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ajor repair to the columns and steps on Village Hall’s front porch was to begin Wednesday, May 11, a week ahead of scheduled, Trustee Lou Allstadt, who chairs the Village Board’s Building Committee, announced.

During the work, library patrons and visitors to the Cooperstown Art Association, village offices and the police station may enter on the building’s Fair Street side.

CANNY STEP: The CCS district had been receiving $2,500-$3,500 when trading in school buses, Business Manager Amy Kukenberger reports. In recent years, though, she’s been garnering $11,000 for the distict by selling them on eBay. DONATE BOOKS: The first drop-off of your books, CDs and DVDs for the Friends of the Village Library’s annual book sale is 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, May 14, at 22 Main. A second drop-off will be June 11, and the sale begins June 25.

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ristin Ratliff has never been so excited to get back to school. “It feels so weird being home on a Tuesday!” she said on May 10. “I’m feeling much better now – I guess I freaked out a lot of people.”

Ratliff, 18, will return to her normal life as a CCS senior a week after going into cardiac arrest during the

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According to high school principal and athletic director Mike Cring, the record-holder collapsed at the end of the race. As it happened, Bassett Hospital was wellrepresented on the sidelines.

Kristin’s father, Dr. Derek Ratliff, helped administer CPR, assisted by Dr. Eric Knight and Tom Fay, R.N. Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal Please See Kristin, A5

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THE PRICE OF HUMANENESS

Oneonta veterinarian Joan Puritz performs volunteer spayings at shelter.

Who Should Help To Pay Shelter Cost?

As County Board Debates, Animal Care Runs In Red

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n Sunday, March 13, Otsego County Sheriff’s deputies, acting on a report of animal maltreatment, seized seven pit bulls – mom and ITEMIZE BILL for six chilcare provided Kabella dren – at and her six pitbull a Laurens puppies appears on home and www.AllOTSEGO.com transported them here to the Susquehanna Animal Shelter (formerly the Susquehanna SPCA).

The animal shelter’s new director, Stacie Haynes, asked the deputy in charge to sign a certificate of financial responsibility. “He told me that was above his pay grade,” said Haynes, and he referred her to his Please See INVOICE, A7

New President Bullish About Shelter Future

By JIM KEVLIN HARTWICK SEMINARY

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aylord Dillingham, new president of the Susquehanna Animal Shelter Board of Directors, finds himself surrounded by “a very capable small group of Dillingham people.”

Yes, he’d like a few more people on the board, but he’s quite happy with Kathy Clarkson, first vice president; Laurie Zimniewicz, second vice president; Jessica Sobers, secretary, Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal and board members Susquehanna Animal Shelter volunteer Sue Leonard, Cherry Valley, Please See FUTURE, A7 gets an appreciative kiss from Reagan, one of seven pitbulls seized during a March 13 raid in Laurens.

Ilion Lawyer Challenges Seward Candidate From Sherburne May Also Seek Democratic Nomination COOPERSTOWN

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uddenly, there are two Democrats looking to run against state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, who would be running for his 21st term this fall.

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nounced to the Herkimer County Democratic Committee Tuesday, May 10, that she’s running in Seward’s 10-county 51st state Senate District.

Also Tuesday, Otsego County Democratic Chairman Richard Abbate of Please See RACES, B6

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pal at its Monday, May 9, meeting.

She has served as interim principal since the retirement of Teresa Gorman in June 2015 “with poise and Please See HIRED, B6

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Evelyn Walters is escorted through The Otesaga’s lobby into the grand ballroom by Michael Kelley as the 2016 Cooperstown Cotillion gets underway Friday, May 6. The event culminates six weeks of training in ballroom dancing and good manners for local seventh and eighth graders.

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It’s Only Fair. If Costs Incurred, Bills Should Be Paid

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ho doesn’t love animals?

But pets are a big responsibility, and an expensive one. That applies to individual pet owners, and also to law-enforcement agencies, county governments and the third most populous state in the nation: New York.

The Otsego County Board of Representatives, on receiving a $5,864 bill from the Susquehanna Animal Shelter after seven pitbulls were seized March 13 in Laurens and taken to the Hartwick Seminary facility, finds itself in the middle of the cost vs. responsibility conundrum.

If there’s consolation in numbers, the county board may like to know that, generally, the great Empire State hasn’t handled this challenge particularly well anywhere.

• Here’s the situation.

Under the state Agriculture & Markets Law, Article 26, law-enforcement agencies “must” seize animals they believe are being maltreated. Then what?

Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal The state Legislature (or Otsego County) Everyone loves animals, as you can tell from the crowd picking up pets 3-6 hasn’t allocated any funding to pay for carp.m. every day at the Susquehanna Animal Shelter, including Amber Knox ing for seized animals, and that’s the crux of of Oneonta. the debate at the county board’s April and to its Public Safety & Legal Affairs Commoved, though, where are they taken?

May meetings. mittee, and its chairman, Len Carson, RIn Otsego County, the only option is County Rep. Keith McCarty, R-East Oneonta, is approaching it judiciously. “I’d the Susquehanna Animal Shelter (forSpringfield, has been the most outspoken merly Susquehanna SPCA) on Route 28 in advocate of stepping up. “I think we should love to write a check to them today,” he said, “but what about tomorrow?”

Hartwick Seminary. pay that invoice and go after the (pitbulls’) Happily, the situation may be narrower On March 12, deputies took seven pitowner,” he said at the May 4 meeting in than it might initially seem. bulls seized in Laurens to the shelter. When Cooperstown.

At issue right now is a $5,864 bill – not shelter Executive Director Stacie Haynes Then and previously, McCarty pointed asked for an assurance of payment, a deputy out that the shelter operates like many small the whole animal-rescue system.

There’s a separate issue that been slowing told her he had no authority to give her that businesses – money in, money out – and the county board down: The Ag & Markets assurance, which he didn’t, and which is having to wait who knows how long for law requires towns to name (and pay for) why the shelter hasn’t yet been paid. $5,864 really puts a crimp on cash flow. a dog control officer (or the responsibility She accepted the dogs, anyway, even The county board has a practical interest resides with the town supervisor).

That though Ag & Markets law says shelters in ensuring the shelter’s financial stability. officer handles only dog bites and roaming “may” – not “must,” as with police agencies “If we lose that shelter, we would have to dogs.

– do so. farm it out to other counties,” McCarty said.

Put that in a box and set it aside.

• And that, no doubt, would be much more Mistreatment is a separate, criminal There’s a simple solution here, one that expensive. (Saratoga County reopened its matter. If police officers become aware Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr., and District pound – a huge expense.) of such, the Ag & Market law says they Attorney John Muehl support. (Both of • “must” remove the animals.

Once rethem are elected countywide, empowered The county board has referred the matter

to manage their departments, but only the county board can appropriate money.)

That solution is: the county’s law-enforcement arm incurred the expense. The county should pay the bill.

And that goes for all law-enforcement agencies: You “must” place the dogs, therefore you must pay the bill.

The good news is, looking at the record, it won’t cost all that much. The Laurens seizure was the sheriff’s department’s largest in memory. Muehl reports only a half-dozen such prosecutions a year. Most of them are small.

Plus, the expense (for dogs) is in the first month. Once the animals are treated and allowed to recuperate, they are usually quickly adopted. (Cats – that’s another story, but at least they’re smaller and less costly to care for.)

• Same goes at the state level.

In January 2012, state troopers seized 26 Weimaraners from a kennel in Worcester. Many of them were dropped off at the Susquehanna shelter, with no payments forthcoming.

Some money was recovered from the dogs’ owners, but the shelter ended up spending more than $100,000 on their care, shelter President Gaylord Dillingham estimates.

Right now, the Ag & Markets law requires pet owners to pay. But, as D.A. Muehl confirms, errant owners often can’t afford to – that’s why they got into trouble in the first place.

As the county should pay, so should the state. If a pet owner eventually pays, reimburse the county and the state. That shortfall shouldn’t rest on volunteer shelters like ours.

The state Legislature of our Empire State should come up with the relative pittance, too. Come to think of it, it would be a great campaign issue for state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, who is seeking a 21st term this fall.

After all, everybody loves animals.

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Mental Illness Doesn’t Have To Be Life Sentence. Kate Hewlett Proves It Editor’s Note: To mark National Mental Health Month, Kate Hewlett, a certified recovery coach and peer engagement specialist at Otsego County Community Services’ Adult Behavioral Health Clinic, told her story to the county Board of Representatives at its May 5 meeting in Coopertown.

