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LADY HAWKEYES AFTER 2ND TITLE

State Semis, Finals Due This Weekend

By LIBBY CUDMORE The Freeman’s Journal

COOPERSTOWN

Incoming Hall of Famer Mike Piazza passes the watchful portrait of founder Stephen C. Clark on entering the Hall of Plaques Tuesday, March 8, during his pre-Induction initiation.

Between the two men is Hall spokesman Craig Muder.

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hings were looking grim for the Lady Hawkeyes at halftime. The Watkins Glen Senecas were up 13-11, and showed no signs of letting up. As the girls walked off the court, none could even muster a smile for the stands full of fans packed tight in the bleachers at Whitesboro High.

But in the locker room, attitudes changed. “We started sharing what was going on, talking about ideas for how we could guard,” said Hawkeye’s Head Coach Mike Niles.

“It was the longest discussion we’d ever had during a game.”

And when the Lady Hawkeyes hit the court, there was no looking back.

They destroyed Watkins Glen, 62-44, earning a spot in the Final Four for the

No Contests, But League Plans Forum COOPERSTOWN

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he League of Women Voters will host a “Talk to Your Village Mayor and Trustees Night” 7-9 p.m. Monday, March 14, in 22 Main, the day before the uncontested village elections. The public is welcome.

Mayor Jeff Katz, Deputy Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh, and Trustees Lou Allstadt, James Dean, Cynthia Falk, Bruce Maxson and Richard Sternberg have been invited.

HE’S TOPS: CCS Sean Mebust took a seventh place in the state swim meet over the weekend at Erie Community College, a record ranking for his alma mater.

FOR NANCY: The flag at Main and Pioneer was at half-staff Tuesday, March 8, on the passing of former First Lady Nancy Reagan.

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CCS fans, including Paul and Mary Margaret Kuhn, roar in the nail-biting state quarter-finals as the CCS Lady Hawkeyes rebound from a neck-andneck first half to defeat Watkins Glen, 62-44, Saturday, March 5, in Whitesboro. This weekend, it’s off to the Final Four in Troy.

CCS Seniors Jenn Flynn, right, Liz Millea, center, and Mallory Arthur hoist the plaque for winning the regional title, and a ticket to the state tournament semi-finals – and maybe finals – Friday-Saturday, March 12-13, in Troy.

second year in a row. “Jen Flynn was heroic,” said Niles. “We knew we had Please See GIRLS, A7

CHEER THE LADY HAWKEYES as their bus heads up Main Street at 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 11, en route to the next day’s semi-final in Troy.

‘County’s Thoreau’ Cooperstown Lawyer Devin Morgan Arrested In Protest Assumes Otsego Now Chairmanship Eklund Joins McKibben At Seneca Lake

BYE, BYE WINTER:

By JIM KEVLIN In another sign the bad weather’s almost behind us, Daylight Saving Time arrives NEW LISBON at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 12.

Turn clocks forward an hour. ob Eklund, the New Lisbon town board member, has again put his adherence to Thore-

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evin Morgan of Cooperstown, an intellectual property attorney with an Albany firm, is the new chairman of the Otsego Now board.

In the combined position, he succeeds both Bob Hanft, chairman of the county IDA, and Joe Bernier, chairman

of the related county Capital Resources Corp., who – “to encourage fresh leadership” – did not seek Morgan reelection at the annual meeting of both boards Thursday, March 3,

in Oneonta.

Morgan’s election was unanimous, according to a press release. He has been on the board since 2014.

Both Hanft and Bernier will continue serving on the Otsego Now board and, hence, the IDA and CRC boards. Bernier will serve as secretary of both boards.

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Zephyr Teachout, who beat Governor Cuomo in Otsego County in the 2014 gubernatorial primary, is now running to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-19. She was at Foothills Sunday, March 6, listening to concerns of, from right, Bridget Stith, Cooperstown, Jeanne Keahon, Treadwell, and Fred Lanfear, Oxford.

Will Yandik, left, a farmer and town board member from Livingston County who is challenging Teachout for the 19th District nomination, greets former Otsego Town Supervisor Tom Breiten and his wife, Leslie, Friday, March 4, at a reception in the candidate’s honor at the Cooperstown home of Melinda Hardin and Lou Allstadt.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2016

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Let’s Stop Fighting City Charter And Make It Work

efore the City of Oneonta heads into uncharted territory – the Wild West, if you will – Mayor Herzig and Common Council members need to pause.

Three experts – two are the foremost experts – on local governance in New York State have concluded revisions proposed by the mayor’s ad hoc Committee on Charter Revision require approval by referendum, as was the original charter they would supplant.

The City Charter gives City Hall legitimacy – it’s the city’s constitution. If the city’s political leaders go outside the laws of New York State in amending the charter, city government will have no legitimacy.

• Think about how that might play out.

The revisions would shift hiring and firing powers to the mayor and Common Council. But if the revised charter lacks legitimacy, would the mayor and Common Council be hiring and firing without authority? Think of the mess any challenge would bring.

State law designates the city manager as the contact with state emergency officials in time of crisis; the changes would make that contact the mayor. But what if something goes wrong in an emergency? Sued, will City Hall – and thus, city taxpayers – be liable?

Operating under an illegally adopted charter, can City Hall actually apply for the CFA grants it needs to redevelop the D&H yards or revive South Market Street? If

REFERENDUM REQUIRED, say, from left: ►SUNY New Paltz VP Gerald Benjamin, director of CRREO, (Center for Research, Regional Education & Outreach). ►Bob McEvoy, consultant and professor in local government at SUNY’s Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Politics, Albany. ►Jerry Faiella, retired executive director, state City Managers Association.

it gets them, can it legally spend the money? Tom DiNapoli must be salivating.

If there is no constitution, properly adopted or properly revised, there is no law.

• With the ad hoc committee’s revisions at an end, Mayor Herzig plans to air the changes at a meeting of Common Council’s Legislative Committee at 4 p.m.

Thursday, March 10. The revisions would then go to a public hearing, then to Common Council for a vote.

On Nov. 8, 2011, 1,128 city residents approved the new charter – 76 percent of ballots cast. According to the mayor’s scenario, five votes on Council can change the city’s constitution, overruling 1,128 citizens. Even if legal, that

LETTERS

From Cooperstown, TREPS Has Expanded Into Milford, Laurens To the Editor: On Sunday, Feb. 28, I enjoyed the afternoon with budding entrepreneurs at the Cooperstown Middle/High School gym, with close to 50 middleschool students showcasing their wares at the TREPS marketplace. The event culminated the TREPS program, an afterschool initiative that teaches students to start and run a small business.

This program was introduced to the Otsego County Chamber Education Committee four years ago by Carina Franck and Marcy Birch from the Cooperstown Central district, who were

driving forces among other parents to get this program started there.

Since, the chamber has purchased the licensing of the program kits to expand this program in the Laurens and Milford school districts, both programs now entering the third year. The Milford’s marketplace will be Saturday, April 9, at the OCCA’s Earth Festival.

The goal of the chamber’s Education Committee is to have this program operating in every county school district by 2018, with the help of our generous corporate sponsors of locally based businesses.

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can’t be right.

If the changes were minimal, that might fly. But the revisions, in effect, shift decision-making – hiring, firing, even setting the semi-weekly agenda – from the city manager back to the mayor, demoting the city manager to the mayor’s errand boy or girl.

• The experts are particularly concerned that the mayor – heretofore, he or she could only vote to break a Common Council tie – would actually get a vote in the hiring: That diminishes Council’s powers, and that requires a referendum.

The Freeman’s Journal That’s problematic enough, but A proud day – Sept. 7, 2012 – when the first city manager, Mike Long, was welcomed by, from left, Mayors Nader, the shift is much more profound; Muller, Miller and Brenner. in effect, the job of city manager is redefined, with the Council, by Park and downtown “streetscape” to stop any efforts to undermine majority vote, able to change the improvements, due this spring. the City Charter approved with qualifications from year to year.

Despite his short tenure, the such pride and hope a mere four Anything goes. second city manager, Martin years ago. Let’s put all that energy “It’s a setup, … to hire whomMurphy, brought in a consultant into making it work. ever they want regardless of who prepared a definitive study on After all, this is no mystery: qualifications – exactly what the basic reforms needed to prepare As local government has become commission wanted to avoid,” said the Oneonta Fire Department for more complex, the city-manager retired SUNY Oneonta poly-sci the future. It’s an eye-popper. (Go form of government has become professor Paul Scheele, a member to www.allotsego.com and type the most common municipal form of the original Charter Commis“Oneonta Fire Department” in the in the U.S., and the fast-growing. sion. He predicted the rebirth of search line.)

