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att Damon’s latest, the anti-fracking movie “Promised Land,” opens Friday, Jan. 4, at Southside Mall. Damon plays a leasing agent for a natural gas company who experiences life-changing events after arriving in the fictional McKinley, Pa. Frances McDormand and Hal Holbrook co-star. GOODBYE, TREES: You can dispose of your Christmas trees by placing them curbside, dropping them at the Silas Lane brush dump site, or calling Public Works at 432-2100 to arrange a pickup. STATE OF STATE: The Otsego County Chamber’s annual State of the State panel discussion is at breakfast this year, beginning with networking at 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 7, at SUNY Oneonta’s Morris Conference Center. $20; reservations at 432-4500. DEPUTY RENAMED: Mayor Miller planned to rename Council Member Mike Lynch deputy mayor when Common Council met Wednesday, Jan. 2. INVADER ALERT: Otsego County Cooperative Extension is asking us to alert them if we observe an invasive-species outcropping. Check www.nyis.info
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More than 50 in 20 downtown venues again filled downtown Oneonta with music, dance, art – you name it – on First Night 2013, bookended by a parade down Main Street at 4 and fireworks over Neahwa Park at 10. Cosmic Karma Fire’s Greg Lee was at it again with a twilight performance in front of the Foothills Atrium/ MORE PHOTOS, A3
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neonta’s Mark Kleszczewski came back from Europe (see Page B1) with souvenir mugs and lots of photos – plus some ideas on how to revitalize his adopted hometown’s economy. His first idea is the “Cash Mob,” where localbusiness boosters, each committed to spending $20, descend mob-like on a local retail outlet and buy something. “You spend money and it’s a social event – we’re all going to the B-Side Ballroom afterwards,” said Kleszczewski, president/CEO of Kickstart Capital, which seeks financing for promising enterprises. The idea – “Cash Mobs” have already happened twice in Norwich – is to use social media to solicit votes to establish a winning establishment each month. “Mom & Pop stores thrive in places that are much more expensive than here,” he said. “My idea is to connect Oneonta socially and economically.” Kleszczewski’s has proposed his idea to the Otsego County Chamber and elsewhere, and the idea is to form the first “Cash Mob” event near Valentine’s Day. – Libby Cudmore
nybody in a tough spot – Dizzer was the first one you could call on,” said former mayor Sam Nader, “He was the best.” Nader’s sentiment was echoed by many at the news that Frank A. “Diz” Lamonica, the most senior of Oneonta’s Grand Old Men, had died Sunday evening, Dec. 30, in Bassett Hospital, just a few days short of his upcoming 102nd birthday on Jan. 9. “He gave guys jobs because they needed jobs,” said Bruno Scavo, for years one of Lamonica’s key salesmen at HOMETOWN ONEONTA Northern Eagle Bever- Frank “Diz” Lamonica and his wife Jo-Ann at his age. “He didn’t need them, but he’d give them 100th birthday celebration a few days work – clean at Sabatini’s on Sunday, Jan the warehouse, wash the 9, 2011. trucks.” “He was an easy clip,” “He helped me when I Tony Drago, the retired needed help,” said Oneonta OHS athletic director, native Alex Shields, the recalled with affection. “If retired county rep who now anybody needed money, Diz lives in Richfield Springs, was very easy about handing “and I wasn’t the only one in it out. He was a soft touch, I Oneonta he helped.” Please See ICON, A7
Village Rethinks Sidewalk Project To Fit With State ‘Green’ Initiative SUNY Oneonta CGP Professor Cindy Falk Applied Lessons Of Academe Editor’s Note: This is the first of articles exploring Otsego County projects that won Cuomo Administration economic-development grants. By JIM KEVLIN HOW DID WINNERS hen newly elected DO IT? Village Trustee PART ONE Cindy Falk took office last April 1, the need to do something about the bad impression made by Cooperstown’s deteriorating sidewalks was largely accepted. The previous Village Board had contracted with Cooperstown’s McManus COOPERSTOWN
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The Sweet Adelines’ City of the Hills Chorus performs seasonal favorites at First UM Church. Front, from left, are Jo Melmer, Sue Dana-LeViness, Terry Hait and Joanne Burdick. Second row, Pat Ashe, Karen Adolfsen and Jennifer Withington. Third row, Bettie Bennett, Joy Sanders and Dorcas Ross.
