda, woulda. The point is, Mathes’ exceptional energy, creativity,
savvy and knowledge in the way Albany works – dating back to the days when both he and Seward were legislative aides there – are irreplaceable. Still, in the face of
Upstate’s grinding economic decline – the one local exception being the billion-dollar brand that is Cooperstown, where Mayor Jeff Katz and his Village Board embraced what
Mathes had to offer and paired it with good ideas of their own – what can people of good will do but soldier on? It’s good news – as would be expected from Mathes – that he pledges to strive over the next quarter to firm up the foundation of three current priority projects. In two cases – the prospective site for a 600-job distribution center at Schenevus’ I-88 exit, and the 88acre former D&H railyards in Oneonta, just acquired by Otsego Now – two able consultants have tasks that will take a year to complete: Delaware Engineering is doing the SEQR reviews, and Elan Planning is building master plans based on community inputs. Until those are done, nothing else can happen. The third, the City of Oneonta’s DRI, the $14 million, state-financed downtown redevelopment initiative, is at a more sensitive Please See EDITORIAL, A5
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Mathes Changed Our Collective Thinking On Economic Development Editor’s Note: Here is the text of the email Devin Morgan, Otsego Now chairman, sent to members of the Otsego County Board of Representatives Wednesday, May 24, anticipating the resignation of CEO Sandy Mathes the following day.
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ello. I wanted to provide an update to the County Board regarding the outcome of our Reorganization Committee. I imagine many of you have heard bits and pieces of what we have been working on, but this might be a good time to provide a bit more of an explanation as we prepare for a new stage
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in the growth of Otsego Now in order to realize its shared vision as a catalyst for economic change in the county. For a bit of background, about
four years ago, an ambitious plan was started to turn the county’s IDA into a professional, fullservice economic development organization. Sandy Mathes, a consultant in economic development from Greene County, was hired as part-time CEO and given the IDA/CRC resources to build a team, reimagine economic development in our county, and identify and develop transformative projects. With Elizabeth Horvath as COO and the support of Dawn, Joe, Patrick, and others, Sandy spent three years building a brand, helping some of our largest communities develop more ambitious visions,
and gathering support for larger projects in downtown Oneonta, the Oneonta Rail Yards, and, most recently, Schenevus. Along the way, he has also taken on regional challenges in energy, broadband, and raising the county’s participation in regional, state, and even federal economic development. It was a very successful engagement that happily coincided with an increase in state economic development grants through the CFA, DRI, and URI processes. I am proud of Sandy’s work and the projects that he has gotten started and cultivated state support for. He has successfully changed
our collective thinking about economic development in Otsego County and what’s really possible. Over the course of last year, we adopted a strategic plan and began working on a business plan to be able to do more projects, support more small business, entrepreneurship, and workforce development initiatives, and continue to develop our role as a regional partner in economic development. As a board, we came to realize that a part-time CEO was not going to be able to take us to the next level or build a sustainable organization modeled after the more successful economic development Please See MORGAN, A5
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Environmentalism Killing Jobs? Quite The Opposite: It’s Creating Jobs Of The Future To the Editor, By now it should be evident to all voters that the Trump presidency and budget is a disaster for the world and the nation and, locally, most especially for self-employed workers – the numerous hardworking contractors, electricians,
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weather year can knock out significant revenue without back-up. Unemployment insurance, health care, disability – all of these programs are at risk. And who also benefit directly and indirectly from government funded research and development, such as in energy efficiency. The Trump budget also guts all semblances of
“we the people,” for it is a budget of, for and by the myopic and perverse, the scorpions of anger with whom Trump has surrounded himself. Most of his Cabinet is ideological hysterics – who can imagine a secretary of education who is actually propounding arming teachers? Common sense and common purpose seem to
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have fled the Administration, fueled by the vulgarity, arrogance and ignorance of the President, who would rather do sword dances with the Saudis than commit to addressing global warming, perhaps the most effective jobs creation engine of our time. Just to take that example, according to research by the Jobs & Environmental
Institute, which I founded in 2000 and which has studied the jobs creation benefits of environmental investments, the environmental industry is perhaps the nation’s most vigorous engine for jobs creation. Even in 2005, according to a survey undertake by the Institute,” the environmental industry generated more than 5 millPlease See DIPERNA, A6
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plumbers and independent small businessmen and women who depend on a basic social safety net, even if at times government rules seem overbearing. Many self-employed know they are just one or two jobs away from no savings in the bank, or a bad
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s we have mentioned from time to time, we are still working on collecting all the history items which we have had in the column over the years. Not only do we enjoy reading them again, we also hope to be able to pull them into some sort of a book of Cooperstown memories. Of course, in undertaking this little project, we have also come across any number of items which we found as amusing now as when we originally wrote them. Of course, the items we discovered from 1984, were written by the two of us, the she-we and the he-we. And,
since we had never written a newspaper column before, the first year was not without its frustrations, not to mention problems. In February we wrote: “In closing, CATHERINE we feel that we LAKE must take time to ELLSWORTH clear up some basic misconceptions about how we write this column. It is not true, as David Pratt has suggested, that we sit across the table with pencils
drawn. Nor is it true, as Carrie Southworth has suggested, that Cathe really writes the entire column and is generous enough to give credit to Jerry. Nor, as John Mitchell has suggested, is it true that Jerry is generous enough to let Cathe write the column. Believe it not, we each write every other word.” • By April, it seemed that we felt the need for yet another clarification when we wrote: “In closing, we would like to dispel a rumor which seems to have reared its ugly head concerning our marriage. It is not true that one of us Please See COLUMN, A5
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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library
200 YEARS AGO
Another Mammoth Discovered – The bones of another of these huge animals have lately been discovered in the village of Chester, five miles east of Goshen, Orange County. They were disinterred from the earth in the presence of Dr. Mitchell, and several other gentlemen, by whom they were brought to New York, and deposited among the collections of the Lyceum, at the New York Institution. One of the tusks measured nine feet. June 12, 1817
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125 YEARS AGO
At a meeting of the Board of Village Trustees held Friday evening last – The President was authorized to order sufficient crushed stone from Howe’s Cave quarry to place in the road on Pioneer Street, between Main and the stone dwelling of the Cooley Estate. This will be done as an experiment, and if found to meet the requirements of a good roadbed, the same work will probably be done another season on Main Street, from Pioneer to Chestnut. It costs about $5,000 a mile to construct a first-class Macadamized road of proper width. The filth and mud on Main Street between Chestnut and Pioneer should now be scraped up and carried away. That would leave the roadbed in better condition and get rid of a disease-breeding nuisance. June 9, 1892
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Excerpts from an essay on the Tariff: The corruptions of society are striking their roots deep and the efforts of the age have been to rear the great fabric of the central government, surrounded by individual wealth, private magnificence, and personal consequence; and these things can only be obtained by the degradation and labor of millions. Older governments built their pyramids, erected temples to the sun, filled their coffers with gold, and mustered armies on the field of battle, by direct exactions from their subjects; and here the capitalist manufacturer has been protected ever since the foundation of this government, first, by the taxation or tariff to pay the debt of the Revolution; secondly, by the tariff to pay the debt of the last war (War of 1812); and thirdly by the immense sums raised each year, for fifty-two years, for defraying the ordinary expenses of the Government for extinguishing the Indian title to wild lands, for the purchase of Florida and Louisiana, for defraying the expenses of the Indian wars, building and sustaining the Army and Navy, and the construction of forts, naval yards, light houses, and piles of public buildings, which, in their magnificence and aggregate expense, mock the pyramids and the heathen temples….. The laborer pays for everything from his Government, and all he asks in return is the equality of her legislation. This is the only protection his government can give. Equality of legislation is protection to all; protection to a few is inequality to all.” June 13, 1842
it – it having been my weekly visitor for nearly half a century.” June 7, 1867
100 YEARS AGO
Otsego County Results of War Registration – In Otsego County the registration for the selective draft was accomplished last Tuesday with incident. The returns were brought to the county seat by special messengers and the work of tabulation was accomplished by County Clerk Marshall, aided by B.G. Johnson, Sheriff Brown and other volunteer assistants on Wednesday. The figures show that 3,353 young men registered and of this number only 1,164 were without exemption of some character, although but a small part of those with exemption claimed it. In the tabulation only single men without anyone depending on them for support were counted as not exempt. The number of aliens of the specified June 10, 1992 ages was 261, only 14 of which were socalled “alien enemies” citizens of Germany registered within the county. June 13, 1917 Mr. N.S. Hurd, of Butternuts writes: “My subscription for the Journal expired a few weeks ago, and I have been hesitating whether or not to renew it, as I am nearly The mink, the aristocrat of the weasel 80, and my eyesight is failing; but the result family, and a staple of the fur industry was of my reflection is to continue taking it for the subject of a talk by Paul Allen, architect, another year, as I should be lonely without formerly of New York City, at the weekly
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But Miss Manners Says... COLUMN/From A4 ever has, or ever will, take any responsibility for what the other one wears. Nor will we try to influence each other in mode of dress. We have checked the service, and nowhere in the wedding ceremony does it say for better, for worse, for what you wear...” And in October, the issue of dress was mentioned yet again when we noted that “There is an old adage ‘You can dress them up, but you can’t take them out.’ One of us attended a recent Oneonta dinner meeting. We had even worn a coat, tie and longer pants than is our habit. During a dinner consisting of ubiquitous prime rib and baked potato, we ate the spiced apple garnish which accompanied our beef. For this act we were chastised roundly. We must confess that we have always eaten our garnish and so were a bit taken aback when told this was a faux pas. We did, however, consult Miss Manners and her “Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior,” and she tends to agree with us. However, almost all at the table expressed shock and embarrassment so we probably will not be asked again, thereby proving you can dress them up, but...” • We also need to point out that we learned early on in our writing careers that mistakes would be made in the column. In fact, that first year seemed to have a number of really unfortunate errors, which resulted in our writing a fair number of apologies. For example, in September we wrote: “When it comes to last week’s column what can we say? There are misspellings. There are misunderstandings. There are mistakes. And then there is last week’s column. Tempting as it is in this age of modern technology to blame glaring errors on computer foul up, we refuse to use that excuse. Instead we will openly admit that somewhere, someone goofed. Names are being withheld not to protect the innocent, but because after misspelling Kristen Trembley’s name last week, we don’t trust ourselves to get anyone’s name right.” This was followed in November with: “Once again we are sorry for still another glaring error we made in the column and we apologize to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Chase of Lakeland Shores. We know that they do not have a son named Stephen Smith. They do have a son named Stephen Chase. Mr. and Mrs. Roger Smith have a son named Stephen Smith. Mr. and Mrs. G.B. Ellsworth do not have a son named Stephen Smith either, but they do have a son named Christopher Smith. We hope that we have now eliminated any confusion.” Unfortunately, some things never change. PLEASE NOTE: Comments regarding this column may be made by mail to 105 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326, by telephone at 607-5478124 or by e-mail at cellsworth1@stny.rr.com.
