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Art Klinger, county emergency services coordinator, confers with XNG Vice President Matt Smith during training exercises attended by almost 100 emergency personnel countywide Tuesday, Aug. 8, at The Meadows. XNG is trucking natural gas across the county to its plant near Little Falls.

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fter two months of debate, the village trustees voted unanimously Tuesday, Aug. 8, to once again allow businesses to have “sandwich board” ads in front of their buildings.

Signs must be no more than 24 by 42 inches, and must leave at least 60 inches of sidewalk unobstructed, per ADA regulations. On Pioneer Street, where the sidewalks are only 48 inches wide, a business may apply for a variance.

“We want to help businesses attract customers, but also keep people safe,” said Mayor Jeff Katz.

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200 friends and wellwishers gather around Jacelyn’s portrait at a Candlelight Vigil at Morris Central School Monday, Aug. 7.

‘Just Kill Me,’ Suspect Told Arresting Officer

VIGIL IN MORRIS

Death While Crime Was In Progress Led To First-Degree Murder Charge

‘Jack...Really Sweet, Everybody’s Friend’

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nderstanding the severity of his predicament, James Brower, accused of the rape and murder of an 11-yearold Morris girl, told officers arriving to arrest him, “Please just kill me.”

That was a highpoint of a number of revelations surrounding the Sunday, July 30, death of Jacelyn O’Connor, made at a preliminary hearing Tuesday, Aug. 8, where

Brower’s case was held over for grand jury.

The hearing, before Norwich Town Justice James A. Fox, was held Please See COURT, A7

Tylor Kropp, Morris, drives the 1989 Oldsmobile decorated by friends in Jacelyn O’Connor’s memory in the Northeast Demolition Derby Sunday, Aug. 6, at the Otsego County Fair.

‘It Takes A Village’ To Save 6 Kittens Found Abandoned them and pet them,” said Sasha Sloth, 9, daughter ONEONTA of Kristin Sloth and sister of Anya, ix little res12, who took on cued kittens the responsibility are making a Found, saved of helping save lot of people happy. two of the newborns found “I’ll hold them and rock Please See KITTENS, B5

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ne day in class, Jacelyn O’Connor raised her hand with an idea to share.

“She said the teacher should email the homework to the mom instead of printSchool photo ing out sheets so we could of Jacelyn save a few trees,” said Everett Pondolfino, a classmate at Morris Central School.

“She always had bright ideas in class, like that we should have a school swimming pool.”

The Pondolfino family joined more than 200 Please See VIGIL, A7

Chris-Craft Gift Spurs Ideas At Hyde Hall

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hough her days sailing around Otsego Lake in “Big Boat” are through, Veronica Gil Seaver wanted to make sure the 1929 ChrisCraft boat owned by her late Please See BOAT, A6

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Jon Maney and Veronica Seaver examine the ChrisCraft she donated to Hyde Hall.

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Recipients of Otsego 2000’s Historic Preservation Awards for Otsego and Schoharie counties are, front row, from left, Maureen Culbert, Mary Ann Larkin and Kathy Merrick. At right are the Beekman Boys – Brent Ridge, foreground, and Josh Kilmer-Purcell. Second row, from left, are Cindy Falk, Paul Hager and Otsego 2000 President Nicole Dillingham. Back row, from left, are Jeff Katz, Jim Dean and Bill Waller.

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Accepting the honor on the village’s behalf were Mayor Jeff Katz and Trustees Jim Dean and Cindy Falk.

The village received a Community Pillar Award, as did the Beekman Boys – Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge – for the

restoration of Sharon Springs’ former village hall for their Beekman 1802 emporium.

Education and Outreach Awards went to: • The Springfield Historical Society, represented by Maureen Culbert, for its “History in Color” coloring book, • To Christ Episcopal Church, Cooperstown, for historical signage on its educational kiosk and cemetery signage, represented

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EDITORIAL

CAN OTSEGO COUNTY LEAD STATEWIDE MOVEMENT?

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August meeting of the Otsego Worse than the shocking County Board of Representatives amount is the injustice. As the on the 2nd wound down, county formula works out, rich counties Rep. Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla, stood like Westchester, which have and distributed a mysterious list of proportionally fewer residents numbers to his colleagues: 3144, using Medicaid, end up spend9, 62, 7.3 and so on. ing less per capita than poorer He had their attention. counties like Otsego, which has The Freeman’s Journal more poor people, the county Frazier went on to populated that sheet of numbers with details Representative representative said.

Frazier addresses that led to a shocking reality: 90 And, unique among American percent of property taxes raised in his colleagues. states, this has been going on for Otsego County are sent to Albany 60 years, since Governor Rocketo pay for one federal program, feller hatched the original deal in Medicaid.

1966. According to Acquario, Rockefeller In 2016, that was $10.2 million of an tried to roll it back the following year, but $11.4 million total. Some years, according the state Legislature would have none of it. to Steve Acquario, New York State AssociaThis is timely now because of the Collinstion of Counties executive director, Otsego Please See EDITORIAL, A5

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Editor’s Note: Here are the numbers county Rep. Ed Frazier shared with the county board Wednesday, Aug. 2, dramatizing how much Otsego and other Upstate counties pay to support Medicaid compared to counties in other states.

• 3,144 counties in the U.S. • $9 billion in Medicaid is paid by those counties • 62 counties in New York State • $7.3 billion of the $9 billion is paid by those 62 counties • 57 Upstate counties pay $2.3 billion of $7.3 billion New York State pays • 3.144 counties, minus 62 NYS counties, equals 3,082 • Those 3,082 counties pay $1.7 billion • Upstate counties pay $2.3 billion in

Medicaid, more than counties in all other 49 states combined. (“Think about that,” Frazier added at this point.)

• In 22 states, there are zero local dollars for Medicaid. “Almost half the country: No local dollars for Medicaid,” he said.

• $11.4 million, total tax levy for Otsego County.

• $10.2 million paid for Medicaid in 2016

by Otsego County.

• “90 percent of our county tax levy – nine out of 10 dollars – raised by property taxes goes to the state for our Medicaid costs,” he said.

• $10 million – “Let’s put that in perspective: That is a DRI award every year for our county, $10 million every year,” he concluded, referring to state grant for Oneonta’s downtown revitalization.

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LETTERS

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Otsego County Fair Should Ban Display Of Confederate Flag

To the Editor: I visited the Otsego County Fair in Morris on Sunday, Aug. 6, with my family, as we do almost every year. My 7-year-old daughter loves the fair and looks forward to it each summer, and my wife and I enjoy it as well. We especially like the wonderful 4-H displays and the impressive show animals.

Amidst such a positive atmosphere, it was jarring, and very disappointing, to see From www.history.com Confederate flags for sale at several of the vendors’ booths. I counted no fewer than five large Confederate ot like the brazen giant of Greek fame, flags prominently displayed.

With conquering limbs astride from land to One vendor was selling land; toys and had the flag hangHere at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand ing as a backdrop. What A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame possible connection could Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name, this symbol of racism and “Mother of Exiles.” From her beacon-hand bigotry have to children’s Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes complaythings? More important, mand why does the fair continue The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. to invite vendors who • “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries display and profit from she a symbol of hate?

