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Teri Barown Named Village Administrator Teri Barown, Cooperstown’s veteran village clerk, has been elevated to village administrator.

Veteran Cooperstown Clerk’s ‘Dream Job’ Gets Better

By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN

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fter two decades, the Village of Cooperstown again has a village administrator.

After an executive session

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Charlotte Goldhoffer pulls a wagon bearing delighted Annie Cooper and Eve Lytel through the crowd at the fifth annual Growing Community Harvest Dinner, which brought a record crowd to Main Street, between Fair and River, to partake of food and neighborliness Sunday, Sept. 25/OTHER PHOTO, A4

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Monday, Sept. 26, village trustees unanimously appointed Teri Barown, village clerk since 2005, to the job.

Under the new arrangement, the village’s three department heads – Police Chief Mike Covert, DPW Superintendent Brian Clancy, and Treasurer Derek Bloomfield – will report to Barown.

Also, she will be the go-to person when village trustees Please See BAROWN, A7

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Otsego Now Considers CEO Pact, Privatizing Chair Sees Resolution On Oct. 27

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tsego Now is considering a business plan that would privatize VS Healthcare has economic development, as asked for another 30- done by Upstate’s most sucday delay – the final cessful such one, the company says – to efforts: study how much more razing Utica-based the Cooperstown Motel will Mohawk cost because of the Aug. 9 Valley fire, according to attorney Edge, Martin Tillapaugh, who Saratoga’s represents former motelier Prosperity Al Brien’s estate.

Partnership, and the Genesee Dousing the fire broke County Economic Developthe intact asbestos insulation ment Center. into particles that are harder At the same time, the to dispose of, Tillapaugh board of director’s negosaid. Also, fire debris has tiations with the man who to be go to a special landfill would be the key player in – the closest is near Buffalo such innovation, President/ – also more costly.

CEO Sandy Mathes, whose The new date is Oct. 21. three-year contract expires at the end of the year, appear LOOKING AHEAD: The stalled. county Board of Representa“I think there is a sense tives will meet at 10 a.m. the arrangement that got us Friday, Sept. 30, to turns its here – the part-time connew strategic plan into actract, half of Sandy’s time tion steps.

– that’s not going to keep getting it done,” the Otsego OCCA HONORS: Con- Now chair, Devin Morgan, servationist of the Year nom- the Cooperstown lawyer inations are being sought by and entrepreneur, said in an Oct. 15. Nomination forms: interview. call 547-4488, e-mail direcThe question then, he said, tor@occainfo.org. is how much more is the Otsego Now board willing to pay for the added hours.

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Consultant Lisa Nagle starts discussion of Cooperstown’s proposed comprehensive plan with a little soft-shoe at an SRO gathering Tuesday, Sept. 27, at the fire hall. The catchword of the evening “authenticity” – if locals like living here, tourists will warm up to the community/FULL STORY, A7

Father Dane Boston and wife Debby with children Eleanor and Fritz.

Christ Church Rector Brings Baptist, Episcopal Traditions

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he diner’s head snapped up in The Ginger Man, a quaint Colonial-like bar and restauJim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal rant in upscale Greenwich,

Conn., and she looked over her shoulder at the 30-some people sitting behind her.

Romans, Chapter 2, had caught her attention. Someone was reading: “Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which Please See RECTOR, A3

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Ingalls’ Son Earns Ph.D. From Cornell

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icah Levi Ingalls of Cooperstown received his Ph.D. in Natural Resources Management from Cornell University, maintaining a 4.0 throughout his studies. The hooding ceremony was May 28.

The son of David and Darlene Ingalls of Hartwick Seminary, Micah is a 1999 graduate of Cooperstown Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal Central School.

During his studies he Fans hailed royalty as Maria Noto and Reilly Hall were introduced as worked in both Afghanistan Cooperstown Central School’s 2016 Homecoming king and queen at and Laos, serving with the halftime during the Hawkeyes-Waterville Indians game. The court, from left, are Taylor Price, Leland Morris, Ginger Miller and Tessa Grigor.

World Wildlife Fund and the United Nations Development KATZ GRADUATES: Rob- Project. ert S. Katz of Cooperstown Funds from the Clark completed his baccalaureate Foundation and the Thayer studies in zoology in this Scholarship program helped summer at SUNY Oswego underwrite his education. and was recognized with a bachelor of science degree.

AT FINDLAY: Molly His is the son of Mayor Jeff Watson of Cooperstown has Temple Beth El wishes you a and Karen Katz. His father enrolled at the University Happy and Healthy New Year reports he has spent the sum- of Findlay in Ohio for fall 83 Chestnut Street | Oneonta To learn about services, programs, religious school and membership mer in the West, working on 2016. an archaeological dig. visit www.templebetheloneonta.org

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Rector Brings Baptist, Episcopal Traditions RECTOR/From A1 you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.”

It was the Rev. Dane Boston’s second Bible study class – a rarity in the Episcopal church – since, fresh out of Yale Divinity School, he had arrived at Christ Church in that well-off New York City suburb.

And it was taking off.

The week before, a handful of the curious faithful had gathered at The Ginger Man. The tract: Romans I, where St. Paul lays out the challenges facing the world.

Word got around. Week Two, 30 gathered.

If Romans One set the stage, Romans Two made it personal: Judge not, lest ye be judged.

“You who are reading it, you are in the same boat,” Father Boston recapped in an interview the other day at his office at James Fenimore Cooper’s Christ Church, where he arrived as rector Sept. 1. “It’s such a relevant, current book.”

By the time Boston left Greenwich three years later, dozens of parishioners were participating in his Bible studies – three in town, and Thursdays at noon at a conference room at Grand Central Station, so participants could dash up from Wall Street on a lunch break for a sandwich, St. Paul and spiritual reflection.

Bible study wasn’t common among his new flock, but “reading the Bible is like rewiring the house with the electricity still on,” he said. “You’ll get a shock once in a while.”

Bible study was central to the new rector’s early training as a Southern Baptist.

He was raised in, not the Bay State, but Dunedin, Fla., and attended a Baptist church with his parents, brother and sister.

Baptists don’t hold Good Friday services, so, age 16, young Dane went around the corner to St. Alfred’s Episcopal Church to reflect on that key day in the church calendar.

“I was absolutely overwhelmed by the beauty of the Liturgy,” which made the Eternal Presence “present and real in the moment,” he recounted.

“It was immensely powerful to me.”

Thereafter, he attended Sunday service at St. Alfred’s, and his dad picked him up to join the family at the 10 a.m.

Baptist service.

At the College of Washington & Lee in Lexington, Va., came the break. “I was baptized my freshman year,” he said, at R.E. Lee Episcopal Church. (Washington & Lee is home to the R.E. Lee Chapel, burial site of the Confederate general-in-chief.)

In his sophomore year, Boston left a lively discussion in a New Testament class one afternoon sure of his vocation.

He called his dad: “I have to talk about this for the rest of my life,” son told father. “He wasn’t surprised.”

At Washington & Lee, he met his future wife, Debby.

He went off to Yale Divinity School in New Haven, she to Germany on a Fulbright. When she returned, “we married in a month,” and she enrolled in Quinnipiac Law School in nearby Hamden.

A year and two weeks later, daughter Eleanor arrived. “It was great to be a parent while still in school,” he said. Son Fritz arrived in January 2014, as the family was preparing to move from Greenwich to Trinity Cathedral in Columbia, S.C. The offer came “out of the blue,” on the recommendation of the Rev. Fleming Rutledge of Rye, one of the first women to be ordained in the U.S. Episcopal Church (in 1975). Soon, he was canon of Christian Formation at the busy 800-member cathedral parish.

He enjoyed the proximity to family in Dunedin, but was looking to assume full oversight of a parish when another friend called, the Rev. Paul Griswold-Kuhn of Glens Falls, alerting him to the Cooperstown opening.

“It’s the most perfect church.

It’s the most perfect village,” Father Griswold-Kuhn told him. “You’ll love it there.”

When Father Sam Abbott retired in 2009, he recommended his successor be a younger man, preferably a family man, to help attract younger families into the parish. Boston’s predecessor, Father Mark Michaels, with a wife and two young children, filled that model.

But the new rector brought a different take to the interview – Dr. Paul Hager, senior warden, and Carol B. Waller, junior warden, led the recruitment. “We don’t want you here for our sakes,” is Father Dane’s perspective. “We want you here for your sake.”

While the pastor, so far, has tended to prosperous flocks, he believes people are more similar than we may think.

“Money helps hide the problems that are common to everyone,” he said. “We can pretend that everything is OK. But the same problems are right beneath the surface.”

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

EDITORIALS

Negotiate, Sure. Then Make Deal To Keep Mathes Here

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ot every challenge has to be solved immediately.

And there’s eminent wisdom in Otsego Now’s board of directors patching together a new contract with its president/CEO Sandy Mathes to keep him at the helm for three more years.

Happily, the Otsego Now board chair, Devin Morgan, the Cooperstown lawyer and entrepreneur, sketched that out as, not necessarily everyone’s preferred option, but a fallback outcome of negotiations with Mathes as his first three-year contract expires Dec. 31.