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luncheon meeting of the Cooperstown Rotary Club at the Cooper Inn. Allen came to Otsego County several years ago and started a mink farm in the Fly Creek Valley which he has since conducted on a successful basis. Mr. Allen gave his hearers not only an account of how a mink farm is operated, but pictured the mink himself so that the Rotarians now are acquainted with the mink’s appearance, actions, habits, peculiarities and tendencies. June 10, 1942
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Installation of a recorded, guided tour at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was announced by President Paul S. Kerr this week. By use of ear phones and a small box carried by shoulder strap, containing taped descriptions of the main exhibits, visitors are directed through the four flights of baseball’s shrine, without disturbing the person nearby. Users of the simply operated device produced by Acoustiguide hear the narration by Phil Rizzuto. In the pause at various displays the former New York Yankees’ shortstop, presently a top broadcaster, provides the background. The tourist is welcomed by Mr. Kerr on the first floor and the climax comes as the visitor enters the majestic Hall of Fame. Ford C. Frick, the originator of the Hall of Fame, is heard in the Plaque Alcoves and a final goodbye comes from Cy Young himself. June 14, 1967
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On Tuesday night, June 5, the happening place to be for Cooperstown high school students was the “Senior Slam Night” in the N.J. Sterling Auditorium. Exactly two months after the tragic death of Chris Gentile, Rebecca Burk-Sciallo’s 12th Grade College-Prep Honors English class hosted an open-mic night to raise money for the Chris Gentile Memorial Fund. Megan Polus and Zack Bowman – the unofficial cheerleader of the senior class, well-known for his cries of “Seniors 07” – were emcees. Among the featured performers was a guitar and vocal performance by Jon Birch and John Rathbun. June 8, 2007
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Economic Development Puts Competing Interests In Play EDITORIAL/From A4 stage. While $2 million of $4 million for construction of the Food & Beverage Innovation Center appears to be on track, the other $2 million – to outfit the innovation center and provide seed money for an executive director – is still being awaited, an essential piece to lock in the private developers. Even there, Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig, while mourning Mathes’ departure, expressed confidence that City Hall, reaching out for additional expertise if necessary, will somehow be able to make it happen. “Sandy had brought us to the point where we can build on the foundation,” he said. “With his assistance over the next 90 days, we are capable of working on our own if Otsego Now is not up to speed.” Let’s hope. • Of course, any successful enterprise can’t depend on a single person. No one objected to Otsego Now’s strategic-planning conclusion that, longterm, a full-time CEO, locally based, would be necessary to stabilize the undertaking. Just not yet.
The concern was, To the degiven the priority gree Otsego projects at critical Now is broken, stages – not to menKathy Clark and tion the broad-band the remaining initiative, delayed board members by Time Warner – Morgan, Craig Cable’s merger into Gelbsman, Rick Spectrum, the CFA Hulse, Jeff Lord cycle, the pending and two newcommaster-plan updates, ers, Cheryl Robetc., etc. – this isn’t inson and Sarah the time to rock the Harvey – own it. The Freeman’s Journal boat. But rocked Mathes applaud- Still, there’s no it is, and we must ed in Schenevus point in playing a move on. blame game. in February. Since the first • “Seward Summit,” the Now, though, county reprebusiness and political comsentatives will have a chance munities have learned just to influence where Otsego how excruciatingly difficult Now goes from here. With economic development is. two more board resignations That’s why so few Upstate the other day, three new apcommunities outside Saratoga pointments are in the offing. Springs’ orbit have achieved If the county reps replace it. Gelbsman as liaison – perhaps In an email briefing to the with Carson, or Peter Obercounty board, Otsego Now acker, R-Schenevus, whose chairman Devin Morgan communities have big stakes expressed “surprise” the in Otsego Now’s success whole staff – COO Elizabeth – that would be four. Horvath, Officer AdministraThis is a chance to round tor Joe Hughes and, now, out Otsego Now’s roster with Hughes’ successor Corey fair-minded, seasoned busiMiglianti – departed. But, if ness leaders. Ommegang’s you subject an office to the first-rate new president, Doug stresses of intense uncertainty, Campbell, comes to mind. that’s what happens. Mike Pentaris, the Custom
Electronics’ president and Ioxus founder. Hartwick College President Margaret Drugovich. Heavens, even Hamdi Ulukaya, Chobani’s superstar creator. There’s a lot of talent out there. Another idea: Designate spots for the mayors of Oneonta and Cooperstown, where most economic development will inevitably occur. Again, they have a stake in the outcome. Regardless, keep rancor to a minimum. There’s work to be done. Recruit a new CEO. Rebuild the staff. Devin Morgan pledged to Mayor Herzig that Otsego Now remains fully committed to the Oneonta projects – that may mean financial support for bringing in any needed shortterm expertise. Economic development is a marathon, Mathes observed the other day. Everyone who’s been paying attention has learned that’s the case. There are simply many, many competing interests in play. While Sandy Mathes’ departure is a setback for the vision of a prosperous, 21st century Otsego County, let’s ensure it’s not a dead-end, but simply a turn in the road.
Morgan: COO’s ‘Surprise’ Departure Accelerated CEO Search MORGAN/From A4 organizations in the state. We need boots on the ground, strong local and regional relationships, and more dayto-day management and growth of the organization. These aren’t something a remote, part-time consultant can provide. I discussed the prospect of full-time engagement with Sandy and, in addition to salary expectations we could not meet, he conceded that he would want to maintain his consulting practice and would not relocate to Otsego County. He had no interest in going “all in”, which is really what our board was looking for. We entered 2017 with a contract extension that gave either party a 90-day
option to end our relationship and made it known that our board would work on a reorganization plan that would include a transition to a full-time CEO. Our Reorganization Committee went through a series of meetings and discussions to evaluate the proposed business plan, hear about Senator Seward’s vision for Otsego Now, look at other economic development organization models, and engage Sandy about a transition plan. Over several months, we concluded that recruiting a full-time CEO that could develop and implement a vision for the next stage of Otsego Now’s growth was our highest priority for moving the organization forward.
There was some discussion of when and how this might be timed, but Elizabeth’s surprise announcement that she was leaving has led to a quick consensus among the board and with Sandy that we need to hire a new CEO as quickly as possible, while still ensuring a thorough search and strong candidates. We have engaged Valletta Ritson & Co. out of Binghamton, a nationwide search firm that recently conducted a similar and successful search for Broome County. We will be convening a hiring committee from within our board to oversee the confidential search and interview process and anticipate hiring a new CEO within 90 days.
