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COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND

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Stop in at the one downtown Cooperstown store that’s opened since the last Induction Weekend, Kate’s Upstate, 134 Main St., and say hi to the boutique’s proprietor Kate Lanza.

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INDUCTION Icons A smiling Bud Selig during his April 27 orientation at the Hall of Fame, where he signed the spot where his plaque will be installed Sunday, July 30.

Rachel Robinson at the rededication of her husband’s plaque in the Hall of Fame on June 25, 2008.

She will be back in Cooperstown Induction Weekend to receive the Buck O’Neil Award.

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he renovations to the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerece will be completed in time for Induction Weekend, according to Matt Hazzard, Executive Director.

The exterior has been painted, and new front steps are in the process of being finished ahead of the weekend. The Chamber is still open, and until the steps are finished, visitors are encouraged to use the back entrance.

SABR SOARS: After induction, take in the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) and CBS’ Jonah Keri, SI’s Jay Jaffe, the New York Times’ Richard Sandomir and others meeting at 6:30 p.m. at Tillapaugh Funeral Home, 28 Pioneer St. PLAY BALL: Hall of Famers Randy Johnson and Ryne Sandberg will join Ozzie Smith as part of his “Play Ball” game at 8 a.m.

Friday, July 28, to benefit the Baseball Hall of Fame’s educational programs.

PERFECT DAY: The weather for Induction Day on Sunday, July 30 is anticipated to be sunny with a high of 76.

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BUD SELIG: Made Baseball More Profitable, Less Popular

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d Stack knows MLB commissioners.

A fledgling accountant with The Clark Foundation in the 1950s, “I was young, very young, and Ford Frick took a liking to me,” Stack remembered the other day. Frick’s office was in Rockefeller Center, as was the Clark Foundation’s. “He ate every day in the same place around the corner,” and he would ask the young man to join him.

As Stack rose to director (the equivalent of today’s president)

of the Baseball Hall of Fame, he found himself working ever more closely with such legendary personalities as Bowie Kuhn, Peter Ueberroth, Bart Giamatti, Fay Vincent and, yes, Bud Selig, who will be inducted into the Hall of Plaques this Sunday, June 30.

Selig joined the Hall of Fame board in 1976, well before he became acting commissioner in 1992, and thus an ex officio member. In 1996, Selig was named MLB commissioner, and continued ex officio as a trustee until he was succeeded by Rob Please See SELIG, A7

RACHEL ROBINSON: With Husband, They Changed World

By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN

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n early September 2001, Ted Spencer, then Baseball Hall of Fame chief curator, took several staff members to meet Rachel Robinson at the offices of the Jackie Robinson Foundation, which provides educational support for minority students.

“I’ve met a lot of people, but she took my breath away,” said Spencer. “It was like meeting George Washington or Abe Lincoln. She was very open, very warm. And

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sitting there with her was one of the great thrills of my life.”

The widow of the history-making Brooklyn Dodger – she is now 95 – will be honored as the fourth recipient of the John Jordan “Buck” O’Neil Lifetime Achievement Award for integrity, dignity and broadening baseball’s appeal.

“Rachel Robinson has worked tirelessly to raise the level of equality not only in baseball, but throughout society,” said Hall of Fame chairman Jane Forbes Clark in announcing the award. “Through her grace, dignity and unsurpassed spirit, she continues to show the value, decency and importance of inclusiveness. She personifies Plesae See ROBINSON, A6

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COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND

‘Hobby’ Led Deputy Astray

By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN

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t was simply a “hobby” that caused former undersheriff A. Bruce Car-

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Jeannine Webster, Alex’s Bistro co-owner, asks the Village Board to allow sandwich signs on sidewalks.

Trustees Told, Sidewalk Signs Help Business

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ooperstown merchants pleaded with the Village Board to allow the use of sandwich boards outside their businesses during the public comment portion of the Board of Trustees meeting on Monday, July 25.

“The sandwich board, believe it or not, has been a tremendous asset in driving business,” said Jeannine Webster, co-owner of Alex’s Bistro at 149 Main St. The board agreed to hold a public hearing on the law at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 8.

FBI Says Ex-Undersheriff Took 73 Guns roll to add 73 guns that he was responsible for destroying – an example of Dirty Harry’s Smith & Wesson 357 magnum among them

– to his personal collection during his 14 years with the Otsego County Sheriff’s Department.

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of community service the day before by U.S. District Judge Thomas J. McEvoy.

He had pleaded guilty earlier in the month to possession of stolen firearms and sale of a stolen firearm after Please See GUNS, A10

Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. announced that Carroll, 75, had escaped jail time, instead being sentenced to a $10,000 fine and 150 hours

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Dream comes true: Perry and Cathy Ferrara pause from their labors Thursday, July 20, the day before their Railroad Inn opened.

PDD APPROVED: The amended Proposed Development District to allow the Bank of Cooperstown to tear down the house next door for a parking lot was approved by the Village Board Monday, July 24, amending the PDD so that future uses comply with the existing R-3 district.

NOVEL RECYCLING: Dog Wild Pet Supplies and Resort in Cooperstown has become an official public drop-off location for recycling Earthborn Holistic® pet food and treat packaging.

BOOK NOOK: The Kinney Memorial Library has installed a “book nook” to leave or borrow a book at NBT Bank, the Commons on Route 28 in Hartwick. Librarian Barbara Potter is also calling it a “Mini-Kinney.”

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LEAF Executive Director Julie Dostal congratulates Drug Treatment Court graduate Kindell Worley.

Drug Court Sends 6 Graduates Forth To Hopeful Lives

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Boutique Hotel Delivers ‘High End Rooms In Village’

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or 30 years, Perry Ferrara has operated Cat Construction Corp. on Long Island – both his wife and daughter are named Catherine – which participated in construction of Manhattan’s swank SLS, the latest addition to the luxury boutique hotels in swank locales like South Beach and Beverly Hills.

Earlier, he helped build a hotel at Cooperstown All-Star Village in Oneonta. But his dream of a highend hotel in Cooperstown has been elusive – until now.

Recently he opened the Railroad Inn in the historic hops storage building at Railroad and Glen avenues. The first floor was booked last weekend, as work on Please See HOTEL, A11

General Manager Bob Holt makes a final inspection.

Ferrara’s wife Cathy leads, from left, Lorraine Banfield, Cathy DiResta and Cassie Sawyer into the inn for the final push.

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ressed in a bright red graduation gown, newly minted Otsego County Treatment Court graduate Kindell Worley told his story to friends, family and his new successors in the program: Shelby Mochrie, “I was a manipula- with daughter tor. I used all of the Sophie, 2, is greatest people in my holding a relife, and to this day, sponsible job and supporting I’m still apologizher family. ing.”

But not all those apologies, he admitted, were accepted.

“My son isn’t here today; he’s home playing video games,” he said. “I wasn’t there for him, and I hope someday I can mend that relationship.”

Worley and five others celebrated their graduation from the drug treatment program – offered as an alternative to jail – Wednesday, July 19, in the Oneonta Please See GRADUATES, A10

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EDITORIALS

System Delivers Ex-Undersheriff Narrow Escape

MUCH OF WHAT WE CELEBRATE, SHE CREATED

Cheer Inductees – And Jane Forbes Clark

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irst-time visitors to Cooperstown – and tens of thousands of you are expected this week – always ask about Kingfisher Tower, which sits two miles up James Fenimore Cooper’s Glimmerglass. Wikipedia calls it “Edward Clark’s folly,” a word with a specific architectural definition: “a costly ornamental building with no practical purpose.”

Not so. Definitely not so.

First, there was a purpose. It is said that Clark, the steady lawyer who saved Isaac Singer from unsteady habits and allowed Singer Sewing Machine to hugely prosper, was testing young architect Henry J. Hardenburgh. Passing the test, Hardenburgh then created The Dakota apartments in New York City, which launched the young architect’s career (and where John Lennon lived at the time of his death.)

Second, it was one of Edward Clark’s first steps toward, four generations later, the huge success that is Cooperstown. Built in 1876, Kingfisher Tower was a beginning of what today is Cooperstown’s “brand,” an awful word, but a huge asset. NPR’s brand has been valued at $400 million; how many times more valuable must Cooperstown’s be?

Brand. A word Edward Clark undoubtedly would have hated. But it is the outcome

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As of this year, Jane Forbes Clark has been Cooperstown’s benefactress for a quarter-century.

of five generations of dynastic investment – in the lake itself (the family has largely preserved the eastern shore), The Fenimore Art and Farmers’ museums, Bassett Hospital (font of Nobelist E. Donnall Thomas) and, of course, the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Brand. Hate the term or not, Edward Clark would have loved today’s underlying reality.

• This history is news now because, largely

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unnoted, Jane Forbes Clark, Edward Clark’s great-great granddaughter, this year is marking a quarter-century of amazing accomplishment since the passing of her father, Stephen C. Clark Jr., in 1992.

In 25 years, one asset at a time, Jane Clark has taken each institution whose stewardship she inherited and advanced it mightily, so that today each is thriving in the 21st century.

This is just a partial assessment: • The Fenimore Art Museum – one of her first undertakings was supporting then-NYSHA President Gib Vincent in rebuilding the former Fenimore House, adding the bright lower-level gallery, temperature and humidity controls, and security to accommodate the Eugene & Clare Thaw Collection of Native American Art, the best of its kind in the world. It reopened in 1995.

