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Even with dad Nick Brandt of Cooperstown by her side, daughter Emily was a little nervous about stroking an iguana Saturday, Sept. 17, at the Unadilla Fall Festival. The reptile was from Animal Adventures, Jefferson.
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ox Hospital’s Gender Wellness Center in Oneonta has been awarded $500,000 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program to study establishing a Transgender Center for Excellence within the Bassett Network. The team leading the initiative are Drs. Carolyn and Christopher Wolf-Gould, Dr. Diane Georgeson, physician assistant Tania Villa, and Justine Woolner-Wise, LCSW. OCCA HONORS: The Otsego County Conservation Association is seeking nominations for Conservationist of the Year, an individual or organization. Nominations are due by Oct. 15. For nomination forms, call 547-4488, e-mail director@occainfo.org. GOLF PRODIGY: When a team member cancelled, Rodney Campbell, 8, helped power Team Schlather & Birch to top Captain & Crew honors Sunday, Sept. 18, at the Rotary Club’s Lynn Edinger Memorial Golf Tourney.
toga Springs, convened two “charrettes” on Oct. 7 and 8, 2014, and put 150 attendees through “exercises” to envision what was formerly known as America’s Most Perfect Village might like to become.
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Notable among the resulting ideas was a grassy “apron” in place of the asphalt desert in front of Doubleday Field, with room to stroll, picnic and maybe throw a baseball back and forth.
A steering committee, included Mayor Jeff Katz and Trustee Cindy Falk, businesspeople like Stagecoach’s Chris Grady, non-profit staffers like Ellen Pope and officials, then Please See PLAN, A7
Otsego Now, 2 Partners Ready Broadband Push Time Warner’s Merger Stalled 1st Application
Village Trustees Cindy Falk and Library Board member Ellen Pope discuss renovations at the Village Library of Cooperstown while the Preston family of electricians installs LED lights and new wiring.
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ook lovers rejoice: The Village Library’s West Room project – creating
one space out of the children’s and audiobook’s rooms – is nearing completion. “We expect to be done by the beginning of October,” said Ellen Pope, a trustee on the Village Library board. The wall dividing the room has
come down to open up the space and make it more inviting for people to congregate. Bookshelves – similar to those in the more intact East Room – will be installed along the walls, and additional shelves on wheels will make it easier to Please See LIBRARY, A7
In 25 Years, Lola Rathbone Wrote Book Of Catskill Hospice Success By LIBBY CUDMORE
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ola Rathbone has seen first-hand how important Hospice care is. “My mother-in-law spent the last months of her life at home with us,” she said. “We Rathbone were able to take care of the
home she grew up in and prepare it for sale, so she was actively involved with the closure of her life story. “I know I speak for other families when I say how important that closure is, and it’s difficult to get in a facility.” Please See HOSPICE, A3
y now, it was expected that a $30 million piece of the state Broadband Program Office’s $1 billion would be extending high-speed Internet service from Schenevus to Monticello and south to Unadilla by now. However, when Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications merged on May 18, it promised to upgrade service, so the state Public Service Commission made 140,000 households ineligible for first-round grants. Those households included Otsego County, to the disappointment of the three local partners Please See BROADBAND, A7
Calm After The Whirlwind
Village crew members Chris Satriano, right, and Lloyd Stilson tidy up Monday, Sept. 20, after two major streets, Chestnut and Glen, were repaved in a week. 1,150 tons of hot mix was laid, DPW Chief Brian Clancy reJim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal ports.
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Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal Steve Lest, Laurens, flips burgers to benefit National Guard Sgt. Ed Ashman finds a worthy opponent in a push up contest in Oneonta’s Jamie Dono during the 50th anniversary celebration the Laurens Booster of the Oneonta Municipal Airport Saturday, Sept. 17. Club.
