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Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, February 7, 2014

City of The Hills

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In Oneonta, It’s Suddenly Water, Water Everywhere Mayor Miller Pumped Over City Capacity By JIM KEVLIN

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Rhett Mortland, BSide Ballroom chef, sports his first-prize chili-pepper apron at CANO’s Chili Bowl fundraiser Sunday, Feb. 2. More than 600 people packed the Wilber Mansion for the event.

Foundation Done, Tower Due To Rise

ewman Development has told City Hall the foundation for 320-student Hillside Commons is complete, and modular units built off-site will be trucked in to the top of Blodgett Drive, beginning Monday, Feb.17. Completion is due by Aug. 15. The trucks, which will arrive between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. weekdays, may occasionally impede traffic on Lettis Highway, Maple and East streets, Bugbee Road, and on Blodgett Drive itself, according to a memo from Mayor Miller to Common Council. STAR VISITS: Renown novelist George Saunders stopped by the Green Toad Bookstore the morning of Thursday, Jan. 30, where he signed copies of his best-selling “The Tenth of December,” just out in paperback. OSCAR CONTEST: The Huntington Library is inviting patrons to participate in its Oscar contest: Whoever picks the most winners will win two tickets to Southside Mall Cinema. Pick up a ballot at the library. Deadline for ballots is Saturday, March 1, the day before the Oscars.

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Filmmaker Sean Gallagher, left, and Blacklist defense lawyer Scott Fein chat with SUNY Oneonta juniors Tiana Waller and Ashley Antwi after the SRO screening Monday, Feb. 3.

‘Blacklist’ Film Packs SUNY Hall By LIBBY CUDMORE

n the eve of his 2008 SUNY Oneonta graduation, Sean Gallagher got a call he hadn’t been

’08 Grad’s Work Premieres Locally expecting. “If you ever want to tell the real story of the Blacklist,” Kathleen O’Mara told him. “Here it is.” Gallagher, a communica-

Even Then, Pretty Girls In Ads Helped To Sell Most Everything By JIM KEVLIN

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moke the G&G Cigar, 5 cents, Manufactured by T.D. Glen & Co., Oneonta, N.Y.,” reads the legend. But the image is of a lovely young lady in an above-theknee skirt, her slip showing, holding perhaps a flower, but certainly no cee-gar. No matter, Lynn Bissell will tell you. That the picture and text don’t match Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA on the “trade card,” an early Lynn Bissell looks at form of advertising, is beside the “magnum opus” of Please See CARDS, A6 his trade cards.

tions major, had completed a 20-minute documentary, “The Brothers of the Blacklist,” for his first Documentary Studies class. She gave him a box of

news footage, interviews, archival film and newspaper clippings detailing the events and aftermath of that morning of Sept. 4, 1992, when a 77-year-old Oneonta woman was Please See LIST, A5

or a while, City Hall has known it had twice as much water capacity as its 13,840 year-’round citizens and 9-month college students need. Until now, it didn’t matter. With the arrival of Sandy Mathes as the county IDA’s “single point of contact” for economic development, it Mayor Miller suddenly does, and Mayor Dick Miller is getting excited about what may soon be an in-demand asset. “I’m optimistic,” Miller said in an interview. (Engineering Technician Gino Huggins sat in to provide technical details.) “As Sandy looks at what’s here from a site point of view, the city is an enabler and a beneficiary.” On an average day, Please See WATER, A5

Airport Commission Takes Off $300K Strategic Plan First Step To Upgrade This ‘Regional Asset’ By JIM KEVLIN

wo years ago, the future of the Oneonta Municipal Airport seemed pretty bleak. City Hall had let its arrangement expire with Brian Curpier’s Clipper Aviation, the long-term FBO (fixed base operator) who managed day-to-day operations, and was looking to extract itself from its 50-year entangle-

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Airport Commission chair Ed May, right, and member Dennis Finn examine artists’ renderings.

ment with the 1,700-acre flying white elephant on the hill. (The fence encompasses 54 acres.)