• While that was going on, the Baseball Hall of Fame was completing its ambitious library addition that met similar curatorial standards, and expanding the Hall of Plaques into the cathedral-like structure we see today.

In 2003, a two-year renovation began to meet ADA requirements, embrace new technologies, and rethink the galleries and flows still present today.

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Turbines Not Renewables People Want To the Editor: I wrote you a letter concerning wind farms about two years ago, which you published. Michigan is my “home” base, and my family’s roots, including a home, are in the Cooperstown area.

Renewable energy here is generating much controversy because “rural landscapes in ‘The Thumb’ and elsewhere in Michigan have been radically altered by the advent of utility-scale wind farms. The whirling blades atop enormous towers stretching for miles are renewable-energy signs of the times, targets of complaints over noise, and over their imprint upon the bucolic, rural landscape” – quote from the Saginaw News.

Mike Puttullo, a landowner in Tuscola County’s Ellington Township, has stated, “It has ripped our township apart” – the Saginaw News.

In my opinion, we must look at other ways of providing renewable energy.

Thank you again for providing us with the hometown news that is important to us who need your care.

CHARLES E. COOKE III Saginaw, Mich.

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hobby?

This is not to wish anyone ill, but to term former 12–year county undersheriff Bruce Carroll’s squirrelling away 73 seized guns he was responsible for destroying as “a hobby” boggles the mind.

But so it is in the Memorandum in Support of a Sentence Outside Advisory Guidelines in his case file in U.S. District Court.

Another way to look at it is he extracted enough from public service to buy a house in Morris, a year’round camp on Goodyear Lake, a fishing camp in the North Country and a condo in Myrtle Beach, plus an $85,000 pension.

From someone who benefited so much at the public trough, more should be expected. Not this. Even the $10,000 fine he received it appears he can easily pay.

It’s true we want mercy for ourselves, and justice for everybody else. Suffice to say: The outcome of this breach of publlic trust invites cynicism.

After 2 Years In Wilderness, Fans Give Rachel Robinson’s Husband His Due Rachel Robinson, who will receive the Buck O’Neil Award this Induction Weekend, recounted the challenges of her husband’s first two years in the MLB in McCall’s magazine in March 1951.

Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from “I Live With A Hero,” Rachel Robinson’s first-person account in the March 1951 issue of McCall’s of life on the road with her husband, Jackie Robinson, in the Jim Crow era. Mrs. Robinson will receive the Buck O’Neil Award Saturday, June 28, during Induction Weekend.

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t wasn’t quite so easy to ignore some of the things that happened to Jack those first two years in organized baseball, although we tried. I would sit in the stands and my blood would boil at some of the things people yelled at him – often just for laughs. Then there were the rumors that teams threatened to strike rather than play on the same field with him. The manager of the opposing team reportedly incited his players against Jack.

The first year, 1946, Jack played with a Brooklyn-owned club, Montreal, in the International League.

He had a wonderful season, as far as his play was concerned. The Canadians were very kind to us, but some of the Southern cities gave us a bad time.

The next year, 1947, Jack was brought up to Brooklyn and was a Dodgers rookie. We couldn’t help realizing that all the spikings he received (the spikes in baseball shoes

are sharp and can be very painful) and all the pitched balls which hit him weren’t quite accidental.

One sports writer wrote playfully: “Some pitchers can’t resist that Coney Island urge to throw at Robinson.” That made me furious. So did the day in St. Louis when somebody let a black cat out on the field and the crowd roared as though it was terribly funny. Sports writers’

jibes and black cats can’t break your bones, but they can hurt.

On a few rare occasions, my husband lost his temper – and was bitterly ashamed afterward. Branch Rickey, when he signed Jack, warned him that things like this would happen, and that any show of resentment would not only hurt him but the future of Negroes in baseball. We both understood this and

agreed with Mr. Rickey. But Jack is human. And he suffered constantly under the playing constraint imposed on him by Mr. Rickey.

Jack is quiet at home. But he had always managed to let off steam when he played ball. He is what is known as an aggressive player. In any kind of sport, he likes to “talk things up,” worry opposing players, Please See HEROES, A11

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Off To Induction – By Horse, Buggy Or Bike

his week, we note that the annual Hall of Fame festivities are fast approaching. We must admit that it has been years since we have attended the Induction Ceremonies as we believe the last one we took in was held on the steps of the Hall of Fame Library in Cooper Park.

However, not attending the ceremony does not mean that over the years we have not written a fair amount about the comings and goings of induction weekends.

In 1992, we reported that on Induction Sunday, “...as we watched a steady stream of humanity ebb and flow up and down the street, we overheard the following conversation betwixt what we presumed to be mother and son.

Son said, ‘Boy, the Hall of Fame is not as big as I thought.

You can’t spend that much time in there looking around.’ To this mother replied, ‘How can you say that! You’ve spent CATHERINE three days in there LAKE already!’”

ELLSWORTH • We continued writing that “Sunday evening we were sitting on our porch around 10:30 p.m. or so when we heard quite a commotion coming from the general direction of Frog Hollow. As we listened we

ascertained that a rather large cluster of people was moving very loudly in the middle of the street toward our house and Beaver Street.

“There were three teen-age boys and two sets of parents, one with a small boy, 3 years old or so. This little urchin was screaming with great glee at the top of his tiny lungs, which appeared to work wonderfully well.

After each outburst, the father of this child would say as loudly as possible, ‘Get a life,’ and the three teen-agers would encourage even more shrieks of delight from the 3-year-old by jumping out from behind various trees along the route and yelling ‘boo.’

“As if all of this was not enough, 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

The Pirate Mitchell – The noted Pirate Mitchell, who had been committing depredations in the Gulph of Mexico for a long time previous, was shot (though not mortally) through the body, on or about June 7, by some military sent from New Orleans, for the purpose of apprehending him. He was found in a small cabin in the vicinity of the Bayou St. John.

It was reported and generally believed in New Orleans that this desperado had sunk by means of scuttling a ship with eighty souls on board, but a short time before he was taken.

A number of packages of goods had been found in the woods and swamps, in the neighborhood both of the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ponchartrain, all believed from circumstantial evidence of the strongest nature, to have been deposited there by this noted defender.

July 31, 1817

175 YEARS AGO

The Slave Trade – The number of slaves in the slave vessels that have been captured on the coast of Africa by British cruisers, and taken to the Island of St. Helena, from July 3, 1840 to May 6, 1842 is 5,139. Of this number, not one has ever returned to his home in Africa. Instead they have been allowed to choose the British colony to which they would go, and have been disposed of as follows: 1,736 have died; 1,332 have been conveyed to the Cape of Good Hope; 542 to Damarara;120 to Jamaica; 201 to Trinidad; 198 have been apprenticed at St. Helena, 1,010 remain to be sent. No punishment has been inflicted on the original captors of these slaves.

On the contrary, the captains, officers and crew are permitted to go at large, and until they can find ships to take them from St. Helena, are allowed by the government 84 cents each per diem. The effect is to furnish British colonies with servants, and though they may not wear chains and fetters, they have no liberty left but that of choosing to which of the colonies they will go.

July 1842

150 YEARS AGO

Steam on Common Roads – The application of steam to common road travel has for years been a matter of recurrent experiment, and from time to time instances of apparent success are reported. But, so far, none of these seem to have become generally utilized. In France and England carriages were long ago constructed capable of traveling with speed and safety over highways and streets. But, we do not hear of their practical adaption to ordinary locomotion either for

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75 YEARS AGO July 27, 2007 passengers or merchandise. That this effort to travel common roads by steam will sooner or later be crowned with success, we have little doubt, and scores of places which like Cooperstown are waiting for the “iron horse” to make its appearance, may see him on a smaller scale and in a different form than now anticipated or hoped for.

July 26, 1867

125 YEARS AGO

Town of Otsego Democracy, Fly Creek, July3, 1892.

Pursuant to a call of the committee the Democrats of Districts 4 and 5 of the Town of Otsego met in the rooms of William E. Russell, in this place, and organized a campaign club. A more enthusiastic gathering of Democrats could not have been found. Several speeches were made and the principles of our party and candidates were plainly set forth. The following officers were elected: President – John S. Byard; Vice presidents – Henry H. Hill, E.E. Dye, James J. Byard, Fred Young, Jesse Ellsworth, H.E. Jones, Norman Quaif, Geo. A. McEwan, Arthur Young, Wm. Russell, Seth Temple; Secretary – A.T. Williams; Treasurer – William Pier; Membership Committee – Charles Waffle, Rufus Jarvis, Sylvester Ellsworth, Samuel Quaif, Daniel Johnson, Elgar Kinney, Fred Bunn, Geo. Quaif, Morris Olendorf, Geo. Gross, Alfred Wilcox; Rules and Regulations; Rufus Doubleday, D.C. Badger, H.H. Hill. Afterwards a Cleveland & Stevenson Club was formed. A membership of 75 was obtained of the Democrats present.

