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ounty department head requests are $8 million over target as 2017 budget preparations begin.

However, Budget Committee chair Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla, and county Treasurer Dan Crowell are confident they can winnow them down to an acceptable final document.

Crowell said he expects any tax increase to be under 1 percent by the Nov. 15 deadline for a preliminary document. Details at

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The gifts, from several individual donors and one foundation, will help maintain the property for seven years while the Land Trust designs the next phase for Brookwood and plans for management of the property. “Their gifts will only be used for Brookwood,” Winters said. “On our end, Please See BROOKWOOD, A7

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fter someone took her “Gnomeland Security” statue, Sarah Condon has removed the remaining 153 from her Mount Vision front lawn, where passersby had enjoyed them for the past three years. Whether she will again put the gnomes on display is unclear.

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Grace Pelcer, 3, didn’t seem to be too happy to be heading home with dad Michael after dropping her siblings off at Cooperstown Elementary School when classes started Tuesday, Sept. 6. Maybe next year, Grace.

years, the Otsego Land Trust is now hoping the community will rally to discuss how to best utilize the 22-acre property.

“It’s a lovely property,” said John Winters, the Otsego Land Trust’s new executive director. “And because it’s a public one, it allows people to really see the benefits of land protection.”

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IAN AUSTIN • The Freeman’s Journal Balloonist Mike Caccavale of Long Island uses burners to inflate “Old McDonald’s Farm,” his entry in the Susquehanna Balloon Festival Saturday, Sept. 3, in Oneonta’s Neahwa Park. The 126,000cubic-foot balloon, shaped like a barn, has made 135 flights all over the world, Caccavale said. Behind him, Tim Distler of Oneonta looks on.

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Airport Commission want and executives during Hall of 10, at the Meadows. to make sure that no one Fame Inductions, will celebrate has a chance to say, “I didn’t 50 years of continuous operation know we had an airport.” with demonstrations, displays, “I still hear that a lot,” he said.

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15TH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11

Image Of Stoic 1st Responders Imprinted In Seward’s Memory

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ike most Americans, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, learned at about 8:50 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001 – from Katie Couric on NBC’s “Today Show” – that an airplane had crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

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ephyr Teachout and Nick Juliusburger were married Saturday, Aug. 27, in a small outdoor ceremony with family and friends in Dover Plains, where the bride resides. The Rev. Megan Sanders, rector, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Pleasantsville, officiated.

The couple released the following statement: “We are thrilled and grateful to share our commitment to each other with those closest to us, and the community we love.”

The bride, a candidate for Congress in the 19th District that includes Otsego County, teaches law at Fordham University. The groom is a principal at Yellowfish Software, where he specializes in software interface design. The couple owns a home together in Clinton, Oneida County.

After celebrating her wedding, Teachout, a candidate for Congress, went back on the campaign trail that weekend with a series of events all over the Hudson Valley and Catskills.

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ive generations of the descendants of Floyd and Myrtle Putnam Yerdon held their 68th annual picnic at the Oriole Road Social Club on Sunday, July 17.

Thirty-six family members enjoyed barbecue roast pork, beef, and turkey prepared by Rodney Yerdon assisted by Keith McCarty.

After the meal an auction was held with family auctioneer, David Yerdon assisting. Fun was had by all and many memories and laughs were shared.

The most senior present was Margaret Yerdon, Cherry Valley, wife of the late Harris Yerdon, and the youngest present was Eli Cain (great grandson of Edna (Yerdon) Madison, son of Sephanie (Madison) and Dave Cain of Delmar.

Traveling the longest distance was Miah Protasowicki of Orlando, Fla., great-granddaughter of Edna (Yerdon) Madison. Other relatives attending were from Cherry Valley, East Springfield, Oneonta, West Winfield, Cobleskill, Middlefield, Albany, Delmar, Syracuse, Methuen, Mass.

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Will I Survive? Seward Asked Himself, Amid Smoke, Panic Near Twin Towers SEWARD/From A1 Like most Americans, including the constituents in his Otsego-County-centered district, he assumed what had happened was simply an accident, however terrible.

The difference was, the constituents were 150 miles away.

The 15-year senator was only three blocks from the Twin Towers, having breakfast at the Manhattan Seaport Suites, a boutique hotel at 129 Front St., with state Insurance Superintendent Greg Serio.

Chairman of the Senate Insurance Committee, the senator was scheduled to address Insurance Department employees at nearby One State St. that morning.

“I looked out the window,” Seward recounted, almost 15 years from that fateful day.

“There were cinders coming down, office papers. I thought, this is some sort of horrible accident. I thought firemen would take care of it. That was my mindset.”

A few minutes later, he and Serio were walking down the street to their appointment.

“People were a little nervous, looking up,” he said, “but I still thought people would want to hear my speech that morning.

“Then I heard the second plane. I was not looking up.

But we knew then it wasn’t a freak accident.”

Suddenly, pandemonium.

“People were streaming out of buildings, panicking,” the senator recalled. “People were pouring out of the office buildings surrounding the World Trade Center, not just the World Trade Center itself.”

It was about 10 a.m., and from Serio’s office he was able to call his wife Cindy at Milford Central School, where she was a teacher’s aide. “I told her I was fine.”

He was looking out the third-floor window. “All of a sudden – this was when

When second plane struck, Seward knew this was no accident. the Towers came down. Our building started to shake. We looked out – that plume of dust, smoke, was just coming at us.”

He and the insurance commissioner ran out of the shaking building. On the sidewalk, “you couldn’t see a thing. It was all that dust and smoke and ash. We were just standing there, not knowing what had happened, or what was going to happen next.”

The senator, from his hilly, wooded, lake-dotted home county, would visit New York on business perhaps a halfdozen times a year. “I thought of the irony: Coming from Upstate New York – I was going to lose my life in lower Manhattan.”

The superintendent suggested to the senator that they head uptown to then-Governor George Pataki’s office. He found an Insurance Department fraud inspector – they are licensed law-enforcement officers – and a state car and headed out. Looking out the back window, Serio saw his employees standing by their office building, unsure what to do.

“I just can’t leave,” he told the senator, and rejoined his staff. (Serio survived that day, but a former insurance superintendent, Port Authority Executive Director Neil Levin,

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did die; he had been at the restaurant on the top floor when the Tower was struck.)

The car headed east, toward FDR Drive. “It was just like night had happened. It was a beautiful sunny day, and all of a sudden it was dark. It was very slow. All of a sudden we could see a little bit of sun peak through.”

What Seward saw was an unforgettable image, one that still burns in his memory. “It will stick with me forever,” he said. He’ll describe it Sunday evening, Sept. 11, at a 9/11 commemoration in West Winfield.

“All the police and firemen were going toward the scene while I was leaving. The look, best I can describe it, was steely determination on their faces, while they were heading toward the point of danger, while everyone was moving away from the point of danger.

“Some of them didn’t make it out.”

“Eventually, we got up to the governor’s office in Midtown,” Seward said. “Pataki, he was there. Thankfully for me, I did not see people jumping out of the buildings – those horrible scenes. Only at the governor’s office did I realize the scope of what had just happened.”

He also realized his face and clothes were black with soot.

From Pataki’s office, “You could look down and see the Twin Towers were gone.”

The senator remained at the executive offices into the afternoon. Manhattan was closed down. “Late afternoon, I was able to leave,” he said.

Communications had been out throughout the day; he was able to connect with Cindy and let her know he was coming home.

Three weeks later, Seward returned to Manhattan with other senators, joining Pataki and Mayor Rudy Giuliani to tour the site. “We met further up Manhattan at a pier and got

on a boat. I felt like I was in a Third World country, security was so tight.” Several smaller boats surrounded the VIPs’ launch, with heavily armed security police and military officers standing by.

“I didn’t even feel I was in America,” he said.

At the site, the smell of death was everywhere. During the briefing, Seward could see families around the perimeter, “hoping for some word of loved ones who were still missing. It was a very sad experience going back there.”

As he reflected on his experience, first and again, his faith in the First Responders was renewed. “We thought, the governor’s people thought, tens of thousands of people were going to be lost. Three-thousand people were too many, but we thought it was going to be tens of thousands that worked in the Trade Center,” he said.

Second, the senator came away with a determination “to defeat terrorists wherever they may be, here and wherever in the world. This was the first time since Pearl Harbor an attack like that had appeared on American soil.

“To see the fear and panic in the streets as those planes hit, then to go back three weeks later and see the presence of military-style weapons: That’s not the America that I want to see.”

This 9/11, the senator is scheduled to speak at three events in all, at the Mohawk American Legion and the Frankfort Fire Department before heading to West Winfield.