For the time being, nail-biting is in order. Morgan said there will be an aye or nay on a new contract at Otsego Now’s monthly meeting on Thursday, Oct. 27. The directors and Mathes should – they must – agree on a deal to ensure all the positive initiatives pending

continue to move forward.

• As Morgan explained it, “Ultimately, we want a fulltime CEO. The organization deserves it. It needs it. I think that’s a big part of where we’re going.” Fine, and if the anticipated successes occur, paying a fulltime salary will be fully justifiable.

On the other hand, he continued, everybody agrees that Mathes – his current contract calls for $120,000 a year for 20 hours a week – is working vastly more than half-time on the county’s behalf.

If everyone agrees, then it’s only fair to compensate the man, and/or provide staff to help with the burden.

“He’s invested in Otsego Now,” said Morgan. “He sees where he can get them to. He is excited and engaged; his energy and work ethic are amazing.” That kind of commitment – not to mention

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supreme savvy – is invaluable.

• Don’t charge horses in this midstream.

Cooperstown’s revised comprehensive plan was delivered this week. It and comp-plan upgrades underway in Oneonta and Richfield Springs are the foundation of successful grantsmanship.

Only now can these communities go after state and federal money in a big way.

Further, Mathes, in collaboration with the Otsego Now directors, has proposed privatizing economic development. In effect, the idea is to make the business community, thriving non-profits like Springbrook, and the two colleges partners in the arc toward prosperity.

Saratoga’s Prosperity Partnership, Mohawk Valley Edge and other increasingly successful communities have adopted that model.

We need to do the same.

Then there’s the “shovel-ready site” at Pony Farm, the prospective Herkimer-Otsego commercial park at Richfield Springs, redeveloping the D&H yards, Oneonta’s prospective “food hub” and entertainment district.

Let’s not mess with the momentum. Keep Mathes in place.

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Anyone who’s worked with Mathes recognizes his energy and drive. He has great contacts; he understands the programs. And he’s a creative guy, full of ideas.

He proved in Greene County that he can do what’s needed here, building two commerce parks – Greene Business & Tech Park and the Kalkberg Commerce Park – and filling them.

Locally, Oneonta’s $10 million Downtown Revitalization Grant – Mayor Gary Herzig praises help from Mathes and his Otsego Now staff for making it happen – alone proves this dynamo’s salary is well worth the investment.

And that’s what it is: not an expense, but an investment.

Neither the Otsego Now directors nor Mathes are dopes. They are negotiating for the best deal, as both should. But at the end of the day, make that deal and get back to Job One: putting Otsego County back on its economic feet.

A VISION FOR COOPERSTOWN Charles and Dotty Hudson, foreground, chat with David Andela and Claire Beetlestone, right, at the fifth annual Growing Community Harvest Dinner on Cooperstown’s Main Street between Fair and Lake.

At left is Andrew Rock and his son.

Editor’s Note: Veteran columnist Fred Lebrun’s column on last week’s indictments is reprinted with permission of the Albany Times Union.

informant Todd Howe, who we knew about in some detail, had already pleaded guilty to a host of corruption-related charges?

The only thing missing in the bombshell criminal complaint accusreet did not ing eight of cordisappoint. ruption were all No one the dots connectdoes theater of the ing misdeeds to indictment, in this the governor himcase pre-indictself, but patience ment, better than people, patience. the federal prosBecause the ecutor from the fun is only beSouthern District ginning. Cuomo of New York, The Freeman’s Journal won’t skate from and always with Governor this because the a powerful moral Cuomo in culture he has cremessage worthy Cooperstown ated will be under of the Greeks. The in 2014. indictment as well wages of systemic political corruption are thus. as the people he’s picked to do his business. He owns Even though we all knew it was coming, he managed to the corruption whether he admits or not, or whether shock us anyway.

Who could have predicted he’s indicted.

Preet delicately stepped that Dr. Alain Kaloyeros, around the Cuomo corrupthe brilliant, colorful guru tion connection. of the state’s nanotechnolAt this moment, said ogy ascendency and the Preet, “there are no allegaone bright note in Upstate tions of any wrongdoing or redevelopment, would be misconduct by the governor, caught in the double crossanywhere in this complaint. hairs of both Preet Bharara That’s all I’m going to say.” and state Attorney General He’s a lawyer, remember.

Eric Schneiderman over not one but two alleged schemes So we need to look carefully at what he said. “At this to defraud?

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Draft Plan Aims To Save A Community’s Heritage, Chart Its Future Editor’s Note: Two years in the making, a draft “Village of Cooperstown: Comprehensive Plan & Downtown Revitalization Strategy” was unveiled to the public Tuesday, Sept. 27, at the fire hall

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he Steering Committee prepared this vision statement for the Comprehensive Plan & Downtown Revitalization Strategy, based on input received at public workshops, stakeholder interviews, and conversations with residents and business owners.

The vision statement summarizes the community’s ideal future – a future that focuses on enhancing the quality of life for residents.

Cooperstown is and will continue to be an attractive, vibrant, year-round community that provides an excellent quality of life. The Village of Cooperstown is committed to:

• Protecting its natural and cultural resources • Recognizing the important role that art, history, and tradition play in the community’s character.

• Encouraging a range of housing options accessible to people of all ages, incomes, and abilities.

• Continuing to improve, while preserving the authenticity of, neighborhoods, municipal properties, infrastructure, and commercial districts.

• Attracting and Retaining a diverse mix of year-round retail shops, businesses, and restaurants that cater to both residents and visitors.

• Being a model for environmental sustainability, with a focus on energy efficiency, renewable resources, alternative transportation, and reuse of historic properties.

• Fostering a climate in which local government is inclusive and responsive to the needs of residents and businesses.

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LETTERS

Focus, Ajello Cases Show County Putting Profitability Above People To the Editor: This paper has recently done valuable reporting on two issues of great concern to many Otsego County residents: the heartbreaking two-daylong neglect this summer of a 94-year-old resident of the Focus Nursing Home and the unsettling 2014 tax sale of Maria Ajello’s property by the Marie Ajello County of Otsego. While at first glance these two incidents

Redefine PGA, For Better

do not seem to have much in common, both situations at their core involve the prioritization of financial profit above the welfare of our residents.

Two years ago, Otsego County was incurring unsustainable financial losses from the Otsego Manor nursing home, so the county board formed the Otsego County Health Facilities Corp. to sell Please See STAMMEL, A6

To the Editor: With the passing of golfing great Arnold Palmer, we are indeed seeing the end of an era.

An era of “perfect playing conditions” to ensure predictability when swatting and coaxing the dimpled orb.

These perfect conditions were and continue to be the result of the use of pesticides and herbicides that are a threat to drinking water, human health and wildlife.

I hope the next generation of great golfers insists on chemical-free playing conditions.

Otherwise, the PGA will continue to mean: “Poisoned Ground Ahead.”

MICHAEL WHALING Sharon Springs

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THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-5

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

200 YEARS AGO

Captain Mamby of the British Navy has invented a machine with which a single individual may extinguish a conflagration. It is filled with a fluid composed of antiphlogistic ingredients. This fluid extinguishes, wherever it falls, the most ardent flames. The liquid contained in one of these pumps has as great an effect as 120 buckets of water, in quantity. A case containing three of these pumps composes the whole of the machine, being three feet long, two feet in breadth, and one foot in depth. It possesses the great advantage of being always ready – can be managed by one person, and furnishes a liquid equivalent to many hundred buckets of water.

September 26, 1816

100 YEARS AGO

50 YEARS AGO

Watterson Lowe of New York completed his second year as social director at the Hotel Otesaga with the closing of the hotel over the week-end. He has returned to his home in the city to await the opening of the cruise season when he expects to be back at his winter vocation as a cruise director. For more than 30 years Watty Lowe has been the man remembered by thousands of people for making a vacation a memorable occasion. At the Otesaga, seated at his desk just off the spacious lobby, he has greeted hundreds and hundreds of people who have stayed at the famous resort hotel.

September 28, 1966

175 YEARS AGO

Starting Children – Many an unwise parent labors hard and lives sparingly all his life for the purpose of leaving enough to give his children a start in the world as it is called. Setting a young man afloat with money left him by his relatives is like tying bladders under the arms of one who cannot swim; ten chances to one he will lose his bladders and go to the bottom. Teach him to swim and he will never need the bladders. Give your child a sound education, and you have done enough for him. See to it that his morals are pure, his mind cultivated, and his whole nature made subservient to the laws which govern man, and you have given what will be of more value than the Indies. You have given him a start which no misfortune can deprive him of. The earlier you teach him to depend upon his own resources, the better.

September 27, 1841

150 YEARS AGO

A Bee Charmer at the State Fair in Saratoga – One of the greatest attractions on the ground was a great honey bee monger, whose hat, while on his head was covered with bees, which appeared like a small swarm on a bush. He handled bees as if they were harmless flies. They crawled all over his person, in his hair and on his face, and he put some of them in his mouth and blew them out, and handled them at pleasure. And what was most remarkable is, they were strange bees, attracted from the woods or from colonies in the country. Immense crowds of people hung around him, continually asking questions and purchasing the secret of collecting bees from the forest or robbing your neighbors of their busy workers by remaining quietly at home. When every bee was shaken from his hat and it was returned to his

during his outing. The crutch was brought into use to favor a foot into which a rusty nail had penetrated. He had visited a saw mill, he said, while down there, and stood a little too close to the saw to escaped being marked by it; while a rather unfriendly dog had also left an impression with him that his teeth were yet sharp; and the hoof of an animal had also made its presence felt. However, Henry had come out in good shape, and in a few days expects to lay aside the crutch.