With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, I was under the impression Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, that the fair had made the The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. wise and ethical decision Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, not to permit vendors to sell I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

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ter the horrific killing of nine African American churchgoers by a white supremacist in Charleston, S.C., in 2015.

Evidently, I was mistaken.

I raised my concerns to one of the festival directors, and we had a respectful, but ultimately unsatisfying, conversation.

He informed me that the fair has chosen not to place restrictions on what vendors may sell. I expressed to him my disappointment with this decision for two main reasons: • 1) Thousands of New Yorkers, including hundreds of men from Otsego County, fought and died in the Civil War to ensure that the Confederate flag would not fly.

It dishonors their sacrifice to have the flag so prominently displayed at our county fair.

New York State was the largest source of men and materiel for the Union war effort. New Yorkers, including the ancestors of many Otsego County residents, gave the “last full measure of devotion” fighting against secession and for the cause Please See WALKER, A6

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He later became a prosperous merchant, politician, mayor of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., and retired to Los Angeles - taking his horses and family of 12 in two private rail cars.

How about you, you think you‘d be here if this new policy was retroactive back to 1880?

I wouldn’t even exist.

So here’s to Emma Lazarus and her poem.

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To the Editor: The Statue of Liberty poem was written during the height of Jewish, Italian and Irish immigration.

My great-grandfather from County Kerry might not have made it in under Trump’s new immigration policy, nor possibly Bannon’s, nor Kushner’s, nor Steve Job’s father (Syria) etc., etc.

You get the picture.

When Patrick Kelleher got here, he got a job pushing a wheelbarrow to build the Sault

FRAZIER: 90% OF COUNTY TAX LEVY GOES TO MEDICAID

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e must say that we were taken aback when we learned that Otsego County will be closing the Northern Transfer Station, located on Route 28 between Cooperstown and Fly Creek, from Monday, Aug. 21 through Saturday, Sept. 30.

Our initial thought is that the timing of this closing could not be worse, given it is being done during the height of the tourist season when there is much more trash, not to mention recyclables, generated in this area than at any other time of the year. Additionally, this is the time of year when all sorts of construction projects, which produce all sorts of debris, are in full swing.

In view of what we consider to be the unbelievable timing of the closing

of the Northern Transfer Station for an unspecified construction project, we decided to call the number listed in the paper, namely 547-4225, to see if we could get some clarification about all of this.

• When we asked if the construction project could be delayed for CATHERINE two weeks until LAKE after Labor Day ELLSWORTH to at least help the tourist industry dispose of its trash, we were told in no uncertain terms no. The reason given was the terms of the county’s contract

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with the contractor for the project. We have to wonder why, in laying out the terms of the contract, the county did 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

On the whole, the farmer has more reason to rejoice than to repine. Our country is rich in the fruits of the earth, and did we improve our natural advantages – did we afford encouragement to manufacturers to come and reside among us, to supply our wants, and consume a part of our surplus products instead of depending wholly on a precarious foreign market, we should cease to hear of “hard times,” money would be as plenty as industry and enterprise could make it – the nation would be independent and individuals prosperous and happy.

August 28, 1817

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175 YEARS AGO

Temperance – W.D. Minton, a reformed drunkard and late agent of the Orange County Temperance Society will relate his experience as a moderate drinker and drunkard for fifteen years, on Monday and Tuesday evenings, 15th and 16th instants, and on Wednesday the 17th will deliver a lecture on “delirium tremens,” and will exhibit seven paintings of the human stomach, showing the effect of alcohol on that organ in all stages of intemperance to death. These paintings are larger than life, are on white muslin, and may be distinctly seen from any part of a room when well lighted. The lectures will take place in some one of the churches in Cooperstown.

August 15, 1842

150 YEARS AGO

Hops – A former resident of Otsego County writes from Dane County, Wisconsin – While yards are looking better here than I have ever seen in Otsego previous to 1857, yet I do not deem the prospect for large yields so promising as last season, the yards having suffered from the grub, which being a new visitor here were not destroyed in season. However, well-cultivated fields will yield largely while the great majority will turn out less than last season. Roots were in large demand last spring at $5 and $8 for 22 pounds. For the benefit of Otsego growers who anticipate coming west, from

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August 15, 1917 whom we are in receipt of letters quite frequently, we add that good hop growing farms can be had at $30 to $50 per acre, near railroads, and well improved with good buildings; while tamarack poles, which last from five to eight years, can be obtained at a cost of 10 cents each. Every kind of crop in southern Wisconsin is looking well, and the farmers and businessmen are in excellent spirits in anticipation of full granaries and full coffers.

August 9, 1867

125 YEARS AGO

Union School – The Board of Education of Cooperstown Union School has issued a

Public Impact Not Considered COLUMN/From A4 not specify that it could not be done during the height of the tourist season, with its inherent mounds of trash.

Or is this something of which the county is unaware?

We also inquired as to whether or not the transfer station could be open during whatever the proposed construction might be. We were informed that doing so would cause unacceptable liability issues. It made us wonder just what sort of construction was being planned and what the cost will be to taxpayers.

We also have to wonder how long has the county has known the Northern Transfer Station would be closed. It is our understanding from those who use the transfer station on a regular basis, that they only received a handout about the closure on Monday, July 31. When we pointed out during our telephone conversation that we thought the public had not been well informed of the county’s plans, we were told that the information was on the county’s website under solid waste, which also lists all 12 of the household recycling and bagged garbage drop off centers in the county.

• Now we admit that we do get a lot of our news online.

But as a general rule, we do not check the county website for the status of solid waste disposal in the county. We tend to rely on our local newspapers for that information. Thus, we asked if a press release had been sent to the papers about the planned closure. We were assured that it had been, but we were told it was not known when the release had been sent out. We were also told there was no certainty that the papers would print it anyway.

Before ending the call, we took the liberty to point out that we were very disappointed in how the county

handsome 30-page Catalogue and Circular, from this office (printed by The Freeman’s Journal) giving all necessary information in regard to the course of study, the advantages afforded the students, list of instructors and scholars, University credentials, prizes awarded, library and apparatus, information for pupils from a distance, etc. In the library there are now nearly 3,000 well-selected books. The laboratory is fairly supplied with apparatus sand conveniences to illustrate the principles of elementary chemistry and physics. The geological collection consists of several hundred specimens of rocks, fossils and casts to illustrate every geological strata. The school is fully supplied with the best physiological and botanical charts. The Principal is assisted by an efficient corps of nine teachers. The fall term begins Monday, August 29.

August 11, 1892

seems to have dealt with informing the public about the closure of the Northern Transfer Station.

Additionally, since the tourist industry always struggles to make the lion’s share of its revenue in the summer, we thought it was a slap in the face of an industry which provides the county with a great deal of both sales and bed tax. Plus, we did not think much thought had been given to the cost to area garbage haulers and contractors of having to haul their garbage and debris to the Southern Transfer Station in Oneonta and how that will probably increase their cost of doing business.

• In researching how to deal with the impending closure, we did discover that, according to the county’s website, there are four drop-off centers, in Cherry Valley, Exeter, Richfield and Springfield, that will accept both household recyclables and bagged garbage from Otsego County residents. All sites are listed as only being open on Saturdays, although we understand there may be extended hours in the Town of Exeter. Further information is available at www.otsegocounty.com.

