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blue) ended at the Westchester County line. The rest of the state was a green tide – green designating Bernie – swamping the Hudson and rolling over the Adirondacks, crossing Central New York, including Otsego County, all the way to the shores of
Lake Erie. Only blue spots around Rochester and Syracuse broke the serene green. As had Zephyr, so had The Bern. Locally, with all precincts reporting, Otsego Democrats supported Please See PRIMARY, A7
Bassett Reorganizes Fox, May Get $6M In Savings By JIM KEVLIN
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magine trying to raise a family with two kids on $24,000 a year?” asked Lynn Glueckert. Well, “15.5 percent of people in Otsego County live in that kind of poverty. That’s one in six people you see walking down the street.” On a Tuesday, April 19, Citizen Voices’ forum on job growth, Glueckert, executive director, Catholic Charities of Delaware, Otsego & Schoharie counties, described the flip side of Please See POVERTY, A7
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Lynn Glueckert, Catholic Charities local executive director, tells Citizen Voices one in six of their neighbors are living in poverty.
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assett Health Network President/CEO Vance Brown believes a plan unveiled Thursday, April 19, will achieve $6 million in annual savings that will better assure Fox Hospital’s future, he said in an interview. Vance Brown Explained to Bassett and Fox employees in a noon-time meeting in the Clark Auditorium at the Cooperstown hospital campus – two additional rooms were set aside for overflow, and audio and video conferencing were made available system-wide – the plan has two parts: • Consolidating delivery of babies at Bassett Hospital, ending birthing at Fox by the end of the year and creating “significant savings” for the Oneonta facility and the system. • Creating a “center of exPlease See FOX, A7
After 30 Years, Ron Tiderencel Retiring As County Road Chief By LIBBY CUDMORE
in my backyard,” she said. “They were our neighbors’, COOPERSTOWN but we used to play in them.” fter 30 years, several Snow was at the newly floods, a collapsed renovated Cider Mill on bridge and plenty Thursday-Friday, April 14of winter weather, Otsego 15, broadcasting live for County Highway SuperinPlease See MSNBC, A3
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tendent Ron Tiderencel is retiring at the end of April. “There comes a time when you’re ready,” he said. “My wife Janis retired from the state five years ago, and I want to spend some time with her.” “It’s going to be a tough Please See RETIRES, A3
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achael H. Kuch and John L. Cecconi, both of Syracuse, were married at 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016, at The Otesaga. The bride is the daughter of Gary and Ellen Kuch/Tillapaugh of Cooperstown, and granddaughter of the late George and Marjorie Tillapaugh of Cooperstown and the late Wilhelm and Elfriede Kuch of East Schodack. The bridegroom is the son of Richard and Laurie Cecconi of East Syracuse, and the grandson of Daniel and Dorothy Wakker and Louis and Anna Cecconi, all of Syracuse and all of whom attended the wedding. The bride was escorted by both her mother and father, with her father, an Otsego town justice, officiating at the marriage ceremony. The “Canon in D” by Johann Pachelbel was played for the processional and John Williams’ “Throne Room Theme Song” from “Star Wars” for the recessional. During the ceremony, the brother-in-law of the bride, Matthew Bretschneider, read “Sonnet XVII” by Pablo Neruda. A medical school classmate of the bride, Michelle Wakeley, read the “Apache Marriage Blessing.” Following the ceremony in the ballroom, a cocktail hour was held in the lobby, followed by dinner and
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dancing in the Glimmerglass Room. The bride’s sister, Maggie G. Kuch of Elmira, was the honor attendant. Bridesmaids included the bride’s future sister-in-law, Emer Stack, an RPI friend and classmate Kim Gerlach, as well as classmates and colleagues from Upstate Medical University, Zoe Kostarellis and Adriana Verwey. Stephen Cecconi of East Syracuse, the groom’s brother, served as the best man. Groomsmen included the groom’s long-time friend Brandon Blincoe, as well as classmates from Syracuse University, Joey Andrews and Nick Laboe.
The bride, a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic University, is currently a fourth-year medical student at Upstate Medical University. She will begin her psychiatry residency at Upstate Medical Center in June. The groom is a graduate of Syracuse University and Upstate Medical University. He is currently in the first year of his Family Medicine residency at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Syracuse. Immediately following the wedding, the couple honeymooned at Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, and will reside in Syracuse.
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After Battling Floods, Felled 11C Bridge, Tiderencel Ready To Retire RETIRES/From A1 position to fill,” said county Rep. Peter Oberacker, R-Maryland, chair of the Public Works committee. “When someone has spent 30 years in a department, with the knowledge and experience he has, you can’t just go and fill that gap.” Tiderencel, who lives in the Town of Maryland, came to the department in 1986 after working for the DEC. “I was a permanent
temp, and I wanted something a little more stable while I was raising my family,” he said. “An opportunity opened up in the department, and I took it.” The biggest challenges of his career were the series of floods between 2006 and 2013. “2006 was the worst,” he said. “I got a call at 3 a.m. from emergency services that we had to close roads,” he said. “There were road closures all over
the county. It was a disaster.” In 2011 and 2013, storms caused bank slides on Route 31, sending half Tiderencel of the road into Otsego Lake. “We had to close the road both times,” he said. “Flooding has always been a huge issue around here.” He’s also worked on projects he’s enjoyed, including running fiber-optic cable from the Meadows building to the Otsego County Offices, and rebuilding the 11C bridge after a truck bound for Brewery Ommegang failed to heed the height restrictions, destroying the bridge’s integrity. “I was really proud of
how fast we were able to complete that project,” he said. “The bridge came down in March 2013, and we were able to get it up by April 2014. Having a project go smoothly saves the taxpayers money.” His retirement comes on the heels of Deputy Superintendent Kevin Flint’s retirement at the end of March. “As a freshman legislator, I have my work cut out for me!” said Oberacker. “We’re going to start looking for a new Superintendent in the coming weeks, and the Superintendent will hire the deputy superintendent.” No interim superintendent has been identified, but Tiderencel has offered to help with the transition. “I said I’d stay on to tidy up,” he said. “We want to find someone who can carry on,
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The crew brought back some Cider Mill treats with them; Kroll bought the garlic marinade, and Snow stocked up on maple Kate Snow syrup, apple cider donuts and jonagold apples to take back to her family in Westchester. And Snow hopes to return to the Cooperstown, but with her kids instead of her camera. “I still haven’t been to the Baseball Hall of Fame,” she said. “I think my kids would really like it here.”
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THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2016
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WAKE-UP CALL: Oneonta Among Top 10 Poorest Upstate Cities
The two-thirds decline of employment at Scintilla/Bendix (now Amphenol) and disappearance of the D&H yards, Homer Folks, dairying and much more, with only SUNY Oneonta growing, has placed one of six Otsego County residents in poverty.