October 1, 1891

25 YEARS AGO

Corrections: William J. Guilfoile, associate director of the Baseball Hall of Fame said a quote was inaccurately attributed to him in the September 18 Cooperstown edition of The Freeman’s Journal. In an article headlined “Tourism Story Draws Strong Response” Guilfoile was quoted as saying “If it wasn’t for tourists, there would be nothing here but a lot of uneasy residents.” Guilfoile denies having said “uneasy residents.” Also, the last name of the grandparents of Ryan Scott Bennett, who was born on September 6 at September 27, 1916 Bassett Hospital, was misspelled in the last edition. The grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ubner. head, the buzzing swarm about him would quickly return, October 2, 1991 completely covering his hat.

September 28, 1866

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125 YEARS AGO

His Vacation – Master Henry Lamb, son of J. Warren Lamb of this village, spent a part of his school vacation down in Greene County, and has returned home. He was at his accustomed place in the Sabbath School on Sunday last, and it was noticed that he had brought a friend with him in the form of a crutch. Enquiry elicited from Henry facts that make up quite a little chapter of accidents that befell our young friend

A committee has formed to oversee a celebration of the Bicentennial of Cooperstown’s incorporation on April 3, 1807.

Headed by Village Trustee Grace Kull, the group is planning a grand celebration for the 200th anniversary. The committee envisions a mayoral proclamation, a series of historical exhibits in the Village Hall, publications and a grand parade on September 8, 2007, to kick off a week of special events to commemorate two centuries of village history.

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Otsego Now Chair Sees ‘Yeas, Nays’ Coming Out Of Oct. 27 Meeting PACT/From A1 The board and Mathes will renew discussions to achieve a new consensus at the next meeting, at 8 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, at Otsego Now headquarters at 189 Main, Oneonta. Morgan expects a “yea or nay” at that time.

“I can’t speak for the full board,” Morgan said, “but I’ve had the sense, ultimately, we want a fulltime CEO. The organization deserves it. It needs it. I think that’s a big part of where we’re going.”

There are a lot of “open questions,” he continued: “Could Mathes be the fulltime CEO? I think so.” But does he want that job? Is a full-time CEO necessarily immediately? Or is a longer transition – perhaps three years – preferable?

Since negotiations are at a sensitive stage, Mathes declined to comment on the situation.

A former Greene County economic developer, Mathes became director of what was then the Otsego County Industrial Development Agency on Jan. 6, 2014. His salary has been $120,000 a year at what was defined as a half-time job, although Morgan and other directors say he dedicates much more than 20 hours a week to the demanding position.

The job grew out of two “Seward Summits,” where state Sen. Jim Seward, RMilford, brought in experts from across the nation to help the county rethink its economic-development efforts.

In the three years since, Mathes launched comprehensive master plan revisions – essential to leverage state funds – in Cooperstown (see related story, page A7), Richfield Springs and Oneonta, prepared the first “shovel-ready” manufactur-

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ing site at the former Pony Farm Business Park, and helped the City of Oneonta win a $10 million grant for downtown revitalization.

The $10 million – Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig convened the first meeting of the steering committee Tuesday, Sept. 27 – is aimed at developing a “food hub,” an entry point to a “Finger Lakes of Beer” centered on Otsego Lake, and a related entertainment district along the city’s Market Street.

Otsego Now is already well into the planning and land acquisition for redevelopment of Oneonta’s D&H yards for commerce and manufacturing on 88 acres in the city’s center.

And both Oneonta and Cooperstown mayors expressed dismay at the standoff.

“Sandy’s development Herzig know-how is something the city needs right now,” said Herzig. “…My hope and expectation is that the board will renew Sandy’s contract and the city will continue to partner with the IDA board and staff as we go forward.”

“He understands our needs. He understands our potential,” said Katz, noting Mathes was able to obtain a $100,000 grant to devise the updated village master plan that was unveiled this week.

“He certainly puts his money where his mouth is … He knows Albany. He knows the right people. I’ve seen Sandy at these regional meetings: He’s a powerhouse, he just is.”

The privatization concept grew out of the Otsego Now board’s request for a business plan when the issue of Mathes’ contract first arose in the spring.

“We had gone through strategic planning at the end of last year,” said Morgan.

“We needed to start working more proactively on the midto long-term financial model, and what it will actually be when we grow up.”

Privatization, unveiled at a special Otsego Now board meeting on Monday, Sept.

19, was met with general approval, Morgan said. “I think they did a fantastic job of it,” he added. “They put together a very plausible story.”

If he had a “magic wand,” he continued, he would like to see Mathes aboard fulltime by Jan. 1 – “but well below his current rate” – and Otsego Now geared to implement the privatization concept by the end of 2017. That, of course, Katz would depend on the successful resolution of current negotiations with Mathes.

The new Otego Now would be a non-profit, with direction from a board representing a broad base

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As he joined the Otsego County IDA in January 2014, former Greene County Economic Developer Sandy Mathes is congratulated by Oneonta’s then-mayor Dick Miller, right, and Kathy Clark, R-Otego, chair of the county Board of Representatives.

of private, non-profit or academic institutions that would contribute at various membership levels. A halfdozen leading partners would contribute, say, $25,000 each a year, a secondary $10,000 level, a $5,000 level and so on. “Your mission scales depending on how much buy-in you take,” said Morgan.

“The new legal entity,” he continued, “sits separately from the IDA and the CRC (the county Capital Resources Corp., an IDA funding arm). That entity, which assembles a private board – usually, from done from industry and larger employees in the region – that entity is the strategic guidance, big picture, economic-development arm.”

The new Otsego Now would then contract with other entities “which have very specific economic-development tools”: The IDA,

for instance, for PILOTs and lower-cost bonding, the CRC to access other funding sources, and so on.”

“What about small business? What about Main Street? What about entrepreneurship? Those things are not necessarily what ICAs and CRCs are designed for,” said Morgan. The new approach “creates its own situation where it can take on a full economic-development mandate.”

As for the negotiations with Mathes, he said, “I can’t really talk about that. I don’t really think we made a specific offer. There’s a request for a proposal from him.

“He has made a fallback offer: He is willing to continue the current contract; basically, renew it for three years, but with the caveat – on both sides – that there’s more to do than can be done in 20 hours a week.”

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The level of salary may be an interim discussion: If privatization and an expanded Otsego Now role leads to expansion and successes, a higher salary would be justified, he said.

For now, Morgan continued, ”Can we get more Sandy? Can we afford more Sandy? At some point does it become so expensive that we should be looking at other options.”

Regardless, he said the Otsego Now board recognizes and appreciates Mathes’ leadership role, his contacts and knowledge of how economic development works: “He’s invested in Otsego Now. He sees where he can get it to. He is excited and engaged; his energy and work ethic are amazing.

“It really is a big part of the question: How much of himself does he want to give to Otsego County?”

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Expert Doesn’t See Natural Gas As Bridge, Looks To Renewables

To the Editor: In a recent issue, you published a letter from Al Colone in which he refers to a presentation given by Dr. Jeffrey Freedman, a research associate at SUNY Albany Atmospheric Science & Research Center specializing in solar and wind energy sources. Mr. Colone erroneously states that Dr. Freedman “acknowledged that there is an ongoing need for natural gas which should be seen as an important “bridge fuel.”

Further, Mr. Colone builds upon this misstatement and encourages area leaders to support the expansion of gas pipelines through our area. I also attended that presentation, and recalled no such acknowledgment by Dr. Freedman.

Unwilling to rely solely upon my own memory I contacted Dr. Freedman for clarification.

The following are excerpts from his response: “I mentioned that some policymakers consider natural gas to be a ‘bridge fuel,’ but that the problem with that approach is you are still burning a fossil fuel that is a source of carbon dioxide and methane emissions...

“Therefore, natural gas is still part of the problem and will still cause greenhouse gas (GHG) levels to increase. I would never advocate such a solution... And your reference to the expansion of natural gas pipelines illustrates the problem with justifying natural gas as a so-called ‘bridge

fuel.’ That investment in pipelines will only incentivize an increasing reliance on natural gas – the very policy we want to reverse to cut emissions of GHGs and foster economic growth through investment in renewables and supporting transmission infrastructure.”

Let’s not squander the future for short-term gains and longterm problems. NYSERDA estimates that climate change will cost NYS $10 billion annually. Hurricane Sandy cost $42 billion in NY alone, and economists and scientists project a $60 trillion global price-tag.

What our area needs is intelligent, responsible, long-term economic growth; and it can be attained by following Dr

Freedman’s advice: “Foster economic growth through investment in renewables and supporting transmission infrastructure.”

Dollar for dollar invested, renewables and energy efficiency projects create over 3 times as many jobs as fossilfuel jobs. This approach can address multiple issues simultaneously. It can create jobs, reduce energy costs, attract investment and development, and reduce green house gas emissions all at the same time.