At the time the charter was the “old boy network.”

And remember, as is, the elected adopted, City Hall, under Mayor • mayor and Common Council chart Dick Miller, appeared on its way The shame of it is, before the the city’s fate; the city manto becoming a model for New personal supplanted professionalager brings training, experience, York State and beyond, a worthy ism, Oneonta’s city-manager form contacts and vision to implement aspiration that inspired and excited of government had started to work. the will of the people expressed so many of us.

Initiatives begun by the first through their elected officials. No Mayor Herzig should pick up city manager, Mike Long, are still dictatorship here.

Mayor Miller’s torch and lead bearing fruit: Housing Visions’ • all of us – and that means all of Oneonta Heights, starting this It’s time for Mayor Herzig (who Otsego County, which was hoping week; ambitious Wilber Park updelivered a fine first State of the for a successful example to follow grades, now complete; the Neahwa City speech; there’s plenty to do) – in recapturing that excitement.

MIKE ZAGATA OTHER VOICES

Delay May Let Long-Eared Bats Stall Pipeline Editor’s Note: Mike Zagata, the retired DEC commissioner, resides in West Davenport.

the permits will be approved when the time-clock runs down.

However, that would be in April and, by that time, any long-eared bats that may live in the trees scheduled to be cut to create the necessary right-of-way corridor may have returned. Determining whether or not the bats have returned, or if they lived there in the first place, can be a complicated process and likely to cause further delay.

It is ironic that the Governor has chosen to circumvent SEQRA (State Environmental Quality Review Act) and intervene in the process because both Upstate and downstate residents stand to benefit if the pipeline is built.

That is not generally the case, as pipelines built to transport natural gas from areas where it is produced to the large cities often pass through rural communities without providing natural gas. (They do provide an increased tax base).

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overnor Cuomo shows disdain for impoverished residents of both Upstate and downstate New York. He does this by not allowing the DEC to release the water permits needed for the Constitution Pipeline Project.

To quote a recent publication from Catholic Charities, “It could be said that to have a successful and sustainable community you need the individuals and families living in your community to be successful and to be able to sustain themselves.”

It seems logical this would apply to a state as well.

You might wonder how the sitting on the permits affects our lower-income residents. This is how it works.

People need jobs and they need lowcost, clean-burning energy to produce electricity, to heat their homes and

The return of the long-eared bat may further delay the Constitution Pipeline.

cook their food.

By not approving the Constitution Pipeline project, the governor is, at best, delaying the time it will take for that energy to arrive in both Upstate and downstate New York.

If he simply allows the time the state is given to grant/approve the permits, a political tactic that would allow him to avoid criticism by project opponents,

RESPONSE: Poverty, Lack Of Jobs Clearly Tied Together

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To the Editor: In a recent “Other Voices” article written by Mike Zagata, the amount of poverty in our area was highlighted as well as the creation of jobs as a way to combat the rising poverty among our local communities.

At Catholic Charities, our mission is to serve the poor and vulnerable and we see poverty every day and the struggles that our families, seniors, children, Veterans, and the disabled are trying to overcome. We see individuals and families who are holding down one or two jobs per household, but are unable to make ends meet on a low-wage job with no benefits.

Indeed, poverty is an issue in Otsego County

including a 15.5 percent federal poverty rate in the county, which means one in approximately five families is making less than $24,000 per year.

One out of 10 individuals living in Otsego County receives the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly known as food stamps).

Nine out of the 14 school districts in Otsego County have 50 percent or more of the children enrolled receiving free or reduced lunches.

And in the recent State of the State address, Governor Cuomo highlighted Oneonta as one of the 10 rural cities with the highest poverty rate in New York. This is a list that no city wants to be on.

But what the Governor

didn’t mention was all of the ways our community is coming together to help deal with the problems of poverty.

It’s no secret that rural poverty presents different challenges from urban poverty, and in our area we have many non-profits, private enterprises, and public programs working together to help come up with positive solutions.

This issue can’t be tackled without addressing the root causes of poverty, and without the underlying base of a healthy and vibrant economy to support jobs that pay a living wage.

Smart energy policy, proactive economic development, and continued partnerships can ensure that

in the future our city can be one of New York’s success stories.

Thanks to our many community partners, Catholic Charities will continue to work hard to address the immediate concerns of those living in poverty while we, as a community, come together to help tackle these important issues.

Thank you to Mr. Zagata for pointing out a large and growing concern in our local communities – poverty, along with the lack of jobs and economic development, are very clearly tied together.

LYNN GLUECKERT Executive Director, Catholic Charities of Delaware, Otsego, and Schoharie Counties

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

200 YEARS AGO

(Excerpts from a pamphlet entitled “Information Respecting the Introduction of the Kine Pock Innoculation,” by Benjamin Waterhouse, M.D., professor of the theory and practice of physic in the University of Cambridge, Massachusetts) “The committee, in order to give every proof which the noble discovery of the Kine Pock allowed were desirous of finding some woman with a sucking child, who would be willing to let her infant have the Kine Pock, while she herself had the Small Pox. Mrs. Moulson heroically offered her child for experiment. The infant was first inoculated with Kine Pock; and 48 hours after, its mother was inoculated with the Small Pox. The Kine Pock went on regularly in the child, as did the Small Pox in the mother, who suckled the child all the time. The mother had a number of pustules on her body, face and breasts, one or two of which were kept raw by the tender lips of the infant, while sucking; and yet the child appeared as well throughout the whole as if it had been nursed by a person not suffering from Small Pox. The contrast between the inoculated diseases was striking. The infant with one beautiful pustule and playful; the mother with hundreds; and yet the infant rendered, by this simple operation, as secure from a future attack of the loathsome, contagious and dreadful Small Pox, as the mother with all her sufferings. These experiments were in March, 1808.”

March 14, 1816

175 YEARS AGO

Surgical – The important surgical operation for strangulated Irreducible Inginnal Hernia was successfully performed by Dr. H.S. Harper, of this village, a few days since, assisted by Dr. E. Ingalls, on a Mr. Lampson. The patient is doing well and in a fair way of recovery.

As far as we have learned, the result of the town elections in this county on Tuesday last, is a Federal gain of two supervisors, although the increased majorities in some of the towns show that Otsego is as strong in the democratic faith as ever.

March 8, 1841

150 YEARS AGO

The Spotted Fever which made its appearance in this town a few weeks since created considerable alarm. But, its victims have been, we are happy to say, few in number, and most of those were children. It is not a contagious disease and there is no cause for the great alarm it has created in some localities. Guard the general health with more than usual care for a while – be careful of the diet of your children – keep them from undue exposure or over-exertion – and, if any little sickness occurs in your family, incident

75 YEARS AGO

100 YEARS AGO

The Otsego & Herkimer had their troubles again on Sunday when the severe wind filled the deep cuts along the line with a volume of snow. The car leaving Schuyler Lake at 3 o’clock was held on the Kelsey switch for over six hours. This car was filled with passengers, several from Cooperstown and a number of Oneonta Normal School girls and teachers. When pangs of hunger began to be felt, necessity became the mother of invention. Rev. F.S. Squyer of Cooperstown, who was returning from Schuyler Lake with a chicken and several pounds of sausage, offered up the provisions. A small coal shovel was obtained, washed in a snow bank and then utilized as a frying pan to cook the sausage to be shared with hungry passengers. Ten gallons of milk were distributed in cups. A traveling salesman for a milk-chocolate house took his samples and broke them into pieces. “You have done more good tonight feeding the hungry than any sermon you ever preached,” a passenger remarked to Rev. Squyer.

March 8, 1916

50 YEARS AGO

Otsego County has graduated the largest single class of Civil Defense radiological monitors in New York State. In recent weeks, 55 volunteers have undergone training at the State University College at Oneonta and at Cooperstown March 12, 1941 Central School. Special diplomas were awarded to 32 graduates in Cooperstown. Otsego County Civil Defense to the season, do not jump at the conclusion that you have maintains radiological equipment at 40 centers throughout a case of “spotted fever.” Cheerfulness wards off disease the county. In the event of a nuclear attack, Otsego County – unnecessary anxiety and worry are its auxiliaries. will be able to get readings from every area.