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ronically, news surfaced that the 911 Center had been overwhelmed during the hammering storm of Aug. 13 on the same day, Sept. 7, that the county Board of Representatives designated 911 as an independent department. There’s some background on this. The 911 Center had been under the wing of county Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. But county Rep. Kathy Clark, R-Otego, whose husband has broad law-enforcement experience, learned that since 911 serves emergency agencies – fire departments and ambulance squads – as well as police agencies, setting up independent centers is, for now, anyhow, considered the way to go. As that discussion was ongoing over the past two years, a tragedy occurred. According to the resulting lawsuit against the county, the 911 Center dispatched the Schenevus squad instead of the Hartwick one on a call in December 2013, and the delay may have played a role in the death of a 53-year-old woman who otherwise might have survived. The case was later settled, but that intensified the conversation about focusing and upgrading the 911 effort. On May 17, the new 911 Center – 20 lines, up from 13 – opened at the Meadows in expanded quarters with upgraded equipment. The Aug. 13 storm – the one that toppled a tree at a Morris campground, killing a camper in his tent, and knocking out power in much of the county for 20-plus hours – was the biggest test to date. The 911 Center didn’t pass. • As county Rep. Len Carson, R-Oneonta, who chairs the Public Safety Committee, reported to his colleagues at that September meeting, 647 calls came in from 4 p.m. to midnight, and 128 weren’t answered. Normally,
call a minute, and a call taking five minutes to process, part of the answer must be the ability to call up extra dispatchers at short notice. The weather this summer has been erratic. Regardless, what happened needs to be understood, and that new understanding needs to be acted on promptly. • Part of O’Brien’s initial solution is to educate people to only call 911 when an actual emergency occurs. In reality, though, an emergency is in the eye of the beholder. Power outages may not seem like an emergency to a dispatcher who receives many such reports, but Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal if live wires are dangling from toppled trees, a 911 Director Rob O’Brien at controls. homeowner may have a different view. 911 Center Director Rob O’Brien said in an 911 has come a long way since the Federal interview, the calls would automatically roll Communications Commission and AT&T over to Chenango and Delaware counties, but devised it in 1967. “Call 911” is an instincthose centers were swamped, too. tive response when trouble arises, even with County Rep. Keith McCarty, R-East Spring- 6-year-olds, evident when young hero Amari field, was rightly upset that one unanswered Champen of Oneonta used it last month to alert call was from a constituent in Richfield Springs authorities when his babysitter collapsed. whose home filled with smoke. The issue was If a basement floods, chances are no one will resolved without an emergency response, but it answer the phone at the local fire house. If a could have been otherwise. dog is barking, no one will answer the phone at “What scares me is that this is just a thuntown hall at 2 a.m. Try calling NYSEG lately? derstorm: I’m not pleased we weren’t able Good luck. 911 knows the contacts, and has to handle it,” said O’Brien, an optimistic, become who to call – Troublebusters! – when energetic guy (father of five, including triplet troubles arise. That’s good. Let’s not mess boys, he has to be). He is conferring with the with it by discouraging people from using 911. consultant who helped set up the system in the The challenge now is to fix the shortfalls, be first place. they in staffing, technology or whatever. When Now, if lines back up, callers get a busy everyone else’s emergencies become routine signal. One fix O’Brien suggested is to advise to 911 personnel, that’s a danger. Attitude – a callers they will be served sequentially, so high level of sensitivity to whatever call comes people know they’ve gotten to the right place. in to the 911 Center – is foremost in ensuring Still, there were four dispatchers on the that when citizens are fearful they will dial the night of Aug. 13; with slightly more than a Gold Standard – 911.
Pensions’ End Saps Prosperity Of Community
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ight years ago, when Hometown Oneonta was founded, almost every week there was an obituary reporting, “he retired from the D&H after 30 years,” or 40 years, or as with Bob Couse, who, age 90, passed away last December, 43 years. Same with NYSEG. Now, that kind of obituary is rare. The D&H is gone, of course, and NYSEG has shifted to 401Ks like most other large businesses. At last week’s ribbon-cutting at Oneonta’s new Exit realty office across Main Street from Fox Hospital, Bob Farrell, a principal in the enterprise, made it explicit. In the Binghamton area, he said, IBM and Endicott Johnson pensions have disappeared, and the local economy has taken a hit. It’s been reported that one in three Americans have saved nothing for retirement, and only 5 percent are entering the retirement years with confidence. The elimination – or at least significance – of retirees with disposable income is a hidden brake on the local economy too little understood.
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Mrs. Ajello Losing Her Home Shames Us All To the Editor, When I saw your Sept. 7 photo on www.allotsego.com, “Resident Marks 24th Month Since Losing Home To Taxes,” I was taken aback by the apparent lack of sympathy and empathy shown to Marie Ajello by the Otsego County representatives. It was painful to look at your picture of Marie pleading, for the 24th month, to get her house back after a possibly well-intenTO VIEW original edito- tioned, but tragic failure rial on Mrs. Ajello’s of a taxplight, visit collection www OTSEGO.com process that is consuming itself, and the taxpayers of Otsego County, by its own words. No representative stepped up to help her, to comfort her, or to say to the other representatives that enough is enough and it is time to do the right thing. It now takes your spectacular editorial in last week’s edition to step up, to say all that needs to be said, to tell all of Otsego County and beyond that enough is enough! I cannot say enough about this terrific editorial. I encourage everyone to read it and to then demand that Otsego County end this unfair and discriminatory tax-collection practice. It may have been well intentioned, but it did not work fully as intended. I am ashamed to be a resident of an Otsego County that has been treating
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For the 24th meeting in a row, Maria Ajello pleads with the county Board of Representatives to give her house back. From left are Len Carson, R-Oneonta, Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla, Gary Koutnik, D-Oneonta, Craig Gelbsman, R-Oneonta, and Andrew Marietta, D-Cooperstown/Town of Otsego.