Garbage haulers and contractors will, we assume, have to make the arduous trip to the Southern Transfer Station. As for our plans, we fully intend, during the closure, to just let the recyclables and trash pile up hoping it does not draw unwanted vermin until such time as the transfer station reopens, whenever that might actually be.

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

Forty-two men and forty-two women volunteer spotters are needed to man the new observation post atop the Second National Bank building in Cooperstown when operation commences on Friday night, August 14, at midnight, according to Edward R. Curtis, chief observer. Men will be assigned to duty in two-hour shifts from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. and the women in the same length periods from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Each person will serve two periods a week. This post is being established to take the place of the posts that have been operated at Toddsville and Whig Corners. Those men already on the list are Newton E.D. Gilmore, Norman Wilson, Henry Hamlin, Robert Matthews, Simon Acoutin, Clyde Ballard, James Doran, Lester Clark, Waldo T. Ellsworth, Milton Schidzick, Robert Jennings, Theodore Bellows, Kenneth W. Root, James Hall, G. Reed Sill, Ralph W. Ellsworth, Monroe F. Augur, John J. O’Connell, Raymond C. Derrick, Paul A. Clark, Richard Shepard, Sumner M. Shumway, Nelson Frew, Jay Davis, James Moakler, Edward Jacobson, Kenneth Shepard, and Forest Knapp.

August 12, 1942

50 YEARS AGO

One of the major attractions at this year’s Cooperstown Summer Festival will be the appearance of Eddie Feigner and his fourman softball team known as “The King and His Court.” Feigner has been called the “greatest softball pitcher of all time” by sportswriters from all over the United States. He and his team have played 3,860 games in the past years with a remarkable record of 3,567 wins, just 251 losses and 42 ties. Feigner has had just under 500 no-hit games during this period. He has struck out 48,712 and recorded 858 shutouts, plus 140 perfect games, retiring every man he faced.

August 16, 1967

25 YEARS AGO

Surveys over the past ten years indicate that a significant number of Americans believe the media have taken their Constitutional right of free expression too far. Many Americans think the media has no business prying into the personal lives of public figures. People protested during the 1988 presidential race when Gary Hart dropped out of the race after cameras caught him conducting an alleged extramarital affair.

Here in Otsego County, local media publicized the questionable use of STOP-DWI funds by the Oneonta Police Department.

Have the media gone too far? In a word, no. The media has a number of roles which includes reporting the day’s events, educating the public, entertaining the public and editorializing. But another vital function of the media is uncovering and exposing undesirable or criminal activities.

August 12, 1992

10 YEARS AGO

The First Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown celebrated its bicentennial on Sunday, August 5, with a service titled “Homecoming Sunday – 200 Years in This Place.” The service included an overview of the church’s history by the Rev. Dr. Patricia L. Schick, as well as a reaffirmation of baptism for the congregation.

August 10, 2007

LETTERS

Think Of The Impact Of The Simple Plastic Bag To the Editor: In an attempt to find some common ground and do some common good in this era of divisiveness, there are two things that I think we Cooperstownians can all agree upon. First, plastic bags on the side of the road are ugly.

Second, drinking contaminated water is bad for our health.

Of course, there are a whole host of other problems we can focus on, but starting out with one or two small life changes can make one feel empowered and still have a considerable impact on our common good without feeling overwhelmed.

I used to mindlessly consume countless plastic bags. Not until viewing the film, “Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch”, at a local church, did I realize the two ugly sides of plastic bags. Once plastic is produced, it is here to stay.

Yes, we can recycle it into different forms (our local Price Chopper does offer this recycling service near the returnables), but the reality is that it will never leave the planet once it is created.

And to think that most of us use those bags for less than 10 minutes!

These fleeting uses add up to the average plastic bag consumption of 400500 per American per year.

The other side of the plastic bag problem that I had not previously considered was its dependence upon petroleum products to be produced.

It is estimated that 12 million barrels of oil are used each year to produce plastic bags for Americans alone.

Changing our mindset from a good mindset of reduce, reuse, recycle to a better mindset of refuse will help us end this cycle of plastic permanence.

Consumers can bring cloth bags or ask for paper, while merchants can offer paper alternatives or even discounts (like Price Chopper) to those who bring their own bags.

By doing this we can save valuable natural resources, reduce our plastic waste and preserve our roadsides and waterways from ugly and harmful plastic. I encourage Cooperstown businesses to take leadership in this realm.

I believe that your customers will appreciate these efforts.

Finally, a quick note on drinking water. We are fortunate to live in a community where we are able to drink water, supplied by our lovely Lake Otsego. With that in mind, I ask village homeowners and local lawn care providers to take a moment to consider the impact of their use of herbicides on lawns.

The little yellow flags warn passersby of harm to pets and to children who come in contact with their lawns.

But once these chemicals are washed into our lake and river, these hazards are no longer contained to a private patch of grass. These contaminate our collective drinking water as well as the fish and wildlife who live there.

As an alternative to those yellow warning flags on your lawn, consider yellow dandelions as a sign that you care about your neighbors, your drinking water and your health. Start by simply watching where your rain drops flow this summer and then think twice before saying yes to herbicides.

SUSIE KNIGHT Cooperstown

EDITORIAL

Governors Know Counties Treated Unjustly. It’s Time To Act EDITORIAL/From A4 Faso Amendment. U.S. Rep. John Faso, R-Kinderhook, proposed the amendment to the American Health Care Act (AHCA), which has failed to pass Congress despite several attempts and now appears stymied.

Faso’s amendment is structured so that Albany would be penalized to the degree it failed to take back funding Medicaid from the counties.

Still, bad as Otsego County and the state’s funding mechanism may be, swapping one fiasco for another is shortsighted. The AHCA, if passed, would cause an estimated 23 million Americans to lose health insurance over 10 years, primarily by reducing $119 billion in Medicaid funding.

This would hurt many of our neighbors person-

ally, including many who can only remain in nursing homes due to Medicaid. It would also damage local institutions like Springbrook, one of the county’s top five employers, whose residents depend on Medicaid, and the Bassett Healthcare Network.

Swapping Acquario a bad situation for one that may be even worse is not progress.

At the July county board meeting, outspoken opposition from the public convinced the county representatives not to approve a resolution supporting Collins-Faso. At last week’s August meeting, Frazier, despite his convincing arguments, did not reintroduce

the resolution, but said he might do so at the September meeting.

For the reasons stated above, better leave it alone.

• During discussion, county Rep. Len Carson, R-Oneonta, proposed a grassroots approach to ending the state’s unjust system of Medicaid reimbursement: Write a letter to Governor Cuomo stating the county’s case, and line up other counties – Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Schoharie and beyond – plus senior state senators like our Jim Seward, R-Milford, to champion the cause.

In an interview, Acquario said that’s a plausible approach. Every governor has recognized the injustice; Governor Cuomo put a cap on Medicaid in 2013. “It’s a $100 million program that

became a $7 billion problem,” the NYSAC executive said.

Frazier pointed out that $2.3 billion, the Upstate Medicaid price tag, is only a little more than 1 percent of the state budget, so it would be manageable for Albany.

This isn’t just theoretical.