July 28, 1892

100 YEARS AGO

In England, some object to “hands” meaning “workmen” and wish the latter term to be used. But, what of women now doing men’s work for the company? A London journal

However, Get To HoF’s Induction COLUMN/From A4 one of the mothers would scream periodically, ‘You should all be more quiet or you’ll wake up all of these people along this street.’ And thus, conversing in such a manner, this mob disappeared around the corner onto Beaver Street and moved on toward Susquehanna Avenue.”

• In 1995, we noted from our vantage point on our front porch that on Induction Sunday “everyone who went by seemed orderly and well mannered, not at all like the rude unruly Philly fans portrayed in one of the area’s papers. And number of these many passers-by made comments about our dog, our cat and our house, but no one made any comments about the he-we.

Several visitors announced that they would not want to live here with all these people going by in front of their house. We resisted the temptation to tell them that it was not always like this!”

Over the years we did not, however, always comment on the current year’s induction ceremonies.

For example, in 1993 we shared the following memory sent to us by Pat Leary about “one Hall of Fame Game played during the Second World War when people arrived by horse, by hay wagon, by buggy, by

suggests “workers” as a single term for both sexes. “Hand” for workmen goes back as far as 1655. The late Mr. Mundella objected to “hands” because the word indicated to him the disappearance of the old relationship between master and man.

“We employ thousands. We do not know their faces.

They are hands – they are not men.” Arnold Toynbee, social economist, delighted in the term because an employer can buy only the workman’s “hands” – his life is now his own, to be cherished as a noble independence.

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bicycle, indeed by any conveyance not powered by gasoline, which was strictly rationed during the war years.

“Actually, what made this particular ‘Ballgame Day’ so memorable is that half way through the festivities the heavens opened and it poured buckets. Pat can still see the many women, wading out of Doubleday Field, carrying their shoes with their Rayon dresses shrinking rapidly up around their thighs. Evidently, the Smart Shop, a dress shop located on Main Street where National Pastimes (81 Main St.) now is, did a brisk business.”

And while we would not presume to predict the weather for this year’s induction, we do think it might be safe to say that very few of the people attending will be arriving by horse, by hay wagon, by buggy, by bicycle, indeed by any conveyance not powered by some sort of fossil fuel.

PLEASE NOTE: Comments regarding this column may be made by mail to 105 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326, by telephone at 607-547-8124 or by e-mail at cellsworth1@stny. rr.com. Or, for more thoughts about the comings and goings of Cooperstown, visit the website, cooperstowntoday.com.

In Cooperstown – The storm on Sunday afternoon brought 1.75 inches of rain according to W.H. Fay, government weather observer in Cooperstown.

Second Lieutenant Stephen C. Clark, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Clark of Cooperstown, has successfully completed the course for officer candidates at the famous Cavalry School at Fort Riley, Kansas. Lt. Clark received his diploma, bars and commission from the hand of Brig.

General Robert C. Rodgers, commandant of the school.

July 29, 1942

50 YEARS AGO

The congregations of the First Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown and the Presbyterian Church of Milford have issued a call to the Rev. Robert E. Herst of Aurora to become Pastor of the two churches to fill the vacancies caused by the resignation of the Rev. Richard P. Weld last March.

Rev. Herst has accepted the call and will assume his new duties in September. He and his wife, their daughter and three sons will live in the Cooperstown church manse at the corner of Pioneer and Church streets. Rev. Herst has been pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Aurora for the past nine years.

July 26, 1967

25 YEARS AGO

The New York State Historical Association has received a collection of Native American art from Eugene and Clare Thaw considered one of the most important in private hands. Comprised of more than 400 objects that date from pre-contact times to the early twentieth century, the collection represents a broad range of cultures across North America, including Northwest Coast, Eskimo, Eastern Woodland, Plains, Southwest, California, Great Lakes and Prairie.

July 29, 1992

Quarter-Century, And What Accomplishment new utility: Bassett Hospital’s EDITORIAL/From A4 Physical Therapy Department • In 2006, the all-New-York has moved in, giving its many Empire State Carousel, 25 years patients easy access to enhanced in the making, became The treatments.

Farmers’ Museum centerpiece, • Bassett – it’s hard to know reinventing the historic campus where to begin. Suffice it to say, for younger generations, and accelerating in the past quarenergizing such staples as The ter century, it has become the Candlelight Evening and Sugardominant – in many ing Off Sundays. cases, the sole • On its 100th an– provider of mediniversary in 2008, The cal care in eight Otesaga underwent a counties. During complete renovation, Jane Clark’s tenure, its 135 rooms modernthe essential Bassett ized, the lobby and Clinic was compublic rooms redecopleted for outpatient rated, and who knows care, hospitals in how many layers of Oneonta, Sidney, lead paint stripped Cobleskill, Delhi from its exterior in a and Little Falls total repainting. This were absorbed, the year, the venerable cancer, cardiac and Hawkeye Grill on the research centers lake level was doubled Kingfisher Tower, took their modern in size, allowing every the beginning of form. School-based table a Glimmerglass something big health centers are view. providing care in a • Just a few weeks ago, an 18-month renovation and dozen high schools.

• The Clark Foundation Scholexpansion of the Clark Sports arship Program has continued to Center – check it out during this weekend’s Induction ceremony in grow and expand its reach across its adjacent fields – was complet- Otsego County, serving 13 school districts, adding Gilbertsvilleed, double the size, full of highMount Upton and Morris three tech exercise equipment, plus

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All ongoing family traditions, it seems, have simply gotten better, richer, more impactful, in this fifth generation. Grandmother Susan Vanderpoel Clark’s annual village Beautification Contest is much anticipated and a lot of fun.

As grandmother did, granddaughter continues to replenish the flower baskets along Main Street from family greenhouses through the summer.

It’s all pretty special – amazing, really.

• At 1:30 p.m. Sunday, July 30, in that field next to the Clark Sports Center, the genial chairman – she prefers that title – of a quarter-century will again host the Hall of Fame Induction – welcoming, smiling, diplomatic as always.

As you applaud Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines, “Pudge” Rodriguez, John Schuerholz and the great Bud Selig, give a particularly vigorous round to Jane Forbes Clark for a quarter-century of making Cooperstown, not perfect perhaps, but ever better.

And the best is yet to come.

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Complicated Man, Bud Selig’s Legacy Praised, Questioned trustee meetings. And you can SELIG/From A1 understand why. Those were the Manfred in 2015.

When he strides onto the Induc- years Selig bought the Seattle Pilots and brought them to his hometion stage this weekend, it’s possible – it was hard to find someone town, creating Milwaukee Brewers in 1970 and building it into a to confirm it – he will have stood World Series winning franchise in there more than any living hu1982, with the help of Hall man being, certainly of Famers Robin Young longer than Hall Jane and Paul Molitor.

Forbes Clark, who From 1992 on, of became a Hall trustee course, his MLB tenure in 1992, and was was an exceptionally chalelevated to chairman lenging one, marked by in 2000. crises, controversies and, “He was supeveryone agrees, much acportive in any way complishment. he could help finanDale Petroskey, Hall cially,” said Stack. of Fame president for a “During my involveFormer Hall didecade beginning in 1999, ment, there was a rector Ed Stack credits Selig with many lot of growth at the successes, but foremost Hall of Fame. I was praises Bud Selig’s help in achieving peace between out raising money owners and players. “He all the time. He was fundraising on many expansion recognized the acrimony” cooperative that way. projects.

– particularly, the 1994 Although he didn’t strike – “was terrible for come up with a lot of the game.” money, he was supSelig determined, Petroportive,” providing skey said, “we’re going advice and making to figure out a way to get connections for the along with the players’ Hall . union. And we’re going First, there was to make an agreement that the acquisition of works for both of us. That Danny’s Store, on Former Hall long-term strategy, and the east side of working at it, building relaNewberry’s (now the President Dale Petroskey, now tionships, really allowed Cooperstown Genpresident/CEO of baseball to thrive.” eral Store). It was the Dallas ChamInterviewed from bought, torn down ber of ComLondon, Petroskey – he is and the wing built merce, admires that now houses the Selig’s business now president/CEO of the Dallas Chamber of ComHall of Fame gift acumen. merce and was visiting his shop. son Frank, a standout player on Then, in the early ’80s, the the winning 2007 Cooperstown Clark Sports Center had to be Redskins’ team – remembered the built, and the Alfred Corning Clark Gym – it was in what is now commissioner fondly and their cordial relationship. the Hall’s administration building “I’d talk to Bud fairly regular– moved there. Then, fundraising began for the expansion of the ly,” he recalled, “not every week or every month, but as needed. If Hall of Plaques into its cathedralI was at a game where he was, we like majesty in the 1990s, and the would be together. We certainly construction of the new library. saw each other at the events. On “You’d finish one, pay it off, Hall of Fame Weekends, we spent start on the next,” said Stack. a lot of time a lot of time together.

Through all this, Selig “was a champion of the Hall,” said Stack, I knew him well and I have a although he couldn’t remember the tremendous amount of respect for him.” director actually attending many

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Bud Selig, at Induction Weekend in 2013 for the installation of Jacob Ruppert, the brewer and congressman who owned the New York Yankees from 1915 to 1939, will himself be installed in the Hall of Plaques. He may be the living person who’s appeared more often than anyone on the Induction stage, although Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz noted that Hall of Famer Bob Feller appeared every year from his induction in 1962 until his death in 2010. “That’s going to be a hard record to beat,” Katz said.