one of its own in this outrageous way. Are we all prisoners of words? “We know you are innocent but the words on the paper say you are guilty”? Enough is enough! Fix it! Change it! Make it go away! Step up and do the right thing! Give every property owner the irrevocable right to pay their back taxes up to the very moment the gavel goes down on auction day. At that moment Otsego County is forever in the clear and no one has any
Don’t ‘Punish’ Constituents; Accept Taxes Until Deadline To the Editor: Great article on the relatively new policy of taking Otsego County residents’ property for delinquent taxes. In the “good old days,” County Attorney Jim Konstanty and Treasurer Myrna Thayne accepted tax payments up to the commencement of the tax sale. They cared more for county residents than the almighty buck. They also used a local auctioneer, not a commercial group from
out of the area. The county board decided they would rather “punish” these people – and isn’t it interesting that a county employee working in the same department as Maria Ajello (formerly from the Treasurer’s Office) was the high bidder on the Ajello parcel? They need to do the right thing – not just the legally allowable procedure. BETTY ANNE SCHWERD Hartwick
future claims that they were treated unfairly. This is not difficult. Potential buyers are simply notified going in that every property is offered subject to the lastminute redemption by the owner. The reality is that few properties will be redeemed at the last moment but that opportunity must always be there. Get this train back on the tracks so we can all move forward with the Please See DEAN, A6
Linguist: Kahionhákta’ Doesn’t Equal Neahwa To the Editor: Not to belabor the point, and with all due respect to Mrs. Eckmair and the late Willard Yager, “Neahwa” cannot be transformed into “meadows by the river.” There are two concepts at play here. If you wanted to say “next to the meadow” in Mohawk, the word would be kahentákta’. “Beside the river” would be kahionhákta’. Putting the two together, sort of like an Englishstyle compound, is not quite Mohawk and even then would not resemble “Neahwa.” It might be better to try atsiá:kata’, “by the riverside” or “on the shore.” Still, no Neahwa. William A. Starna Oneonta
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Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library
200 YEARS AGO
Milk delivery in London – In the morning all is calm – not a mouse stirring before ten o’clock. The shops then begin to open. Milk women with their pails perfectly neat, suspended at the two extremities of a yoke, carefully shaped to fit the shoulders, and surrounded with small tin measures of cream, ring at every door. Reiterated pulls hasten the arrival of house servants, who come half asleep to receive a measure as big as an egg, being the allowance of a family; for it is necessary to explain that milk is not here either food or drink, but a tincture – an elixir exhibited in drops, five or six at most in a cup of tea, morning and evening. It would be difficult to say what taste or what quality these drops may impart – but so it is, and nobody thinks of questioning the propriety of the custom. September 26, 1816
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Scandal – Slander is more accumulative than a snow ball. It starts from the mouth of the originator a mere atom, and passes from lip to lip, accumulating volume and substance, till it swells to a size appalling to the disinterested, and wholly beyond the recognition of its first parent. It is like a salad, which everyone will season to his own taste, or the taste of those to whom he offers it, and each taster is so pleased with the sweet morsel, that he gives it another dash from the castor, and passes it on to the next neighbor. Those who have the least inherent purity of their own are ever the most free and liberal in multiplying the foibles and magnifying the sins of others. In nine cases out of ten, the reckless traducer of another’s character judges of his victim after the dictates of his own heart – which, being corrupt, corrupts all his thoughts, and taints with corruption his surmises of the actions, thoughts and motives of others. September 20, 1841
150 YEARS AGO
Governor Orr of South Carolina has issued an address calling together the legislature of that State for the express purpose of making such alteration in their laws concerning the freedmen as justice and good policy require. He recommends their admission as witnesses into Court, not only when their own interests are involved. Justice requires this, and without it, he says, in very many cases crime will go unpunished. All inhabitants of the State, he insists, without distinction of color, should be placed upon the same footing in regard to civil rights. It is encouraging to find this fact recognized in so distinct and so practical a way, by the leading men of the South. September 21, 1866
10 YEARS AGO
The thirty-fifth annual meeting of the Sixth District branch of the Medical Society of the State of New York was held in Cooperstown last week. Papers presented dealt with cancer of the breast, mental disorders of the involutional period of life, treatment of pain arising from heart disease, recent advances in nutrition and the need for legislation to supplant the ancient coroners system with a system of medical examiners similar to that of New York City. The attendance of doctors and their wives was estimated at about 125 by Dr. George M. MacKenzie, head of the Bassett Hospital. September 24, 1941