There is a powerful economic development tool that can help us achieve this, and hopefully the county Board of Representatives will consider passing the legislation to make it available to all communities

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STAMMEL/From A4 the Manor, hoping it would put the county on more stable financial footing. This volunteer committee did its best to perform due diligence and research potential buyers.

Ultimately, the committee by a 4-3 vote selected the highest bidder, Focus Ventures.

As a result of the sale, the county’s finances are currently much healthier, but it now appears that our residents are not.

Even prior to the disturbing news of neglect, reports have raised concerns about the quality of service being provided at the facility. Hindsight is, of course, 20-20. The county probably would not have selected the highest bidder had it known that staffing and service quality would be cut.

But it should also not come as a surprise that a for-profit corporation prioritizes profit over other less tangible values like residents’ health, satisfaction and wellbeing.

The debate over the county’s tax sale policies has also reignited this summer. Ms. Ajello has bravely and diligently articulated the pain and loss she has experienced from the 2014 foreclosure of her property.

Most property owners understand and accept that they’re required to pay their mortgage and taxes in a timely manner and that the bank or county can seize their property if they fail to do so for an extended period (3-4 years for this county).

The foreclosure or tax sale then allows the lien holder to recover the debt that is owed to them and at that point the lien holder is “made whole.”

Banks often foreclose on a mortgagor and make a profit beyond what is owed. Is that really the approach that a government should emulate?

Should the county use the tax sale as a profit generator or merely to recoup its back taxes? I don’t believe the county should be profiting financially at the expense of our own residents, particularly in a case where the taxpayer is offering to pay what is owed. That approach unfairly puts profit over our people. While we may expect that from a for-profit corporation, people deserve better treatment than that from their local government.

Half of the members of the Board of Representatives, including myself, were newly elected last fall and joined the board this year. It is frustrating to many of us that some issues, including the Ajello tax sale and Manor sale, pre-date our time on the board and options to fix those decisions are very limited.

Neither sale can be reversed.

The county does not now have direct authority over the Focus facility. And as compelling as Ms. Ajello’s story is, the

county followed the policies on the books at the time of the tax sale. It would be inequitable to change the rules ex post facto for one person and not address all other previous sales. But there must be other actions that the current board can take to address these problems moving forward. One benefit to having so many new board members is that county government can re-examine these issues with fresh eyes in a forward-looking manner.

The criminal prosecution of the Focus employees in our local courts is a start, but that does not address the corporation itself, whose cost-cutting measures also bear responsibility for the neglect. The county should explore its options for monitoring the facility more closely, gathering specific concerns from residents, and applying pressure to state regulatory bodies whose job it is to ensure the safety and welfare of those living there.

Some progress has already been made to improve the tax sale process. The Treasurer’s Office has given taxpayers additional and more convenient mechanisms for paying taxes.

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The treasurer also provides all representatives advance warning about at-risk properties in our districts, allowing us to personally reach out to our constituents and assist them.

But more can be done.

Ms. Ajello’s case has revealed flaws in the process and the board should take this opportunity to review all of its tax sale policies and correct deficiencies to save others from future tragedies. I cannot speak for the full board, but I believe we should not set arbitrary and early deadlines for final payment. Payment from the property owner should be accepted until the last possible moment.

Yes, the county should ensure that property owners are responsible for paying their taxes in a timely manner but the County should not make windfalls above what is owed in back taxes. Rights to private property are paramount and should not be negated except as a last resort.

Government has a fiduciary duty to carefully manage taxpayers’ monies and to reduce costs and inefficiencies whenever possible. I’m proud that as a member of the Oneonta

Town Board I voted against any property tax increases and I plan to continue prudent fiscal management at the county level. But this duty to balance budgets should not come at the expense of the people.

Elected officials, especially at the local level, must keep in mind the purpose of government is to serve all of our residents. Too often in recent years government contracts and largesse go to those well-connected individuals and corporations who know how to write a good grant or cut corners on a contract proposal. The burden of cost cutting always seems to fall on those who don’t have a voice, such as our elderly and financially struggling.

The County is not a for-profit corporation and should avoid the trend toward becoming an unthinking and unfeeling bureaucracy. When deficiencies and unfairness in our policies are revealed, as Ms. Ajello has done, we have a duty to reexamine and improve them to better serve the people.

ANDREW STAMMEL County Representative District 4 Town of Oneonta

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To the Editor: Another mass shooting.

More innocent people dead.

What a surprise. What is the killers excuse this time? They always have excuses.

Aleppo, wars around the world, barrel bombs, poison gas, rape, violence against women and children, kidnappings, mass murders, millions of innocent people displaced around the world, human slavery, human trafficking, police violence, child molesters, domestic violence, on and on.

It does not matter what the violence is.

The source of the violence is always the same.

To begin to understand the underlying source and cause of

almost all of the violence and damage in the world, today and throughout human history, we need only to ask one single question.

What is the gender of the perpetrators?

Only when we ask, and then answer, this one question, can the peaceful people of world take a completely different look at the root cause of this massive problem of endless violence and destruction on the planet.

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“Tourists like authenticity,” said Kennedy Smith, former director of the National Trust’s Main Street Program, now a downtown revitalization consultant with the CLUE Group, Arlington, Va. “They want to sit someplace and feel like they can eavesdrop and really learn what the community is about.”

Smith and Lisa Nagle, principal with Elan Planning, Saratoga Springs, were at the fire hall Tuesday, Sept. 27, unveiling a new Comprehensive Master Plan for the village, the first since 1994.

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“There are retail sales leakages in most categories,” said Smith. “But that just means there’s room for growth.”

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need to diversify the stores in downtown Cooperstown,” she said. “Destination apparel, like jewelry and shoes. Something unique.”

“Maker spaces” were also important, both for commercial and personal use. “People who live in the region and work from home want access to conference space,” she said.

“There’s also room for artisan craft businesses – these don’t have big smokestacks. One town I visited had a harp-maker. You’d hear this beautiful harp music all up and down Main Street!”

And a specialty food store would also do well in Cooperstown, she recommended. “The litmus test is ‘do locals like it’?” she said.

“If it can operate year round and fill a void, it will probably be successful.”

In the Q&A that followed the presentation, the issue of high rents was raised. “That’s the biggest barrier,” said Ellen Pope, Otsego 2000 director.

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Brian Wrubleski, proprietor of Mel’s at 22, asks if the upgrade of the Main and Chestnut signal is still in the works. Mayor Katz reassured him it is.

Next to him is Tom Lagan, the developer. and pay $4,000 a month in rent, when in Oneonta you pay $1,500?”

There are funding alternatives, Smith said, such as forgivable loan programs, crowd-sourcing and local development corporations, where several people pool capital to invest in new businesses. “I’ve seen communities with a 50th of your resources do it,” said In addition to enhancing downtown shopping, the plan recommended looking at what else downtown has to offer.

“You are on a beautiful lake,” said Nagle. “But people

have said to me, ‘I know there’s a lake, but I can’t find it’.”

Signage would improve access to the lake, as would improving the boat launch at Fair Street and Fish Road, as well as non-motorized boat access at Fairy Spring and Three Mile Point.

“The last time the Parks & Recreation study was done was in 1988,” said Nagle. “We recommend you update that and expand offerings to include things like ice skating, ice fishing. The more we can engage people, the more we can keep

those businesses open yearround.”

They also recommended a housing study. “Otsego County did a housing study a few years ago, but the focus wasn’t on Cooperstown,” said Nagle. “An assessment needs to be done here. People who work here can’t afford to live here. You need to look at building housing for seniors, young families and workers.”

They even had a recommendation for a parking study. “Half the people we interviewed said parking was a problem, the other half said it wasn’t,” said Nagle. “The Village Board is already undertaking a study of that issue.”

And they applauded the efforts underway, including the recent promotion of Village Clerk Teri Barown to the position of Village Manager.

A full draft of the comprehensive plan will be posted online at http://coopplan. wordpress.com. The steering committee will meet to discuss community comments and adjust the plan accordingly.

Meanwhile, the Village Board has scheduled a public hearing for its October meeting, on the 24th, and may formally adopt the plan then.

“This is the Village of Cooperstown’s plan,” said Nagle.

“This is all your input.”

Trustees Elevate Teri Barown To Village Administrator BAROWN/From A1 want something done, or are seeking information.

For her added responsibilities, she received a raise from $55,000 to $70,000, the highest salary at 22 Main, after DPW superintendent ($66,000) and police chief ($65,000), according to Mayor Jeff Katz, who said the salary will be divided “a third, a third and a third” between general fund, and the water and sewer department budgets.

With Barown playing a key role for “over 10 years, she knows village government, knows the village structure, knows the ins and out,” said the mayor.

While nothing’s been mentioned publicly, Katz said the Village Board has been contemplating the change for the past year, meeting with a NYCOM consultant (NYCOM is the state Conference of May-

ors) to determine “how it can be run differently, how it can be run better.”

The job, while unfilled since 1996, is in the village charter, so the trustees could simply choose to fill it, the mayor said.

In an interview, Barown said she considered village clerk “my dream job” when hired 11 years ago, and her elevation makes it even moreso.

“Cooperstown has always been home to me,” she said.

At the outset, she plans an initial innovation: A weekly meeting with department heads, to make assignments and discuss progress to goals.