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t was a sad headline to write on last week’s front page of Hometown Oneonta, sister publication with The Freeman’s Journal: “One Of 10 Poorest Cities, Oneonta To Receive $1/2 Million.” To many local people’s surprise, Governor Cuomo included the City of Oneonta in his $25 million Empire State Poverty Reduction Initiative, outlined in his State of the State speech in January. Mayor Gary Herzig will now identify a local non-profit – possibly Opportunities for Otsego – to lead a working group to develop a “needs assessment” for the city. • While everyone was still digesting this news, Oneonta native Alex Shields, the former county rep from Richfield Springs, stopped by the newspaper office, and recalled the common belief that, at one point, there were 32 IBM millionaires living in the City of the Hills, the legacy of former city postmaster Harlow Bundy. Around the turn of the 20th century, Bundy solicited investments
from his Oneonta neighbors to transform his Bundy Manufacturing Co. into the International Time Recording Co. Moved to Binghamton, it continued to grow, and when it emerged as International Business Machines in 1923, former Congressman George Fairchild – today his imposing mansion lives is the Masonic Lodge at Main and Grand – was IBM’s first chairman of the board. Born in the late 1930s, Shields was soon waxing poetic about the prosperous small city where he grew up, of the booming downtown, Bresee’s, the sidewalks packed from store to curb when farmers from flourishing dairies – the largest industry in the county (2,000 farms) and state at the time – came into the city to shop on Thursday evenings. People were working – many Oneontans, former mayor Sam Nader and Alex among them, at Sidney’s 2,500-worker Scintilla/Bendix (now 800-employee Amphenol). The D&H yards with the world’s biggest roundhouse (closed in 1953, after the arrival of
diesel engines). For a time, Alex also worked at mostly forgotten Lyncoach & Truck Co., which employed 125 people making truck bodies at Chestnut and Oneida. Fox Hospital was a significant employer but – even moreso – was the Homer Folks TB Hospital; at its height, it treated 200 patients, but the arrival of antibiotics cured tuberculosis, and the facility on West Street closed in 1973, the state’s last TB hospital. SUNY Oneonta, then a normal school, much smaller than today – one bright spot in the local economy – was operating out of Old Main at the top of Maple Street, and Hartwick College had moved to Oyaron Hill from Hartwick Seminary in 1927. But private-sector jobs were where the action was. That’s a lot of prosperity-creating activity that’s mostly gone aglimmer, which regrettably has been the case across Upstate New York. The people living in Oneonta in the 1940s, ’50s, ’60 and even later would be astonished to learn of the city’s latest Top 10
ranking. (The heroin scourge, ripping apart too many local families, is the icing on the smashed cake, both a result of poverty and a contributor to its spread.) It’s going to be a long way back. • Happily, there’s a plan. The Otsego Now initiative – shovelready sites, single point of contact, new comprehensive plans (in Cooperstown, Richfield Springs and, soon, Oneonta) to set the stage for successful grantsmanship, the food hub idea, revival of the D&H yards – is very promising. (An excerpt from the recently completed Otsego Now strategic plan is below.) But the Top 10 designation underscores – this is serious. At a Citizen Voices’ public meeting Tuesday, April 19, Catholic Charities reported one of every six people you pass on the street is living below the property line ($24,000 for a family of four), and at least 50 percent of pupils qualify for free lunches in nine of 14 local school districts. The Otsego County Board of
Representatives, with Kathy Clark, R-Otego, as chair, is still not fully behind Otsego Now. That must change, and should be an issue in every district the next election; (not until November 2017, so there’s time for the reps to act.) Lately, our leading environmental groups have spent their time fighting the Constitution Pipeline (in Delaware County) and a compressor station at Minden, near Mohawk. It’s time for them to focus, too, not on what we don’t want – the Otsego Lake environs are well protected right now – but what we need to achieve a sustainable economy. If this is to be, say, a low-impact retirement center, let’s make it the best and most income-generating low-impact retirement center in the Northeast. We’ve been victims, with much of the victimizing self-imposed by stick-in-the-mud-ism and in-fighting. We don’t have to be. Let’s put aside parochial squabbles, and focus on making our beautiful county a prosperous one, too. The Top 10 designation is a wake-up call. Let’s wake up.
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Otsego Now Strategic Plan Is Built Around ‘Core Idea’
There Are Gaps In ‘Wonderful World Of Renewables’
To the Editor: In the Issue & Debate feature of your March 31/April 1 edition, ProfesEditor’s Note: This is a segment from Otsego Now’s sor Kate O’Donnell presents us with recently strategic plan, “The Core Idea,” developed by the a treatise on rural poverty: It’s uniboard of directors in collaboration with Fairweather Consulting, New Paltz. The full plan is on www.allotsego.com versal, get over it, and pipelines won’t cure rural poverty. She then launches framework it serves. into the usual anti-gas spritz, a PandodevelThrough this ra’s Box of evils, plus a few gratuitous oped by strategic planning swipes at Mike Zagata, Citizen Voices, marketing expert process, the Otsego Republicans, the World Bank and gloA.H. Pete Mathieu Now board has balization. Quite a line-up. guided the creation determined that So many issues, so little time and of Otsego Now’s the unique and space. But let’s take one – The Wonstrategic plan. The inherent truth about derful World of Renewables model calls for any strategic Otsego Now is that it acts First, an agreement. Ms. plan to be developed around as a catalyst for economic O’Donnell’s headline is correct a “core idea” that defines transformation for Otsego – “Pipeline Won’t Cure Otsego Counthe unique and inherent truth County by concentrating its ty’s Poverty.” However, cheap energy about an organization which efforts virtually exclusively is a key element in any local economic differentiates it from the on projects that have the uplift. Also necessary are low taxes, competition in ways which potential to contribute to the are meaningful and persuatransformation of the Otsego sive to the target audience(s) Please See CORE IDEA, A6
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sensible and consistent regulation, a supportive infrastructure, an able workforce, and a good location. These factors will draw entrepreneurial capital which, in turn, will produce JOBS. GOOD JOBS will cure Otsego County’s poverty. A pipeline with a distribution subsystem will be part of that job-producing equation, lowering business overhead and putting money in people’s pockets as they switch from propane to low-cost natural gas. Over 100 million homes in the United States heat and cook with gas, according to the 2010 Census. To service these homes, to generate about a third of the nation’s electricity, and to provide power and feedstock for factories making millions of products from hydrocarbons, two and half million
miles of pipelines straddle our country. How come suddenly these pipelines are an existential threat? In a free market, natural gas tramples renewables in price. The government, state and federal, has put its thumb on the scale to remedy this situation. Without direct and indirect subsidies, mandates, set-asides, tax abatements, and financial gimmicks (yieldcos, stripped rebates, SREC auctions, etc.), high-cost renewables lose. The government then doubles down by hobbling fossil fuels with more taxes, excessive regulation, delay, and uncertainty. The antis’ opposition to pipelines gives cover to the government and contributes to that delay and uncertainty. All this costs money. As comparaPlease See DOWNEY, A6
Fracking Bad Here, But Not Everywhere
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Let me be clear: I enthusiastically support the ban on fracking in New York State . From a geologic perspective, it was essential to guarantee the quality of ground water aquifers. All major towns and cities depend on aquifers, which consist of sand and gravel deposited by glacial-melt water thousands of years ago within virtually all valleys from Albany to Buffalo, and Syracuse to Binghamton. Contamination by toxic fluids used in fracking would be hazardous here because the rock layer (Marcellus Shale) being fracked lies at a shallow depth beneath the valleys. Leakage of hazardous fluids used in fracking would contaminate ground water. In other parts of the country fracking triggers damaging earthquakes, such as in Oklahoma. Precluding fracking in such areas is not only wise, it is essential. However, in other parts of the country (other geologic settings) these potential hazards do not exist. For example, fracking has been used for decades in Montana and Wyoming with absolutely no environmentally negative results.