“The terrorists may have torn down our buildings,” the senator plans to tell the gathering. “But they didn’t destroy the American spirit.

We have bounced back. That horrific day brought Americans together like never before.”

On the 15th anniversary, he will also be thankful. He reflected: “I got away with just a few bad memories.”

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Recalling happier days, Sarah Condon of Mount Vision holds up photo of her gnome community.

Gnomeland Security Figure Gone, Owner Boxes Display

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or the last three years, travelers on Route 205 through Mount Vision have stopped to take photos of Sarah Condon’s Gnome Village, where 154 garden gnomes of all shapes and sizes lined her walk and filled her yard.

But Gnome Village is no more. “Someone stole my security guard gnome,” she said.

“I was so upset that I packed them all away.”

Now all that remains on the garden lot is a hand-printed sign that reads, “I hope whoever stole my gnome enjoys him.

My grandkids gave him to me.”

“They saved their pennies to buy him for me,” she said. “I don’t know why anyone would come take something that so many other people enjoy.”

On Tuesday, Aug. 30, Condon went to the State Fair in Syracuse. When she got back, she immediately noticed that the security guard gnome, normally positioned right at the front of her walk, was gone.

“I’d know if any of them were missing,” she said. “I check them before I go to work and when I get home at night.”

The “Gnomeland Security” figure was one of her larger ones, a purchase from the Lakeside Collection catalogue.

“Friends and family have been giving me gnomes for

years,” she said. “About three years ago, my daughter thought we should arrange them in a little village outside.”

And thus, Gnome Village was born, complete with a windmill and a lighthouse, becoming a small tourist attraction for baseball families who stop to take photos and admire the homestead.

“Neighbors have gotten in on it, they gave me gnomes,” she said. “One time, I came out and a college professor had left two on my porch with a little note that said, ‘I hope you can find a good home for these guys’!”

It’s not the first time Gnome Village has been the site of mischief. “Last year someone thought they would be smart and spread them out all over the yard,” she said. “But they didn’t break any, so I just put them back.”

Other times, she’s had to fend off potential pickers. “I have people who ask if they can take a gnome,” she said. “I tell them ‘No, they’re my property.’

I had one woman ask me three times. The last time, she came to me and said, ‘I’m 84 years old and I want you to give me a gnome. You have so many.’

I told her she could go to the store and buy all the gnomes she wanted. People gave these to me. They’re mine.”

And she hasn’t decided if Gnome Village will return next year. “It looks empty without them,” she said. “And I’m not the only one who enjoyed them.”

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

EDITORIAL

‘Leisure’ Jobs Growing Fastest. ‘Education & Health’ Pays Best

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here was much to worry about in state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s report, “Uneven Progress,” excerpted on this page last week.

DiNapoli nailed it: “The pace of job growth Upstate continues to lag well behind downstate New York’s and the nation as a whole. Overall Upstate employment has not yet recovered fully from the losses associated with the Great Recession.”

Accompanying data show that while the Southern Tier lost the most jobs among the state’s economic development regions (7,500 or 2.5 percent), the Mohawk Valley region, which includes Otsego County, lost the greatest percentage of jobs (5,500 or 2.8 percent).

Equally troubling was a comparison of the foremost growth sectors in the 10 regions. In the Mohawk

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Valley, it was “Leisure,” paying an average wage of $17,400. That average wage per foremost growth sector was less than any of the nine other regions.

Even in other regions where “Leisure” predominated – Western New York, The Capital Region, even the North Country – their average salaries in that sector

were higher that ours.

“Leisure” – tourism – was also the poorest paying of the three growth sectors analyzed. “Business Services” is paying an average $63,500 in the Finger Lakes (Rochester); “Education & Health” is paying an average of $45,900 in Central New York (Syracuse).

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The good news, as Dick Downey of Otego points out in a Letter to the Editor on Page A6, is that Otsego County isn’t standing still.

Otsego Now, the former IDA, has set up a single point of contact in Sandy Mathes, its president and, among other things, has now reportedly firmed up ownership of the D&H yards for redevelopment.

While the $18 million in federal TIGER funds for a bridge to the yards doesn’t appear to be forthcoming this year, there’s always next, as planning the redevelopment of 88 fallow acres moves steadily toward reality.

More good news that can be divined from DiNapoli’s report is that “Education & Health,” while not the fastest-growing sector in the Mohawk Valley region, does pay better than “Lei-

sure” and, as 7,000 undergrads returning to Oneonta in the past several days underscore, such jobs are very important here.

• SUNY Oneonta reports classes began with 1,491 people on the payroll, from janitors to full professors. The operating budget is $115.3 million, which – multiplied by the standard 2.5 – means some $300 million in economic impact.

Hartwick College’s fulltime staffing – 299, plus 110 part-time faculty and staff – likewise makes it a significant player, contributing many millions to our local economy. The new Center for Craft Food & Beverage, to be honored with the Otsego County Chamber’s Breakthrough Award at next month’s Small Business Banquet at The Otesaga, reflects just the kind of

thinking needed to expand this growing sector.

It’s said that some 80 percent of good-paying jobs in Otsego County are at those two institutions.

The Bassett Healthcare Network is, of course, the other half of the “Education & Health” sector, providing many second incomes, as well as health insurance to thousands of families that otherwise wouldn’t have it.

Its professional positions, of course, pay well.

• Given this reality, in addition to prospecting in new sectors, which we must, it may make sense to pay more attention to a sector that is already serving us well, “Education & Health,” for any opportunities for expansion that may be out there. Let’s plant new fields, but let’s grow what we’ve got, too.

50 YEARS OF FLIGHT Future Astronaut Ron Garan Took Controls At Oneonta Airport, Never Looked Back Editor’s Note: The 50th anniversary of the Oneonta Municipal Airport, to be marked Saturday, Sept. 17, prompted this reminiscence from USAF Col. (Ret) Ron Garan, the retired NASA astronaut (and SUNY Oneonta grad).

cal moment that started me on a journey that propelled me around our planet 2,842 times.

I also want to take this opportunity to thank Wolfgang for the outstanding instruction that I received under his mentorship. I mourn his loss along with all of my other friends onand colleagues gratuthat have been lations lost to aircraft on the 50th mishaps over Anniversary the years. of the Oneonta As we thank Municipal those who came Airport. It has before us and a very special who enabled place in my success and heart. It was progress, it’s on this beautiimportant to ful hilltop stress that the airport that my journey into Astronaut Ron Garan enormous benefits of a robust the air and out aviation capability dwarf the into space began. inherent risks of aviation.

My first flight in an Just as the Oneonta Airairplane was from the port has played a very imOneonta Airport. I also vividly remember a beautiful portant role in my life and in the trajectory of my career, summer evening just before dusk in 1982 when my flight it also serves a critical role for the Oneonta community. instructor, Wolfgang HutThe importance of a robust zel, handed me the keys to aviation capability cannot be a Cessna-150 and I took off overemphasized. from this airport on my first Please See GARAN, A6 solo flight. It was a magi-

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The Oneonta Airport Commission, from left, Jeff Back, Ed May and Dennis Finn, chair, meet with members of the steering committee planning the countywide facility’s 50th anniversary Saturday, Sept. 17. Committee members, from left, are Chris Kuhn, Rachel Jessup, Les Grummons, Adina Feliu, Bob Brzozowski, Larry Guzy, Mike Stevens, Barbara Ann Heegan and Alan Donovan.

LETTERS

To Donors, Trooper Parisian, ‘Nyá:wv’ To the Editor: Your paper ran a story on the meaning of “Neahwa” as in Neahwa Park, citing Eugene Milener’s history of Oneonta and Mark Simonson’s “Reminiscing.” Would you permit me to perhaps correct the record?

If anything, Neahwa resembles or may be a corruption of the Mohawk word nyá:wv (phonetically niawen) meaning “thank you.” There’s no noun word for “gift” in any of the Northern Iroquoian languages.

“Gift” can only be reached through the inflectional possibilities offered by the word “give,” in Mohawk “atatawi,” (reflexive, “to give to each other”). Examples would include, “I have given it,” “I have given it to her/him,” “I gave it,” and so forth.

In the end, “thank you” would be most appropriate in honoring Ricky Parisian and for what he gave to the citizens of Oneonta.

WILLIAM A. STARNA Oneonta

Applaud Trustees For Doing Thankless Job To the Editor: Your editorial in your last edition challenges the legitimacy of the village trustees and mayor to speak for the Village of Cooperstown and suggests that another group, The Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce, has a better claim to do so.

Last time I checked the village trustees and mayor were the duly elected, legal representatives of the citizens of the village, and properly and exclusively so, and in that capacity the legitimate voice of the village.