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Tinny Wilkens’ Indonesian Dancers pause in the Foothills’ Atrium, awaiting their 7 p.m. performance at First Baptist Church. From left, May Griffin, Linda Roseboom and Connie Dean, who perform in the Banda Urang style.
Ethan Harris of Garrattsville, Central New York Junior Idol in 2011, croons “That Night� and other cuts from his “Ethan Harris� CD, released in 2012, at the FoF Stage On Main during Oneonta’s First Night 2013, which drew New Year’s Eve revellers from throughout the region to the “City of the Hills.�
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ur newspaper’s annual Otsego County Yearbooks are a lot of fun to put together – and readers like them – but they aren’t comprehensive, of course. With one photo from each of 52 weeks, not all worthy events can be included. One event that we’re sorry we missed, however, was the Friday, Sept. 7, hiring of Oneonta’s first city manager, Mike Long. The Village of Cooperstown had an unsuccessful experience with professional management toward the end of the last century, but – other than that – Long is the first professional chief administrator of any Otsego County governmental entity. When you think of how complex local government has become in the 20th and 21st centuries, that’s astonishing. • At lot’s riding on Mike Long’s success, both in affirming public support for the position within the city, and as an example for the rest of the county. Little fuss has been made about the $115,000 salary – it’s the cost of doing business – but, best case, Long has a chance to prove, once and for all to any holdouts, that the investment’s a pittance (in a $20 million budget) compared to the return. Mayor Miller and Common Council set challenging 2013 goals for the city manager, but Long’s comment on them was one of the best quotes of the year: He called the challenges “opportunities, opportunities I’ve been involved in in the past. It’s what I do. It’s what I like to do.” That’s a professional’s response.
EDITIONS OF SEPT. 13-14: After his swearing-in, Oneonta’s first city manager, Michael Long, is flanked by four mayors who campaigned for the new City Charter that created the position. From left are John Nader, Kim Muller, the current mayor, Dick Miller, and David W. Brennan. Former mayor Sam Nader also supported the new position.
Most of us would find brain surgery daunting – but tell a brain surgeon you expect him or her to complete 100 brain surgeries in 2013, and the response might be, “So few?” Discuss Common Council’s expectations for Long next year, and they fit together. For instance, closing the “structural deficit” – the city (like every Upstate city in these times of trial and mandated public-pension hikes) has been spending more than it brings in. Inevitably, the day of reckoning will come. Long can’t wave a magic wand, but a second expectation, to establish development plans for the city’s economy, downtown and housing are steps to get there. So
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IBM’s Founding In Oneonta Provides Lessons For Today Editor’s Note: This is the fifth of a number of position papers that Citizen Voices, the business group headed by Oneonta businessmen Bob Harlem and Tom Armao, has prepared for publication. We welcome these articles, and welcome any ensuing debate. To participate, e-mail Letters to the Editor to jimk@allotsego.com
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omething happened on a recent Saturday night in Oneonta that merits discussion before continuing with our series about our local economy. Several of us had the chance to attend Orpheus Theatre’s performance of “The Sound of Music” at SUNY Oneonta. The actors did an absolutely wonderful job of entertaining us. However, the actual entertainment is only one of the things that impressed us. What we got in addition was a brief glimpse of what was one of our community’s greatest strengths or assets – joining together to support our own and the community. All of the performances were sold out – a clear demonstration of support of a common goal. Now the question is: How can we do the same with our economic future?
