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t was the worst-kept secret in downtown Cooperstown this week. While there was no official announcement, word quickly circulated that CVS Health of www. OTSEGO.com Woonsocket, R.I., had submitted the high bid to acquire the 1.25-acre WATCH FORUM: The forum of Democratic and Re- Cooperstown Motel publican candidates seeking property at the village’s busy southern gateway. to succeed U.S. Rep. Chris After long-time Gibson, at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Foothills in Oneonta, may motel operator Albert K. also be viewed later at www. O’Brien died last Oct. 23, a half-dozen unsoliclwvoneonta.org. ited bids were received for one of village’s rare FOND FAREWELL: His congregation is planning a retirement reception for Rev. Bill Delia, pastor, Cooperstown Methodist Church, 1-4 p.m. Saturday, June 11, at the church, 66 By LIBBY CUDMORE Chestnut St. All friends and fans in the community welcome. HARTWICK
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the Hartwick Cemetery Association. “But they have to stay down so that the insurance investigators can photograph them the way they are.” On Wednesday, SHE INSPIRES: CCS he hardest part June 1, Phillips got third-graders are dedicating in the vandala call that there was this year’s annual track meet, ism of the broken glass in the planned Thursday, June 9, to Hartwick Cemetery cemetery driveway. Kathleen Galland-Bennett, is doing nothing. She and supervisor the teacher and running en“People, busiJerry Gage went to thusiast who died of cancer nesses keep calling, investigate, and found last summer. asking if we want that 54 tombstones had them to help put the been overturned, broThe Freeman’s Journal tombstones back up,” 54 tombstones were ken and vandalized. said Ina Phillips, the toppled in Hartwick Please see secretary/treasurer of Cemetery. VANDALS, A6
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When it was announced in April that Fox’s birthing room would be consolidated with the one in Cooperstown, the Oneonta hospital was also identified as a possible “center of excellence in orthopedics.” Knight has been an attending orthopedic surgeon at Basssett since 2009. He is also director of Bassett’s
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CS senior Elizabeth Olmstead of Hartwick has won the first Julia Alexandra LevandowskiKlix Music Scholar, Julia’s father, Kevin Klix, has announced. Julia, a 2011 graduate of Cooperstown High School, died in a car crash on May 21, 2015, on Route 80 north of Cooperstown. She had been attending Lemoyne College, where she made the Dean’s List her first semester. The driver in the accident was charged with DUI.
he Town of Springfield has named Keith and Janet McCarty of East Springfield grand marshals of the 102nd annual Springfield 4th of July Parade. Lifelong residents (and high school sweethearts), Keith served as town high superintendent for many years before being elected to the county Board of Representatives. Janet received a bachelor in business
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County Rep. Dr. Shashank Kotakonda Keith has won Bassett’s McCarty, Donnall Thomas Prize. R-East M.D., at Bassett Medical Springfield, and Center. his wife The study explored comJanet, bining topical pharyngeal a leader anesthetics with sedatives in the such as Propofol. Northern “This combination may Otsego ease the endoscopy experiRelay for ence by diminishing the gag Life, are reflex, thereby improving grand patient tolerance during the marshals procedure, which is our ul- of Springfield’s timate goal,” the researcher Fourth said. of July Kotakonda earned his parade. medical degree from Andhra
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administration at New Hampshire College, and later taught business education as CV-S Central School. In recent years, she has been a mainstay in the Northern Otsego Relay For Life. Keith and Janet raised their children, Molli, now 33, and Ryan, 28, in the home Keith grew up in, and where the couple still resides. The parade, which is considered the oldest such event in the country, will step off at 11 a.m. on July 4 on Main Street, followed by festivities at the Community Center.
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neonta Dollars for Scholars Board of Directors were to honor scholarship winners, parents, sponsors and friends to their annual awards program Wednesday, June 8, at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom.
Sixty-one scholarships were to be presented, and honorees shared a personal achievement or experience of which they are most proud. The Dollars for Scholars program seeks to financially assist local students with the increasing costs of higher education and lessen the amount of debt from their respective schools. Karen Brown, SUNY Oneonta director of admissions and mother of OHS senior and honoree Rachel Brown, was to give the welcome and the closing comments. Dollars for Scholars President Jacqueline Rowe was to present the certificates. Zoe Akers (SUNY Broome Community College) William & Esther Fink Memorial Scholarship
Garrett Hassard (SUNY Polytechnic Institute) Steven A. Lutz Memorial Scholarship
Ethan Beckerink (SUNY Buffalo) George H. Lambros Memorial Scholarship
Taylor Hitchcock (Albany College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences) Winifred Marcley Memorial Scholarship
Emily Berrios (SUNY Canton) Dr. Rudolph & Gwen L. Schuster Scholarship Sarah Brackett (Roberts Wesleyan College+) Nancy Weeks Memorial Scholarship Rachael Brown (SUNY New Paltz+) Shane Robert Marmet Memorial Scholarship Patrick Calhoun (SUNY Cortland) Oneonta Football Booster Club Scholarship Joseph Casassa (Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst) Future for Oneonta Foundation Inc. Scholarship & Robert Squires Memorial Scholarship Michelle Chen (School of Visual Arts+) Janice “Denny” Lennox Memorial Scholarship Brenna Decker (SUNY Geneseo) Herb & Rae Froh Memorial Scholarship & Christine M. Schermerhorn Memorial Scholarship Rory Decker (Kings College) Dewar Foundation Scholarship & Oneonta Teachers Association Scholarship Bennett Eggler (SUNY Oneonta) Stan & Linda Syvertsen Family Scholarship Claire Garfield (SUNY Stony Brook University) Bruce Rowe Memorial Scholarship & The Zuretti Family Scholarship Bhanupratap Gaur (SUNY Oneonta) Dewar Foundation Scholarship Emily Harter (SUNY New Paltz+) Jim Konstanty – “That’s a Good Start…” Scholarship & The Daily Star Scholarship
Jennica Holoquist (Clemson University) The Hon. Robert A. Harlem Scholarship Aanyah Jhonson-Whyte (Binghamton University) Frederick A. Puritz Memorial Scholarship
Daniel Mazzei (SUNY Polytechnic Colleges of Nanoscale Science & Engineering) Oneonta Rotary Community Service Scholarship Molly Medina (University at Buffalo) Frank W. Getman, Sr. Memorial Scholarship Mary Miller (Broome Community College) Brooks’ House of BBQ Charitable Foundation Scholarship
Dalton Sheehan (SUNY Delhi) Robert J. Shultis Memorial Scholarship Amy Shultis (SUNY Oneonta) Margaret W. Ouimette Memorial Scholarship Aliya Sider (University at Albany) Edward & Florence Ostrowski Memorial Scholarship
Gavin Monroe (SUNY Plattsburgh) Steven A. Lutz Memorial Scholarship
Brianne Smith (University of Vermont) Clifford A. & Elizabeth P. McVinney Memorial Scholarship
Holly Keown (Nazareth College) Charles T. & Doris B. Gallagher Memorial Scholarship
Sarah Nader-Marcus (Daemen College) Dewar Foundation Scholarship
Kasie Stamp (Wells College+) Walter J. & Anna H Burchan Scholarship
Sarah Nader-Marcus (Daemen College) Susan Remillard Memorial Scholarship
