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ou Hager’s Northern Eagle Beverages of Oneonta has acquired Cooperstown Brewing Co., a step that could create Otsego
County’s first complete hops-tobrewery-to-beer operation. The acquisition, from Butternuts Brewery, Garrattsville, closed on the morning of Tuesday, April 1,
and was announced that afternoon by Northern Eagle President George Allen. “Recognizing the movement toward local products and ingredi-
ents, we believe this purchase will help promote the Cooperstown and Otsego County chambers’ ‘Think Local First’ campaign,” said Allen. Founded in 1994 by Stan Hall, the brewery had developed Old Please See BEER, A2
Long Bids Farewell Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
In Surprise, First Professional To Lead City Hall Announces He’ll Retire 5/31 BAMBINO APPEARS
Bruce Hodges, Oneonta, president of president of Local Lodge 1529, By JIM KEVLIN International Asso& LIBBY CUDMORE ciation of Machinist & Aerospace Workers, speaks in favor of the Constitution Pipeline at ike Long ticked a rancorous FERC hearoff the list of ing Tuesday, April 1, at successes he OHS. Full story at initiated or participated WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM in:
struction along Clinton Street and near Silver Creek. Thirteen points in all, several with multiple aspects. When Oneonta’s first city manager – he will be retiring May 30 after what will be just • State CFA grants 20 months on the job City Manager Mike Long will be – was done, Mayor for downtown facades, replaced by City Treasurer Meg Miller, Common Counredevelopment of two Main Street buildings and Hungerford on an interim basis cil and attendees at the a downtown development after his retirement. Tuesday, April 1, meetmaster plan. ing gave him a standing • Bringing in the YMCA to manage the ovation. city swimming programs, and similar link“By tradition, the retiring city manager ages with Little League, tennis and softball. buys cocktails,” said the mayor, and the • Launching the $15 million Housing meeting adjourned. Visions housing renovations and new conPlease See TRANSITION, A7
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tate Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, cited $5 million for a SUNY Oneonta campus welcome center, and another $8 million for Milne Library construction, as examples of local benefits in the 2014-15 state budget. The Legislature approved the budget Monday, March 31, and Governor Cuomo signed it, the fourth year in a row the spending plan was passed by the April 1 deadline in the state Constitution.
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Maine MD Succeeds Bassett’s Streck 30-Year CEO Wove Fox Hospital, 4 Others Into 8-County System By JIM KEVLIN
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medical officer at the $2 billion MaineHealth system, based in Portland, will succeed Dr. William F. Streck, Bassett president/CEO since 1985. “My first impressions are very positive,” said John Remillard, Fox Hospital
president, who showed the new CEO around the Oneonta hospital during the interview process. “He has an impressive CV. He’s accomplished a lot and has had the experiences I think will serve the Bassett Please See BASSETT, A6
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Oneonta’s Ruth Herrick, one of the vendors Saturday, March 29, at the Greater Oneonta Historical Society’s Postcard & Emphemera Show, shows a postcard of “The Cavalcade of Baseball” from June 12, 1979, snapped during the opening weekend of the Baseball Hall of Fame, 75 years ago this year. When she examined the postcard with a magnifying glass, she identified the tiny image of Babe Ruth in the lower right. Baseball fan Bill Pietraface, Oneonta, snapped up the card for $20.