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Green Jobs Will Make America Great Again DIPERNA/From A4 ion jobs across the U.S. For perspective, compared to employment generated by other industries, this is: • More than 10 times the U.S. pharmaceuticals industry • Nearly six times more than the apparel industry • Almost three times more than the chemical industry • Fifty percent more than religious organizations • Nearly half the employment in hospitals • Almost one-third the size of the entire construction industry.” Trends have only increased, Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA & The Freeman’s Journal with many jobs for the selfHall of Fame Chairman Jane Forbes Clark, Homer Simpson and MLB stars employed and subcontracted who starred in the 1993 “Homer at the Bat” episode cut the ribbon on the small businesses, often more new exhibit. jobs for welders than scientists, thanks to public and private investment in new efficiencies
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HOMER/From A1 anniversary was celebrated in Cooperstown with a Hall of Fame panel featuring Executive Producers Al Jean and Mike Riess, Director Jim Reardon, Executive Story Editor Jeff Martin and Casting Director Bonnie Pietila. “When you’re a kid, you construct your super-team out of baseball cards,” said Martin. “That was what it was like making this episode.” Fellow Power Plant teammates Wade Boggs and Ozzie Smith – now Hall of Famers themselves – and Steve Sax also joined the panel to share their experiences. “I’m glad I could make it back here today,” joked Ozzie Smith, who, in the course of the episode, goes missing ahead of the Springfield vs. Shelbyville game after falling into Springfield’s Mystery Spot. “Even when I’m on MLB Radio, I still get calls asking me about ‘The Simpsons’,” said Sax. “When we made the episode, we had no idea it would be iconic.” Sax, who couldn’t make the Springfield vs. Shelbyville game because he was arrested and charged with every murder in New York City, admitted the episode helped him during a real-life run-in with the police. “I was pulled over in the middle of nowhere in Virginia and the cop looked at my license, said ‘I loved you on The Simpsons’ and let me go without a ticket!” And in recruiting Sax and Don Mattingly for the episode, Pietila said she worked with former Yankees PR manager – now Hall of Fame president – Jeff Idelson. “He’s been a friend to ‘The Simpsons’ for 25 years,” she said. Although it’s hard to imagine, back in 1992, with the show just in its second season, there were several players who turned down a chance to appear. “I tried calling Nolan Ryan and his people said, ‘Do not call back. He is not going to do this’,” said Pietila. “The show was new, and there were people who had never even heard of it.” The iconic episode was screened ahead of the panel, and Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz wore a Quimby-style sash – emblazoned with “ MAYOR” – as he read the
proclamation declaring May 27 Homer Simpson Day in Cooperstown. After the ceremony, an exhibit inside the Hall was dedicated to the episode. It featured action figures, animation cells and Homer’s official plaque. And later in the day, Homer threw out the first pitch at the annual Cooperstown Classic – Hall of Famers vs. MLB stars – at Doubleday Field. “When we recorded, I just thought it would be a fun afternoon,” said Sax. “I’m really surprised it went this far. But
course, in the form of Congressman John Faso who, among other “follow the leader” positions had the audacity to outright lie that the Republican version of a health care bill would not remove pre-existing condition protections when the bill clearly allowed states to waive those protections as they saw fit. Government is far from perfect, but it is all that stands between society and a road warrior world. The Trump Administration is leading us in a dangerously wrong direction. PAULA DiPERNA Cooperstown Paula DiPerna was a candidate for Congress in 1992 in the then 23rd Congressional District, which included Otsego County.
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hile he prepares to enter another chapter, Otsego Now’s departing CEO, Sandy Mathes, said he intends to work “as aggressively as possible over the summer” to advance frontburner projects in Oneonta – the downtown revitalization effort, in particular, which requires the most attention right now. He’s assured Mayor Gary Herzig and state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, he aims “to make this transition as smooth as possible.” While he’s moving on – he intends to expand the client base of his Albany-based MPA consulting firm – Otsego County has a lot going for it, he said in an interview.
His successor will also find “unique and exciting downtowns. They’re good, but ready to be taken to the next level,” he said, as Oneonta’s DRI and Cooperstown’s update comp plan are promising. Plus, “the political base is very strong, with a senior senator” – Seward – “fully engaged.” Raised in Coxsackie, Mathes, for a time an aide to state Sen. Charles Cook, the Delaware County Republican, served three terms (nine years) on the Greene County HOMETOWN ONEONTA & The Freeman’s Journal Legislature, then another nine years as the county’s economic In March, Sandy Mathes points out features of developer. the D&H yards to Phil Fontana, Norfolk SouthHe built and populated two ern’s regional economic-development officer. business parks, revived freight For one thing, his successor site control,” but Otsego Now service to a former railyard, will have assets to work with, acquired the 88 acres in the and convinced Glaxo Smith in particular “a very strong last month, opening it up for Kline to keep Stiefel Labs open not-for-profit sector” – the two redevelopment. Plus, I-88’s in East Durham. colleges, two hospitals, Spring- exits are largely undeveloped, He was recruited here after brook and more. at a time national retailers are Citizen Voices, an OneontaThe D&H railyards redelooking for on-highway sites based group of businesspeople, velopment “lost 14 months for for distribution centers, he said. challenged Seward to do more
at a meeting in January 2012. The senator began a process of learning and educating the community about what it takes to accomplish economic development, highlighted by two “Seward Summits,” in March 2012 at The Otesaga and November 2013 at Foothills. At the second summit, Dick Sheehy, a consultant with CM2H Hill, one of the world’s foremost corporate placement firms, bluntly told the audience, “I’m glad I wasn’t here with a client – because you’d be off the list.” He said two things – a “single point of contact” for potential investors, and “shovel-ready sites” – were essential before economic development can happen. The county IDA (industrial development agency) – rechristened “Otsego Now” in the Mathes era – hired him and Horvath the following Jan. 10. “It’s always difficult to
change the status quo,” Mathes said when asked about the challenges ahead. “There are longstanding opinions to overcome and ‘people turf’ – existing businesses see competition for workforce, public resources. That’s an ongoing struggle in any Upstate community. Asked what qualities his successor will need to succeed, Mathes said, “experience in getting deals done.” Relationships with the state’s “economic development structure. How you navigate in Albany is important.” Marketing – getting sites ready and connecting with site selectors and the commercial real-estate industry. “No matter who they get is going to have challenges,” he said. “They need to be strong leaders. They need a personality to work with the community. They need to have strong personal skills. They have to be able to overcome adversity.”
After Climactic Meeting, Otsego Now Has Clean Sheet TRANSITION/From A1 sixth months, plus raise her rate of pay to $20/hour. However, Miglianti resigned later in the day. That wasn’t the end of the rush for the doors. The retired JP Morgan managing director and former Otsego Now chair, Bob Hanft, Pierstown, shared his decision to leave the board, thanking them for “a great seven years” and noting, “We’ve always said this thing is a marathon, and it is.” Director Jim Salisbury, Otego, a retired banker, upset with Mathes’ resignation, simply said, “I’m done with this organization. ’Bye,” and left the building. New board member Cheryl Robinson, who chaired the board’s recently formed Reorganization Committee that proposed replacing Mathes with a full-time executive, moved to abolish the committee, which “is at the end of its charter.” County Board chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, who began appointing Otsego Now directors at odds with the current
administration a year ago February, did not return a message seeking her reaction. For his part, the current Otsego Now board chairman, attorney Devin Morgan, Cooperstown, expressed “surprise” at the turn of events in an email to county representatives. He plans to attend the next county board meeting, at 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 7, to talk about the future and answer questions. After receiving Mathes’ resignation at last week’s meeting, the Otsego Now directors voted to hire a Binghamton search firm, Valletta Ritson & Co., a “nationwide executive search firm,” to seek a “fulltime, locally based chief executive officer” to succeed him. The fee will be 33 percent of the next CEO’s annual salary, a salary Morgan estimated in the $100,000-$150,000 range. Asked about staffing for the next few months, Morgan said, “I think that’s kind of an open question.” Whether to hire a fulltimer or parttimer, or to “suspend office operations for a few months,” will be among
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Present at last week’s climactic Otsego Now meeting are, clockwise from left, counsel Kurt Schulte, Board Members Jim Salisbury, Cheryl Robinson, Jeff Lord and Rick Hulse, workforce consultant Patrick Doyle, resigning CEO Sandy Mathes, chair Devin Morgan, resigning COO Elizabeth Horvath, Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig, Board Members Sarah Harvey, Craig Gelbsman and Bob Hanft, and counsel Joseph Scott. the issues discussed when the Governance Committee meeting, as was planned for 8 a.m. Thursday, June 1. After that meeting, the new search committee – Robinson, chair, plus Morgan, Rick
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Hulse, county Rep. Craig Gelbsman and Jeff Lord – plan to meet with one or both of the search firm’s partners, Frank Valletta and Hans Dalmolen. With Valletta Ritson having just completed hiring of a Broome County IDA executive, they undoubtedly have a bank of candidates. However, Morgan said the usual process is to identify 100 prospects, and winnow them down from there. The firm told him he can expect to have a new CEO on board in 90 to 120 days. In an interview, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, who championed a new approach to economic development that
Mathes’ January 2014 hiring represented, said he is not opposed to the decision to seek a fulltime CEO, just with the timing. “We’re in the middle of so much,” he said. “…The timing is premature. In my estimation, I would have waited a few months if not a year, if I had my druthers.” The senator is particularly concerned that progress continue on Oneonta’s $14 million state-funded DRI (downtown redevelopment initiative), the redevelopment of the former D&H yards, and the Schenevus site off I-88 now being prepared to attract a distribu-
tion center estimated to attract 300-600 jobs. Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig appeared at the meeting and asked for assurance of continued support for his city’s projects. “While they expressed support for the Oneonta projects, which I appreciated,” he said in a follow-up interview, “I don’t know if they have resources in the foreseeable future to implement these projects.” While he regretted Mathes’ departure, he said, “I’m not really concerned. Sandy has brought us to the point where we can build on the foundation. With his assistance over the next 90 days, we are capable of working on our own if Otsego Now is not up to speed.” Mathes obtained $140,000 in state funding to update Cooperstown’s comprehensive master plan, but his impact was beyond the village alone, said Mayor Jeff Katz, who observed him operate on the Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Council. “He did invaluable work for the whole county,” said Katz. “He put us on a whole different stature.” In the latest round of CFA grants, last December, the state’s vehicle for delivering economic-development money, Otsego County received $4 million, up from $234,000 in 2013, the year before Mathes arrived. The latest round included $120,000 for renovations to Village Hall. “The first year without Sandy, there’s going to be a big drop,” Katz predicted.