To suggest otherwise is to make a revolutionary claim.

Now revolutions do occur, though I doubt we’re anywhere near that point in Cooperstown, even if an hour is spent bickering at a public meeting. (Perhaps your tongue is in your cheek and you’re just stirring up the pot to keep your readers interested.)

Also, last time I checked, the chamber was a private organization not accountable to village voters.

It’s true that recent village elections have been mostly uncontested, with low

voter turnout. That suggests not that village officials are unrepresentative but rather that that the public has been quite satisfied with their performance.

If they weren’t, then there would be opposition.

You also suggest that village officials personally join the chamber, something I would think to be their private business, not yours. Further, you advocate that the village itself spend taxpayer money ($5,000) to join the chamber.

The village has its own responsibilities, which may conflict with those of other groups, including the chamber, and so would be wise to keep apart from any of them while, of course, cooperating with all of them when it can.

None of this is to say that the chamber, like other groups, is not deserving of praise for its contributions to community life and local economic prosperity. Their efforts are to be applauded, as are those of the village trustees and mayor for what, in their case, is largely a thankless task.

ADRIAN KUZMINSKI Fly Creek

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

200 YEARS AGO

From London – An Important Caution – Ladies who are accustomed to wear their dresses extremely low in the back and bosom, or off the shoulders, are particularly requested to beware of a person who has for some time past frequented all places of public amusement, and many private parties. He is an elderly gentleman of a venerable appearance and correct manners; his constant practice, when he observes a lady dressed in the manner above described, is with almost imperceptible and apparently accidental pressure of a little instrument which he carries in his hand, to imprint the following words on her back or shoulders – “NAKED, BUT NOT ASHAMED.” The stain is like that produced by lunar caustic; washing will not remove it, and it becomes more visible by exposure to the air, so that nothing but a covering can conceal it. It is said that several ladies were marked last summer at various places of fashionable resort, and that they cannot, even now strip for company without displaying this indelible badge of disgrace.

September 12, 1816

and if these are not effective in securing improvements, it is urged that the attention of the Legislature be directed to the matter in order to furnish the unfortunate people confined in the Poor House of this county with immediate relief.

September 10, 1891

50 YEARS AGO

100 YEARS AGO

The total receipts of the Garden Party given at Brookwood Point, the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. deP. Townsend last Friday afternoon and again on Tuesday night will amount to between $500 and $600. The rain on both occasions somewhat affected the attendance, about 300 people being present on Friday afternoon and nearly 200 on Tuesday night. The net receipts of the affair will be turned into the Susan Fenimore Cooper Foundation campaign fund.

September 6, 1916

25 YEARS AGO

Ralph E. and Barbara Chamberlain donated the Sportsman’s Tavern, a property valued at $860,000 to the Campaign for Bassett, the hospital’s first-ever capital campaign.

The Sportsman’s Tavern an historic Fly Creek restaurant acquired by the Chamberlains in 1984, will be renovated to house the staff and facilities of the New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health (NYCAMH), a program designed to identify, treat and prevent injury and illness in farmers as well as investigate broad political and economic issues facing rural residents.

September 11, 1991

175 YEARS AGO

Horse Stealing – A meeting of the owners of horses and those opposed to horse stealing in the Town of Otsego will be held at the house of Wm. Lewis in the Village of Cooperstown on Thursday the 16th of September at 1 o’clock p.m. for the purpose of forming a society for the prevention of horse stealing, and the detection of horse thieves. Sig. Many Horse Owners.

September 13, 1841

150 YEARS AGO

September 7, 1966

Hops – A few yards were picked last week and on Monday last picking commenced very generally throughout the Hop District of this State. The weather has been rather unfavorable and the vermin have increased since our last issue.

However, we have seen some excellent specimens of cured hops, and such are in demand at 45 to 50 cents. The purchases are to supply orders, there being no speculative feeling.

The poorer grades of hops are not sought after at present. The yield will be in excess of the home consumption.

September 7, 1866

125 YEARS AGO

New York State Board of Charities report regarding the Otsego County Poor House: Visited October 13, 1890. In referring to the report of the State Board of Charities during

the last 20 years and comparing the condition of the Poor House at the time of visitation with these, the conclusion is reached that no material change has been effected during that period, and that the condition of the Poor House is such as to call for the censure of the Board of Supervisors. The stoves and stove pipes are unsafe; there is but one bathtub in the institution; the water closets are very old and filthy; the beds and bedding are in a bad condition. On the day of the visitation there were 46 males and 30 females in the institution, and also three children under one year. The Supervisors, the Superintendent of the Poor, and the people of the county deserve censure if they allow this institution and its inmates to remain longer in the conditions found.

Frequent visits of the Board of Charities is recommended,

10 YEARS AGO

Philip Pohl, a Section III, Center State All Star baseball catcher who batted over .400 for the Cooperstown varsity last spring, went to Doubleday Field last Thursday as a spectator to watch a touring team of Japanese All-Stars take on a team of American high school All-Stars. Then, midway through the fourth inning, Pohl was summoned out of the first base side entryway by umpire Bobby Hall where he was watching the game and told to report to the American side dugout. Minutes later he was in an All-Star uniform and in the game as catcher. “I couldn’t believe what was happening,” Pohl said. “I’d gone to watch and suddenly I was in the game. It was unbelievable.” Pohl was invited to play by American team coach Ray Fagnant.

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A-6 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA LETTERS

Standing Alone, Upstatia Would Have A Hard Time Making A Go Of It To the Editor: Throughout history, from our hunter/gather forebears to our Twittering millennials, the most powerful market signal – and nothing else comes close – is where people choose to live … or leave. It’s human nature.

When times get hard, people have loaded the ox-cart or the U-Haul, gone steerage or bought a one-way business-class to move to greener pastures.

Consider Upstate New York. People are packing their bags. Upstate’s bleeding population. Check the plummeting school enroll-

ments. Count the “For Sale” signs.

Richard Dietz of the Second District Federal Reserve studied the in-migration and out-migration of 25 to 44 year olds in Upstate New York. If the 52 counties of Upstate New York were bundled together to form a state (Upstatia?), that state would rank 49th in the country for drawing people in to live and work. Few move to Upstatia. There are not enough good jobs.

The state Comptroller’s Office recently reported that from June 2009 (the end of the Great Recession)

to June 2016, the total job growth in Upstatia has been a whopping 0.3 percent That’s seven years, folks. In contrast, downstate over the same period has experienced over seven times that rate of growth. With few jobs, few move to Upstatia.

Local leaders realize this.

From annual conferences to the grant applications (and awards) to the hiring of a one-stop-shop industrial development coordinator, the regional focus has been on jobs. All good. However, these local efforts buck headwinds in a high-tax, highly regulated, high-over-

head, business-averse state like New York. If you want to bet on a business-negative ranking in any category, bet on New York State to place or show. You’ll be in the money.

We could have cheap energy. Cheap energy and supportive infrastructure are the two key elements companies look for when they relocate. Cheap energy means gas. Gas mean pipelines.

Renewables need pipelines too. Now don’t be grabbing the smelling salts.

It’s true.

The week the comptroller

EYE ON THE WEATHER for AUGUST 2016

August Wetter, 2.2 Degrees Warmer Than Usual Editor’s Note: David Mattice, National Weather Service observer in the Oneonta area for the past 30 years, provides monthly and annual summaries of local weather as a public service.

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ugust was much warmer and wetter than normal here in Otsego County!

The mean temperature was 2.2 degrees above average and, although humidity levels are typically high from time to time, during our summers, we endured some nasty Floridalike levels of humidity a couple times, and I for one didn’t like it.

I’m sure that a lot of you loved every minute of it! By the way, it was the first month since March with above normal temperatures. I measured 6.68 inches of rain during the month, some of you had less and others more. Normal is 3.69 inches.

Our area was saturated with copious amounts of precipitation, from thunderstorms and periods of on-and-off heavy rainfall of July 31-Aug. 1. The

southwestern part of the county saw some damage from these storms.

Precipitation for the first two thirds of the year is 27.27 inches, which is only 0.78 above normal. For the most part, conditions have been ideal for gardening and crop growing with just the right combination of rain and sunshine. There is some great looking corn, other farm crops, and gardens throughout the county, other parts of the state haven’t been so lucky.

Now if we could only do something about the pitifully low milk prices that are being paid to our good friends, the farmers … well, I’d better stick to the weather.

The National Weather Service is calling for above-normal temperatures and near-normal precipitation for the next 60

DAVID MATTICE

was documenting anemic Upstate growth, officials from Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts teamed to evaluate 50 “green” energy applications for their region. Buried in the inevitable press release was mention of the need for more gas pipelines.