Acquario pointed out counties have things to do: build new jails (Otsego is facing up to a $30 million bill there), fight the opioid epidemic, Internet expansion, infrastructure. If we have nothing, we can spend nothing.

For counties, “it’s less about Faso-Collins and more about the big picture,” he said. “The big picture being local taxpayers paying more for state-mandate programs than any other state in the U.S. This has to change.”

Amen.

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Next, Hyde Hall May Launch Dock, Otsego Lake Boat Museum BOAT/From A1 husband, Bob, and formerly

by Ann H.C. Logan, one of the last Clarkes to be born in Hyde Hall, stayed on the lake.

“Bob” – under the pen name, “The Badger,” he was a beloved columnist for The Freeman’s Journal – “bought it from Ann in the mid-1960s, and she had bought it for her husband, John, in the 1950s,” said Seaver. “He used to pick me up in it and take me out on the lake. That was our courtship.”

After Bob’s death in 2006, she had the boat fully restored, and on Saturday, Aug. 5, donated the Big Boat to Hyde Hall during the “Our Fair Lady”

gala, celebrating the mansion’s 200th anniversary. “We wanted it to stay local,” said Seaver.

“It’s difficult for me to drive alone, but none of my children wanted it. So I came up with the idea of offering it to Hyde Hall.”

“Ann spent her childhood here at the house, so this boat has a connection here,” said Jon Maney, Hyde Hall executive director. “But most importantly, this boat is connected to Otsego Lake. It’s been here since it was made.”

As the summer winds down, Maney plans to store the boat at Sam Smith’s Boatyard, but next summer, visitors to Hyde Hall might get a chance to go

out on the lake in style. “We want to use it from time to time for special cruises, six or seven people,” he said. “It’s a way for us to connect to the Glimmerglass Festival, to Otesaga or other points on the lake.”

The so-called mahogany launch boat can attain speeds of up to 34 knots, nearly 40 miles per hour. “It’s very fast and in practically brand new condition,” he said. “They’re great boats, renowned for their beauty and speed.”

And with the donation of the boat, Hyde Hall has begun work towards developing a maritime museum, focusing on the history of the lake. “The

history of Otsego Lake doesn’t yet have a home, and we want people to have a place to learn about lake history, culture and how it was used for business,” he said.

In the 1970s, the woodshed, formerly located on the north side of Hyde Hall, near the menservants’ hall, was relocated behind what is now the Kent Center with the intent of restoring it and putting it back on the foundation. But the restoration never happened, and now, Maney is raising funds to not only restore the woodshed, but use it for the museum.

“It held enough wood to heat the whole house,” he said.

“We can fit several boats in

there to display. We’d love to find other watercraft associated with the lake’s history.”

The museum is part of Hyde Hall’s continuing mission to document local history. “We want to make this place feel relevant,” said Maney.

They are two months into their Challenge Grant fundraiser, seeking up to $100,000 in donations to be matched

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Why not sell American flags and the regimental colors of Union army units? Why not show our pride in the service and sacrifice of our Otsego County veterans?

Amazingly, I saw no large American flags on sale in the vendor area – only Confederate flags. This is disgraceful. Our Otsego County ancestors were proud Union army veterans and supporters of the Union, how can we possibly support flying the Confederate flag?

2) The Confederate flag is a symbol of racism and hatred, and it does not reflect the values of the Otsego County Fair or the majority of Otsego County residents.

During the Civil War, the Confederacy fought to keep four million enslaved African Americans in bondage. The preservation of slavery was the Confederate states’ primary justification for secession (this statement reflects the consensus of historians and is amply supported by the documentary record).

Because of the flag’s association with the cause of the Confederacy, many Americans rightly see it as a symbol of slavery and racial oppression.

Moreover, one hundred years after the war, during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, white supremacists revived the symbolism of the flag as an emblem of massive resistance to desegregation. It was during this period that flying the flag became a widespread cultural phenomenon.

Its message of white supremacy was unmistakable – the flag was a way of saying that black and white people should be segregated from one another in public spaces, such as schools, movie theaters, and restaurants. It also supported racial violence, including the lynching of thousands of African Americans as well as the killing and beating of many black and white civil rights activists.

After civil rights activists and the federal government successfully ended legalized Jim Crow segregation, the flag continued to symbolize resistance to civil rights and racial equality, and it retains that meaning today. Without question, the flag has long been a symbol of racial discrimination and hatred, and it has no place at the Otsego County Fair.

For those who maintain that the flag is simply an emblem of rural people or rebel identity, I respectfully ask you to take a closer look at the history of the flag and decide for yourselves.

There are other, more positive ways to represent our pride in

being from a rural area.

I urge, in the strongest possible terms, the directors of the Otsego County Fair to reconsider their decision to allow vendors to sell Confederate flags and other items with Confederate imagery. The excuse that they cannot limit the free speech of vendors is not an acceptable response.

The vendors may have the right to sell whatever they want on their own private property, but the fair is a representation of our values as a community.

We absolutely have the right to set guidelines and restrictions on what can or cannot be sold. I respectfully remind the directors that Walmart made

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Victim’s Mother: ‘Why Are You Doing This? He’s Going To Hell’ COURT/From A1 to determine if an indictable crime had been committed. A grand jury will decide within 45 days whether to indict Brower, currently under arrest on charges of first-degree murder and rape. In New York State, a death that occurs during commission of another crime – in this case, rape – is prosecuted as first-degree murder.

Testimony in the packed, sweltering courtroom was graphic and grim.

Under questioning by Chenango District Attorney Joseph A. McBride, witnesses said the rape occurred during the night of July 29-30, but that Mr. Brower didn’t call 911 to report that Jacelyn was not breathing for more than 12 hours.

When police arrived at Brower’s home on Route 33 in Norwich, at 11:13 AM, they found the child on a bed – stiff, with a purple face and eyes swollen shut. There was blood on the bed and on Jacelyn. According to a coroner’s report, Brower had smothered Jacelyn with a pillow as he raped her, and that she’d gone into car-

James Brower, 36, is led from his arraignment in Norwich Town Court Thursday, Aug. 3.

Pool photographs by Tyler Murphy, Evening Sun, Norwich

diac arrest.

Brower’s DNA was found in Jacelyn, on Brower, and on his boxer shorts. According to the witnesses, the suspect said he had no idea how it had gotten there, but that it could have happened anytime, since he’d been wearing the same pair of shorts for three weeks.

Under questioning, said the witnesses, Brower first blamed one or more of the six children who were in the home at the time for Jacelyn’s death, but that as he continued to talk, his story began to unravel.

When he was finally arrested, he turned to one of the officers and said, “Please just kill me.”

At the end of the hearing, District Attorney McBride said that Brower’s actions, together with his asking to be killed, bespoke guilt. The defendant’s legal team called no witnesses, but disputed McBride’s assertion. Judge Fox then said that there had been enough evidence related at the hearing

Community Reflects On Loss Of One Of Its Own, Age 11 VIGIL/From A1 other community members, family and friends Monday, Aug. 7, at a candlelight vigil in front of the school where Jacelyn, 11, would have started sixth grade in a few weeks.

“She was really sweet,” said Everett. “She was everybody’s friend. When we were on the playground, she always wanted to play with everyone, and she

never made a fuss about what game we played.”