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MLS#108867 $379,000 Canadarago Lake 30 acres, 58’ lake frontage, views. Hiking, boating, swimming, hunting, snowmobiling. This combination acreage/lake frontage is a rare find! Call Rodney Campbell @ 315-868-0148 (cell)
MLS#107977 $600,000 12+ acres behind The Commons and Dreams Park. Amazing location for commercial, residential, or recreational development. Owner financing available. Call Tom Tillapaugh @ 607-434-9392 (cell)
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MLS#104996 $10,500 Assessed well below market value! Beautiful acreage! Cleared land ready for building. Near Cooperstown! Call Donna Schulz @ 607-267-6330 (cell)
MLS#109420 $194,900 Road end lot. Magnificent lakefront! Owner financing! 135’± on lake and 75’± on creek. Surveyed, electric, drilled well, approved septic. Near Cooperstown. Call George (ROD) Sluyter @ 315-520-6512 (cell)
MLS#110785 $415,000 Country setting, 93 acres, 1-floor living, 1-BR in-law apartment, limitless possibilities! This home offers 4 BRs, 2½ baths, attached and detached 2-car garages. Call Donna A Anderson @ 607-267-3232 (cell)
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MLS#110839 $379,900 Circa 1850 farmhouse w/apt, 8 BRs, 4 baths, formal LR Spacious BR, 2acres bathoverlooking house is closeCanadarago. to I-88. LargePorch. and DR.415± backyard, workshop/garage, shed. Make(cell) your Call George (ROD) Sluyter @small 315-520-6512 appointment Priced to go this week! Virtual tour:today. Rodshousetour2.com Virtual Tour: www.RealEstateShows.com/708598
MLS#110338 $199,900 38.8 acres, access to Canadarago Lake. Unfinished 2story, stick-built home w/lake view, 3-BR double-wide w/full cellar, pole barn and storage facility. Call George (ROD) Sluyter @ 315-520-6512 (cell)
MLS#110968 $289,000 New Listing! This year-round home w/beautiful lawn offers easy access to Canadarago Lake. In your free time kayak to Deowongo Island right out front. Call Rodney Campbell @ 315-868-0148 (cell)
MLS#110288 $259,999 Two Country Homes Cooperstown School District, 7 BRs, 3½ baths in the 2 homes. Located just 3.5 miles from the village of Cooperstown. Call Donna A Anderson @ 607-267-3232 (cell)
MLS#108097 $120,000 Beautiful Views! Home boasts a large, bright family room, newer furnace and hot water heater, large garage, deck, front porch, large well maintained lot. Call Melissa Klein @ 518-705-9849 (cell)
MLS#110131 $459,900 Breathtaking Private Home 5 BRs, 3½ baths, 12+ acres. Spacious kitchen w/cathedral ceiling, granite counter, stainless steel appliances. Call Kristi Ough @ 607-434-3026 (cell)
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Waterfront Home! Lovely, spacious home on the northern end of Goodyear Lake has been lovingly restored and maintained. This 3-BR, 2½-bath home features quality handcrafted kitchen cabinets and built-ins. Large entrance, fully fitted kitchen and dining area, LR w/cathedral ceiling and woodstove, 2 large BRs, 1 w/½ bath, another w/full bath. Upstairs is master suite w/private bath. Enjoy the lake sunsets from covered deck or lawn. Detached garage, woodshed. Home can be heated economically by oil, self-feeding coal furnace or woodstove. Property consists of 2 tax map numbers so lots of room for guest parking, boats, other toys. MLS#110946 $280,000
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MLS#110699 Middlefield $649,900 Custom-Built Home on Otsego Lake has 150´ of private lakefront. This 3-BR Cape-style home was built in 1990 on the shore of Otsego Lake adjacent to Five Mile Point. This private setting is one of a kind found on Otsego Lake.
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he Avett Brothers bring their folk-rock stylings back to Cooperstown with special guest Nicole Atkins. Gates open at 5 p.m., the show starts at 7 p.m. Friday, June 2. Brewery Ommegang, 656 Co Hwy 33, Cooperstown.
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Celebrating the Arts: The Mansion Show of the Community Arts Network of Oneonta opens featuring works by area artists on the Theme ‘Resist!’ The show will display through June 18. Also on display is the annual Oneonta Garden Club interpreting artists’ works in flora. 5-8 p.m. Friday, June 2, Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta.
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n 1978, a friend told Robert “Fish” Fisher a tale he’d heard from the Susquehanna River. “He told me an improbable story about a 70mile canoe race,” said Fisher. “I found that hard to believe! But it was crazy enough that I knew I had to try it.” So he borrowed a 16-foot aluminum canoe, practiced for “about four hours” with a friend, and set off for his first General Clinton Canoe Regatta. “It took us 12 hours,” he said. “We tipped three or four
The Fisher-Reese father-daughter team enters the Susquehanna at Council Rock. The toughest part of the race, he says, is between Goodyear Lake and Route 205.
times, we had no idea what we were doing, but we made it! And I was captivated, so the next year, I bought a better boat, took another friend and this time, we didn’t tip over.”
Fisher, 73, an architect and a retired SUNY Delhi professor, Monday, May 29, completed his 25th regatta, coming in 11th of the 21 racers in the amateur division Please See REGATTA, B5
IN APPRECIATION
Bob Boyle: Environmentalist, But Most Of All – Reporter By JIM KEVLIN
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ob Boyle, of East Springfield and the world, is being remembered as an environmental visionary, and certainly was. But – foremost and at base – he was a reporter. In a 2015 interview when he was heralded in Robert D. Lipset’s “Power On the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern
Environmentalism,” it was a scoop recalled that most energized him. He had become aware a deputy game warden had taken photos of thousands of fish – perhaps more than a million – that had ganged and suffocated from heated water flowing from the Indian Point One nuclear power plant after it opened in 1962 on the lower Hudson River. The state Conservation Department was hiding the photos. Please See REPORTER, B7
Bob Boyle, retired reporter and pioneer of Hudson River environmentalism who died Friday, May 17, included fly fishing – he wrote a book about it – among his many interests.
Celebrate Health: Celebrate the expansion of the Southside Health and Wellness Center with free massages, eyebrow waxing, face painting and a horse show with a salute to the military. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, June 3. Southside Health & Wellness Center, Oneonta. Duck Derby: Enter your rubber duckies in the races, ride the ponies, and visit with the surprise princess guest. All ducks will be entered in the final race. Noon-3 p.m. Saturday, June 3. Neahwa Park, Oneonta. LIVE READING: Betty Ann Fraley presents her latest book “Divine Divas” featuring her poetry and artwork. Signing to follow. 2-4 p.m. Saturday, June 3, The Green Toad Bookstore, 198 Main St., Oneonta. Girls On The Run: Fun 5k run/walk through Cooperstown. Enter to participate or just support the runners. 5k begins at Noon. Sunday, June 4. Clark Sports Center, Cooperstown. Spring Concert: See a performance of selections from great composers like Bach, Mendelssohn, and Haydn by the Little Delaware Youth Ensemble. 3-4:30 p.m. Sunday, June 4th. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta.