A native of Cooperstown, Barown is a 1979 CCS graduate. She attended Herkimer County Community College to become a paralegal, then studied business administration at Utica School of Commerce in Oneonta.

As village clerk, she was a regular at NYCOM’s annual training conference, receiving a certificate recently for attending 10 years in a row.

Beginning in high school, she worked in the late Lynn Green’s law offices on Main Street for eight years, was assistant county personnel officer for 12 years, NYSHA member-

ship manager for three years, and Laurens Central School district clerk for four years before joining 22 Main.

The village clerk position brought together “everything I had done,” she said.

She has three children, son Matt, who works out of Hartwick for Norfolk Southern; Julie, catering manager for L.M. Townsend Catering, and Nicole, a recent graduate of Hartwick College. (Her first grandchild, Matt’s son Blake, arrived over the summer.)

The village administrator position dates back to the mid-1980s, when then-Mayor Paul Clark Sr. and Trustee Paul Lambert recognized the

necessity of professional management as local government became ever more complicated, according to Doug Walrath.

“It’s a business,” he observed.

Walrath, then long-time village clerk, was appointed first village administrator, serving until 1990. He was succeeded

by Dick Linn, who held the position 2-3 years and left under pressure. While Clark and Lambert understood the need, newly elected trustees lacked the same commitment, Walrath remembered.

A trustee, Giles Russell, then served as volunteer village administrator. When he stepped down in the mid-‘90s, the position went unfilled.

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MLS#102894 $239,000 Reduced by $20,000 Graceland is perfectly positioned between Cooperstown and Oneonta.

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MLS#107349 $299,000 Beautiful 4-BR, 3-bath home on 4 acres was built in 2004. Cooperstown Schools. Priced to sell. Stream, sauna, radiant heat, open floorplan. Amazing home!

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MLS#104054 $99,500 51.08 acres, stream, over 800’ on State Rte 28. 6 miles to Cooperstown, 8 miles to Richfield Springs. Plenty of privacy. Less than $2,000 per acre.

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MLS#103858 $319,000 Acreage, Acreage, Acreage! Nicely situated ranch on 175 acres in Cherry Valley. Gorgeous land with spectacular views! A must-see today!

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MLS#103100 $175,000 Stillwater Reserve Incredible price only 15 minutes from Cooperstown. 100 acres w/ponds, meadows, forest overlooking the valley, adorned w/wildlife.

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MLS#106120 $700,000 Private 40+ Acres Views of Otsego and Adirondacks.

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MLS#106563 $179,900 Private, Views! 15 minutes to Cooperstown, open LR/DR/kitchen. Huge covered deck. Pellet stove in LR, stone fireplace in family room. Lake view.

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MLS#106358 Hunter’s Paradise! Have it all! First time ever listed!

Home on 346+ acres has living space for owner and 4-BR lodge for guests and hunters. Fantastic set-up!

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MLS#102893 $459,000 50 Majestic Acres and an extraordinary home near Cooperstown! Chalet Waldheim is an exceptional find!

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MLS#107660 38.8 acres, waterfront, motor boat to lake. Double-wide and same-size stick-built addition w/view of the lake.

Pole barn, storage building. Once was an airstrip.

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MLS# 103476 $154,900 Pristine Condition, Dramatic Views Amazing home on 3.38 acres overlooking your own stocked pond.

Low maintenance, large garage, ready to move in.

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MLS#102278 $219,000 Good for the Planet and Good for Your Pocket!

Renewable energy on 9+/- acres. Open sunlit floorplan! Totally renovated home, inside and out!

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MLS#104980 This 3-BR, 2-bath home features pond and fabulous views on 5.79 surveyed acres. Less than 10 miles to Cooperstown, 20 miles to Oneonta and Cobleskill.

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MLS#104483 Gorgeous Country Farmhouse on 60+ acres in Cooperstown school district. Renovated home, large barn /4 box stalls. Machinery shed, garage, workshop.

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Norm Anderson, top, and his granddaughter Gabrielle Argo, a communications specialist at Bassett Hospital, in front of the Washington Monument during the Saturday, Sept. 24, flight. At left, Jim St. John reflects on the WWII experience with former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole.

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n 1961, Jim St. John loaded up his wife Wanda and their kids Jane, Leanne and Thomas to go visit Washington, D.C. “We saw all the big monuments,” he said.

And on Saturday, Sept. 24, Thomas accompanied his father on the annual

Leatherstocking Honor Flight to thank him for his service in World War II. “It’s quite an honor,” said Jim, now 97.

“I haven’t seen the World War II memorial.

It wasn’t built when we were there.”

The annual flight takes veterans and a guardian from Albany International Airport to Washington D.C., where they are greeted with banners and escorted to the war memorials for a day.

He was joined by fellow Oneontan Norm

Anderson, who served in Korea.

“When we got to the airport, there were Vietnam veterans holding flags and Naval officers all in their whites there to greet us,” said Norm, who was accompanied by his granddaughter, Gabrielle Argo. “It was really something else!”

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en years ago this month, the Oneonta Teen Center opened the big red doors in the basement of The Armory to welcome youth into a space just for them.

“Our goal, from the start, was to create a safe space for the young people of Oneonta to get involved with arts and music,” said Mark Davies, a former board member of OCAY – pronounced OK – Oneonta Community Alliance For Youth. “We partnered with the City of Oneonta, and Please See CENTER, B3

BRITISH MOTORS: View 50 Morgan Sports cars on Hyde Hall lawn 9 a.m.-noon. Saturday, Oct. 1. Concourse D’Elegance part of regional Morgan Group annual gathering, this year in Cooperstown. Free, all welcome.

Hyde Hall National Landmark, 267 Glimmerglass State Park. Info, (607) 547-5098, www.hydehall.org SYMPOSIUM: Folk art experts discuss themes of “The Instruction of Young Ladies,” Fenimore’s newest show. Free, reservations recommended, 12:30-5 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 1. Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, reservations, (607) 547-1461, FenimoreArtMuseum. org/americana BEER HISTORY: Explore the signs, sounds and tastes of 6,000 years of brewing history 7 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 1 with Connecticut River Museum director Christopher Dobbs (CGP, 1998), folk musician Rick Spencer, singer Dawn Intermuehle. $30 ticket includes tastings reflecting beer’s evolution.

Cooperstown Graduate Program, 5838 State Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, reserve seats, catherine.raddatz@oneonta. edu, (607) 547-2586.

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oin the community and thousands of runners and walkers at the 23rd “Pit Run,” Sunday, Oct. 2 in Oneonta, the first run in brand new Otown Triple Crown, including the Turkey Trot and Frostbite 5K. The Pit Run, in honor of fallen State Trooper Ricky “Pit” Parisian, includes a sanctioned 10K race, a 5K run, a 2-mile stroll, and a kids’ fun run. Kids, walkers start 9:45 a.m. in Neahwa Park; other races, 10:45 a.m. barbeque picnic, music, activities follow. Entry fees support the Ricky J. Parisian Scholarship Foundation for local kids. Info, www.pitrun.org.

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This was the Kick-Off event for the new Clubhouse Project that is a partnership between the Family Resource Network and FORDO. The Clubhouse project will provide avenues for teens to make new friends within the community, focus on new opportunities, and learn lasting life skills.

The Oneonta Job Corps Academy students and staff were perfect hosts and our families and youth had an amazingly wonderful time. The Otsego County area is very fortunate to have you here.

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Teen Center Overcame Setback, Found New Home With YMCA CENTER/From B1 they gave us space in the basement of the Armory, as well as some funding.”

By then, OCAY had created the skate park in Neahwa Park, something Ian Austin, then an OHS student, now the 10-year Teen Center director, recalled.

“I had just moved back to Oneonta after college, and I ran into Kate O’Donnell, who remembered me from OCAY, outside the Corfu Diner,” Austin said. “She asked if I would be interested in getting a teen center started.”

Austin, who had just graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and returned home, was named director, and the center opened on Sept. 15, 2006. “In talking with the teens, they said that the Y and the Boys & Girls Clubs were more focused on sports,” Austin said. “They wanted someplace that gave artists and musicians a space to play.”

In the early days, music dominated the Teen Center’s scene, with high school groups like the Moby Strip, Shasta Flock and Jimkata – now a nationally touring band – playing packed shows.

“We had a Battle of the Bands where the winner would open for Jimkata,” said Davies.

“Shasta Flock won.”

“It was the biggest event we’ve ever had,” said Austin.

“We were about four people short of being at capacity for the space.”

The Teen Center also hosted film and art workshops, including making sock monkeys and two puppets for the First Night and Halloween parades. “The kids love Halloween, so we made a big Grim Reaper puppet,” he said. “We also made an owl spirit.”

In 2012 came crisis: OCAY lost one of its major funding sources, a county grant. “We thought we could utilize the funds we had left to hire an executive director who would focus on fundraising and bringing in regular donors so we wouldn’t have to depend on grants,” said Davis. “It was all or nothing.”

They hired Donna Devorak in 2012. But the funding sources never came through, and by the end of the year, Davies and the OCAY board realized their all-or-nothing gamble had left them with the latter option.

“Right before Christmas, I had to go in and tell these kids that we were closing,” said Austin. “It felt like a storybook. They were quiet for a minute, and then they said, ‘What can we do to help’?”