Nicknamed “Jack,” Jacelyn had 15 brothers and sisters, according to her obituary. She loved slumber parties, playing Minecraft, and art projects. Her sudden death and the arrests of James R. Brower, father of two of her half-brothers, and his boyfriend, Tobias Rundstrom-Wooding, came as a shock to the closely knit community and Otsego County at large.

“There are monsters out there,” said Matthew Miller, a Morris neighbor.

“As a father, you just want to hole up your kids and keep them safe. But you can’t do that.

Even if you didn’t know the family, this is a tragedy for Upstate. We don’t know what to do.”

White ribbons have HOMETOWN ONEONTA & The Freeman’s Journal been tied around poles Balloons – many pink, Jacelyn’s and trees favorite color – sent heavenward at throughout the Morris Central vigil.

the town, and gaththeir neighborhood, ered community and she was always members wore red out playing in front and pink, Jacelyn’s of her house,” said favorite colors, in Miller. “She was enher honor. Many ergetic and she was in her class made always helpful. If I T-shirts to wear in was picking up trash, her memory; Evershe’d come over and ett had a drawing help out.” of her and “Good The vigil was Friend” written the second public across the shoulshow of support for der, with “We’ll Jacelyn’s family. On Always Remember Sunday, Tylor Kopp, You” on the back.

Morris, drove a 1989 “It’s helping Everett Pondol- Oldsmobile, with her them work through fino designed name in pink glitter what they’re this T-shirt in his and signed with mesfeeling,” said his friend’s memory. sages of love, in the mother, Amy. Demolition Derby at Mourners the Otsego County huddled close together during Fair. the 40-minute vigil, lighting “We’re all sending lots of candles in a heart shape around prayers to the family,” said a poster-sized print of Jacelyn’s Miller. “God bless them for photo. Pastor Brad Keator of what they’re going through.” the Chenango Christian Church led the mourners in prayer and “Amazing Grace,” and her classmates released more than dozen red, pink and white heart-shaped balloons.

“Everyone impacted by this, both family and friends, are staying close to one another, encouraging one another and holding onto their faith,” Pastor Keator said in a statement released Monday by the family.

“Everyone is praying for the truth to be revealed and beginning the road to healing.”

Some offered memories of Jacelyn’s warmth, kindness and sense of humor. “I worked in

to say that there was “We’re here for reasonable cause to Jacelyn, but we refer the case to a can’t abandon grand jury.

James.”

The testimony Ten corrections tended to discount officers, all armed earlier reports that and wearing bulBrower’s long-time letproof vests as partner, Tobias standard procedure, Rundstrom-Woodstood between the ing, 34, had also family and reportraped Jacelyn, ers, and the court Tobias Rundsince he is impostrom-Wooding personnel, facing tent. Rundstromthe courtroom seats. at his Monday, Wooding had been Aug. 7, arraign- Brower, who never scheduled for a spoke, was shackled ment as Browpreliminary hearing er’s accomplice/ and handcuffed. after Brower’s, but boyfriend.

His three-man waived it and was defense team called not present in the courtroom. no witnesses.

He is still being held in the As he was led from the Chenango County jail, along door to the courtroom and into with Brower. a corrections van, Jacelyn’s Many members of Bower’s mother, Mandy Martinez, who extended family were in the said she was a recovering drug courtroom. “It’s been terrible addict, asked, “Why are you for the family,” said one, who doing this? You know he’s said he was Brower’s brother. going to Hell, right?”

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Anna and Paul D’Ambrosio pause in front of Ralph Frasanella’s “Dress Shop” at The Fenimore Art Museum.

His passionate and expert description of the painting when she was touring the Cooperstown Graduate Program as a prospective “first year” initially piqued her interested in the man who would become her husband.

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So in 1987, when young Assistant Curator Paul D’Ambrosio escorted

Sarah Lee Guthrie sings with dad Arlo at Clearwater Festival.

“first year” Anna Tobin to then-NYSHA’s annual Christmas Party at The Fenimore Art Museum, “eyebrows went up,” he recalled the other day.

They may not have known it that enchanted evening but, even then, a few months after they had met, there would be no turning back.

They married on July 21, 1990, pursued parallel and increasingly accomplished

careers in museum administration and, this past Monday, Aug. 7, she arrived at 310 Genesee St. in Utica for her first day as president of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute.

About the same time, he arrived at 5790 Route 80, Cooperstown’s West Lake Road, to the job he’s held for the past six years: president of The Fenimore Art Museum, as Please See D’AMBROSIO, B3

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IF YOU GO: Sarah Lee Guthrie, 8 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 17, BSide Ballroom, Clinton Plaza. Dinner/show eservations, 4322053.

Guthrie, thought she’d take a guitar home to practice her own music.

“I found this old ¾-sized guitar in a closet and thought no one would miss it,” she said. “A few weeks later, my dad saw I had posted a picture of it and said ‘There’s Jerry Jeff Walker’s guitar, I’ve Please See SONG, B7

BACK IN TIME: Visit Medieval Renaissance with your friends. Dress the part, play games, find incredible souvenirs, see performers like the Celtic step dancers and Robert the Magician perform, and enjoy the roast pig. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 12-13. Windfall Dutch Barn, 2009 Clinton Road, Salt Springville, north of Cherry Valley.

MASQUERADE BALL: Don your finest attire, wear a mask and have a grand night at the ball. It’s “La Notte Delle Machere,” the first community ball.

Proceeds benefit the restoration of the roof of the inn. 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 12.

The Major’s Inn, Gilbertsville. Tickets at www.themajorsinn.com DANCES OF WOLVES: See debut performance of theatrical adaptation of “She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth I.” Performed by dancer/choreographer/actress Laura Careless. 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 12. The Church, 2381 Route 205, Mount Vision.

ANNUAL MEETING: Join Otsego Lake Association for morning of coffee, donuts, and speakers on current condition of lake. 8:30-11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 12, Glimmerglass Festival, 7300 Route 80, Springfield Center.

HAPPY HALF-CENTURY: Celebrate 50 years of the Biological Field Station with dinner, tours and more. 2 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 18. Thayer Farm, Route 80, Cooperstown. Tickets, (607) 547-8778

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LIVING WELL WORKSHOP – 9-11:30 a.m. Learn to manage high-blood pressure. 6 Ann St, Richfield Springs. call (607)547-3360 or e-mail LivingWellSessions@bassett.org SCIENCE FRIDAY – 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Introduce kids at 10 with a story hour, Take a guided nature walk, see a presentation in the SUNY Planetarium. Reservations required. SUNY Oneonta.

YOUTH OPERA – 11 a.m.Noon. Premier of “Robin Hood” performed by Glimmerglass Youth Chorus & members of the Young Artists Program. Cooperstown Theater Barn south of the Glimmerglass Festival, Cooperstown. Call (607) 5472255 MEDITATION GROUP – 11 a.m.-Noon. 11th step meditation group every Friday. The Turning Point, 22 Elm St., Oneonta. Call (607) 2674435.

VANITA DISSECTED – 2 p.m. Discover how artists and doctors collaborated in studying the human body and what they learned from each other with artist/MD Allison Hill-Edgar. Tickets, $15.