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sion-show/?instance_id=777 OMMEGANG CONCERT – 5 p.m. The Avett Brothers return for the ART SHOW RECEPTION – 5-7 summer concert series. Advance p.m. Opening the two-person tickets, $50. Brewery Ommegang, show “Pushing Boundaries” which 656 Cty. Hwy. 33, Cooperstown. features recent fiber and clay Info, http://www.ommegang.com/ sculptures by Marcie SchwartzFABULOUS FRIDAYS – 5-8 p.m. man of Cooperstown and mini Go to a community BBQ provided retrospective paintings by Leandro by Brooks BBQ. Dietz St., Oneonta. Velasco of Bainbridge. The Art Info, https://www.facebook.com/ Garage, 689 Beaver Meadow Rd, oneontafabulousfridays/ Cooperstown. Info, https://www. ICE CREAM SUNDAES – 5-8 facebook.com/TheArtGarageCoo- p.m. Enjoy an ice cream sundae in perstown/ or call (607)547-5327 recognition of Laskaris Restaurant MANSION SHOW RECEPTION and its impressive soda fountain – 5-8 p.m. Theme: RESIST!. Artists menu. Oneonta History Center, use their own interpretation be 183 Main St., Oneonta. Info, call it political, personal, formal, or (607)432-0960 or e-mail info@ otherwise. Juried Art show open OneontaHistory.org or visit www. to all artists in all mediums. Com- OneontaHistory.org munity Arts Network of Oneonta. THEATER – 7-9 p.m. Studio Info, http://www.canoneonta. North presents “Road Trip.” Free org/event/exhibition-2017-manAdmission. Auditorium, Sharon
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Social Dance with Ray Taylor calling and Elma Taylor Cueing. Admission $5 per person. Cooperstown Elementary School. Info, call (607)264-8128 CONTRADANCE – 7:30-10:30 p.m. Have a fun evening with Uncle Joe & the Rosebud Ramblers. Caller Ted Crane. Arrive by 7:15 p.m. for an into to the basic steps. Donation, $8 Adult, $4 Child. Presbyterian Church, 25 Church St, Cooperstown. Info, https://www.facebook.com/OtsegoDanceSociety/
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CARS & COFFEE – 8-11 a.m. Meet other car enthusiasts for a casual gathering. All vintages, marques, and interests are welcome. Excessive revving, burnouts, and such are not. Mt. Wellington Market, 7471 St. Hyw. 80, Cooperstown. Info, https:// www.facebook.com/CooperstownCarsNCoffee/ COOPERSTOWN FARMERS MARKET – 8 a.m.-2 p.m. 101 Main St., in Pioneer Alley, Cooperstown. Info, http://www.otsego2000. org/cooperstown-farmers-marketand-agriculture/ BOTTLE DRIVE – 9 a.m. Have your clean, returnable bottles and cans on the curb or visible from the street to support Cooperstown Boy Scout Troop 1254. Info/large pick-ups, call Bruce at 267-6730. ONEONTA FARMERS MARKET – 9 a.m.-1 p.m. 2 Dietz St., Oneonta. Info, http://www.oneontafarmers
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market.org/ TRAIL HIKE – 9-11 a.m. Hike the Blue Trail of the Basswood Pond State forest with OCCA program director Jeff O’Handley. Meet in the parking area of the park. Basswood Pond State Forest, 500 Conservation Rd., Burlington. Info, http://occainfo. org/calendar/blue-trail-basswood/ PLANT SALE – 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Find perennial and annual plants, a bake sale, free garden tours, raffles, and a demonstration on Herbal Syrups by Master Gardener Marge Woodrow. Rain or Shine. Public Library, Rte. 20, Richfield Springs. Info, call Becky Gretton (607)547-5648 or visit http://www.thegardenclubofrichfieldsprings.org/ BOOKS & PLANT SALE – 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Books, plants, music, and movies will be for sale. Unitarian Universalist Society of Oneonta, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, http://uuso.org/ ANNUAL PLANT SALE – 10 a.m.-Noon. Check out the wide variety of perennial and annual plants available from the Oneonta Garden Club. Other treasures can be found in the ‘gently used garden shed.’ Proceeds are used to beautify downtown Oneonta. Swart-Wilcox House, Wilcox Ave., Oneonta. Info, e-mail Pam Tausta at pftausta@yahoo.com ART EXHIBITION – 10 a.m.-1 p.m. “Pushing Boundaries” by Marcie Schwartzman featuring works in Sculpture/Fiber and Clay. “Leandro Velasco: Paintings/A Mini-Retrospective.” Free admission. Also open daily by appointment. The Art Garage, 689 Beaver meadow Rd., Cooperstown. Info, call (607)547-5327 or e-mail leartgarage@gmail.com BLOCK PARTY – 10 a.m. Enjoy live music, check out the vendors and the farmers market, see what local artists have made, and participate in the silent auction featuring “Treasures from Gilbertsville’s Attic.” Benefit for the restoration of the Gilbert Block soda fountain/ice cream shop. Info, Kristina Strain, kpstrain1@ gmail.com or 783-2836 or Jonathan Dokuchitz at 783-2477 HISTORY FAIR – 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Local history enthusiasts put their collections on display and share information on the history of the town of Minden and Montgomery County. Includes some ‘kid friendly’ fun with 18th century toys, games, and Stewart’s Ice Cream. Fort Plain Elementary School, 25 High St, Fort Plain. Info, Rob Carter, Town of Minden Historian, (518)993-1023 or e-mail mindenhistorian@yahoo. com or visit http://townofminden. org/2017/04/town-of-minden-history-fair-june-3-2017/document15-3/ GARDENING WORKSHOP – 10 a.m. -2 p.m. Learn the low maintenance, high yield method of square foot gardening. Cost, $30 members, $40 non-members, $25 juniors and children.
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Materials included. The Creamery Classroom, The Farmers Museum. Cooperstown. Info, http://www. farmersmuseum.org/programs/ %5Bfield_program_type-raw%5D/ americana_academy_workshop_ square_foot_gardening CONSERVATION WORKSHOP – 10 a.m.-Noon. “Detect and Manage Invasive Species.” Learn about the top 20 invasives in our area and how to manage them. Cornell Cooperative Extension, 123 Lake St., Cooperstown. Info, (518)234-4303 or e-mail schoharie@cornell.edu or visit http:// occainfo.org/calendar/invasivespecies-workshop-detect-manageinvasive-species-2/ EXPANSION CELEBRATION – 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Celebrate the expansion of the Wellness center with a day of festivities including a Horse Show, Brooks BBQ, music, dancing, Free Massages and Eye Brow waxing. Southside Health & Wellness Campus on Rt. 23 on the right before Lowes, Oneonta. Info, http://www.southsidechiropractic. com/ ROUNDTABLE CRITIQUE – 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Bring your artwork, finished or unfinished, to be critiqued by a panel of signature artists from CNYWS. Cooperstown Art Association. Info/Appointments, call (607)547-9777 or visit http://www.cooperstownart.com/ DUCK DERBY – Noon-3 p.m. Family Fun Day with duck racing, free pony rides, and a surprise princess guest. Neahwa Park, Oneonta. Info, call (607)432-0001 or visit https://www.facebook. com/FamilyRN/ TRUNK SHOW – 12:30-1:30 p.m. Presenting “Box and Cox” (1847) by John Madison Morton and performed by some of the best actors in our area. On the Tavern Green at The Farmers Museum, Cooperstown. Info, http://www.farmersmuseum. org/Trunk-Shows ATHLETIC CLUB – 1-4 p.m. Headed by Aaron Macken. Activities include running, hiking, biking, weight training, and more. Friends of Recovery of Delaware and Otsego, 22 Elm St., Oneonta. Info, http://www.friendsofrecoverydo.org/events DRAWING WORKSHOP – 1-4 p.m. Begin your “Journey into Drawing” with Friends of Recovery of Delaware and Otsego counties. Materials free. All skill levels welcome. Registration preferred. The Turning Point, 22 Elm St., Oneonta. Info, http://www.friendsofrecoverydo.org/events WOMEN’S RIGHTS – 2 p.m. Vignettes by the Templeton Players portray what it means to be a woman in the 1800’s. Attend Reverend Bush’s address on women’s place in society at 2 and participate in Carrie Finkles rally calling for equality and liberty at 2:30. The Farmers Museum, Cooperstown. Info, http://www.farmersmuseum. org/Women%27s-Rights BOOK READING & SIGNING – 2-4 p.m. Featuring writer, painter, illustrator, and costume designer Betty Ann Fraley. The Green Toad Bookstore, 198 Main St., Oneonta. Info, https://www.facebook.com/ TheGreenToadBookstore/ 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 ISD GRAND OPENING – 6-8:30 p.m. The Institute for Spiritual Development opens its new building with a Wine and Cheese Reception and a concert featuring Joe Rossi. The Lotus Center, 41-45 Dietz St., Oneonta. Info, http:// www.isdoneonta.org/
Sunday, June 4
GOTR 5K – Noon. Girls on the Run 5k run/walk. Registration begins 10 a.m. Race starts at the Clark Sports Center, Cooperstown. Info, http://www.girlsontheruncny. org/race/48-gotr-of-central-newyork-annual-5k-runwalk SELF-HELP CLASS – 12:15 p.m. Rev. Kathy Kerston, of Sparta New Jersey, presents a class on emotional freedom techniques to help us all overcome the emotional barriers that stop our progress through life. ISD Oneonta, Lotus Center, 41-45 Dietz St., Oneonta. Info, http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeid k=a07ee5w6otld373f6e7&llr=cc wo8tzab TRUNK SHOW – 12:30-1:30 p.m. Presenting “Box and Cox” (1847) by John Madison Morton and performed by some of the best actors in our area. On the Tavern Green at The Farmers Museum, Cooperstown. Info, http://www.farmersmuseum. org/Trunk-Shows ANTI-RENT WAR VIGNETTES – 2 p.m. The Templeton players perform short vignettes portraying historical events, characters, and folklore. The Farmers Museum, Cooperstown. Info, http://www. farmersmuseum.org/programs/ %5Bfield_program_type-raw%5D/ antirent_war_vignette More Calendar, B4
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neonta Dollars for Scholars Board of Directors will honor scholarship winners, parents, sponsors and friends at their annual awards program Tuesday, June 6, 4 p.m., at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom.