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here’s going to be “some serious redemption” in the next three weeks, but Mona Golub, Price Chopper’s VP/customer relations, wasn’t not talking about Good Friday or Easter Sunday. Since November, Price Chopper shoppers have been accumulating one point
for every dollar spent toward an exclusive line of Thomas cookware. “The response has been overwhelming,” said Ed Zawisza, Oneonta store manager. “Just about every customer coming through the line is picking up a pot or a pan.” On Wednesday, March 26, 17 pallets of cookware arrived on the dock. “We’ve been getting 2-3 shipments a week,” said Please See POTS, PANS, A7
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Northern Eagle Buys Cooperstown Brewing BEER/From A1 Slugger, Benchwarmer Porter, Backyard IPA, Pride of Milford and Nine Man Ale by the time it was sold to Butternuts Brewery’s Chuck Williamson, Garrattsville, in 2011. The acquisition is the latest step in Hager’s increasing involvement in the county’s – and the Leatherstocking Region’s – resurgent beer industry. “There are a lot of pieces coming together,” said Allen. “This is the first main piece that we needed.” Last fall, Hager, the Anheuser Busch heir who summers on Otsego Lake and is chief stockholder in Northern Eagle, began developing a 10-acre state-of-the-art hops field in Pierstown, and plans to add 10 acres this summer. The first 10 acres will be planted in the next few weeks, Allen said. It takes three years for plants to become fully productive, but he anticipates a 35 percent yield this season. In the next few weeks, Northern Eagle also plans to break ground on a new facility in West Oneonta, next to the Ioxus plant. When complete, the company will shift its wholesaling op-
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The “Ommeguys” – Brewery Ommegang President/CEO Simon Thorpe, second from right, along with, from left, Technical Manager Rick Debar, Brewmaster Phil Leinhart and Communications Director Larry Bennett – toast their company’s success Friday, March 28, at the Otsego County Chamber’s Annual Dinner & Celebration of Business at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom. Ommegang received NBT Bank’s Distinguished Business of the Year Award.
Attorney John Scarzafava, the Chamber’s Eugene A. Bettiol Jr. Distinguished Citizen for 2013, hugs wife Nettie Jean, the former county judge. At the dinner, Scarzafava was praised as benefactor to the Oneonta Boys & Girls Club, Catskill Area Hospice and other civic organizations. He drew one of several standing ovations for passing along his father’s advice, “Never forget where you came from.”
U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-19, left, passes along regrets that Mike Long, right, has decided to retire as Oneonta city manager.
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Eugene Bettiol Sr., center, shares a laugh with Brother Joseph Kotula, OFM, left, a Franciscan friar, and Father Dan Riley, St. Bonaventure University campus minister. The holy men were at the Chamber dinner to honor alumnus John Scarzafava, who received the award named in memory of Bettiol’s son.
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EDITORIAL
Bill Streck Is Father Of ‘The Bassett Miracle’ All Enjoy
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o hear the neverending debate in Cooperstown, you would think Bassett Hospital is simply an aggravation, its hundreds of employees, locust-like, monopolizing all-day parking spaces. Rarely is it mentioned or sufficiently appreciated that the Bassett Healthcare Network, serving nine counties from 1,800-soul Cooperstown, is a modern miracle. Given 30-year healthcare trends, why aren’t we served today by a Mary Imogene Bassett Urgi-Care Center and a Fox Outpatient Clinic, under the umbrella of Albany Medical Center or Binghamton General Hospital? The reason county folks are within a half-hour of a full-service hospital with a range of high-end specialities is the work of – as much as anything can be in our complex modern world – a single man, Bill Streck. Dr. William F. Streck – the miracle worker, if you will – was the right man at the right time for Bassett – and, therefore, for all of us
do just that. He gathered other young turks around him and, a year later, produced “The Department of Medicine’s Report on Goals, Priorities and Strategies.” His leadership role, and subsequent choice as first elected chair of the Department of Medicine, led to his selection for the hospital’s top job. Those three words, From Bassett archives “goals, priorities and strategies,” have guided him Dr. Streck at the 1992 opening of the Bassett – and, therefore, Bassett Clinic. – ever since. While the search for his Bassett serves. replacement took a year, A native Oklahoman, an endocrinologist who arrived Streck was no lame duck. As always, he has been at Bassett from Rochester’s focused on figuring out the Strong Memorial in 1978, future, in recent months he had barely been here launching Bassett Gold, a year when he asked his a health-insurance plan boss, Dr. Joe Lunn, chief on the state’s Obamacare of medicine, “Is anyone exchange. As always, he planning for the future?” perceives where healthcare In a 2010 interview on his is going and is determined 25th anniversary as president/CEO, Streck said, “It’s that Bassett be there first. Many challenges, of the one piece of audacity I course, remain, soon to always look back on musbe the purview, locally, ingly.” of Streck’s successor, Dr. Instead of telling the 30Vance Brown of Portish newcomer to back off, land-based, eight-hospital Lunn instead named Streck MaineHealth. For instance, chairman of a committee to