Jamie Keown (American International College) Michelle R. Goodhue Memorial Scholarship
Hang [Brittney] Nguyen (Bridgewater State University) Thomas M. Hughson Scholarship
Bekka Struble (SUNY Oneonta) Sixth Ward Athletic Club Association, Inc. Scholarship
Michelle Kimball (SUNY Cortland) Southside Association Scholarship
Anne Nobiling (SUNY Geneseo) Robert W. & Joan F. Moyer Scholarship
Sapphira Koerner (SUNY Oneonta) Anthony & Marcella Drago Scholarship
Clark Oliver (SUNY Oneonta) Oneonta Rotary Breuninger/Forman Award
Nisha Labroo (Pennsylvania State University) James & Carol Baker Family Scholarship
Kaylee Packard (Nazareth College) Forgiano Family Leadership Award
Abigail Loucks (SUNY Oneonta) Eugene Francis Murphy Memorial Scholarship
Kaylee Packard (Nazareth College) Reverend Richard H. Frye Memorial Scholarship
Emily Loucks (Pennsylvania State University) Angie Bertuzzi Memorial Scholarship
Abigail Picinich (SUNY New Paltz+) Daniel & Jean Rothermel Memorial Scholarship
Kimberly Kamina (SUNY Oneonta) C. James & Lois S. Herrick Memorial Scholarship
Robert Lyall (Siena College) John K. Miller Memorial Mathematics Scholarship
Antonio Russo (SUNY Delhi) Jared S. Trotti Memorial Scholarship
Noah Maben (Temple University) James C. Austin Memorial Scholarship
Christina Sakoulas (SUNY Oneonta) Dewar Foundation Scholarship
Morgyn Manzer (Appalachian State University) Brooks’ House of BBQ Charitable Foundation Scholarship
Olivia Schwed (Ithaca College) Douglas Parsons Memorial Scholarship
Gaylen Thompson (Lycoming College) Frances E. Rowe Scholarship Julie Weite (SUNY Potsdam) Pasquale & Mary Leone Memorial Scholarship David Wessells (Houghton College+) George A. & Isabelle L. Niles Scholarship Aliaya Williams (University at Buffalo) Willies Family Foundation Scholarship Keyonna Williams (Johnson & Wales, Rhode Island+) Walter J. & Anna H. Burchan Vocational Scholarship Lindsay Wolfanger (SUNY Geneseo) Lindsay Marie Harvey Memorial Scholarship 54 AWARD RECIPIENTS 61 Awards Administered (7 Recipients have 2 awards) 8 Awards are matched through the Collegiate Partner Matching Program +
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Otsego County, Upstate Banking Capital Of Future?
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t was quite a tableau on Sept. 12, 2012, on the shores of Otsego Lake: Ministers from the across the county blessing the waters in a demonstration against fracking. That was among many dramatic anti-fracking manifestations – hundreds of opponents at local FERC hearings, rallies at the state Capitol, Governor Cuomo’s loss of 39 Upstate counties in the 2014 Democratic primary – an impressive marshalling of public sentiment for a cause. Happily, the threat of fracking in the Otsego Lake watershed and, for that matter, the county generally has disappeared. The best guarantee: There’s simply not enough natural gas to tap profitably. Better than most places inhabited by humans in the 21st century, our natural environment is pretty well protected. Yet, another challenge remains: How do we create a sustainable local economic environment for human beings themselves? • A very encouraging sign – and a new entry in the discussion – comes from Farm Credit East, which provides loans, crop insurance and other financial services to farmers from 21 offices around the Northeast. It is planning a 50-job office building, merging its Sangerfield and Cobleskill offices, on Route 80 – East Lake Road – on the old Ryerson estate across from the Otsego Golf Course, a few hundred yards from Otsego Lake.
Otsego County is “an attractive place to recruit talent,” said Farm Credit East CEO Lipinski, left. With him is Cooperstown native Mike Reynolds, a regional VP.
And these are good jobs, accountants, appraisers, investment counselors. The project went to public hearing before the Town of Springfield Planning Board last Thursday, June 2. Otsego Land Trust chair Harry Levine, representing Advocates for Springfield, was in the audience. So was Danny Lapin, an OCCA environmental analyst. Uh, oh, anyone intrigued by the idea might have concluded on scanning the crowd. Not to worry, it turned out. “In simple terms,” Levine said when the time came for the public to speak, “we DO support this project.” At few minutes later, Lapin added, “We do not have any environmental concerns.” And the stunner: Otsego 2000 President Nicole Dillingham and her husband, Gaylord, had sent a personal letter to the Planning Board with an “enthusiastic endorsement” of the project.
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Editor’s Note: Here are excerpts from the “opportunities/strategies” section of “Focus on the Future of Main Street,” presented to Common Council Tuesday, June 7, by the LA Group, consultants from Saratoga.
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• In his comments, Farm Credit East CEO Bill Lipinski, who had driven up from Enfield, Conn., for the hearing, and added something new to the conversation. The Otsego Lake region is “an attractive place to recruit talent” for the financial sector. When you think about it, Otsego County should be. Already, in-migrants are all around us. We have Cooperstown, with The Otesaga, access to Glimmerglass, a national symbol of pristine nature, the cultural attractions – the NYSHA museums, the Glimmerglass Festival (a half mile south of Farm Credit’s site), Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal the Hall of Fame – Oneonta’s colCooperstown architect Kurt Ofer describes how the lowleges and educated population, and slung building will be hidden from Route 80 by existing scenic beauty at every turn. trees. At right is Springfield Town Supervisor Bill Elsey. Economic-development efforts to live up here fulltime? Why not – energetically pursued by Otsego artifacts and traffic, even “darknight certification,” ensuring parkmany of them? Why not a miniNow in recent years – have tilted ing-lot lights aren’t too light. Wall-Street north? toward manufacturing, and why If anyone wants to stop anyOtsego Now’s renewed effort to not: A single manufacturer hirthing, a reason can be found. obtain broad-band funding, after ing 100, 200 or more employees So Otsego 2000, the Land Trust, the New York State’s initiative would have a major beneficial OCCA and Advocates for Springwas delayed a year by personnel impact on the local economy. field supporting the Farm Credit changes, will only accelerate that. But as everything from the East plan – granted, Altonview There’s more, of course, the biomass plant at Pony Farm to the Architects of Cooperstown came prospective Oneonta “food hub,” Constitution Pipeline suggests, up with a design that will keep craft food and beverages generally, nothing much is going to happen the two-wing building low to the the water-park plans, the redevelaround here if local environmenground – is good news indeed. opment of the D&H years around talists don’t come aboard. • rail, Interstate and air transport, That was emphasized as the Anyone who lives around here spinoffs from the nano-boom at Planning Board went through Part any amount of time runs across Utica-Rome. 2 of the SEQR process the other Wall Street bankers and investors, Perhaps the stars are finally night: There are 104 categories retired around the lake, or here aligning in our county, where – as where environmental objections for the opera or to play a round at in most of Upstate New York – almay be lodged to any undertakmost all the economic news has ing, from proximity to wetlands, to the Leatherstocking Golf Course. impact on wildlife, archaeological Why wouldn’t some of them want been bad.