And Petroskey remains impressed. “In Bud’s tenure, more people watched baseball than at any other time in our history.

Television deals were bigger than ever. MLB.com became the model for all sports – now fans can watch any game, any night, for about a dollar a day.”

The Selig era also heralded the “retro ballparks,” in Baltimore, San Francisco, and elsewhere, that “reminded people of Ebbets Field and the ballparks of yore. That really excited the fans – and bridged the generations, fathers and grandfathers would tell the kids, ‘This reminds me of the old ballparks.’”

One unintended consequence of Selig’s success came as a blow to Cooperstown in 2008: the end of the Hall of Fame Game, where two MLB teams played in Doubleday Field during Induction Weekend.

Mayor Jeff Katz, himself a

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aseball has never been more profitable; but it’s never been less popular.

We’ve been losing the young people. We’ve been losing the next generation.”

BILL SIMONS SUNY Oneonta history professor, baseball scholar

baseball fan and author of two baseball books, mourns that passing, but said it was an inevitable outcome of Selig’s labor peace.

“My understanding is, under the collective bargaining agreement, those things” – the Hall of Fame Game – “become harder to get done.”

Still, “It happened in his tenure,” said Katz.

Bill Simons, SUNY Oneonta history professor and a baseball scholar active in SABR (the Society for American Baseball Research), acknowledge Selig “had an awfully long run, some of it quite positive.” But – “not to take away from his legacy” – he offered a number of caveats.

“This was the steroids era, and baseball knew” – and waited too long to recognize it. Further, “I don’t think steroids is out of the game. It was declared dead under Bud Selig, but I don’t think it is.”

The failure to recognize steroids and combat it led to “an erosion of records that were once our North Star,” Simons said, and ruined players that, reformed, could have made it into the Hall. “That’s why Barry Bonds is on the outside looking in; that’s why Mark Please See SELIG, A7

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Jackie Robinson Legend Lives On Through Rachel’s Testimony was supposed to behave ROBINSON/From A1 like, she must have really the strength and character impressed the families of of Buck O’Neil.” his teammates. The other “She and Jackie transcendwives looked at her very ed the game,” said Spencer. favorably.”

“She continued that work “Rachel stands out as after his passing (in 1972) a baseball wife because in a very classy fashion.” she counseled him about Born Rachel Annetta his public persona and Isum, she met Robinson in financial affairs,” said 1941 when both were atTom Heitz, former Hall tending UCLA. They marof Fame librarian who is ried in February 1946, right active in both women’s before Robinson signed issues and Black Lives with the Dodgers, breaking Matter. “She was not a the “color barrier” as the silent partner. She helped first black man to sign to him negotiate the somea Major League Baseball National Baseball Hall of Fame times troubled waters of team. the racism that continued And, unlike many of the Rachel and Jackie Robinwere one of the most to plague baseball.” baseball wives of the time, son iconic couples in baseball.

Following Robinson’s she traveled with her huswith a Negro family.” retirement from baseball band. “I was the only wife “She was an elegant, in 1956, his wife further at the 1946 spring training proud, intelligent woman,” pursued her nursing career, camp,” she wrote for an said Della Britton Baeza, obtaining a master’s in article in the March 1951 issue of McCall’s. “The rule Jackie Robinson Foundation psychiatric nursing from CEO. “For those who were New York University. She of ‘no wives’ was broken used to segregation, who became a researcher and for me that year because might have had a pre-conclinician at the Albert EinJack could not live with the ceived notion of what an stein College of Medicine’s white fellows on the team, African-American woman Department of Social and and we were both housed

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Community Psychiatry, then an assistant professor at Yale School of Nursing.

Later, she was the Director of Nursing at the Connecticut Mental Health Center.

In 1972, the couple founded the Jackie Robinson Development Corp., a real-estate company building in low- to moderate-income housing, and served as president for 10 years. She formed the Jackie Robinson Foundation after her husband’s death in

1973. This past April, she broke ground for the Jackie Robinson Museum in lower Manhattan, due to open in 2019, the 100th anniversary of his birth.

In a statement, Robinson said she was honored to receive the O’Neil Award.

“He was such a champion of baseball,” she said, “and the Hall of Fame does an extraordinary job of recognizing individuals who have committed their lives to the great game.”

She was on hand in Cooperstown in 2008, when her husband’s plaque was rededicated, and again in 2013, when the film “42” premiered, where she was portrayed by “Sleepy Hollow” actress Nicole Beharie.

“She was a renaissance woman,” said Baeza. “She’s excited about coming, and she has very warm feelings about the Hall. Baseball has been such a big part of her life, but she’s a pioneer in her own right.”

Selig Legacy: Record Profits, Troubled Outlook SELIG/From A6 McGwire’s looking in.”

“A residue of his times” is an irony, Simons continued: “Baseball has never been more profitable; but it’s never been less popular. We’ve been losing the young people. We’ve been losing the next generation.”

In part, this is steroids; in part, it’s the triumph of the business office over the game, he said. A prime example: World Series

games begins on the West Coast at 10 p.m.

Eastern Time, even on school nights, when kids need to go to bed.

Developments like youth baseball parks, “extremely popular” locally with Cooperstown Dreams Park and Cooperstown All-Star Village in Oneonta, signals a loss of the “rite of passage – of Wiffleball in the backyard, the sandlot.

“It’s been hollowed out as an experience.”

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Gun-Collecting Hobby Got Undersheriff In Trouble, Defense Lawyer Says

GUNS/From A3 being charged Feb. 2 by the FBI. In a memorandum arguing for a lesser sentence than called for by federal guidelines, the defense lawyer, Michael E. Trosset of Cooperstown, acknowledged Carroll “failed to complete his duty” of destroying firearms seized by the sheriff’s department. “However,” the lawyer continued, “he never intended to deprive a rightful owner of their property. In his eyes, he converted property headed to the incinerator for his own collection.”

In addition to the fine and community service, Trosset pointed out Carroll is now a convicted felon. However, as a family man and civic leader – Carroll was Morris town supervisor for six years and president and board member of the Oneonta Country Club for 20 years – “there is no chance he would commit a crime like this or any other crime again.”

A lifelong NRA member – he was also a retired state police officer, as well as a 12-year undersheriff in the administration of former Sheriff Don Mundy, including two years for Devlin – Carroll is also “forfeiting his ability to own firearms.”

In announcing Carroll’s sentencing and making public the press release from Acting United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith in Syracuse, Devlin said the case was set in motion when a “discrepancy” was

Supporting documents flesh out the story of how former Undersheriff A. Bruce Carroll went wrong.

reported to him in June 2016.

After an initial inquiry, he and District Attorney John D. Muehl brought in the FBI. “I recognize that the citizens have endowed me with a public trust, and I honor that trust by performing my duties to the best of my ability, no matter who perpetrated the crime,” Devlin said in a statement. He said the crime was discovered due to “internal controls” he put in place in 2009.

According to the plea agreement, between 1995 and 2007 the defendant “stole approximately 73 firearms from the evidence locker and falsely recorded … (they) had been destroyed according to department policy.” He then “took the firearms to his house.”

After retiring, Carroll “sold firearms he had stolen to a gun store.” In the plea agreement, the defendant acknowledges “more than 25 and less than 100 weapons” were involved.

They ranged from a Benelli

Ducks Unlimited 12-guard pump shotgun and a Winchester 223 caliber rifle to a number of revolvers and pistols. It was the sale of a Smith & Wesson 44 Magnum revolver “to a third party” that led to the arrest.

In his memo, Trosset recounted a life in law enforcement and public service gone

astray. A native of Big Flats, born in 1942, Carroll came to Otsego County after graduating from high school to become a milk tester for the county Dairy Herd Improvement Association and a farm hand.

After seven years, his parents encouraged him to take the Civil Service test, and he joined the state police in 1967.

“For the next 26 years, he faithfully worked as an officer … being assigned primarily to Troop C in Oneonta (where he) faithfully fulfilled his duties, being recognized multiple times for his efforts.” Interested even then in firearms, he was appointed a firearms instructor, “teaching younger officers how to care for, operate and possess firearms.”

Retiring in 1993, he spent two years as the county STOP DWI coordinator before joining Sheriff Mundy’s administration in 1995, where he

spent 12 of his 14 years in the department. One of his duties as undersheriff was “the creation of an evidence-maintenance system which prior to his arrival included a rudimentary system of evidence storage in a cabinet in an office.” He retired in 2009 at age 67.

Trosset goes on to detail “commitments to family and community.” Carroll has been married for 56 years this Aug. 19, and the couple has three children and five grandchildren. In addition to town supervisor and country club president, he was a 25-year Elk, serving as treasurer of the Oneonta lodge at the time the charges were brought, and he was active in the Oneonta American Legion and Sixth Ward Athletic Club.

Carroll “worked hard to obtain success … in a bluecollar fashion,” and his career was remunerative, according

to the Trosset memo. The Carrolls bought a house in Morris, then a cottage on Goodyear Lake, where they soon moved fulltime. They then bought a condo in Myrtle Beach, and a fishing camp on the Little Salmon River in Oswego County, where they spend “many peaceful days on the river.”