When she finished, the audience broke into applause.

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ave you ever gone to the hospital because you were having difficulty sleeping, your appetite was off, having trouble concentrating and feeling sad and lonely?

And then after seeing the

The Freeman’s Journal Kate Hewlett in the county Board of Representatives’ conference room.

doctor for about 15 minutes getting a label handed to you and walking away with the doctor’s words – “your

life is over, kid” – echoing through your head?

“Living with Mental Illness” is the theme of this

year’s Mental Health Month – and I have done just that.

After being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, I lived a life of discrimination. I had an apartment where the windows wouldn’t open. I couldn’t find a job that would accommodate my limited ability to work.

I lived a life of extreme poverty, living off of Social Security benefits and food stamps. I had to eat at soup kitchens and go to food pantries. I was labeled “non-compliant” since I refused to take medications and sometime sat through therapy in silence.

I went through life with

shame and the stigma associated with mental health challenges. I had many many hospitalizations. I felt I didn’t fit into society and I asked myself “what was wrong with me?” All, because that first doctor took my hope away.

I was so stubborn and wanted to prove that doctor wrong. So I slowly learned about my diagnosis and went to scheduled appointments. I looked for support groups and activities in my community and was turned away because I was the one with the illness.

Five years ago, I had decided I was done being a patient; I wanted to be a

participant in my life and in the world! I had made the choice to get to a different level of wellness and recovery.

I started a support group for folks struggling with mental health issues, started volunteering in my community and at Mountainview Wellness Center, which led to a part-time job. I was asked to be on the Otsego County NAMl Board of Directors as well as the mental health subcommittee.

I worked hard and found wellness tools that would help me when symptoms arose. I joined a 12-step group. I advocated for Please See HEWLETT, A6

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Islamberg Deserves Support In Face Of Baseless Bigotry To the Editor: On Sunday, May 1, I attended a gathering at the UnitarianUniversalist Church in Oneonta organized by members of the church and the Oneonta Chapter of the NAACP. The purpose of that occasion was to meet with and support members and leaders of the Islamberg community near Hancock, Delaware County.

Over the past 18 months the Islamberg people have been threatened with violence at the hands of extreme white supremacist groups. They have been falsely accused of affiliation with terrorist groups and causes, and of maintaining a training camp for terrorists.

In fact, the Islamberg community was established in 1980.

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Islamberg residents have lived peacefully and prospered there over the decades to the present.

Residents of Islamberg are of the Sunni Muslim faith. They have no history of violence or advocacy of such practices. Their Please See HEITZ, A6

Bernie, Trump Correct Diagnosing U.S. Woes To the Editor: This is a reaction to a letter written by James Dean of Cooperstown in the Thursday-Friday, April 14-15 editions of your newspapers.

Jim, for starters, I think you’re a decent guy.

I take exception however to you using the words unstable and insane to describe Republicans. Sellouts and incompetent would have been a better choice of words.

And second, not all Democrats will be supporting whoever your nominee is. Not everyone is a party person like yourself: Someone who can’t see the good in anyone else as a candidate unless they have a D or an R next to their names. What you have failed to recognize is the two parties becoming one.

And have you been to a Bernie rally? I have.

And some of the words you failed to include describing young people coming into the proPlease See FURNARI, A6

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

200 YEARS AGO

100 YEARS AGO

negative ere long, if we correctly read the “signs of the times.”

There is a growing feeling among all classes in this country that the great tide of immigration is no longer desirable and that our country is growing too fast in population. The political party that soonest and most emphatically gives expression to this popular feeling will be likely to add to its strength in the next Presidential election.

May 14, 1891

Increase of the Navy – It is contemplated by the bill to increase the Navy, which was discussed in the House of Representatives last Saturday, to appropriate one millions of dollars for eight years, which it is calculated will add to our present naval force nine 74-gun ships, 13 of 44 guns, and three steam batteries of frigates, two of the latter to be applied to the defense of the waters of the Chesapeake, and one to the defense of New Orleans.

May 9, 1816

75 YEARS AGO

Ralph W. Ellsworth, senior partner in the firm of Ellsworth & Sill general dry goods business at 79 Main Street for the past 21 years will retire after 37 years in the mercantile field. The business will be continued under the same firm name by G. Reed Sill, junior partner. In January 1920, Mr. Sill purchased a half-interest in the business of Taylor & Ellsworth, dry goods merchants, which had been held by the late Nettie Taylor Ellsworth after the death of her brother, the late Arthur J. Taylor in 1898. Mr. Ellsworth became connected with the firm in December 1904.

May 14, 1941

175 YEARS AGO

(Advertisement) Circus & Caravan – Splendid and Combined Attraction of Equestrian and Gymnastic Performances with a beautiful collection of Living Wild Animals, comprising the stupendous Giraffe, the Elephant, and every variety of Wild Beasts, Birds and Reptiles. Sig: June, Titus, Angevine & Co., Proprietors of the Bowery Amphitheater, New York. R. Sands, Equestrian Manager. The proprietors of the above-mentioned establishment have the honor to announce to the citizens of Cooperstown and vicinity, that their unequalled troupe of Equestrians, and splendid Caravan of Wild Animals, will be exhibited at Cooperstown, on Friday, May 14, 1841, for one day only. The Manager pledges himself that his exhibition shall be of a strictly moral character, and free from many objections frequently made to entertainments of this description.

May 10, 1841

50 YEARS AGO

The four candidates on the Student Choice ticket scored a clean sweep in the annual Cooperstown Central School Student Council election last Friday. Michael Phillips was elected president over James Peters; James Callahan was named vice-president over David Rath; Deborah Leonard, secretary over Carol Bullock; and Mark Armstrong, treasurer over James Austin. Michael Phillips will succeed David Gallagher as head of the council beginning in September. Voting machines, loaned by the Town of Otsego, were used in the balloting. Nearly 600 ballots were cast.

May 11, 1966

150 YEARS AGO

Change of Time – The new time table on the Susquehanna R.R. took effect on Monday. Trains now leave Albany as follows: 7:30 a.m. – Passenger and Mail arrives at Unadilla; Passenger and Mail, arrives at Unadilla 12:15 p.m.; 1:10 p.m. Passenger arrives at Unadilla 5:55 p.m.; 5:30 p.m. – Freight and Passenger arrives at Unadilla 12:10 a.m. Leaves Unadilla 3:00 a.m.; Freight and Passenger arrives at Albany 9:30 a.m.; 10 a.m. Passenger arrives at Albany 2:45 p.m.; Passenger arrives at Albany 7:30 p.m. To connect with these trains, stages now leave Cooperstown at 8 a.m. and 1 p.m.

May 11, 1866

125 YEARS AGO

Undesirable Immigrants – They are pouring into our country by the tens of thousands and there is a growing and more imperative demand that the government shall adopt some official means for checking it. Serious attention is being directed to a class of immigrants as very undesirable, large numbers of which are weekly coming from Italy and other sections of southern Europe. They come here to compete with the

25 YEARS AGO

National Pastime owner Doug Walker didn’t want to keep all his bread in one basket, so the owner of one of Cooperstown’s first baseball memorabilia shops paired up with Rick Bird and opened Danny’s Main Street Market this spring. Now, Doug is selling bread and baseballs.

Restaurateurs Kevin Grady and Tom Stevens, owners of the Pepper Mill restaurant on the village’s edge, will join the Main Street mainstream when their Doubleday Café opens May 10, 1916 this week. “We’re plugged into Cooperstown,” Stevens American mechanics and laborers for the better wages which and Grady agreed. “We may as well make the most of it.” they expect to obtain in the United States. Many of them come Steve Kaich, owner of the Bold Dragoon, has his eye on to escape military duty in their own country. Are they wanted the Route 28 corridor in Hyde Park. In June, he and parthere at this time? Is there any longer “room for all?” – includner Kristi Swatling will open a barbecue ribs and chicken ing the restless, aggressive classes, the anarchists and nihilrestaurant there. ists who fill up our cities and defy authority. The answer will May 15, 1991 be more emphatically in the

Week After Heart Stopped Beating, CCS Athlete Returning To Classes KRISTIN/From A1 “Debbie Lecates” – Dr. Bill Lecates’ wife – “called 911,” said Kristin’s mom Janet.