The reason is that the rock formations being fracked lie thousands of feet beneath the surface where fracking fluids remain trapped in naturally rock cavities. Ground water is not compromised and tiny earthquakes (if any) go unnoticed. In your newspapers of April 14-15, a headline points out that fracking is a topic of discussion in political debates. Understandably, media focuses on topics that draw public attention. This letter is written to inform media readers of the geologic variables associated with fracking. The bottom line is that fracking is hazardous in some geologic settings, but not all. Political debates touch on important issues, but the setting often precludes essential details. My basic message is simple: Some problematic activities are not problematic everywhere. Jet lines don’t land on Main Street and marching bands don’t play in libraries, yet both are acceptable, but not everywhere. P. JAY FLEISHER Oneonta Dr. Fleisher is a SUNY Oneonta geology professor emeritus
Let’s Be Sure Public Events Are Affordable To the Editor: Why is there an admission fee for most events, including religious events? Can someone explain why most events have an admission fee? Such fees do not allow people with health problems, and people have very little money to have some pleasure out of life. I have lived in other parts of New York State, and in Vermont, and never had to pay an admission fee. Sometime there is a reduced fee for senior citizens, elderly. An admission fee in this area sounds like a get rich plan! There was not public debate. ROBERT F. MILLER Oneonta
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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library
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Select Sentences – Slanderers are like flies; they leap over all a man’s good parts to light upon his sores. There is an odious spirit in many persons, who are better pleased to detect a fault, than commend a virtue. Some have a perfidious trick to ruin a man by commendations; to praise for small things, that they may disparage successfully for greater. It is the worst of malice, says Plutarch, to intermix with reproaches some praises, that the accusation may gain the firmer belief. That man hath but an ill life who feeds himself with the faults and frailties of other people. If curiosity was not the purveyor, detraction would soon be starved into tameness. April 25, 1816
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Fire at North Bend (near Cincinnati, Ohio), Home of the Deceased President – The house caught fire at 3 p.m. in the western wing and baffled all exertions to subdue it. It was only by pulling down the connecting wall with the main building that it was saved. The western wing is now a heap of ashes and the hall entirely demolished. General Harrison’s family feels deeply indebted to the Irish friends who first gave the alarm, and who succeeded in putting the fire out. They left their work on the canal, and labored as if the house was their own. But for the generous exertions of these noble-hearted Irishmen the whole building must have been destroyed. April 26, 1841
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Public Health – The Cholera having made its appearance in this country, the public authorities of New York and other cities are taking energetic measures for checking the spread of the disease. It may not be confined to the large towns or villages, but will be very likely to make its appearance, to some extent, in the rural districts. Therefore, each family is interested in seeing that there remains no inviting cause on their premises, which can be easily removed. The main point is to secure cleanly premises and a pure atmosphere. The free use of lime in cellars, out-houses, sinks, etc., is recommended. It is presumed our Village Trustees will take prompt measures to prevent a further accumulation of filth and decaying matter in the old Eagle Tavern cellar, and one or two other places on the corporation, which already give out offensive odors. April 20, 1866
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a house at Southhampton on Long Island for the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Clark will not open Fernleigh, their farm at Cooperstown this season. Mr. and Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark have leased Ridgely Hall at Aiken, South Carolina for next season. The local post office was required during the first 15 days of April to keep an accurate count of the parcel post mail matter handled. There were 2,879 incoming parcels, of which 2,130 were delivered in the village, the remaining 749 going out on the rural routes. The total number of parcels dispatched from the local office during the same period was 1,000. April 19, 1916
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Folger Oudin was granted a government license on April 12 which allows him to operate a radio broadcasting station in the amateur channels. Mr. Oudin now holds the only Amateur Radio license in Cooperstown. Donald Watson, who is now in military service, also holds one. The call letters for the station, which are WSVYD, may be heard in Cooperstown and vicinity at 1770 kilocycles. April 20, 1966 The set which Mr. Oudin now operates is a small battery set and has a radius of about 30 miles. But, he is building a larger one which will have a radius of several thousand this village from Oneonta last Wednesday. The doctor had miles. Mr. Oudin has been interested in radio work all his a long and tedious sickness in Oneonta, and his friends are life and operated his first station in Schenectady in 1909. pleased that he has so far recovered as to come home, but April 23, 1941 regret that he is able to sit up only a part of the day. Destructive Fire – About half past five o’clock Monday afternoon, the fire bell sounded an alarm, and soon a large volume of smoke was seen arising from a building near John and Chris Gambino mortgaged their Burlington the railroad track southwest of the point where it crosses Flats farm last year to branch into the tourist business. The Chestnut Street. It was the storehouse belonging to Austin, Gambinos didn’t want to keep all their eggs in one basket Bolton & Bonner, in which were stored between 400 and so to speak – their hog raising operation. 500 bales of fine cotton belonging to Mr. Freylinghuysen, So they diversified using the pig farm as a drawing card. proprietor of the knitting mills at the Phoenix, about 50 tons They now operate a bed and breakfast, country gift shop of hay belonging to D.J. McGown and E.A. Potter, 8 tons and offer tours of their “working farm” three times daily in of straw belonging to Theo. Taylor and a small quantity of the summer. coal and salt. Mr. Freylinghuysen’s loss was about $25,000, April 24, 1991 fully insured. Austin, Bolton & Bonner’s loss on the building, $1,800; insured for $1,000; loss on stock about $400 but no insurance on that; loss on hay $400, no insurance; Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home Notes – Monday we loss on straw, $100, no insurance. The fire’s origin was decorated the living room for the birthday party. We celfound to be a bonfire kindled by some children for their ebrated many birthdays, with four residents and eight staff own amusement under a shed adjoining the storehouse. members having birthdays in April. There was a beautiful, April 23, 1891 delicious chocolate cake made by Darcey Schilling, cook, with ice cream and punch to go with it. Tuesday was a lovely day. In Our Town – Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Clark have taken April 21, 2006
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World Isn’t Ready Yet For Only Renewables DOWNEY/From A4 tive prices inch toward parity, renewable energy prices become more attractive. Except there is no parity. Somebody pays. Check this out with a bill in your hand – The Wonderful World of Renewables If you have a euro-zone friend, ask them for their electric bill. It’s best if that friend is German. Fourteen years ago Germany went all in for renewables with its policy of energieswende. The goal was to reduce CO2 emissions 80 percent over 50 years by prioritizing zero- or low-carbon energy sources over coal, gas and oil. After Fukushima in 2011, Germany set a goal to decommission its nuclear plants by 2022. To meet these goals, Germany massively subsidized wind and solar, mandated that electricity produced from renewable sources be used first no matter the cost, and taxed consumers with a surcharge to pay the costs. As a result Germany gets about 22 percent of its electricity from renewables. However, almost half of that 22 percent is hydro-power, biomass including wood, and by burning thrash. Energieswende’s economic, environmental, and social results are catastrophic; skyhigh residential and industrial electricity rates, three times those in New York.
(New York’s rates are high, second only to California.) German officials now warn of the “deindustrialization” of their country as manufacturing moves elsewhere. CO2 emissions have risen as “brown” coal and gas generators continue to operate as an inefficient standby for intermittent renewables. Russia supplies 30 percent of Germany’s gas, 45 percent of its oil. So Germany gets dirty air and dependency on Russia after laying out 170 billion euro to build a renewable infrastructure while saddling its two largest utilities with massive debt. As the price of electricity goes up, one fifth of German households have fallen into “energy poverty,” defined as the point where the cost of energy is 10% of household income. 300,000 German households had their electricity turned off last year. Most Germans are renters and 90% of the poor rent their homes. Renters don’t get the subsidies for the panel on their roofs. But the sure pay. In 2014 Frankfort renters paid the equivalent of 38 cents per kwh. Get one of those electric bills. Check it out. This is a peek into New York’s future in The Wonderful World of Renewables. DICK DOWNEY Otego
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Trump, Sanders Win County Support PRIMARY/From A1 Sanders, 2,623 (59.08 percent) to Clinton’s 1,817 (40.92 percent). On the Republican side, local voters followed the statewide trend. Donald Trump won the county with 2,573 votes (51.07 percent). John Kasich was second with 1,422 (28.23 percent) and Ted Cruz a distant third. In the light of day, the Clinton and Trump wins may seem even more wan. Vince Casale, Otsego County Republican chair, pointed out that New York State allocates delegates by Congressional District. “Trump thought he’d be leaving New York with 95 votes,” said Casale, who has been working for Kasich. “He’s not going to leave New York with 95 votes.” Of New York State’s 27 Congressional Districts, almost half are Upstate, so it appears Sanders will be heading to Pennsylvania with a healthy boost to his delegate count. Likewise, Kasich – at mid-evening it appeared he might win Trump’s home
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Congressional District in Manhattan – should see a boost in his delegate county, although more modest than Sanders. On the Republican side, New York State mirrored what’s happening nationally, Casale continued. “Trump is appealing to those people who feel than are disenfranchised from the
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party,” he said. “Kasich definitely brings a lot of experience, both in Washington and as an executive in Ohio. “Cruz? I don’t think he ever had the traction, at least in New York. He’s not a candidate who’s going to appeal to the average New York voter.” For the Democrats, who knows what the implications might be? Hillary Clinton was able to claim the well-watered precincts around Wall Street, but was soundly rejected across the rural regions she had also represented for eight years in the U.S. Senate. When that happened in the 2014 Democratic primary – Zephyr Teachout claimed 39 Upstate counties, taking 33 percent of the primary vote – Andrew Cuomo realized his Liberal base was leaving him behind. In the months that followed, he issued a statewide ban on fracking, backed away from unqualified support of the Common Core, and began repositioning himself as a Liberal, most recently in his support for the $15 minimum wage.