The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown.

GAME NIGHT – 6-8 p.m.

Enjoy pizza and a night of

games with friends. Available are classics like scrabble and chess. Legos available.

Bring your own board game.

Cooperstown Village Library.

Call (607) 547-8344 CONCERT – 7:30 p.m.

Clarinet quintet performs “All-Mozart” concert. Christ Episcopal Church, 46 River St, Cooperstown.

Saturday August 12,

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

OLA ANNUAL MEETING – 8:30-11 a.m. Join the Otsego Lake Association for a speakers on the current condition of the lake.

Glimmerglass Festival, 7300 St. Hwy. 80, Springfield Center. Call (607)437-6826 ONEONTA FARMERS MARKET – 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Muller Plaza, Oneonta.

CHILDBIRTH CLASS – 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Recommended

by Bassett for the 7th-8th month of pregnancy, teaches mothers and their partners information and coping skills.

Registration required. Bassett Hall Auditorium, 31 Beaver St., Cooperstown.

FAMILY FARM DAY – 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Visit local farms in Otsego and Schoharie counties. Learn about local produce, meet the animals, &

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Call (518) 234-4303, ext. 119 or visit FamilyFarmDay.org GARDENING WORKSHOP – 10 a.m. -2 p.m. Learn low maintenance, high yield method of square foot gardening. Focus on fall gardening. Cost, $30 members, $40 non-members, $25 juniors and children. Materials included. Registration required.

The Creamery Classroom, The Farmers Museum.

Cooperstown. Call (607) 5471534.

FREE FAMILY SATURDAY – 10 a.m.-5 p.m Tour museum and use senses & problem solving skills to solve a whodunit mystery. Up to 2 adults enter free when accompanied by a child under 18. Teens and children enter free. Hanford Mills Museum, 51 Co. Hwy. 12, East Meredith. Call (607)278-5744 BOOK, BAKE & CRAFT SALE – 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Assorted books, baked goods, candy, jelly, canned items, fresh fruits, vegetable, & homemade crafts available.

St. Mary’s Episcopal guild, Parish Hall, 112 Public Landing Rd., Springfield Center.

Call 547-8359 FARM FAMILY TOUR – 10:30 a.m.-Noon. Discover family life in 1845. Includes hands on activities for learning, playing, working in the 19th century. Included with museum admission.

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QUILT SHOW – 11 a.m.-4 p.m. “Bee Inspired” quilt show features speaker Deb Strain, artist & textile designer for Moda Fabrics. Tickets $20 from Heartworks. Proceeds benefit the Fly Creek Volunteer Fire Company. Fly Creek Fire Hall. Call (607)547-2501 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.

RENAISSANCE FAIR – 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Dress in a period costume and step back in time for this 2-day fair.

Includes vendors, crafters, games, Admission, $5. Windfall Dutch Barn, 2009 Clinton Rd., Cherry Valley.

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D’Ambrosios Presidents Of Region’s Top Art Museums D’AMBROSIO/From B1 well as The Farmers’ Museum.

D’Ambrosios, on their individual merits, now lead the two foremost art museums in the Mohawk Valley Region, and beyond.

On their individual merits, yes, but listening to them during an interview prior to Sunday the 6th’s annual dinner of The Fenimore Society, since the beginning husband and wife have supported each other personally and professionally as their careers advanced.

While she was entranced by his professional commitment, he was more lighthearted: “She was smart. She was cute. What’s not to like?”

Both happened upon their vocations in their junior years in college.

Home in Albany for the summer from Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., her summer job at Historic Cherry Hill, the Van Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.life Rensselaer mansion, drew her to the decora- The D’Ambrosios in their natural habitat: An art museum’s gallery, tive arts. Raised in Elmira, he took a sum(in this instance, The Fenimore). mer job at the Horseheads Historical Society, not knowing what to expect, then took Receiving her master’s in 1989, she every art history course available during his moved to Utica and joined the MWP and he remaining years at SUNY Cortland. went off to Boston University and his Ph.D. In advance of entering SUNY Oneonta’s But their futures, it turns out, were set.

Cooperstown Graduate School in Museum They married the following year, settled in Studies, Anna took the tour for prospective New Hartford, he returning to NYSHA and “first years” that was guided by an assistant she remaining at the Munson. curator who had received his CGP master’s Both focused on their areas of interest. in 1984.

His “Ralph Fasanella’s America” was At Ralph Fasanella’s “Dress Shop” in the published in 2001. Her prize-winning basement of the pre-renovation Fenimore “Masterpieces of American Furniture from House, she was impressed and intrigued by the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute,” in “how passionate and how enthusiastic” Paul 1999. was in discussing the work.

His “America’s Rome: Artists in the Enrolling that fall, Anna and Paul soon Eternal City” (2009) fulfilled a long-held found themselves in the same “group,” ofambition, and set off a string of successes, ten getting together to socialize at weekend from Monet to Sargent to Winslow Homer. dinners. “I would bring my mother’s pasta Her “A Brass Menagerie: Metalwork of the sauce,” he remembers; she would cook the Aesthetic Movement” (2005) was called noodles. “We got to know each other over “one of the small, must-see exhibit of this the pasta pot,” he said. season” in the New York Times.

The NYSHA Christmas party was their Each helped each other, sometimes in first date. Soon after came “the big movery concrete ways. They would go to ment,” when Paul introduced Anna to CGP auctions together. They visited Adirondack founder and his mentor, Louis C. Jones, and great camps, preparing Mission exhibits. wife Agnes. “I felt like I’d just met your Their different contacts helped each find grandparents,” she told him. key pieces for the other’s exhibits, and the

two institutions shared exhibits. The couple discussed and debated common issues and challenges over the dinner table.

When a mansion’s contents were being broken up in Cazenovia, Anna was invited to examine an intact 19th century rococo sitting room. Paul went along, and ended up with two portraits for the Fenimore collection. She demurred on the room, but picked up a Gothic Revival etagere for the MWP. Their two growing daughters caught the bug, too. When her parents told Julia, now 20 and a pre-law student at Fordham, they were taking her to the Ringling Museum, she asked, referencing his blue period, “Do they have any Picassos?”

When in grade school, Grace, now 15, was assigned to create a profit-making enterprise as a class project. She devised a museum, but was stymied by the profitmaking piece. “Have a café and sell cookies,” her mother advised.

“I never set out to be president,” the husband said, and the wife responded similarly.

Still, through the years, as they remained in their respective institutions, they assumed increasing responsibility.

He succeeded D. Stephen Elliott, who became Minnesota Historical Society president, as NYSHA president/CEO in 2011.

She succeeds Anthony Spiridigloizzi, who announced his retirement earlier this year.

Asked about common careers forged at CGP, Director Gretchen Sorin said students, drawn by common interests, do find life partners there. She ticked off a half dozen.

For instance, Jody Blankenship, Connecticut Historical Society director, and his wife, Barbara Walden, executive director of the Lutheran Community of Christ Historic Sites Foundation.

Or Andrew Marietta, the county rep and NYCON regional director, and his wife, Melissa, Hartwick College director of career services.

Still, rising to the top of closely parallel careers, as have the D’Ambrosios, is unusual, albeit deserved. “Paul has completely recast The Fenimore Art Museum,” Sorin said, adding, “Anna is incredibly competent and charming.”

