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bandoned TVs, bags of barely worn clothes and halffinished boxes of Ramen Noodles were once a common site around SUNY Oneonta dorms the week after finals. “You find minifridges everywhere,” said Hannah Morgan, SUNY’s sustainability coordinator. Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA “People leave the craziest These hips don’t lie: things in the garbage!” Kurtis Breed and Jenny Back in her own college Reynolds promote days, Morgan recalled, she Zumba classes at the even pulled a Schwinn bike, Oneonta Family Y this summer during OH-Fest which she still rides. But dumpster divers, laSaturday, April 26, on ment – there will be no more Main Street/MORE PHOTOS, B3 thrills in pulling such treaPlease See GREEN, A6
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city contingent has neonta’s zip code is briefed NYCOM heavily stocked with managers on a New York Yankee proposed commuter tax and fans, the New York Times’ other measures to ease a new “Upshot” staff has financial gridlock, Mayor discovered in an interactive map that went live in recent Miller reported on returning days. from Albany. Using Facebook data, the Ways to address the city’s newspaper concluded 64 quandary – ultimately, dispercent of 13820 residents solution into the town – were back the Yanks, 13 percent discussed with Peter Baynes, the Boston Red Sox, and 5 executive director of the percent the New York Mets. Follow link to the map at state Conference of Mayors, WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM and his top staff, who will bring Oneonta’s ideas to the annual conference in Saratoga Springs next week. Miller was joined by Council members Chip Holmes and Larry Malone, and City Treasurer Meg Hunger- By LIBBY CUDMORE ford.
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Richard Murphy, chauffeured in a golf cart by Evan Sitts, leads off the Little League’s opening-day parade Saturday, April 26, River Street to Doc Knapp Field, renamed for a day in Murphy’s honor.
For Day, Little League Plays On ‘Rich Murphy Field’ By LIBBY CUDMORE
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fter 27 years as a coach and a manager for Oneonta Little League, Rich Murphy is finally ready to share his secret of success with the world. “I tell my players that the secret to this game is that you’re going to make errors,” he said. “It happens to everybody. It’s part of the game; you just have to let it go. Very few people understand that.” Murphy, a former
Oneonta Town Board member, county representative, will retire at the end of the season as manager of “CEECommunity dah ball,” Bank – not Coach the bank, Murphy tells you. the Little League team that he had coached since 1987. But the Please See COACH, A7 Murphy and wife Pat were thrilled by the honor.
Student Filmmaker Takes On Walmart In Grief, Mom Shares capability and punish her for not finishing it.” Heartbreak Of Heroin
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hat started as NEW HOURS: Effective complaints May 1, the Oneonta Transfer from friends Station will be open 7 a.m.-3 has become a rallying p.m., Monday-Friday, and cry for SUNY Oneonta 8-noon Saturdays. Longer senior Emily Knapp. summer hours are planned. “I grew up in Morris, so I thought of Walmart OFF TO SCHOOL: The as the place you go that Oneonta City School District Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA has everything,” she mailed kindergarten-regissaid. “But I knew a girl SUNY senior Emily Knapp and tration packets last week to who worked there and Tony Figuccio, her camera man parents whose children will be 5 by next Dec. 1. Parents she would tell me these from Binghamton, test out their who have not received them stories that made it very equipment on Chestnut Street. woman – they’d assign her the should call Eileen Lishansky clear she was being work that was beyond her discriminated against as a at 433-8232, extension 300.