WORKING GROUP LEADERS: Dr.Stephen Heneghan, left, and Fox CEO Jeff Joyner, center, will lead planning for an orthopedic “center of excellence”; Bassett COO Andrew Manzer, right, will lead the birthing center study.
Birthing May Go, But Center Of Orthopedics Under Study FOX/From A1 cellence” in orthopedics – hip replacements, joint replacement and similar services that are not part of a wider range of treatment – to take advantage of market opportunities. The roll-out was designed to make sure “the right conversation” occurred with staff that would be affected, Brown said. “People were thoughtful,” he said of the reaction. “They are the kinds of changes we need to make.” Some nurses and staff who have worked in Oneonta may find themselves assigned to Cooperstown and vice versa when the changes – they must still get final approval from the state Health Department – are in place. However, the CEO anticipates everyone who shows some flexibility will find a place in the new regimen. Some of the Fox staff is unionized, and Brown said all the changes are in line with provisions of current labor contracts. Immediately, two “workgroups” assigned to study the changes and move them forward were scheduled to begin work Wednesday, April 20. The birthing piece is chaired by Andrew R. Manzer, who joined Bassett as COO March 1 and had implemented similar transitions as CEO of Schuyler Hospital in Tompkins County. The orthopedic piece is cochaired by the new Fox CEO, Jeff Joyner, who succeeded John Remillard on Dec. 15, and Dr. Steve Heneghan, the network’s chief clinical officer. This week’s briefing and announcement fills in details of a picture that began emerging March 8 with the announcement that Fox was in line for $21.4 million in state Essential Health Care Provider Support Funding. At the time, it was said the grant would allow Fox “to
undertake debt restructuring,” and also to “pursue a growth strategy” – the goal of this week’s announcement. Other changes were also announced: • Fox’s electronic medical record will be brought into Bassett’s Epic system by early 2017. • Fox and Bassett – affiliated for six years – will establish “closer corporate ties,” still to be defined. The existing affiliation is “appropriate for a single hospital, but not for a fully integrated health care system,” said Bassett spokesperson Karen Huxtable. On the birthing front, Brown emphasized that only the delivery of babies is being consolidated at Cooperstown. Care during pregnancy and after birth, as well a pediatric care, will continue to be available in Oneonta. According to a press release, deliveries at Fox declined to 250 last year; fewer than 50 so far this year. Births at Bassett are over 900, and January was a record month, with 104 babies born there. Brown credited that to “demographic changes” – the population is aging – but that also creates an opportunity for Fox in orthopedics: Market data shows there is a growing need for hip and joint replacements. Straightforward hip and joint replacements will be done at Fox; if part of more complex illnesses, they will continue to be treated at Bassett. The new plan also anticipates patients with straightforward ailments – pneumonia or broken bones – diagnosed at Bassett’s O’Connor or Tri-Town hospitals in Delhi or Sidney, respectively, will be sent to Fox, while more complex or life-threatening ailments will be treated at Cooperstown
Only Jobs Can Reduce Poverty POVERTY/From A1 prosperity. “This is not something to be proud of,” she said, as Oneonta was still coming to terms with its listing at one of the top 10 poorest Upstate cities. “But in nine of our county’s 14 schools, 50 percent of students receive free lunches. In the other six schools, between 40-49 percent receive free lunches. She continued: 70 percent of the 2,500 Otsego County residents who came to Catholic Charities last year were working, but in low-income, part-time jobs. “These are people struggling to meet basic needs,” she said. “If their car breaks down and they have to fix it, they can’t afford their rent. If their child is sick for a week and they don’t get benefits, they lose that paycheck. These things don’t affect most of us, but for people living in poverty, it can set them over the edge.” Contrary to popular stereotype, Glueckert said, 80 percent of the people who come into Catholic Charities seeking help do not return. “It’s a one-time emergency,” she said. “It’s not people who are asking and asking and asking.” Lack of transportation was one of the largest obstacles facing the poor looking for employment. “Oneonta is lucky that they have a good public transportation system, but for second and third shift workers, there aren’t buses that run that late,” she said. “Last year, we gave out 1,000 bus passes and gas cards to help people get to medical appointments or to work.” Lack of affordable housing and childcare were also obstacles. “If you don’t have
a stable home, it’s hard to maintain employment,” she said. “And I don’t know any childcare centers that stay open all night.” Still, all is not lost, suggested Sandy Mathes, Otsego Now president, who followed Glueckert at the Carriage House gathering. Updating Citizen Voices on the IDA’s program, he declared, “We want to focus on high-quality jobs with benefits that can support families. We want to bring the kind of jobs that will keep people here and attract people here.” The Oneonta Business Park, formerly Pony Farm, already has a shovel-ready site, and the Town of Richfield and Village of Richfield Springs are developing a comprehensive plan in that includes a business park. “It’s close to Route 20, so we could get a taste of what’s happening in Utica,” he said. And with the opening of the Workforce Development Center in Otsego Now headquarters on the fifth floor of 189 Main St. last fall, Mathes believes workers can be trained for any jobs that are attracted. That’s part of the answer, Glueckert agreed: “We need to give people job training they may not have now. And that includes how to interview, how to dress for work, how to show up on time.” The Market Street Food Hub study is underway and the Oneonta Railyards development in process, and Mathes believes that the seeds the IDA has planted will soon bear fruit. “Our highest priority is attracting the jobs that this county is hungry for,” he said. “And we are committed to bringing those jobs here.”
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Co-owner Bill Michaels, top, shows how just-completed renovations created a spacious retail space to welcome visitors into the Fly Creek Cider Mill. From there, they can see the 1889 Boomer & Boschert apple press, in photo at right, thus bringing “the processing side into the retail side.”
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t the Fly Creek Cider Mill, proprietors Bill and Brenda Michaels have found a way to combine the antique with the modern, the clean with the authentic. “We wanted to go yearround,” said owner Bill Michaels. “We wanted to have heat, insulation, all the things people take for granted! We’ll have real electricity, not just lead cords everywhere.”
A second floor’s been added to the mill’s far end.
The 159-year-old mill, built in 1887, was due for a facelift. The last additions were done by Charlie Michaels, Bill’s father, in the 1980s, expanding the retail space and adding the applecooler area. Please See MILL, B3
From Classics To Titanic, Player Piano Tickles Fans By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA
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rom the time Tony Opalka was a kid, he dreamed of having a player piano like the one his cousins had at their summer camp.