The girl’s heart stopped beating and a defibrillator was used. She was rushed to Bassett Hospital, where she was put in a medically induced coma for 24 hours.

“I thought I had lost her,” said Janet. “I’m so lucky to have my daughter back.”

“I didn’t remember any of it,” said Kristin. “The last thing I remembered was running the race.”

Since, doctors have discovered that she had WolffParkinson-White syndrome, a rare condition of an extra electrical pathway between the heart’s upper lower chambers, which causes a

rapid heartbeat.

“It’s rare that it causes cardiac arrest,” said Janet.

“We had no idea she had this. It’s not genetic, and it could have only been detected by an EKG.”

By Friday morning, she was awake, alert and reading – she’s catching up on her “Battle of the Books” list – and was transported to St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany for ablation surgery to fix the extra pathway.

She was home by Saturday, resting and recovering. “Everyone has been so great,” she said. “People brought food and sent flowers, came by to visit. I felt very blessed to live in such a wonderful community.”

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try course and the 2,000 meter steeplechase. She also plays volleyball, is a member of the Leo Club.

A former local champ of the National Scripps Howard Spelling Bee, she is one of the four top students in Cooperstown Central’s Class of 2016 who will speak at graduation. She plans to attend Amherst College to study either biology or math.

And although she’s waiting to hear from her cardiologist on whether or not she can go back to the CCS track team this season, she knows her running career is far from over. “I plan on running cross-country this fall at Amherst,” she said.

“It might be awhile, but I’ll get back to it.”

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Trump’s Talents Are What Country Desperately Needs FURNARI/From A4 cess are uneducated, uninformed, hippie-like, under the influence, and lazy.

I can say that. I’ve spoken to these people at the rally.

Now don’t get me wrong, I like Bernie. He’s not my first choice, but I did send a contribution to his campaign because I appreciate his honesty and the fact that on four major issues, he is aligned with my top choice, Donald Trump: Trade policy, corporate corruption, Israel-Palestinian peace strategy, and campaign financing.

I don’t agree with him on social issues or his taxation policy, but the four I mentioned are significant. And after speaking to many Bernie supporters and educating them on the candidates similarities, as well as educating them that Donald Trump is not a racist or a bigot, rather a tremendously successful businessman with incredible foresight, I was pleased to hear that yes, some

would vote for him.

Trump’s talents are what this country desperately needs. And I’m not blind to the fact that Donald Trump has been on the other side where his financial ability has given him the opportunity to persuade politicians.

I guess at some point there is truth to selecting the lesser of all evils. However, when Donald Trump looked in the past to accomplish something working with politicians, it was to improve a property, it created jobs, and improved the overall prosperity and value of a neighborhood. And the only candidate in this process who has donated land to conservation and forfeited development rights for the preservation of land is Donald Trump.

Party people like you, Jim, want the same old stuff: Our money going overseas to countries that despise us.

All while children in our own country don’t have gyms to play basketball in.

Politicians eating at $500-a-plate dinners on our tax dollars, while homeless eat out of garbage cans in the cities.

Big corporations and Political Action Committees (PACs) supplying money to candidates to buy elections. In exchange, those behind the PACs get the laws passed that benefit their agenda.

And on and on and on.

I don’t see Bernie getting to the nominee finish line. Donald Trump still has a chance to get to his. And while Donald Trump may never be a great president, I feel we must take that chance anyway. He is saying what I want to hear, which is America first! And at least he has demonstrated extreme competence. Unlike most politicians that have brought this country to the depths it is at today. Never Cruz!

Never Hillary!

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Mental Health Challenges Are Not A Life Sentence – And Kate Hewlett Proves It

HEWLETT/From A4 myself when things weren’t going the way I would have liked. I was able to graduate from therapy and went from being on 12 different psychiatric medications to one. I talked to anyone that would listen that there is hope from mental health challenges and that recovery is a possibility.

And every time I stumbled, or fell, I kept getting up.

I stand before you this morning, sharing that I live in an apartment with my husband, I am off all government benefits, I am a certified recovery coach and a Copeland Center WRAP facilitator, I am the first fulltime peer engagement speattacks and life-threatening cialist for Otsego County, hateful and ignorant expres- working out of the adult sions. behavioral health services We do so in the tradiclinic, I am a trainer for new tion and spirit of Dr. Martin peer leaders through rehaLuther King, Jr. bilitation Support Services, TOM HEITZ I am an advocate, and I am Fly Creek

Region Must Stand With Our Neighbors At Islamberg HEITZ/From A4 children attend local schools and many of the adults are employed in the area.

For the past two years, I have had the honor of serving as publicity coordinator and religious affairs chair for Oneonta’s NAACP Chapter under the able direction of Lee Fisher and Regina Betts. In that capacity, after the conclusion of the meeting, I presented a modest gift to Rashid “Carl” Clark, an Islamberg community leader. The gift was intended for the children of Islamberg as a token of support from the Oneonta Chapter of the NAACP and The First Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown where I am a member.

The item was a vintage comic book, dating back to the early 1960s, depicting the story of Dr. Martin Luther King’s bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., in the late 1950s. King’s non-violent protest action became one of the signal events in the history of the mid-20th century civil rights movement. In April, while attending a Presbyterian Church

conference at Stony Point, I came into possession of multiple copies of this comic book printed in three different languages – English, Spanish and Arabic.

The Arabic version of this publication is clearly intended for the Muslim faith communities. Thus, I introduced myself and presented it to Mr. Clark.

As I was doing so, Jessica Reynolds, The Daily Star’s Reporter, took a photograph which appeared on the front page of that newspaper’s Monday morning edition with the story of the meeting and its outcome. However, the short caption appearing with the photo could not explain fully what was actually occurring at that moment.

The accompanying article, a well-written and excellent account of the meeting, did not elaborate further about the photo. Thus, I offer this explanation.

This coming Sunday, May 15, a large delegation of people from Oneonta and Cooperstown, representing

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Statewide, Consistent Support For Essential Animal Shelters Lacking seems to be forming around INVOICE/From A1 providing some support for boss, Sheriff Richard J. the shelter, but only after Devlin, Jr. understanding who is liable, In the following 32 days, by law, for costs incurred. the pit bulls – George, “I think we should pay Reagan and mom Kabella that invoice and go after the are still there; Roosevelt, towns and owners,” said Lincoln, Dorothy and Rose county Rep. Keith McCarty, were adopted – ran up R-East Springfield. “It $5,864 in expenses: Bawould cost a lot more if we sic boarding ($20 a day; lose that shelter and have to $4,480 total), plus bringfarm it out to other couning the animals back to ties.” health: Strongid dewormer County Rep. Len ($168 for repeated Carson, R-Oneonta, doses); anti-fungal who chairs the Public spray ($5 a treatSafety committee, ment – the animals said, “I don’t think had been standing we have a definitive in their own filth); path; but this is what spaying/neutering we’re trying to work ($140 per dog), and out.” much more.

What Carson’s Three of the dogs McCarty committee is looking were born with for is a sustainable entropion – eyelids relationship between county turned inward – a not-unand shelter. “I’d love common condition in pit bulls, but painful. ($360 per to write a check to them today,” he said, “but what dog, or $1,080 total.)

Haynes tallied the expen- about tomorrow?”

The situation is comditures and sent the bill to plicated by the fuzziness Sheriff Devlin, who took it to the county Board of Rep- of state law. Article 26 of the state Ag & Markets resentatives’ Public Safety Law says law-enforce& Legals Affairs Comment agencies “must” seize mittee, and called Haynes maltreated animals, then to bring her up to date, at can simply drop the animals the same time expressing off at largely volunteer-run sympathy for the shelter’s shelters, which must then dilemma. shoulder the costs.

“There’s a missing “No money was ever allink right now we need to located for funding the care correct,” Devlin said in of the animals,” said Sue an interview. “We can’t expect the shelter to bear the McDonough, Kingston, a retired 26-year state trooper financial burden.” (Elected who is on the state Humane countywide, the sheriff has Association’s legislative authority to run his departcommittee. “Our organiment, but the county board zation has tried for many controls the purse strings.) years to get the state to fund Since, county representhe animal shelters, … to tatives have debated the issue at their April and May give them funding for this purpose. meetings, and consensus

Dillingham said. “It allows us to absorb the deficit, but it won’t go on forever, he said.