Today, it’s a different picture. Ed May, new chairman Please See AIRPORT, A6

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Lily Flynn and Teagan Montgomery, both of Oneonta, sprint around cones in a relay race at Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal the fourth annual SUNY Oneonta Kids in Sports day Saturday, Feb. 1, in the campus’ Alumni Field Principals posed for a photo after the Otsego Chamber announced Brewery Ommegang is Chamber/ House. SUNY student athletes taught kids to NBT Bank Distinguished Business of 2014 and Attorney John Scorzafava, the Eugene A. Bettiol Jr. play soccer, tennis, volleyball, lacrosse and field Distinguished Citizen. From left are NBT’s Lyle Smith, chamber President Barbara Ann Heegan, Omhockey through a full ÊUÊ* 9 day of games Ê/"*Êfff and activities. megang’s Brewmaster Phil Leinhardt and President/CEO Simon Thorpe, Scorzafava’s partner Theodore 7 9-Ê 19 Bazdekis and his wife, Teri, and chamber Board President Scott Davis, partner in County Club AutoCOINS CURRENCY motive. COINS CURRENCY JEWELRYJEWELRY

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Year. President/CEO Simon Thorpe and brewmaster Phil Leinhart expressed thanks for the honor at the announcement Friday, Jan. 31, at the brewery. Chamber President Barbara Ann Heegan praised the company’s leadership locally and nationally. • Attorney John Scorzafava of Oneonta is Eugene A. Bettiol, Jr. Dis-

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HIGHLIGHTS OF WINTER CARNIVAL 2014 FRIDAY, FEB. 7

SATURDAY, FEB. 8

FIREWORKS: Kick off a weekend of Olympic Festivities with the “Brian Boitano” carnival fireworks display. 6:30 p.m. in Lakefront Park.

PARADE: Festive floats and live music in the Olympiad parade. Prizes awarded. 11:30 a.m., Main St.

COOLER: Savor samples of the “Elixers of the Gods” at the Carnival Cooler Drink Contest. $5, age 21+. 7-11 p.m., Templeton Hall, 63 Pioneer St. GHOST TOUR: Hear spooky ghost stories by candlelight. $10 adults, $5 kids. Also Saturday and Sunday, 7 p.m., Pioneer Park.

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TENTS: The Olympic Village opens with a bounce house, chili contest, games, food and more. Compete for prizes, medals awarded in the afternoon! Noon-4 p.m. Doubleday Parking Lot. QUILT SHOW: Cozy up with a quilt show, featuring demonstrations, raffles and more. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St. DOG SHOW: See your favorite pooches compete for top prizes in the SSPCA’s “Paws-abilities” dog show. Noon, Doubleday Parking Lot. BOOGIE: Kids can dance the afternoon away at the Children’s Disco. Noon2 p.m., Cooperstown Fire Hall.

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the 5th Annual Royal Eating Contest. $10 fee includes official eating tee-shirt, proceeds benefit the United Way. 3 p.m. Cooley’s Stonehouse Tavern.

SING, SING: Kids, come belt your heart out with the karaoke machine and enjoy some free pizza. 1-3 p.m. Masonic Lodge, 77 Main St.

PERFECT POUR: Purchase a Duvel beer and try to make a perfect pour to win a prize. 5:30-7:30 p.m., The Pit.