“As a piano player myself, I was fascinated by them,” he said. “As I grew up, I became interested in their history.” And he shared the history – as well as a few tunes – at the Greater Oneonta Historical Society on Sunday, April 17, showing off several rolls from his own Please See PIANOS, B2
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artwick College, SUNY Oneonta and the community come together to celebrate with a downtown carnival and a free concert with national recording artist Kid Ink on Saturday, April 23. 1-5 p.m. free family-friendly carnival on Main Street. Free concert starts 6 p.m., in Neahwa Park. Local bands from SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College also entertain. Info, www.oneonta.edu or www. hartwick.edu DANCE FEST: The Binghamton Morris Men dance troup with guests from Toronto, Boston, and New York City raise bells and sticks in traditional English folk dance throughout the county this weekend. Begin at 10.30 a.m. Saturday, April 23 with Gilbertsville dance down main street beginning at the Major’s Inn; 12:30 p.m. performance at Pathfinder Village, Chenango Rd., Edmeston; 3:30 p.m. Pioneer Park, Cooperstown; 5 p.m. The Empire House, Marion Ave., Gilberstville. Noon, Sun. performance at Gilbertsville Post Office conclude this 43rd annual event. Free, family friendly, all welcome. Info, www.majorsinn.com, (607) 783-2967. FIRE DEPT. FUN: Cooperstown Fire Dept. open house to attract new volunteers and offer a day of fun activities; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, April 23. Simulated fire to extinguish, obstacle course, ropes drill, radios, free bloodpressure checks, tour of the new ambulance. All welcome! Cooperstown Fire House, 24 Chestnut St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-2761. FOOTHILLS FETE: “Help Tom Help Others” fundraiser for “all who struggle with disabilities.” 2 p.m. Saturday, April 23. 3 p.m. dinner; 4:30 p.m. auction; 2-6 p.m. childcare, kids activities, magician, bands, stand-up comedy. Local host Don Wyckoff. Foothills, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, www. helptomhelpothers.bpt.me
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PIANOS/From B1 collection on the Shearer Player Piano. “Whenever I talk about player pianos, everyone has a connection,” he said. “They’ll say ‘I remember my grandma, my aunt, having one’.” He bought his own player piano in 1998, and has collected hundreds of rolls – classical, ragtime and even some pop tunes. “I got this copy of Elvis singing ‘Hound Dog’ in a box I bought on eBay,” said Opalka, who is state Historic Preservation Office coordinator for Otsego and 15 others county (and Albany city historian). “My cousin, who was born in 1950, loved Elvis, and although there have been several arrangements of this song, I suspect this is the same one that I used to listen to on his player piano.”
Although automated musical instruments have existed throughout time – there are records of a self-playing organ in ancient Egypt – the player piano wasn’t perfected for popular use until the late 1800s, when three such machines were on display at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. An industry conference in 1908 – the so-called Buffalo Convention – standardized the roll format across all types of player pianos, and companies like Aeolian and M. Welte & Sons had perfected the technology of the piano, allowing it to be played regularly and with a roll. A player piano retailed for around $400; rolls cost between 75 cents and $1. “When you look at the classical rolls, you realize how infrequently people could get to see live music,”
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said Opalka. “They brought the concert into the home. It was expensive, but it was an investment.” And the jazz and ragtime explosion only aided them further, with the seemingly endless numbers of songs coming out of Tin Pan Alley in the early 1920s. “I’d like to think that some of these beautiful Italian songs are traditional ballads,” he said. “But more than likely, they were cranked out in two minutes in an office on West 28th Street.” Another enhancement came in 1916: Word Rolls, with the lyrics printed right alongside the perforations so you could sing along. Opalka called them “early karaoke machines.” Ian Austin/ OTSEGO.life The genre could get a little more GOHS Executive Director Bob risqué than it had in the past. Brzozowski tries his hand at Please See KARAOKE, B3 the Shearer player piano while
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Fly Creek Cider Mill Ready To Press Apples Into The 21st Century “People want to learn the MILL/From B1 difference between a fruit It took just three months spread, a jam and a fruit to complete the $1 million butter. We’ve improved the renovation, opening just signage and improved the in time to host an MSNBC knowledge.” team touring Upstate New From there, visitors may York in advance of the go into the expanded cooler, Tuesday, April 19, presiwhich dential prinow has mary. “We tore a separate everything out entrance and to the deck, exit. “We but we saved found that the front wall,” the cooler said Bill. was getting Now when crowded visitors walk and people in, the second were bumpfloor is open, ing into greeting them each other with a first coming in peek of the and out,” he 1889 Boomer Bill and Brenda said. & Boschert Michaels, partners in Visitors water-powcan follow ered, water-hy- life – and in business. the path draulic apple of the apples from bins press. outside all the way to the But to get there, you’ll press and into the cider have to take a trip around room, following a series of the store first. “We were inlaid plexi-glass panels in inspired by Stew Leonards the floor. “We’re calling it and IKEA,” said Bill. “We wanted to have the one-way our Learning Center,” said Bill. “We’re working with flow of traffic.” the Cooperstown Graduate The jams and jellies secProgram to get a display in tion was moved to the back about the history of mills in wall to give shoppers time the area.” to make their picks – and The press may now be taste a few too. “Jams and viewed from three sides, jellies always take a lot and Charlie’s antique appleof time,” explained Bill.
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peeler collection will be on display. “We were finding that only 30 percent of visitors went to the second floor,” said Bill. “Now, we can bring the processing side into the retail side. The mill tour is now part of the mill-store experience.” To keep the water-powered press going, the Michaelses bought a new tank
for the turbine, made by Unalam in Unadilla. And in addition to the waterwheel, the mill will be powered by a solar array on the front roof. And at the end of the tour, to make sure you only get the freshest cider, take a peek into the bottling area, where workers will pull cider fresh from a new tank and put directly onto the refrigerator shelf.
“We want to put in a spigot so that people can take their own cider samples right from the tank,” said Bill. And the Michaelses are
In Days Of CDs, Player Pianos Still Made KAROAKE/From B2 The other afternoon, Bob Brzozowski, GOHS executive director, played one of his favorite rolls, George Olsen’s “All American Girl,” about a town sweetheart who’s got “A halfback at Pennsylvania/She’s got a quarterback at Yale as well/She corresponds with an end at Centre/And a center at Cornell.” But with the invention of radios and, later, the phonograph, the market for player pianos declined. However, QRS, one of the
hoping that they’ll inspire other tourist venues to open year round. “We’d love to see The Fenimore Museum stay open all year,” said Bill.
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TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days of the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service of the same is complete where service is made in any manner other than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. Your failure to appear or answer will result in a judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. In the event that a deficiency balance remains from the sale proceeds, a judgment may be entered against you, unless the Defendant obtained a bankruptcy discharge and such other or further relief as may be just and equitable.