We have talked about the public-sector component of our economy. Now let’s take a brief look at the manufacturing and retail/services sectors. Our early history is steeped in the entrepreneurial tradition. A look at our early history reveals that Oneonta was home to George Fairchild, who represented us in Congress and was co-founder and first Chairman of IBM. About 1905, construction began on what would become the world’s largest railroad roundhouse – a place to store and maintain the steam locomotives of the day. According to once source, “the economic climate of Oneonta benefitted greatly from this facility”. Back then, Oneonta was encouraging growth and, as a result, prospered and Please See VOICES, A6
is “rigorous evaluation” of department heads – not punitive, but rigorous – to ensure optimum use of increasingly scarce resources. We might consider beautifying the city’s entrances to be a frill, but first impressions matter. (Economic developers in Carbon County, Pa., used to route firsttime visitors so as to avoid culm piles – ugly black mountains of tailings from anthracite mining – so old Mauch Chunk, “America’s Little Switzerland,” would be the first impression.) • Long – as you might expect, given his credentials and experience, in Auburn in particular – already had ideas on how to proceed. He’s made contact with
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tions over the 2013 city budget. At issue was whether to eliminate two vacant police-officer positions, reducing an all-time-high and (due to turnover) neverachieved 29. The complement stood at 27. In the end, Common Council kept one of the two positions. A veteran retired, a new officer hired, so staffing remains at 27. State Police Troop C, Oneonta, reportedly received 25 recruits from the recent police academy graduating class, so the city certainly has some flexibility right now. Absent a major crime wave, it would have sent the wrong signal to eliminate all other vacant City Hall positions, yet leave police intact. Mayor Miller also created a task force to study how to best manage the police officers we have, with the idea of ending up with better policing from the same number of officers. • The point is that Long’s addressing the structural deficit, drafting sector-development plans, and making the city more enticing are all part of a piece. The piece also includes shared services, sharing resources and consolidation (which would make Southside sales taxes directly available to the new Greater Oneonta city/town.) It may not be comfortable now, but it will be a lot more comfortable when City Hall has balanced revenues with costs as far into the future as we can see, and can actually invest in making the City of the Hills’ vaunted quality of life (enjoyed) even moreso.
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The ‘One Removed’ Must Find Solace, Acceptance Elsewhere To the Editor: I received this statement from Christine Drew Martin, East Lansing, Mich., a former resident of Oaksville who is the daughter of the late Ruth Yule, beloved English teacher at CCS. I believe that what Christine said here is essential to our understanding of the men who have been responsible for such terrible events as those occur-
ring in Newtown and Webster. I believe we must act upon our understanding of what she states here. We must find ways to reach out to such isolated persons, making available to them the services they need to find that solace and acceptance so essential to their peace of mind – and ours. “Most groups reject the anomaly within the group. It is human nature.
If the one removed can find solace and acceptance elsewhere, he will be OK. If he can forgive the group for rejecting him, he will be OK. But it he can do neither, it is within his nature to decompensate, sometimes into madness, and to be capable of acting without mercy. It is the nature of pain.” HILDA WILCOX Cooperstown
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Mayor Recounts Foothills Successes Since 2011 Editor’s Note: This is Mayor Miller’s year-end memo to the Foothills Performing Arts Center board, which he chairs. It is reprinted with his permission.
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he progress we have made since the beginning of 2011 has been remarkable. More than 422 events have been held including: • 43 private rentals by individuals and corporations • 26 commercial concerts ranging from Gordon Lightfoot, “Crazy About Patsy” Cline and George Winston to the Ultimate Idol competition. Most recently, The Capitol Steps. • 143 events for not-for-profit and government entities like Orpheus, Springbrook, Hartwick, the National Guard and the Oneonta City School District. • 210 rehearsals and instructional experiences conducted by 15 different & The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch entities like the Little Delaware Youth Ensemble, Catskill Symphony OrchesJim Kevlin tra and the Stanley Wade School of Editor &Publisher Dance. Tara Barnwell M.J. Kevlin Earlier this summer, we announced Advertising Director Business Manager an impressive core schedule for the fall and an agreement to host the MetAmanda Hoepker Tori Meiswinkel, Susan Straub ropolitan Opera Live in HD series with Office Manager Sales Associates the cooperation of the Glimmerglass Libby Cudmore Ian Austin Kathleen Peters Sean Levandowski Festival. Reporter Photographer Graphic Artist Webmaster Our program committee is busily at work scheduling a core series of major MEMBER OF New York Press Association • The Otsego County Chamber events for 2013. Use of Foothills for Published weekly by Iron String Press, Inc. private events, education, not-for-prof-