FREE THROW: Shoot hoops and win prizes. 3 p.m., Clark Sports Center. CHOW DOWN: Prizes for the top three eaters at w

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MOVIE NIGHT: Warm up inside after a day out in the cold with “The Croods” at 6:30 p.m. and “Cool Runnings: at 8:30. Clark Sports Center Gym. LOCAL BANDS: “Triple Lutz” music extravaganza at local bars. Age 21+, no cover charge. 9 p.m until closing time SUNDAY, FEB. 9 PANCAKES: Cooperstown Lions Club serves of stacks of hotcakes. 8-11:30 a.m., Veteran’s Club, Main St. COOL RUNNINGS: Sled races for youth and adult teams. Registration,

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Here Are THe rules 3. WHEN: Clues about the location will be published by the Freeman’s Journal for three weeks prior to Winter Carnival. a. When the medallion is found, the finder must immediately return it to the Cooperstown Winter Carnival Commitee, by calling 607-282-2699 b. The winner will be 2. WHO: required to execute and Anyone can participate in the Medallion return a CERTIFICATE OF Hunt, EXCEPT: a. Immediate family members of the Winter ELIGIBILITY and GENERAL Carnival Committee are INELIGIBLE to win RELEASE FORM within 14 days of notification. If the Medallion Hunt prize. winner is under the age of b. All constants under the age of 18 must have permission of a parent or guardian to 18, the Certificate must be signed by his or her participate in the hunt. c. All contestants agree that the Freeman’s parent or guardian. NonJournal and the Cooperstown Winter Carni- compliance may result in val Committee, their advertisers and agents, disqualification. c. If medallion is not found and the Village of Cooperstown and town by the Carnival Closer of Otsego will have no liability whatsoever, at the end of the Winter and will be held harmless by contestants Carnival, the prize money of any injuries, losses or damages of any will be donated to a local kind resulting in whole, of in part, directly charity (decided by Winter or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, misuse or use of the prizes or participation Carnival Committee) in this contests.

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5/10K: Feel like an Olympian running the Bob Smullens 5K/10K race. $20 includes commemorative tee-shirt, prizes for most creative, most patriotic and Olympic-themed costumes. 11 a.m. registration, 12:30 p.m. run. Cooper Park. HIKE: Not quite the frigid lakes of Russia, but a nice brisk hike across Otsego Lake. Walk, ski or snowshoe from Brookwood Point, then return for hot beverages. 1 p.m., meet at Brookwood Point. GET THE GOODS: TREP$ Marketplace has a whole variety of goods and services made by CCS kids. 1-3 p.m. CCS Gym, 38 Linden Ave. YUMMY: Cheesecake tasting. 1-4 p.m. Cooperstown United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2014

EDITORIAL

City Glad To Share Bountiful Water For Economic Development

hen he was Oneonta’s mayor, Sam Nader, now a vigorous 95, would never even consider charging youngsters from outside the city to use municipal swimming pools or other programs. Sam’s view was kids are kids, and shouldn’t be penalized because of where they live. That’s the kind of warm and expansive attitude that all local elected officials would be well advised to embrace. “Oneonta” is the city and town, as well as Laurens, Otego and the other neighbors. “Cooperstown” is Fly Creek and the towns of Middlefield, Hartwick and more. We’re all in this – whatever “this” might be – together. • Sam Nader came to mind as his current successor, Dick Miller, was discussing the city’s astonishing surplus in treated municipal water. Typically, the city now provides 1.2 million

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People matter more than municipal boundaries to former Oneonta Mayor Sam Nader.

gallons a day, but has 1.2 million more at the ready, and could easily expand its capacity to a total 3.4 million, almost triple. Beyond the mostly vacant former D&H yards, the city doesn’t have much room to grow. However, it can be “an enabler and a beneficiary” of economic development in Greater Oneonta

which, in the mayor’s mind, benefits everybody. With the hiring of Sandy Mathes, the county’s “single point of contact” for economic development, by the county Industrial Development Authority (IDA), that surplus is more than just academic. With the heightened understanding that economic development can indeed happen here, City Hall has been sounded out by two neighboring towns interested in contracting for municipal water, and an optimum site has already been identified just outside the city, at least tentatively, as an excellent choice for “shovel ready” status; laying pipe there would be straightforward. Mathes, who has been ranging the county, reports the other two population centers – Cooperstown and Richfield Springs – also have excess capacity in both water and waste-water treatment, which puts Otsego