March 9, 1866 March 9, 1966

125 YEARS AGO

A Beautiful Villa is soon to be built by Mrs. George Clarke on her Otsego Lake lands, which include what is known as Pegg’s Point.” The property embraces 370 acres situated near the head of the Lake, on the east side within a few-minutesdrive or a row from Hyde Hall, now her son’s residence. The villa will stand on the table land above and a short distance back of the Point; it will be about 60 feet front by 70 feet deep; the first story will be of stone; second story oak-framed with plaster siding; third story a steep roof with gable windows; entrance to the house through a carriage way under a stone tower which will reach above the roof and be surmounted by a lookout, commanding a view of the beautiful and extended scenery visible from that point. It will be a handsome and imposing

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Bats May Delay Pipeline BATS/From A4 That is not the case with the Constitution Pipeline project. By partnering with a local company, Leatherstocking Gas Co., Williams will enable several “taps” into the main line that will feed natural gas to several local communities in Northern Pennsylvania and Southern New York.

Those lines will provide low-cost, clean-burning energy to businesses, schools, a college, government offices and homes. That means that jobs can be both saved and created and that escalating costs to local communities and businesses can be offset with lower energy costs.

What about the potential benefits to downstate residents? Governor Pataki lined the City of New York with 11 gas-fired turbines.

He did that for two reasons.

First, New York City is in non-attainment with the Clean Air Act and anything that could be done to reduce air emissions was viewed as being a positive.

Second, gas-fired turbines can be quickly brought on-line to produce energy.

That means they could be used during periods of peak demand to help reduce the chance of rolling brown-outs or a black-out.

At that time, gas was expensive and thus it was not anticipated those 11 turbines could be used to produce energy for the base-load or periods of lower demand.

With the growth in the availability of low-cost natural gas, those plants could now be used to meet the base load and thus reduce the fuel bill for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers.

And guess what – New York City is one of the two major urban areas scheduled to receive gas from the Constitution Pipeline.

The governor may not care about our vote (he lost nearly all the Upstate counties), but he does care about the downstate vote. Maybe he should start courting those voters.

TREPS Now In Milford, Laurens HEEGAN/From A4 The program features five workshops where students learn about product development, business finance, marketing and salesmanship, and then test those skills in the marketplace.

This year, I visited 50 students’ businesses, ranging from jewelry, to fish tanks, to healthy dog treats and

truffles.

This program develops valuable life skills, such as being a business leader and keeping track of money, and gives businesses the opportunity to support our youth and foster a spirit of entrepreneurship.

BARBARA ANN HEEGAN President & CEO Otsego County Chamber

EYE ON THE WEATHER for FEBRUARY 2016

What A Difference A Year Can Make 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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ast February was the coldest February on record, when our mean temperature was 13.3 degrees below normal. February 2016 was 4.0 degrees above normal.

Just in case you are wondering, our weather data for the greater Oneonta/Cooperstown area dates back to 1854.

This possibly record-setting warm, low-snow, “whacko” – and even some have said eerie – winter keeps rolling along. Nothing about it has been anywhere near normal since it commenced in November.

Looking ahead to midMarch, it looks to be mild and mostly snow free, unless there is a huge movement in the jet stream. I’ll bet on the NWS forecasters this time – and often times, I don’t.

I know some of you are loving this weather, while others are despising it. We had 3.61 inches of precipitation last month, which is 1.06 inches more than the norm, but we only saw 5.2 inches of snow.

By the way, that’s a record low amount for February!

We also had two pretty rugged thunderstorms to boot!

Normal snowfall for the winter through February is 58.5 inches and we’ve had to work hard to get 17.1 inches.

The most snow in a day so far this winter is 3.8 inches back in mid January, and

that came our way on northwesterly winds that howled across Lake Ontario, more commonly known as lake effect.

OMG, good golly, or whatever phrase suits your fancy, have you noticed that we haven’t had one snowstorm all winter, not even a small one! All of the frozen precipitation has come our way by lake effect or from little ripples of instability in the upper atmosphere.

Even if you despise the snow, please understand that it does serve a very important purpose and we need a good ol’ Nor’easter to swing through the area. Heck, I’ll even be happy with an Alberta clipper system that produces 6 inches or so at one time.

Seven days in our shortest month of the year saw temperatures that reached into the 50s.

It was great to see that Jamie and Brenda Waters – along with all of the jumpers, volunteers and sponsors – had a record-setting Polar Bear Jump. What an amazing event!

Even though there is not a lot of cold and snow in the forecast, don’t let your guard down. As we approach springtime, weather systems pick up speed and that makes long range forecasting more difficult. An interesting factoid, the five worst blizzards this

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Cooperstown’s Devin Morgan To Chair Otsego Now MORGAN/From A1 Morgan is associated with Hoffman Warnick, an Albany intellectual-property firm. He is also a blogger (eatdrinklaw.com), a cofounder of LocalMotive Workshop, a local group encouraging sustainable entrepreneurship, and runs Three Blazes Innovation, Inc., a professional services

firm that helps create and grow innovative businesses.

He, wife Daphne and their children live in Cooperstown. He is sonin-law of Cooperstown merchant Will Monie, who operated Willis Monie Books.

In the press release, issued Tuesday, March 8, Morgan expressed support

for Otsego Now President Sandy Mathes and his team.

Hanft, a retired JP Morgan vice president and former chair of the Hartwick College trustees, succeeded Sharon Oberriter two years ago. Since, he said, he has become affiliated with Strategic Financial Services, Utica, and has been unable to attend as many meetings

as he would like.

Bernier, who was City of Oneonta community development director for 34 years, has been on the IDA board since 1968, and chaired it for 20 years. He chaired the CRC board since it formed in 2008.

FEBRUARY 2016 Highest Temperature...............................................57°F (Feb. 20) Lowest Temperature...............................................-23°F (Feb. 14) Average Maximum Temperature........................................37.1°F Average Minimum Temperature...........................................16.3°F Monthly Mean Temperature.................................................26.7°F Precipitation Total...................................................................3.61″ Most Precipitation in One Day................................1.42” (Feb. 25) Thunderstorms........................... ..............................2 (2 for 2016) Snow.........................................................................................5.2” 16 inches for 2016; 17.1 for winter 2015-16 Most Snow in One Day.........................................1.3” (Feb. 9, 15) Year-to-Date Precipitation........................................................5.54” Number of Days at or below zero F................................2 for 2016 5 for winter of 2015-16 Number of Days at or below 32°F.......................23 (52 for 2016) area has experienced all occurred in March.

The sun is now much higher in the sky, the days are growing longer, so get outside and do something fun. If you need some tips on how to spend your time, please visit AllOt-

sego.com for all sorts of neat activities.

Until we meet again next month, be safe, stay healthy, have fun and as always...Keep Your Eye on the Weather!

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It was a night to remember for Edmeston’s Robinson family, as their company, NYCM Insurance, received the NBT Bank Distinguished Business Award at the Otsego County Chamber’s Annual Dinner & Celebration of Businesss Thursday, March 3, at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom. Celebrants included VanNess Robinson, board chairman; his son, Dan Robinson president/CEO, and two of his children, Jeremy and Cheryl, who are vice presidents.

Lady Hawkeyes Head For Final Four In Troy GIRLS/From A1 to put pressure on Amanda Pike, who shot very quickly, so Jenn just made her dribble every time she got the ball.�

And with crowd chanting “Defense!� – members of the boys team even held up the letter D and a white picket fence – Pike, who shot all 13 baskets in the first half, made a mere six in the second half of the game. “Jen’s defense changed the game,� said Niles.

But games aren’t won on defense alone, and Liz Millea was at the top of her game, scoring 29 points, including two alley-oops. “I saw one photo afterwards where the score was 37-31 near the end of the third quarter,� said Niles. “The next photo, with three minutes left in the game, had us at 51-37. In that bridge, we scored 20 points.�

The Hawkeyes will face Pine Plains of Section 9 (which won Saturday, March 11, over Section 8’s Haldane in the state semi-finals) at 2:45 p.m. on Saturday, March 12, at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, with the winner going on the finals at HVCC the following day.

And the team’s old rivals, Northern Adirondack, are also in the Final Four, so a replay of last year’s state championship is possible.

Bertram Scores 55

To the applause of well-wishers, Frank Russo, executive director of the Oneonta Family YMCA, strides to the dais to accept the Otsego Chamber’s second annual Quality of Life Award for creating a “Y Without Walls.�

The boys put forth a similar effort Saturday, March 5, in Whitesboro, but even with double overtime, couldn’t

The Rev. Teressa Sivers, pastor, First UM Church, Oneonta, sends forth the celebrants at evening’s end. Behind her is chamber President Barbara Ann Heegan.

defeat Moravia, losing in a tight 80-74 game.