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SONGS OF SUFFRAGE – 4 p.m. Experience a program of music that explores the opinions and movements for the right of women to vote in the US. Admission free.

Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., Canajoharie.

Call (518) 673-2314 x 113 PORK ROAST DINNER – 4-6 p.m. Pork, baked beans, veggies, and dessert. Cost $8. Take-out available. River Street Baptist Church, 133 River St., Oneonta. Call (607)433-1090 CHICKEN BBQ – 4:30 p.m. Barbecue to support the building fund for the Grange.

Grange Hall, Wedderspoon Hollow Rd., Cooperstown. call Nancy Iversen (607)4357025 or e-mail niversen@localnet.com NIGHT OF MASKS – 6 p.m. Come to the first community ball “La Notte Delle Maschere.” Dress in your best formal Masquerade attire.. Dinner at 6, coronation at 7. $20. With dinner, $35. The Majors Inn, Gilbertsville. Call Tyler @ (607)371-4030 CONCERT – 7 p.m. Stone Soup plays blues, bluegrass, folk, jazz. Pathfinder Village, 3 Chenango Rd., Edmeston. Call (607)965-8377

Sunday August 13,

RENAISSANCE FAIR – 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Dress in a period costume and take a step back in time. Vendors, crafters, games, Celtic step dancers, and other performers.

Admission, $5. Windfall Dutch Barn, 2009 Clinton Rd., Cherry Valley.

MEET & GREET – Noon-4 p.m. Join the American Legion Post and Riders for a free BBQ. The American Legion Post 259, 279 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call (607)263-5349.

SUMMER SUNDAY SERIES – 1-3 p.m. Jack Ewen shows techniques for decorating with twigs. Swart-Wilcox House Museum, Junction of Wilcox Ave. & Henry St., Oneonta. Call 607-287-7011.

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PUBLIC NOTICE OF LAW NOTICE is hereby given that the Boafd of Representatives of the County of Otsego at a meeting thereof held on the 2nd day of August, 2017, duly adopted a Local Law 2 of 2017 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.

This Local Law repeals LL 2 of 2004 and imposes a surcharge on wireless and prepaid communications service, The full text of this Local Law of 2017 is available for inspection in the Clerk of the Board’s Office in the County Office Building, Cooperstown, New York during regular business hours.

Dated: August 10, 2017 Carol D. McGovern Clerk of the Board of Representatives Otsego County, New York 1LegalAug.10 Legal nOtice

Notice of formation of COOPERSTOWN BEVERAGE COMPANY, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on July 20, 2017. The office af 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 hirn/her to: The LLC, P.O. Box 827, Oneonta, NY 13820.

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

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Name of LLC: Royal Equities of Cooperstown LLC; Date of filing: 7/26/17; Office of the LLC: Otsego Co.; The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 5069 State Highway 28, Cooperstown, New York 13326; Purpose of LLC: Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Name of LLC:

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Royal Ford Motors of Cooperstown LLC; Date of filing: 7/26/17; Office of the LLC: Otsego Co.; The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 5069 State Highway 28, Cooperstown, New York 13326; Purpose of LLC: Any lawful purpose.

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SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Index No.: 20160786 Date of Filing: July 13, 2017 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO JAMES B NUTTER & COMPANY, Plaintiff, -against-

THOMAS D. LYNCH, JR. A/K/A THOMAS D. LYNCH, if living, or if either or all be dead, their wives, husbands, heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said THOMAS D. LYNCH, JR. A/ K/A THOMAS D. LYNCH, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and the respective husbands, wives, widow or widowers of them, if any, all of whose names are unknown to plaintiff; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA O/B/O SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; “JOHN DOES” and “JANE DOES”, said names being fictitious, parties intended being possible tenants or occupants of premises, and corporations, other entities or persons who claim, or may claim, a lien against the premises, Defendants.

TO THE ABOVENAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney(s) within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, where service is made by delivery upon you personally within the State, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner, 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.

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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. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE

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during this process.

To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877-BANKNYS (1-877-226-5697) or visit the Department’s website at www.banking.state. ny.us. The State does not guarantee the advice of these agencies.

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name:

TO THE ABOVENAMED DEFENDANTS:

GOHDE ENTERPRISES RENTALS LLC.

The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Honorable Michael V. Coccoma of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed on June 28, 2017, and filed with supporting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Otsego, State of New York.

Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 26 July 2017.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 319, Cherry Valley, NY 13320.

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

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The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed

by THOMAS D. LYNCH, JR. A/K/A THOMAS D. LYNCH, to JAMES B. NUTTER & COMPANY bearing date April 4, 2008 and recorded in the County of Otsego on April 25, 2008 in Book 1551 of Mortgages at Page 42.

Said premises being known as and by 32 FAIR STREET, ONEONTA, NY 13820, which is more fully described in the attached Schedule “A.” Date: June 12, 2017 Batavia, New York Andrea Clattenburg, Esq. ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff Batavia Office 26 Harvester Avenue Batavia, NY 14020 585.815.0288 Help For Homeowners In Foreclosure New York State Law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. Mortgage foreclosure is a complex process.

Some people may approach you about “saving” your home. You should be extremely careful about any such promises.

The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. There are government agencies, legal aid entities and other non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about foreclosure while you are working with your lender

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SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Index No. 20170159 WELLS FARGO BANK, NA, Plaintiff,

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

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

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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.

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

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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

RUNNING THENCE Westerly in a straight line between said lands three hundred feet to a point; 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; THENCE Easterly in a straight line parallel with the first line herein described to the center of said highway; and

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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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Notice of Formation of AMT Goods 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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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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SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF OTSEGO Mortgaged Premises: 34 Walnut Street Richfield Springs, (Village of Richfield Springs (Town of Richfield)) NY 13439 Filed: 07/03/2017 Index No.: 2017100

THENCE Southerly along the center of said highway to the place of BEGINNING.

QUICKEN LOANS INC., Plaintiff,

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.

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;

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

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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.

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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.

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

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC

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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.

6LegalAug.17 Legal nOtice 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.

6LegalAug.10 Legal nOtice 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.

6LegalAug.10 Legal nOtice 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 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY NAME: Truitt LLC, Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 12/22/2015.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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ten litter. Two, the Sloths had volunteered as a foster family, and soon the two remaining kitties were back in Oneonta at the family’s home.

“They ate and slept, every three hours 24 hours a day,” mom Kristin reported. The feeding can take an hour, and she and her two daughters shared the responsibility.

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“We had our vet tech look them over, and immediately began to bottle-feed them with kitten formula.”

Two options were available, and the SAS staffers took advantage of both.

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When they arrived at the Sloths, the kittens – subsequently named Remus and Padfoot – weighed 10 and 9 ounces respectively. By Thursday, Aug. 3, each was up to 1.5 pounds and, although still tiny, appeared to be out of danger.

Earlier that day, the Bassett OSS staff had organized a “transportation chain” to ferry the kittens up to the SAS for a checkup and back. They all passed.

“It takes a village,” Becca observed.

The kittens were back for another checkup Tuesday, Aug. 8, and “they’re doing fantastic,” she reported. “…Their eyes are open. They’re eating well.