Thus, her senior film documentary, “The Political Economy of Walmart in Central New York,” was born. The 30-minute documentary addresses such issues as living wage and local farming, as well as interviews with people who work at the Norwich, Cobleskill and Oneonta Walmart stores. “It’s a very timely, especially with
Parents, Sheriff, Teachers Asks State’s Help By LIBBY CUDMORE
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A-2 HOMETOWN ONEONTA Chase Thomas Named Finalist at ‘FIRST’ Robotics Competition
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Oneonta Concert Band Receives State Art Grants
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he Chenango Arts Council is pleased to announce the allocation of $99,400 in cultural funding to 54 non-profit organizations and artists – including 17 in Otsego County – through the 2014 the state’s Decentralization Grant Program. Receiving grants in Otsego County are: Butternut Valley Arts and Crafts Center, Catskill Choral SoInventor and FIRST founder Dean Kamen, cenciety, Catskill Valley Wind ter, congratulates national student finalist Chase Thomas of Oneonta, right, at the FIRST World Ensemble, Cherry Valley Robotics Championship in St. Louis April 25. Artworks, Inc., Cherry ValThomas, captain of the Otsego 4-H FIRST Robotley-Springfield Endowment ics team “RoboKronos,” represented the region Foundation, First Presbyat the annual championship at the Edward Jones terian Church of GilbertsDome. About 100 other national student finalists, including Ellen Aiken, left, of St. Paul, Minn., were ville, Little Delaware Youth Ensemble, Oneonta Commuhonored at the four-day event. Kamen, inventor of the Segway and diabetes pump, founded FIRST nity Concert Band Association, Otsego County Dance (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Society, Pathfinder Village, Technology) to spark youth interest in science and technology. Richfield Springs Historic Association, Skip West, Lydia Bell New HR Director At OFO Smithy Center for the Arts, leadership, human resource Unadilla Historical Associadevelopment and financial ydia Bell, most retion, Village of Laurens and management, according to cently with Custom Worcester Free Library. Electronics, has joined OFO’s CEO Dan Maskin. Her “skills will be vital in Opportunities for Otsego as ensuring that our resources, human resources directors. including funding, staff, and Opportunities for Otcommunity, will be used sego’s Chief Executive Ofeffectively in providing ficer, Daniel Maskin states services to the Head Start that Ms. Bell was selected eligible families of Otsego from a large pool of candiCounty,” he said. dates due to her extensive experience in organizational
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THREE LAUDED: Ellen Robbins, an eighth-grade science teacher at Oneonta Middle School, OHS French teacher Janis Labroo and Dr. Bambi Lobdell, professor in the Women & Gender Studies and English Departments at SUNY Oneonta were honored with Awards for Exemplary Service from the SUNY Oneonta Secondary Education Department at the 21st annual Celebration of Teaching reception Thursday, April 24, in the Morris Conference Center.
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Oneonta’s Sam Judd stands next to “No More Decay!” a self portrait showing his own triumphs over destructive use of drugs and alcohol at the LEAF Art & Poetry Contest Gala Friday, April 25, at the CANO Gallery. The sketch won second place in the Adult Art category. At right, Oneonta’s Connie Mitra and her husband Deep Sen browse the art of the show.
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Other winners included: • Directors Award: “To Be At Peace” by Marie DiLorenzo • Motif Award: “Celebration of Angels” by Linda Kertzman • Staff Choice Award: “Grateful” By Myra Martano • People’s Choice Award Under 18: “A Simple Love Poem” by Paisley Sellers • People’s Choice Award, Adult: “Enjoy the Little Things”
by Kayla Mackey ► UNDER 18 ART • Third Place: “Be…” by Sarah J. Owen • Second Place: “Keep Faith and Hope Alive” by Noah Young •First Place: “Feel Love” by Samuel Tannenbaum ► ADULT ART: • Third Place: “Bloom” and Flourish by Connie Mitra •Second Place: “No More Decay!” By Samuel Judd ► UNDER 18 POETRY • Third Place: “Hannie” by Cailynn Rogers • Second Place: “Time” by Jasmine Martinez • First Place: “These Special Things” by Eric Mosher ► ADULT POETRY • Third Place: “Reflections” by Scott F. Transue • Second Place: “No Lies~Just Love-” by Jacob S. Fink
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n 2013, a $2,600 Dean M. Graham Foundation to Hartwick College underwrote a study of the regenerative properties of local salamanders, a collaborative effort student Kayla Murphy, ’14 and Professor of Biology Dr. Stanley Sessions. Hartwick has just announced a second Graham Grant, for $4,600, to again fund the collaboration of a STEM student and faculty member. To apply, contact Margaret Arthurs, director of corporate, foundation, and government relations at 431-4061 or at arthursm@ hartwick.edu
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Sidewalk Project Bold, Futuristic And, Eventually, It’ll Be Loved