If owners cannot afford bonds – in most local cases, that’s what happens, Muehl said – they may relinquish ownership, and the animals can then be put up for adoption.

To speed up prosecutions so that can happen as quickly as possible – time equals expense for the shelters – Muehl assigned and trained retired deputy sheriff Mike Ten Eyck, when he joined the D.A.’s office last year as an investigator, to handle maltreatment cases.

The good news for the local shelter is that relatively few maltreatment cases Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal occur in the county – five or so a year, Muehl said. The Stacie Haynes gets acquainted with her new responsibilities after her apPopolizio Weimaraners and pointment as Susquehanna Animal Shelter executive director last October.

With her, from left, are board First Vice President Kathy Clarkson, then-trea- Laurens’ pit bulls are the surer Bill Elsey, and board President Gaylord Dillingham. largest in the last half-decade.

“The legislature, so far, required to designate a dog A local case in point was Still, he said, “I certainly control officer – if not, the the 26 Weimeraners seized has not seen fit to do this,” support the county setting duties go to the supervisor on Jan. 22, 2012, from she said. aside some funds to help out – who must respond to dog- Frank Popolizio’s South While there is no uniforthe shelter, if possible.”

Side Farm dogs kennel in bite and roaming-dog commity statewide, there are Until the county acts, plaints, but not maltreatWorcester; many of the ani- Stacie Haynes is doing what some models the county ment, which are handled mals ended up at the shelter. she can, case to case, to board might follow, accriminally.

Many of the animals cording to Brian Shapiro, keep the revenues flowing.

The towns must pay for ended up in Hartwick Semi- Last week, for instance, the Woodstock, state director that function, and former nary, and District Attorney of the Humane Society of City of Oneonta dog control town supervisors on the John Muehl went to court the United States. Nassau officer called about nine county board, Middlefield’s and Popolizio “did pay resti- cats, four dogs and five pupCounty allocates proceeds Dave Bliss and Maryland’s tution; thousands of dolfrom seized contraband to pies on Fonda Avenue that Peter Oberacker among lars.” The case nonetheless privately operated shelters. needed attention. them, want towns’ financial ended up costing the shelter Delaware County, it She called Meg Hungermore than $100,000 by time ford, City Hall’s finance seems, appropriates $90,000 obligations clarified before the county commits funding. the animals recuperated and director, and they agreed a year to shelters in Delhi Currently, Ag & Markets were adopted, according to and Sidney. Saratoga on $40 a day per animal, Law allows a D.A. to go to Gaylord Dillingham, presiCounty, according to Mc“which I thought was very court to require maltreated dent of the shelter’s Board Donough, chose to operate fair.” The shelter ended up animals’ owners to cover of Directors. its own pound, the most taking five of the cats. for shelter costs. Shelters That contributed to a expensive option.

“We, of course, want to that accept such animals $200,000 deficit the shelter A subsidiary issue comhelp,” Haynes said. “But must tend for them until the is running annually, possible we want to talk about getplicated the county board’s criminal case is resolved, only through a “sizeable en- ting help to pay for that response: Under the Ag and only then can move dowment” created by Busch care” & Markets Law, towns are them out through adoptions. heir Lou Hager Sr.’s will,

New President Dillingham Sees Hope For More Stability In New Board, New Staff FUTURE/From A1 Merilyn and Pete Gould, Patricia Riddell Kent and Shannon Stockdale.

And with Stacie Haynes, executive director since last fall, who succeeded on the resignation of veteran director Liz Mackie. Sara Lucas has taken over management of the Thrift Shop.

Since, there’s been a spring cleaning throughout the campus. Black mold has been removed, trash cleared out, insulation added. In the next few weeks, you’ll see the buildings being painted.

“It wasn’t a good place for the staff to work in, or for the animals,” said Dillingham, who retired to the

The Susquehanna SPCA has a new name and a new logo.

Town of Springfield in 2014 after operating Dillingham & Company Antiques, a wholesale and retail operation in San Francisco and New York, for 37 years.

But more challenges await, he said in an interview following a continuing debate in two county Board of Representatives’ meeting in a row over what the county’s responsibility is to the shelter, recently renamed from the Susquehanna SPCA. For almost three decades, the shelter, founded in 1917, has benefited from a “substantial endowment” from Louis Busch Hager Sr., who passed away in 1988.

Lately, the shelter has been running a $200,000 annual deficit, and the endowment “allows us to absorb the deficit; but it won’t go on forever,” Dillingham said.

The Scriven Foundation has also been very supportive, he said.

Part of Haynes mandate is to find new revenue sources, and when sheriff’s deputies dropped off seven pitbulls seized in Laurens on March 13, she sent a $5,864 bill to the county board for reimbursement. (She charged the county $20 a day per dog, a bargain: The going rate it $30 a day.)

“We need to focus a lot on finances,” said Dillingham. “We really need some things that are going to raise us tens of thousands of dollars.”

As the new administration was reviewing the

shelter’s finances during the transition, Cooperstown Veterinary Hospital, operated by Dr. Michael Powers, county Rep. Jim Powers’ brother, presented a $65,000 bill.

It’s become a bit of a sticking point. At the past two county board meetings, Representative Powers, RButternuts, has twice sought to have the matter discussed in executive sessions.

Dillingham agreed with Powers’ concern. “We’re aware of the fact we owe money,” he said. “The question is how much.”

The shelter has contracted with Judith Brown, the accountant, and she is review-

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The new president said he considers such care part of the board’s fiduciary responsibility, particularly important because of the amount of donations, volunteer work, and pro-bono work by such veterinarians as Joan Puritz of Oneonta and Julie Huntsman, Town of Otsego.

An example of that base of support was the response to news that a pitbull and her six offspring had been taken from a Laurens home and dropped off at the shelter: One donor sent a $1,000 check, and 33 others raised a total $3,500 for the dogs’ care, Stacie Haynes reported.

Haynes had sent the full bill, $5,864, to the county, which sparked a continuing debate on the county board about whether it is doing enough to support the shelter.

Powers has also asked whether the county board can support a “no kill” shelter, but Dillingham said, strictly speaking that’s not the case: If animals are terminally sick, or too vicious to put up for adoption, they are euthanized, perhaps a dozen a year.

As in that and all areas, Dillingham said, “we’re always trying to act in the

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ver 33 years as art professor, department chair and sculptorin-residence at Hartwick College, Terry Slade had the opportunity to travel, to pursue a fascination with ancient monuments, particularly in the British Isles.

One such foray took him to the 5,000year-old ruins around Kilmartin Glen, above the North Atlantic, about 50 miles

IF YOU GO: Sculptor Terry Slade’s next Gallery Talk, at “MWP Friday Night Party,” 5-8 p.m., Friday, May 27, at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute, 310 Genesee St., Utica (315) 797-0000

from Glasgow, Scotland, where he was entranced by the cup and ring carvings on the flat rocks. That night, he revisited them again as they glowed under a full moon.

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hile she was being raised in Winnsboro, East Texas, a relative of Kim McCleary died of a heroin overdose.

Lynds Jones’ hometown is Gloucester, Mass., where heroin was so widespread the chief of police developed PAARI,

Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative, that is being adopted nationwide, including in Cooperstown So last fall, when Gretchen Sorin and her staff proposed exhibition topics to “second years” at Cooperstown Graduate Program, McCleary and Jones immediately focused on the topic: “Heroin: National Problem, Local Consequence.”

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ith exhibits, music and an open house, Cooperstown celebrates art throughout the village on Friday, May 13. At the Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main Street, the 25th Annual Essential Art! Regional Juried Art Show runs 5-7 p.m., with awards at 6. Also, “White,” photography by Kevin Q. Gray, and Cooperstown Central School Art Exhibit. In the library downstairs, an open house features refreshments and a craft for young children.

And from 6-7 p.m. enjoy art and music at the Cooperstown Elementary School, 21 Walnut St. Info, (607) 547-9976.

FIRST PEEK: Get a glimpse of some of the thousands of items in the Greater Oneonta Historical Society’s collection. 5 p.m. Friday, May 13, 2-4 p.m.

Sunday, May 15. GOHS, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-0960.

ALL THAT JAZZ: Oneonta Concert Association presents Mike Holober’s Gotham Jazz Orchestra. Award-winning composer/pianist Holober is SUNY Oneonta alum. 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 13 and 1 p.m. Sunday, May 15 with a free show 1 p.m. Saturday, May 14.