The defendant has an $85,000 annual income in pension and Social Security, which allowed him to fund whole-life insurance policies and pay his mortgages. “Never in his life has he overextended himself or had a lavish lifestyle,” Trosset recounts. “The sale of the firearms was not a means to raise cash to satisfy a debt or to fund a boondoggle. The sales, although completely inappropriate, were hobby-related and that of a gun collector.”

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He called drug courts like this one “a vital asset to these communities. They’re the safety net to those struggling with addiction. They provide support for families, and an avenue for hope when you feel like there is none.”

The program combines community service, group meetings, and random drug tests with helping participants get services, jobs and housing – to help them feel part of the community again. “Kindell routinely did more community service than was required of him,” said county Judge Brian Burns in his remarks about Worley. “It was about how he could give back.”

“I can be part of the community,” asserted graduate Shelby Mochrie. “I spent six and a half years getting high, and now I don’t want to waste another

minute.”

When she got pregnant, she began to take her treatment court even more seriously. Her daughter, Sophie, now 2, was born while she was in the program; she’s now been sober for 17 months and has a job in a leadership position that provides for her family.

“It wasn’t about me anymore,” she said. “It was about her. My greatest accomplishment is that she’ll never see me strung out, she’ll never have to wonder if I’m going to be there to pick her up after school.”

For graduate Frankie Demedina, he had been struggling with addiction for so long, he didn’t think he would graduate the program. “45 years of my life down the drain,” he said.

“I’ve been in and out of jail more times than I can count. I thought I would be a failure, but drug court gave me a gift.

I’m reborn, I’m a loving person now. This is a blessing.”

The graduates received a standing ovation, and many families brought flowers, balloons and gifts.

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Montreal Fans First Gave Robinson His Due HEROES/From A4 keep up a running stream of chatter to pep up the team. As a rule, this kind of enthusiastic team man is encouraged. But Mr. Rickey told Jack that from him it might be resented and misinterpreted, that he must mind his own business, keep quiet and just play baseball.

Having been a nurse, I understand that no one can bottle up all his emotions. Toward the end of Jack’s first season I became very worried about him. Instead of breaking loose at home, which I would have welcomed, he became less talkative. He couldn’t eat. I finally insisted that he consult a doctor, who warned

Jack that if he didn’t stay away from the ball park for the rest of the season he might have a nervous breakdown.

Both of us underestimated my husband, however, and the strength of his will. He stayed home for two days, and then decided the only thing to do was to go back to playing.

He finished the season with a fine record. The day of the last game, the Montreal fans ran after Jack, caught him and carried him around the field on their shoulders. A newspaperman wrote it was the first time a crowd had ever chased a Negro to embrace him, not lynch him.

New Hotel To Be Filled For Induction HOTEL/From A3 the upper floor was completed.

This weekend – Hall of Fame Induction Weekend – it’s fully booked with VIPs here to celebrate former MLB Commissioner Bud Selig’s entrance into the National Pastime’s Hall of Plaques.

Summer rates on its 22 rooms are advertised as over $300, and twice that for one of the four duplexes on each corner of the upper floor – if you can get in; bookings have been brisk.

“When I had friends say, ‘Where do I stay?’, I struggled for an answer,” said Ferrara, who also operates the Hard Ball Café and the Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum on Main Street. “There’s a strong need for high-end rooms in the village itself.”

That Ferrara’s now built them is a testimony to stickwith-it-ness.

The businessman had just come off a year-long ordeal where he and two partners in BTP Cooperstown, Tom Lagan and Bob Hurley, sought to build a four-story hotel on the former TJ’s Place, 124 Main St., when he acquired 28 Railroad Ave. last September.

Compared to the first project, Ferrara said, “The village couldn’t have been more accommodating on this project.”

The first project, Mayor Jeff Katz explained, was much more complicated, requiring 18 variances. Both projects required a special-use permit from the Village Board, but this project was much simpler, he said.

The former owner, Mike Manno, who bought the former Agway in 2009 and restored the exterior to its historic look, had already been cleared by Historic Preservation & Architectural Review Board.

“It didn’t need any outside work,” said Katz. “It was already in the commercial district. It was just much more straightforward.”

Ferrara has recruited an experienced hotelier, Bob Holt, as manager. Holt had long been associated with Howe’s Cavern in Schoharie County, before becoming general manager at the Best Western Inn & Suites in Hartwick Seminary a decade ago.

Holt – he brought his assistant manager, Scott Butler, CCS ’93, with him – is on the boards of Destination Marketing of Otsego County and of the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce. (On the side, he’s also executive director of the National Caves Association.)

The historic building – it’s on the National Register of Historic Places – is ideal for the market segment attracted by boutique hotels, he said:

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Plus, given the option, “People want to be in town – that’s where the action is.”

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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!

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MLS#110089 $250,000 Turn-Key Convenience Store Gas station, deli and grocery store. Selling below current appraised value!

Thriving business! No competition!

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MLS#109848 $799,000 Every Convenience Private, view of Otsego Lake, Adirondacks. Near Cooperstown, opera and golf.

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MLS#110142 $208,000 Owner Financing Available! Income-generating.

5 apartments are presently 100% full and grossing $40,000. 2 storefronts for retail space.

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MLS#110839 $379,900 Circa 1850 farmhouse w/apt, 8 BRs, 4 baths, formal LR and DR, sunroom, office, patio, lake view. 15± acres.

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MLS#110947 $209,000 Spacious and Comfortable 2 BRs, 1½ baths, sweet country kitchen, SS appliances, DR, 4-season sunroom, LR, laundry, 2-car garage, paved drive, 1± acre, views.

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MLS#111747 $449,000 2007 Fly Creek Sacrifice! List price is $213K below assessment. Rare 16+ acre haven has gorgeous views, 5,460 sq ft of stylish living, 2-bay garage.

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MLS#105929 $74,200 Hunter’s Dream 40 acres on Panther Mountain overlooking Canadarago Lake comes w/hunting cabin ready for your weekend getaway. Call now!

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MLS#104996 $10,000 Assessed well below market value! Beautiful acreage!

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MLS#111879 $299,500 New in 2013 Secluded 2.3 acres, year-round or seasonal home w/lake view. Screened back porch, covered front porch, radiant heat, foam insulation.

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MLS#109867 $249,900 218’ Lakefront Year-round ranch w/new roof, 3 BRs, 2 baths, office, great views, fireplace, pellet stove.

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Steeped in Early American History This fully restored 1800 Federal home in the Upper Catskills has true historical provenance and aesthetic appeal, along with all the modern comforts! This property was owned in 1832 by the Arkwright Cotton Mill Family, and in 1899 by Borden’s World’s Largest Condensery. Authentic early wide-plank wood floors, fabulous trim, 5 fireplaces, elegant winding front staircase. 4 BRs, 2 baths. Cook, create, garden, relax and enjoy the fullness of life here. Lots of indoor space and outdoor places to spread out! Come home to enjoying the privilege of a relaxed country lifestyle! Nicely situated, centrally located.

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The crowd is six deep on each side of Cooperstown’s Main Street during the 2016 “Parade of Legends,” the best chance for fans to get a close look at their heroes. It starts at 6 p.m. Saturday, July 28.

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he highlight of Induction Weekend, of course, will be the celebration – 1:30 p.m. Sunday, July, 30, at the Clark Sports Center fields – of Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines, Iván Rodríguez, John Schuerholz and Bud Selig as they enter the Hall of Plaques.

At 3 p.m. Saturday, July 29, Rachel Robinson, widow of the legendary Jackie Robinson, will be honored with the Buck O’Neil Award in ceremonies at Doubleday Field..

Then, at 6 that evening, fans will get a chance to see their heroes closeup in the increasingly popular Parade of Legends down Main Street from the fire hall to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

OPENING DAY: The Otsego County Fair kicks off with a hymn sing featuring Gail and Monte Smith, Don Isaac and Sonja Galley. Free. 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 31, Otsego County Fair Grounds, Morris.

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it up, touched it up, and hung it on the fence outside the ballpark. “It’s part of our history,” he said. “It should be on ONEONTA display.”

Also under the grandstand was the stadium’s original Wall of Fame, arlier this year, while cleaning several wooden baseball-shaped out the old locker rooms under plaques naming players George Case, the Damaschke Field grandJerry Walker and others as some of stand, Oneonta Outlaws owner Oneonta’s minor-league best. “Sam Gary Laing got a surprise: The Nader started this, so I wanted to hang original ballpark sign. them, and added a few names myself, “Everyone thought the original ‘Damincluding Joe Hughes, manager of the aschke Field’ sign from the dedication in Outlaws.” from ourlittleballparks.com 1968” – previously, it had been Elm Park Laing wasn’t looking for lost trea– “had been lost,” he said. “I found it un- The view from the Damaschke grandstand sures: He stumbled across them while gives meaning to “City of the Hills. derneath the grandstand.” he and City Engineer Greg Mattice The baseball-shaped sign, marking the were examining the grandstand’s deDamaschke, a 30-year city recreation direcfield’s rechristening for Ernest C. “Dutch” Please See GRANDSTAND, B3 tor, was in rough shape. But Laing cleaned

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YOUNG SHAKESPEARE: Shakespeare in the Valley presents “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” $12, bring chairs and blankets for lawn seating. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, July 28-29, West Kortright Center, East Meredith.