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ne middle-timer observed the other day: City folks fall in love with our rural towns, move here, and the first thing they want to do is install sidewalks and curbs. The romance of small communities – that includes all of ours in Otsego County – is in their unique serendipity, their accretions of tradition that are valued, not because they are good or bad in themselves, but because they are “ours” and have been so for a while. This is going back a ways – a couple of decades, maybe – but wasn’t it that Dr. Varghese, in his memoir of AIDS coming to Tennessee, who argued that the ugliest corner in any small town is recalled with affection because, later on, it becomes an entry point to fond memories. Take Cooperstown. The noon whistle – a crazy idea, if anyone proposed it today – wasn’t an ear-splitting noise to people raised locally. It evoked memories of men, women and children racing to the fires of yesteryear, of excitement and communal purpose. Thus, the CCS mascot, the “Redskin,” recalled
that came close to killing Chesapeake Bay. And yet, tons of local dirt, plus some nitrogen and phosphates, are entering their slightly murky waters (that quickly become moreso, certainly south of Dreams Park). Sure, who doesn’t hate to see mature trees go. And, by the way, roots pushing up sidewalks, and wind roaring (with distant majesty) through the tops of tall oaks and maples, were always among small towns’ foreHOMETOWN ONEONTA most charms. Cooperstown Village Trustee Cindy Falk may look Perpetually smooth diminutive between two giants (Mayor Katz, left, sidewalks and those stubby and engineer Jon McManus) on a recent tour of things that line the typical the $2 million sidewalk project, but don’t undersmall-town street these days estimate her. are, well, logical. That’s revered Coach Bursey, and sidewalks. Arguably, the $2 about the best you can say the undefeated 1962 football million project under way for them. team, and cold fall nights, this year – before Memorial • and first romances. (Over Day and after Labor Day, Enough of that. Let’s time, it can be expected that to minimize the impact of hold our noses, if we must, “Hawkeyes” will likewise the National Baseball Hall and say what needs to be grow in local affection.) of Fame’s 75th anniversary said. • celebration – is an example Cooperstown’s $2 million Sigh. Well-meaning peo- of best practices. sidewalk project, a source ple may thunder in favor of There it is, on the shores of much local second-guess“best practices.” But, when of James Fenimore Cooper’s ing, is bold: Who would “best practices” arrive, those Glimmerglass, its very name have had the nerve to chop same individuals – nostra evoking pristine nature, and down every tree – 17 in culpa – can have a hard time at the source of the mighty all – on the Main Street’s accepting them. (mighty shallow, at many north side? Or, instead of Take the redo of the Most points) Susquehanna, itself incrementally replacing one Perfect Village’s imperfect the source of vast pollutants concrete square at a time,
to rip them all up at once, blocking customers from stores just as the weather turns warm? It’s very gutsy. And, dollar-wise, the project’s a bonanza. State government and the feds are paying for 60 percent of the price tag. Without that money, would the sidewalks have every gotten done? It’s strategic. There are no grants for sidewalks, but Cooperstown Village Trustee Cindy Falk discovered there is money for “stormwater infrastructure” through the state’s Green Initiative Program. And that’s what’s being built, “stormwater infrastructure” that, when complete, will be covered with brand-new sidewalks. And it’s futuristic. The “rain gardens,” planted with shrubs that thrive in wetness (plus like-tending trees) will divert runoff – it now goes directly into storm drains and, thence, the lake and river – into the ground, where it will be filtered, filtered, purified when it arrives at water’s edge. • Certainly, Trustee Falk – she is also an honored professor at SUNY Oneonta’s museum studies’ program
– deserves some of the inevitable blame that comes with any sizeable project. But she most certainly deserves the lion’s share of the credit for being bold, dollar-wise, strategic and forward-looking. Don’t let her mild-manner demeanor fool you; she is one determined person. Jeff Katz, who, on the merits, will probably be judged in retrospect as a pretty good mayor – both Cooperstown and Oneonta are lucky in this regard right now – has been foresquare behind Falk, but he’s innerdirected. If he likes an idea, he’ll push for it, period, damn the torpedoes. So his stolidness in recent controversies is true to form. Despite all, Cooperstown’s trustees have pulled together. If the Village Board were splintered and argumentative, it’s hard to imagine a major project so quickly accomplished. Alas, fair Cooperstown. Ye may not be recognizable when all this ferment – there will be more – settles down. But let’s relax. We – all of us – can be sure that today’s unfamiliar will be tomorrow’s tradition and, then, we’ll love it regardless.
CARLETON WATKINS In This Age Of Worsening Global Warming, Oneonta Photographer’s Works Matter More Editor’s Note: The first major Bay Area exhibit in 15 years of Oneonta native Carleton Watkins’ photographs has opened at Stanford University’s Cantor Art Center. This is an excerpt from Ken Baker’s Friday, April 25, review in the San Francisco Chronicle.