The teens rallied, sending letters of support for the center and writing columns for school and local newspapers.

Their parents convened a meeting, and just before New Year’s, the Oneonta YMCA announced that they would take over operations at the start of 2013.

“It seemed like it would be a good fit for us,” said Frank Russo, Oneonta Family Y executive director. “It was the first step in our ‘Y

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Without Walls’ collaborations with the city, which lead us to taking over the Summer Park Programs as well.”

Under the Y’s auspices, the Teen Center has been able to use its Ford Avenue facilities for an entirely new slate of events, including dodgeball, a Halloween dance at the Sixth Ward Booster Club and “Float Night,” where teens watch a movie in the Y’s pool, then return to the Center for ice cream floats.

And although bands don’t play down there as much anymore, the Teen Center is still a hive of activity Friday and Saturday nights. “These kids have really carved out a place where they’re cool and accepted,” said Davies.

“It’s a space where they’re all respected.”

“You have to treat them like people,” said Austin.

“All their insecurities and their silliness, it’s all great. I

WWII, Korean War Veterans Savor Tour Of Mall

FLIGHT/From B3 his fellow veterans. “There were two other Honor Flights that day, and he was still there don’t dread going into work. shaking hands when our tour left.”

“I saw him sit next to Jim and ask where he I get to spend time with these young people, talk about the served,” said Norm. “He said, ‘I was in Italy,’ and Senator Dole said, ‘Me too!’ They sat and world, ideas and their lives. talked for a good 10 minutes.”

We laugh until our faces Jim, an Oneonta native who graduated from hurt.”

Otego High School, was drafted in 1941 to Their biggest event is the serve in the 751st Chemical Division, tasked annual Viking Supper after Thanksgiving, an event sug- to the Air Corps. “It was a military secret gested by Teen Center alumni then,” he said. “We were afraid the Germans had chemical weapons, so we were ready in James Flannery. “The kids come back from college and case they did. But they didn’t use them, and neither did we, thank goodness.” want to see their friends,” He was stationed in England, then North said Austin. “I suggested we Africa and then Italy. “I was walking down do a dinner, and James said, ‘How about we make it Vik- the street in Rome, and there was Warren Watkins!” he said. “He lived over on River ing themed?’ You wouldn’t Street, we grew up together. He was an Air believe how many of those Force pilot.” kids have horned hats.”

One of the few mementoes of his time there Now in its 4th year, the are his dog tags, which he always keeps with Viking Supper continues him. “I lost a lot in a fire in our barracks, but I to grow, and will serve as had on my dog tags,” he said. the anniversary celebration, He was discharged in late 1945 and recomplete with a 10 year retrospective talk. “It’s a chance turned home to Oneonta, where he worked for Oneonta Oil & Fuel and raised his family. for them to show off their cooking skills and feed their And his daughters Jane and Leanne came up from Florida to tour with Thomas and Jim. friends,” said Austin.

“He really enjoyed having a family reunion at For his efforts with the the WWII memorial.”

Center, Austin was honored Norm, a native of Long Island, was the as part of Janet WentworthErikson’s “Community Hero sixth of seven brothers to be drafted, four in in Living Portraiture” painting and photography series in 2015.

“He’s the heart of the Teen Center,” said Davies. “He’s got such a gift for working with young people.”

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WWII and three in Korea. “We all came out,” he said. “My parents had a flag with seven blue stars hanging in the window.”

He was drafted into the Army 23rd Single Construction Battalion on April 16, 1951, putting up phone poles from Pusan to the front lines, in all, over 200 miles. “I enjoyed it,” he said. “It was hard work, we had to carry poles up by hand. But I had worked for a lighting company in Long Island, so I made staff sergeant in 11 months.”

One time, while up on the pole, he looked down and spotted Mickey Rooney being driven by in an open-top jeep. “I yelled down ‘Hi Mickey!’ and he waved and yelled hello back. He was a jolly guy.”

They toured 22 monuments during the day, and the Honor Flight returned to Albany at 10:30 p.m. During the flight, each veteran was given a packet of letters from friends, family members and school children thanking them for their service.

“I got one card from a boy in Gloversville that read, ‘If not for veterans, we would be getting pushed around by the Germans’!” said Norm. “That was the greatest thing.”

“It’s a day my dad won’t soon forget,” said Thomas.

“There were also the times at the memorials and airports when total strangers would walk up to dad and shake his hand and thank him for his service. He’s a humble man, but he was nearly brought to tears. It made me feel proud of him and proud to be his son.”

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IN INTEREST OF THE LATE JESSIE WATSON, IF LIVING, AND IF ANY BE DEAD, ANY AND ALL PERSONS WHO ARE SPOUSES, WIDOWS, GRANTEES, MORTGAGEES, LIENORS, HEIRS, DEVISEES, DISTRIBUTEES, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF SUCH OF THEM AS MAY BE DEAD, AND THEIR SPOUSES, HEIRS, DEVISEES, DISTRIBUTEES AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN TO PLAINTIFF, HAROLD WATSON, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

BY THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE,

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 12th day of August, 2016, at Cooperstown, New York.

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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.

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The foregoing

Tax I.D. No. 327.00-1-16.00 All that tract or pared of land situate in the Town of Unadilla, County of Otsego, and State of New York bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point in the centerline of County Route 2 at its intersection with an east line of property conveyed to Onolee H. Jones by deed recorded in the Otsego County Clerk’s Office in Liber 648 of Deeds, at page 946; said point of beginning being easterly, 0.3 miles, measured along said centerline, from its intersection with the centerline of County Route 1; THENCE North 7 degrees 11 minutes 30 seconds East, 756.16 feet along said Jones east line to its intersection with the south line of property now or formerly owned

by Douglas A. Luscomb & Juel S. Luscomb; THENCE South 82 degrees 26 minutes 00 seconds East 201.56 feet along the last mentioned property line to its intersection with the west line of property now or formerly owned by Roger A. Crandall; THENCE South 7 degrees 28 minutes 00 seconds West, 942.00 feet along the last mentioned property line to its intersection with the centerline of a creek; THENCE South 58 degrees 17 minutes 00 seconds West, 120.00 feet along said centerline of stream to its intersection with an east line of the first mentioned Jones property; THENCE North 7 degrees 11 minutes 30 seconds East, 259.70 feet along said property line to its intersection with the centerline of County Route 2; THENCE North 81 degrees 15 minutes 00 seconds West, 103.69 feet along said centerline of road to the point of BEGINNING. Subject to easement, covenants, and restriction of record.

These premises are also known as 167 County Hwy 2 A/K/A 167 Rd Hwy 2 A/K/A County Route #2, Unadilla A/K/A Mount Upton A/K/A T/O Unadilla, NY 13809.

WOODS OVIATT GILMAN LLP Attorney for Plaintiff 700 Crossroads Building 2 State Street Rochester, NY 14614 4LegalOct13 Legal notice SUPPLEMENTAL

SUMMONS Index No.:

EVERBANK, Plaintiff, -against-

DEBRA L CHRISTIANCE F/K/A DEBRA L. CARR; JAMES A CHRISTIANCE, JR.; UNIFUND CCR PARTNERS AAF CITIBANK; DERRICK-ANTHONY DUKES; “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 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 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.

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

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

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

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION

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 August 15, 2016, and filed with supporting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Otsego, State of New York.

The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by DEBRA L CHRISTIANCE F/K/A DEBRA L. CARR, JAMES A CHRISTIANCE, JR., to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC AS NOMINEE FOR FBM, LLC D/B/A FIDELITY BORROWING MORTGAGE BANKERS, A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS bearing date March 17, 2008 and recorded in Book 1551 of Mortgages at Page 858 in the County of Otsego on May 5, 2008. Thereafter said mortgage was assigned to EVERBANK dated March 4, 2014.

Said premises being known as and by 244 CHESTNUT STREET, ONEONTA, NY 13820.

Date: July 21, 2016 Batavia, New York Virginia C Grapensteter, 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 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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Legal notice Notice of formation of ENCK ENTERPRISES, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on August 18, 2016. The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to: The LLC, 8590 State Highway 23, Oneonta, NY 13825. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

6LegalOct20 Legal notice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: BERNARDWOOD LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 29 August 2016.

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 21 Delaware St, Cooperstown, NY 13326 . Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalOct6 Legal notice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: 681 CO HWY 53 LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 29 August 2016. 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 5233 Palm Way, Lake Worth, FL 33463.

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

6LegalOct6 Legal notice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: OVERBURY ESTATES LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 29 August 2016.

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 261 Burdick Rd, Milford, NY 13807. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalOct6 Legal notice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company.

Name: BENEKE REALTY HOLDING COMPANY

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LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 30 August 2016. 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 174, Riverton, CT 06065. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalOct6 Legal notice Notice of Formation of Diamond’s Edge Sports Facility, LLC. Arts. Of Org. Filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/1/2016. Office Location: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process: Richard F. Rosener, Jr., 378 Winney Hill Road, Oneonta, New York 13820.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

6LegalOct6 Legal notice Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: GRANDE WAY ASSOCIATES, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on August 16, 2016. Office Location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 285 Grande Way, Unit 1505, Naples, FL 34110. Purpose: to engage in any and all business for which LLCs may be formed under the New York LLC law.