ness growth and new business attraction from outside the City, local area, and region assuming appropriate organizational capacity. Reuse developments should focus on activating upper floors of existing historic buildings that are noticeably vacant in Oneonta and have been for far too long in some instances. Persuading property owners to make investment and connect to development resources if needed will be a critical role the city can play. Infill development should focus on vacant/underutilized properties (e.g. parking lot on Main Street) and all of Market Street, which currently has low density to the point where significant business activity cannot be supported … ► DOWNTOWN MANAGEMENT Improved and more centralized downtown management is required to overcome existing governance and operational fragmentation in the current economic development delivery system in Oneonta. Downtown management entities help to promote effective, transparent and equitable partnerships for downtown operations that effect public safety, cleanliness and maintenance. These are mutually beneficial to public and private partners and support public-realm improvement and more positive visitor experience. Without centralized downtown management, however, an array of partners that take on various roles and functions of a downtown Please See STRATEGY, A6
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Volunteerism Gave Shelter Opportunity To Be ‘No Kill’ To the Editor: The article on the Susquehanna Animal Shelter makes the point that, “... animal care runs in the red.” As a former board member and past board chair, (of the SSPCA, now the SAS), I can categorically state the annual budget always ran in the red. Maybe it was better that way as it made us board members work hard to balance the budget. We never did. But thanks to the generosity of the community and the dedication of the volunteers at the “Better Exchange,” we got by, kept the doors open, the animals cared for and even had some fun at fundraising events. Most important, we remained true to our mission as a “no kill” shelter. You pose the question, “Who should help pay shelter cost?” The obvious answer is those who use the service. Unless things have changed, a fee is charged for each surrendered animal. These fees never begin to cover
the average cost of care and feeding, but they are a token of the owners’ admission of responsibility for the animal. The ongoing expense is the responsibilSAS volunteer ity of the SAS and Sue Leonard that is why people and rescued were asked to pit bull Reavoluntarily donate gan. while the board and others ran fund drives. So who should pay for seized animals? Certainly not the deputy; he did his job by enforcing the law. Further if you want to produce a chilling effect on officers doing their duty and bringing in abused animals, just keep asking them to commit their bosses to a financial burden. Nor did the sheriff or the county taxpayers create this situation.
The responsibility belongs to the person from whom the animals were seized. Assuming that the officer issued a summons for animal mistreatment the prior owner will be appearing in town court. A spokesperson from the SAS should be present with pictures, and any bills the animals have incurred. Remember, these animals were not voluntarily surrendered, they were rescued from a bad situation. The spokesperson should ask the court for a judgment against the former owner. As many of us can testify, this has worked in the past, most notably in a case in the Town of Worcester where, thanks the untiring efforts of the DA Muehl and ADA Parshall, the SSPCA recovered $67,000, which had been spent on the medical care, boarding and feeding of some 51 mistreated dogs. PAT McBREARTY Milford
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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library
200 YEARS AGO
Village Ordinance: Be it ordained: That no person shall play at Ball in Second or West Street, in this village, under a penalty of one dollar, for each and every offense. (Ed. note: The above is considered to be the earliest known reference to “ball playing” found so far in the surviving newspaper records of Cooperstown.) One Cent Reward – On the 18th Inst., Theodosia Yeomans, an apprentice girl, left the employment of the subscriber. This is to forbid all persons harboring or trusting her. Whoever will return her to me, at my house, shall receive one cent reward, but no charges will be paid. Naboth Buckingham, Exeter, 21st May, 1816. June 13, 1816
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(Advertisement) Otsego Hotel – The subscribers having taken the commodious House, heretofore known as Union Hall, and lately occupied by Isaac Lewis, situate in Cooperstown, opposite the Bank, invite Travelers and others to call and try their accommodations. Their best efforts will be in constant requisition for the comfort and case of those who shall rest with them. The table, Bar, and other requisites of a Hotel will be in good order and well furnished, and the attendance prompt and efficient. G.W. Deverel & Co. Cooperstown, June 11, 1841. June 14, 1841
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Signs of Progress in India: Intellectual development is making rapid headway among the old and conservative nations of the East. It is stated that since 1860 the number of schools has increased so rapidly that the Punjab contains no less than 2,733 academies, in which the pupils, to the number of 86,292, are instructed both in English and Hindoo. In the same province, there are 662 schools for girls, with an attendance of more than 13,000 scholars. Perhaps nothing more clearly shows the radical tendency of the natives to disenthrall themselves from the fetters of ancient customs, than this deep interest in the education of women. Nor is this interest limited to a narrow district of that country. In Bombay, Lahore, Oude and other sections, similar progress appears. June 8, 1866
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Children’s Day – An interesting service, consisting of vocal and instrumental music, will be held in the Presbyte-
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Excerpts from “Affairs of a U.S. Soldier” by Harold H. Hollis – Maxwell Field, Alabama, June 1, 1941. “Yesterday was pay day in the Army; and a very pleasant day for the some 7,000 soldiers on the post here. In fact, I might call it one of the most pleasant days of my short career of six weeks in the outfit. We were paid our twenty-one dollars per in real American currency which is acceptable anywhere. A soldier can spend more money per minute than any other human being on the face of the earth. Consequently, about the tenth of each month he finds himself suddenly broke. It comes to one as a terrific shock. But our Uncle Sammy has devised a way to ease that shock to some extent. He issues script, or “Canteen Checks,” as they are known here, against the next month’s pay, this to the extent of seven dollars. June 10, 2006 These Canteen Checks are good only at the Post Exrian Church on Sunday morning next, in place of the usual change stores at the camp. There are still some who find church service, by and under the auspices of the Sunday themselves out of checks before the Finance Department School. does its work.” (Ed. Note: Harold Hollis trained as a Accident – Nelson, the 13-year-old son of Fayette Houck weather observer. Hollis worked as a weather observer and of this village met with an accident on Wednesday afterjournalist and also served as a Village Trustee and Mayor.) noon of last week, which came near being serious. While June 11, 1941 splitting wood in the yard, his axe caught on a clothes line, bringing the blade down upon the lad’s head, cutting a gash about three inches in length, necessitating the taking of sevNew York Telephone announced this week an all-out eferal stitches to close the wound. Dr. Babbitt attended him. fort to protect customers from abusive telephone calls. “We June 11, 1891 are concerned with the increase in the number of customers who are disturbed by crank, obscene, and threatening calls. Our company has launched a new program aimed at Mrs. Philema Penem Tooley Shapley of West Exeter eliminating this source of customer irritation and it is being claims that she is 106 years old. She celebrated her birthday carried out in cooperation with law enforcement agencies,” at her home and is in very good health for one of her years. Cornelius W. Owens, company president said. The crackMrs. Shapley is the mother of 13 children by Mr. Tooley, down includes use of techniques aimed at identifying the who was the father of 22 children. She has several stepsons calling number. who are 90 years old, but little can be ascertained of the June 8, 1966 family as none can recall dates with any degree of accuracy. Uriah Bentley, the well-known teamster of Schuyler Lake, fell from a large load of feed which he was drawing from A precautionary four-day boil-water order has been lifted Richfield Springs for J.A. Jones and broke his collar bone after bacteria test results of the village’s drinking water last Monday afternoon. Mr. Bentley, though suffering, got came back negative. Turbidity, or cloudiness in the water, back on the load and drove the team home. The accident reached alarming levels May 31. Officials ordered residents was caused by the lines getting caught in the wheel, thus and other water users to boil water for two minutes before pulling Mr. Bentley off the high load. It was very fortunate using it to drink or cook. Village administrator Richard that he had a steady team for the hind wheel was just ready Linn said there were never any reports of bacteria. to pass over his back. The team stopped when he spoke to June 12, 1991 them. June 14, 1916
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A-6 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL
THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2016
LA Group Outlines Ideas For Downtown Oneonta
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Miriam Nelson’s Exercise Regimen Greatly Increases Elderly’s Strength To the Editor: A recent picture of our Hartwick Senior Exercise Class by Ian Austin, and a nice article by Libby Cudmore – thank you both – appeared recently on your AllOTSEGO.life page. I just have a correction. Our group can’t take credit for going in the nursing homes. We just follow the strength-training program recommended by Miriam E. Nelson, Ph.D., in her book, “Strong Women Stay Young,” one of several she has written on extensive scientific research. Two from Tufts University went into a nursing home in the late 1980’s and worked
with six women and four men – volunteers for the program – ages from 86 to 96 years. This was a work-out three times a week for eight weeks, lifting weights. The results, published in JAMA in 1990, were remarkable. In just eight weeks, these 10 participants increased their strength by an average 175 percent. Two participants discarded their canes. I’m just glad the county Office of the Aging started classes in different areas of Otsego County. Our members range in age from 65 to 90 plus. It’s a plus for seniors. JEAN FINCH Toddsville