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The Middlefield Town Board has granted a long-term lease of the old school house property in the Village of Middlefield to the Town of Middlefield Historical Association. Under the terms of the lease the Town of Middlefield will be allowed the use of a room in the building for town meetings, voting, and Justice Court. One room will be restored to the appearance of an early classroom and will September 22, 2006 serve as a meeting room for the historians. The remainder of the building will house a small local museum. The association has a small collection of artifacts and documents which have been in storage at the New York State Historical The hop crop of Otsego County will this year amount Association. The association was founded by a number of to about 4,500,000 pounds. If an average profit of say interested area residents who met with E. Pomeroy Staats, four cents a pound can be realized, it will amount to about Town of Middlefield Historian; Dr. Louis C. Jones, director $180,000, which will not include interest on the land and of NYSHA; and Dr. Roy Butterfield, Otsego County Histobuildings. It is a little singular to us that men who last year rian on January 29, 1959. were refusing to sell at 30 to 42 cents, are this year rushing September 21, 1966 their hops onto a yielding market at 11 to 14 cents. It shows that many growers act more from impulse than from sound judgment. We should not force prime to choice hops on the market at this time. If growers will be patient holders, A new movement is growing in the United States – a prices should advance ere the close of the year. movement to stop the thousands of senseless shootings that September 24, 1891 occur each year. The support for the Brady Bill is evidence of this movement. The League of Women Voters of New York State has chosen a ban on assault weapons in New Sheriff Brown is entertaining a young man in the Otsego York State as a 1991 legislative priority. The people of the United States can also make this their priority by supportCounty jail who, when arraigned before Justice Harold ing the U.S. Senate Crime Bill which also supports an D. Carpenter on a charge of carrying concealed weapons, increased ban on assault weapons. Now is the time to let gave his name as Harold Steele. Steele was found lying on your national and state legislators know that you want the the steps of the McEwan Ice Cream parlors at the corner shootings to stop. A vote on the Crime Bill is expected at of Main and Chestnut Streets Friday night dead drunk. He was arrested by Sheriff Brown and Officer Cooke. When he the end of September. Now is the time to let your thoughts was searched it was found he was carrying a set of burglar’s be heard. Martha B. Clarvoe, Cooperstown, President, tools sewed in the linings of his suit, a new H. & R. revolv- Cooperstown Area League of Women Voters. September 25, 1991 er, and a small bottle of chloroform.
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Whatever Cost, Give Maria Ajello Back Her Property DEAN/From A4 knowledge and confidence that our Otsego County government is here to serve all of the people of Otsego County, in every situation, to the very best of its ability. Give Maria her property back. If
the county has to pay to do it then pay. If we have to buy our way out of the problem then do it. Some lessons are more painful, and more expensive, than others. We will all be better people for stepping up, acknowledging our imperfec-
tions, and doing the right thing. We can then all be very proud residents of Otsego County, New York, again. JAMES R. DEAN Cooperstown
Drugs Suspected In 2 Crime Sprees By Libby Cudmore ONEONTA
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neonta Police arrested two men after two separate crime sprees in City City in the past week, one involving the assault of a 66-yearold woman on River Street Wednesday, Sept. 14. “He pushed her and she broke her arm,” said Lt. Douglas Brenner. “Poor lady. Luckily, we had several witnesses and got a very good description of him.” Though no drugs were found on either suspect, Brenner says police are investigating the motive for the thefts. “We’re looking at drug connections,” he said. “Everything seems to point that way. Generally, with heroin or cocaine, someone is looking to buy a usable amount, like in $20 increments. “They’re worried about what they need now. If they rip off a purse, even if there’s $15 in it, that’s a win for them.” Joshua J. Johnston, 23, Oneonta, was arrested after police found him at a home on Burnside Avenue. “We spoke to him and his family, and we found purses, jewelry and electronics that had been reported stolen from parked cars in other cases over the past month.” According to police, Johnston then told them he had also passed two counterfeit $20 bills at the Dunkin Donuts on Main Street in July. So he was charged with robbery in the second degree, a felony, and assault in the third degree, a misdemeanor, plus two counts
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cording to Brenner. He was charged with three counts of burglary for entering and stealing from occupied dwellings, and grand larceny for stealing a car. “He confessed that he took it on a joyride,” the lieutenant said. He was also charged with four counts for taking credit cards. The investigation is ongoing, and police are investigating whether or not there were others involved in the burglaries. The car he was alleged to have stolen has been recovered, as was the second car, a 2006 Honda Civic, that
was also reported missing. But unlike the burglaries on River Street, Brenner said many of the items taken from the Center City homes have not been found. And with the recent spate of arrests for cocaine possession, including Noah Graetz, 18, a Hartwick College freshman found with six grams of cocaine in his car on the Hartwick Campus, Brenner says the drug is making a return to Oneonta. “For the past two years, we’ve seen cocaine creeping back into Oneonta,” he said. “We try to keep an eye on trends.”
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THURSDAY, september 22, 2016
Round One Derailed, Second Try In Works For Countywide Broadband BROADBAND/From A1 – Otsego Now, Midtel (the Middleburgh Telephone Co. of Schoharie County), and Hartwick-based Otsego Rural Electric.