The dirty little secret of renewables is that they need fossil-fuel back-up for storage and wind/solar variability problems. Governor Cuomo virtually ignores this fact (one mention on page 37 of a 54-page synopsis) in his “Energy to Lead” plan for New York. Some brave staffer should tap him on the shoulder, give him a reality check.

So what’s the deal here, Guv? Your multi-billion renewable plan needs gas

Future Astronaut Ron Garan Took Control At City Airport

AUGUST 2016 Highest Temperature.................................87°F (Aug. 11 and 13) Lowest Temperature..............................................43°F (Aug. 23) Average Maximum Temperature........................................79.5°F Average Minimum Temperature.........................................57.74°F Monthly Mean Temperature................................................68.6°F Precipitation Total...................................................................6.68″ Most Precipitation in One Day............................. ....2.33” (Aug. 1) Thunderstorms........................... ............................3 (18 for 2016) Snow...............................................................................................0 25.4 inches for 2016 Most Snow in One Day....................................................................0 Year-to-Date Precipitation.....................................................27/27” Number of Days at or below zero F..................................0 for June 5 for 2016 Number of Days at or below 32°F.........................0 (67 for 2016) days. Let’s wait and see how they do with their predictions.

The Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean are alive with tropical storm activity. Even though some of the storms are a great distance from us, they do directly affect our weather. Make sure you check from time to time to see what’s up.

Summer officially ends in three weeks but I promise there is plenty of great

pipelines. The economy of Upstatia needs gas pipelines. Don’t tell us that a routine 401 Water Quality permit stands in your way.

No one believes you. You own the DEC commissioner and his store.

Could it be that the crony capitalist cartel and their tax-exempt family foundations have bought you and the “environmental” fringe of your party has scared you into sacrificing Upstatia?

The rubes don’t vote for you anyway, right? Let ‘em eat hay.

In the meantime, the population of Upstatia drips … drips … drips and drifts away … to anywhere but New York’s Upstatia.

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weather in front of us. As our children and teachers return to the classroom, please make sure to drive carefully and be extra cautious with buses back on the road.

There are many upcoming autumn events scheduled throughout the Oneonta/ Cooperstown area. Make sure to take in as many as you can.

That’s it for now, Please remember to...Keep Your Eye On The Weather!

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May the Oneonta Airport continue to serve the community and expand its capabilities and contributions to the region for decades to come.

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Hands-On 50th Anniversary Of Airport Aimed At Attracting Young Future Pilots 50th/From A1 music, food, rides and tours.

“The airport is a tool for economic development for the city and the region,” he said. “It’s like the railroads or the highways. And with the economic development that’s happening in the area, we plan to continue to develop the airport as a part of that.”

In particular, Back hopes the celebration will attract a next generation of pilots and airplane mechanics.

“A lot of ex-military used to become pilots, but they’re retiring,” he said. “We need

to get the next generation interested in aviation.”

To attract young future aviators, organizers are planning hands-on exhibits: • A Sidney-based Lifenet helicopter will be demonstrating its equipment.

• Mohawk Valley and Schenectady community colleges, which have flight schools, will bring displays and answer questions.

• MVCC will also have drones on hand to demonstrate what’s involved in its drone-repair program. “It’s had 100 percent job placement,” Back said.

• Local pilots are being encouraged to fly in, land and give tours of their planes.

• The Jeff Back Oneonta Fire Department will stage a live burn.

• State police plan a mock DWI drill.

• The Oneonta Police Department will have nightvision goggles and other safety gear for attendees to

try out.

“We don’t just want this to be lectures all day,” Back said. “We want people to be able to look and touch.

That’s especially important for kids.”

Visitors will also be able to see the work that was completed just over a year ago by Job Corps students, turning the once-drab airport into a comfortable space for pilots and visitors, as well as the new apron for parking planes, funded with grants from the FAA. “We want to make this place comfortable for pilots so they’ll want to come

IF YOU GO: Oneonta Municipal Airport 50th anniversary celebration, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday, Sept.

17, featuring helicopter rides, fly-ins, exhibits, tours and ceremony at noon, featuring former mayor Sam Nader, preceded by Laurens Marching Band Much more.

through here,” he said.

To encourage visits, Back has arranged with Oneonta Public Transit to ferry attendees from the downtown parking deck and Oneonta High School to the airport, 30 cents a ticker.

A noon recognition ceremony will feature remarks by former mayor Sam Nader, who helped establish the airport in 1966 and brought Catskill Airways here.

Mayor Gary Herzig, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, and U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-19th, will also be on hand.

The Commission put together the day-long program in just two months. “Everyone I have asked for support said yes,” said Back.

“The community has really stepped forward in making this happen.”

$250K Donations To Float Brookwood For 7 Years BROOKWOOD/From A1 we’re dedicating our staff and our resources to putting together a plan.”

Harry Levine, Land Trust chairman, announced the good news.

“I am delighted that we now have enough financial stability to continue making this Levine beautiful property available to the Ed Rowley photo public,” he said.

The view from Brookwood, looking east across Otsego Lake. The property The Land Trust will now is one of the final public access points to Glimmerglass. host two public forums at teahouse are there, and The Land Trust acquired “Brookwood is an ambasTempleton Hall, the first at Brookwood in 2011 when sador property,” he said.

6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. there’s an ADA accessible Richard Hanna, who was “So much of what we do 29, and the second on Tues- trail to the lake.”

But Winters is hoping the later elected to Congress, is conservation easements day, Oct. 25 at a time still to community will generate offered to buy it, raising on private property. But be determined. ideas for how to best utilize concerns it would move out Brookwood is a way to “Right now, most of the north part of the 22-acre of the public sphere. share the benefits of conserthe activity is on the south property. “We want to know Currently, the driveway vation with the community. side of the property,” he if people want a path or a from Route 80 to BrookWhere else can you stand on said. “The garden and the trail, what kind of amenities wood is being expanded and the lake shore and look both they would like, whether regraded. Winters hopes north and south?”” the activities there would be that when the park re-opens He also encourages active or passive,” he said. in the spring, the Land Trust people to submit their com“We want to link the north can begin putting into pracments and ideas by phone and the south sides of the tice ideas proposed at the or email, (607) 547-2366, property together.” upcoming forum. john@otsegolandtrust.org.

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Surrounded by memorabilia of her association with Marc Chagall’s household, Rosemary Whitaker looks up from a copy of “My Life With Chagall,� autographed by the great artist’s lover, Virginia Haggard.

Girlhood Friendship Keeps Memories Of Art Icon Alive over the play with her daughter.

During those visits, Jean’s friend, now Rosemary Whitaker, would ON FRANKLIN MOUNTAIN sometimes see Jean’s father seated in the driveway on a partially cut-off n opening day of school in ladder-back chair, painting. It meant 1947, Rosemary Weir, then 7, little to her at the time, but he was Marc came to a “Y� in the road en Chagall, one of the foremost artists of route to the one-room Clove School, a the 20th century. mile from a house that her mother had Chagall, who was Jewish, had fled just rented in the large Nazi-occupied estate surrounding France with his Mohonk Mountain family in 1942.

House, the famed His wife, Bella, Catskill resort. died of a viral There was a young infection in 1944, girl, her dark hair cut and he moved in in a page boy, and with daughter Ida the two walked the and her husband. second mile to school.

The next year, he “I knew her as Jean met and fell in Chagall,� Rosemary love with Virginia remembers. A few From “My Life With Chagall� Haggard, daughter days later, Jean’s of a British amRosemary Whitaker’s friend mother called Edith Jean McNeil with her brother bassador, and the “Le Matin du Monde,� which Marc Weir and arranged for David, later a French rock Please See Chagall may have been painting when Rosemary to come CHAGALL, B3 young Rosemary saw him in his driveway. star.

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Two-day passes available. The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown.

Info, www.farmersmuseum.org KORESH: Oneonta Concert Association opens season with Philadelphia’s Koresh Dance Company. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9. $25 adults, $6 students. Tickets at door, and Green Toad Bookstore and The Eighth Note in Oneonta. Goodrich Theater, Fine Arts Bldg., SUNY Oneonta.

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Oneonta Middle School’s David Gouldin, performs opening act.

GRAND & GLORIOUS SALE: 37th annual Catskill Choral Society’s “Grand and Glorious Garage Sale.� 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 10. Over 100 vendors and nonprofit groups; garage sale items, handmade crafts, food!