Plot Holders Cautioned: Fix Markers, Risk Insurance Loss VANDALS/From A1 “I burst into tears,” said Phillips. “It was just a complete mess. Why would someone want to do this?” “That afternoon, I just saw a woman sitting by a turnedover grave, just sobbing,” said Gage. “It tears you apart because there’s nothing you can do.” County Sheriff’s deputies took fingerprints from the fallen tombstones, and the investigation is ongoing. In addition to the Sheriff’s Department, an investigator from the state Department of Cemeteries came into inspect the damage, and both Cherry Valley Memorials and Sickler Memorials came out to give estimates. “None of the damage is beyond repair,” said Gage. A few of the older stones, such as Diantha Gardner’s 1886 headstone, are cracked. “I can’t believe more of these weren’t broken,” said Gage. “I guess somebody’s watching over this place.” But some stones are so heavy that Gage and Phillips can’t even lift them to see if they’re scratched or damaged. “There’s a Family Tree, shaped like a tree-trunk, that got knocked over,” said Gage. “I went to try and pick it up to see whose it was, and I couldn’t move it. So either the guy who did this was a gorilla, or there were 4-5 of them.” And it’s not the first time that grave has been vandalized. “A few years ago, there was a fishbowl there, and somebody took that!” he said. “It makes me so sad.” The repair estimates will have to be sent to the state, and families of those affected are being encouraged to check with their homeowner’s insurance to see if it will cover the repairs to the tombstones. But Phillips doesn’t know what the timeline is for “Someone came in and put up five tombstones,” she said. “You can’t do that. It has to stay this way for the insurThinking of Remodeling? Think of Refinancing!
ance.” “We’re in limbo,” Gage added. But there are ways that volunteers can help, including making donations to the Cemetery Association to help cover the costs of repair beyond what insurance will pay for. And the evening after the rampage, over 75 residents came out to help tidy the cemetery, putting floral arrangements and memorials back in their proper places. “There was stuff just strewn everywhere,” said Gage.
STRATEGY/From A4 manager require more clearly delineated roles, Please See PLAN, responsibilities and expectations for partners. The next step towards a more integrated downtown management is to develop a strategic action plan for downtown development that engages a broad base of public and private partners that span downtown, local and the regional economies. Following are keyprogram areas of downtown management and identification of the organization that is primary or lead partner in each program area of downtown management: ► ADVERTISING, MARKETING Destination Oneonta is looking to expand the definition of a Main Street organization to encompass other parts of Oneonta, importantly the campuses and Southside Mall, which is a destination driver for regional residential traffic to the area. Downtown should have a reciprocal and compatible relationship with the Southside Mall because they both serve important functions. However, there are multiple websites (e.g. city website, downtownoneonta. com, mainstreetoneonta.com, destinationoneonta.com) already advertising downtown, which may create a barrier to building unified downtown marketing programs, not to mention regional websites like thisiscooperstown.com, otsegocc.com, and otsegonow.com.
► EVENTS Destination Oneonta and other volunteer community organizations, with support from the city, sponsor and produce premier community events such as First Night Oneonta. This model appears to work as events are very popular. As in most communities, longterm sustainability of events is contingent upon perpetuating them, and can be challenging over the long term due to burn out, staff and volunteer change, and changing community demand for events. Though they can take a lot of resources, both volunteer and financial support, downtown events were identified by all stakeholders as some of the most important activities going on downtown… ► LETTING OTHERS KNOW Business outreach to build awareness locally and regionally is critical to growing existing businesses and recruiting new businesses. The Chamber has the primary role of nurturing and supporting existing businesses. In that capacity, they support the expansion and retention of these businesses through their programs, such as Leadership Otsego and the Tri-County Young Professionals, and services offered through the Business Resource Center. The Chamber also conducts regular outreach to businesses downtown, and throughout the region, through its membership activities, which support building awareness of downtown activities and business investment opportunities.
Business recruitment is currently the responsibility of Otsego Now. However, these efforts are primarily focused on industrial businesses outside of downtown Oneonta. ► WHAT’S AVAILABLE? Downtown residential and commercial space finder is an integral part of downtown marketing and keeping the pulse on business activity. Property owners and brokers are currently the primary advertisers of available space for sale and for rent. Many do this with just a sign and a phone number in the window. The current “system” reflects fragmentation as well as lack of focus on unified downtown marketing and positioning. Regularly updated and linked property, building and business databases are a hallmark of effective downtown management and a foundation for regular market analysis and updates. Such a system is currently lacking for downtown Oneonta. This opportunity to building a downtown-property and space-finder database may have broader applications. The space finder would showcase available commercial and residential space for sale and rent, and be supported by regular capture and data integration with assessor’s data, sales transactions and rental occupancy throughout downtown and broader City and County as appropriate … It is suggested that a local economic development corporation (LDC) be formed to fulfill this role. The down-
town LDC is envisioned to be a stand-alone, autonomous entity structured according to a corporate charter and governed by a board of directors. … ► BE WELCOMING Public space improvements are a big opportunity to promote functional and attractive streetscape, signage and way-finding, visitor information, parks, plazas and open spaces. The benefits of publicspace improvements, including better accessibility to, from and within downtown, more connectivity, especially between Main and Market, with new development, enhanced multi-modal transfers (e.g. vehicle, bus, bike, pedestrian, etc.) and a more pleasant and repeatable visitor experience for residents and tourists is an important consideration for improving downtown. This is largely the city’s role to promote public space, because they implement physical infrastructure improvements on regular basis and so it is reasonable that the City lead improvements to public spaces.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2016
Russo: Hall Gate’s Decline, As Much As Dreams Park, Homogenized Downtown 20 YEARSA/From A1 people were protected by that umbrella,” said Russo, explaining why the diversity of downtown store’s offerings has declined since Cooperstown Dreams Park opened in 1996, two decades ago. In the first few years after Dreams Park opened, an art gallery closed, a Hallmark card shop, and singer Debbie “Blondie” Harry’s dad’s antique store, he reported – they were no longer sure things; and baseball stores, surer bets, began to predominate between Chestnut and Fair streets, the businessman said. Still, it’s hard to tie the loss of downtown diversity to Dreams Park alone, Russo
continued. “What caused what?” he asked. After all, Farm & Home, a downtown general store, closed in 1993, a couple of years before anyone had any inkling of Dream’s Park. Rare among downtown merchants, Russo tracks sales in his baseball memorabilia and clothing store by the hour, and recorded his business dropping sharply at 7 p.m. Sunday, July 10, 1994, a full month before the MLB strike dealt Cooperstown re- An enthusiastic fan’s posting on tripadvisor shows tailing a body blow and two how large Cooperstown Dreams Park has grown. years before Dreams Park. slow start during World War The growth began again, A businessman in baseII, Hall attendance grew by 7,000 a year, into the 1990s, ball’s mecca for 25 years roughly 7,000 a year until the topping 400,000 in 1993, the now, he has also put together first Arab Oil Embargo, when year before the strike, Rusa chart tracking Hall of Fame it dipped. It really plummet- so’s chart shows. It dipped attendance going back to ed with the second embargo again. By 1997, it was under its 1939 founding. After a in 1970. 300,000 and has been up and
down since, but never nearing the 400,000 heyday. “I match the decline in the diversity of Main Street with the decline of numbers at the Hall of Fame,” he said. Even though Russo argues against a strict cause and effect, that doesn’t mean Dreams Park – it emerged, “Field of Dreams”-like, just a few ballfields for six weeks that first year on leased land in Hartwick Seminary – didn’t have a significant effect on Cooperstown’s business district. As it grew, Dreams Park’s injection of approximately 6,000 people a week – 105 teams, 15 kids per team, plus an average of two adults per child – ate up all available hotel rooms, driving prices above $200 a night, discouraging families of tourists who used to visit the Hall of Fame for a day, and stay for night or two. The flip side has been an influx of cash to property owners who have fixed up their homes and rented rooms to Dreams Park families, or bought other properties and converted them for the youth-baseball business, Russo said. The businessman also
credits Dreams Park with the continuing survival of Cooperstown Commons, home to a Tops supermarket and a Best Western, which opened in 1995, the year before youth baseball arrived. In recent years, the expansion of Dreams Park’s season into June has turned a sleepy month for commerce into the busy one, Russo said. Two decades later, though, he still marvels how the community was unable to see what was coming. As word surfaced that Lou Presutti II was planning a youth baseball park, a merchants’ association operating at that time invited him to talk to Main Street business people. That was in 1995, and Cooperstown Dreams Park opened the following year. The group met at the Tunnicliff Inn. Presutti’s concept, now part of the Cooperstown area’s self-definition, was completely alien to the people at that meeting. “Can girls go?” Presutti was asked. “What about local kids?” “No one understood it,” said Russo. “Everyone walked out there scratching their heads.”