They should be able to eat solid food soon. They’re moving around and behaving like normal kittens of that age.”

The rescue “is a reflection of a bigger issue,” said Daly.

“We just have an overwhelming amount of stray cats, and there are not enough people to take care of them. We end up with unwanted litters we don’t know what to do with.”

The “ultimate solution,” she said, is for owners to spay and neuter their animals. “Cats multiply so fast, it just gets out of control. Male cats will go out and find females that aren’t spayed. They can smell them and will find them.”

The challenge there is the lack of services. Dr. Joan Puritz, the Oneonta vet who volunteers at the shelter, conducts a low-cost spay-and-neuter clinic every month, but the demand is greater than she can handle. Her clinic charges $40 for the procedures, plus shots, ear cleaning and nail trimming.

That can cost $100, or double, at a private vet.

“These aren’t evil people,” she said of whoever dropped off the six kittens at the OSS, or who dropped off a box of 10 kittens at the shelter overnight recently. “They’re just ignorant” – or they can’t afford to have their animals tended.

Sometimes, it seems like the cats are winning against an effort to control them.

SAS Director Stacie Haynes told the county Board of Representatives at its Aug. 2 meeting that right now feral cats are causing problems in Worcester. One restaurant set up chairs outside, but the bold animals would jump on tables and start helping themselves, driving customers away.

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UMass Medical Center in A memorial service celWorcester. ebrating Carolyn’ s life will Carolyn is survived by be at noon, Monday, Aug. her devoted, loving husband 28, followed by a luncheon of 61 years, George Edward at Southgate at Shrewsbury.

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She invited instant friendship, whoever you were.

She was a woman of immense grace, warm and sincerely welcoming.

I fell under her spell in 1990 when she invited me to participate in a dramatic reading at Gallery 53 in Cooperstown organized by Sydney Waller. It was the beginning of a deep friendship with her and her family over many, many happy years.

Carolyn was uncommonly kind.

Not only to those she knew, but also to anyone she met. Many were the times that I saw her talking animatedly with someone during the intermission of a play we were attending. “Who was that?” I asked her on multiple occa-

sions when we regained our seats. “I have no idea,” she would reply, but you can bet that, known or not, she had made a new friend.

Theater was in her blood. As an actress and director, she threw herself into productions in and around Piscataway, N.J., where she and her family lived, over decades This passion for theater led to her founding Leatherstocking, a company that infused our community with countless hours of pleasure and enlightenment. She and George invited me to participate in the inner workings of the enterprise, and it is a mark of their combined natural grace and honest commitment that never once, in all those years, never once, did we experience the slightest conflict. Never once.

She had a killer sense of humor.

Quick and witty, she made me laugh with her instant take on the lighter side of life. I owe her a debt of uproarious moments that I will never forget.

The only thing I cannot extol is her cooking. I never experienced it, for she hated cooking and never once, never once, did she ever prepare something for me to eat. Never once. George did the honors (dutifully and superbly) in that department.

But – she assured me, tirelessly, that her Southern fried chicken was second to none. Well, she grew up in West Virginia, so who was I to doubt it? I badgered her for years to make some, but it never came to be. And now it never will.

Except – as I like to say, I try to live my life so that I will eventually spend eternity with my dogs and Mozart. I now hold the hope that Carolyn will serve up some heavenly chicken when the time comes.

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With Steinbeck’s Grandson, She Charts Next Generation

SONG/From B1 been looking for that!’ I had to send it back.”

But borrowing the Oneonta native’s guitar isn’t her only connection to the area.

On Thursday, Aug. 17, the third-generation folk singer – her grandfather is “This Land Is Your Land” legend Woody Guthrie – will make her Oneonta debut at the B-Side Ballroom. “I’m going to do a few traditional songs, some of my dad’s and my grandfather’s, but also some new songs off the album I’m recording now. It’s a good time to mix it up.”

Currently on tour with her father, Lee has been on the road since she was 18, when she joined Arlo on the 1997 Furthur Festival. While out in LA, she met her future husband, Johnny Irion, grandson of John Steinbeck, and the two of them began to play together. “Folk music is a hard-working business,” she said. “We’re on the road 10 months of the year.”

And although she grew up with luminaries like Pete Seeger coming to her house to play with her father, Lee didn’t start playing until she met Irion.

“He had toured with the Black Crowes in Europe and he taught me a few chords,” she said. “I began to come into my own as a musician, independent of my family.”

The couple produced the album “Go Waggaloo,” which included lyrics by Woody that were never set to music. “He left so much behind, and it was

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such an honor to be able to go through his archives. He wrote about everything.”

The couple have two daughters, Olivia and Nora, 10 and 15, who traveled with them.

“They were raised in the van, touring the U.S. and Europe,” their mother said. “But they’re older now, and Johnny is doing more rock music, so I wanted to go back to my roots.”

She began studying under her father, as well as listening to Phil Ochs and Seeger. “He did shows with my father and I would study him on stage,” she said. “I have letters from him that detail, step by step, how to get an audience to sing along.”

And she’s been putting that advice to practice. “I took my guitar to the Women’s March in Washington, D.C.,” she said.

“But I didn’t see one other guitar there, so I knew I had a lot of work to do. I went through the crowds singing, and the reaction I got was so inspiring.

It was what I’d been training my whole life to do!”

She started a group called “Hoping Machine,” from Woody’s song of the same title, which gathers musicians in the Guthrie Center, the former home of Alice & Ray Brock, the subject of the “Alice’s Restaurant” (1967) movie. “We want to empower the community to sing at these marches,” she said. “I fully believe that music empowers people.”

Although she was the only one with a guitar at the Women’s March, during the Climate March in D.C. the Hoping Machine took a busload down and spread the song. “We’re a strong community, and it’s important to keep singing through,” she said.

But she wants to make sure she reaches across party lines in her music. “We need to find what’s common, not get into an us-versus-them mentality,” she said. “Music has such a big impact on unity, strength and courage.”

More than anything, Lee believes it is up to her to carry on a legacy. “Pete’s gone, so many of my idols are gone,” she said.

“Now it’s about seeing what I can do to give back and carry on these legacies.”

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YDE HALL FLOURISHING AT 200

Heather Payne from A Moveable Feast, Chadwicks, serves finger food to Doug and Cheryl Zamelis, Springfield Center.

Beaming, Jon Maney, executive director of Hyde Hall, presents Rabbit Goody, Thistle Hill Weavers, with the seventh annual Ann Hyde Clarke Logan Cultural Preservation Award for her work replicating the textiles of the historic house.

Nikita and Joanne Grigoriev, Richfield Springs, provided classical music on the porch of Hyde Hall during the cocktail hour.

Ian Austin photos for The Freeman’s Journal

Arriving the “Our Fair Lady” gala in style Friday,Aug. 4, are Luca and Peyton Carter, Richfield Springs. He came dressed in a captain’s uniform from the War of 1812.

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Looking good at 200, Hyde Hall served as the backdrop for gracious hosts of “My Fair Lady,” the bicentennial celebration of the original George Hyde Clarke’s completion of the mansion.

From left are Jill Maney, Jill Neonan, Jon Maney, Eva Davey and Lori Wilson.