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Housing Visions of Syracuse, a not-for-profit that redevelops blighted properties, then puts them back on the tax rolls. (Check www.housingvisions.org) There are many prospects for this, including the Allison Building that’s costing the city $300,000 a year to maintain, and some of the imposing Main Street blocks, not to mention individual blighted houses that dot our neighborhoods. Long’s identified the former D&H yards as a prime candidate for commercial redevelopment, what with rail access (and soon, if the Constitution Pipeline’s “Alternate M” is chosen, natural gas aplenty). Al Colone’s GO-EDC – the Greater Oneonta Economic Development Council – has already brought in Cornell prof Michael Tomlan’s Design Connect students to examine what they envision as a “River Corporation Commerce Park.” (Check www.designconnectcornell.com) These aren’t pie-in-the-sky big government ideas, but ways to create opportunity for private enterprise to flourish here. Government costs tax money; private enterprise creates tax dollars; i.e., addresses the “structural deficit.” • The over-arching intellectual framework for all this is Mayor Miller’s five-year budget projections. If you know today you’re going to be broke in 2014, that focuses the mind; it inspires creative thinking. Right now, it’s not a comfortable way of thinking, evident in the sometimes rancorous delibera-
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its and elements of government will continue at an ever increasing rate. Operationally, we have been able to begin reducing our bank debt and stabilized and professionalized our staff of four full-time individuals. Our group of 18 directors listed on the letterhead are hands on individuals providing oversight, control and guidance. Our records have been externally audited through 2011 and all required government filings are up to date. We have identified, received and are seeking grants primarily to keep our facilities in first-class condition and to
broaden our technical capabilities. Our challenge will always be to provide a base level of private support to assure our continuing ability to host events and stage programs that support community residents, and establish Oneonta as a regional site of first-class entertainment. We have proven that our region needs, will make good use of, and will benefit from the increasing vibrancy of the Foothills Performing Arts & Community Center. I hope you will continue to support accomplishing that worthy result.
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Democrats, who sat in silence as the governor delivered his annual message to a joint session of the legislature, was negative. “When are we going to open the concentration camps?” asked Assemblyman Manfred Ohrenstein of Manhattan.
was made from papers in her pocketbook. Other articles found with Gardner’s skeleton were taken to his wife, who is now living in Franklin, and she identified them as belonging to him. The girl’s parents are both deceased.
The dance given Miss Ella Deitz Bull by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bull at the City Club ballroom at The Oneonta Monday night proved delightful in every way. Miss Bull, one of the season’s attractive young debutantes, had as guests about 60 of the younger set, all of whom declared the event one of the happiest occasions imaginable. Mr. and Mrs. Bull were assisted in chaperoning the party by Mr. and Mrs. Perry R. Young. The music for the event was furnished by Gardner’s full orchestra and the music was enticing. The young folks found keenest pleasure in the merry dance. During the intermission a delicious collation was served in the club dining room by Mssrs. Millard of The Oneonta.
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There was one inch of snow on Oneonta streets yesterday morning, costing the city an estimated $135 to clean up before pedestrians could walk, or automobiles could ride, without slipping. “People don’t realize how much money it costs just to clear a light snow such as this, just to make it passable so people can get around,” said Edmund Shultis, Sr., foreman of the Department of Public Works. “The snow was just enough to make it slippery and greasy,” Shultis said. He estimated other costs as follows: Nearly three tons of salt, at $50; four loads of stone grit (20 tons) at $32; labor cost for three men on the salt truck and three on the sanding crew, $35; plus equipment wear and tear covering items as tires and chains at $18. “You can just imagine what it would cost if the city had to dig out from a heavy snowfall,” Shultis added.
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A 13-year-old mystery was solved yesterday when the skeletons, one of a young girl and the other of a man, were discovered near Mount Upton yesterday. Identification of the remains revealed that they were Beatrice Deforest, 15, and Harry Gardner, 27, who disappeared in 1919. At the time it was thought they had eloped. Dr. E.W. Wilcox of Norwich, coroner, yesterday afternoon gave a verdict of murder and suicide. The verdict was based on the fact that an axe and a number of bottles which had contained chloroform, carbolic acid and paregoric were found with the remains. The skull of the girl appeared to have been beaten in. The gruesome find was made by George Miner of Johnson City, a pitcher of the Newark, New Jersey International League baseball team. While hunting in what is known as the Michigan swamp, two miles from Mount Upton, just at dusk the day before, he stumbled over a skull. He hastened back to the village, but it was too dark to return to the scene until yesterday morning. Identification of the girl’s remains
Penn State’s Nittany Lions, who have been playing intercollegiate football since 1887, were crowned national champions for the first time Sunday according to the final Associated Press poll. Penn State defeated number 1- ranked Georgia 27-23 in Saturday night’s Sugar Bowl showdown and moved up from the number 2 position to claim the national title with an 11-1-0 record over undefeated Southern Methodist University, which took second with an 11-0-1 record. The Lions were defeated 42-21 by Alabama in the fifth game of the season. “Obviously, we’re all thrilled at Penn State,” Coach Joe Paterno said when informed of the final rankings. “This kind of makes up for the times we didn’t get it.”