Sophomore Tyler Bertram put on an absolutely magical display, inside, outside, left, right, every which way imaginable as he pumped in 55 points, yes, 55 points including 11 field goals, 6 3 pointers and 15 of 19 from the line.

His teammates, trying as they might, could only muster a total of 19 in support.

Tied at 61 at the end of regulation, it took a spectacular driving layup through three Moravia defenders with just seconds to go on the clock in the first OT, for Bertram to again tie the score and force a second four-minute overtime period.

But with four teammates – including senior starter Carmen Booan, Riley Hall, sophomore big man Owen Kennedy, and 6’ 3� reserve Travis Thompson – having fouled out of the game, Moravia was able to effectively move the ball inside, hold the Hawkeyes to two points in the second OT, and pull out an exciting win to advance to the State Final Four. Thus the boys’ season came to an end. But the future looks bright with sophomores Bertram and Kennedy and freshmen around for years to come.

Having come from the sixth seed to win the Section III Class C championship was a major accomplishment, and advancing to the State quarter-final only portends of still better things to come next year, and thereafter.

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“All the losophy stores were doctorate at on Main the UniStreet” – Breversity of see’s, Sears, Hawaii, the J.C. Penney,” newlyweds he recalled. had been Downtown working was both their way retail and through business that list of hub. “People colleges were walking Nina, her that used to – and dressed husband’s appear in so nicely.” the back of inspiration in life, and in Webster’s It was long before death.

Dictionary, the Clarion sending Hotel rose, so he out a hundred cover and wife Nina – her letters and resumes, parents had driven looking for the husthem up from New band’s first break.

York City – could Eighty replies look down busy – no luck – when Broad Street, lined the letter arrived in with restaurants and Honolulu from the bars past the depot State University (now Stella Luna) College of Educaand see the view that tion at Oneonta. inspired “City of the “You are on our Hills.” priority list,” wrote A few weeks then-dean Carey before, he having Brush, who was finished his course one of “The Trinwork on his phiity” – Ashok would

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“From shoka comes shaloka,” Ashok Malhotra reflects. “One has to suffer tragedy to become serious about life. Hard times decide our fate.”

It’s illegal in politics, but “Chicago-Style” voting – early & often – won Oneonta Town Supervisor Bob Wood the coveted guest conductor role at Catskill Symphony Orchestra’s annual Cabaret in 2014.

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V After the 2001 earthquake in Gujarat, Malhotra’s Ninash Foundation and partners helped Kuran, a village of 1,200, rebuild in just three months.

learn – along with President Royal Netzer and Vice President (and future president) Clifford Craven.

One morning, the phone rang at 7 a.m.

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– and Nina summoned her sleepy husband. It was Winfield Nagley, University of Hawaii Philosophy Department chair. Brush had just called Nagley, who report-

ed: He’s calling back at 8. “He’s going to offer you a job.”

At 8 the phone rang. “Can you start a philosophy department?” Brush asked.

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Brush, he’d spoken to Nagley: “You’re the best student he ever had.”

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or Coleen Lewis, Oneonta Middle School principal and founding member of the local chapter of 100 Women Who Care, an evening at the B-Side Ballroom isn’t just a night out – it’s a way to change a life.

“Women pay $100 at the door, and charities can come in and put in a request for donations,” she said. “We pick three charities out of a bucket, and those three get to give a 5-minute presentation on why they would like the money.

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hen Rory Decker, 17, started looking into the Girl Up program, sponsored by the United Nations, she was shocked by what she found.

In Guatemala, almost half of girls under 20 have had at least one child, and at 17, only 26 percent are still in school. In Ethiopia, 57 percent of girls between 17-24 are illiterate. And in Malawi, more than half the girls in the country are child brides, married before they turn 18.

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Oneonta Middle School Principal Coleen Lewis and OHS senior Rory Decker share the city Commission on Community Relations & Human Rights’ Trailblazer Awards this year – and the drive to help others.

ote for your favorite local guest conductor at Catskill Symphony Orchestra’s cabaret, featuring Las Vegas performer Kelly Clinton Holmes. Chris Grady, John Brooks, and Pam Murphy battle for the baton. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 12. Tickets $40 (free for kids with adults). Alumni Field House, SUNY Oneonta. Info, www. catskillsymphony.net.

CONGRESSIONAL ART: Opening reception for “An Artistic Discovery,” the Congressional Exhibit for Otsego County high school students, 5-7 p.m. Friday, March 11. Free.

Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, www.cooperstownart.com.

‘SHAMROCK SWING!’: Dinner-dance for mothers and sons (up to age 13). 6-9 p.m. Friday, March 11.

DJ, raffles, more. Grandmas, aunts, godmothers welcome, too. Foothills, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Tickets, info, (607)-431-2080.

SNOMMEGANG: International Beer Festival, 2 p.m. Saturday, March 12. Main Street closed from Ford Ave. to Chestnut St. Heated tent, entertainment in Muller Plaza. Main St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-1030.

LACROIX CONCERT: Roots, blues and folk with Dana LaCroix. Dinner 5 p.m.; show 7 p.m., Sunday, March 13. Five albums and international tours have earned her a loyal following.

David Restivo, 3-time National Pianist of the Year, joins in on piano. $15 in advance; $18 at door. B Side Ballroom, 1 Clinton Plaza, Oneonta, Info, (607) 432-2053.

IRISH NIGHT: Traditional Irish dinner and performance by the Damhsa Beatha Irish Dance Troupe. 4-6 p.m.

Sunday, March 13. $10 ($5 ages 12 & under). Takeouts welcome. St. James Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-1458.

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LEWIS/From B1 In 2013, the chapter’s first year, it raised $3,000 for St. James Food Pantry.

The next year, the number grew to $4,200 for Family Services, and last year, $6,000 for Athelas Therapeutic Riding in Otego. “$100 may seem like a lot, but if you set aside just a little every week over the course of a year, you can do really cool things,” she said.

“And it feels good to give.”

Her participation with 100 Women Who Care, as well as her contributions to the Oneonta Middle School, have made her this year’s Over-25 Trailblazer, an award presented annually

To Schenevus And Back, Lewis Kept Positive Outlook by the city Commission on Community Relations & Human Rights.

“It was a nice surprise,” she said. “The e-mail went out on a Thursday and we had a two-hour delay the next day. So I saw it, but I put off opening it.”

However, the teachers who had nominated her got a similar e-mail, and her phone began to light up with text messages. “They didn’t know I hadn’t read it!” she said. “At first, I thought they were texting the wrong person, but when I opened the email, I was

very humbled.”

Lewis, an Oneonta native, was named OMS principal in 2015. Though she got her degree in Hotel & Restaurant Management from SUNY Delhi, she soon realized she wanted to teach, and got an elementary education degree from SUNY Oneonta in 1996, then a master’s from SUNY Albany.

She taught sixth grade at Laurens Central School, then four years at Valleyview before becoming the Library Media Specialist at Greater Plains. “When

you’re in the library, you work with everyone,” she said. “I was inspired to go back to school for a degree in administration.”

She got a degree from SUNY Cortland, and was offered the position of curriculum coordinator for the Oneonta district. In 2010, John Cook, Center Street principal, retired, and she accepted the job.

Two years in, she helped the staff and students through the closing of the school, and, now out of a job, accepted a position as principal at Schenevus Cen-

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In 2015, Kevin Johnson, the OMS Principal, took a job as the curriculum director, and Superintendent Joseph Yelich called her to ask if she would take it.

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“She changed the culture with her positive attitude,” read one of the nominations.

She sits on the School Library Council and coached Girls On The Run while at Schenevus, and her daughter, Katie, 11, is a Riverside School student.

The next meeting of 100 Women Who Care is July 26 at the B-Side Ballroom, and anyone is welcome to attend. “We call it ‘Christmas in July’,” she said. “And we’re really hoping to give $10,000 this year.”

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A Partner Lost, And A Promise Kept – Through Ninash Foundation ONEONTA/From B1 old Oneonta Hotel – “the strangest, darkest place I ever lived” – and, no car, began looking for an apartment.

Malhotra went up to a campus in the midst of Rockefeller-era construction – only a half-dozen of today’s 50 buildings were complete, met The Trinity, and was introduced to Anthony Roda, his Philosophy Department co-founder. Roda (he passed away in 2010) was 28; Malhotra, 26.

• The first couple of years, their department was in a trailer set between Morris and Alumni halls in what today is a parking lot. There were two offices, each “double the size of an airplane bathroom,” and a classroom.

Brush was acting chair. “He was gung-ho on making SUNY Oneonta” – a teacher-training school – “into a liberal arts college. He knew the core of any liberal arts college was the Philosophy Department.”