Consternation Greeting News CVS May Move CVS/From A1 only by the Post Office a block to the east. Conceivably, relocating it a half-mile to the south of Main Street would siphon off a lot of traffic that today would proceed into the village center. “If they move out of the downtown business district, that’s going to be a large vacancy,” said Matt Hazzard, The Freeman’s Journal The old Cooperstown Cooperstown Chamber of Motel may soon make Commerce executive director, who had heard the news. way for a new CVS. He added hopefully, “There’s out the Cooperstown situation always room for opportunity. and call back. But given the If they leave, hopefully some- estate’s decision is only day’s body will move right in.” old, it’s likely any corporate “One thing that we’re look- process is in the early stages. ing at generally,” said Village Both Katz and Falk quickTrustee Cindy Falk, who ly focused on the regulatory co-chairs the steering comsteps such a project would mittee currently revising the have to undergo. Although village’s comprehensive mas- the site is in a commercial ter plan, “is our downtown zone, because it is larger than needs not only to serve tourist 3,000 square feet it would interests, but it needs to also require a “special-use permit” have locals go downtown as from the Village Board. well. CVS is certainly a big Last year, the four-story part of that equation.” hotel proposed for the down“It’s interesting,” said town required a “special-use Mayor Jeff Katz. “Any time permit” as well, but when the people want to put money village Planning Board, the into the village on a business Zoning Board of Appeals and level, that’s good.” the H-PARB (the Historic & He continued: “CVS and Architectural Review Board) Perry with the hotel” – a refall found the plans wanting, erence to Heroes of Baseball the village trustees rejected it, owner Perry Ferrara’s idea of halting it in its tracks. converting the hops’ storage The Planning Board, said barn at Glen and Railroad Falk, will certainly be reviewavenues into a 22-room motel ing traffic patterns, as the site – “that’s the biggest investfronts on Chestnut Street, the ment in capital … When was main thoroughfare from the the last time you saw that south for anyone entering the much investment dedicated to village, and Beaver Street, the Cooperstown?” connection between ChestThe mayor answered his nut and Bassett Hospital, the own question: “A long time.” county’s biggest employer. According to CVS criteria “There are very spefor new-store location, the cific provisions about lighted company looks for highsigns,” she continued. “The traffic intersections, drivetypical CVS sign might rethrough capability, parking quire some tweaking.” for 60+ cars, and high visibilHowever, Falk, who ity “with pylon sign identity” teaches historic preservation – usually a large internally lit at the Cooperstown Graduate sign on the tall pole. Program in Museum Studies, The prototype building is reported she’s seen a CVS 95 by 160 feet, 14,600 square “kitty-corner” to Fanieul Hall feet total. A CVS Real Estate in Boston. “Clearly, the comCommittee meets monthly, pany is able to work within with a regional director of historic districts. And we real estate exploring properhave high hopes that’s what ties and negotiating. they’ll do here.” A CVS spokesperson “It’s got to fit H-PARB,” for the company’s real-essaid Katz. “It’s got to fit our tate transactions, Stephanie zoning.” He also noted that Kunha, was unaware of this buildings bigger than 3,000 particular transaction on square feet get extra scrutiny Tuesday, June 7, and said that in the village code. “I’ve real-estate teams were in the heard they want it much field during the day and could bigger – there’s a process in not immediately be reached. place.” She said she would check
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Just a few weeks later, though, that’s where Leinhart found himself, as the fledgling brewer joined the Manhattan Brewing Co., where a young British entrepreneur, Richard Wrigley, was pioneering a concept that today has swept the nation: the microbrewing pub. In a cavernous former Con Ed plant in Soho, Manhattan Brewing was also just the beginning of a stellar career for the chemistry major who turned would-be brewer in Please See THE BEST, B3
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the magic.” The mix is the magic. That phrase stuck with D’Ambrosio, and he repeated it again the other day as he walked through the two exhibits Please See ART, B2
TRIPLE ART: Recent paintings by Richard Saba; “Petite Plantings,” annual miniature show and 51st Annual Fine Arts Show of the Leatherstocking Brush & Palette Club. Opening reception 5-7 p.m. Friday, June 10, Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, www.cooperstownart.com PUPPET SHOW: Photo & Supply, with handmade puppets and dynamic sets, this collective of Brooklyn artists brings to life a store about community and collective memory. 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, June 10-11. “THE CHURCH (Artist Residencies & Performance Space”), 2381 State Hwy. 205, Mt. Vision. Info, upsi-ny.com GET YOUR FIBER: Weaving, yarn, fleece and more at the 6th Annual CNY Fiber Arts Festival. Over 100 booths under cover. Yarn, supplies, fiber & fleece sale, demos, exhibits, unique gifts, children’s activities. Food, free parking. $6, children under 12 free. No dogs allowed. Rain or shine! 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, June 11-12. Sun. Butternut Hill Campground, Rte. 20, Bouckville. Info, www.cnyfiber.org CAR WASH: NAACP “Get Rid of Grime” car wash fundraiser. Free-will donation (suggested $5). First 30 car owners receive an “Oneonta ONE” bumper sticker. 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Saturday, June 11. Benefits Oneonta Branch NAACP programs and activities. Info, Lee Fisher, 607-432-5850.