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ifteen years have passed since Northern California’s last indepth look at how Carleton Watkins saw it through his camera in the late 19th century. “Carleton Watkins: The Stanford Albums” (at the Cantor Center) … presents scores of the vintage “mammoth plate” landscape views that first made Watkins’ name in a highly competitive cohort of studio photographers in post-Gold Rush San Francisco. Since the 1999 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibition of Watkins’ landscapes, the popular consciousness of humankind’s role in global warming has intensified.
A detail from “Oswego Iron Works/Willamette River”
The Cantor survey movingly underlines the coincidence between a new medium of witness - photography entered the world just a decade before Watkins did – and revelations of littleknown terrain that America would soon claim as fundamental to its national identity. The show can leave visitors shivering with a revivified sense of their own historical position. That SFMOMA show “Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception,” marked 170 years since Watkins’ birth in 1829.That exhibition put more emphasis
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than the Cantor one does on the intrusions of industries – mining, lumber, railroads – into terrain nearly immune to human influence for millennia before. Yet visitors will feel tremors of ecological foreboding from Watkins’ work more sharply in the Cantor show. There are quite a few images from SFMOMA’s show that appear in the present exhibition, which celebrates the federal Yosemite Valley Grant Act, spearhead of a national parks initiative that Watkins’ landscapes helped to propel. But the SFMOMA show Please See EXHIBIT, A6
Juxtaposing the tall fir tree with the “lofty trestle” in “Magenta Flume/ Nevada Co. Cal.” (c. 1871), “appears to our eyes – as perhaps it did to Watkins’ – ominously direct,” writes critic Kenneth Baker.
LETTERS
Artworks’ Sculpture Trail, Kite Festival Already Boost Cherry Valley Economy To the Editor: I read with great interest your editorial of April 17 on the role of the arts in Otsego County, but was struck by an extraordinary omission. There was no mention of Cherry Valley Artworks! We are an healthy and active organization that has been functioning for some 10 years as a registered non-profit institution devoted to all of the arts. Our home is in Cherry Valley’s historic Judd’s Foundry. More recently the Village Hall, this old stone building is now being transformed into a permanent community arts center. During our existence we have established two widely recognized biennials: the Sculpture Trail and the Kite Festival. Our last Trail brought exhibitors from as far as Iran. And every two years, as it will this September, the Festival brings to Cherry Valley some 1,200 participants and visitors. Each summer we present close to a dozen events at the Foundry’s Star Theater. The 2013 season featured the premier of a new multimedia work by composer John Glover and artist
Mark Mastroianni. The utilization of our facilities by other performers and groups gave us last season’s fully staged production of Stravinsky’s “L’histoire du Soldat” by musicians and staff of the Glimmerglass Festival Orchestra. Our theater plays to a full house, and our biennials accomplish what no other arts-related events in this county have been able to do: prompt the interest and participation of an entire community. We are anxious to begin the renovation of the Star Theater so we may make permanent a much needed yearround venue for the dramatic and musical arts. And we have several other exciting ideas on the drawing board. We have a track record. But we need help. If your readers are further interested in Artworks’ activities, they can visit us at www.cvartworks.org. If any might wish to more directly aid us in the development or realization of specific projects, we can be contacted at cherryvalleyartworks@ live.com. ANDY MINNIG Cherry Valley Artworks
Even Today, Democracy Depends On Its Libraries To the Editor: In recent weeks, you have published letters about the library. I would like to chime in. Libraries must be supported so that information can be provided to the citizens. Many use the library for access to entertainment or hobbies; but fundamentally, the library is there to bolster literacy and be the portal to the process of self-government. Yes, much is on-line, but not everyone can access it, not all of the sites are free and not all its “information” is accurate nor in a usable form. Libraries and organizations of libraries monitor this for us. In a democracy, we must have a place that provides information that is accessible and free. The public schools that we support inform our youth. The libraries exist to continue that for adults. We may (sadly) choose not to use the voting booth, but we insist it be there in order to have faith in our system. Similarly, we may not visit our libraries often, but we must safeguard their presence in our communities for the same reason. MARCIE SCHWARTZMAN Cooperstown
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125 Years Ago
Within a few miles of Oneonta resides a farmer, who a few weeks ago, in sugar time, had some fun. He had a good store of sap on hand, which he was intending to convert into sugar the next day. Some young men of the neighborhood were aware of the fact, and gathered that night in his sap bush to save him the trouble. They were having a good old time about midnight. The sap was almost sugar, the chickens were roasted to a turn and the liquid from the black bottle was “mighty refreshing” mixed with the hot syrup, when suddenly bow-wow-wow from the throat of the farmer’s dog and bang-bang went both barrels of the double gun and the young rascals were in full flight. The farmer gathered up the fragments that remained, a euchre deck, a pint of whiskey, three dozen eggs, two roast chickens, two cans of lobsters, etc. and carried his syrup to the house congratulating himself that he need not “boil sap” the next day. May 1889