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The Contractor must comply with the Regulation relative to non-discrimination in federallyassisted programs of the USDOT 49 CFR 21. Please call (518) 457-3583 if a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the letting. Reg. 09, Jack Williams, Regional Director, 44 Hawley Street, Binghamton, NY 13901 D263165, PIN 9807.05, F.A. Proj. Z001-9807-054, Broome, Otsego & Tioga Cos., Transition and Bridge Rail Replacement Contract on Various Routes at Various Locations, Bid Deposit $50,000.00. Goals: DBE 0% 2LegalApril28 Legal notice SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Index No. 20150837 STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF OTSEGO BENEFICIAL HOMEOWNER SERVICE CORPORATION, Plaintiff, -vsTHE HEIRS AT LARGE OF HAROLD A. BARRETT A/K/A HAROLD ALLEN BARRETT, DECEASED, and all persons who are husbands, widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, successors in interest of such of them as may be dead, and their husbands and wives, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors of interest of all of whom and whose names and places are unknown to Plaintiff; DONIELLE BRADLEY; SCOTT A. BRADLEY; CHRISTINE BELLINGER; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; “JOHN DOE” AND “JANE DOE” said names being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants of premises being foreclosed herein, Defendants. Mortgaged Premises: 108 SUMMIT HILL ROAD, JORDANVILLE, NY 13361 AND STATE HIGHWAY 80,
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 to the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. That this action is being amended to include DONIELLE BRADLEY, SCOTT A. BRADLEY AND CHRISTINE BELLINGER, AS POSSIBLE HEIRS TO THE ESTATE OF HAROLD A. BARRETT A/K/ A HAROLD ALLEN BARRETT, DECEASED. OTSEGO County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises. Dated: DECEMBER 23, 2015 Mark K. Broyles, Esq. FEIN SUCH & CRANE, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff Office and P.O. Address
NATURE AND OBJECT OF ACTION The object of the above action is to foreclose a mortgage held by the Plaintiff recorded in the County of OTSEGO, State of New York as more particularly described in the Complaint herein. TO THE DEFENDANT, the plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action. To the above named defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the HON. MICHAEL V. COCCOMA, a justice of the Supreme Court of the State of N.Y., dated JANUARY 22, 2016 and filed along with the supporting papers in the OTSEGO County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose a Mortgage. The premises is described as follows: PARCEL NUMBER ONE “All That Tract or Parcel of Land situate, lying and being in the Town of Springfield, County of Otsego and State of New York, more particularly bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point marking the intersection of the centerline of New York State Route #80 and the intersection of the Springfield Town Road, commonly known and designed as “Willsey Hill Road”, and running thence along the centerline of said Willsey Hill Road in a generally easterly direction 654+ feet to a point in the centerline of said road opposite a fence post; running thence in a generally southwesterly direction along a fence line and through the remaining lands of Waldman 643+ feet to an oak stake marking the southeast corner of the premises hereby conveyed; running thence in a generally west-northwesterly direction through the remaining lands of Waldman and through a 14” cedar tree 660+ feet to a point in the centerline of New York State Route #80; running thence in a generally in a northeasterly direction along the centerline of New York State Route #80 490+ feet to the point and place of beginning, containing 8 ½ acres of land more or less by estimation. “The aforedescribed parcel of land is a portion of the premises conveyed by Catherine D. Sippel to Ira Waldman in a
“The aforedescribed premises are conveyed subject to the rights of the public in and to New York State Route No. 80 and Town of Springfield Road known as “Willsey Hill Road”, and are further subject to all rights of way, easements and other encumbrances affecting the premises which may be discovered by an inspection of the premises or of the records of the Clerk of the County of Ostego, including, but not limited to, the rights of way and easements given by Catherine Delaplain Sippel to New York Telephone Company and Harry A. and Clarinda Bennett to New York State Electric and Gas Corporation. PARCEL NUMBER TWO All that tract or parcel of land situate on New York State Route 80 in the Town of Springfield, County of Otsego and State of New York, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point in the center of New York State Route 80 which point or place of beginning marks the northwesterly corner of the premises herein described, and which point is located approximately 477 feet southwesterly as measured along the centerline of New York State 80 from the intersection of Koenig Road and New York State Route 80; proceeding from said point or place of beginning south 62° 55’ 26” east through an iron rod set in the easterly boundary of New York State Route 80, 682.44 feet to an iron rod marking the northeasterly corner of the premises herein described; thence south 47° 49’ 20” west 489.31 feet to an iron rod marking the southeasterly corner of the premises herein described; thence north 63° 25’ 26” west 603.90 feet to a point in the centerline of New York State Route 80 and passing through an iron pipe located along the easterly boundary of New York State Route 80; proceeding from said point in the centerline in a northeasterly direction approximately 465 feet more or less, to the point or place of beginning, containing 5.08 acres of land. Premises known as 108 SUMMIT HILL ROAD, JORDONVILLE, NY 13361 AND STATE HIGHWAY 80, JORDONVILLE, NY 13361 4LegalMay5
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Legal notice Supplemental Summons and Notice of Object of Action Supreme Court of the State of New York County of Otsego -------------------------------------------------------------------------------X Action to Foreclose a Mortgage Index #: 2015-30 Mortgaged Premises: 89 Main Street Schenevus, NY 12155 SBL #: 230.19 - 1 - 36.00 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Plaintiff vs William Dorvillier AKA Bill Dorvillier if living, and if he/she be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to Plaintiff; 89 Main Street Apartments LLC, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, People of the State of New York, United States of America Acting Through the IRS, John Doe (being fictitious, the names unknown to Plaintiff intended to be tenants, occupants, persons or corporations having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the property described in the complaint or their heirs at law, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, guardians, assignees, creditors or successors.) Defendant(s) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------X To the above named Defendant: You are hereby summoned
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to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Supplemental Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Supplemental Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of Otsego. The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises. To: William Dorvillier AKA Bill Dorvillier Defendant in this Action. The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of Hon. Michael V. Coccoma of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated the Fourteenth day of March, 2016 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Otsego, in the City of Cooperstown. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by William Dorvillier dated the May 21, 2007, to secure the sum of $121,500.00 and recorded at Book 1523 of Mortgages at Page 773 in the Office of the Otsego County Clerk, on the June 1, 2007. The property in question is described as follows: 89 MAIN STREET, SCHENEVUS, NY 12155 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop
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MOBILE LIBRARY – 9:30 a.m.-2:50 p.m. Various locations, Tues. & Thurs. monthly. Cybermobile visits Oneonta, Schenevus, Westford, South Valley & Middlefield, Thurs. April 21, May 19 & June 23. Info, (607) 723-8236 or Twitter (@4clsCybermobile) LITERARY MEET -- 2:30 p.m. Meeting of the Literary Discussion Group, sponsored by the Women’s Club of Cooperstown. Book for discussion is “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah. Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 5478124 or email cellsworth1@stny. rr.com UKRANIAN EGG WORKSHOP -5 p.m. Learn Ukranian “Pysanky” egg decoration. $10 supply donation. Orthodox Mission Chapel, basement of St. James Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta. To attend, email Fr. Vasil Dubee at fr.vasildubee85@gmail.com ORPHEUS FUNDRAISER -- 5-8 p.m. 1950s-style fundraiser for Orpheus Theatre’s upcoming musical “Grease!” Burger or hot dog; plus fries & soda. Music; favorite show characters sing. $12 adults; $6 under age 12. Vintage car show across street. Soda Jerks, 458 Chestnut St., Oneonta, Info, www.orpheustheatre.org CHAMBER AFTER-HOURS -- 5:30-7 p.m. After-hours & info session on trip to Sicily. Public welcome; cash bar & hot appetizers. Stella Luna Ristorante, 58 Market St., Oneonta. Info, otsegocc.com EARTH DAY EXPO/FILM -- 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Earth Day Expo, Quad at SUNY Oneonta; 3-4 p.m. “Ethical Consumerism” program,
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EARTH DAY FETE -- 9 a.m.noon (also 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat., April 23). Two-day celebration with kids’ activities, cafe, exhibits, vendors, workshops. Free paper shreading, electronics recycling on Friday. Enter to win pair of Adirondack chairs. Friday at St. Mary’s Church parking lot 39 Walnut St.; Saturday at Parish Center, 38 Walnut St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 226-1785. GREEN EVENTS/FILM -- 3-4 p.m. In honor of Earth Day, “Living Restoration” presentation, Red Dragon Theater, Hunt Union, SUNY Oneonta; 6 p.m. free showing of Al Gore’s famed documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth,” at IRC Lecture Hall 5, SUNY Oneonta. All part of Green Dragon Week. Info, www. oneonta.edu SPRING FEST DEADLINE -- Deadline to register as vendor for May 7 Spring Fest at Copes Corners Park, Gilbertsville. $25 for booth. Vendor forms at www. copescornerspark.org or from Jackie Foster at (607) 783-2095 or Lynne Ohl at (607) 783-2518.