MUSICAL: “On Golden Pond,” starring Carol Dean and Gary Stevens. Tickets, $10-15. 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, July 28-29, Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta.

BASSETT HISTORY: John S. Davis, M.D. signs his book “Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, NY: 200 Years of Health Care in Rural America.” 2-4 p.m. Saturday, July 29, Green Toad Bookstore, Oneonta.

BLOCK PARTY: Meet your neighbors for games and displays. 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

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Recommended for Ages 4-12.

Registration required. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

FLOW YOGA – 4-5:30 p.m.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, JULY 27-28, 2017 Practice with certified instructor, Katie Lishansky. Welcoming all skill levels to learn the benefits of Vinyasa Flow Yoga.

Fee, $10. Friends of Recovery of Delaware and Otsego, 22 Elm St., Oneonta.

GENTLE YOGA – 5-6:30 p.m. Practice with certified instructor, Tracy Verma.

Welcoming all skill levels to learn the benefits of Gentle Yoga. Friends of Recovery of Delaware and Otsego, 22 Elm St., Oneonta.

FISH FRY BENEFIT – 5-7 p.m. Order haddock, cole-

slaw, fries, dessert, and coffee or tea. $10 to benefit the Greater Oneonta Historical Society. VFW, 279 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call (607)4320494 MOVIE NIGHT – 6-8 p.m.

Enjoy The Wizard of Oz on the Big Screen at the Alice Busch Opera Theater. Tickets, $10 adults, $5 youth. 7300 NY80, Cooperstown.

SHAKESPEARE & PICNIC DINNER – 6-10:30 p.m. Celebrate the talent of area youth.

Starts with indoor performance by the Introduction to Acting

group. A Midsummer Night’s Dream performance at 8 p.m.

Bring your own lawn seating.

Price, $12. West Kortright Center, 49 West Kortright Church Rd., East Meredith.

FAMILY FLOAT NIGHT – 6:45-8:30 p.m. Enjoy the floats and spend an evening in the pool with your family.

Admission, $5 public, $18, family. Oneonta YMCA, 20-26 Ford Ave., Oneonta.

MUSICAL – 8 p.m. Presenting “On Golden Pond” starring Carol Dean and Gary E. Stevens. Tickets, $10-15.

The Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Call 607-

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Saturday, July 29

COOPERSTOWN FARMERS MARKET – 8 a.m.-2 p.m. 101 Main St., in Pioneer Alley, Cooperstown.

ONEONTA FARMERS MARKET – 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Main St. FITNESS WORKSHOP – 9 a.m. Improve your fitness while learning the core moves of boxing with a circuit workout. Cost, $10 non-member,

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DIY TERRARIUM – 9:45-11 a.m. Build a terrarium with local business Branch & Bloom.

Free. Registration required.

Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

SCIENCE SATURDAY – 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Discover the joys of science. Introduce the kids at 10 with a story hour focused on a famous scientist or science theme. Take a guided nature walk through the campus at 11 and learn the latest on trees and how they communicate. Finally, there will be a live presentation on the stars in the SUNY Planetarium. Reservations required. SUNY Oneonta.

INTRO BEEKEEPING – 1111:30 a.m. Short talk on getting started with Top-Bar Beekeeping. Free. Registration required. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

TALES FOR TAILS – 11 a.m.-Noon. Children can come, pick up a book, and read it to one of the volunteer service dogs. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

BLOCK PARTY – 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Come meet your neighbor. Includes fun activities like face painting, bubbles, games, and balloons for children. Displays from the police and fire departments. All free, all welcome. Parking lot, Elm Park Church, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

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Outlaws Owner Doesn’t Believe Damaschke Grandstand Can Be Saved GRANDSTAND/From B1 terioration. On Tuesday, July 18, Common Council voted to seek grants to demolish the 80-year-old grandstand, convinced it can’t be saved.

“The concrete under the top row of box seats is deteriorating so much that it’s collapsing in on itself,” said Laing. “It can’t be repaired.”

Earlier this season, the entire set of top boxes was condemned by the city.

“They’ve already lost a couple of inches, and they’re not straight,” said the team owner. “It’s decrepit, and it’s unsafe.”

The roof is also in disrepair, and there are holes in the steel floor. “We thought we could get another three years out of it,” said Laing.

“But after the late snow we had this winter, with the freeze and thaw cycle, it’s just falling apart faster than we thought.”

The grandstand was erected in 1938 and housed the locker rooms, offices and bathrooms. Although

“In the early days, because of the railroad, teams would come through and stop here,” said Laing.

“The locals would just put together a team, and play a game.”

Growing up, Laing used to hang around the fence and throw back balls with a couple other kids in exchange for hot dogs and sodas from Sam Nader. “We shagged balls, and he fed us Team owner Laing is all summer,” said Laing. framed by the grandThe demolition of the stand he doesn’t believe grandstand is not the end of can be saved. baseball in Oneonta – far the home-team lockers were from it. “It’s about revitalizon the right and the visiting baseball in Oneonta,” he ing teams’ on the left, both said. “It’s getting rid of the Ian Austin/ OTSEGO.baseball teams had to use the same Outlaws owner Gary Laing shows off the former shower room under the old to bring in the new.” shower. “There would be Damaschke Field grandstand, which the home team and visiting teams had If the $300,000 CFA is fights!” said Laing. to share. Occasionally, fights would break out between the soapy rivals. approved, the demolition The lockers under the will begin in early 2018.

“I’d like to move the boxes enjoy the privacy.” and he wants to keep with grandstand were used until Games will not be affected, closer to the field,” he said.

And although the bleachthe times. “It would be good the mid-1990s. After that, and a temporary backstop, “The box seats are imporers seat 3,500, he wants to put in a kids zone where a trailer was installed until boxes and a press box will tant; ours are all rented, and to improve the seating by the grandstand is now,” he the new building was built be built. Funding to rebuild there’s a waiting list.” installing 70-foot fencing to said. in 2007. the grandstand will be He also dreams of install- protect fans from fly balls, “Maybe batting cages.

Visitors to the grandstand sought, and Laing believes ing Sky Boxes.

“This is the and is even considering Something to keep the would have seen Mickey construction will begin as best seat in the house,” he a roof over the third base kids entertained while the Mantle and Ted Williams early as 2019. said, gesturing to the press bleachers. parents watch the game, but play, along with local stars But don’t expect the same box high above the field.

“I But how baseball is bring them all together at Jim Konstanty and Clay old grandstand in its place. think the fans would really watched is also changing, the ball field.”

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE EIGHT YEAR REVIEW OF Agricultural DISTRICT NO. 3 AND AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT NO. 8 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held by the County Board of Representatives of Otsego County, State of New York, at the County Office Building in the Village of Cooperstown. New York, on Wednesday, August 2, 2017, at 9:55 a.m. upon the Agricultural District No. 3 within the Towns of Springfield, Cherry Valley, Otsego, Middlefield, and the villages within the towns, consisting of approximately 64,423 acres in the agricultural district, and Agricultural District No. 8 within the Towns of Morris, Butternuts, Unadilla, Otego, the villages within the towns, and consisting of approximately 35,453 acres in the agricultural district to consider modifications and report of status of agriculture in said districts at the recommendation of the Otsego County Agricultural and Farmland Protection Board pursuant to Article 25-AA of the Agriculture and Markets Law. The recommendations and report of status may be examined at the Otsego County Planning Department at The Meadows Building, 140 County Highway 33W, Cooperstown, New York during regular business hours.

Proposed modifications are as follows: Agricultural District No. 3 - Addition: 609.98 acres, Removal: 1,588.89 acres Agricultural District No. 8 - Addition: 472.52 acres, Removal: 252.54 acres All parties in interest and citizens will be heard by the Otsego County Board of Representatives at the public hearing.

The location of the public hearing is accessible to persons with mobility impairment.

Dated: July 27, 2017 Carol D. McGovern Clerk of the Board of Representatives Otsego County, New York 1LegalJul.27 Legal nOtice

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE is hereby given that there has been duly introduced before the Board of Representatives of the County of Otsego, New York, a Local Law entitled: A Local Law repealing the Wireless Communications Surcharge authorized by Article six of the County Law of the State of New York and imposed by County of Otsego Local Law No. 2 of 2004; and imposing the wireless communications surcharges pursuant to the authority of Tax Law Section 186-g.

NOTICE is further given that the

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Board of Representatives will conduct a public hearing on the proposed Local Law in the Representatives Chambers at the County Office Building in the Village of Cooperstown, New York on Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017 at 9:45 a.m.. at which time all persons interested will be heard. The location of the public hearing is accessible persons with a mobility impairment.

Copies of the Local Law are available for viewing at the Clerk of the Board’s Office, County Office Building, Cooperstown, New York during regular business hours.

Dated: July 27, 2017 Carol D. McGovern Clerk of the Board of Representatives Otsego County, New York 1LegalJul.27 Legal nOtice

The Annual Meeting of the Lakewood Cemetery Association Lot Holders will be held at 09:00 on August 8th, 2017at the Deysenroth Funeral Home On Chestnut Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326. The election of the Board of Directors will occur immediately after at 09:15.