6LegalSept29 Legal notice NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed bids will be received as set forth in instructions to bidders until 10:30 a.m. on October 20, 2016at the NYSDOT, Contract Management Bureau, 50 WOLF RD, 1ST FLOOR, SUITE 1CM, ALBANY, NY 12232 and will be publicly opened and read. Bids may also be submitted via the internet using Bid Express (www. bidx.com).

A certified or cashier’s check payable to the NYS Dept. of Transportation for the sum specified in the proposal or a bid bond, FORM CONR 391, representing 25% of the bid total, must accompany each bid.

NYSDOT reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

Electronic documents and Amendments are posted to www.dot.ny.gov/ doing-business/opportunities/constnotices Contractor is responsible for ensuring that all Amendments are

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incorporated into its bid. To receive notification of Amendments via e-mail you must submit a request to be placed on the Planholders List at www.dot. ny.gov/doing-business/opportunities/ const-planholder.

Amendment may have been issued prior to your placement on the Planholders list.

NYS Finance Law restricts communication with NYSDOT on procurements and contact can only be made with designated persons. Contact with non-designated persons or other involved Agencies will be considered a serious matter and may result in disqualification.

Contact Maria Tamarkin (518) 457-8403.

Contracts with 0% Goals are generally single operation contracts, where sub-contracting is not expected, and may present direct bidding opportunities for Small Business Firms, including, but not limited to, D/W/ MBEs. The Contractor must comply with the Regulation relative to nondiscrimination in federally-assisted programs of the USDOT 49 CFR 21.

Please call (518) 457-3583 if a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the letting.

Reg. 02, Nicolas Choubah, Regional Director, 207 Genesee Street, Utica, NY 13501 D263283, PIN DRC1.15, Albany, Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Chemung, Chenango, Clinton, Columbia, Cortland, Delaware, Erie, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Genesee, Greene, Hamilton, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Livingston, Madison, Monroe, Montgomery, Niagara, Oneida, Onondaga, Ontario, Orleans, Oswego, Otsego, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Schuyler, Seneca, St. Lawrence, Steuben, Sullivan, Tioga, Tompkins, Ulster, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Wyoming & Yates Cos., Upstate Emergency Debris Removal Contract, Bid Deposit $750,000.00., NO PLANS. Goals: MBE/WBE 12 / 18% Reg. 09, Jack Williams, Regional Director, 44 Hawley Street, Binghamton, NY 13901 D263275, PIN 9TSR.17, F.A. Proj. Z240-9TSR173, Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego & Sullivan Cos., Signs Requirement Contract. Installation of Ground Mounted Signs on I81, I88, NY Routes 17, 26 and 434, Various Locations., Bid Deposit $50,000.00.

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Unnamed, But Cuomo Is On Trial Nonetheless CHARGES/From A4 moment” speaks for itself. The 80-page criminal complaint he refers to is essentially a sworn narrative by Deleassa Penland, a veteran criminal investigator with the U.S. Attorney’s office, serving as an instrument of probable cause that the alleged crimes were committed. The complaint explicitly states it does not include all the details, or evidence gathered.

Even so, Penland’s narrative is a humdinger and well worth the time and that extra cup of coffee. It’s engrossing. It could easily serve as a solid treatment for maybe a six-part TV series on corruption in the statehouse and how it works out in the field when the conspirators aren’t that bright, and feel fully protected from accountability.

Something along the lines of The Sopranos do Trenton, or Albany, or whatever.

Nor does Penland leave a lot to the imagination as to who benefits most in the pay-to-play culture repeatedly underlined throughout the complaint. Ladies and gentleman of the public jury, I direct you to pages 62 and 63 of the complaint, where Penland recounts how contractors in Syracuse and Buffalo were shown how best to leverage significant campaign contributions to the governor’s re-election campaigns for maximum effect in terms of getting lucrative state contracts.

Even down to Buffalo contractor Louis Ciminelli being told by Howe that a proposed fundraiser for the governor that Ciminelli said would bring in $175,000 wasn’t good enough, because the contractor had earlier promised $250,000. So $250,000 prevailed.

If there is a more blatant example of pay-to-play, I’d like to see it. And while it’s true this does not mean the governor himself solicited the contribution, Howe was hired for advice by Ciminelli and the others because of his close ties to the governor. Howe himself said he spoke for the governor’s office. Then again, Howe has been turned by the feds, has pleaded guilty to a number or the crassest corruption charges imaginable but has yet to be

sentenced. What is his credibility?

Still, at the end of the day, who benefits from $250,000 in Andrew Cuomo’s re-election campaign account? How could he not be aware?

Howe, and his questionable credibility, are instrumental to the federal case against “Dr. K,” Alain Kaloyeros. Tailoring requests for proposals leading up to a contract in such a way as to only support one bidder while discouraging the others, considering the host of prying eyes from the governor’s office, Empire State Development, and a couple of oversight boards, is some trick I want to see explained in court.

And there, at trial, is where we can expect high mirth and enlightenment, and the characters revealed in detail from Cuomo on down.

Recall how stupefying the actual testimony was during the first Joe Bruno trial as to how he ran his state office as if it were a private business?

Well, that will be the Teddy Bear’s Picnic compared to what we’ll hear under oath from those doing business with the state and now caught in Preet’s theater, and from all the governor’s office personnel, past and present.

No state administration has been more opaque, more hostile to those who disagree with them than this Cuomo administration, and now that comes to roost when revelations can be most unflattering. The public is not predisposed in Cuomo’s favor, with good reason. As vulnerable as Kaloyeros’ outsized ego, big salary and perceived arrogance has made him to the public pinprick, so has Cuomo’s coldness, disdain and “I am the Government” arrogance, which trumps that of Dr. K. What we yearn for is a trial, or, better yet, two or three of them. Preet feels the same way, “so that all New Yorkers can see in gory detail what their government has been up to.”

Rest assured whether Andrew Cuomo is an actual defendant or not, he will be on trial. He already is.

And he will be judged.

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THURSDAY, september 29, 2016

OBITUARIES Conservationist Henry Kernan Dies SOUTH WORCESTER

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he family of conservationist Henry S. Kernan has invited friends to a remembrance at his home 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2, at 457 County Highway 40, South Worcester.

After World War II, Kernan developed three farms in South Worcester into a

varied forest. Travelling the world in his profession, he was periodically drawn back here by his local properties.

The OCCA named him Conservationist of the Year in 2008. He spent his final years at Woodside Hall.

His grandson, Ted, wrote an appreciation which may be viewed at WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM

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Orrin D. Higgins, 76; Town Justice, Civic Leader HARTWICK – Orrin Dixon Higgins, 76, a former state trooper, undersheriff for the Otsego County Sheriff’s Department and longtime Hartwick town justice, passed away Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 21, 2016, at his home in Hartwick with his family by his side.

He was born June 8, 1940, in Hunter, a son of Leland and Mildred (Nicholls) Higgins.

After graduating from high school, he attended SUNY Oneonta with the idea of becoming a teacher.

He became a student teacher, but changed course and went on to attend and graduate from the New York State Police Academy .

His career in law enforcement spanned over 50 years, during which time he served as a state trooper based out of several different posts in the Central New York region. He served as undersheriff, and had been town justice for 20 years.

He was an active member of the Hartwick community.

He served on the Hartwick Planning Board for many years, organized community events, served on the board of the Hartwick Insurance Co. and lobbied to keep Hartwick’s schools active. He was also actively involved with keeping the Hartwick Center Union Cemetery maintained and in good order, and was instrumental in preserving the Swart-Wilcox Home, now a museum in Oneonta.

It was always important to Orrin that history be preserved and passed on to future generations, which he did through the collection and restoration of antiques and buildings throughout the counties. Always an environmental advocate, Orrin worked extensively with Otsego 2000 and Otsego Land Trust through the years and preserved as many open acres as his bank account would allow.

It was at a dance at the Fly Creek Hotel that Orrin met Mary E. Millea. The pair was a perfect match and were married July 29, 1974, in a ceremony at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Cooperstown. Sadly, his beloved Mary passed away just this past December following a long illness.

Orrin will be greatly missed by his family and the community at large. He was always known for his sense of humor, the twinkle in his eyes, compassion for people and animals, and commitment to fairness and justice.

He is survived by three

Justin Hoag, 32, Cooperstonian COOPERSTOWN – Justin Robert Hoag, 32, beloved son of Donald and Rosemary Hoag, passed away unexpectedly in the early morning hours of Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016, at his home.

Arrangements are entrusted the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home.

Orrin D. Higgins

daughters, Brenda Nass (Bryan) of Ellensburg, Wash., Tamara Ashley (Matt) of Cortland, and Carrie Higgins Lorenz (Mike) of Hartwick; son Orrin D. Higgins, Jr. (Melissa) of Hartwick; special member of the family, Paige

Shaul (Nicole); and four grandchildren, Mitchell and Morghan Nass of Ellensburg, Wash., and Lily and Sawyer Higgins of Hartwick.

Also, his brothers, John (Mary) Higgins, Richard (Kathy) Higgins and Leland (Lucy) Higgins, his nieces Shelly, Jackie and Becky and nephews Bill, John and Rich. He is also survived by many members of the Millea family including his wife’s father, six brothers and one sister and their families.