RUMMAGE SALE -- 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Hosted by United Methodist Women of Elm Park United Methodist Church. 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-6552. CONCERT - 7:30 p.m. In Honor of Asian-Pacific Heritage Month, featuring Hartwick College faculty and students. Also 3 p.m. free pre-concert lecture. Theater, Anderson Center for the Arts, Hartwick College, Oneonta. Info, www.hartwick.edu THEATER - 8 p.m. (also 2 p.m. April 23) Musical “Avenue Q.” $10 (free with student ID). Goodrich Theater, Fine Arts Bldg, SUNY Oneonta. Info, tickets. oneonta.edu THEATER - 8 p.m. (also 8 p.m. April 23) Musical “Chicago.” $10 ($5 Hartwick community). Slade Theatre, Yager Hall, Hartwick College, Oneonta. Info (607) 431-4227.
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please come dressed, with valid fishing license. Light refreshments served. Ouleout Creek, Franklin. RSVP to Sara at (607) 547-2366 or email sara@otsegolandtrust.org OH-FEST -- 1-5 p.m. community carnival on Main St.; 6 p.m. concert start in Neahwa Park. Free 11th annual college-community music fest. Rapper Kid Ink headlines, local college bands also appear. Main St. & Neahwa Park, Oneonta. Info, www.oneonta.edu or www.hartwick.edu FUNDRAISER -- 2 p.m. start. “Help Tom Help Others” fundraiser for “all who struggle with disabilities.” 3 p.m. dinner; 4:30 p.m. auction; 2-6 p.m. childcare, kids activities, magician. Comedy by Pam Werts, Gonzo Lozano, Bryan Doran, RJ. 6 p.m. concert with Holy Thunderheads, Like Astronauts, Quona Hudson. Host, Don Wyckoff. Foothills, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, www. helptomhelpothers.bpt.me THEATER - 2 p.m. Musical “Avenue Q.” $10 (free with student ID). Goodrich Theater, Fine Arts Bldg., SUNY Oneonta. Info, tickets.oneonta.edu COFFEE HOUSE -- 7-9 p.m. (and every 4th Sat. of month). Music in range of genres by amateur local performers; light refreshments; all welcome. Schuyler Lake United Methodist Church, Church Rd., Schuyler Lake. THEATER - 8 p.m. Musical “Chicago.” $10 ($5 Hartwick community). Slade Theatre, Yager Hall, Hartwick College, Oneonta. Info (607) 431-4227.
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Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Byler Brothers Construction, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on March 22, 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, 2168 U.S. Highway 20, Richfield Springs, NY 13439. Purpose: Any lawful activity. 6LegalMay19 Legal notice MDM Dolan, LLC Arts of Org filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/5/16. Office in
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Notice of formation of DOLEZEL HOLDINGS, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secreatry of State on February 5, 2016. The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego Country. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served
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Linda Marie Schechter, 60; Lifelong Social Worker Fought Kidney Disease
CHERRY VALLEY – Linda Marie Schechter, 60, a social worker for much of her life, passed away at her home in Cherry Valley on Thursday, April 14. She had battled health problems with determination, good humor and class that inspired everyone she met. Linda was born on Sept. 27, 1955, in Troy, the daughter of Walter Hayner and Vera (Robinson) Hayner. She attended Mechanicville High School and the College of Saint Rose, where she earned an M.A. in Social Work. She spent most of her career as a social worker and directed volunteer programs for Saratoga County. In 1973, she married Lawrence Kiley, and she raised two children and two step-children. Always generous and empathetic, she also
provided meals, fun and comfort for neighborhood kids, one of whom stayed for two years. In 2002, she met Gabriel Schechter of Cooperstown, and they were married in 2006. That year she began dialysis, but she worked at Bassett Hospital until 2010. She continued to do volunteer work at the hospital and the Cherry Valley History Museum. She also enjoyed her many hobbies: cooking, crocheting, gardening, crafts, baking, music, reading and laughter. A supremely friendly and unselfish person, Linda always made people feel welcome. They knew she was interested in them and cared about them. She flourished as the den mother of the Bassett dialysis center, looking after the other patients,
bringing them St. Patrick’s Day beads, and turning them into yet another extended family. She is survived by her husband; her mother; five brothers: Walter, Pat, Dennis, Tim, and Danny (predeceased by John); a sister, Eileen; children: April Turner, Kelly Clark, Shawn Kiley, and Tina Darden; and grandsons: Eric, Ethan, and Nate, who brought her much joy. There will be a celebration of Linda’s life on Saturday, April 23, at 2 p.m. at Kateri Hall, 13 Church Street, Cherry Valley. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to the National Kidney Foundation. Arrangements were entrusted to Ottman Funeral Home, Cherry Valley.
RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Sylvia Barringer, 87, who raised nine children on her own in Herkimer after her husband died in 1968, died Wednesday, April 13, 2016, at Bassett Hospital with her family by her side. Survivors include a daughter in Oneonta and four children in Richfield Springs. She was born on July 4, 1928, in Herkimer, daughter of the late Joseph and Ida Atkinson Doyle. She was raised in Herkimer and graduated from Herkimer High School. In 1947 she married Robert Barringer in the First United Methodist Herkimer. They shared a devoted union of 21 years until his passing on Dec. 16, 1968. After raising nine children on her own, she went to work in the housekeeping department at Folts Home in Herkimer. She retired in 1993. In her leisure time
Sylvia enjoyed knitting, reading and traveling to Maine and Florida. Surviving are her children: Sylvia Beverly Barringer Evans of Oneonta, Carolyn (Richard) Buck of Ilion and Florida, Barbara (Richard) Mooney of North Carolina, Marylou Gravelding of Florida, Debra (Rodney) Toner, Shirley Campbell, and Steven (Bonnie) Barringer, all of Richfield Springs, Richard Barringer of Kirkwood, Dawn (Ronald) Sloboda of Florida. Also, several grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great grandchildren, a sister Patricia Eckler of Herkimer, sister-in-laws Jean and Tillie Doyle and Janet (John) Kucerak (John). Besides her parents and
Ellen Jones, 74; Grew Acres Of Fruits, Veggies JORDANVILLE – Ellen Jones, 74, who worked most of her life at the Life Savers/Beech-Nut chewing gum factory in Canajoharie, passed away April 10, 2016, in the comfort of her own home with the love and support of her family, friends and loved ones by her side. She was born on Sept. 15, 1941, at Tin-Top in Springfield, a daughter of Harry VanBrink and Mable Mallette-VanBrink. She had a passion for the great outdoors and its many activities and adventures including cutting and splitting wood for the winter, gardening acres of fruit and vegetable gardens and
simply enjoying her Upstate property. Ellen is survived by her two children; son, Terry Rocklin of Jordanville, and daughter, Tammy L. Bresee of Cherry Valley; five grandchildren, Savannah Bresee, Alicia Bresee, Terry Rocklin, Jr., Timothy Rocklin and Thomas Rocklin; four great-grandchildren, Arianna, DeShawn, Hunter, Declan and Cory; three sisters, Fay Rouge of Poughkeepsie, Joyce Goodrich of Daytona Beach, Fla., Shirley Muskus-VanBrink of Colombia, South America, and a brother, Sonny VanBrink, along with several nieces, nephews and
cousins. Besides her parents, Ellen was only preceded in death by her brother, Henry VanBrink. A celebration of Ellen’s life will be Saturday, April 23, at her home in Jordanville. There will also be a gathering at her grave site in Fort Plain at a later decided date and time. Expressions of sympathy are welcome; however, in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Friends of Bassett for the care provided by Dr. R. Curtis Mills of St. Johnsville and the Utica Area Hospice. Arrangements were entrusted to the Ottman Funeral Home, Cherry Valley.