“The library took us in, has been a father to us, gave us space for records, and a place to meet.” At the meeting the Rev. Dr. Louis Van Ess, president of the library board, said “the two organizations belong together.” May 1954
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100 Years Ago
The Harmony Club, composed of the younger, young men of the city, and our youngest social club presented its first minstrel show at the theatre Tuesday night. It was an evening of mirth and amusement for the large audience that greeted the company. The young men of the company were attired in white trousers and black coats and wearing white carnations as boutonnieres. Karl Sheldon was cool and imperturbable as the interlocutor. Randall and Van Woert did much of the end work. Among those contributing solos the best were performed by Mr. Baker, Mr. Parks, Mr. House and Mr. Winans. Mr. Van Woert did a monologue stunt titled “The Wet and Dry Question” that was laughable in the extreme. He was followed by Mr. Randall in a specialty act embracing some good dancing and a humorous song. The mock trial was an original and clever creation introducing numerous typical characters. Rich Riley was the particular star of the cast and, made up as Mrs. Leonora Smithers Trustly, he was an ideal and winsome damsel, quite deceiving in voice, manners and captivating powers. Professor P.C. Riley had charge of the entire production. May 1914
80 Years Ago
An ordinance which would legalize Sunday movies and baseball after 2 p.m. was offered at the meeting of the Oneonta Common Council by Alderman J. Kenneth Yager, but the motion was later tabled without a second until the meeting of May 15. Mr. Yager submitted several arguments in support of the proposed ordinance, pointing out that the
May 1974 Supreme Court has enjoined the city from taking a referendum vote on the question of Sunday movies, and asserting that with the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sundays after Noon, clean and wholesome recreation should be made available Sunday afternoon. Yager also listed 109 cities and villages in New York State which have enacted Sunday movie ordinances. None have repealed the laws due to injurious moral effects. As for Sunday baseball Yager noted that “our citizenry freely participate in all other sports on the Sabbath Day, including golf, tennis, football, swimming, boating, horseback riding, fishing and hunting.” May 1934
60 Years Ago
Having outgrown its home in Huntington Library, the Upper Susquehanna Historical Society is turning its eyes toward the city government hoping to get some sort of storage space for its growing volume of historical records. Dr. Edward J. Parish, president, has appointed a special committee to confer with the Common Council on a place for the records and historical objects. On the committee are Julian B. Jackson, Chester A. Miller, Harry C. Bard, Mrs. Earl P. Francis and Mrs. Wendell Morgan. In addition to this course of action, officers of the society will meet at 5 p.m. today with the Huntington Library board to jointly consider the space problems of both organizations. Mr. Parish said,
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State Motor Vehicles Commissioner John Passidomo announced an agreement Wednesday to end New York’s status as the only state in the nation without photo identification licenses. Passidomo said the new licenses would probably cost New Yorkers about $1.50 extra every four years. The current quadrennial license fee is $16. Robert Shear said Wednesday that the number of fatal car crashes involving 18-year-old drinking drivers fell by 42 percent in the 12 months after New York’s drinking age went from 18 to 19. Also the number of 18-year-olds involved in alcohol-related crashes overall decreased by 25 percent during the same period. New York’s legal drinking age, which had been 18 since the end of Prohibition, was raised to 19 in December 1982. Shear said the new data provided the strongest evidence to date for raising the legal drinking age to 21. May 1984
20 Years Ago
Fox Hospital lost almost half a million dollars in the first three months of 1994, hospital administrators reported. Although a loss was expected going into the year, the actual loss of $459,103 for the first quarter was much larger than expected. “What we take in doesn’t match what we spend,” said hospital president John Remillard. “We can’t allow it to continue. However, the hospital is not planning to cut costs with employee layoffs. The staff has been asked to look at more cost-effective ways of treating patients. May 1994
10 Years Ago
After a decade of discussion and more than 18 months of construction, Otsego Manor is nearly finished. The $30 million nursing home just south of Cooperstown should be ready to open in late June or early July according to Rep. Carl Higgins, R-Edmeston chairman of the Otsego County Board of Representatives. The construction phase will be completed by the end of May, Higgins said, but added, “all dates are tentative.” The new facility will house up to 174 residents, the same number as the old home, The Meadows. May 2004
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Students’ Castoffs May Be Helpful To Needy GREEN/From A1 sure. Morgan has partnered with St. James Episcopal Church to distribute these items to charities and the community during a twoday giveaway MondayTuesday, May 19-20. “It’s all free!” she said. “What doesn’t get picked up will be taken by the Salvation Army.” As they prepare to head home for the summer, students will be able to place unwanted, gently-used clothing, working electronics and still-wrapped food in specially marked frontloading dumpsters throughout campus. “It keeps perfectly usable items out of the landfill,” she said. It’s all part of SUNY
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Hannah Morgan stows a laptop cast off by a departing SUNY Oneonta student that might be distributed to Oneonta’s computer-less population.