Main Street closed to auto traffic for event. Main Street, Oneonta. Info, www. catskillchoralsociety.org RODEO: Oneonta Outlaws present The Saturday Night Showdown Live Rodeo and Concert. Gates open 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, Country music singer/songwriter Eddie Arcuri Jr. 2-4 p.m.; 7 p.m. live rodeo with bull and bronco riding, barrel racing, team roping, steer wrestling.

Tickets $20, kids 12 and under free with an adult. Tickets at The Shipping Room, all SFCU branches, or online at www. oneontaoutlaws.com COLORSCAPE: 22nd Annual Colorscape Chenango Arts Festival Saturday, Sept. 10, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 11, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. in Norwich. Info, (607) 336-FEST, www.colorscape.org

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OPENING RECEPTION – 5-7 p.m. SUNY Oneonta opens its 2016-17 gallery season with two exhibitions featuring artwork by college faculty and students. “Art Faculty Exhibition 2016” runs through Oct. 21 in the MartinMullen Art Gallery. “Student Recipient Exhibition, Jean Parish Memorial Scholarship 2015-16” runs through Sept. 30 in the Project Space Gallery. Free, all welcome. Info, gallery Director Tim Sheesley, (607) 436-2445, 436-3456, www.oneonta.edu/ academics/art/gallery.html METAL DETECTING – 6:308 p.m. Otsego Co. Historical Association hosts presentation on metal detecting with Eric Burkhart and Jerry cooper. Coin garden set up and several detectors available for participants to gain hand-on experience. Free, all welcome. Light refreshments received. Kinney Memorial Library, Cty. Rte. 11, Hartwick.

Info, (607) 293-6635.

Friday, September 9

WASTE COLLECTION – 8-11 a.m. Otsego Co. Hazardous Waste Collection Day. Unadilla Town Barn. Also, Sat. Sept. 10., Meadows Complex, Cooperstown.

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WRITING FEST – 1:30-5 p.m., Fourth Annual Festival of Women Writers. Writing workshops, all day writing intensives, and a variety of public readings with over 20 authors. Through Sept. 11.

Hobart Book Village, Hobart, NY. Info, www.hobartfestivalofwomenwriters.com YMCA GOLF – 2 p.m. 2nd Annual Oneonta Family YMCA Golf Outing. Enjoy 18 holes includes cart, dinner, drinks and entertainment . 2 p.m. Shotgun start with “After Party” following the golf event. Tickets $450 a foursome, $30 if only attending the after party. Register online at https://oneontaymcagolfouting. eventbrite.com KORESH DANCE – 7:30 p.m.

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Saturday, September 10

ELECTRONICS COLLECTION – 7-9 a.m. Electronics Waste Collection Day coinciding with Co. Hazardous Waste Collection Day. Home electronics (VCRs, DVD players, radios, TVs, microwaves, computers, monitors, printers, routers). Christ Church parking lot.

WASTE COLLECTION – 8 a.m.1 p.m. Otsego Co. Hazardous Waste Collection Day. Meadows Complex, Cooperstown. Info, schedules www.otsegocounty. com/solidwaste TERRACYCLE – 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

Otsego County Conservation Association special TerraCycle collection in conjunctions with Otsego County’s Annual House-

THURSDAY-Friday, september 8-9, 2016 hold Hazardous Waste Day in Cooperstown. Used toothbrushes, toothbrush packaging, empty toothpaste tubes and dental floss containers can be taken to the TerraCycle collection container at the event. Info, Jeff O’Handley, (607) 282-4087, programdirector@occainfo.org SCOUT BOTTLE DRIVE – 9 a.m.

Troop 1254 invites Cooperstown residents to place clean returnable bottles & cans on curb or porch steps visible from street.

Monthly bottle drives fund troop activities, events, and trips. Troop thanks the community for support. Special pickups, questions, call Bruce at (607) 267-6730.

GRAND & GLORIOUS – 9 a.m.-3 p.m. 37th Annual Grand & Glorious Garage Sale, a summer classic! Over 100 individual vendors and nonprofit groups.

Garage sale items, handmade crafts, food! Sponsored by Catskill Choral Society. Main St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-0960, info@OneontaHistory.org COLORSCAPE – 9 a.m.-6 p.m. 22nd Annual Colorscape Chenango Arts Festival. Annual free juried exhibition of art and fine crafts, with artist demos, literary, dance, music and more!

Also, Sun., 11 a.m.- 5 p.m. East & West Parks in downtown Norwich. Info, (607) 336-FEST, www.colorscape.org SUPPORT GROUP – 9 a.m.

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Individual of any ages affected by Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis and similar illnesses, especially patients and their families, welcome. Free, informal meeting, held second Sat. of month except Oct., July and August. Morey’s Family Restaurant, Rte. 7, Oneonta. Info, (607) 293-6124, (315) 357-2514.

RUN – Falling Footsteps Cross Country (mini-mudder) 5K Run, 1 mile Walk. Richfield Springs.

Info, Bill Kosina, (315) 749-3286, jabkos@verizon,net 25th ANNIVERSARY – 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Brandow’s Feed & Seed celebrates its 25th Anniversary. Face painting, food and refreshments, animals to pet, giveaways, pony rides, jelly canning contest, much more! Brandow’s Feed & Seed, Oneonta, 4119 St. Hwy. 7, Oneonta. Free, all welcome. Info (607) 432-3884.

HARVEST FEST – 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 38th Annual Harvest Festival. Local food, music, artisans, vendors, animals and games for everyone! Also Sun. Included with paid museum admission (ages 6 and under & NHSHA members free). $12 Adults, $10.5 seniors, $6 juniors, children (6 and younger) and NYSHA members free. Two-day passes available.

Tickets on site or online The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www.farmersmuseum.org

QUILT SHOW – 10 a.m.- 3 p.m. “Draping the Pews.” Free, all welcome. Fly Creek Methodist Church, 811 Cty. Rd. 26 (across from P.O.).

POWERFEST – 10 a.m.- 5 p.m.

33rd annual Dan Rion Memorial Antique Engine Jamboree & Powerfest. Antique tractors, Model A Fords, outboard motors, Ford Doodlebugs, hit and miss engines, steam engines, water-cooled and air-cooled gas engines, and more! Tickled Pink BBQ sandwiches for sale and pies and chili by Charlotte Valley Presbyterian Church. Kids fun activities and STEM-related activities. Included with regular Museum admission, free for children 12 and under, Museum members and residents of zip codes near Hanford Mills. Hanford Mills Museum, 51 Cty. Rd. 12, East Meredith. Info, (607) 278-5744, www.hanfordmills.org RODEO – 1-10 p.m. Oneonta Outlaws present The Saturday Night Showdown live Rodeo and Concert. Gates open 1 p.m., Country rock band, “Sundown,” concert 4-7 p.m. followed by 7 p.m. live rodeo featuring bull and bronco riding, barrell facing, team roping, steer wrestling.

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Years Later, Girlhood Friends Renewed Acquaintance, Revisit Chagall Home CHAGALL/From B1 Jean’s room to clear extra married to Whit Whitatwo spent 1947-48 in High space for a party. On the ker, longtime owner of the Falls, near Mohonk. (Jean wall was a painting, covered venerable Whitaker & Son and her baby brother David Buick and Chevrolet dealerby a cloth.

Rosemary was invited were children from Virginship in Sidney, recalled the ia’s earlier marriage to a to keep Jean company at other day.

John McNeil.) the party, which featured Jean’s mother said, “I “I would go to her an elegant crowd from think it’s time to go home.” house,” Rosemary recalled New York City, artists and Sometime later, she stopped by to see Rosein an interview at her Franklin Mountain Home, mary’s mom. “We’re going back to Paris,” “and it was kind of an eye-opener to me.” Her Virginia told her.

“All of a sudden, Jean mother had separated from Rosemary’s father, and the was gone,” the little Weirs were living in house girl’s friend remembers. with no electricity, no Ida, Chagall’s daughter, running water. The rent, dropped off some furni$5 a month. At the Chature, including a library galls, “there was a maid in table and, yes, that cutoff uniform.” ladder-back chair.

Rosemary’s young Time went on. Edith brother, Dan, was a baby Virginia Haggard, Marc Cha- Weir, eventually remarlike David, and her mother gall’s lover for seven years, rying, moved her famincluded this portrait in her reached out to Jean’s ily across the Catskills, memoir, “My Life With Chato Rock Royal (now mother, who had been somewhat shunned by the gall.” submerged in the Canneighbors. “At the time, nonsville Reservoir), to critics among them. At the Masonville, to Bainbridge everyone knew she was his highpoint, “they whipped and to Downsville, where mistress. So no one would the cloth off the painting.