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The creation of a county executive, Medicaid reform and a reduction in New York State’s health care costs are among the issues on the Otsego County Chamber’s 2003 agenda, chamber officials said Friday morning. The seven initiatives on the agenda emphasize change “over the long haul and sustained economic growth,” said Rob Robinson, president and chief executive officer of the chamber. “We’re facing this year the biggest challenge we’ve had in years, maybe decades,” Robinson said.
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller asked the legislature Wednesday for mandatory life sentences for all hard-drug pushers and was met with prolonged Republican applause and negative Democratic murmurings of “concentration camps.” Saying that attempts to rehabilitate drug addicts have accomplished little, Rockefeller called for tough new measures against addicts and pushers alike. “Our neighborhoods have been effectively destroyed by addicts as by an invading army,” he declared. Immediate reaction from the
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Village Rethinks Sidewalk Project To Fit With State ‘Green’ Initiative GRANT/From A1 things, established that the pedestrian-unfriendly sidewalk at the village’s one stoplight could be shortened by several feet. Still, Falk, who Mayor Jeff Katz appointed to chair the Streets & Buildings committee, reflected over a cup of tea the other day: “It was clear ... there was no money to follow through.” Still, the Cuomo Administration had just completed its first round of grants, processed by 10 regional development councils, intend-
ed to rationalize the annual distribution of $1 billion in economic-development money to localities based on strategic plans developed regionally. The main vehicle to accomplish this was the CFA, the comprehensive funding application. “It was so fortunate that the CFA project came along,” said Falk. The new trustee, a tenured professor at SUNY Oneonta’s Cooperstown Graduate Program in Museum Studies, had applied for grants in the past. But
they had been personal in nature: To the University of Delaware for a fellowship to obtain her Ph.D. there, bolstered by grants from the duPont family’s Winterthur, the arboretum/decorative arts museum. Figuring the process was similar, she obtained a list of state grant programs – 46 pages in all – from the Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Council (MVREDC), which includes Otsego County. In August, she attended the Vernacular Architecture
Forum on Madison, Wisc., where she heard an enthusiastic presentation on that downtown’s “rain gardens” – aka, “bio-retention areas” – and loose-fitting pavers, designed to clean up runoff into the city’s four lakes. Eureka. Back home, Falk thumbed through the 46 pages and identified money available through the Environmental Facilities Corp.’s Green Innovations Grant Program. The village rethought its sidewalk upgrade in an environmentally friendly way, and applied
for $1.9 million. Now when it rains, water runs over the deteriorating concrete sidewalks and down Main and other streets directly into Otsego Lake or the Susquehanna. The money would be used to replace the sidewalks with historically evocative bricks or other pavers that would allow rainwater to sink into the earth, to be slowly strained of impurities before it eventually leaches into the lake. Rain gardens – in effect, larger openings around
trees (replaced, in some cases, with species that better flourish in the damp) – would be installed. Flowers would be planted in the openings – again, to absorb water – and in some cases, perhaps, vegetable patches. “The idea is to ‘treat it where it falls’,” said Falk. On Thursday, Dec. 13, word arrived: Of the $1.4 million awarded to Otsego County in CFA’s second round, the Village of Cooperstown would receive $639,000.