Oneonta’s green initiative, which has seen a series of conservation efforts enacted across campus since the beginning of the school year. “These initiatives save money and teach students to
conserve their resources,” said Morgan, who reported on the progress when the College Council met Wednesday, April 23, after the local college had again been named to the Princeton
Review’s list of 322 greenest campuses. “Their behavior makes a difference.” E-waste is one of the campus’ fastest-growing issues, with broken laptops, expired batteries, cell phones and printers clogging up the waste stream. “Students didn’t have a way to get rid of that material,” she said. “They just throw it in the garbage.” A recycling bin for just such waste was set up this semester in the Hunt Union, with the recycling being handled by Edison Computers. “So far, we’ve recycled 270 pounds of e-waste,” she said. “That’s seven computers, a lot of cords, a couple printers and batteries.” And for paper, plastic, glass and metal, 1,000 “single stream” recycling bins were put in classrooms,
offices and dorms over the summer to encourage students and faculty to recycle all in one bin. “It’s free to recycle and costs
$75 for garbage pick-up,” she said. “For every ton of recyclables we divert from the waste stream, we save $72.64.”
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EXHIBIT/From A4 took a wide view of Watkins’ work. It put more emphasis on San Francisco views and included images made in Arizona and Utah. The Cantor focuses on images of Northern California and the Columbia River and environs in Oregon, drawing on three albums of mammoth plate prints that reside in the Stanford libraries. The more we hear about the acceleration of future drift toward an unlivable planet, the more we think about when and how that process began. And the more weight we accord to an image such as “Oswego Iron Works/Willamette River” (1867) or “Magenta Flume/ Nevada Co. Cal.” (c. 1871), in which the conversion of tall fir trees into a lofty trestle appears to our eyes as perhaps it did to Watkins’ - ominously direct.
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Cottage with otsego Lake Access This very sweet cottage is in move-in condition w/most furnishings being negotiable. Everything has been redone. Nicely renovated kitchen w/maple cabinets, pine breakfast bar leading into DR which has doors to the deck w/a privacy fence and lake views. LR area has lake-view window and woodstove. 2 BRs and full bath. Lower level has a pine-paneled room for storage or perhaps extra sleeping space. Lake access is at Hickory Grove Point as well as a 5’ lake right-of-way on Lake Shore Drive. This darling cottage is available for immediate occupancy. Offered Exclusively by Ashley Connor Realty $169,900
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Devlin: No Help Available For 60% Of County Inmates Who Are Addicted HEROIN/From A1 committed to the psychiatric ward. “They said, ‘He’s a heroin addict, cut him loose’,” she said. “We sacrificed his college fund to try to get him into treatment.” But even after another stay in rehab, Jeremy relapsed and wound up back in jail. “One month after he got out of jail and one week after his 23rd birthday, my son successfully committed suicide,” she said. The audience gasped. People struck by the heroin scourge joined doctors, politicians, police and treatment center managers at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom Monday, April 28, for the state Task Force on Heroin & Opioid Addiction. “There are real people behind the numbers and statistics,” said state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, a task force member. “We need to know what we can do to be helpful to you.” The state Legislature
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Among those telling state Sen. Jim Seward’s task for that more money is needed to combat heroin abuse are, left photo, Dr. Kelly Robinson, medical director at Fox Hospital’s emergency department, and Dr. August Leinhart, Bassett chief of emergency and trauma services; center photo Sheriff Richard Devlin; and, right photo, Dr. Steven Graham, Bassett OB/GYN.