Rosemary graduated from talk to her. They got to be Everyone was going ‘ooh, sort of friends.” aah.’” high school in 1959.

Little Rosemary, 8 by In addition to painting in “I always wondered what the driveway, Chagall had a now, stood in front of the happened to Jean,” said Rosemary. “When school small shed next to the main bright canvas, a floating house that he used as a stuclock rousing a hen, an started, I thought about her.” dio. “We had to stay out of asymmetrical church, and Out of school, she moved sight,” said Rosemary. “He to Danbury, Conn., worka horned bull in the lower ing in the Barden Corp. didn’t like children.” right that looked like the Still, the two girls reone in the pasture out back. factory, married, divorced mained friends through the “What’s that chicken and in 1979 moved her summer of 1948 and into doing in there?” she asked three daughters and one son to Franklin and joined a second year at the Clove herself.

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Then she declared: “I Oneonta’s Corning plant, That fall, there was much don’t like it.” where she would work for “You could have heard a excitement. The furniture 27 years. pin drop,” Rosemary, now Her eldest daughter, had been moved out of

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A 1990s article in Kaatskill Life, that included photos of the Chagall home at High Falls, renewed Rosemary Whitaker’s interest in her girlhood friend, who she knew as Jean Chagall, but was actually Jean McNeil. Sidney Alexander, author of “Marc Chagall,” a biography, put Mrs. Whitaker in touch with Jean’s mother, Virginia Haggard McNeil.

Cindy, received her CPA at SUNY Delhi, and got a job bookkeeping at Whitaker & Son. In 1988, mom Rosemary, out of loyalty to her daughter, bought a Cavalier there.

Learning it was her birthday, the salesman, Whit Whitaker himself, had her pull over at a drug store.

He emerged with a birthday card. The two have been married for a decade.

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article in Kaatskill Life, “The Sheep’s In The Meadow: Chagall in High Falls,” which revived vivid memories.

She picked up a copy of Sidney Alexander’s “Marc Chagall” biography, and in 1994 wrote the author in Richmond, Va. He sent her Virginia Haggard’s address in Belgium, and she sent her daughter’s address to Rosemary.

On July 3, 1995, she received a letter from her long-lost friend, reestablishing the relationship.

Jean reported she was a landscape painter – quite a successful one, Rosemary learned – was married to a Phil Cohen, professor at the University of East London, and they had an adopted son, Stephen.

As it happened, Whit Whitaker had just won a GM sales contest granting him a 10-day getaway anywhere in the world, and on July 27 of that same month, the couple met with Jean and her husband at the elegant Lanesborough Hotel in London, across from the Buckingham Palace gardens.

Among other things, Rosemary learned baby David McNeil had grown up to be a French rock ’n’ roll star, with such hits as “J’ai Déjà Fait Mon Arche (J’attends Les Animaux)”

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After the meeting, she received an autographed copy of “My Life With Chagall” from Jean’s mother, Virginia Haggard McNeil, then living in Brussels. She and Chagall had gone their separate ways after seven years.

Later, Jean and Phil came to The States and visited the Whitakers on Franklin Mountain. The visitors were so taken by the 19th century farm house the Whitakers were restoring, when they returned to England they bought a country home as a weekend getaway from London.

Rosemary and Jean also made a pilgrimage to The Clove School, and revisited the house where the Chagalls lived decades before.

The old friends corresponded for years, then shifted to e-mail.

At one point, Mrs. Whitaker turned a bit wistful, in recalling Chagall’s chair, “all spattered with paint – gobs of paint. We had it for years. In the 1960s, I decided to refinish it.”

What might the original might have been worth today?

As for the painter himself: “To me, he was just a grumpy old man.”

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Legal notice NOTICE TO THE VOTERS OF OTSEGO COUNTY Candidates for the Republican & Reform Primary Elections Tuesday September 13, 2016 ********* REPUBLICAN Polls will be open in the following districts: 101st ASSEMBLY DIST (Maryland, Middlefield, Springfield, Westford) MEMBER OF ASSEMBLY Brian D Miller 9195 Red Hill Rd New Hartford, NY 13413 Maria E Kelso PO Box 98 Davenport Ctr, NY 13751 MORRIS JUSTICE Joseph W Tyson 399 Pittsley Rd Peter J McCann 145 Main St Gerard D Joy 170 Broad St RICHFIELD COUNCILMAN (UNEXP) Rex A Seamon 1096 Co Hwy 25 Robert Joseph Woodrow 180 Butternut Rd REFORM Polls will be open in the following districts: 101st ASSEMBLY DIST (Maryland, Middlefield, Springfield, Westford) MEMBER OF ASSEMBLY Maria E. Kelso PO Box 98 Davenport Ctr, NY 13751 Opportunity To Ballot POLLING PLACES ********* Polls will be open in the following districts from 12:00PM until 9:00PM MARYLAND (REP/REF) Firehouse 40 Main St Schenevus MIDDLEFIELD (REP/REF) Town Hall 3717 Co Hwy 35 Cooperstown MORRIS (REP) Townhouse 118 Main St

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Index No.: 2014-294 Date of Filing: August 12, 2016 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO 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.

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

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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.

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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.

4LegalSept29 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.

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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 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.

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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 of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company.

Name: QuarterBACK LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 01 July 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 c/o William Farnham 197 Belmont St. Fall River, Ma 02720.

Purpose is to engage in any lawful purpose.

6LegalSept15 Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY UNDER NEW YORK LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY LAW 1. The name of the limited liability company (“LLC”) is 129 ONEIDA STREET LLC. 2. The date of filing of the Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State is August 8, 2016.

3. The County within the State of New York in which the principal office of the LLC is located is Otsego.

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The post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him or her is: PO Box 141, 35928 State Highway 10, Hamden, NY 13782.

5. The character or purpose of the business of the LLC is any purpose allowed by law.

6lLegalSept15 Legal notice NICOLE GERACE LCSW PLLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 8/2/2016. Office: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the PLLC, 8-12 Dietz Street, Oneonta, NY 13820. Purpose: For the practice of the profession of License Clinical Social Work.

6LegalSept15 Legal notice NOTICE OF FILING OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY OF RIGHT FIELD REAL ESTATE, LLC Name: Right Field Real Estate, LLC (LLC). Authority filed with NY Secretary of State (NYSS): 7/22/2016. LLC organized in Oregon: 5/6/2016.

NY office location: Otsego County.

NYSS designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. NYSS shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 5512 N. Interstate, Portland, OR 97217. Address of office maintained in jurisdiction of formation: 5512 N. Interstate, Portland, OR 97217.

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Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalSept8 Legal notice GOODYEAR BASEBALL, LLC (“GYB”) was formed under Chapter 1705 of the Ohio Revised Code as a limited liability company.

Articles of Organization were accepted by the Ohio Secretary of State on May 20, 2016. GYB, as a foreign limited liability company, has applied for an Application for Authority pursuant to Section 802 of the limited liability company law on July 12, 2016. The county in which the office is located is Otsego. The New York Secretary of State has been designated as the Agent for GYB upon whom process may be served. The New York Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process served to GYB c/o Prime Corporate Agent, Inc., 925 Euclid Avenue, Suite 2020, Cleveland, Ohio 44115. The purpose of GYB is any lawful business purpose.

6LegalSept8 Legal notice Application For Authority To Do Business in the State of New York NY Palmer House, L.L.C. Application For Authority To Do Business in the State of New York filed with Sec’y. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on July 19, 2016. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 28105 Turner Ranch Road, Marble Falls, Texas 78654. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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ne week after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, Glen Berger’s “Under the Lintel” premiered at the Soho Playhouse in Greenwich Village with Brian T. Finney in the lead role.

“Audiences for theater dried up,” said actor Chris Coucill.

“Cars IF YOU GO: couldn’t “Under The Lintel,” 5 p.m. get below Saturday, 14th Sept. 10, Hyde Street.

Hall $20.

But this Limited seatshow ran ing. Advance for a year ticketing at to trehttp://hydemendous hall.org/ reviews.” event/lintel/ Coucill, who has performed the one-man show on various stages since 2004, will bring the role of The Librarian to the drawing room of Hyde Hall on Saturday, Sept. 10 at 5 p.m.

“This was how the drawing room was originally used,” said Jon Maney, Hyde Hall executive director. “George (Clarke) was known for gathering everyone to sing English songs around the piano.”

The play follows a librarian as he explains to the audience how he solved the mystery of a book returned

Chris Coucill stars in “Underneath the Lintel,” seeking to return a library book 113-years over due, Sunday, Sept. 11 at Hyde Hall.