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.

WISDOM TALES: Dr. Ashok Malhotra, Distinguished Teaching Professor, tells stories which he had heard from his Grandpa Chopra while growing up in India, collected in two Volumes of Grandpa Chopra’s Wisdom Stories. Book sales benefit Ninash Foundation (www. ninash.org). 2-4 p.m Saturday, May 14, The Green Toad Bookstore, 198 Main St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 433-8898.

KLEZMER CONCERTO: Catskill Valley Wind Ensemble concert with Clarinetist Robin Seletsky performing Klezmer Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble dedicated to her late father, Harold Seletsky, the “Prez of Klez.”

Free, all welcome, donations gratefully accepted. 2 p.m. Sunday, May 15, First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St. Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-4102.

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Terry Slade discusses “Earth Mantra,” another installation at the MWP Art Institute. When the museum’s curatorial staff saw the piece during a 2012 visit to the sculptor’s Schenevus studio, it convinced them to go forward with the current exhibition.

Hartwick Art Professor’s ‘Rings’ Wow Visitors At MWP Museum MANTRA/From B1 books with ideas inspired by the Kilmartin rings. At his studio in Schenevus, he began to experiment, working with sheets of colored glass, and fusing disks together at 1,400 degrees.

From single disks, the concept grew to the 130 fused-glass disks in Slade’s “Earth Mantra.” In 2012, he invited Mary Murray, Munson Williams Proctor Art Museum’s curator of modern and contemporary art, and Michael Somple, registrar and exhibition manager, to take a look. “The first thing Mary said was ‘wow,’” the sculptor said during a Gallery Talk Friday, May 6, at the Utica showcase.

One thing led to another and on April 16, the Munson opened “Terry Slade: Dreams and Apparitions.”

The museum commissioned his biggest work to date – “Mantra for the Survival of the Earth” – which dominates the spacious Edward W. Root Sculpture Court that welcomes visitors to the building. The show continues through Oct. 2.

“Mantra” – 365 fused glass circles – “almost became work; not quite, but almost,” he told the 50 Gallery Talk attendees, including Anna D’Ambrosio, the museum’s director and chief curator. The first 11 disks took all day to fuse; “by the end, I was doing one every three minutes.”

The result, the artist believes, reflects his longterm interest in the universal nature of shapes, “macro and micro, posing questions about the life on the earth, the relationships between humans and nature, and those similarities of naturally occurring forms.”

Born in Richmond, Calif., and raised back and forth between the Coast and Nebraska, Slade was at Cook Junior College in Nebraska when he drew a low number the Nixon Administration’s Vietnam draft lottery.

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and postings in California, emerged with a foundation in electronics and enrolled in the University of Nebraska, intending to build on that.

As it happened, the electronics classes were filled, so his course load tilted toward art, an interest since boyhood. Six weeks of chatting with professors about art – and observing to one, “You have a pretty good job” – he was hooked: He wanted to be a sculptor.

With a BFA from Nebraska and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, he was teaching for a year at Florida State in Tallahassee when he heard about the opening at Hartwick.

Its hot-glass program started him experimenting with blown glass, although he was working mostly with bronze. He took another step toward glass when his wife, Fiona Dejardin, then director of Hartwick’s Yager Museum, began to study jewelry making – her work is sought-after locally – and he accompanied her to Corning.

As his Hartwick career nears its end – he is retiring after the college’s May 21 commencement – he has completed 100 solo exhibitions across the U.S. – from New York City to Knoxville – and Europe and Japan.

In 2009, the Pulmatier Cruise Line commissioned “Sunspots at Sea,” which may be viewed on its ship, “Sovereign of the Seas.”

(Home port: Barcelona.) In 2013, a site-specific sculpture, “Sense of Place,” was installed at the Brattleboro (Vt.) Museum of Art. In retirement, Slade hopes to place other works in corporate settings. Meanwhile, his wife reports, artworks have filled their Schenevus home and studio to overfull.

That – and the work that remains to be done – will keep them here, although they plan to travel. “Everybody we know” – including pal Richard Walker, the photographer – “lives around here,” Slade said.

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Lynds, a Salem State University grad, sought key players in the local fight against the heroin scourge, among them, Cooperstown Police Chief Mike Covert and county Judge Brian D. Burns, who presides at a special drug treatment court.

Kim, a TCU grad, reached out to Dr. Richard Brown at Bassett, and learned the role overprescribing played in the spread of addiction is being hotly discussed in the medical community.

She was further surprised to learn how easily accessible opioids are: “It’s something that’s right in your medicine cabinet.”

In Associate Professor Will Walker’s “Class, Race and Gender” class, they learned how attitudes toward fighting heroin changed as addiction moved out of inner cities into the suburbs.

Lynds biggest jolt came interviewing addicts: One 25-year-old told him she had been out drinking.

When they woke up with hangovers the next morning, one friend suggested heroin as a hangover cure – and she was hooked.

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research, the team’s challenge shifted to telling a compelling story clearly, visually and dramatically.

After an introductory panel, visitors to the exhibit – the opening reception was planned at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 11, at the CGP building on Route 80 –look in a mirror inscribed with a quote from Judge Burns: “Heroin addiction is a disease. Diseases don’t discriminate. Diseases don’t care if you’re black, white, poor, rich, male, female, young or old.”

Next is a medicine cabinet, like one in a typical home. Inside are those plastic prescription bottles labeled with the most common opioids that can lead to trouble.

At the end, visitors get a chance to vote on possible solutions, or suggest ideas of their own.

The goal is to enable visitors to imagine themselves in the world of the addict.

McCleary and Jones’ goal is NOT to blame, and consciously so.

“Heroin addiction is a disease,” said Lynds. “It’s not about people who make bad choices. It’s not about bad people.”

HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO Friday, May 13

FIGHTING HUNGER FRIDAY – Keller Williams’ Second Annual event. Dining patrons asked to place a donation in envelope attached to their meal bill. 100% of donations provided to area food pantries. $10,000 goal! In Cooperstown, visit Doubleday Cafe, NY Pizzeria, Bocca Osteria, Toscana’s, Silver Fox Gift Shop, Inside Scoop Ice Cream, Slices Pizzeria and Danny’s Market.

In Oneonta: Bella Michaels, Pizza 23 West, Jay’s Place, Soda Jerks, Golden Guernsey, Fiesta Mexican.

RUMMAGE SALE – 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Variety for the whole family.

Bag sale Saturday. First Presbyterian Church, 296 Main St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-4286.

RUMMAGE SALE – 9 a.m.6:30 p.m.sale; 4:30-6:30 p.m. bag sale. Church of Christ Uniting, 22 Church St., Richfield Springs. Info, (315) 858-0126.

EXHIBIT OPENING – 5 p.m.

Greater Oneonta Historical Society new exhibit, “From the Collections,” showcasing just some of the thousands of items in the collections. Through Aug. 20.

GOHS, 183 Main St., Oneonta.

ART RECEPTION – 5-7 p.m. opening reception, 6 p.m. awards. 25th Annual Essential Art! Regional Juried Art Show, through June 4. Also, “White,” photography by Kevin Q. Gray, and Cooperstown Central School Art Exhibit. Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St. Info, (607) 547-9777.

LIBRARY OPEN HOUSE – 5-7 p.m. Browse, check out books, DVDs, refreshments. Free crafting for children. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main.

ART & MUSIC NIGHT – 6-7 p.m. Cooperstown Elementary Art and Music Night.

K-12 art show through June 3.

Cooperstown Elementary School, 21 Walnut St., Cooperstown.

Info, (607) 547-9976.

CONCERT – 7:30 p.m.

Oneonta Concert Association presents Mike Holober’s Gotham Jazz Orchestra. Award-winning composer/pianist Holober is SUNY Oneonta alum. 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.

SQUARE DANCE – 7:3010 p.m. Doubleday Dancers Western Square Dance Club of Cooperstown May (All Plus) dance. Hip Boot Boys call. $5 per person, at the door.

Cooperstown Elementary School, 21 Walnut St., Cooperstown.

Info, (607) 264-8128.

DINNER & THEATER – 8 p.m.

Catskill Community Players presents dinner and show, “Vanya, Sonia, Masha & Spike” at The Wieting Theater, 168 Main St., Worcester. Accompanying theater dinner at the Worcester Inn, 158 Main St., Worcester. Also 8 p.m. May 14, 2 p.m. May 15.