County at a competitive advantage vis a vis the Hudson Valley, where all treatment plants are operating under “consent orders.” Currently, he is coming up with a list of the best sites to pursue, and plans to prioritize them in an action plan he intends to have in the IDA board’s hand by April at the latest. He observed, “Even as good as the city is with its water and water water, it’s a limited capacity.” • The discussion brings to mind the Town of Oneonta’s problematic plan to build its own water plant in Fortin Park, across the Susquehanna from Emmons. For the plan to fly, the town needs a majority vote from a district that includes, not only the big boxes on the Southside – they would gladly embrace the idea – but the homes on Southside Drive. It would need a vote of

those homeowners, tentatively scheduled for later this, who would have to agree to pay a hook-up fee, plus $600-800 a year, to replace perfectly good well water. It would need a $9 million grant from the state Environmental Facilities Corp., Hansen Road and similar developments. For the financial piece to work, it would have to sell water to the Town of Davenport, thus allowing the strip to extend into Delaware County to the town’s own detriment. When you look at most Upstate communities of any size, they comprise of a rotting core (the traditional city) and a 10-mile strip (in a surrounding town). Greater Oneonta has avoided that, but the Fortin Park project would ensure that unhappy day. • In contrast, City Hall has offered water to Southside at cost, covering the $1.6 million expense of opening a second well in Catella

Park (under the Lettis Highway) and piping the water across the river. That’s $1.6 million vs. $9 million-plus. With a pipe from the city, a Southside water district could be crafted to encompass just the big boxes, according to City Manager Mike Long, and the water line could be easily extended as demand requires. What should be of concern now is that the window of opportunity is closing for Town of Oneonta wouldbe ratepayers. If the town pursues this expensive and chancy plan, and it fails, there may be no city water available. A youngster is a youngster, regardless of mailing address, Sam Nader rightly believes. City Hall’s water outreach is squarely in that tradition. The Oneonta Town Board should embrace it for the good of everyone, youngsters, oldsters and middle-sters alike. Make common cause with the city, for the good of both.

MAUREEN DILL OTHER VOICES

Survey Shows Morris Residents Want To Be Protected From Fracking

ive years have passed since people first learned of the hazards of the extreme energy extraction process called high volume horizontal hydrofracking, or “fracking.” Unwilling to give credence to mounting evidence of the serious costs to public health and the environment, and ignoring cries to exercise the Precautionary Principle, powerful industries concerned solely with profits have pressed forward with shale gas drilling around the globe. To protect the health and welfare of their people, many countries, states, counties and towns have enacted bans and moratoria. More than four years have passed since Morris residents first appealed to their local officials for protections for their community. In 2011, residents concerned with the preservation of their town formed Advocates for Morris, a citizens’ organization now affiliated with the Otsego County Coali-

tion Against Unsafe Drilling and New Yorkers Against Fracking. Forced to acknowledge the futility of their efforts to influence local government, amid growing concerns that some members of the board may have fallen prey to the exaggerated projections of gas drilling companies and the influence of their pro-drill coalitions, Advocates for Morris then retained the services of attorneys at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Through their Community Fracking Defense Project, NRDC provides legal and policy assistance to towns and local governments seeking protection from hydraulic fracturing. More recently, Advocates for Morris conducted a communitywide survey on fracking, with survey mailing costs underwritten by its members and through a grant from Otsego 2000. The sole survey question – “Do you want to allow fracking for shale gas in