Creating the department would require approval of the Faculty Senate.

Brush cautioned, “It’s going to be a tough sell job. Be nice; be patient.”

The snack bar in Fitzelle “became the hub” of a campaign of “Indo-Italian cooperation,” Malhotra related.

Roda approached physics, biology and chemistry professors, engaging them in discussions about the philosophy of science. Malhotra did the same with literature, pyschology and education.

Meanwhile, in the first two years, Malhotra and Roda taught 22 courses, 11 each. ABDs (Ph.D.s with “all but dissertations”), the young men spent 16 hours on weekends in the Milne Library, writing their theses; and both the Malhotras and Rodas had their first children.

Each Friday, they’d debrief at the Rizzo brothers’ Molinari’s – Tony introduced Ashok to anchovies – and they began looking ahead, imagining what philosophers would need to know to navigate the 21st century. India and China would have the largest population, they reasoned, and thus were “the most prominent countries whose philosophy we must know.” In retrospect, Malhotra realizes he and Roda had anticipated “global connectedness” by three decades.

In those days of The Beatles’ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Ravi Shankar, that decision was a big hit, and the department, approved by the Faculty Senate and expanded to four teachers, was instructing 1,200 students. “People were thirsting for it,” said Ashok. “Students flocked to these classes. They were packed, packed.”

Three years in, both Roda and Malhotra had tenure and were promoted from assistant to associate professors.

In 1970, Ashok took Nina to India for the first time: “She loved my family,” he remembers, and, “immediately, my family” – his mother, and his 10 brothers and sisters, and many nieces and nephews – “fell in love with her – an exotic beauty from the West.”

The four dozen relatives were a revelation to the only child from New York City’s Stuyvesant Town.

And as the 1970s went forward, a

SUNY Oneonta Philosophy Department founding professors Malhotra and Roda built their “Indo-Italian collaboration” over anchovie pizza at Molinari’s. long-held ambition took hold, “to go back to India, to help the people of India,” Malhotra said.

At the time, the fabled Peter Macris, a pal of Ashok’s, was taking students to Wurzburg, Germany; Dan Larkin, the future provost, to Ireland; Alexander Yunah, to Israel. “In three weeks, they’ll come back, burning with ideas,” Malhotra pitched to Allen Caswell, then director of International Studies.

Launched in the 1979-80 school year, 20 spots for a three-week excursion to India were “filled instantly.”

Malhotra took Nina and their two sons, Raj and Ravi, with him, on an excursion that mixed lectures with onsite visits, to the Taj Mahal, the Red Fort, the Pink City and other fabled locales.

In 1985-86, the three-week program was expanded to a semester.

And in 1996, “Learn and Serve in India” began, the result of life-changing tragedy.

• Everything was fine. By 1986, Nina, then 43, a dedicated teacher, had obtained a master’s in counseling. Ravi was 14, and Raj was 18 at Hobart College.

One day, the husband came home to find his wife in tears. During a routine check-up, she had been diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer. “That was shocking news,” Ashok recalled.

“She was never sick.”

A few days later, he drove up to Cooperstown to confer with the doctor face to face. In those days, Stage 4 patients lasted six months, he learned; only one in 500 survived five years. “Doctor,” the husband said, “she will be the one.”

Back in their Center Street home, the couple talked. “Suppose we live for 30 years; what would we want to do?” he asked. “Let’s create a list.

Tell me 10 things you would like to do.”

And so they began. One, travel: Bali, Prague. “I will be your firefly,” he said, “showing you the world.”

Two, she said: “I would love to listen to Mozart every day.” Three, help the family in India – to come to the U.S., if they wish. (Eventually, Ashok’s mother, Vidya, joined her son and daughter-in-law, amazed by their Center Street home’s kitchen, which she quickly adapted for Indian specialties. She lived until age 92.)

Four, eat in the 100 best restaurants. Five, renovate the house; add a Jacuzzi. Six, plant flowers. Seven, yoga and meditation daily … and so on to 10.

Keeping the news within the family, “we started doing that,” Ashok said, adding, “Every year, she was able to get rid of the cancer; every year, it came back.”

“A month before she died, she said, ‘Ashok, we have done the 10 things’,” he recalled. Only one regret remained: “You will forget me.”

“Nina,” he replied, “I will never forget you.”

And so they discussed the concept of the Ninash Foundation – the name combines the wife and husband’s names, and it combined their mutual interests – teaching, and helping his homeland. “A month later” – Dec. 27, 1991 – “she died,” Ashok said.

Nina wanted to be cremated, and her ashes to be scattered in the Ganges, the Hudson and the Susquehanna.

“And we did that,” the husband said.

Both boys were gone, although Ravi would finish up at SUNY Oneonta after two years at Geneseo and Raj at Syracuse Law School.

The father was despondent, negative, alone.

On Valentine’s Day, 1992, he emerged from an evening class into a snow storm. Sitting in his car, he said to himself, “I can’t go on. But I must go on. Only the living carry the memory of the dead.”

He turned the ignition and the panel on the automatic shift lit up. N – the car was in neutral; so was the driver. He observed R; reverse. And then D – there is no option, he said to himself, but to drive forward. “The gearshift of my life is in my own hands,” he said to himself.

So he began to work on the common dream, the Ninash Foundation.

Son Raj was in law school, so he drew up the legal papers. Ashok and Nina had owned the home next to their own as a rental property; he sold it and used the proceeds as seed money.

He collaborated with SUNY Oneonta Education Professor Suzanne Miller, who signed on as his co-director. T-shirts and pizza sales by a dedicated student, Josie Basile, helped supplement revenues.

In 1996, the three of them and a “Learn and Serve” group from SUNY embarked on the first Ninash venture, an “Indo-International School” in Dundlod, serving 50 members of the “untouchable” class. Today, expanded to include high school, it is educating 630 students.

When she was Oneonta mayor in the late 1990s, Kim Muller established a sister-city relationship with Dundlod, and SUNY then-president Alan Donovan visited there, reading Muller’s proclamation at a ceremony.

Malhotra began the Yoga & Meditation Society at SUNY Oneonta, teaching methods that had helped him and Nina to keep worry at bay during their final years together.

He also promised himself, “I will fall in love again.” And five years later he did, with Linda Drake, director of SUNY Oneonta’s Center for Social Responsibility & Community.

As a husband-and-wife team, the two have partnered in the Ninash undertakings.

Since 1996, four additional IndoInternational Schools have been founded, including Kuran in 2001 and Mahapura in 2004.

The Kuran school was actually the more modest of two undertakings that came out of the earthquake that struck the state of Gujarat on Jan. 26, 2001, leaving 600,000 homeless.

The day the news arrived in the States, Malhotra sent 30 e-mails to various NGOs asking, “What can we do?” He arranged an aid trip, and recruited Karen Huxtable, then a TV reporter for WUTV, Utica, now Bassett Healthcare spokesperson, and her camera man, Keith Hunt, to come

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The TV station agreed that, during the six days Huxtable and Hunt were there, they would end the evening news with a three-minute report, and cap the reportage with an appeal to its American viewers to raise money for the tragedy.

With only a Jeep, granola bars and water, the trio traversed the devastated area. At Kuran, a village of 1,200 people, including 205 children, they found all the homes razed.

How much does it cost to build a home for a family of four? Ashok asked. $500. Ninash immediately pledged $5,000, with the caveat the community needed to solicit NGOs (non-governmental organizations) to build the other 190 homes. Second caveat: get it done in six months.

The only buildings that had survived the earthquake were oval, and so all the new homes were oval.

Astonishingly, by June 26, 2001, as agreed, the job was complete.

During the process, Malhotra learned Kuran’s literacy rate was 13 percent. “You need food, water, shelter,” he told the villagers. “You also need education.” And so the Kuran school was founded.

The schools in India have been a continuing source of satisfaction to their benefactor, who has just returned from his latest trip to Dundlod, where the students celebrated their founder’s visit on Dec. 31 with a bonfire.

He was particularly energized by the success of the graduates – two are in medical school, two in business school, others in secretarial school, still others in the Air Force.

• While Ashok Malhotra rose from the floods of Ferozepur, struggled through India’s MIT, won the nationwide scholarship that brought him to the East-West Center, fell in love with his Nina, rose to Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy in the SUNY system, and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize every year since 2010, the cycle of life continued in his homeland.

His grandfather, who inspired him and insisted he receive an education, lived until 1960. At the time, his grandson, a college student, returned to Ferozepur. The older man had undergone a successful operation, but a too heavy dose of anesthesia had put him in critical condition. The grandson spent the night at his beloved mentor’s bedside, holding his hand.