Sixty-two awards will be presented, and honorees will share a personal achievement or experience of which they are most proud. The Dollars for Scholars program seeks to financially assist local students with the increasing costs of higher education and lessen the amount of debt from their respective schools. Karen Brown, SUNY Oneonta director of admissions, will give the welcome and the closing comments. Dollars for Scholars President Jacqueline Rowe will present the certificates. Zoe Akers (SUNY Broome Community College) William & Esther Fink Memorial Scholarship
Nicholas Giacomelli (SUNY Cobleskill) Angie Bertuzzi Memorial Scholarship
Alex Mannion (Champlain College) Steven A. Lutz Memorial Scholarship
Hunter Allen (Sierra Nevada College) Robert J. Shultis Memorial Scholarship
Peyton Gillette (University at Buffalo) Douglas Parsons Memorial Scholarship & The Jim Konstanty “That’s a Good Start…” Memorial Scholarship
Keaton Mark (Heidelberg University) Shane Robert Marmet Memorial Scholarship
Massimo Avanzato (Parsons School of Design) Stan & Linda Syvertsen Family Scholarship Alexandra Barnes (Mohawk Valley Community College) Walter J. & Anna H. Burchan Vocational/Technical Scholarship
Jacob Glueckert (Ithaca College) James C. & Mary Louise Austin Memorial Scholarship
Gabriella Basdekis (Quinnipiac University) Clifford A. & Elizabeth P. McVinney Memorial Scholarship
Samuel Goff (Onondaga Community College) Janice “Denny” Lennox Memorial Scholarship & Robert R. Warner Memorial Scholarship
Lucy Bischoff (SUNY College of Environmental Science/Forestry) C. James & Lois S. Herrick Memorial Scholarship Dalton Carver (SUNY Cortland) Oneonta Football Booster Club Scholarship Cappagnia-Lynne Chase (SUNY Oneonta) Mary Ferris Rhodes Music Scholarship
Joseph Grant (Messiah College) Eugene Francis Murphy Memorial Scholarship Joshua Grimm (University at Buffalo) Jared S. Trotti Memorial Scholarship Anjana Heaven (The City University of NY Borough of Manhatten Community College) Frank W. Getman, Sr. Memorial Scholarship
Marly Davies (St. Lawrence University) Oneonta Rotary Community Service Scholarship
Mallory Herrick (Quinnipiac University) Nancy Weeks Memorial Scholarship
Dakota Davis (Hartwick College) Christine M. Schermerhorn Memorial Scholarship
Emily Howard (George Mason University) The Hon. Robert A. Harlem Memorial Scholarship
Jacob DePauw (University at Albany) Future for Oneonta Foundation, Inc. Scholarship
Jordan Johnson (Hartwick College) Susan Remillard Memorial Scholarship & Bruce Rowe Memorial Scholarship
Emilia French (Carnegie Mellon University) John K. Miller Memorial Mathematics Scholarship
Emily Kuhlmann (University of Richmond) Walter J. & Anna H. Burchan Scholarship
Ruby French (Cornell University) The Daily Star Scholarship Jordan Gaisford (SUNY Broome Community College/ Binghamton University Advantage Program) Lindsay Marie Harvey Memorial Scholarship Cassondra Garufi (SUNY at Delhi) Brooks’ Bar-B-Q Charitable Foundation Scholarship
Bianca Giovagnoli (SUNY Oneonta) Dewar Foundation Scholarship
Bailey LaTourette (Roberts Wesleyan College) Brooks’ Bar-B-Q Charitable Foundation Scholarship Keira Layman (SUNY New Paltz) Anthony & Marcella Drago Scholarship & First Responders Scholarship Ajare’ Malcolm (SUNY Oneonta) Oneonta Arts Scholarship
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ANTI-RENT WAR VIGNETTES – 2 p.m. The Real Estate, LLC (607)287- Templeton players perform short vignettes portraying 1559. historical events, characters, TFN and folklore. The Farmers Museum, Cooperstown. Info, LAND FOR SALE http://www.farmersmuseum. org/programs/%5Bfield_proFINANCED READY TO gram_type-raw%5D/antirent_ BUILD LOTS FOR SALE: war_vignette Prestigious Winney Hill FILM SCREENING – 2 p.m. Commons address! Showing “D.O.A.,” (1950). School, tennis court, pool Frank Bigelow wakes up on vacation to find that he’s all walkable, along with gorgeous views! Shovel- been poisoned and has a week to find who did it and ready lots feature underwhy before he dies. Fenimore ground utilities and public Art Museum, Cooperstown. water/sewer/natural gas. Info, http://www.fenimoreartOwner financing: $35,000 museum.org/Sunday-Matinee SPRING CONCERT – 3price, $5,000 down, 4:30 p.m. The Little Delaware $30,000 @ 5% for 5 years Youth Ensemble perform $566 per month. Call selections from Bach, Mentoday, build your future delssohn, Haydn, Beethoven, home tomorrow! Contact and Pachelbel. Foothills PerRodger Moran, Benson forming Arts Center, Oneonta. Agency Real Estate, LLC Info, https://www.facebook. com/LittleDelawareYouthEn(607) 287-1559. semble/ TFN
Monday, June 5
CCAL CLASS – 1-3 p.m. “Swart-Wilcox Ephemera: Piecing History Together Through Documents.” Learn how to use items of a shortlived nature, such as letters, checks, newspapers, flyers, tickets, etc, to piece to-
gether the history of a family, house, or town. Swart-Wilcox House Museum, Wilcox Ave., Oneonta. Info, Debra ccaloneonta@stny.rr.com or visit https://swartwilcoxhouse. wordpress.com/ DIABETES WORKSHOP – 1-3:30 p.m. Free 7 week workshop where diabetics can share tips and techniques to cope with the challenges of living with diabetes. Participants will have access to a national evidence-based selfmanagement program to inform their decisions and be a more active manager of their health. Registration required. St. Thomas the Apostle, 1 Church St., Cherry Valley. Info, call (607)547-3360 or e-mail LivingWellSessions@ bassett.org or visit http:// www.bassett.org/information/ myhealthy-decisions/news/ bassett-offers-free-living-welldiabetes-sessions-herkimerand-otsego-county/ LOCAL SCREENING – 23:30 p.m. The Lincoln Center streams the reunion of band mates Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, and Robert Ellis. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta.org/ adult-programs/ TALKING OPERA – 7 p.m. Richard Johnson returns to share his love and expertise in musical theater with a program on the Rodgers and Hammerstein II classic “Oklahoma!.” Christ Church Parish
Hall, 69 Fair St., Cooperstown. DRAWING GROUP – 7-9 p.m. Come practice drawing with a live model. $10 donation. To attend call the Cooperstown Art Association, (607) 547-9777
Tuesday, June 6
COMPUTER CLASS – 10:30-11:30 a.m. Introduction to Windows 10. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta.org/calendar/ KNITTING GROUP – 1:303:30 p.m. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown, http://www. villagelibraryofcooperstown. org/calendar 3-D DESIGN WORKSHOP – 3:30-5 p.m. Come tinker with your designs for 3-D printing. Create your own Magic Wand. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta. org/calendar/
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DIABETES WORKSHOP – 9-11:30 a.m. Free 7 week workshop where diabetics can share tips and techniques. Registration required. Richfield Springs Community Center, 6 Ann St, Richfield Springs. Info, call (607)5473360 or e-mail LivingWellSessions@bassett.org MORE CALENDAR, A8
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Legal notice Notice of Formation of a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC). BACKUS PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LLC, Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY on 1/31/17. NY office location: OTSEGO County. Secretary of State is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to c/o THE LLC, 113 Hulbert Road, Bainbridge, NY 13733. Purpose: to engage in any lawful act or activity. 6LegalJul.7 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: SIGNAL FIRE FARM LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 28 March 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 108 Signal Hill Lane, Cherry Valley, NY 13320. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under
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Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws. 6LegalJun.29 Legal nOtice Notice of Collection of Village Taxes Take notice the I, the undersigned Village Clerk/Tax Collector of the Village of Milford, New York, have received the tax roll and warrant for the collection of Village taxes for the fiscal year beginning June 1, 2017 and ending May 31, 2018. Taxes will be collected at the Village Office, 64 South Main Street, PO Box 1, Milford, NY 13807 from June 1, 2017 through October 31, 2017. Office hours are Monday 12pm – 6pm, Tuesday and Wednesday 10am-3pm. Take further notice that on all taxes remaining unpaid after June 30, 2017 five percent (5%) will be added for the first month and an additional one percent (1%) for each month and fraction thereafter, until paid or returned to Otsego County Treasurer. Kirsten Ruling Village Clerk/Tax Collector 2LegalJun.1 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: SUMMYA ACRES LLC. Articles of Orga-
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nization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 18 May 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 1779 Co Hwy 14, Mount Vision, NY 13810. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws. 6LegalJun.29 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Bluepoint Consulting LLC Articles of Organization were filed with NY Secretary of State (SSNY) on April 19, 2017. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to; 16 Union Street, Oneonta, NY 13820. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity. 6LegalJun.29 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Wells Farm LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/11/17. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 338 County Highway 51, Morris, NY 13808.
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Purpose: any lawful activity. 6LegalJun.29 Legal nOtice Notice of Qualification of Healthcare IT Leaders, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/9/17. Office location: Otsego County. LLC formed in Georgia (GA) on 4/30/12. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Capitol Services, Inc., 1218 Central Ave., Ste. 100, Albany, NY 12205. GA address of LLC: 925 North Point Parkway, Ste. 425, Alpharetta, GA 30005. Arts. of Org. filed with GA Secy. of State, 2 MLK, Jr. Dr., Ste. 313, Floyd West Tower, Atlanta, GA 30334-1530. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. 6LegalJun.29 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of 3504 MCN, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/1/2017. Office location, County of Otsego. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 3131 County Hwy 18, New Berlin, NY 13411. Purpose: any lawful act 6LegalJun.22 Legal nOtice
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Articles of Organization were filed with New York Secretary of State (SSNY) on 4/20/2017. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o United States Corporation Agents Inc, 7014 13th Ave Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. The name and address of the registered agent is United States Corporation Agents Inc, 7014 13th Ave Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: to engage in any lawful act or activity. 6LegalJun.15 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: COOPERSTOWN BTM LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 25 April 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 61-63 Main St, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.