Morris?” – generated responses from 462 Morris residents over age 18. Seventy-one percent of those who responded to the survey stated their opposition to allowing fracking in Morris. The survey return-mail form also allowed respondents to post their comments, which ranged from “Thank you for taking the trouble to survey your neighbors,” to “Mind your own business.” One resident urged officials to “listen to the voices of your people,” citing that the “possibility of poisoning or contamination of the water supply is not worth the risk.” Another emphasized the importance of renewable energy sources. Several expressed fears that property values might plummet if fracking were to be permitted, with some saying they have delayed investing in improvements to their properties due to the threat of fracking. Those among

the minority of respondents who said they favor fracking (29 percent) believe that “it will provide economic stability and tax relief to the area,” accusing Advocates for Morris of having created division in the town. Anyone examining this contentious issue would soon recognize that it is the promise of financial gain, drilling industry representatives and their landowner coalition organizers that have combined to foster a division among the people wherever fracking rears its ugly head. The survey records will be sent to the New York office of the NRDC. Their attorneys’ interest in the survey returns is tied to the legal and strategic advice they are providing to Advocates for Morris concerning the group’s campaign for good governance and protections against fracking. “Everyone,” it’s been said, “lives downstream.” Throughout New York State, there is now a

hue and cry for a statewide ban. Here in Otsego County, the numbers of municipalities implementing bans on fracking are steadily increasing. When two towns bordering on Morris – New Lisbon and Butternuts — imposed bans on fracking, people in these towns began expressing concerns for the welfare of their communities and properties in the event the government of Morris fails to implement similar protective measures. Today, encouraged by the results of their survey and the recent changes in the Morris Town Board, there are renewed hopes among Advocates for Morris supporters that the government of Morris will meet its responsibility to provide for the safety and welfare of the people and enact a ban against fracking. Maureen Dill is a member of Advocates for Morris.

LETTERS

Chili Bowl Underscores Need To Preserve Wilber Mansion To the Editor: On behalf of the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce , I would like to recognize and say thank you to the Community Arts Network of Oneonta (CANO) board of directors and all the volunteers gathered at the 10th Annual Chili Fest. It was a huge success that brought the community together with common purpose.

There is no denying the tremendously important role that volunteers play in building community networks and sustainable relationships. The economic value and impact of volunteering on the cultural sector is unquantifiable. As the community gathered for Chili Fest in the Wilber Mansion, which is a historic downtown landmark and a centerpiece of

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Oneonta’s history, the benefits of restoring and maintaining the mansion as an ongoing commitment were apparent to all. The building deserves to be restored to the unique beauty it once Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal was and Volunteer Zellah Minor-House makes remains. CANO her way through the Wilber Mansion’s has dedi- mobbed hallways during CANO’s Chili cated itself Bowl. to repairing the community and the and repainting the buildregion. ing by 2014. Painting the Thank you to the commuexterior, resurfacing the gal- nity for your support and for lery walls, and restoring the being a part of the charge carriage house are current to preserve our community priorities in their endeavor. history. The community support BARBARA ANN HEEGAN at this event and throughPresident/CEO out the year has a positive Otsego County Chamber impact on this organization, Oneonta

With Generous Community’s Help, Salvation Army Aided 500 Families To the Editor: On behalf of The Salvation Army, we would like to take this moment to say thank you for everyone who supported our Angel Tree Program. Every year becomes more and more of a challenge to meet the requests that come to us; but we are happy to report that once again so many dreams were made a reality – thank you so very much. We would like to share with you that with your kind support, we were able to make this past Christmas

season much brighter for 500 families and their children. We were able to provide almost 2,700 toys and 1,800 articles of clothing. This is a wonderful increase over last year’s effort. We are so grateful for the many individuals in our community who support the Angel Tree Program. Their generosity provides us the privilege of assisting the needful in our area. May the Lord bless you. CAPT. EVELYN HOPPING Oneonta Corps Officer

Frank Rollins’ Passing Woke Happy Memories To the Editor: Thank you very much for your tribute to Franklin Rollins, who passed away Monday, Dec. 2. He was my choral director at CCS from 1965 to 1969. At the time, we were listening to The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Diana Ross and The Supremes; he was teaching us Handel’s “Messiah,” lyrics to “My Fair Lady,” “West Side Story,” “Porgy and Bess” and so many more. Many of my best high school memories are from participating in his rehearsals and concerts. KAREN WOODS JOHANNESEN Cooperstown