President: Milo Stewart, Directors: Joan Butler, James Dow, Tim Feury, Margaret McGown, Merillyn O’Connell Henry J. Nicols Secretary / Treasurer Lakewood Cemetery Association 1LegalJul.27 Legal nOtice

STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF OTSEGO SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Index No. 20170159

WELLS FARGO BANK, NA,

Plaintiff,

v.

ERIC KITCHENS A/K/A ERIC HERBERT KITCHENS,

Defendants.

To the above named Defendants: You are hereby summoned to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorneys within thirty days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME

If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a

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default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Building 2 State Street Rochester, NY 14614

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

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

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT.

Notice of Formation of Focus & Connected LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/12/2017.

Office location: Otsego County.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of Honorable Michael V. Coccoma, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed the 16th day of June, 2017 at Cooperstown, New York.

Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/12/2017.

Office location: Otsego County.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage on the following property: Tax I.D. No. 230.00-1-12.00 ALL THAT tract or parcel of land, situate, lying, and being in the Town of Maryland, County of Otsego and State of New York, on the westerly side of the public highway leading from the Schenevus-Westford State Highway near the residence of Russell French to State Highway No. 7 just Westerly of the Elk Creek Bridge and bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point in the center of said highway between lands of the parties hereto; and

Notice of Formation of AMT Goods LLC.

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Notice of Formation of 473 Main Street LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 7/12/17.

Office location: Otsego County.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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RUNNING THENCE Westerly in a straight line between said lands three hundred feet to a point;

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THENCE Northerly in a straight line parallel with said highway and three hundred feet Westerly therefrom to a point two hundred feet Southerly of lands of Russell French;

STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF OTSEGO

THENCE Easterly in a straight line parallel with the first line herein described to the center of said highway; and THENCE Southerly along the center of said highway to the place of BEGINNING. EXCEPTING RESERVING from this conveyance a right of way fifteen feet in width along the southerly line of the premises above described as a means of access for first parties and their assigns from said highway to lands of first parties lying westerly of above premises.

Subject to easements, covenants, and restriction of record.

These premises are also known as 173177 Valder Road a/k/a 177 Valder Road, Maryland, NY 12116 a/k/a Schenevus, NY 12155.

WOODS OVIATT GILMAN LLP Attorney for Plaintiff 700 Crossroads

SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE

Mortgaged Premises: 34 Walnut Street Richfield Springs, (Village of Richfield Springs (Town of Richfield)) NY 13439 Filed: 07/03/2017 Index No.: 2017100 QUICKEN LOANS INC., Plaintiff, vs.

Any unknown heirs to the Estate of SEAN C. COX, next of kin, devisees, legatees, distributees, grantees, assignees, creditors, lienors, trustees, executors, administrators or successors in interest, as well as the respective heirs at law, next of kin, devisees, legatees, distributees, grantees, assignees, lienors, trustees, executors, administrators or successors in interest of the aforesaid classes of persons, if they or any of them be dead, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to the plaintiff;

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NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA O/B/O INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; REBECCA WELLER, NATURAL GUARDIAN OF MINOR: C.C.; CHARLES COX; SUSANNE BERTHOLD LAWRENCE; SALLY COX BENOIT; and “JOHN DOE” and “MARY DOE,” (Said names being fictitious, it being the intention of plaintiff to designate any and all occupants, tenants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises being foreclosed herein.)

Defendants.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is for the foreclosure of: Mortgage bearing the date of July 2, 2014, executed

by Sean C. Cox, a single man to Mortgage Electronic Registration System, Inc. (“MERS”) acting solely as nominee for Quicken Loans Inc. to secure the sum of $71,657.00, and interest, and recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Otsego County on July 14, 2014 in Instrument No.: 2014-3158.

That Mortgage Electronic Registration System, Inc. (“MERS”) acting solely as nominee for Quicken Loans Inc. duly assigned said Note and Mortgage to Quicken Loans Inc. by Assignment dated December 28, 2016 and recorded on January 9, 2017 in the Office of the Clerk of Otsego County in Instrument No.: 2017-131.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the Mortgaged Premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

Plaintiff designates Otsego County as the place of trial.

The basis of venue is the County in which the Mortgaged Premises is situated.

Section: 13.20 Block: 3 Lot: 20.00 DATED: 06/01/2017 Rochester, New York

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

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

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

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. SCHEDULE A LEGAL DESCRIPTION All that tract, piece or parcel of land, situate in the Village of Richfield Springs, County of Otsego, and State of New York, bounded and described as follows, viz; Bounded on the North by lands formerly of John Clayton, on the east by lands formerly of Edmund A. Ward, on the south by land formerly ofWilliam B. Crain and on the west by the center of Walnut Street, being a lot sixty feet wide front and rear and two hundred feet deep.

Also all that other piece or parcel of land situate in the Village of Richfield Springs aforesaid and bounded and described as follows, viz: commencing at the southwest corner of a lot formerly owned byMcKnedrick Kellog on the east side of Walnut St. and running thence along the south side of said Kellog lot easterly to lands formerly of E. A.Ward; thence southerly along the line of said Ward land forty feet; thence westerly on a line parallel to the first described line to the center of Walnut St., thence north along the center ofWalnut St. to the place of beginning.

Premises: 34 Walnut Street, Richfield Springs, NY 13439 Tax Parcel ID No.: Section: 13.20 Block: 3 Lot: 20.00 4LegalAug.10 Legal nOtice

Notice of formation of H4 PROPERTIES, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on July 3, 2017.

The office of

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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, 1883 Ballina Road, Cazenovia, NY 13035.

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

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notice of formation of perkins lane llc Arts. of Org. filed with the Sec’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/19/2017.

Office Location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 648 74th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11209.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of Dutton Veterinary Services PLLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/21/17.

Cty: Otsego.

SSNY desig as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 409 Valley View Rd, Bainbridge, NY. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Formation of Sweet Release, LLC Filed 6/27/17 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 2472 County Highway 11, Mt. Vision, NY 13810 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalAug.10 Legal nOtice

Notice of Formation of 88 Chestnut Street Realty Group, LLC Filed 6/26/17 Office: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 29 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326 Purpose: all lawful 6LegalAug.10 Legal nOtice

Supplemental Summons and Notice of Object of Action Supreme Court of the state of New York County of Otsego Action to foreclose a mortgage Index #: 2017-174 Deutsche bank national trust company, as trustee for Morgan Stanley abs capital I Inc. Trust 2006-wmc2 Plaintiff Vs Christine A. Ryan, Daniel Crowell Otsego County Treasurer,

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Unknown Heirs to the estate of Joseph L. Popp as Heir to the Estate of if living, and if he/she be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff, Citibank, N.A., Otsego County Clerk, People of the State of New York, Reinhardt Home Heating, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, John Doe (those unknown tenants, occupants, persons or corporations or their heirs, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, guardians, assignees, creditors or successors claiming an interest in the mortgaged premises.)

Defendant(s) Mortgaged premises: 46 Maple Street, Oneonta, NY 13820 SBL #: 288.183-55 To the Above named Defendant: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Supplemental Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Supplemental Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York).

In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie.

Trial to be held in the County of Otsego.

The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises.

TO Unknown Heirs to the Estate of Joseph L. Popp Defendant in this Action.

The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. Michael V. Coccoma of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated the Sixteenth day of June, 2017

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and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Otsego, in the City of Coopers town.

The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by Joseph L. Popp (who died on June 27, 2006, a resident of the county of Otsego, State of New York) to secure the sum of $180,500.00.

The Mortgage was recorded at Instrument Number 2006-00044278 in the Office of the Otsego County Clerk on April 6, 2006. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed January 2, 2009 and recorded on January 8, 2009, in the Office of the Otsego County Clerk at Instrument Number 2009-00068785.

The property in question is described as follows: 46 MAPLE STREET, ONEONTA, NY 13820 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

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

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Mom ‘League Of Own’ Hero, Daughter Believes MOM/From B1 said Moellering. “She played baseball while my dad, Bob, was in the war, and just like Dottie’s husband comes back; he came back while she was playing. They offered him a job and a place to live, bumped her salary to $125 a week, but he hated it, so she quit.”

Her teammate, Fay Dancer, was some of the inspiration for Madonna’s Mae Mordabito. “She had a boyfriend in every town,” said Moellering.

“She wore a rabbit coat that held a case of beer!”

Meyer played for the Redwings from 1946 to 1949, but stayed in touch with her teammates all her life. “Her nickname was ‘Slats’ because she was tall and skinny, just like Marty Marion, the shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals,” she said. “Her grandkids called her Grandma Slats.”

When, in 1988, she attended the 50th reunion and unveiling of the Baseball Hall of Fame’s “Women in Baseball” display, she met and talked with producer Penny Marshall, who later invited her to the auditions in Illinois. “They

playing catch and telling her stories of her days as a player. “She was a really cool gal,” said Moellering.

“We didn’t know who she was, so before we went to Cooperstown, we went as saw ‘Thelma and Louise’.

We’ve been fans of hers ever since.”

She shared her stories about the pranks they played – swapping out shaving cream was a popular one – and then continued to play some of those OTSEGO.baseball pranks during filming.

Rita Meyer recorded “Those ladies closed down her memories of the the bar every night,” she Peoria Redwings in said. “I’d go to bed early, her scrapbooks, which and they’d be jumping on daughter Laura Moellering donated to the my bed, partying in the Baseball Hall of Fame parking lot, just like they library. were 18 again!”