Now, the Broadband Program Office has announced its second round of funding, and the local partners aimed to submit “a very aggressive proposal” by the end of No-
vember deadline, according to Otsego New President Sandy Mathes. Mathes, Midtel’s Jim Becker and Otsego Electric’s new president, Tim Johnson, have already met three times – most recently Friday, Sept. 16, at Cooperstown’s Village Hall. “We’re at the point where we’re really fleshing out the business model,” the Otsego Now CEO said. The idea is to again apply for upwards of $30 million, looking for 80 percent of the project cost. That attracts investors to fund the remaining 20 percent, anticipating they can begin turning a profit in “three to
round $500 million – and expected it to leverage another $500 million in private investment – jumpstarting rural Organizing the second broadband broadband. push are, from left, Otsego Now’s But, with Sandy Mathes, MidTel’s Jim Becker the Time and Otsego Rural Electric CooperaWarner/Chartive’s Tim Johnson. ter agreement – the new five years,” Mathes said. company is going to be He said the state grant called Spectrum – less than awards will be announced $60 million was actually next spring. distributed. “So there’s still According to Midtel’s Becker, the state Broadband a lot of money left,” he said. Adjustments in what CenProgram Office had intendsus blocks are under Time ed to distribute all the firstWarner/Charter purview has freed up 5,000 homes in Otsego County. “It’s still in the evaluation stage,” Becker said, but that may be sufficient to allow the local partners to get started locally. If they win the state grant, “we have to be done by the end of 2018, so we should be breaking ground in 2017 for sure,” he continued. “It’s a short time, but
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LIBRARY/From A1 will make it easier to reconfigure the room. “We want to put a large portion of our collection on the walls to free up the floor space,” said Village Trustee Cindy Falk. “It’s not like libraries used to be, with the little reading cubbies. It’s a more flexible space.” As library usages change, so must libraries. “One of the things we’ve been talking about is how people are using libraries,” said Falk. “It’s not just about walking in, checking out a book and going home to read alone. They’ve become places where people gather and socialize, whether it’s a group discussing current events, the knitting club or people using the Wi-Fi because they don’t have it at home.” “It’s about mixing tradition with tech,” said Library Director David Kent. In addition, new carpeting and LED pendant ceiling lights will be installed, along with updated electric service. The projects were funded by two state Library Construction Grants, totaling $70,300, plus $17,757 in matching funds from the Friends of the Village Library. “There is money available to libraries for capital projects that isn’t available to the village,” said Pope. “With the first grant, we were able to restore the flooring in the hallway and put in new
lighting to make it an open, inviting space. It benefits the library, but also the rest of the building.” “The linoleum was chipping and it was becoming a real trip hazard,” added Falk. Additional projects have also included repairing the fireplace mantle, which was damaged when a portion of the ceiling fell and struck a patron in 2013. Once the fixtures are installed and the books are back on the shelves, the library will look at what kind of furnishings are needed. “Do we want oversized chairs for caregivers, do we need tables for laptops?” said Pope. “The library construction grants don’t cover furnishings.” And the construction in the library is part of a larger series of renovations being done to 22 Main, conceptualized and championed by Village Trustee Lou Allstadt, including repairs to the bases of the porch’s columns, a rotting roof beam on the porch and the stairs. A new door was installed underneath the porch, where the Friends of The Library store books for their annual sale, proceeds from which were used to match the grant. Those projects were paid for out of the Village’s general fund. “This is going to have a dramatic impact on the library,” said Kent. “It’s an exciting time.”
Village’s Long-Awaited Plan Scheduled For Public Airing PLAN/From A1 began to build on that foundation. Two “Community Open Houses” occurred, one in June 2015 and March of this year. In a press released, Mayor Katz describes that as “public input over 18 months” that allow “a vision of the kind of community that Cooperstown would like to be.” Further ideas like protecting the village’s cultural and historic resources, and its neighborhoods surfaced. Also, interest in developing Railroad Avenue for business. After all this time, a relative fast-track to approval – about a month – of the first revision of the village’s Comprehensive Master Plan since 1994, begins 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27, in the fire hall. What’s described as a “brief presentation” by Elan Planning of Saratoga Springs and the CLUE
Group of Arlington, Va., is planned, which a questionand-answer period to follow. The consultant team, led by Elan’s Lisa Nagle, has been circulating a draft over the past month to the steering committee and Board of Trustees, seeking comments. At the Village Board September meeting Monday the 26th, the Village Board intends to set a public hearing for its October meeting on the 24th. After the public hearing, it could adopt the plan. Trustee Falk said the public information meeting on Tuesday the 27th is intended to outline the plan, provide copies to the public, and to receive and react to public input before the public hearing a month later. A press release announcing the upcoming meeting referred people to https:// coopplan.wordpress.com/ for more information, but the site doesn’t appear to be active at this time.