And then he died.

“He was on top of the world,” his grandson remembers. “And he suddenly disappeared. It was a shocking experience.”

As is life, although with less of the drama, the joys and tragedies, related

by Ashok Malhotra. “From shoka comes shaloka,” he reflects, repeating an Indian proverb. From grief, comes poetry.

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Youngest Of 7 Siblings, Rory Decker Helping ‘Girl Up’ Around The World DECKER/From B1 how little other girls around the world have,� said Decker. “They’re taught that they’re less of a person.�

Decker started a local chapter of Girl Up at Oneonta High School, which quickly grew to 30 members and earned her the Trailblazer Award in the Under 25 category.

In the club, the members – boys are allowed to join

too – share articles and discuss topics, including feminism, privilege and cultural appropriation. “We just had a movie night where we showed ‘He Named Me Malala’ and then had a discussion,� she said. “And we want to get a group together to walk in the SADD Run, carrying buckets of water so we can experience what it might be like to be a girl in one of

these countries, having to carry water for miles every day.�

She led fundraising efforts for the group, including selling cards with the Girl Up logo where people could write their New Year’s resolution. “Our goal is to raise $50, maybe $100,� she said. “That goes a long way in those countries.�

And they raise awareness

of issues in the U.S. too, including the rise of campus sexual assault and body image. “These are topics that affect girls in our community,� she said.

She also uses the club to address issues she sees in feminism. “People call themselves feminists, but they don’t know that what they do or say reverses feminism,� she said. “People who ‘slut-shame,’ saying a

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girl shouldn’t dress like that or have sex with that many guys. We need to educate ourselves, rather than trying to fight each other.�

Decker, the daughter of Maureen and Bill, is the second youngest of seven kids. A senior, she plans to study neuroscience, but she hasn’t selected her college yet. She is a member of The Echo student newspaper, drama club and the

Rainbow Connection, a LGBTQ+ Alliance.

This past summer, she attended the RYLA Leadership Conference at SUNY Oneonta. “I’m shy and introverted, so when I was trying to get into the conference, I wrote that being shy didn’t inhibit me from being a leader,� she said. “It might make it harder, but I’m no less of one than someone who’s loud.�

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WILLIAM C. GREEN, ESQ., ORGANIZER (signature) WILLIAM C. GREEN, ESQ., ORGANIZER Filed by: GREEN & GREEN 50 MAIN STREET PO BOX 148 Cooperstown, New York 13326 6LegalApril7 Legal notice TROIX REALTY GROUP, LLC Notice of formation of Troix Realty Group, LLC, a limited liability company (the “LLC�). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (the “SSNY�) on 2/26/16. Office location: Otsego County. The SSNY has been

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designated as agent of the LLC, upon whom process against it may be served.

The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC, 54 Lancaster Street, Cherry Valley, New York 13320.

Purposes: are to acquire, own, hold, improve, manage and operate the real property, including the property located at 157 First Street, in Troy, New York (the “Property�); to incur indebtedness, secured and unsecured; to mortgage, finance, refinance, encumber, lease, sell, exchange, convey, transfer or otherwise deal with or dispose of the Property; to enter into and perform contracts and agreements of any kind necessary to, in connection with or incidental to the business of the Limited Liability Company.

6Legal14 Legal notice NOTICE BY PUBLICATION OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Bassett PPS, LLC filed articles of organization with the Department of State on February 23, 2016. Its principal office is in Otsego County, New York. The Secretary of State of the State of New York has

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been designated as agent upon whom service of process against the LLC may be served, and the address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of process in any action or proceeding against the Company is One Atwell Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326. The purpose of the Company is to serve as a lead entity for the Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Program and any lawful activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under §203 of the Limited Liability Company Act. 6LegalApril14 Legal notice Notice is hereby given that a license, number (Pending) for beer and wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer and wine at retail in a club/ restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 144 Pro Shop Drive, Springfield Center, N.Y. 13468, Otsego County, for on premises consumption.

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TION, PHASE 2, AT THE GREATER ONEONTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY 183 MAIN STREET ONEONTA, NY Sealed bids will be received by the Greater Oneonta Historical Society if sent to P.O. Box 81 /Oneonta, NY 13820 or delivered to 183 Main St., Oneonta between 3PM and 4PM local time on Tuesday April 5. The Owner will retain all bids and notify contractors of their intent to enter into contract negotiations as they so choose.

The Owner reserves the right to withhold bid results.

A pre-bid meeting will be held on Friday March 18 at 1PM. All interested bidders shall attend this walk-through.

Exceptions shall be considered in advance of the meeting date on a case by case basis.

In general this work includes interior renovations at the second floor. Bids will not include mechanical, electrical, & plumbing work, completed under separate contract.

Copies of the bid documents will be available for a non-refundable fee of $30 from GOHS by calling Bob Brzozowski at 607/432-0960.

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Documents may also be obtained by direct purchase at Plan and Print by calling 800/924-5145 or at plandandprint. com (PlanWell section). Bid Documents may be reviewed onsite and it suggested that interested bidders visit the site and review the drawings in advance of purchasing copies.

Prevailing wage rates do not apply. A bid security of not less than 5% of the total base bid is required.

A payment and performance bond may be required. Refer to bid documents for additional terms.

The Greater Oneonta Historical Society has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity organization.

All persons and qualified Minority and WomenOwned Business Enterprises (M/ WBE) will be afforded equal opportunity without discrimination because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, sexual preference or Vietnam Era Veterans status. M/WBE and disadvantaged businesses are encouraged to bid.

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Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce invites all to Main St., Cooperstown, to cheer on the CCS Girl’s Basketball team as they head out to Troy for a Saturday game. Part of Chamber’s salute to Cooperstown and Milford athletes. Info, (607) 547-9983.

OPENING RECEPTION --5-7 p.m. For “An Artistic Discovery,” the Congressional Exhibit for Otsego County high school students, in Gallery A, through April 1. Sales Gallery re-opening.

Free; all welcome. Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, www.cooperstownart.com.

FLY CREEK CONCERT -- 8 p.m. (also March 12). Fly Creek Philharmonic Fundraiser, titled “Bon Appetit!” Tickets at Riverwood and Fly Creek General Store. Fly Creek United Methodist Church, Fly Creek. Info, email flycreek@ stny.rr.com MOTHER/SON DANCE – 6-9 p.m. First annual “Shamrock Swing!” for mothers and sons (up to age 13). Dinner, dancing, DJ, activities, contests, raffles, more.

Tickets $35/couple, $5 each additional child. Mothers, grandmothers, aunts, godmothers welcome. Tickets at Foothills box office Mon-Fri. 10 a.m.–noon, 1– 5 p.m. Foothills, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, (607)-431-2080 SQUARE DANCE -- 7:30-10 p.m. Doubleday Dancers Western Square Dance Club hosts St. Patrick’s Day dance. Ray Taylor calls; Elma Taylor cues. $5 per person at elementary School, Walnut St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 264-8128 or (607) 5478665.

THEATER -- 7:30 p.m. (also 7:30 p.m. March 12 & 2 p.m.

March 13). Orpheus Theatre presents “13: The Musical,” which follows young Evan Goldman, who grapples with a move from the big city to a small town (and a new school), his parents’ divorces and his impending Bar Mitzvah. Local cast and orchestra of young performers. Hamblin Theater, Fine Arts Bldg., SUNY Oneonta. Tickets, info, www. orpheustheatre.org

Saturday, March 12

CHURCH FLEA MARKET -- 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Annual Elm Park United Methodist Church flea market. Toys, antiques, clothing, more. Church-member vendors only. Refreshments! Elm Park United Methodist Church, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta (across from Rite Aid). Info, (607) 432-

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Special Olympics teams from across the state compete. Free.

The School at Springbrook, 105 Campus Drive, Oneonta. Info, www.springbrookny.org LIBRARY PROGRAM - 10:30 a.m. Village Library of Cooperstown free Family Program, Knitting “Makerspace”!

Those who knit, and those who would like to, are invited. Bring your own materials or see what library has on hand. Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown.

Info, (607) 547-8344 or www. villagelibraryofcooperstown.org SIP & PAINT – 2 p.m. Relax and create an original work of art with art teacher Caitlin Cook-Wightman while enjoying wine tasting. $30 includes material and one glass of wine.

Space limited. Greater Oneonta Historical Society, 183 Main St. Oneonta. Info, register by March 10, (607) 432-5495.

SNOMMEGANG – 2 p.m.