The filming lasted six wanted to narrow down weeks, the scene itself who could still play in the was cut down to three reunion game scene,” she minutes. But it was those said. days filming that inspired At the auditions, the Moellering to move to ladies all met the actors, Cooperstown in 2008. “As including Madonna. “Nosoon as I stepped off the body knew who she was,” bus in front of the Lakesaid Moellering. “And she front Motel, I fell in love had this bodyguard, but he with the place,” she said. spent more time talking “I told myself that as soon to the ladies! She really as I retired from UPS, I didn’t need him there.” was going to move here.”

Meyer also worked diNow, she manages rectly with Davis, teaching her how to hold the ball,

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DIY SHIITAKE MUSHROOMS – 11:30 a.m.-Noon.

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ANTIQUE CAR SHOW – Noon-4 p.m. Drive in to see the old cars, win trophies, enjoy food by the Fort Plain AmVets chapter. Windfall Dutch Barn, 2009 Clinton Rd., Cherry Valley. Call (518)9932239 TRUNK SHOW – Noon-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.

COMPOSTING WORKSHOP – 1:30-2:30 p.m. Learn about the different ways to compost with Master Gardener Volunteer Carol Phelps. Free. Registration required. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

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Dreams Park housing, and has pictures of her mom on display. “Whenever little girls see those pictures, I tell them all about her,” she said. “I like to give them an 8-by-10, and their faces just light up.”

Rita Meyer’s uniform is on display at the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame, and the Baseball Hall of Fame has a scrapbook a fan made for her.

But nine days before the premier of “A League of Their Own” in 1992, she passed away in her sleep at age 65. “She’d had all six of her siblings and their spouses over for a barbeque and they talked about the movie,” said her daughter. “The next day, I got a call from my sister to come over, and I got there just before the ambulance, but she was gone.”

Moellering attended the premier in her place. “I had just buried her, and going to the movie was very difficult,” she said.

“But near the end of the movie, there she was, in a big close-up. To see her on screen ... It’s like Penny Marshall knew I would need to see that.”

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URBAN CHICKENS – 2:303:30 p.m. Learn what you need to know to get started raising urban chickens in this short talk with Annabelle Kellum. Free. Registration required. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

HOF BBQ – 3-7 p.m. Annual BBQ features Brooks’ chicken, homemade salads, and pie. Cost, $8-$12. Eat under the tent or get take out.

Cooperstown United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Cooperstown. Call (607)5475782 or (607)547-9540 CONCERT – 5 p.m. “Glass Animals” perform their new album “How To Be A Human Being” with special guest “Little Dragon.” Show starts at 7 p.m. They’ve partnered with Plus 1 so that $1 from every ticket goes to aid children and families affected by conflict. Brewery Ommegang, Cooperstown.

SHAKESPEARE & PICNIC DINNER – 6 p.m. Celebrate the talent of area youth.

Starts with indoor performance by the Introduction to Acting group. A Midsummer Night’s Dream performance at 8 p.m. Bring your own lawn seating. Price, $12. West Kortright Center, 49 West Kortright Church Rd., East Meredith.

CONCERT – 6-10 p.m. The Curtis Road Band perform Classic rock songs and their own original tunes. Windfall Dutch Barn, 2009 Clinton Rd., Cherry Valley. Call (518)9932239 CONCERT – 7 p.m. Hammered dulcimer virtuoso Dan Duggan and Peggy Lyn perform songs inspired by New York’s North Country and other Folk tunes. Pathfinder Village, 3 Chenango Rd., Edmeston. Call (607)965-8377 HOME GAME – 7 p.m. The Oneonta Outlaws vs. The Saugerties Stallions. Last game of the season. Damaschke Field, Oneonta.

MUSICAL – 8 p.m. Presenting “On Golden Pond” starring Carol Dean and Gary E. Stevens. Tickets, $10-15.

The Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. Call 607432-5047 CONCERT – 8 p.m. Presenting the folk rock and synth pop sounds of Beecher’s Fault, a quintet from Queens.

Tickets, $15 adults, $12 youth, seniors, and veterans.

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CONCERT – 3 p.m. Redeeming Love performs abolitionist and shape notes songs. Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta.

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OBITUARIES Kyle W. Bronson, 28, Cooperstown; Leaves Daughter, 2nd Due Any Day COOPERSTOWN – Kyle Willard Bronson, beloved father, son, and friend to many, died tragically Tuesday, July 18, 2017, as the result of injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident on County Highway 11 in the Town of Hartwick. He was 28.

Born Jan. 19, 1989, at Bassett Hospital, Kyle was a son of Michael J. Bronson, Sr., and Patricia Mower Bronson.

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brook, where he was very well-respected and liked by the staff and residents alike.

Throughout his life, Kyle would do whatever he could to help just about anyone, and would always drop whatever he was doing to do so. This held true especially when it came to work that needed doing on the family farm. His favorite saying was, “If there’s a will there’s a way”, and he lived this motto every day of his brief life. He loved his dogs, had a passion for hunting, and was an adrenaline junkie – he had “a need for speed”.

Most important, Kyle remained a dedicated family man who constantly doted on his daughter, Skyla – whom he loved dearly – and he was anxiously awaiting the birth of his second daughter, Sophia, who is due any day. Kyle will be fondly remembered as the glue that kept his entire family together – he will be greatly missed by them and his many, many friends.

Kyle is survived by his girlfriend, Lindsay Arnold and their beloved daughter, Skyla Bronson of Cooperstown; his mother, Patricia E. Bronson and step-father, Larry J. Kukenberger, Sr. of Cooperstown; his father, Michael J. Bronson, Sr. of Cooperstown; a sister, Donna Lutz and husband, Nicholas, and their children, Addilee, Dakota and Kenzie of Milford; two brothers, Mike and Amanda Bronson and their children, Hayden and Mason of Oneonta, and Keith Bronson and wife, Veronica, and their children Parker, Miranda and Sage of Cooperstown; a stepbrother, Larry J. “L.J.” Kukenberger, Jr. of Richfield Springs, and many, many close friends.

He was predeceased by his favorite aunt, Margaret Orendorff, who died July 29, 2016.

A gathering for family and friends is planned 1-6 p.m. Saturday, July 29, at the family farm at 1028 County Highway 33, Cooperstown.

Arrangements are under the care and guidance of the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home.

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RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Joan Willard Atkins, 81, a former teacher in Richfield Springs, passed away Monday July 17, 2017, in Cortland Regional Medical Center, with her family by her side.

She was born on Dec. 4, 1935, in Orchard Park, daughter of the late George E. and Florence Fisher Willard. She received a bachelor’s in education at SUNY Cortland.

On April 5, 1958, she and Kenneth Lee Atkins married in Orchard Park. They shared a loving and devoted union of 27 years until his

passing on Dec. 11, 1985.

A well-loved elementary school teacher, Joan in elementary schools in Phoenix and Schuyler Lake, as well as fourth and second grades in Richfield Springs.

After retiring in June 1997, she was an Outward Bound teacher, joined the Peace Corps and made numerous trips to Europe with her nephew.

Survivors include two sons, Philip Atkins and his wife Noreen of Groton, and James Atkins and his wife Dawn of Leesburg, Va.; daughter, Karen Atkins of Cortland; two grandchildren,

one great-grandson; a sister, Beverly Walsh; a sister-inlaw Marie Willard, and a host of nieces and nephews.

Besides her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by her brother George (Bud) Willard and a brotherin-law, William Walsh.

A funeral service was held Saturday, July 22 at the J. Seaton McGrath funeral home, with the Rev. Jill Stellman, rector of Saint Johns’ Episcopal Church, officiating. Interment was in Schuyler Lake Cemetery.

Arrangements are entrusted to the J. Seaton Mcgrath Funeral Home.

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WATER SAFETY – 9 a.m.12:30 p.m. Free class where kids can learn how to be safe around water. Wilber Park Pool, Oneonta.

YOUNG ARTISTS – 5-6 p.m. Members of the Young Artists program present songs, stories, and more that signify home in this show “Any Place I Hang My Hat.” Tickets, 20 adult, $10 youth.

Glimmerglass Opera, 7300 NY-80, Cooperstown.

FAIR OPENING – 6:30 p.m.

Annual Hymn sing and Special Music to open the Otsego County Fair. Selection include Gail and Monte Smith, Don Isaac, and Sonja Galley and group with praise songs. All welcome. Free. Grand Stand, Otsego County Fair Grounds, 469 Mill St., Morris.

K-9 PRESENTATION – 7-8:15 p.m. The State Police K-9 unit present on how the dogs are trained to help police in their work. Bring your own blanket and lawn chair. Cooperstown Village Library Lawn.

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OTSEGO COUNTY FAIR – 8 a.m. Gates. Buildings open 10 a.m. Open to 9 p.m. Adimission $1 for the first day only.

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(888) 551-9709 • royalautony.com 6464 STATE HIGHWAY 23 ONEONTA NY

No payments until Sept. 2017 with customer credit score of 750 or more. All vehicles exclude tax and DMV fees. Prior sales excluded. All offers expire 8/5/17. See dealer for full program details and qualifications