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have disturbed an Adena grave,” said Dr. David Anthony, anthropology professor since 1987 and curator of Willard’s namesake collection at Hartwick College’s Yager Museum. Adena is a name given to the Native American population that ranged from Ohio to New Jersey in 600-100 B.C., well before the Iroquois and other Upstate people emerged as the tribes known to colonials. During Yager’s lifetime Please See YAGER, B3
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COMMUNITY DINNER: Fifth annual potluck Growing Community Harvest Dinner. 4-7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25. Bring dish to pass, table settings, beverages. Music, tables, chairs provided (but many bring own chairs). Aiming for zero waste. Main Street, Cooperstown (Fair to River streets) closed off for celebration. Info, Kristen Griger, kristenmgriger@gmail.com. DROPS TO HOPS: Elite, beginner bikers race two different courses through scenic roads Saturday, Sept. 23, in fifth annual “Drops to Hops” race. 43-mile “Elite” Race begins at 10 a.m.; 23-mile “Citizens Fun” Race at 10:10 a.m., both at Brewery Ommegang, 656 Route 33, Cooperstown. Food, music, awards. Must be 16+ to race. Info, course maps, clarksportscenter.com/events/drops-to-hops FIGHT SUICIDE WALK: Join national walk Saturday, Sept. 24 with Oneonta’s Out of the Darkness Community Walk (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention). Register 9 a.m., walk 11 a.m.-2 p.m. from Oneonta Moose Lodge, 87½ West Broadway, Oneonta. Info, Donna Lange, donnalange30@yahoo.com. Register, www.afsp.org/scnyevents
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NEW EXHIBIT – Noon “Of Time and the River: 12,000 years in the Upper Susquehanna Region” to open at the Yager Museum of Art & Culture, 1 Hartwick Dr., Oneonta. Info: David Lubell, lubelld@hartwick.edu, (607)431-4031.
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p.m. The Double Day Dancers hold their first dance of the season. $5 per person. Info (607)264-8128, (607)547-8665 TARNATION – 8 p.m. The Tarnation of Russell Colvin. True 1810 story of eccentric Vermonter and sensational trial that occurred after his murder told through three competing narrators. Through Sept. 25. Free, donations gratefully accepted, reservations recommended. Franklin Stage Company, Chapel Hall, 25 Institute St., Franklin. Info, reservations, (607) 8293700.
Saturday, September 24
PUBLIC LANDS DAY – Free educational activities hosted at Glimmerglass State Park 1527 Co. Rd. 31, Cooperstown. Info: Karen Sheckells friendsofglimmerglass@gmail.com, 547-8662. BIKE RACE – 8:30 a.m. Drops to Hops registrations. Begins, ends at Ommegang. Entrance fee after Thurs. $55. Info. clarksportscenter.com/events/dropsto-hops or contact Doug McCoy (607) 547-2800 ext. 111. FIGHT SUICIDE WALK – 9 a.m. registration, 11 a.m. walk. Oneonta “Out of the Darkness” Community Walk (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention). Walk, volunteer, donate. Oneonta Moose Lodge, 87 1/2 West Broadway, Oneonta. Info, Donna Lange, donnalange30@ yahoo.com. Register, www.afsp. org/scnyevents MORE CALENDAR, B5
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From Linear To Wholistic, Ideas On Displaying Yager Collection Evolved YAGER/From B1 (1855-1929), such artifacts were everywhere in the Upper Susquehanna Valley. Not only is the clay pipe interesting in itself, the clay is found in only one deposit – in Ohio – proving, Anthony explained, this region was part of the Adena trade route. In another corner in “Of Time and the River: 12,000 Years in the Upper Susquehanna Region,” due to open Thursday, Sept. 22, are arrow points cut from European brass kettles; nearby is a flint version of the same arrowhead. “It shows the transition from stone to modern materials,”
said Anthony. Nearby is a chilling crescent tomahawk head, silver, with “J. Brant” carved along the side, that – Yager documented in his complete catalogue of items collected – was left behind at the Cherry Valley Massacre. Anthony believes the engraved name of the famed and feared Joseph Brant was added later. In yet another corner is “The Spirit in The Stone,” a primitive stone carving that may have been intended to connect with Gus-tah-ote, the timeless spirit watching the world from within the rocks. It was retrieved from a pile of stones in the
Catskills dropped by Adena travelers to ensure a safe journey and ended up in Yager’s hands. “Of Time and the River” reintroduces the Yager Collection to the public after a three-year hiatus. For 15 years (1998-2013), a “very linear, very scientific” display was on public view, reflecting the archaeologist’s method of showing the sequential development of, say, arrowheads. “But nobody wanted to see it,” said Anthony. In 2008, a Tuscarora scholar from Buffalo, Rick Hill, spent a week in the Yager archives, and developed “Containers of Belief,” an exhibit that sought to overlay the artifacts on the evolution of Indian society and belief. The result was “12,000 years on Turtle Island,” the world we live in, the professor said. “Containers” was on display for just a year. The more standard Yager exhibit was taken down in 2013. Changes in the museum’s