Tickets and dinner reservations ($42, $9 senior citizen, $18 for show only.) Info, Diana Friedell, Producer dfriedell@stny.rr.com, (607) 433-2089; The Worcester Inn, (607) 397-8500 www. catskillplayers.org

Saturday, May 14

STAMP OUT HUNGER – National Association of Letter Carriers and U.S. Postal Service join in nation’s largest one-day food drive. Helps replenish depleted food bank pantries. Leave a non-perishable food donation in a bag by your mailbox and your postal carrier will do the rest.

Info, https://www.nalc.org/community-service/food-drive BIRDING– 7-9 a.m. Morning Birds at Mohican Farm in Springfield. Multiple habitats. All ages and experience welcome. Space limited, pre-registration required.

Bring binoculars and field guide.

Free. Info, registration, Otsego

County Conservation Association, (607) 282-4087, www.occainfo. org 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 BAG SALE – 9 a.m.-noon. $2 each bag. First Presbyterian Church, 296 Main St., Oneonta.

Info, (607) 4323-4286.

BOOK SALE COLLECTION – 10 a.m.-noon. Friends of Cooperstown Village Library for annual summer June 25 sale.

Also Sat., June 11. Used books, CDs, DVDs to Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. (NO encyclopedias, reference books, textbooks, magazines or travel guides.

BENEFIT AUCTION – 11 a.m.1 p.m. Spring Forward Benefit Auction and Reception. 11 a.m.1 p.m. silent auction and reception, 1 p.m. live auction with guest auctioneer Kevin Herrick.

Oneonta Community Christian School, 158 River St., Oneonta.

Info, (607) 432-0383.

SENIOR LUNCHEON – 11:30-2 p.m. 2nd Annual May Day Senior Luncheon. Cooperstown Lions Club Free Soup and Sandwich Luncheon – Bring a friend or meet a new one! (Please donate used eyeglasses and printer ink cartridges.) Fly Creek Grange, 208 Cemetery Road, Fly Creek.

DAR MEETING – Noon. Buffet luncheon and meeting to follow. $25. Info, reservations, Susan Larsen, sclarsen229@gmail.com OPENING RECEPTION – Noon4 p.m. Grand Opening Reception, Creative Corner Books, Cook, Craft, DIY! Main St.,, State

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JAZZ CONCERT – 1 p.m.

Oneonta Concert Association presents Mike Holober’s Gotham City Jazz Band, playing with three local high school bands. Open to the public. Free. Foothills Performing Arts Center, 21 Market St., Oneonta. Info, Paul Conway, (508) 284-0331.

AUTHOR READING/SIGNING – 2-4 p.m. Dr. Ashok Malhotra, Distinguished Teaching Professor, tells stories which he had heard from his Grandpa Chopra while growing up in India, collected in two Volumes of Grandpa Chopra’s Wisdom Stories. Book sales benefit Ninash Foundation (www.ninash.org). The Green Toad Bookstore, 198 Main St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 433-8898.

BLUES EXPRESS – 7 p.m.

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

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

DINNER & THEATER – 8 p.m. Catskill Community Players presents dinner and show, “Vanya, Sonia, Masha & Spike” at The Wieting Theater, 168 Main St., Worcester. Accompanying theater dinner at the Worcester Inn, 158 Main St., Worcester.

Also 2 p.m. May 15. Tickets and dinner reservations ($42, $9 senior citizen, $18 for show only.)

Info, Diana Friedell, Producer dfriedell@stny.rr.com, (607) 4332089; The Worcester Inn, (607) 397-8500, www.catskillplayers. org (Also at 8 p.m. Sunday)

Sunday, May 15

JURIED SHOW DEADLINE – Online submission deadline for 81st Annual National Juried Exhibition. Artwork must be fore sale. Info, question, (607) 5479777, www. cooperstownart.com.

Submittal form https://fs30. formsite.com/CooperstownArt/ form4/index.html ARTISANS MARKET – 11 a.m.4 p.m. Opening day, artisans and vendors market. Loval products, beautiful and unique goods. Changing Seasons, 3762 State Rte. 205, Hartwick. Info, (607)293-7543/6184.

OPENING RECEPTION – 2-4 p.m. “From the Collections” showcasing just some of the thousands of items in the collections. All welcome, refreshments served. GOHS, 183 Main St., Oneonta.

KLEZMER – 2 p.m. Catskill Valley Wind Ensemble concert 18 holes with golf cart with Clarinetist Robin Seletsky Monday – Friday $18 per person performing Klezmer Concerto Saturday – Sunday $22 per person for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble dedicated to her late father, Har9-hole rates available old Seletsky, the “Prez of Klez.”

Kids under 14 play free with adult Free, all welcome, donations 195 Bateman Road, Laurens Please call for tee time gratefully accepted. First United 607-263-5291 Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut colonialridgegolf.com St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 4327085, www.catskillwinds.com CHORAL CONCERT – 3 p.m.

Catskill Chamber Singers presSpecialS ent Spring Concert. Free, all Weekdays – 18 Holes with Cart - $25/person welcome. The Plains at Parish Wednesday – 18 Holes with Cart - $20/person Homestead, 163 Heritage Circle, No specials oN Holidays Oneonta. Info, (607) 433-0999.

OPENING RECEPTION – 5-7 p.m. “Enchanted Spaces - An Single MeMbeRShip…$495 exhibition of photographs by SeniORS MeMbeRShip…$450 Troy Hourie and Abby Rodd.” now booking tournaments Through Sept. 4. Hyde Hall Kent Special tOuRnaMent diScOunt Administrative Center Gallery.

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Legal notice NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING, BUDGET VOTE AND ELECTION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual Budget Hearing of the qualified voters of the Cooperstown Central School District, will be held in the Junior/Senior High School Library in said District located at 39 Linden Avenue, Cooperstown New York 13326, on Monday, May 9, 2016, at 6:30 PM, prevailing time, for the presentation of the proposed 20162017 budget.

The Annual Meeting/Election to vote upon the appropriation of the necessary funds to meet the estimated expenditures, authorizing a levy of taxes, or any proposition duly presented in accordance with election law, as well as the election of members of the Board of Education, shall be held during the hours of 7:00 AM and 8:00 PM on Tuesday, May 17, 2016, at the following designated polling sites: Junior/Senior High School 39 Linden Avenue, Cooperstown and Hartwick Town Hall, Assembly Room, 103 Town Drive, Hartwick.

Two seats on the Board of Education are up for election. The vacant seats are three years in duration and will commence on July 1, 2016 and expire on June 30, 2019. Petitions nominating candidates for the office of member of the Board of Education can be obtained from the District Clerk, Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM on any normal business day.

Petitions must then be filed not later than April 18, 2016, by 5:00 PM in the District Clerk’s Office.

A copy of the proposed budget and the tax exemption report may be obtained by any resident of the District at the District Office during the fourteen days immediately preceding the vote, except Saturday, Sunday or a holiday, between the hours of 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM. Any proposition that is required to be included for a vote shall be submitted in writing not later than April 18, 2016, 30 days before the date of the election set forth in this notice.

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Wendy Lansing District Clerk 2LegalMay13 Legal notice NOTICE TO THE VOTERS OF OTSEGO COUNTY Results for the Presidential Primary Elections held on Tuesday April 19th, 2016 ************** DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES Bernie Sanders 2868 Hillary Clinton 1995 DELEGATES TO THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION 19th Congressional District SANDERS Sheri N BauerMayorga (F) 2146 Leon F Shelhamer (M) 1952 Kelleigh A McKenzie (F) 2169 Roger Mills (M) 1983 Mira J Bowin (F) 2133 CLINTON Doreen Davis (F) 1698 Michael P Hein (M) 1546 Elisa Sumner (F) 1764 Daniel J Torres (M) 1579 Ashley Dittus (F) 1640 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES Donald J Trump 2719 John R Kasich 1516 Ted Cruz 1035 Ben Carson 96 Otsego County Board of Elections 140 Co Hwy 33W, Ste 2 Cooperstown, NY 13326 607-547-4247 or 4325 www.otsegocounty.com 1LegalMay12 Legal notice SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK – COUNTY OF OTSEGO INDEX# 2015-745 FILED: 4/05/2016 SUPPLEMENTAL

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Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises are situated.