113 years overdue. “I’ve been doing this play in different theaters since 2004,” said Coucill. “It’s a difficult search for an impossible goal, so the show becomes about our common humanity. It’s about following your dreams no matter where they take you.”

The local production was the brainchild of Harry and Ellen Levine. “We’ve been friends with Chris for many years,” she said. “We’ve seen the show, and we thought Hyde Hall would be the perfect venue for it.”

“It’s a great way to bring a great play to the area that hasn’t been done before,” said Maney. “It’s not ‘Our Town’ or ‘The Sound of Music.’ It’s something different.”

The performance is also

part of Hyde Hall’s mission to utilize the space for more than just tours as they look forward to its 200th anniversary next year.

“We want to make Hyde Hall a resource in the community,” said Maney.

“We’ve always had our concerts here, but they’re very serious and beautiful. And we have our ghost tours, acting our scenes from the house’s history, but this play is something different. It’s very funny.”

He’s hoping that the play will give other artists the idea that they are welcome to showcase their talents at Hyde Hall. “We want to use the hall to build a foundation of culture in the community,” he said. “The house really comes alive when there are people inside enjoying the space.”

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Doug Bush shows off a photo of Tom Osborn, co-promoter of Tom & Doug’s Cruise-In in the early days at the Southside Mall, Tom passed away a decade ago, but Doug continues the Thursday night event between May and the end of September.

He Promoted Weekly Cruise-In 20 Years CARS/From B1 said. “Our first unit was a karaoke box we bought at Radio Shack!”

But they had to prove themselves, as the previous host had burned bridges. “I used to be nervous asking for sponsors,” he said.

“But now when I come in the spring, they ask ‘Where have you been’?”

Bush and Osborn met in the 1970s, when both were doing car shows inside Southside Mall. “We were at a restaurant and we got talking,” he said.

“I’m a Chevy guy, and I used to tease him all the time. He’d show me a Ford he thought was really great, but then we’d lift up the hood, and it would have Chevy running gear inside. I’d tell him ‘Chevy is what keeps this car going!’ He liked to get me wound up.”

Though Tom passed away at age 57 in 2004 after a lengthy illness, Doug keeps his name on the masthead. “I had Tom’s Chevelle for awhile,” he said. “But eventually all his cars got sold.”

Since they started the show, a seemingly endless variety of cars have come through.

“We used to have a man drive from Indiana with a fire truck he’d restored,” he said.

“Another time, Wayne Hymers” – owner of Otsego Auto Crushers – “brought in a 1934

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Dodge Sedan he bought at an auction. It looked like a mafia car. Everyone wanted their photo with it.”

Doug even added a new category in recent years, giving a prize for muscle cars. “You see guys come in with Dodge Challengers,” he said. “It makes them feel appreciated.”

He’s also seen a rise in “Rat Rods,” custom-made cars in the style of classic hot rods, but built from a mixture of junkyard parts. “There are some that are so stripped down, you can see the drive shaft under your feet,” he said. “They’re held together with zip ties!”

But he admits that it’s not the trophies that keep the fans coming back. “It’s the camaraderie,” he said. “People like to come and ask questions about the cars, learn how they were put together. It’s mostly guys my age, but there are some young people who are interested in the cars too.”

And Bush has his own cars to show off, including a custom-rebuilt 1977 Chevy C10 pickup with an eagle airbrushed on the front.

“I rebuilt that one when I was going through cancer,” he said. “Now when I park it, I’ll come out and everyone’s gathered around it.

I always think ‘did someone back into it?’ and then realize they’re all taking pictures.”

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OBITUARIES Keith D. Olmstead, 54; Nurse In Military, Civilian Life COOPERSTOWN – Keith Douglas Olmstead, 54, a practical nurse in the military and civilian life, died unexpectedly early Friday afternoon, Aug. 26, 2016, at Samaritan Hospital in Troy.

He was born May 16, 1962, the son of Douglas John Olmstead and Rose Marie née Dziergowski.

Raised in Middlefield, he graduated from Cherry Valley High School, Class of 1980. On Sept. 10, 1981, he entered the Army and served

as a medical specialist.

He went on to become a practical nurse and ward master for 11 years, and received his honorable discharge on March 17, 1995, while stationed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Through the years, Keith was L.P.N. at several places, including The Meadows and Otsego Manor, as well as Albany Stratton VA Medical Center in Albany.

Since January 2013, Keith has been a member of the

Celebration of Life

Richard “Dick” W. Jump A celebration of the life of Richard W. Jump, 69, who died

Disabled American Veterans.

He is survived by his wife, Grace, and sons Joshua and Nathaniel; son Keith Kristopher Olmstead and daughter Kelly and their mother Tina; daughter Corey and her mother Maggie; and sons Eli and Samuel and their mother Tara. He is further survived by two sisters Karen and Kathleen; several nieces, nephews and cousins and their families; and two special uncles, Michael and

Stephen.

He was predeceased by his mother Rose Marie who died July 24, 1972; his step mother Esther who died Sept. 26, 2010; and his father Douglas who died Feb. 14, 2014.

Services will be at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Sept.

10 in Hartwick Seminary Cemetery, with the Rev. Douglas Burleigh officiating. Military honors will be accorded by members of the state Military Forces Honor Guard and the Cooperstown Veterans Club.

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

89, who retired from the county Department of Social Services, passed away on Aug. 29, 2016, after an extended illness.

She was born on Oct. 12, 1926, in Utica, the daughter of Stanley and Mary (Zurakowski) Czuprynski.

On Sept. 11, 1948, she married William H. Linney Jr., who predeceased her in 2007.

Stella was a member of St. Thomas The Apostle Catholic Church, Cherry Valley, the Springfield Historical Society, Spring Star Leatherstocking Senior Group, and the Utica Free Academy Alumni Association.

Survivors include two children, Mark and his wife Marie of South Carolina and Susan Linney MacKay of Cooperstown; a brother and sister-in-law, Theodore and Betty Czuprynski of California; a sister-in-law, Betty Bosc of Springfield Center, and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Stella was predeceased by her brother, Edward Czuprynski and by two sisters, Virginia Haviland and Sophie Kuroski.

The funeral was held.

Thursday, Sept. 1, in the St. Thomas The Apostle Catho-

in the Springfield Center Cemetery.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Ottman Funeral Home in Cherry Valley.

Aug. 18, 2016 in Melbourne, Florida will be held at 2 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 11 at the Elm Park United Methodist Church, Stella ‘Skip’ Linney, 89; 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Dick taught Industrial Arts at the Oneonta Middle School for 33 years before retiring to Florida. He Retired From Social Services was active at his church, Habitat for Humanity and was a West Oneonta volunteer firefighter and EMT. Donations may be made lic Church, with Father John COOPERSTOWN Roos officiating. Burial was to Habitat for Humanity of Otsego County or Elm Park Church. – Stella “Skip” C. Linney,

Grandma loved her farm, her family, and playing her old guitar.

Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home will take the time to find out what made your loved one special.

Whether it’s finding just the right flowers, or finding a musician to play her favorite tunes on her old guitar, we’ll do what’s necessary to make her service as unique as she was.

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Shane N. Tadross, 43 COOPERSTOWN – Shane N. Tadross, 43, of Main Street, Cooperstown, died Tuesday evening, Aug. 30, 2016.

Arrangements are pending with Tillapaugh Funeral Service, Cooperstown.

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Janet Benavides, 78; Hartwick Graduate, Former Missionary ONEONTA – Jaing berries, canning, net Phyllis Fleischer baking goods and Benavides, 78, a knitting all of which former missionary were often donated in Texas, died Aug. to those in need.

30, 2016, at the Fox Survivors inNursing Home. clude her brother, She was born Robert Fleischer Jan. 6, 1938, in The of Oneonta; her Bronx, the daughter children, Steve Janet of the late Philip R. Benavides of Phyllis and Frieda (Peck) Oneonta, Catherine Fleischer Fleischer.

L. Arbas of Virginia Benavides Janet graduated Beach, Va., Annefrom Hartwick College, ma- Margaret Benavides of Henjoring in Christian education derson, Nev., and Andrea R. Benavides-Puida of Land and Spanish.

During missionary work O’ Lakes, Fla.; numerous in San Antonio, Texas, she grandchildren, nieces and met her husband, Steve A. nephews.

Benavides, who has predeServices were held Friday, ceased her, living there from Sept 2 at the West Davenport 1965 to 1981, returning to Free Baptist Church with the Oneonta.