Due to Orrin’s love of his stone house at the four corners in Hartwick, calling hours were planned there 3-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28.

Orrin loved flowers,

but for those who wish to remember him with a memorial gift, his family suggests that donations be made to the Hartwick Emergency Squad, P.O. Box 208, Hartwick, NY 13348, or The Hartwick Historical Society, P.O. Box 1, Hartwick, NY 13348.

The family would like to extend a special thank you to Bassett Medicine and Special Care Units, Bassett Cancer Treatment Center, Hartwick Emergency Squad, his home health aides and his many friends and family members who supported him through these hard times.

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OHS ALUMNI WEEKEND – Through Oct. 2.

HARTWICK TRUE BLUE WEEKEND - Through Oct. 2 SEMINAR – 8-10 a.m. “Labor and Employment Update” presented by Coughlin & Gerhart, LLP. Northern Eagle Beverages conference room, 41 Browne Street, Oneonta. Registration required. Cost: $35. Kelly Decker kelly@otsegocc.com, (607)4324500 ext. 207 CHILDHOOD CANCER FUNDRAISER – 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Fundraiser to help end childhood cancer. Lemonade, baked goods, and t-shirts for sale. Admission free. Southside Mall, 5006 NY 23, Oneonta.

RECEPTION – 3-5 p.m. Opening of “Lavern Kelley: Harvest Time” exhibit and induction to OHS Wall of Distinction. The Art Garage, 689 Beaver Meadow Road, Cooperstown. Info: (607)547-5327, leartgarage@ gmail.com ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION – 4-6 p.m. Greater Plains Elementary 50th anniversary.

60 West End Ave., Oneonta. Info: 432-8272, or check us out on facebook.

4-H – 6 p.m. Volunteers Information Night. 31 Maple St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 547-2536 ext. 0, otsego@cornell.edu.

MEMBERS RECEPTION – 5:30-7 p.m. New York State Historical Association Fall Members’ Reception. Unveiling of feature exhibition “The Instruction of Young Ladies: Arts from Private Girls’ Schools and Academies in Early America.’

The Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 Rte. 80, Cooperstown.

RSVP by Thurs. Sept. 22, Kate Morgan, K.morgan@nysha.org, (607) 547-1536.

ST. FRANCIS FILM – 7 p.m.

“Brother Sun, Sister Moon” (1972), visually sumptuous film directed by Franco Zefferelli. Film series continues Oct. 21, 28, and Nov. 4. St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta, Info, (607) 432-1458.

The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 NY-80, Cooperstown. Info, reservations, (607) 547-1461.

RUN – Colie’s Run 5K. Richfield Springs (Dyn’s Cider Mill) Richfield Springs. Info, Bill Kosina, (315) 749-3286, jabkos@verizon.net SYMPOSIUM – 12:30-5 p.m.

Experts in folk art present on the themes and ideas explored in the exhibit “The Instruction of Young Ladies.” Free and public.

Reservations recommended. The Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, reservations, (607) 547-1461, FenimoreArtMuseum.org/americana WORKSHOP – 1-4 p.m.

Workshop to End Drone Warfare, Unitarian Universalist Society, Chapin Memorial, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, Suzanne Miller (607) 432-1316. To sign up: uuso@uuso.org, (607)432-3491.

FOLIAGE TRAIN – 1 p.m..

Slow and easy vintage rail ride through the Susquehanna River Valley. Adults $16, Seniors $15, Kids (3-12) $13, under 3 Free.

Train Depot, Cooperstown and Charlotte Railroad, 136 East Main St., Milford. Info, (607) 432-2429, lrhs@lrhs.com BOOK SIGNING – 2-4 p.m.

“Mud Bog Murder,” by Lesley Diehl. Green Toad Bookstore,

lesleyadiehl.com HARVEST DINNER – 4-6:30 p.m. Church of Christ Uniting, 22 Church St., Richfield Springs.

OPENING RECEPTION – 5-7 p.m. Reception for new exhibit “The Painter’s Reality.” Through Oct. 23. The Cherry Branch Gallery, 25 Main St., Cherry Valley.

Info, (607)264-9530, info@cherrybranchgallery.com BEER HISTORY – 7 p.m. “A Glass of Beer History.” Details in Best Bets, B1 HYPNOTIST – 7 p.m. Comedy for the whole family. Cost $12+.

American Legion banquet hall, 60 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, cooperstownsons.ticketleap. com/comedyhypnotistshow/.

CONCERT – 7:30 p.m.

Sheridan to perform Ed Green’s Concerto in C for Trumpet with the Catskill Symphony Orchestra.

Tickets $30. Hunt Union Ballroom, SUNY Oneonta, 108 Ravine Pkwy, Oneonta. Info: catskillsymphony.net, (607)436-2670

FUNDRAISER – All Day. Proceeds to the Friends’ campaign.

Otsego and Schoharie Counties’ Cancer Services Program present providing information for free cancer screenings for uninsured.

Fly Creek Cider Mill & Orchard, 288 Goose St., Fly Creek. Info: flycreekcidermill.com PANCAKES – 8 a.m.-noon.

Annual Fall Pancake Breakfast. Fly

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MAARJA NUUT– 2 p.m. $11-$15. Estonia New Music.

West Kortright Centre, 49 West Kortright Church Rd., East Meredith. Info, (607)278-5454, www.westkc.org MUSIC FEST – 4 p.m. Season Finale: Music for a Sunday Afternoon. Works by Mendelssohn, Smetana and Kattenburg.

Artists: Linda Chesis, flute; Ayano Ninomiya, violin; Clancy Newman, cello; Alexandre Moutouzkine, piano. Cooperstown Summer Music Festival at The Otesaga Hotel, Cooperstown.

Info, www.cooperstownmusicfest.org, 1-877-666-7421.

POT-LUCK DINNER – 5:15 p.m. Christ Church Parish House, 69 Fair St., Cooperstown. Film to Follow.

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VISIT MANY PLACES IN THE MANSION WHERE GHOSTLY MANIFESTATIONS HAVE BEEN REPORTED OVER 150 YEARS, INCLUDING THOSE IDENTIFIED BY gHOSTHUNTERS in their Halloween 2013 special

October 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 29 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30 $20 per person Reservations required • 607-547-5098 ext 5 Extended periods of walking and climbing stairs is required on this tour. It is not handicap accessible or appropriate for those who have difficulty walking.

Hyde Hall Historic Mansion 267 Glimmerglass State Park Road Cooperstown, NY 13326 www.hydehall.org

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Saturday, October 1

FUNDRAISER – All Day. Proceeds to the Friends’ campaign.

Otsego and Schoharie Counties’ Cancer Services Program present providing information for free cancer screenings for uninsured.

Fly Creek Cider Mill& Orchard, 288 Goose St., Fly Creek. Info: flycreekcidermill.com NATIVE ARTISAN DAY – All Day. Native American vendors, crafts, singing, storytelling, and music at the Teepee, 7632, US-20, Cherry Valley. Info: thetepee.biz VETERANS BREAKFAST – 8-11 a.m. Breakfast honoring Oneonta High School Military Veterans. All OHS Vets with family and friends invited. Desert Storm Vets, children under 12 free. All others $5. American Legion Post 259, 279 Chestnut St., Oneonta. RSVP OHS_Vetsj@ yahoo.com BOTTLE DRIVE – 9 a.m. Boy Scout Troop 1254 to pick up clean, returnable bottles and cans at curb or visible from street. Info, Bruce 267-6730 (please leave return phone number) MORGANS! – 9 a.m.-noon.

Concourse D’Elegance. Unique opportunity to view fifty Morgan sports cars on the lawns of Hyde Hall. Part of regional Morgan Group annual gathering, this year taking place in Cooperstown.

Free, all welcome. Hyde Hall National Landmark Historic Site, 267 Glimmerglass State Park, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 5475098, www.hydehall.org BIG SQUEEZE – 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Breast Cancer Awareness Month kickoff with Bassett Healthcare Mobile Mammography Program. Info regarding breast cancer and early detection through the use of mammography, and about the health benefits of apples distributed.

Screening and exams by appointment, 607-547-4830, 607547-4830. Fly Creek Cider Mill hosts, 288 Goose St., Fly Creek.

PAPER MARBLING – 10 a.m.

Learn to make artful scrapbook pages, book covers, binder, cards using this ancient technique. Members $75, Non-members $95, Juniors (12-16) $60.

Sunday, October 2

Creek Area Historical Society bldg., 210 Cemetery Rd., Fly Creek.

PIT RUN – 10:25 a.m. 10k, 5k, or 2-mile run. Starting at Neahwa Park, Oneonta. Info, pitrun.org/event/ CLEANUP – 1-4 p.m.. Criterion Club of Cooperstown cleanup of LaCava Nature Center. Volunteers are asked to bring rakes and shovels to assist. Food and drink provided. Info, Sue or

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Sunday, October 2 Slade Theater Yager Hall

Hartwick Students

7 pm: Live Music Pre-Show

General Admission

7:30 pm: Curtains open 198 Main St, Oneonta. Info,

—Free

Hartwick Faculty, Staff, Other Students —$5

—$10

Reservations

607-431-4227 theatre@hartwick.edu

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