WELLS FARGO BANK, NA, Plaintiff, against SAMERA WILSON, if they be living and if they be dead, the respective heirsat-law, next-ofkin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said Defendant(s) who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or inheritance, any right, title or interest in or to the real property described in the Complaint, and “JOHN DOE” and “JANE DOE”, the last two names being fictitious, said parties intended being tenants or occupants, if any, having or claiming an interest in, or lien upon the premises described in the complaint, WTEX LLC, WEBSTER ASPHALT INC. DBA WEBSTER PAVING, THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, and THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, Defendant(s).

SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney within 20 days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may appear within (60) days of service thereof and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

have elected and hereby accelerate the mortgage and declare the entire mortgage indebtedness immediately due and payable. By reason of the aforesaid, there is due and owing to Plaintiff the sum of $140,764.80, with interest thereon at 4.87500% per annum from April 1, 2015.

locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by New York state Banking Department at 1-877Bank-NYS or visit the Department’s website at www.banking. state.ny.us

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: 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 ATTORNEYS 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 YOU CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. YOU ARE HEREBY

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT: THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose on a mortgage in the sum of $152,692.00 dated September 3, 2010, executed

by Defendant SAMERA WILSON to WELLS FARGO BANK, NA recorded on September 15, 2010 in Instrument No. 20104279, in the Office of the Clerk of the County of OTSEGO, covering premises known as 63-65 Church Street, Oneonta, NY 13820 (Section 288.17, Block 4 and Lot 16).

The relief sought within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt described above.

To the above named Defendants: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. Michael V. Coccoma, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, and filed along with the supporting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Otsego. This is an action to foreclose on a mortgage. ALL that plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the City of Oneonta, County of Otsego and State of New York, Section 288.17, Block 4 and Lot 16, said premises known as 63-65 Church Street, Oneonta, NY 13820.

YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. By reason of the default in the payment of the monthly installment of principal and interest, among other things, as hereinafter set forth, Plaintiff, the holder and owner of the aforementioned note and mortgage, or their agents

UNLESS YOU DISPUTE THE VALIDITY OF THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, WITHIN THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER YOUR RECEIPT HEREOF THAT THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, IS DISPUTED, THE DEBTOR JUDGMENT AGAINST YOU AND A COPY OF SUCH VERIFICATION OR JUDGMENT WILL BE MAILED TO YOU BY THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR. IF APPLICABLE, UPON YOUR WRITTEN REQUEST, WITHIN SAID THIRTY (30) DAY PERIOD, THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED A DISCHARGE FROM THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT, YOU ARE NOT PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR THE UNDERLYING INDEBTEDNESS OWED TO PLAINTIFF/ CREDITOR AND THIS NOTICE/DISCLOSURE IS FOR COMPLIANCE AND INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE New York State requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully.

SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond to the Summons and Complaint in this foreclosure action, you may lose your home.

Please read the Summons and Complaint carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney or your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid, there are government agencies, and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To

FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress.

You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. Section 1303 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this Summons and Complaint by serving the 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 may lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the Summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING AN ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Kozeny, McCubbin & Katz, LLP. Attorneys for the Plaintiff, 40 Marcus Drive, Suite 200 Melville, NY 11747 Our File 26522 4LegalMay19 Legal notice SECOND

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CHASE MANHATTAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION, Plaintiff, -vsTHE HEIRS AT LARGE OF RONALD B. MORRELL A/K/A RONALD BENJAMIN MORRELL, 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; SHARON MURWIN, DEBRA DESILVA, DONNA MORRELL, ROBERT MORRELL, JR., ROXANNE MORRELL, DONALD MORRELL, KENT MORRELL, KELLY MEYERS, DARYL MEYERS, KIM DIXON, VIRGINIA CARMEL, LEROY GLENN MORRELL III, MANDY MORRELL, CHRISTOPHER MORRELL, KEVIN MCLOUGHLIN, ROBERT BREWER, GERARD BREWER, BRIAN MORRELL, RICHARD MORRELL, JR. STEVE MORRELL, AND KATHALEN PARKER, AS POSSIBLE HEIRS TO THE ESTATE OF RONALD B. MORRELL A/K/A RONALD BENJAMIN MORRELL, 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; MICHELLE BREWER, DEREK BUTZ AND MEGAL CULHANE, AS POSSIBLE HEIRS TO THE ESTATE OF RONALD B. MORRELL A/K/A RONALD BENJAMIN MORRELL, DECEASED; CAPITAL ONE BANK; SPRINGLEAF HOME EQUITY, INC. F/K/A AMERICAN GENERAL HOME EQUITY, INC. 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,

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Mortgaged Premises: 14 RIVER STREET, OTEGO, NY 13825 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.

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 being amended to include MICHELLE BREWER, DEREK BUTZ AND MEGAN CULHANE, AS POSSIBLE HEIRS TO THE ESTATE OF GERALD BREWER, DECEASED, AS POSSIBLE HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF RONALD B. MORRELL A/K/A RONALD BENJAMIN MORRELL, DECEASED. That this action is also being amended to include THE HEIRS AT LARGE OF GERALD

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BREWER, as said individual is deceased.

OTSEGO County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises.

Dated: NOVEMBER 16, 2015 Mark K. Broyles, Esq. FEIN SUCH & CRANE,LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff Office and P.O. Address 28 East Main Street, Suite 1800 Rochester, New York 14614 Telephone No. (585) 232-7400 Section: 317.15 Block: 2 Lot: 33.00 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 FEBRUARY 4, 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: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Village of Otego, County of Otsego and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEING the same land as conveyed to Ronald B. and Shirley Morrell by deed as recorded in the Otsego County Clerk’s Office in Liber 585 of Deeds, at Page 557; BEGINNING at a survey monument set on the southwesterly boundary of River Street at the easterly corner of land of John Pochis and Kathleen M. DeMatteo (L 737/P 765), said monument being S 32-34 E, 408.7’ from a rebar bound at the back of sidewalk intersection of the southwesterly boundary of said River Street and the southeasterly boundary of Main Street (N.Y.S. Route 7); thence S 3041-30 E along said boundary of River Street, 66.00’ to a survey monument set at the northerly corner of land reputedly of the Presbyterian Church Society; thence S 60-0000 W along said church land, 165.27’ to a survey monument

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Premises known as: 14 RIVER STREET, OTEGO, NY 13825 4LegalMay19 Legal notice Notice of formation of CLAPPER RENTALS, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on May 2, 2016. The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be serviced.

The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/ her to: The LLC, 96 Willow Street, Otego, 13825. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

6LegalJune16 Legal notice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company.

Name: DANE & SONS EXCAVATING & LOGGING LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 9 March 2016.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it

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mail a copy of any process against it served upon her is 3213 Co. Hwy. 16, Burlington Flats, NY 13315. The purpose of the business of such limited liability company is to engage in any lawful act of activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the Limited Liability Company Law. 6LegalJune6

may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 10467 East Raintree Dr., Scottsdale, Arizona 85255.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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tion: 147 Main St., Cooperstown, NY 13326. In Otsego County. The Purpose of business is women’s fashion jewelry and accessories, gifts.

The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC, upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to All About The Girls by May, LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activities.

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organization with the Department of State on April 5, 2016. Its principal office is in Otsego County, New York.

The street address of the LLC is 1314 County Highway 35, Maryland, NY 12116. The Secretary of State of the State of New York has 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 LLC is 1314 County Highway 35, Maryland, NY 12116. The registered agent is Christopher Cohn, 1314 County Highway 35, Maryland, NY 12116, and the registered agent is to be the agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

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Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/11/16. Office: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, P.O. Box 286116, NewYork, NY 10128. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Legal notice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: ROD’S WELDING LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 9 March 2016.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 141 Roscoe Jones Rd, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6legalJune16 Legal notice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: CHERRY VALLEY HARDWARE LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 26 April 2016.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 38 Genesee St, Cherry Valley, NY 13320. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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The name of the entity is Leatherstocking Construction LLC, for which the Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State on April 26, 2016. The office of said entity is to be located in Otsego County, New York.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the limited liability company, upon whom process against it may be served, and the post office address within this State to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon her is 313 Brunner Road, Cooperstown, New York 13326. The purpose of the business of such limited liability company is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the Limited Liability Company Law. 6LegalJune9 Legal notice Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company The name of the entity is Ed’s Repair Shop LLC, for which the Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State on April 26, 2016. The office of said entity is to be located in Otsego County, New York.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the limited liability company, upon whom process against it may be served, and the post office address within this State to which the Secretary of State shall

Legal notice Notice of Formation of J.E.L. Transport LLC. Art. of Org. filed SSNY on 03/08/2016. Office loc: Otsego County. LEGALINC CORPORATE SERVICES INC. designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: LEGALINC CORPORATE SERVICES INC., 90 STATE STREET, SUITE 700 BOX 80, ALBANY, NY 12207. Purpose: any lawful activities.