“Snommegang” International Beer Festival, featuring beer and music from around the country.

Main St closed from Ford Ave. to Chestnut St. Beer to those with verified ID; heated tent, entertainment for all in Muller Plaza, Main St., Oneonta. Info, Townsquare Media at (607) 4321030.

IRISH DINNER – 4-7 p.m. dinner; Irish Step Dancers perform at 6 p.m. Join the Knights of Columbus (Council 10968) for their annual St. Patrick’s Day dinner of corned beef & cabbage.

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Miracle Maker,” animated film telling story of Christ through an ill child’s eyes. Voice of Ralph Fiennes as Jesus. Free. Part of Lenten series of films focusing on Jesus. Parish Hall, Christ Episcopal Church, 69 Fair St., Cooperstown.

GMU FAMILY FILM -- 7 p.m.

Gilbertsville Mt. Upton Central School District Family Night at the Movies, featuring “The Peanuts Movie.” Free. Sponsored by the Raiders Safety Patrol. GMU Central School auditorium, 693 State Hwy. 51, Gilbertsville. Info, (607) 783-2207.

CSO CABARET – 7:30 p.m.

Catskill Symphony Orchestra cabaret concert, featuring Las Vegas performer Kelly Clinton Holmes, plus annual guest conductor competition. Performance in memory of Wendy Brown.

Tickets $40 (free for kids and accompanying adults). Alumni Field House, SUNY Oneonta. Info, tickets, www.catskillsymphony. net.

THEATER -- 7:30 p.m. (also 2 p.m. March 13). Orpheus Theatre presents “13: The Musical,” which follows young Evan Goldman, who grapples with a move from the big city to a small town (and a new school), his parents’ divorces and his impending Bar Mitzvah. Local cast and orchestra of young performers. Hamblin Theater, Fine Arts Bldg., SUNY Oneonta. Tickets, info, www. orpheustheatre.org FLY CREEK CONCERT -- 8 p.m. Fly Creek Philharmonic fundraiser concert, titled “Bon Appetit!” Tickets at Riverwood and Fly Creek General Store. Fly Creek United Methodist Church, Fly Creek. Info, email flycreek@ stny.rr.com

Sunday, March 13 Daylight Saving Time!

SPRING FORWARD -- 2 a.m.

Daylight Savings Time begins early Sunday, at 2 a.m. Set clocks to go forward 1 hour at that time.

SUGARING OFF SUNDAY – 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. breakfast; 9 a.m.-2 p.m. activities. 2nd of four “Sugaring Off Sundays” in March, featuring full breakfast, maple syrup demos, kids’ activities, more. Admission: $9 ages 13 & up; $5 ages 7-12; free for 6 & under, includes breakfast.

No reservations needed. The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www.farmersmuseum.org SOUP! – 11 a.m.-2 p.m., “Second Sunday Soup,” serving homemade hot soup every 2nd Sunday of month. All welcome, donations appreciated. Schuyler

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HARTWICK CHILI FUNDRAISER-- 1-3 p.m. Hartwick Historical District’s annual Chili Contest.

Music, judged awards, people’s choice awards. Benefits repair and painting of Hartwick Park Gazebo. Paid admission allows tastes of all entries, a bowl of your favorite, plus cornbread and beverage. Hartwick Community Center, 450 County Rd. 11, Hartwick. Info, (607) 293-7310.

THEATER -- 2 p.m. Orpheus Theatre presents “13: The Musical,” which follows young Evan Goldman, who grapples with a move from the big city to a small town (and a new school), his parents’ divorces and his impending Bar Mitzvah. Local cast and orchestra of young performers.

Hamblin Theater, Fine Arts Bldg., SUNY Oneonta. Tickets, info, www.orpheustheatre.org IRISH DINNER & DANCING -- 4-6 p.m. An Irish dinner of traditional beef stew, green salad, roll, beverage and homemade desserts. Performance by the Damhsa Beatha Irish Dance Troupe. Adults $10; kids 12 & under $5; takeouts welcome!

St. James Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-1458.

SUPPER CLUB CONCERT -- Dinner 5 p.m.; show 7 p.m.

Roots, blues and folk with Dana LaCroix. Five albums and international tours have earned her a loyal following. David Restivo, 3-time National Pianist of the Year, joins in on piano. $15 in advance; $18 at door. B Side Ballroom, 1 Clinton Plaza, Oneonta, Info, 607-432-2053.

Monday, March 14

GARDEN CLUB PROGRAM -- 7 p.m. Oneonta Garden Club meeting and free program “A Catskill Flora: Antique Plants of Garden and Field.” With horticulturist and plant historian Deirdre Larkin, who retired from the Metropolitan Museum of Art after a 20 year association with The Cloisters Museum & Gardens. All welcome; refreshments served.

St. James Church, corner of Elm and Main Sts., Oneonta. Info, Angie Eichler, angie.eichler@ oneonta.edu

Tuesday, March 15

MOBILE LIBRARY – 9:30 a.m.-2:50 p.m. Various locations, Tuesdays & Thursdays monthly.

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Cooperstown Garden Discussion Group hosts a “Gardens Across the Pond” program on the history of English garden style and design. With John Bower, Collections Technician and Interpreter at Hyde Hall. Free; all welcome.

Cornell Cooperative Extension, 123 Lake St., Cooperstown. Info, CCE at (607) 547-2536.

TENANTS’ RIGHTS MEET -- 6 p.m. A state Office of the Attorney General rep will discuss tenants’ rights under state law. Topics include leases, rent, and lease terminations. Free; public welcome; hosted by Opportunities for Otsego. Child care provided.

First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 433-8000 or www.ofoinc. org.

CATTLE GENETICS WORKSHOP -- 6:30 p.m. Beef Cattle Genetics Workshop, led by two experts and hosted by Cornell Cooperative Extension Schoharie and Otsego Counties. Free, preregistration requested. Richfield Springs Central School, 93 Main St., Richfield Springs. To register, call CCE at (607) 547-2536.

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Calling all ladies to a St. Patrick’s Day Luncheon. The Value Way, 3 Commercial St., Gilbertsville.

Info, bralbag@gmail.com MEDICINAL PLANTS PROGRAM -- 7 p.m. Hartwick Historical Society hosts Patrick MacGregor, who supervises Thrall’s Pharmacy and the Botanic Specimen Garden at The Farmers’ Museum. He’ll discuss medicinal plants and herbs found in local gardens and backyards. Light refreshments will follow; all welcome. History Center of Kinney Memorial Library, 3140 County Hwy. 11. Hartwick. Info, (607) 293-7530 WRITERS’ SALON -- 7:30-9 p.m. Open mic readings, followed by presentation from this month’s featured author (and area journalist), Libby Cudmore. Her new novel is “The Big Rewind.” Free. CANO at Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta.

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CV-S DINNER & SHOW -- 3-6 p.m. dinner; 7 p.m. show. (additional shows 7 p.m. March 19 & 2 p.m. March 20). Cherry ValleySpringfield Central School District Drama Club presents Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Cinderella.”

Friday-only dinner is fundraiser. $6 dinner, $8 show for adults; $4 dinner for ages 10 & under; $5 show for students/seniors; under age 4 free show. CV-S Central School, 597 Co. Hwy. 54, Cherry Valley.

Info (607) 264-3265.

SOUP & PIE SUPPER – 4:306:30 p.m. Raffle drawings at 6:15 p.m. Hosted by Richfield Springs Community Center, to benefit center youth programs. Homemade soup, bread, fresh pie, beverages. $6.50 per person; $25 per family; under age 5 eat free. Richfield Springs Community Center, 6 Ann St., Richfield Springs. Info, (315) 858-3200.

CCS PLAY - 7 p.m. (also March 19). Cooperstown Central School District senior play, “Charlotte’s Web.” Cooperstown Jr/Sr High auditorium, 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 5478181.

BLUEGRASS/AMERICANA FESTIVAL – 7 p.m. (Also March 19) First City of the Hills Bluegrass/ Americana Festival. Free Friday event in atrium, featuring Tumbleweed Highway and The Horseshoe Lounge Playboys. Foothills Atrium, 24 Market St., Oneonta.

Info, www.foothillspac.org or (607) 431-2080.

Saturday, March 19

PTA CRAYON CARNIVAL -- 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Cooperstown Central School District PTA’s popular annual Crayon Carnival fundraiser.

Food, carnival games, raffles, cake walk, mini golf course, scavenger hunt, Utica Zoomobile, Rosie the Clown, Oneonta World of Learning, more. All welcome. Cooperstown Jr/Sr High gym, 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 5478181.