formed the task force to combat the epidemic of heroin problems in Upstate New York, evident in a spike in thefts, overdoses and arrests. “Our resources are tapped out, our jails are full of addicts,” said Otsego County Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. “60 percent of our current jail population has an addiction, and we have no resources to deal with withdrawal or the
underlying causes of that addiction.” The stories related here were all the same – no one started with a needle in their arm, but rather, with medicines prescribed by a doctor. That’s how Mylea Buffo got hooked, taking up to six Oxycodone a day, plus other pain pills. “I hid behind my prescriptions,” she said. “They were legal, so I wasn’t an addict.”
For Day, Little League Renames Field For Coach Richard Murphy COACH/From A1 league had a parting gift: It renamed Doc Knapp Field in his honor on Saturday, April 25, opening day. “I was overwhelmed,” Murphy said, tearing up. “When I saw Jeff House and Gary Smith carrying the sign, I thought it was the old metal Wilber Bank sign. But when I saw my name …” “He was speechless,” said his wife, Pat. “Since it’s in my name, I have a duty to see that the field is well-maintained!” Murphy said. “I like being out on that field, working on the mound, drawing the lines. It’s relaxing.” Baseball is in Rich Murphy’s blood. His mother, who still lives in his boyhood home in Queens, found a photo of his grandfather’s school team from 1900, standing in front of a wall where “Champions PS86, Never Beaten,” is written in chalk. The lad, also a Richard, is in the lower right-hand corner. The grandson started to notice a pattern in his own team photos. “This one from 1963, I’m in the lower right and my dad is in the upper left. Then in both
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Drum Major Collin MacKenzie of Oneonta and Robin Brown lead the Leatherstocking District Pipe Band as they escort the Little League teams along the final stretch into Doc Knapp Field.
Brendan and Brian’s team photos, they’re in the lower right and I’m in the upper left!” Murphy, who worked as an ONC BOCES speech pathologist, began coaching when Brendan, his eldest, started to play. “I’d heard stories about how harsh it
could be, so I wanted to make sure the league had the kid’s best interests at heart.” The father was instrumental in moving the league’s chilly mid-March tryouts indoors to Hartwick College and changing the one-onone tryout format to four players at once showing their skills at hitting, pitching and catching. He also helped get the Minor League off the ground, giving 12-year-olds a guaranteed chance to play. One of his signature coaching methods is handing out ping-pong-size balls made of cedar wood to remind his players to “see the ball.” (Get it? “CEEdah ball.”) “So many kids have sent me notes telling me they still have those cedar balls,” he said. “One of my players brought me a whole bagful of them on Saturday!” And though he will no longer be coaching, he still plans to be in the stands enjoying the games. “I had a good time,” he said. “Opening day was my favorite day of the year.”
“Kids see it as medication,” said Julie Dostal, LEAF executive director. “We have to teach them that just because it has an Rx doesn’t mean it’s safe.” I-Stop laws, which prevent over-prescribing of opioids, are helping reduce the practice of doctor-shopping, but without the prescription, many addicts are turning to heroin. “In Delaware County, I don’t know of a
single case that didn’t start with prescriptions,” said Christopher Kemp, that county’s Chemical Dependency Program manager. Education is a key component in combating the problem, and cuts to schools and programs have damaged the ability of teachers to reach kids. “We used to have substance-abuse counselors and D.A.R.E. programs in place,” said
Student Filmed Protest At Gibson Office FILM/From A1 larger discussion of wage increases,” she said. She received a $1,000 grant from the school, which helps her cover the cost of travel for both her and her cameraman. For the documentary, she also followed a group of protesters to U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson’s Cooperstown office Tuesday, April 1, where they rallied in favor of raising the minimum wage to $10 and against Republican obstructionism in the House of Representatives. The petition, which circulated on moveon.org, called for nationwide protests that day. As it happened, the group learned when Gibson’s local aide, Carol Waller, got spokesman Matt Sheehey on the phone, the congressman co-sponsored bi-partisan legislation to immediately raise the wage to $9. “It’s been $7.25 since 2007,” Gibson said in a follow-up interview. “If we couple a raise in the minimum wage with pro-growth measures such as small business tax cuts and repealing the medical device tax, then I believe we can actually create more jobs.”