“The sensibility comes from Rick Hill,” he continued. “I was trying to keep the attitude: His approach to the Native American past.” Gary Norman of Morris, the museum’s former collections manager who helped make the final “Containers” selections, was brought back as a consultant to assist with that. Courtesy Hartwick College Grandson of David Yager, Few photos exist of one of Oneonta’s founding Willard Yager, who fathers, Willard was born contributed so much to just before the Civil War the understanding of and, as Anthony tells it, our local forebears. began collecting artifacts administration slowed plans when he was just a boy. He graduated from Harvard to present the collection in Law School in 1879, apa fresh way, until Anthony prenticed with an Albany joined Doug Kendall, who law firm, then returned to stepped down as city clerk his hometown in 1882 to a year ago to become Yager director, and Nisha Bansil of edit the Oneonta Herald. He retired in 1890, age East Meredith, a freelance 35, to spend the rest of his exhibit designer (formerly life as a “gentleman-scholwith NYSHA), to reopen ar,” collecting the 6,000 artithe conversation. With Bansil’s skills, “The exhibi- facts and publishing several books, from “The Orite of tion is going to be the best Adequentaga” to “Red Man a Yager exhibition has ever as Soldier.” looked,” Anthony said. After Willard’s death in
1929, his sister Marion provided funding to the school, which had just moved to Oyaron Hill from Hartwick Seminary two years before, to build the museum and maintain the collection. The Yager material was a magnet for Anthony, who arrived in 1987, a Princeton grad with a freshly minted Ph.D. from Penn, as a professor of anthropology and curator of the collection; (he has since led excavations from Serbia to Ireland to the Russian steppes.) What made the collection even more valuable was Yager’s meticulous catalogue, detailing where and when each object was obtained, professional polish in an era of the amateur archaeologist. Aging in a period when the Smithsonian Institution was adding rigor to the field, Yager “did want to be recognized as a scientist,” said Anthony. “He was frustrated at the end of his life because he didn’t know how old anything was. Please See YAGER, B4
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YAGER/From B3 The work goes on, as radiocarbon dating is allowing Anthony’s team to resolve Yager’s frustration, and much more. For instance, when Sean Rafferty, now SUNY Albany’s most eminent archaeology professor, was Anthony’s student, he OTSEGO.life sought to identify nicotine Designer Nisha Bansil in the residue in that clay puts final touches on pipe found at Ford and Main the display boards. as a senior thesis. The nicotine had disAnthony will tell you. sipated, so Rafferty had to For instance, take jewlink the remaining residue elry and tools made from to what originally burned copper in “Of Time and the in the pipe – which, indeed, River.” The Adena lacked turned out to be nicotine the technology to actually (but it could have been any mine copper, so the items number of medicinal herbs must have been made from or preparations, Anthony copper nuggets. But there said.) By the time Rafferty are no such nuggets around was done, it was his SUNY here. Binghamton Ph.D. dissertaSo, where did they come tion. from? And how did they get Over the years, some of here? And how does that the foremost archaeology inform our understanding students stumble on the Yag- of our Upper Susquehanna er collection once they’ve Region? already arrived on campus “Many, many research and are entranced. And opportunities remain here,” there’s much left to study, the professor said.
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Calder, de Kooning On Display At MASTERS/From B1 And though he played in college and as a semi-pro, playing short stop/second base in the Youth Service League in Brooklyn, his love of baseball continued after his own time at the bat ended, especially in his art collection. Now founder/president of ShowHamptons, a firm dedicated to art and design expos in The Hamptons, Friedman fell in love with the Hall of Fame when his stepson, Lawton, was at SUNY Oneonta. “Rick approached us and asked if we wanted him to loan us two paintings by world-renown artists,” said Jon Shestakofsky, the Hall’s vice president/communications. The abstract depictions of America’s Pastime in Elaine de Kooning’s “The Base-
ball Catch” and Alexander Calder’s “Baseball,” stand out in the Peggy Steele Art Gallery. “These paintings are very special to me,” said Friedman. “I love baseball, and when I got them, I thought they deserved to be in the Hall of Fame.” Calder, a former sports illustrator for the National Police Gazette, was best known for his wire sculptures and mobiles, uses cartoonish figure work in the 1966 watercolor, which depicts the racial integration of the game with black and white players together. “It stands out,” said Shestakofsky. “It’s abstract. It’s not a Norman Rockwell, but these are world-renown artists.” Expressionist de Kooning traveled with the Yankees and Baltimore Orioles in 1953 and 1954 to study their stances and paint them. In
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2536 or otsego@cornell.edu NATURE WALK – Noon -4 p.m. From Pine Lake Campus Hartwick College, 1894 Charlotte Creek Rd., Oneonta. Participation free. Pre-registration required. (607)547-4488, occainfo.org/calendar/top-mud-lake-riddell-statepark-september-24/. OMMEGANG 19th – Noon-6 p.m. Brewery Ommegang B-Day celebration with Beer Tastings, magic shows, lawn games, tours, live music, and more. Ommegang Brewery, 656 Co Hwy 33, Cooperstown. Admission Adult: $5. Children under 12: Free. Info: ommegang.com TRAIN ROBBERY – 1 p.m. Train Robbery featuring action packed shoot outs, period costumes, and fun entertainment for the whole family. $20 adults, $19 seniors, $17 children 3-12, free under 3. Reservations encouraged. Milford Depot, Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad, 136 Main St., Milford. Info, reservations, (607) 4322429, (607) 432-2824 MORE CALENDAR, B7