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History

City Can Triple Municipal Water Supply

best “shovel ready” site identified by Mathes WATER/From A1 in his first month on the job could easily be the city’s water system is producing 1.2 Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of the NYSHA Library served by city water, Miller added. million gallons. That can go to 1.8 million Coincidentally, an opportunity has also gallons a day or two a year, usually on a hot the Faculty Lounge, Hunt College Union, on day in September when SUNY Oneonta and arisen to extend a city sewer in along Route “Bangladesh Revisited.” Woolever, who was Hartwick College students return to class. 7 east, where the Foxcare Center, other Local News – “Pop” Snyder, the one, the in Bangladesh from October 15 to Decembusinesses and perhaps future development Right now, the water system’s capacity is only, and the original auctioneer, concluded ber 10, 1973, had gone to Bangladesh in could contribute revenues to city coffers, he well above that, 2.4 million gallons a day, his sale of the “once was” goods of Meyer March 1972 as part of the Airlift of Uncontinued. double the average use. (Miller said the Tanner Saturday morning. As was the case derstanding of the Emergency Relief Fund In a separate interview, Mathes said waste-water treatment plant has similar extra with the previous sales a large multitude for Bangladesh designed to gain firsthand he had also been met with Village of capacity.) were present and bids and witticisms alike knowledge of rehabilitation and survival A second well that can easily be opened in Cooperstown and Town of Richfield offifilled the air in a never-ending stream till needs of the new nation. He is the son of Catella Park can produce another 1.6 million cials about economic-development possibiliall the goods were sold. Just what certain the Rev. and Mrs. C.E. Woolever, who were gallons, and a West End well not now in use ties there. In the first, he is intrigued by the unmarried gentlemen are going to do with missionaries in India for 42 years and lived can produce another 500,000 gallons. That Railroad Avenue neighborhood; in the latter, certain articles of feminine apparel is a mys- in the Calcutta area until he was 19. means, in short order the city could produce on property on outer Lake Street. tery for the sleuths of the city to discover if February 1974 3.4 million gallons a day, almost triple the His plan, he said, is to prepare an action they can. plan for the IDA board to consider, by April daily demand. February 1914 at the latest. In any economic development While the Town of Oneonta is pursuing Federal surplus foods will be distributed initiative, a ready water supply will be esa brand new plant of its own in Fortin Park, by Opportunities for Otsego, Inc. at five sential he said. two other nearby towns have expressed an Despite continued cold weather, good locations in Otsego County in February. interest in city water, the mayor said. The progress is being made on all outdoor Civil Each household will receive a five pound Works Administration projects in Oneonta, block of cheese, a four pound box of dry according to City Engineer Frank Gurney, milk, and one other commodity – either a who is in charge of local CWA projects. three pound container of honey, or a ten honor to have this first pubMany of the Blacklisted LIST/From A1 Payrolls between December 11 and Februpound bag of corn meal on a first come, lically screened at SUNY,” students went on to graduattacked by a black man. ary 3 amounted to $28,621.95. The recent first served basis. Only one distribution per said Gallagher. ate and spoke happily to order cutting the hours of employment from household is allowed. The distribution point Lief Hartmark, then SUNY Gallagher of their time at In the audience were Oneonta vice president/fi30 to 24 per week has resulted in a decrease in Oneonta will be on February 23 from 1 SUNY Oneonta. “If my son Tyrone Lohr, who was on nance & administration, of about $1,200 in the weekly payroll. About to 5 p.m. at the Salvation Army, 25 River wanted to go here, I would handed over the names of 78 the Blacklist; Sheryl Cham275 persons are employed in CWA projects. Street, Oneonta. be so proud,” said Allen. “It pen, admissions officer at Oneonta’s ten approved projects will cost February 1984 black students to the police, the time, and Scott Fein, the derailed my thinking, but it beginning perhaps the most approximately $75,149.46. The projects lawyer who took the 14-year didn’t derail me.” controversial chapter in the are: Rip-rapping sewers,” $2,674; Sanitary But some, like Allington discrimination case procollege’s history. sewers, $4,309; Schools, $2,452.16; SuperJonathan J. Layton, 20, of East Islip, a bono. “I don’t know why Dottin, who was president Gallagher spent the next visory and office, $2,130; Storm sewers, State University College at Oneonta sophoof the SUNY Oneonta Third three years combing through I took this case,” he said. $3,409.50; Wilber Park, $6,916.40; Neahwa more, broke into a condemned house at 91 “But I thank God that I did.” World Association (TWA) Park, $43,214.40; Grading and widening Maple Street, where Layton and members of the footage and locating In the film, another Black- and was featured in archival students, faculty and others West Street, $10,044. the Iota Tau Kappa fraternity had once lived. listed student, Kirk Allen, footage of a rally, didn’t fare February 1934 He then shot himself with a bolt-action hunt- involved with the case to said, “The only list I wanted as well. Dottin dropped out expand his 20-minute class ing rifle. Layton’s act, an apparent suicide, of SUNY Oneonta and was to be on was the Dean’s project into a 72-minute stunned college officials as well as fraternity List.” Instead, he was apfound guilty of murdering a film now entered into 30 Moving to combat what they called members who now reside at 21 Cedar Street. proach by police who asked Florida bouncer in 2003. festivals. “People trusted repeated indifference of city drivers to the Police reported that a friend described Layhim to show his hands. If For many, the memome with their stories,” said municipal snow removal problem, police ton as being highly intoxicated earlier in the he didn’t, he was threatened ries weren’t easy to relive. Gallagher. “Some of them issued a record 101 tickets for all night park- evening. He was said to have spoken about Edward “Bo” Whaley, the with detainment. told me it was a therapy ing violations early yesterday morning. Acharming himself. A SUCO official said it According to Gallaformer educational opportusession.” cording to the city ordinance parking on all was the first instance of a student suicide in gher, Hartmark and Alan nities counselor, left several He produced the film, city streets is prohibited between 12:01 a.m. 18 or 20 years. Donovan, SUNY Oneonta filmed interviews in tears. “The Brothers of the Blackand 6 a.m. following a snowfall of two and February 1994 “Talking about this ruins my list,” with Jonathan Demme, president at the time, did one-half inches, or greater, unless or until not return requests to be day,” he said in one of the the director of Oscarsuch street is plowed and cleared of snow. interviewed for the film. H. interviews. winning “Silence of the Following the last previous heavy snowfall, Propane gas is once again flowing Karl Chandler, former state “The Brothers of the Lambs” and “Philadelphia.” police issued 23 tickets for parking violathrough the Texas Eastern Products Pipeline police investigator in charge Blacklist,” was selected Monday, Feb. 3, 400 tions. February 1954 Company’s pipeline. The line has been shut people crammed into SUNY of the case, hung up on him, for the 2014 Africa World down following an explosion on January 25 Oneonta’s IRC 1, sitting the filmmaker said. “It’s a Documentary Film Festithat destroyed a house on Quaker Hill Road on stairs, against walls or shame,” said Gallagher. “I val, and Gallagher hopes to Charles W. Woolever, assistant professor in Harpersfield. would have loved to hear continue to take the film to standing to see the film’s of geography at SUCO will give a talk in February 2004 premier. “It’s beyond an their side of the story.” colleges.