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ART/From B1 that opened over Memorial Day Weekend: “Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Bohemian Paris” and “The Perfection of Harmony: The Art of James Abbott McNeill Whistler.” The two headliners joined Ansel Adams, whose “Early Works” opened April 1. The NYSHA president credits that, and a marketing effort underwritten by NYSCA, the state arts council, with a 73 percent leap in visitors (over the same period the year before) to the museum on Glimmerglass’ shores. “A lively cultural atmosphere, that’s what we want,” said D’Ambrosio, pausing in front of “Divan Japonais,” his favorite poster in the Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition. “It’s fairly rare to see so many of his posters in one place,” he observed, “and to see them in good condition.” The dominant image in “Divan” is Jane Avril, a performer in the cabarets that Toulouse-Lautrec frequented in “La Belle Époque” of the late 19th century, when rail travel made Paris’ temptation more widely available. When the artist first depicted her, Jane Avril lashed out at “that little monster.” By her career’s end she would say, “I owe every bit of my celebrity to ToulouseLautrec.” “He branded them,”
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D’Ambrosio explained. In the upper left corner of “Divan,” he pointed out, was the singer with black elbowlength gloves, painted from behind. That would have been Yvette Guilbert. As for Avril, the artist focused on her distinctive nose and mouth. If the actresses came to celebrate the tiny artist, so did “the cabaret owners,” said D’Ambrosio, who is also The Fenimore’s chief curator. “They loved him. He made them rich.” From Toulouse-Lautrec on
the lower level to Whistler on the second floor, what remains constant are “inspirational, innovative, influential” creations. Also, the influence of East Asian art, which flooded European and U.S. markets after Japan was opened to trade in 1854. The simplicity and color of Japanese scrolls inspired Whistler and others to break with the formality – historic subjects, detailed, with classical themes predominating – of the Royal and American academies. “Art for art sake” was the new credo,
D’Ambrosio said, presaging Impressionism and capturing what Picasso wouldn’t say for decades: “Don’t paint what you see. Paint what you know is there.” The Toulouse-Lautrecs are a travelling exhibit from the Herakleidon Museum in Athens. The Whistlers are from the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Ky., but there are added twists. D’Ambrosio’s spouse, Anna, director of the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute, provided additional Whistlers from the Utica museum’s collection.
They are slightly larger, and black-framed, including a set of lithographs of Japanese and Chinese porcelain. To dramatize “Tonalism,” the genre Whistler was founding – “Whistler’s Mother,” D’Ambrosio notes, was actually “Arrangement in Gray and Black”; other examples among The Fenimore lithographs are called “nocturnes,” as if the works were music – D’Ambrosio borrowed “The Beach at Selsey Bill” from the New Britain (Conn.) Museum of American Art.“ The two museums have often helped each other fill gaps or enhance exhibits. “Selsey Bill,” loosely painted figures against a dominant flat beach, is an example of what Whistler’s was experimenting with in his lithographs. Another outlier, “The Giudecca: Notes in Flesh Colour” – the Grand Canal – loaned by Amherst College’s museum through a gift from Dr. Harvey and Joan Leventhal of Cooperstown, is an example of how local benefactors help make the exhibits special. (Nellie and Bob Gipson of Unadilla and Fenimore Asset Management, Cobleskill, helped underwrite “…In Bohemia.”) Two other elements from past collaborations with the Glimmerglass Festival are back: One, The Toulouse-Lau-
trec exhibit includes “La Boheme” costumes from The Met. In fact, it was when D’Ambrosio learned Francesca Zambella planned to set the Puccini opera in La Belle Epoque that he was determined to get the Herakleidon exhibit here. Two, with Robert Ward’s operatic adaptation of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” the Glimmer Globe Theatre Company will be performing Miller’s version at The Fenimore’s Lucy Hamilton Amphitheater, beginning July 6. The performances are Wednesdays, the one day there are no operas. (Glimmer Globe will also be providing a ToulouseLautrec and Whistler to walk visitors through the exhibits on Sunday afternoon.) While the gate this spring has leaped, when the opera arrives, “it’s like throwing a switch,” said D’Ambrosio, with fans lining up outside the museum when it opens at 10 a.m. to experience “a perfect Cooperstown day,” the museum in the morning and a matinee in the afternoon. People have referred to The Fenimore as “our mini-Metropolitan,” and D’Ambrosio likes that characterization. “Our stock in trade is to bring great art and culture to this region,” he said. “We’re here to enrich people’s lives. That’s why we’re here.”
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Creativity, Paired With Consistency, Took Ommegang, Leinhart To Heights THE BEST/From B1 his sophomore year at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Last month, Leinhart and Brewery Ommegang reached a peak that’s going to be hard to surpass. At the semi-annual World Beer Cup in Philadelphia, Ommegang was named the best mid-size brewery in the world; Leinhart, best brewmaster in the world at a mid-size brewery. A new beer, Rosetta, won a gold medal in the Belgian-Style Fruit Beer category, besting 58 entries and contributing to Ommegang’s overall score. In an interview from Kansas City, Mo., Simon Thorpe, president of Duvel/Moortgat USA, Ommegang’s parent company, sees a common link in that double achievement. Ommegang, which turned 20 this year, “isn’t a brewery that’s a flash in the pan: This is part of a long-term commitment to quality.” Same with Leinhart, who has shown “consistency over time and commitment to quality,” said Thorpe. A former Ommegang president, Thorpe promoted two years ago to build “a family of beautiful breweries in the U.S.,” as it had done in Europe. It acquired Boulevard Beer, Kansas City, Mo., in 2013, and Firestone Walker Brewing Company from Paso Robles, Calif., in 2015. Still, Ommegang remains “a
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small, beautiful gem at the top of our portfolio of breweries,” he said. As for Phil Leinhart, ”He’s still as creative today as he was 1015 years ago. And he’s maintained a steady, underlying commitment to the quality of the beers.” Phil was the youngest of seven brothers raised in Ridgewood, N.J., the sons of a Dupont engineer, Russell Leinhart, which may have influenced how the brewer’s career developed. A sipper of Molson’s and “Pottsville Porter” as a young man, Leinhart was entranced by “the craft” as described by author Michael Jackson’s influential 1977 “World Guide to Beer.” Inspired, he remembers, he wanted to create. “I was the most opinion-
ated about brewing before I even stepped foot in a brewery,” he said today. “I had ideas in my head that were hearsay, and I thought they were fact.” For a while, that youthful self-confidence served him well. “What could you possibly learn at Anheuser-Busch?” he’d say. He spent a year as head brewer with Commonwealth Brewing Co., a year at Massachusetts Bay Brewing Co. (where he put his mark on Harpoon Winter Warmer) then four years at The Lion Brewery WilkesBarre, Pa., as it branched out from its century-old production of the Stegmaier brand. By the time he “broke into the big leagues” in 1995, joining Busch’s Newark, N.J., brewery,
the engineer’s son was ready to learn what his new employer had to teach: the checks and doublechecks that allowed for consistency over millions of gallons of beer, year after year. “There was so much control, such tight control,” said Leinhart. “It was just so demanding.” Another of Phil’s brothers, Gus – Dr. Gus Leinhart, chief of Bassett’s Emergency Department – had moved his family to Fly Creek in 1990, so Phil and wife Anne Marie, would come up to visit. They learned early on of Ommegang founders Don Feinberg and Wendy Littlefield’s plans for a Belgian-style brewery on Route 33. “I was out here (in 1996) when Don and Wendy poured the foundation,” he recalled. In 2003, Don and Wendy sold their shares to partner Duvel Moortgat, the multi-national Belgian brewer, “that really got my attention.” On learning the brewery was looking for a brewmaster, Phil came up for a conversation with then-president Laurent Demuynck, Thorpe’s predecessor, and got the job. He joined Ommegang in January, and Anne Marie and their two daughters, Olivia, now 18 and heading to St. Lawrence University in the fall, and Colette, now 13, followed him from New Jersey when the school year ended. Small is beautiful, and Leinhart found himself “part of something
that’s fun to do, and doing it with some great people.” Of course, he brought the quality-control lessons with him from Busch, expanding the lab, but also became more involved in the development of individual brews. Still, he echoes Thorpe, who arrived in 2009, in talking about the team effort that goes into beermaking. “People ask, ‘Who’s responsible for this beer?’” Leinhart answers, “We’re all responsible for this beer.” He doesn’t admit to any eureka moments, but Leinhart does say he had a good feel about Rosetta – a beer he’d had in mind for a while – from the first taste. Ommegang didn’t have the capacity to make a soured fruit beer, so a sister brewery in Belgium, Liefmans created it, following his recipe. Fruit beers are usually “so tart or so fruity,” the brewmaster was quoted as saying. “Beer lovers struggle to have more than one … I wanted a sour fruit beer that invites you to have another.” Looking ahead, Leinhart isn’t sure the rising popularity of craft beers he’s seen throughout his career will continue forever. “Everyone and their brother wants to be a brewer now,” he said. Still, he anticipates Ommegang will continue to grow, but added something you might expect from someone who creates and doublechecks, “not just volume – but capability.”