6LegalJune6 Legal notice Damulis Trucking, LLC. Purpose is to transport goods within and outside New York State.

Filed articles of Organization on 4/12/2016. The Secretary of State has been designated as an agent of the LLC, and the service shall be sent to 451 Gulf Rd, Burlington Flats, NY 13315.

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Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION 195 BISSELL, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sec’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/13/2016. Office Location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 23 Third Street, Manhasset, New York 11030. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

6LegalJune2 Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION REELTOURS 360 LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/23/2016.

Office Location: Otsego County.

Princ. office of LLC: 28 Fair St., Cooperstown, NY 13326. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Stephen Mahlum at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION Notice of Formation of All About The Girls By May, LLC on 3/31/2016 filed with Secy. of State. Office Loca-

Legal notice D&R ENTERPRISES I, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/16/2015.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 16 Water St., Oneonta, NY 13820, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalMay26 Legal notice Notice of Formation of Aspire Performance Coaching, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/25/16.

Office Location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 53 Fair St, Otego, NY 13825.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

6LegalMay26 Legal notice Notice By Publication of Formation of Limited Liability Company Cohn Media Group LLC filed articles of

Legal noticE Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company, (LLC) Name: MILFORD CORNER LOT, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secreatry of State of New York (SSNY) on 3/24/26.

Office Location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 99 Main Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326: Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegaMay 26 Legal notice GRECO ROMAN LLC.

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 Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served & shall mail process to C/O David Dolan, 174 Main St, Otego, NY 13825. Purpose: General.

6LegalMay12 Legal notice 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

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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 upon him/her to: The LLC, 42 Covar Lane, Otego, NY, 13825. The purpose of the LLC is to engae in any lawful act or activity.

6LegalMay12 Legal notice Notice of Formation of OLDESCHOLE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/12/16. Office location: Otsego County. Princ. office of LLC: PO Box 800, Morris, NY 13808. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Joseph Norman at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

6legalMay26 Legal notice Notice of Formation of OTSDAWA BERRY, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/12/16. Office location: Otsego County. Princ. office of LLC: 1432 Co. Hwy. 8, Otego, NY 13825.

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

SSNY shall mail process to Nathaniel Posner at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2016

Ann Mecciarello Promoted To Principal, Permanently

OBITUARIES Peg Torruella, 81; ‘Mrs. T’ Well Known In Village COOPERSTOWN – Margaret A. (Peg) Torruella, 81, beloved wife of Maurice passed away at her home on May 7, 2016 surrounded by her family.

Peg was born in Hartford, Conn., on March 24, 1935, to Eleanor and Vincent James McDonald. After spending her childhood

years growing up in Yonkers and The Bronx, and marrying her husband Maurice (of 61 years), she moved to New City.

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Peg was an accomplished seamstress Margaret and an avid Torruella reader. One of the many fond memories her children have of her were the matching mother-daughter dresses she made for all four daughters and the marching into Sunday services at St. Augustine’s each week.

Many Halloweens she would create custom costumes for her children, grandchildren and little friends, bringing them such delight. Often one of the first signs of spring on Linden Avenue was Peg and her grandchildren or neighborhood children creating huge bubbles with an over-sized bubble-wand.

Another favorite past time of Peg’s was shopping at the SPCA Thrift Store. She was always thrilled with her great finds and most times would re-gift them or decorate her home with the many treasures.

Wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, aunt and sister, Peg was blessed with six children: Reese Torruella (Beth) of Garner, N.C., William Torruella (Maria) of Oneonta, Margaret Torruella of Montgom-

ery, in Orange County, Theresa Andidero (Ray), also of Montgomery, Michelle Adsit (Bill) of Cooperstown, and Cheryl Torruella (Brenda) of Sauquoit.

She will be greatly missed as well by her numerous nieces and nephews. Peg had a total of 12 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. She was also proud of all the children she babysat over the years in the Village of Cooperstown and became known as “Mrs. T.” Peg was the happiest when she had a baby in her arms.

Another very important relationship Peg treasured was her Cherry Valley church family. Going to mass and coffee hour was a weekly ritual as she cherished this time spent with her second family.

Peg was one of eight children. She is preceded in death by her sister, Mary Cole, and brothers Edward and William McDonald.

Surviving siblings are Vincent McDonald, Joseph McDonald, Eleanor Pignatelli and Gary McDonald.

Calling hours will be 5-8 p.m. on Thursday, May 12, at Tillapaugh Funeral Services, 28 Pioneer St., Cooperstown.

A funeral mass will be celebrated by Father John Roos at 11 a.m, Friday, May 13, at St. Thomas Catholic Church in Cherry Valley.

Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Tillapaugh Funeral Service.

Anne Stewart Memorial Service Moved To The Farmers’ Museum COOPERSTOWN – The site of the memorial service for Anne Louise Stewart, 60, at 11 a.m. Sunday, May 15, has been changed to the Cornwallville Church on the grounds of The Farmers’ Museum. A reception will follow at the Cooperstown Graduate Program.

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administrative HIRED/From A1 reorganizaprofessionalism … and will tion planned provide stability and a focus announced on student growth as she just two days guides the elementary school before Superinto the future,” Interim Suintendent of perintendent Michael Virgil Schools C.J. said.

She was chosen after a Mecciarello Herbert sudden passing in year-long search involving March. the school board, teachers Under the plan, Mike and members of the comCring, high school principal munity. since 1996, was transferred Previously, Meccariello to a new administrative posihad taught eighth-grade tion: director of curriculum, English at Cooperstown for 17 years, as department chair in combination with the athletic director job. since 2011. Before joining Russo said the next focus CCS, she had taught English at Worcester Central for five will be on hiring a new principal, with the deadline years. for applications coming in a Ann has been a member of the district’s Inquiry Team couple of weeks. The goal is since its inception, playing a to fill that job before school begins in September. key role in the development The final step will be to of the annual professional find a successor to Hebert, performance review plan and at Wednesday’s meeting (APPR). Before becoming the school board also met an administrator, she was with Alan Pole from Castallo active in the Cooperstown & Silky Education ConsulTeachers Association, servtants, LLC, who will help ing as president since 2011. find a new superintendent.

School Board President The goal is to have the posiTheresa Russo said the school board is still commit- tion filled by Jan. 1. ted to moving forward on an

2 Democrats Challenge Seward

RACES/From A1 Cooperstown said he has also been approached by Jermaine Bagnall-Graham of Sherburne, who is employed in the Bassett Healthcare Network, expressing interest in the Senate seat.

Abbate said the Otsego Democratic Committee plans to meet June 3, and hopes to speak to both candidates at that time. “It’s too early to say anything about either candidate,” he said. “I will wait until we see them and talk to them.

For his part, Republican County Chair Vince Casale said, “Senator Seward has a tremendous record of service in the district. He also has broad support across the political spectrum and in the state. I believe he will win reelection easily.”

In her announcement, Dunning said she plans to focus on education and “the need for change” in Albany, which has been rocked by repeated scandals in the past two years.

A resident of Ilion, where

she lives with her husband David and is also a partner in Dunning & Krupa, a law firm, in her announcement she cited her successful defense of AIDS-positive David Plunkett, who was sentenced to 10-years in jail for biting a police officer.

The prosecution had argued his tainted saliva made Plunkett’s teeth “dangerous instruments,” but the conviction was vacated on appeal.

She graduated from Mohawk Central Schools and Utica College. She later attended Western New England School of Law and began practicing law in Herkimer County during 2006.

Bagnall-Graham works with a Bassett physician group to maximize workflow. He is a graduate of Binghamton High School and SUNY Oneonta with a bachelor’s in communications. He received a master’s in public administration from SUNY Binghamton.

Seward has not announced if he is running again, but it is widely assumed he will.

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