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Living Color Cards Enticed CARDS/From A1 the point. It was the novelty of the color image itself. “Color was so important then,” said Bissell, who considers the G&G card the “magnum opus” of his collection of a forgotten 19th-century advertising medium at the Oneonta History Center. “We take if for granted today.” “Any scrap of paper with color on it, people would collect. They would post it in their scrapbooks” – also common then; rare now – “and show it to friends who came to visit,” said Bissell, author of “Yesterday’s Wealth” and three other local history books. He was interviewed Sunday, Feb. 2, at the opening reception of “Trade Cards.” Several dozen examples of trade cards are on display, including another pretty girl over the legend, “Oneonta One Price Shoe Store, Richardson & Elmore, 146 Main St.,” and a fjord-like view of what may be the Yukon, a sailing ship in the river, a husky in the foreground, advertising “Gold Coin & Gold Medal, Stoves & Ranges,” on sale at W.L. Brown, Oneonta. Bissell became interested in the city’s commercial families and, thence, trade cards, during his 30-year career at the former Wilber Bank (now Community Bank), as he got to know descendants of Eliakim R. Ford and Jacob Dietz, early merchants who, between them, owned most of what is now the city’s downtown. (They are memorialized in Ford and Dietz streets.) “All the names on these cards were people are were successful in business in a big way,” Bissell said. Early local newspapers were often one sheet, black and white, no color. And so the colorful trade cards, ordered from afar. On one card, you can barely make out the printer’s copyright line: “E.P. Bent Mfg., New Haven, Ct.”