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RACE THE LAKE MARATHON – 3rd annual event takes racers around beautiful Otsego Lake. 26.2 begins at 8 a.m. at Clark Sports Center; 13.1 race at 9:30 a.m. at Doubleday Campground (ends at Clark Sports Center.) USATF certified. Registration includes BBQ lunch: marathon $80; half marathon $65. Info, (607) 547-2800, Ext. 111, www. clarksportscenter.com. Register at itsyourrace.com CRAFT FAIR – 9 a.m.-3 p.m. 37th annual Friendship Craft
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FLEA MARKET – 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Second Saturday Flea Market at Timber Creek Saloon parking lot (former Robbins Nest/ Country Rock). 2957 NY 23, West Laurens. Info, (607) 441-3080. DELIA OPEN HOUSE – 1-4 p.m. United Methodist Church of Cooperstown honors the Rev. William H. Delia on the occasion of his retirement. Community is invited to the celebration with Pastor Bill and Regina at the church, 66 Chestnut St., Cooperstown. KITCHEN CABINET HEALING – 1 p.m. Learn the amazing healing power of common herbs and spices as part of Nature’s Prescription Weekend, Sat. and Sun. from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Entry included with your paid museum admission: Adults $12, seniors $10.50, youth $6, children (6 and under, free) as are activeduty and retire career military. The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info & free $2-off regular adult admission coupon, www.FarmersMuseum. org MINIATURE WORKSHOP – 7 p.m. Amy Tingle and May Stein of The Creativity Caravan , a rolling workshop and exhibit of more than 100 miniature artist’s books, offer a workshop on making miniature books. Reception follows. Free, all welcome. Info, register, (607) 829-5055, wordthur@stny.rr.com Word & Image Gallery, Bright Hill Literary Center, 94 Church St., Treadwell. Info, (607) 829-5055. PUPPETS! – 7 p.m. Photo & Supply, with handmade puppets and dynamic sets, this collective of Brooklyn artists brings to life a store about community and collective memory. In the face of a changing neighborhood, Phyllis, who has run a photo development shop for many years, must close its doors for good. In protest, boxes unpack themselves, floor tiles shake, and long-forgotten photographs burst to life. “THE CHURCH (Artist Residencies & Performance Space”), 2381 State Hwy. 205, Mt. Vision. Info, upsi-ny.com BLUES EXPRESS – 7 p.m. Saturday night blues train featuring best bands in upstate N.Y. Riders enjoy food and drink. Cooperstown Blues Express, depart Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad, Milford. Info, reservations, (607) 432-2429, (607) 432-2824.
Sunday, June 12
CRAFT FAIR – 9 a.m.-3 p.m. 37th annual Friendship Craft Festival sponsored by Church of Christ Uniting, Richfield Springs. Crafts, famous bake sale, Brooks’ Chicken BBQ (11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., plus dogs and burgers at community center booth. Spring Park, Rte. 20, Richfield Springs. Info, 222.rschurchofchristuniting. com FIBER FEST – 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 6th Annual CNY Fiber Arts Festival. Focus on any /all types of weaving. Over 100 booths under cover. Yarn, supplies, fiber & fleece sale, demos, exhibits, unique gifts, children’s activities. Food, free parking. $6, children under 12 free. No dogs allowed. Rain or shine! Butternut Hill Campground, Rte. 20, Bouckville. Info, www.cnyfiber.org
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HOUSE TOUR – 1-4 p.m. Tour historic 1980 Simeon Barnes house (later home of hops dealer William Smith) with Greater Oneonta Historical Society. First floor tour of brick Victorian Gothic gem, as fascinating inside as out! $10 GOHS members, $12 nonmembers. Refreshments served. 35 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, (607)432-0960 info@oneontahistory.org HERBAL VINEGARS – 1 p.m. Learn of the marriage of flavor and nutrition with master herbalist Judith Millar at the Bump Tavern as part of Nature’s Prescription Weekend, day-long from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Entry included with your paid museum admission: Adults $12, seniors $10.50, youth $6, children (6 and under, free) as are active-duty and retire career military. The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info & free $2-off regular adult admission coupon, www.FarmersMuseum.org INSECT HIKE/ SCAVENGER HUNT – 1 p.m. Explore insect roles in ecosystem function and collect micro-fauna in different types of habitats in Otsego Land Trust hike led by Dr. Carmen Greenwood, professor at SUNY Cobleskill. Tools and materials supplied, space limited. Light refreshments provided. Info, registration, Sara, (607) 547-2336, sara@otsegolandtrust.org SOLAR TOUR – 1-4 p.m. Butternut Valley Alliance Solar Tour. Self-guided driving tour, choose locations that you want to visit. Host will illustrate their systems and answer your questions. Interactive tour map available at https://batchgeo.com/ map/2016-BVA-Solar-Tour. HANDBELL CONCERT – 3 p.m. Sacred and secular music for English Handbells performed by the four handbell choirs of First United Methodist Church, Oneonta. Free, all welcome. Goodwill offering, benefits Youth Handbell Travel Team. Sanctuary of First United methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, www.firstumc-oneonta.org MORE CALENDAR, B7
TRIATHLON – For The Pain Of It At 62, Cherry Valley’s Greg Noonan went the distance.
Third-place Peter Edmonds, CoopJim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal erstown, pauses Race official Sue Spina welcomes Cooperstown’s Sarah Purdy across the to chat with secfinish line at the sixth annual Cooperstown Triathlon Saturday, June 4, at ond-place Shawn Glimmerglass State Park. Cheering her on, from left, are other CooperstoParkhurst, who will nians, volunteer Michelle Rissoto, Deb and Emily Ferrari and volunteer Kate be competing in the Donnelly. Sara (runner) partnered with Deb (swimmer) and Emily (biker) to World Games in Cocompete as a relay team. zumel in September. CCS Principal Mike Cring finishes the bicycle leg, and passes the baton to CCS physed teacher Monica Wolfe. The third team member was Chris Ells, Fulton.