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6LegalJune1 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of ECBC, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/07/17. Office: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 271 Fairview Avenue, Rehoboth, MA 02769. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 6LegalJun.1 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of SARGEANT’S TlRE & AUTO, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on April 11, 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, 260 Hickory Hill Road, Maryland, NY 12116. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity. 6LegalJun.1
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For 1st Time, Canoes Launch At Brookwood Point REGATTA/From B1 with his daughter, Phoebe Reese, a Bassett Healthcare family nurse practitioner in Oneonta. Last year, they came in seventh in the amateur division. “This is the eighth year we’ve paddled together, and we’ve finished in the top 10 a few times.” With pouring rain for most of the day, he described this year’s race as “miserable.” “I kept having thoughts about making an excuse to pull out,” he said. “But we survived. There was good water all the way, including some good wave action.” He’s also paddled a few solo races, including one before it was an official category. “You don’t lose friends in a solo boat,” he joked. His favorite part of the course is what’s known as “the swamp,” a stretch of narrow turns just below Cooperstown. “It’s small, twisty-turny and requires a lot of technical skill,” he said. “And past Wells Bridge, there’s standing waves, and it can be fun to power through those.” But going through Oneonta is where the challenges lie. “It’s shallow and if they wind is blowing, it’s tough,” he said. “But you think, ‘If I can make it past this, I’m home free.’ It’s a lovely river, for the most part.” On average, he can finish the race in around nine hours. “The best is when the wind is just right, and you can smell that chicken barbeque down the river,” he said. “It helps you paddle a little faster!” But there have been challenging times as well. “Three years ago, I managed to punch a hole in the boat taking a shortcut near the Goodyear Lake
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Cooperstown’s Bill Ralston and son Dan competed together in the Clinton Regatta for the first time this year.
dam,” he said. “The water was shallow, and I just ran into something. A carbon-fiber boat is strong, but it isn’t indestructible.” He opened the bailer to let out the water, and paddled all the way to Wells Bridge before he got out and patched the hole with tape. “It slowed me down,” he said. “I was sloshing a lot of water into the boat.” Another year, the water was so high that it washed out the dock at the finish line. “They had their fast water rescue
team out there helping everyone get to shore,” he said. “It was a great year to paddle, makes for a much faster race.” And he makes the race a family affair. This year, his wife, Martha and daughter, Gillian, visiting from Brooklyn, helped out with pit stops along the course. “Gillian will paddle out in my solo boat with two gallon jugs and we’ll give her the empties,” he said. “This year, we’re trying out this Perpetuem drink mix that says it has everything you need for endurance sports, and I’ve got some electrolyte gel I want to try out too.” To stay in shape for the race, he practices twice a week, one day intensely and the other, a little more leisurely, and uses a rowing machine in the winter. “I used to paddle for four or five hours,” he said. “These days, I’ll go out for two or three. At 73, I can’t recover like I used to, so I don’t do as much training.” He also served on the race committee for 12 years. “I helped put in docks and buoys, but they started getting too heavy for an old man,” he said. “I decided I had better leave that to the younger guys.” The General Clinton isn’t his only race. “There’s the Wells Bridge race coming up in August, and the Nationals are in Dubuque, Iowa this year,” he said. “Then I’ll probably transition to kayaking for the fall for a change of pace, and I’ve been doing some running as well.” And he doesn’t have any plans to give it up. “The only difference now is that at my age, I let people help me out of the boat,” he said.
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Mike Fremont, at 95, was the oldest participant in this year’s Clinton Regatta. Harry Levine photo
Canoeist Not Just 95, Freemont Also Holds Marathon Records
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ven at 73, Robert Fisher was by no means the oldest paddler out on the Susquehanna Monday afternoon – that went to 95-year-old marathoner Mike Fremont of Cincinnati, Ohio. Fremont, who holds the American and world record for marathons in the 90-94 category, once again took to the rapids of his 15th General Clinton Canoe Regatta, finishing in 11:33:49. He had last entered the race in 2009. He has competed in canoe races since 1963, with his first General Clinton in 1975. He trains by paddling three miles a day Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and running the other days. He also does as many as 400 push-ups to keep his paddling arms strong. But the secret to his lon-
gevity and athleticism, he has frequently said, is his plant-based diet. Following a diagnosis of color cancer at age 69, he embraced a vegan diet, eschewing meat, dairy and processed foods. “I simply cannot overemphasize the importance of the plant-based diet to my performance,” he told “Runner’s World” magazine in an interview published in April 2013. And his devotion to rivers isn’t just for canoeing. The Mike Fremont award is given annually in his honor by Canoe News, the magazine for marathon canoe paddlers. Fremont was an engineer who owned an industrial distribution business for 40 years, retiring in 1988. He raised three children after his wife died at age 29. He set the world record at age 90 for a full marathon in 2012, with a 6:35:47 race time in the Huntington, W.Va. marathon.
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OBITUARIES Leonard D. ‘Bud’ Perry, 71; Former County Highway Supt. CHERRY VALLEY – Leonard D. “Bud” Perry, 71. the former Otsego County highway superintendent and civic leader in this village, died Sunday, May 28, 2017, after a brief illness. He was born in Cooperstown on July 11, 1945, the son of Donald S. and Marjorie (Vogelien) Perry. He grew up on Montgomery Street and graduated from Cherry Valley Central School, Class of 1963. Bud was a 20-year exempt member of the Cherry Valley Volunteer Fire De-
partment, serving as chief, as well as first assistant and second assistant chief. He was also Leonard a retired Perry member of the ambulance squad. He also served as mayor of the Village of Cherry Valley for four years. In 1980, he married Charlotte Maaser Wilson.
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Over his lifetime, he worked for the village maintenance department, then Elmore Feed Co. in Cherry Valley, and Briggs Lumber Co. in Sharon Springs until the store closed. In 1966, he joined the Otsego County Department of Highways, Forestry & Parks in Cooperstown, a job he held for the next 38 years. In August 1994, he was appointed deputy highway superintendent. After five years as deputy, on July 6, 1999, he was appointed superintendent of highways in charge of 475 miles of roads, 86 bridges, and various county parks and forest land. He was most proud of being the superintendent, as his father Donald S. Perry and grandfather Earl A. Perry were both Town of Cherry Valley highway superintendents for a combined total of 33 years. During his term as superintendent, the state Senate and Assembly acknowledged him as being a third-generation highway superintendent. He was a member and senior lay-leader of the Roseboom United Methodist Church. In spring of 2015, Bud was appointed Cherry Valley village historian. Bud is survived by his wife of 37 years, three stepdaughters, Bonnie (John) Hren of Decatur, Michele (Bruce) VanDewerker of Cherry Valley and Cammie Wilson & Kathy Killarney of Andover, Conn.; his beloved grandchildren, Erin (Jeremy) Seeley, Curtis (Jessica) VanDewerker, and Jessica (Billy) Regg, and seven great grandchildren. He is also survived by various nieces, nephews, cousins, sisters-in-law, and brothersin-law. Bud was pre-deceased by his parents, a great-grandson Landon Seeley, all his uncles, aunts,and grandparents. Calling hours are noon-2 p.m. Thursday, June 1, at Ottman Funeral Home. A graveside service will follow at the Cherry Valley Cemetery with Rev. Ron Fralick presiding. In lieu of flowers ,Donations may be made to Roseboom United Methodist Church, Cherry Valley Historical Association or Susquehanna Animal Shelter. Arrangements are entrusted to the Ottman Funeral Home.
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Funeral June 3 For Mona Buckley, 82, Cooperstown, Wife Of CGP Founder COOPERSTOWN – A memorial service for Mona Buckley, 82, of Cooperstown, is planned at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 3, at the Old Stone Community Church in Schuyler Lake, where she and her late husband, Bruce Buckley, established the St. Albans Anglican parish in the1990s. Mona Buckley with a Mrs. Buckley died on grandson on her lap. Christmas Eve in McLean, Va., where she had been liv- to Cooperstown, where ing with her daughter, ValBruce helped found the erie Pineo, for the past year. Cooperstown Graduate A Cooperstown resident Program in Museum Studsince 1964, she will be laid ies. It was a formative time to rest at Hartwick Seminary for the family, where a new Cemetery on June 3. community, colleagues and The service will be confriends helped shape their ducted at the Schuyler Lake life´s path for decades to church by the Rev. Dwight come. A very people-oriDibble, who is pastor of the ented person, Mona was St. Alban Parish, (currently integrally involved in the located in Edmeston.) graduate program, where One of six siblings, Mona she made many close friends was born in Seymour, Ind., over the years. on Feb. 20, 1934, to Merle Mona cared for those and Essie Graham. While in need or otherwise less a staff member at Indiana fortunate, contributing to University Bloomington, causes throughout her life. she met and eventually mar- While caring for her famried the late Dr. Bruce R. ily, she also looked after Buckley. elderly and others in the The couple moved community. She was known
by family and friends as an exceptional cook, mastering many styles and techniques. She enjoyed treating guests to fantastic meals, satisfying family, friends, colleagues and the occasional unexpected visitor. During her more than five decades in Cooperstown, she was very active in the community. Mona worked at the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce for two decades, served on the Board of Elections and was involved in several charitable organizations. She was also a member of the P.E.O. Sisterhood, an organization focused primarily on providing educational opportunities for women. In addition to her daughter Valerie Pineo, she is survived by two sons, Michael Buckley and Bruce Buckley; six grandchildren, Lonnie Zoeller, Alex Zoeller, Brett Zoeller, Christian Zoeller, Isabella Pineo and Nicole Buckley; three great grandchildren, Sophia Zoeller, Aaliyah Zoeller and Wesley Zoeller; and her companion, Constantine Doucas.
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Fighting For Environment, Bob Boyle Savored Novel Insights Into World, People
Then a Sports Illustrated reporter, Bob Boyle interviews Muhammad Ali in 1966, during the time the boxer was refusing to be drafted into the Army.