Engineer To Prepare Strategic Plan For Airport By June AIRPORT/From A1 of the city’s Airport Commission, and Dennis Finn, pilot, airport advocate, and a member of the four-member board that met for the first time Thursday, Jan. 30, talk about developing commercial sites in proximity to the runway, and they’ll show you artists’ renderings of modern office buildings behind the hangars. Those visions emerged from a year-long partnership with DesignConnect, a consultancy of Cornell grad students, led by intern Heath Green, whose fresh look at the City of the Hills saw three transportation legs on the economic-development stool – I-88 (highway), railroads and the airport – that give Oneonta a distinct advantage over similar Upstate communities. “Our goal,” said May, “is to turn an under-performing asset into a performing asset.” The Oneonta Job Corps has been renovating the airport terminal, the first updates since the airport opened in the 1960s, and by this spring will have added classroom space and a conference center. Imagine Amphenol or Covidien executives from Sidney or Hobart

driving up to meet onsite with top executives from Hartford or Boston and making high-level decisions a few steps from their Lear jets. If that’s Job One, it’s in competition with another Job One, completion of an outdated 20-year master plan required by the Federal Aviation Administration before anything can happen. The commission has contracted with a top airport engineering firm, McFarland Johnson, which aims to complete the $300,000 job by June. (The commission allocated two years of the FAA’s $150,000 allocation to cover the cost.) One thing that is sure to come out of it, May and Finn said, is extending the 4,200-foot runway to 5,000 feet, “the magic number,” May said, for modern jets to land and take off in dry or wet weather. Meanwhile, May has been building bridges with key players. He has discussed initials plans with state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, and has made a presentation to the county IDA (the industrial development agency), which he hopes will make airport development part of the mission of Sandy Mathes, the “single point of contact” economic

developer it hired in January. Once the master plan is complete, May plans to meet with FAA administrators at their new regional headquarters at JFK International in New York City, to get the local airport on their radar. Mayor Dick Miller, who two years ago was seeking to distance City Hall from the airport, now realizes that the FAA won’t allow that, but he’s making a virtue of necessity, trying to reduce costs while looking at future possibilities. His goal for the Airport Commission, created in December by Common Council, is to “assure that the current day-to-day operations are conducted in the most effective way, within financial constraints, to meet the needs of people who use the airport. (And) I’m looking to them to develop the plan for the future of the airport.” The city has allocated $50,000 a year for airport operations, down from the $145,000 it was costing under the FBO. The $50,000 includes $38,000 in property taxes levied on the “regional asset” by the towns of Oneonta, Laurens and Milford, Miller said. The airport gets additional rev-

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