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Elizabeth Sparks, 92; Worked for Herkimer Hospital RICHFIELD SPRINGS - Elizabeth Sparks, 92, a lifelong area resident, passed away on Thursday morning April 14, 2016 in Folts Home, Herkimer. She was born on May 4, 1923 in Summit, daughter of the late Edward Sr. and Sarah VanBuren Duncan. A lifelong area resident she was raised and educated in Schuyler Lake. On March 8, 1941 she was united in marriage with Clinton Delbert Sparks in the West Exeter Methodist Church. Mrs. Sparks worked in the housekeeping department of the Herkimer Memorial Hospital, retiring in 1983. Surviving are three daughters, Sarah Wilcox of Schuyler Lake, Catherine Ervin of Mohawk, Isabelle Moynihan of Ilion, a son, Clinton Sparks Jr. and his wife Vivian of Richfield Springs, one brother, Raymond Duncan and his wife Helen of Richfield Springs, many cherished grandchildren, great grandchildren,
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Tuesday, April 26
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Wednesday, April 27
LECTURE -- 7-8 p.m. 9th Alden Scholar Series; Dr. Susan Goodier (History and Women’s and Gender Studies) discusses her book “No Votes for Women: The New York State Anti-Suffrage Movement.” Free; public welcome. Alden Room, 3rd flr, Milne Library, SUNY Oneonta. Info, www.oneonta.edu SPRINGFIELD MEET -- 7 p.m. Springfield Historical Society hosts talk by Les and Janet Gray on “Springfield in the 20th Century,” after annual meeting. Members may come at 6:30 p.m. & bring a dish to pass for meal before program. Info, Jane Prior, (315) 858-0707.
Thursday, April 28
WOODSIDE HALL PROGRAM -- 6:30 p.m. Katie Boardman, folk musician, storyteller, with songs, dance tunes and stories about spring. Free, public welcome; refreshments after. Woodside Hall, 1 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-0600.
Friday, April 29
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Saturday, April 30
OCCA GARAGE SALE -- 9 a.m.-3 p.m. (also 10 a.m.-2 p.m. May 1). Annual OCCA “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” Garage Sale. Cooperstown Farmers’ Market, 101 Main St. (in Pioneer Alley), Cooperstown. Info, (607) 5474488 or e-mail admin@occainfo. org RUMMAGE SALE -- 9 a.m.noon. Hosted by Fly Creek United Methodist Women. $2 bag sale. Fly Creek Methodist Church, Fly Creek. PRINTING WORKSHOP -- 10 a.m.-2 p.m. “Letterpress Printing.” Part of Americana Academy workshop series. NYSHA members $40; non-members $50; ages 12-16 $30. Materials (up to 20 cards) included. Please wear apron and comfortable clothes. Register in advance at (607) 5471461. Middlefield Printing Office, The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www.farmersmuseum.org POSTCARD & EPHEMERA SHOW/SALE -- 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Greater Oneonta Historical Society’s 12th annual Postcard & Ephemera Show & Sale. Vintage postcards & more. Elks Lodge, 84-86 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Free parking behind lodge. Info, ww.oneontahistory.org CONCERT -7:30 p.m. Catskill Symphony Orchestra, featuring Hartwick College Chorus, SUNY Oneonta Concert Choir, and Catskill Choral Society. Tickets $30 (free tickets for kids and accompanying adults). Hunt Union Ballroom, SUNY Oneonta. info www.catskillsymphony.net
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Friday, May 6
CAKE WALK -- 5-8 p.m. 4th annual cake walk at Oneonta History Center. Buy a ticket to walk around numbered squares; when player piano stops, person on “winning” square gets one of 12 local cakes of choice. 183 Main St., Oneonta. Info, www.oneontahistory.org SPAY/NEUTER CLINIC -- by appt. Feline low-cost spay/ neuter clinic with Dr. Joan Puritz. Susquehanna Animal Shelter, 4841 State Hwy. 28, Cooperstown. Call (607) 5478111 for time slot. CONCERT -- 7:30 p.m. Hartwick College Chamber Choir. Theater, Anderson Center for the Arts, Hartwick College, Oneonta. Info, www.hartwick.edu CONCERT – 8 p.m. Tribute band the Mersey Beatles, four lads from Liverpool who played for years at the Cavern Club, where the Beatles began. Preshow, John Lennon’s sister, Julia Baird, signs copies of her book “Imagine This: Growing Up with My Brother John Lennon.” VIP tickets include 6:30 p.m. meet & greet. Oneonta Theatre, 47 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Tickets, www.oneontatheatre.com
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Tuesday, May 10
HARTWICK CLEANUP - 8 a.m.2 p.m. Town of Hartwick “Clean Sweep” day. Bring outdoor garbage, waste, unwanted items and recyclables to Hartwick Town Hall. Also roadside cleanup volunteers needed. For info or to volunteer, call Martha Clarvoe, (607) 293-6654, or town clerk Sarah McGuire, (607) 293-8123 FLY FISHING CLINIC -- 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Dave Brandt Chapter of Trout Unlimited hosts a oneday intro to fly fishing course. $40 with discounts available; bring bag lunch. Hanford Mills Museum, 51 Cty. Hwy. 12, East Meredith. Register before May 5 with Dave, (607-643-2004, or Jay at (908) 616-2102. SPRING FEST – 10 a.m.-6 p.m. 2nd annual Spring Fest at Copes Corners Park. Food, vendors, games. 620 NY-51, Gilbertsville. Info, www.copescornerspark.org GARDEN PARTY -- 1-5 p.m. Celebrate mom with Garden Party at Hyde Hall. Free; all welcome. Tea & sweets in the dining room, presentation of new carpets, maypole dancing, book signing, dramatic readings, live music. Guided tours till 4 p.m. Hyde Hall historic site, 267 Glimmerglass State Park Rd., Cooperstown. Info, www.hydehall.org AUTHOR VISIT -- 1 p.m. Gwen Cooper, author of “Homer’s Odyssey A Fearless Feline Tale...” appears in benefit for Susquehanna Animal Shelter. $10 suggested donation. Country Inn & Suites, Rte. 28, south of Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547.8111 CONCERT -- 7:30 p.m. Guest artist recital, Dana Huyge, viola. Theater, Anderson Center for the Arts, Hartwick College. Info, www. hartwick.edu
CONCERT -- 7:30 p.m. Hartwick College Musical Theatre Scenes. Theater, Anderson Center for the Arts, Hartwick College. Info, www.hartwick.edu
Wednesday, May 11
CONCERT -- 7:30 p.m. Hartwick College Jazz Combo and Jazz Ensemble. Theater, Anderson Center for the Arts, Hartwick College. Info, www.hartwick.edu
Friday, May 13
CONCERT – 7:30 p.m. Oneonta Concert Association presents Mike Holober’s Gotham Jazz Orchestra. Tickets $25 ($6 students) at Green Toad Bookstore, Eighth Note in Oneonta, or door. Foothills, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, www.oneontaconcertassociation.org or (607) 433-7252.
Saturday, May 14
BROADWAY TRIP -- leave 7 a.m.; 2 p.m. show. Glimmerglass Festival Guild bus trip to NYC for “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller. Bus leaves Oneonta Bus Lines at 7 a.m.; lunch in NYC, then 2 p.m. matinee. Dinner at Five Brothers Restaurant; return to Oneonta around 10:30 p.m. $185, non refundable. Mail checks for “Glimmerglass Guild” to: Walter Ashley, 78 Chestnut St., Cooperstown, NY 13326. Info, (607) 544-1077 or ashleywalt@ hotmail.com.
Tuesday, May 24
BUS TRIP – 8 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Day trip to historic City of Auburn sponsored by the Greater Oneonta Historical Society. Tour Harriet Tubman House, Seward House, Willard Memorial Chapel, lunch at Springtime Inn and free time in Skaneateles. Depart Eastern Travel bus garage 8 a.m., return 9:30 p.m. $100/person, lunch and all admissions included. Registration deadline, May 8. Info, register, call Bill or Marge Pietraface, (607) 432-1385.
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