her watercolor, “The Baseball Catch,” she depicts a catcher reaching for a ball while an umpire looks on in the background. Friedman believes this painting was included in her show “Hoops and Homers,” entirely dedicated to baseball and basketball, her two favorite sports. They are just two of the 250 paintings in Friedman’s private collection. “I’ve got a drawing of Norman Rockwell’s titled ‘Fair’ that shows kids going up a baseball bat with their fists,” he said. “That’s an exciting piece. I’ve got four Jackson Pollock paintings and a whole room of de Koonings.” The paintings went up after Induction weekend. “I hope people see these paintings and enjoy them,”
he said. The Baseball Hall of Fame currently has over 400 pieces of framed art in their collections, as well as 50 sculptures and 50 unframed works, including sketches and cartoons. “Art allows you to connect with the game in a new way,” said Shestakofsky. “A photo takes you into that moment, but a painting or a sculpture
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Bob Chase, 73; Lifelong Farmer, Army Veteran COOPERSTOWN – Robert Curtis Chase, 73, a lifelong farmer, died peacefully at home on Sept. 16, 2016, after an extended illness with cancer. He was a twice-daily visitor to Jackie’s restaurant in Milford, operated by his daughter Jacqueline, where he would socialize with friends and family. He was born Jan. 22, 1943, in the Town of Butternuts, to parents Robert Curtis and Ruby May Kilts Chase. He was known
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them. Family or not you simply could never win an argument – because he was always right! And never stand between him and his coffee! He attended Cooperstown Central School. On Sep. 28, 1961, he enlisted in the Army, receiving an honorable discharge on Aug. 31, 1967. On July 4, 1964, he married Sandra Renwick. In 1980, he received his GED. He was a hard-working man, farming his whole life. Several people who worked for him have told his family about what he taught them, life lessons that will never be forgotten! His farming career took him to Lester Martin Farm in Milford, RM Farms in Treadwell, Possom Farm in Sherburne, and to Cooperstown Holstein. He eventually owned and operated Sandy’s family farm on Beaver Meadow Road. He was a member of Agricultural Division of the Otsego County Cooperative Extension Association for 51 years. He briefly worked at Wightman’s Lumber Yard in Portlandville and also, for a time, retrieved cars for Smith Ford and Otsego Automotive. After retirement, he grew beautiful flowers and vegetable gardens for all to reap his bounty. He mowed many acres of land with his friend and neighbor, Jim Leo, creating a beautiful vision for those who drove by. He was a Ford man. He loved going on drives around the countryside with his wife. Bob is survived by his wife, Sandy, his four daughters, Brenda Alton, her husband John and their sons, Robert and Austin; Jacqueline Folts, her fiance Mark Decker and her daughter Jordyn; Sue Sisson, her husband Brett, son Mitchell and daughter Brooke; and Vicki Winchester, her husband Tony and their sons AJ (wife Tesha) and Ryan, and two great-grandsons. He is also survived by a sister, Patricia Roos and her
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husband Charles; a brother, Reginald Chase and his wife Nancy, and several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his father, Robert Curtis Chase, Sr. on Jan. 10, 2000; his mother, Ruby Kilts Chase on Oct. 20, 2014, and a brother, James Chase, on April 24, 1972. Many thanks to Doug and Shirley Bennett for their constant support and meals. There will be no funeral. Please join his family in a celebration of his life 4-8 p.m. Sept. 21, at the Chase residence at 331 Beaver Meadow Road. Burial will be private and at a later date. Memorial contributions may be made to OAOC (BOCES) for exclusive use by its “Natural Resources Occupations” programs, c/o ONC Business Office, 2020 Jump Brook Road, Grand Gorge, NY 12431. Arrangements are entrusted to Tillapaugh Funeral Service, Cooperstown.
RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Marjorie H. Smith, 85, Richfield Springs Central School librarian for 25 years, passed away peacefully on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016, in Focus at Otsego in Index. Marjorie was born on April 16, 1931, in the Town of Barton, daughter of the late Fletcher J. and Mildred L. (Beebe) Hollenbeck. She was raised in Spencer, graduated from Spencer Central School, and earned a bachelor’s degree as a library media specialist from SUNY Geneseo. On Dec. 28, 1951, she married Leland K. Smith in the Spencer Methodist Church parsonage. They shared a loving and devoted union of forty-four years until his passing on Dec. 19, 1995. Before retiring at RSCS librarian in 1991, she inspired the lives of countless children through her passion for education in the library and as National Honor Soci-
ety adviser. She was a member of the Dutch Settlers Society of Albany, the New York State Historical Association, and a committee member of Richfield Springs Troop #14 Boy Scouts of America. Surviving are her four children, Michelle D. Woytowich and Ralph Perry of Herkimer, Roger J. Smith and his wife Tammy of Bloomville, Julie M. Solomon of Norwich, Bradley R. Smith and his wife Susanne of Richfield Springs, a brother-in-law Stephen Smith of Spencer, 13 grandchildren, seven great grandchildren, and several nieces, nephews and cousins. Calling hours are 4-7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, at J. Seaton McGrath Funeral Home, Richfield Springs. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 24, at the Allen-Manzer Funeral Home, Spencer, with calling hours beginning at 10 a.m.
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