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OBITUARIES Anne Bookhout, 68; Public-Health Pioneer In Ithaca ONEONTA – Anne Bookhout, 68, an Oneonta native who, with an Ivy League education and a nursing degree from Hartwick College, launched a countywide public health agency in Tompkins County, died unexpectedly May 28 at her Brooktondale horse farm. Her survivors include two nieces in Cooperstown. Bookhout was born March 23, 1948, in Oneonta, the fourth child of Judge Richard J. and Florence Fieg Bookhout. She attended Bugbee School and Oneonta public schools, graduating from Oneonta High School in 1966 and from Cornell University in 1970. She worked in various capaci-
ties in the healthcare field in Oneonta after receiving a nursing degree from Hartwick College. Anne In 1984 Bookhout she returned to Cornell to earn a master’s in healthcare administration. Anne then founded a key city-county public health agency, Visiting Nurse Service of Ithaca and Tompkins County, serving 20 years as chief executive officer. Having owned and loved horses since the age of 12,
she later founded Quickland Stables, a commercial equestrian riding and boarding facility at her residence in the Ithaca suburb of Brooktondale. She operated the business until her death. Anne is survived by her husband of 25 years, Robert Morgan, whom she assisted in running a commercial trucking fleet. She is also survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Andrew and Denise Shedlock of Tallahassee, Fla., and their children Madeline and Ryan; a step-daughter and her husband, Janice Morgan-Solano and Nickie Solano of Edmonton, Ont., and their son Kyle. Anne also leaves siblings Kathryn
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Bookhout Biggerstaff of Delmar, William Bookhout of St. Augustine, Fla., Mary Bookhout Wolcott of St. Augustine, Fla. and Richard Bookhout, Jr. of Troutman, N.C. Surviving nieces and nephews include Jennifer Boggs Murphy and Kathy Boggs Clancy, both of Cooperstown. She was preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Elizabeth Bookhout Boggs, of Oneonta. Funeral services were held June 5 at Bangs Funeral Home in Ithaca. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her memory to the Cornell School of Veterinary Medicine.
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Alice Brandofsky, 76; Worked In Family’s Oaksville Florist COOPERSTOWN – Alice M. Brandofsky, who worked in Brandofsky’s Florist, Oaksville, for several years, died peacefully on May 16, 2016, at home in Baltimore, Md., surrounded by her family, after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 76. Alice Brandofsky was born on Jan. 13, 1940, in Brooklyn, to her parents, Emil Groesser and Marie Groesser née Schaeffer. At age 10, her family moved to the Cooperstown area, where she lived until March. She graduated from both Cooperstown Central School and Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School in Rhode Island with honors. Upon graduating, Alice moved to Germany where she began her secretarial career and met Manfred
Brandofsky. They returned to Cooperstown and were married on Sept. 29, 1962. She continued to work as a secretary, 10 years as a floral designer and bookkeeper for the family florist business, and then returned to secretarial work for the State of New York, retiring in 2005. A devoted wife and mother, she enjoyed gardening, dancing and traveling and had a passion for the German language and culture taking many trips back to Germany and maintaining family connections. Alice is survived by her two daughters, Ava Schweikert and her husband, Mark, of Baltimore, Md., and June Helmus and her husband, Peter, of New Milford, Conn., and six grandchildren, Erna and Deena
Minnie Swayer, 96, Of Edmeston; Repaired TV, Radios With Husband EDMESTON – Minnie Swayer, 96, who operated Rock Swayer TV & Radio Repair with her husband, then their son passed away on June 1, 2016, at Chase Health Care in New Berlin after a long illness. Minnie Dina Harberts was born on the family farm on Jacobs Road, Burlington Green, to William and Tillie (Tjden) Harberts on Feb. 14, 1920. Minnie attended the oneroom Basswood School in Burlington Green. She married Cary Roscoe Swayer, Jr. on June 1, 1945. She was a member of the Second Baptist Church of Edmeston. Rock and Minnie Swayer started the TV and repair business and were later joined by their son, David Swayer. For 62 years, 19522014, she was the first voice most who needed TV or radio repair would hear when calling for service or stopping by the shop for help.
Minnie loved cooking, needlework, gardening, bird watching and most of all, her family. She is survived by her children; Dina (Manfred) Schmidt of New Jersey, David Swayer of Edmeston, and John (Laura) Swayer of South New Berlin; also, four grandchildren, Jennifer (Brian) Herring, Julie (Daniel) Braeckman, John (Karen) Swayer, and William (Kelly) Schmidt as well as six great-grandchildren; Erin & Ethan Herring, Hannah and Carter Swayer and Brandon & Justin Schmidt. She was predeceased by her husband Roscoe Swayer, her parents, and her siblings, Susie Fitch, Bill Harberts, Tillie Phillips, Hajo Harberts and John Harberts. A private service will be held at the convenience of the family. The burial will be in Union Cemetery, Edmeston.
Schweikert, and Danielle, Michael, Alexandra and Tyler Helmus. She is predeceased by her husband of 53 years, Manfred, last Nov. 11, and a half-sister, Inge Kircher, of Wiesloch, Germany. A gathering will be held at a future date. For further information, contact Ava Schweikert (zaclac@yahoo. com or 410-485-8367). In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy in the form of memorial gifts may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association.
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WINDFALL DUTCH BARN – 4 p.m. A Peace Gathering. Songs of nonviolence and tolerance. Vocals by Claire Wettemann, inspired by Louise Moore’s vision. Folk songs with guitar, mountain dulcimer and psaltery. Admission $5. Refreshments. Windfall Dutch Barn, Cty. Rte. 31, 5 miles north of East Springfield. Info, (518) 993-2239, kmacgreg@ roadrunner.com, www.windfalldutchbarn.com
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TALKING OPERA – 7 p.m. The Thieving Magpie: Maestro Colaneri and Director Peter Kazaras will discuss Rossini’s opera and the Glimmerglass Festival production. View the Henri de Toulouse Lautrec in Bohemian Paris exhibition, including La bohème costumes from the Metropolitan Opera. The Fenimore Art Museum auditorium. Fenimore Art Museum, Lake Rd., Cooperstown. ONEONTA OUTLAWS – 7 p.m. Geneva Red Wings v. Oneonta Outlaws. Damaschke Field, Oneonta.
Tuesday, June 14
HISTORY LUNCHEON – 11:30 a.m. Fly Creek Area Historical Society Luncheon, 210 Cemetery Rd., Fly Creek. CUSTOMER APPRECIATION – 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Annual Customer Appreciation BBQ. Multiple Vendors! Prizes and Giveaways! Bruce Hall Home Center, 206 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, www.brucehallhomecenter.com QUILT LECTURE – 2 p.m. “The Gathering Place” at Woodside Hall presents “Talking Quilts” with members of The Fenimore Quilt club. Bring your quilt to share. Refreshments follow. Woodside Hall, 1 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-0600. RABIES CLINIC – 6-8 p.m. Otsego County Free Rabies Clinic for dogs, cats and ferrets. Limit of 15 pets per person, dogs must be leashed, cats and ferrets in a pillow case or carrying case. Edmeston Town Barn, 2257 Cty. Hwy. 49. Info, (607) 965-8139. VALLEYVIEW CONCERT – 1:30 and 7 p.m. Valleyview Elementary School Spring Concert, 4046 Valleyview St., #108,. Oneonta. Info, (607) 433-8252.
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Thursday, June 16
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