Rev. Stephen Estes, officiatShe was a member of ing. the West Davenport Free In lieu of flowers please Baptist Church. She was a donate to the American Red dedicated volunteer with the Cross, 396 Chestnut St., American Red Cross, who Oneonta, NY 13820. was also deployed to help Arrangements are entrustafter hurricane Katrina. ed to the Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home, She was involved with 4-H, Scouts, and enjoyed the Oneonta. simple things such as: pick-

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Fourth Annual Festival of Women Writers. Writing workshops, all day writing intensives, and a

variety of public readings with over 20 authors. Through Sept.

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Tickets on site or online The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www.farmersmuseum.org PARISH PICNIC – 11 a.m. St. Mary’s Annual Parish Picnic and Mass. First religious instruction class for grades K-6; church min-

HORSE SHOW – 9 a.m. Ring 1; 10 a.m. Ring 2. Gilbertsville Horse Shows hosts its inaugural show on the historic Bostwick Field in Gilbertsville. Spectators welcome. Food vender on site. Dogs welcome but must be leased. Info, theempirehouse@ gmail.com HARVEST FEST – 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 38th Annual Harvest Festival. Local food, music, artisans, vendors, animals and games for

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Room). A Glen Berger play in which a librarian seeks to solve the mystery of a book anonymously returned after being overdue for 113 years. $20 per person. Hyde Hall National Landmark Historic Site, 267 Glimmerglass State Park, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 5475098, www.hydehall.org DEMOCRATIC DINNER – 6 p.m. Otsego. Co. Dem. Committee Dinner, “A Night for the Stars.” Dinner, refreshments, music and dancing. $50 per person, Chairman’s tickets $125.

Dinner by Chef Brian Wrubleski of Mel’s at 22. At Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 5445039, www.otsegocountydemocraticcommittee.com BLUES EXPRESS – 7 p.m.

Saturday night blues train featuring best bands in upstate N.Y. Riders enjoy food and drink.

Cooperstown Blues Express, depart Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad, Milford. Info, reservations, (607) 432-2429, (607) 432-2824.

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COLORSCAPE – 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 22nd Annual Colorscape Chenango Arts Festival. Annual free juried exhibition of art and fine crafts, with artist demos, literary, dance, music and more!

East & West Parks in downtown Norwich. Info, (607) 336-FEST, www.colorscape.org WRITING FEST – 12:30-2 p.m.

Fourth Annual Festival of Women Writers. Writing workshops, all day writing intensives, and a variety of public readings with over 20 authors. Through Sept.

11. Hobart Book Village, Hobart, NY. Info, www.hobartfestivalofwomenwriters.com LASAGNA COMPOSTING – 1 p.m. Workshop on lazy lasagna composting method, presented

by Master Gardener Volunteer Carol Phelps. Free, all welcome.

Rain date, Sept. 18, 1 p.m.

Oneonta Community Garden, Wilcox Ave., Oneonta. Info, (607) 437-9221.

MUSIC FEST – 4 p.m. Impressions: Works by Debussy, Bax and Ravel. Artists: Linda Chesis, flute; June Han, harp; Dimitri Murrath, viola. Cooperstown Summer Music Festival at The Otesaga Resort Hotel, Lake St., Cooperstown. Info, www.cooperstownmusicfest.org, 1-877-6667421.

MASTER GARDNER – 2016 Volunteer Training begins, running for 10 consecutive weeks, through Nov. 14, except Columbus Day. $150 registration.

Program trains volunteers to serve their communities through horticulture, gardening, and pest management. Info, application, contact CCE Schoharie and Otsego Counties, (607) 5472536, Otsego@cornell.edu TROUT UNLIMITED – 7 p.m.

September meeting. Art Loomis presents “Tying and Fishing Flies for Big Trout.” The Plains at Parish Homestead, 163 Heritage Circle, Plains Rd., West End, Oneonta. Info, (607) 563-1978.

GARDEN CLUB – 7 p.m.

Oneonta Federated Garden Club Meeting. Kathryn Mollach, owner Tanner Hill Herb Farm, speaks on herb cultivation.

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Tuesday, September 13

UNITED WAY – 8 a.m. United Way of Del. and Otsego Counties’ 2016 Campaign Kick-off Breakfast. Breakfast buffet.

Winners of 2016 Alan Donovan Outstanding Community Leadership Award and 2016 Albrecht Executive Director Excellence Award. Info available for workplace campaigns. The Otesaga, 60 Lake St., Cooperstown. Info, 9607) 432-8006, www.unitedwaydo.orguwaysk@stny.twcbc. com HISTORY LUNCHEON – 11:30 a.m. Fly Creek Area Historical Society Luncheon, 210 Cemetery Rd., Fly Creek.

HIP REPLACEMENT – 5:306:15 p.m. Joint pain? Bassett orthopedic surgeons free information seminar. Refreshments served. Wellness Conference Room, FoxCare Center, Rte. 7 Oneonta. Info, (607) 547-3037, www.bassett.org/joint KNEE REPLACEMENT – 5:306:15 p.m. Joint pain? Bassett orthopedic surgeons free information seminar. refreshments served. Wellness Conference Room, FoxCare Center, Rte. 7 Oneonta. Info, (607) 547-3037, www.bassett.org/joint RABIES CLINIC – 6-8 p.m.

Free rabies vaccination for cats, dogs, ferrets. Previous certificate must be presented for 3-year booster. Dogs on leash; cats and ferrets in pillow case or carrier.

Limit of 15 pets per person.

Wednesday, September 14

LIVING HEALTHY WORKSHOP –9-11:30 a.m. Free workshop for adults and/or their caregivers, dealing with chronic conditions. Wednesdays, through Oct. 19. The Little Red School Community Bldg., 516 Cty. Hwy. 11, Oneonta (Town of Laurens).

Free, registration required. Info, registration, Ida Baker, Bassett Center for Rural Community Health, (607) 547-3464.

LUNCH & LECTURE– 12:302:30 p.m. “Food for Thought” lunchtime lecture series. James Abbott McNeill Whistler (with Paul D’Ambrosio, President & CEO of the Fenimore Art Museum). $22 NYSHA members, $25 nonmembers. Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Pre-register at (607) 547-1461; info at www. fenimoreartmuseum.org LOW LILY –7 p.m. Folk and roots music of Low Lily performing “Acoustic Americana,” blend of three-part harmony and world-class guitar, mandolin and fiddle-playing. A pass-the-hat evening. B Side Ballroom, 1 Clinton Plaza Dr., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-2054.

READING SERIES –7:30 p.m.

Red Dragon Reading Series presents Daniel Schoonebeek, author of “American Barricade” and forthcoming selection of poems. Free, all welcome. Craven lounge, Morris Conference

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Thursday, September 15

MIND BODY SPIRIT –6 p.m.

Collective meeting. Swamiji Sadashive Tirtha, author of “Ayurved Encyclopedia,” shares an evening of platform mediumship. Bring a dish or beverage to share if you plan to stay after the presentation. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St. Oneonta.

ROSES –6:30 p.m. Leo Ginenthal of Der Rosenmeister Nursery (Ithaca,( speaks on “Roses in Central New York and Companion Plants.” Free, all welcome. Light refreshments served.Garden Club of Richfield

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FILM SCREENING –6:30 p.m.

“The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble.” Travel the world with international collective of performers and composers to explore how the arts can advance global understanding. Tickets $5, at door. Glimmerglass Film Days at The Glimmerglass Festival’s Alice Busch Opera Theater, 7300 State Hwy. 80, Cooperstown.

Info, (607) 547-8881, www.glimmerglassfilmdays.org CHURCH SUPPER –6:30 p.m.

Swedish Meatballs, buttered noodles, Waldorf salad, rolls, dessert bars, beverages. Suggested donation $8. Please bring your own place setting.

Takeout available. Proceed benefit the work and ministry of St. Mary’s. St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Parish Hall, Public Landing Rd., Springfield Center. Info, (315) 858-4016.

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Through Sept. 4. Free, donations gratefully accepted, reservations recommended. Franklin Stage Company, Chapel Hall, 25 Institute St., Franklin. Info, reservations, (607) 829-3700.

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Saturday night blues train featuring best bands in upstate N.Y. Riders enjoy food and drink.

Cooperstown Blues Express, depart Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad, Milford. Info, reservations, (607) 432-2429, (607) 432-2824 VOXARE STRING QUARTET– meets “Man with a Movie Camera.” 7 p.m. $11-$15. Film and Chamber Music West Kortright Centre, 49 West Kortright Church Rd., East Meredith. Info, (607)278-5454, www.westkc.org TARNATION – 8 p.m. The Tarnation of Russell Colvin. True story of eccentric Vermonter in 1810 and sensational trial that occurred after his murder told through three competing narrators. Through Sept. 25. Free, donations gratefully accepted, reservations recommended.

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