Knapp is unconvinced. According to Opportunities for Otsego, the living wage for a single adult in Otsego County is $9.40 for a 40 hour work week. “When you pay people a living wage, they don’t have to work two or three jobs to stay out of poverty,” she said. “How you pay people has a ripple effect. It impacts the local and the national economies.” According to Glassdoor. com, a website that monitors company salaries, the starting wage at Walmart is $8.86 an hour, with associates making between $7 and $18,000 a year. Assistant managers make an average of $44,076 a year, while pharmacists make an average of $120,358 yearly. Calls to WalMart’s media room were not returned. “I don’t want to come across as an opponent of Walmart,” she said. “I started with an unbiased view, but I haven’t come across a single person who works there who has anything good to say, even after only
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a week. Their experience is very different than what the company portrays in their advertising. I feel like if you’re going to portray yourself as America’s brand, you have to live up to that ideal instead of being one of the most harmful.” Though she’s still seeking interviews with local farmers and other Walmart associates, as well as with Chris Gibson in his Washington, D.C. office, she plans to have the 30-minute version will be done before she graduates in May. After graduation, she hopes to get a Kickstarter campaign going to make a larger film she can pitch to film festivals and unions. “I’m not trying to start an argument that can be swept under the rug,” she said. “Walmart has a massive impact on this region, and I would love to see a discussion.” “This topic is more relevant than ever,” she said. “I never thought I’d have a project I was this passionate about.”
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former Cooperstown mayor Joe Booan, ONC BOCES director of student programs. “We need to have that education surrounding prevention, but that cannot happen without financial resources.” In addition to money for education, funds for existing treatment facilities and the need to open more rehab centers were discussed. “The most heartbreaking thing is when people call LEAF asking for help finding someplace to get treatment,” said Dostal. “And we have to tell them that before they can get into inpatient treatment, they have to fail at outpatient. Can you think of another disease we treat like that?” “If you smoke, you can call up a hotline and New York State will give you free treatment,” said Graham. “We offer to help nicotine addicts without repercussions – and I dream of a day we can treat opiate addiction the same way.”
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MLS#93199 $995,000 Magnificent Otsego Lake home w/stunning views of the lake. This property has a lot to offer. Call Kristi J. Ough 607-434-3026 (cell) Virtual tour: http://www.cooperstownhome.net/
MLS#91517 $797,000 Tastefully renovated 5 BR, 4 bath Queen Anne Victorian is situated in the heart of Cooperstown. Call Kristi J. Ough 607-434-3026 (cell) or Donna A. Anderson 607-267-3232 (cell) Virtual tour: http://www.cooperstownhome.com/
MLS#93725 $179,900 Priced below assessed value! 3 BRs, 2 baths on 2.68 acres w/2-car garage in Otego. Call Suzanne A. Darling @ 607-563-7012 (cell) Virtual Tour: www.realestateshows.com/712437
MLS#93646 $104,900 Priced to sell! 5.4 acres bordering Hardwood Hills Golf Course, close to State Park and StateForest. Call Suzanne A. Darling @ 607-563-7012 (cell) Virtual Tour: www.RealEstateShows.com/712122
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MLS#93096 $284,999 Farmhouse w/4 BRs, 2 baths is situated on 8+ very private acres. New master BR suite, electrical service, windows, well… 4+ car garage, plenty of barns. Call Donna A. Anderson @ 607-267-3232 (cell)
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MLS#93140 $219,000 James Vrooman 603-247-0506 (cell) MLS#89644 $168,000 Catskill Mtn Mini-Farm! 6 acres, 2 barns, 2 ponds, heated garage, 4 BR farmhouse. Cooperstown Village home. Seller pays closing Call Lynn Lesperence @ 607-434-1061 (cell) costs (up to $3,000 w/acceptable offer). Virtual tour: www.jeffersonminifarm.com
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Great Investment Opportunity!—Two nice 3-BR rental houses on one lot in a great location. Both houses have new roofs. New electric service at 44 Spruce Street. Both houses have COCs. New appliances and bathrooms in 42 Spruce. Would be perfect for owner occupancy in one house and rental income in the other house. $199,900 MLS#93095
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