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Diz Lamonica Always There When Oneontans Needed Help ICON/From A1 guess you’d put it.” Here are the facts: • Diz Lamonica was born in Oneonta on Jan. 9, 1911, the son of immigrant parents from Palermo, Sicily. He grew up with brothers Samuel and Carl, and sisters Marian and Sylvia (later a longtime OHS Latin teacher) on Market Street and Watkins Avenue, (where Gordon B. Roberts Agency is now.) His siblings predeceased him. • He ran the family’s banana distributorship and bowling alley. Older brother Sam eventually took over the former, younger brother Carl the latter, with Diz as president. He bought a small beer distributorship in 1949, and it was the dominant Northern Eagle Beverage by the time he retired in 1986. • In the 1940s, he promoted amateur boxing for the Oneonta Recreation Commission under Dutch Damaschke, and trained local athletes Butch Katanic, Kid Cuyle, Brad Blasetti
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was injured while working at Elmore Feed Co. Awaiting the first disability payment, the Shields family was running out of cash. So he went to Diz, who hired the lad as a pin boy in the bowling alley. (Shields remembers how Lamonica periodically rented the back room at Jack’s Restaurant to treat the pin boys to dinner.) Later, Alex spent a decade at Bendix in Sidney, working on a business degree at night, and had been able to accumulate a little company Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA stock. Laid off, he thought: Frank A. “Diz” Lamonica accepts accolades from Now’s the time to finish that Common Council in 2011, as it declared Jan. 9 of that year “Diz Lamonica Day in Oneonta.” college degree at SUNY Oneonta. young 17, quit school to put odrich. “This guy worked He went to see Diz Lait back on a firm footing. so hard, you couldn’t dog it. monica, who then ran the “Diz paid everybody back You had to work along with family’s banana distributor100 percent on the dollar,” him.” He was there at 6 ship and bowling alley. Nader said. a.m., said Drago, and closed “What do you want?” In 1949, Diz bought a the place at 6 in the evening. Shields remembers his mensmall beer distributorship And that energy was tor asking. on Market Street, renamed it evident in his driving, to “Twenty-five-hundred Lamonica Beverage Co. and the degree that the sales bucks.” moved it to West Broadstaff would offer to drive “Here.” Lamonica way at the Fonda Avenue en route home from sales reached into the office safe footbridge, which conmeetings in Rochester and handed the cash across nected with the D&H yards. and elsewhere. One time the desk. A decade later, renamed when Diz was behind the That was too easy for Northern Eagle Beverage, wheel on the Thruway near Shields. He asked Lamonica he moved it to Railroad AvSyracuse, Scavo – he was to take a promissory note, riding shotgun – remembers with the shares as collateral. enue; he sold the company to Lou Hager in 1986 and the car overtaking a small “Whatever you want to retired. plane that was landing on an do,” said Diz. He threw the When Scavo joined the airstrip near Syracuse. shares and note in the office beer distributorship in Through all this there was safe and never mentioned 1957, it was still a growing fun, too. Nader remembers it again. Eventually the concern. Genesee was the Diz had a penchant for pracbeneficiary, degree in hand, company’s first mainstay; tical jokes, some spinning reclaimed the stock and paid also Beverwyck, an Albany off from the city’s ethnic off his benefactor. brew. At one point, more mix. “When money was tight, Genny was sold per capita When the circus would he’d help you,” said Alex. in Oneonta and Binghamton come to town, the elephants, Diz’s father was the than anywhere. Then Budcamels and the rest would family’s original entrepreweiser was added, and the be unloaded at the depot neur, founding the banana distributorship grew with – now Ristorante Stella distributorship and developBud, (with Molson, Coors Luna – marched up Market ing an entertainment center Street and over the viaduct – the bowling alley, a dance and others added later.) But it didn’t just happen. to The Flats, where River hall (that featured dance Scavo, Drago and others all Street School is today. marathons during the 1920s) remarked on Lamonica’s Once, Diz paid the camel and even a swimming pool hard work and dedication. tender $10 to divert one – in the building where The “It was sort of contaof the animals to nearby Green Earth is today. gious,” said Scavo, who was Monser’s garage. He then The Depression hit and part of a team that included sought out Sam Monser the enterprise got in fiSam Stam and Ralph Go– like Nader, who related nancial trouble – Frank, a
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the story, of Lebanese descent – and bet him $10 that “these animals find ‘their own.’” Monser wagered the $10, before returning to the garage and finding the camel there. While there was hard work and fun, there was also tragedy. Diz’s son Frank, then 16, died in a car crash in 1961. Lamonica’s first wife, Mona – young Frank’s mother – succumbed to cancer a week later. And the fabled vitality was slowed a bit by an accident in the 1960s, when Lamonica slipped off the loading dock next to the railroad track that ran behind Market Street and his arm was crushed between a railcar and the building. He felt pain from the phantom limb for the rest of his life, Drago recounted. Jo-Ann Lamonica – they married in 1989 – remembers her husband’s good heart and “street smarts” in encouraging her to get involved in public life. Together, the Lamonicas were strong supporters of St. Mary’s, and when the former St. Mary’s School was built 15 years ago, they funded the school chapel. She was the school’s first “Distinguished Partner in Education” in 2009. “I always was honored to be Mrs. Diz Lamonica,” she said, “and never wanted anything more.” The final chapter began Christmas day, when Diz Lamonica fell and injured his hip, said Drago. His doctors determined he was strong enough to undergo an operation, but pneumonia developed and he succumbed at about 8 the following Sunday evening. To Nader, 9 years younger, Diz Lamonica was a big presence since his boyhood, and the news of his death was a blow. “He was a real icon,” he said.