REPORTER/From B1 Bob tracked the story to the deputy game warden, George Yellot, a banker in Peekskill. “They took the originals,” Yellot told Boyle. Three months later, the officials returned, “We want your duplicates,” they told Yellot. Then reporting for Sports Illustrated, Bob thought he’d hit a dead end, when Yellot reached into his desk drawer. “But they didn’t ask about triplicates,” said the grinning banker, handing a stack of damning photos to the gleeful reporter. An environmentalist, certainly. “I don’t think his importance has been recognized
in terms of the national environmental movement,” said Lipset in an interview. “But I think that will change in time as scholarship continues.” But always the reporter, too. He unearthed facts, then came to conclusions. In researching “From a Mountaintop to 1,000 Fathoms Deep,” a 1964 article in Sports Illustrated on a pumped-storage power project on Storm King mountain, he found it would likely destroy the river’s striped bass population by destroying its spawning grounds. When he outlined that finding to the Scenic Hudson environmental group, the then-president Smokey Duggan
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began jumping up and down, Bob said, “like Churchill hearing that Pearl Harbor had been bombed,” (which inevitably brought the U.S. into what became World War II and to the aid of the embattled Brits.) The Federal Power Commission reopened the case. Eventually, for the first time, the FPC halted a power project because of its damage to a non-human population. For the first time, “ecology won the case,” said Boyle, setting a much-followed precedent. Just as likely, a reporter’s facts won the case. He was curious about everything. Reporting for Time Inc., he wrote politics for the news magazine and barnstormed through Mexico with a Negro baseball team for Sports Illustrated. One 2015 article in this newspaper told the story of Hy Peskin, a famed Time-Life photographer who had documented a promising rookie Ted del Guercio, playing for the Oneonta Red Sox in 1946. Boyle, of course, knew Peskin, and had a number of piquant anecdotes to share. Covering a boxing match or basketball game in Madison Square Garden, he remembered looking up to see Peskin shimmying across a beam with his clunky Speed Graphic, looking for a different shot. “He was absolutely fearless,” Bob said. He remembered how, during Kruschev’s visit to a California supermarket in 1959, Peskin arrived early and positioned himself at the far end of a buffet table to capture the farm boy from Kalinovka’s reaction to American plenty. When
eminent press photographers from around the world arrived with Kruschev’s entourage, they stampeded to try to get to Peskin’s perfect position. Funny. At a banquet later that day, Boyle found himself confined in a press section on a balcony. Looking down he saw Peskin, wandering amid the tables as if he belonged there. For Bob Boyle, reporter, those moments were what it was all about. And he had a reporter’s instinct. And what a writer. His prose was focused, muscular. There are many examples, but this newspaper has quoted an excerpt from “From A Mountaintop.” Want to write? Google it. He had another reporter’s strength, which is also a reporter’s Achilles’ heel – he reported what he saw, bluntly, and said what he thought, bluntly. During the “Power On The Hudson” interview, the phone rang in his home office, a separate studio on his and wife Katya’s farmhouse property. It was Jerry Oppenheimer, researching what would become “RJK Jr.: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Dark Side of the Dream.” No love was lost between those two, who sparred over the future of the Hudson River Fisherman’s Association. RFK Jr. succeeded Bob as president, then forced him out. “I resigned because I wouldn’t even want to be close to him,” Boyle told Oppenheimer, adding, “I’m regarded by some as his mentor. God forbid that I sat on that egg and let it hatch.”
Robert H. Boyle, 88, Springfield
EAST SPRINGFIELD FOR FULL OBITUARY on – Robert H. Boyle, reporter, Bob Boyle, more photos, author and environmentalist, EOE www.ofoinc.org see passed away after a long battle www. OTSEGO.com with cancer. He was 88. Born on Aug. 21, 1928, in Brooklyn, he was the son of a nuclear plant at Storm King Elizabeth Coundouris Boyle Mountain. The action became and Robert Hamilton Boyle. the basis of environmental law He attended the Loyola in the United States by estabSchool in Manhattan and then lishing the right of citizens to Trinity College in Hartford, sue the government to protect Conn. After graduating from natural resources. The New Cooperstown office of Trinity in 1949 with a BA in While doing research for Farm Credit East is opening this Fall! history, he studied history at his 1969 book, “The Hudson Yale University. River; A Natural and Unnatural Farm Credit East’s Recruiting and Management team is looking He had completed a master’s History,” he collected fishes for candidates in the following positions: degree and was en route to a from the river for the American scheduled PhD, when he was Museum of Natural History Customer Support called to active duty by the Maand the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Loan Officer & Analysts rine Corps. He was a member Service under scientific license. Tax & Accounting of the First Basic Special Class In 1970, Boyle became the Mortgage Originators and Underwriters of 1950 and served as a second first person to discover PCB Join us for a Career Fair at the Otesaga Resort Hotel on lieutenant in the Atlantic fleet contamination of fishes in Wednesday June 21st from 9:00am to 3:00pm. To learn more during the Korean Conflict. North America, including in about Farm Credit East visit www.farmcrediteast.com Upon completion of his the striped bass he caught from obligation to the Marine Corps, the Hudson; this was published To apply now: he traveled to Europe where by Sports Illustrated in “Poison https://www.farmcrediteast.com/careers he studied at the Universitat Roams Our Coastal Seas.” de Barcelona. In Spain, he also In 1980, while negotiating EEO/AA employer Minorities/Women/Individuals with enjoyed a brief fling as a prothe end to the protracted legal Disabilities/Veterans fessional baseball pitcher. This case involving Storm King experience formed the basis and other power plant issues, for his first published work – a he originated the idea of an recollection of the adventure independent Hudson River Member FDIC for The Atlantic Monthly. Foundation for Science and Upon his return to the United Environmental Research and States in 1953, he became a successfully insisted the utiliwriter for the United Press. ties that had abused the river Member FDIC Then in September 1954, he endow it before he would agree began work as a writer/reporter to settle lawsuits brought by the Community Bank, N.A. is seeking friendly, dependable, motivated individuals with exceptional for Time Inc., writing for Time, HRFA. Administrative Secretary Life and the company’s newest In the 1980s, faced with yet communication skills and smiling faces to join our Bank Happy Team. publication, Sports Illustrated. another threat to striped bass, Substitute Courier His fields of coverage ranged he led the HRFA’s intervention from Nikita Khrushchev’s visit in the lawsuit that halted the This substitute Courier position is based out of our Oneonta Main Street location. Major to the U.S. in 1959 to heavyWestway Project, a proposed $4 responsibilities include transporting interoffice mail and stock supplies between branches in weight boxing and profesbillion Manhattan highway. Secretary The person selected will be required to learn multiple routes and will be sional football. His 1965 cover ln 2004 as the delegate of aAdministrative company vehicle. story for Sports Illustrated on the Finnegans Wake Society of expected to beN.A. onis seeking call asaneeded to fill in. motivated Other than thewith training period, hours limitCommunity Bank, friendly, dependable, individual good communication skillswill and abe smiling face Sonny Werblin and the upstart New York, Boyle travelled to ed to our callBank in times only.in our Qualifications for this position an excellent driving record and New York Jets drafting of Joe Dublin to the Bloomsday 100th to join Happy Team Commercial Lending Department. Thisinclude full-time Administrative Secretary position is based Namath was where the quarAnniversary where he presentdriving skills, ability to read and interpret a map, as well as excellent communication skills. out of our Main Street Oneonta location. Major responsibilities include providing exceptional customer service, preparing loan terback received the nickname ed his thesis that rivers, fishes, Must be ableand to other lift up to 50 pounds. documentation, commercial lending reporting, tracking and clerical duties. Educational qualifications for this position “Broadway Joe.” and fishing constitute the Boyle’s true calling was major theme of James Joyce’s include a high school diploma or equivalent plus one year of additional specialized secretarial education or equivalent. Other the outdoors. He first became “Wake,” the most inexplicable Ifqualifications you are interested in applying for this position, please complete an application available required are excellent written and oral communication skills, computer proficiency and organizational skills. A involved in the environment in novel ever written. from the Careers page at www.communitybankna.com, submit online or print out the form 1959. As Sports Illustrated’s At the time of his death, he minimum of three years secretarial office experience is required. Prior knowledge of commercial loan documents, processes and and send it to: West Coast correspondent, was completing a follow-up to procedures preferred. Boyle was hunting butterflies his earlier Hudson book. Boyle Community Bank N.A. with Vladimir Nabokov when saw climate change as the he exposed a plot to lay waste overarching issue threatening Attn: Human Resources to northern California’s Tule life on earth. In the new work, 245 Main Street Lake Irrigation District, one he was using the Hudson as a of the world’s most important microcosm of the greater world PO Box 430 habitats for migratory waterto discuss changes in climate, Oneonta, NY 13820 fowl. science, policy, and politics In you are interested in applying for this position, please complete an In 1966, after exposing over the past 50 years and how extensive fish kills caused by the consequent challenges Or Employment@communitybankna.comapplication available from the Careers page at communitybankna.com discharge into the Hudson by should be addressed. An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V Consolidated Edison at its Robert H. Boyle was An Equal Opportunity Employer Indian Point nuclear plant, predeceased by his first wife Male/Female/Disabled/Veteran he founded the Hudson River Jane Crosby Sanger in 1975. Fishermen’s Association. Based Survivors include his second In you are interested in applying for this position, please complete an on the Federal Refuse Act of wife, Kathryn Belous-Boyle, 1899, a forgotten law he una daughter Stephanie Boyle application available from the Careers page at communitybankna.com earthed, the HRFA led the first Mays, two sons, Peter Boyle An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V cases in federal court to result and Alexander Boyle, as well as in substantial fines being levied three grandchildren. against water polluters. A private service for the He also played a vital role in family was held at his home. A the legal case against Consolimemorial service is planned for P E R S O N A L • B U S I N E S S • W E A LT H dated Edison’s plans to build latereither this year. If you are interested in applying for position, please comp
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