BAMAKO BENEFIT - 5:30 p.m. bazaar; 6 p.m. dinner; 7 p.m. free film. Mali Task Force of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Oneonta hosts a banquet of African dishes to raise funds for Youchaou’s School in Bamako, Mali. Bazaar of African jewelry and other items before dinner; free screening of 2015 Oscar-nominated film “Timbuktu” follows. Tickets $15 adults; $10 kids; free child care.

UU Society, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta.

Seating limited, reserve at (607) 434-3303 or cswolfgould@gmail. com CCS PLAY - 7 p.m. Cooperstown Central School District senior play, “Charlotte’s Web.” Cooperstown Jr/Sr High auditorium, 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-8181.

CV-S SHOW -- 7 p.m. show. (also & 2 p.m. March 20). Cherry ValleySpringfield Central School District Drama Club presents Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Cinderella.” . CV-S Central School, 597 Cty. Hwy. 54, Cherry Valley. Info (607) 264-3265.

BLUEGRASS/AMERICANA FESTIVAL – 8 p.m. First City of the Hills Bluegrass/Americana Festival. Featuring 2016 Grammy winners The SteelDrivers. Foothills Main Theater, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Tickets, Info, www.foothillspac.org or (607) 431-2080.

Sunday, March 20

SUGARING OFF SUNDAY –- 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. breakfast; 9 a.m.-2 p.m. activities. 3rd of four “Sugaring Off Sundays” in March, featuring full breakfast, maple syrup demos, kids’ activities & more. Admission: $9 ages 13 & up; $5 ages 7-12; free for 6 and under, includes full breakfast.

No reservations required. The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www.farmersmuseum.org CCAL SPRING TEA - 1 p.m.

Center for Continuing Adult Learning (CCAL) hosts annual Spring Tea. New course catalog for Summer and Fall sessions available.

Facilitators describe upcoming courses. Light refreshments; public welcome. Morris Hall, SUNY Oneonta. Info, CCAL office at (607) 441-7370.

Karen S. Dutkowsky, 59; Active In Catholic Church, Cotillion COOPERSTOWN – Karen Lynn Sluder Dutkowsky, 59, who was active in the affairs of the Catholic church, and with her husband, Dr. Joseph Dutkowsky, taught hundreds of local pupils ballroom dancing for the annual Cotillion, passed away Saturday, March 5, 2016, at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center in New York City.

Born June 26, 1956, in Ardmore, Okla., Karen was the daughter of Lawrence (“Lefty”) and Mary (née Fisher) Sluder.

As a child, Karen began practicing her faith in the pentecostal Protestant tradition. While retaining her evangelical zeal, she joined the Roman Catholic Church during the Easter celebration in the Jubilee Year 2000.

In November 2009, Karen was invested as a Dame of Malta in the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta. With her husband, she participated in the 2013 and 2015 Order of Malta Pilgrimages to Lourdes, France.

She and her husband founded and twice co-chaired the Order of Malta Pilgrimage for Life, assisting people with disabilities during the Vigil Mass for Life at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate

For over 20 years, she organized and led Sisters in Christ, an ecumenical women’s Bible study and fellowship. She was a eucharistic minister at the Columbia University Medical Center through the Chaplaincy Office. On the Board of Directors of Holy Cross Family Ministries, she provided hundreds of Rosaries for patients and families at the medical center.

Karen was a teacher of the blind and visually impaired. She served local children through BOCES and was recognized in the field of disabilities as international expert, conducting academic workshops in the United States, Canada and Peru.

In her leisure, Karen enjoyed assisting her husband in teaching junior ballroom dance for Cooperstown seventh and eighth graders. After 12 years, the Dutkowskys stepped down as dance instructors at the 2013 Cotillion.

She is survived by her husband The Freeman’s Journal of 36 years, Joseph P. Dutkowsky, Karen Dutkowsky and her hus- MD, KM, of Cooperstown; three band, Dr. Joseph Dutkowsky, daughters, Kendra Zaborowski and at the 2012 Cotillion at The her husband Stephen of Shawnee, Otesaga. The Dutkowskys Okla., Allison Lipari and her hustaught ballroom dancing to band Austin of Hyattsville, Md., and young Cotillion participants Christen Dutkowski of Washington, for 12 years.

D.C.; four grandchildren, Joseph, Conception, and participated in the Ann Rose and Augustine Lipari, March for Life in Washington, DC. and Frances Zaborowski (expected

in June); her parents, Lefty and Mary Sluder of Exeter, N.H., and her brother Kevin Sluder and his wife Stephanie and their daughters, Rachael and Emily of Portsmouth, N.H. Calling hours are 4-7 p.m.

Thursday, March 10, at the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home in Cooperstown. An honor guard representing the Knights and Dames of Malta will be present.

A funeral mass will be celebrated at 2 p.m. Friday, March 11, at The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, corner of Madison Avenue and Eagle Street at the Empire State Plaza, Albany. The Most Rev. Edward B. Scharfenberger, D.D., Bishop of Albany, will be the celebrant. Parking is available in the Cathedral Museum lot behind the Cathedral and in the Madison Avenue lot above the Cultural Education Center.

As an alternative to flowers, Karen’s family would appreciate memorial contributions to Holy Cross Family Ministries, 518 Washington St., North Easton, MA 02536-1200, or the Sisters of Life, 38 Montebello Road, Suffern, NY 10901.

Arrangements are entrusted to Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home in Cooperstown.

Lois Young, 88; Ran Snack Bar

CHERRY VALLEY – Lois Irene Proper Young, 88, who ran her own snack bar here in the 1960s and was active in community life, passed away peacefully in her sleep on March 8, 2016.

She was born Dec. 28, 1927, in Roseboom, the daughter of Vernon H. and Bessie F. (Rathbun) Proper.

She married Harold Young on April 14, 1942, in Ames.

He predeceased her on Dec. 28, 2004.

She worked at DeBeer Baseball factory in Cherry

Valley while her family was growing up. She ran her own snack bar in Cherry Valley in the early 1960’s, and was a supermarket cashier.

Survivors include three children: Harold (Sonny) Young of Cherry Valley, Kathy (David) Dauchy of Burlington Flats, Karen (Ernest) Whiteman of Springfield Center, and grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

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“A good time was had by all. Except the police: They were pretty astounded,” said Eklund, who was released and is back home.

When he was first arrested Aug. 18, he was charged with trespassing, a violation.

This time, a stronger charge was lodged, disorderly conduct, although he said, “The only disorderly conduct expressed was a loud chant, ‘We are Seneca Lake’.” He is due March 16 in a Watkins Glen courtroom.

“I’m against any new fossil fuel infrastructure build out,” Eklund explained.

While overlooking Seneca Lake during the protest, he said he was thinking about a sugar bush destroyed to make way for the Constitution Pipeline, a gas compressor station planned in Franklin, and a pipeline proposed in the Hudson Valley that goes “dangerously near” the Indian Point nuclear plant.

All of these initiatives are being opposed by grassroots groups, he said. “They are starting to coalesce,” Eklund said, “to become a more common voice. These just aren’t stand-alone protests.

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Saturday, March 18 • Noon to 8 pm

Leading up to our featured performers The SteelDrivers at 8 pm, we are proud to present The Howlin’ Brothers, Hop City Hellcats, Milkweed, and the Ruddy Well Band.

Sponsors: B Side Ballroom, Eastman Associates, Five Star Subaru, Hampton Inn, Hughson-Benson Associates, Northern Eagle Beverages, Southside Mall

See how it’s so easy to do business at Steet Toyota!

With AllOtSEgO.com/Hometown Oneonta/The Freeman’s Journal, Bettiol Enterprises Ltd., Community Bank, The Daily Star, Hurricane Car Wash, NBt Bank, Sweet Home Productions, town Square Media, The Village Printer, WCDO

24 Market Street, Oneonta 607-431-2080 | www.foothillspac.org

a fEW moRE REaSoNS To bUy fRom STEET ToyoTa!

#1 in District Tacoma sales (april)

#3 in Region Tacoma Sales (april)

oVER 50 TRUCKS To CHooSE fRom

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#7 in Entire New york Region

2014 Toyota Tacoma 4-door

overall truck sales (april)

We have over 300 new Toyotas available!

PLUS we have a large number of Toyota Certified Used Cars in stock…aLWayS!

4991 CommerCial Drive, Yorkville, NY 13495 • 315-736-8241 • Toll-free 888-836-1655 • www.sTeeTToYoTa.Com

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tHURSDAY-fRIDAY, MARACH 10-11, 2016