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Start the New Year in Your Own Home! Right place, Right house, and Right price! Exclusively offered at $139,000 Recently renovated and updated, this 3 bedroom home is ready for immediate occupancy. It is located on a quiet country road, 2 ½ miles from the center of the village. New front deck for sitting and enjoying the sounds of summer! Large side and rear yard. Newly redone full bath; ½ bath on the first floor. Living room, dining room and den on the first floor. New appliances. Buy now and take advantage of low interest rates while they last. Call for an appointment to see this country home.
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Exclusively offered at the new price: $154,900 Centrally located village home. Large corner lot. Living room, dining room, large kitchen and family room. Three bedrooms and 1.5 baths. Nice front porch. Interior freshly painted. Walk to school and the hospital. Great possibilities!
DraMatiC anD Dazzling
Affordable, spacious family home in a nice country setting Mini farM on 14+ aCreS
CooperStown Colonial
(7668) This attractive 4 BR/2 bath home has been remodeled. It offers large rooms, modern kitchen, office, formal DR, newer windows, roof and electric, gas woodstove, laminate flooring, laundry room, garage, and a large front porch. Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $249,000
(7623) Custom, spotless 3 BR/3 bath countryside Dutch Colonial enriched by valley views on 9.5 acres. Light and airy, with finished basement, formal LR and DR, working kitchen w/eating area and keeping room, and 2 Rumford fireplaces. 4-season room w/pellet stove leads to patio, large deck, and hot tub. Hand-hewn beams, period hardware, wide pine floors. Handsomely styled Colonial ambiance! One owner. Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $479,900
(7551) 1850s eyebrow Colonial with a valley view. This 3 BR home features back porch, beamed ceilings, hardwood floors, formal DR. Offering horse barn w/4 box stalls, riding rink, hi-tensile fence. A fix-up! CV-S Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $134,000
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Main Street CooperStown
CooperStown Village CoMfort
(7589) Partake of the delights in this superbly kept 3 BR home. Many extras include formal DR, hardwood floors, modern kitchen, garage, and large front porch. Near shops, lake, and golf course. Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $285,000
(6447) Business block on Main Street. Four 2 BR apartments. 2 commercial spaces—2,500 sq ft total commercial space. New windows, new hot water furnace. Storage space in cellar. Well kept stone and brick building. Good income producer. Hubbell’s Exclusive $525,000
46 aCreS
(7601) Mostly wooded with 2 building sites, underground electric and phone, 170' drilled well. 1374' road frontage with good access, sub-dividable. Hubbell’s Exclusive $125,000
A great location close to Cooperstown. This 3 bedroom, 2 full bath home is ready to move into. Direct TV/ Internet is Clarity Connect. Quiet neighborhood with similar well kept homes. One floor living, easy to live in, low maintenance home. The back and side yards are perfect for children and pets to safely enjoy. Room outside for 4 seasons of fun! Full basement could be finished into more space if desired. Large garage provides ease of entry plus additional storage. Kitchen/dining area has sliders to a private rear deck overlooking the backyard. All within minutes of the village. Exclusively offered at $199,500.
CooperStown Village Cape
(7497) Well kept 4 BR, 1¾ bath home features formal DR, built-in bookcases, fireplace, eat-in kitchen, playroom, oak floors, and newer furnace. Garage, workshop, basement, and enclosed porch. Close to hospital, sports center, and schools. One owner. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $299,000
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