Before Moving Forward, Understand Why Long Left
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ill Streck departing Bassett’s helm after three decades of success is due, no doubt, to brains, diplomacy, flexibility, adaptability, but also to the support of those around him. There were dark days in the early 1990s, about the time the Bassett Clinic opened, when the hospital slipped into the red. Streck was dismayed, but the board chair at the time, the late Dr. David Thompson, was unstintingly supportive. And the dark days passed. Given that example of working things through, it’s particularly discouraging that Mike Long, an excellent choice for Oneonta’s first city manager, has concluded he cannot continue and has announced his retirement. Long’s decision reflects a failure. What’s done is done. But remember that panel discussion the Charter Revision Commission hosted during its deliberations, where top officials from Beacon, Corning and elsewhere cautioned: It’s likely a municipality’s first professional manager Bassett serves 600,000 people in nine counties; but it is generally believed the healthcare system of the future will have to serve 1.2 million to survive. Still, Bassett is flourish-
won’t work out. Professional governance requires adjustments, and they are wrenching. Department heads, used to light supervision, do end runs to mayors and Council members. Elected officials, used to meddling in the day-to-day, can’t or don’t adjust to the new reality. We thought we were smarter, but it turns out we aren’t. Mayor Miller and some Council members are inclined to quickly fill the vacancy, but that doesn’t make sense. There needs to be a review of the short Long tenure. That, it’s been sensibly suggested, requires a blue ribbon panel – a couple of Charter Commission members, a Council member or two, maybe a department head who buys in to the importance of professional governance. Former Charter Commission chair Dave Rissberger, now a Council member, has the context to be an ideal chair of such an effort, although there are no doubt others. Let’s understand what happened and apply those lessons to ensuring Mike Long’s successor is an enduring success.
ing as much as any system can in the current uncertainty and is as prepared for the future as any U.S. system can be. That Bassett exists in its vigorous form, providing such a range of
convenient routine and specialty care, jobs aplenty for ourselves and our children, and a firm anchor for community life, we can credit one man above all others: Bill Streck.
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Bassett’s Visionary CEO Understood The Choice: Growth – Or Extinction
hange is one of the few constants in our lives, and as such we must learn to embrace it. I’ve always tried to live my life according to that credo. But in the wake of last week’s announcement that my good friend and colleague Dr. Bill Streck will be leaving Bassett Healthcare after close to 30 years at the helm, my ability and willingness to embrace change is being severely tested. Even though his departure has been openly discussed during the past year, the reality of the announcement made me realize just how hard it is to envision Bassett without Dr. Streck as its leader. So as our community prepares to welcome Dr. Vance Brown as Bassett’s new president and CEO, I hope we will also take time to pay tribute to Dr. Streck for his remarkable accomplishments during his tenure at Bassett. These accomplishments were brought into sharp focus for me just last week when I had occasion to visit a small rural hospital in the North Country. In the course of my conversation with one of the long-time administrators at this facility, he offered the comment that whenever a
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Bill Streck has guided the growth of the nationally recognized Bassett Healthcare Network for almost 30 years.
local resident or colleague tells him something can’t be accomplished at their facility because it’s too small or too rural, he points to the example of Bassett as a small rural hospital that consistently “gets it done.” In response, one might be tempted to say that Bassett enjoys certain advantages that many smaller rural hospitals could only wish for, and to an extent that is true. Bassett makes its home in a beautiful and historic village, and it is the
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beneficiary of a generous endowment. The organization has an integrated physician-hospital model that at one time was unique and is now increasingly seen as the future of healthcare in our country. All of these attributes bring value to Bassett, but the truth is that in the past 30 years there have been countless facilities across the country in equally lovely communities, with similarly generous benefactors and staffed by committed physi-
cians, which have closed their doors or been absorbed and reconstituted by much larger systems. During this 30-year period, Bassett has grown its medical staff from 70 to 265 physicians; increased the number of communitybased health centers from three to 29; helped preserve vital health care services at five neighboring community hospitals experiencing varying degrees of financial distress; added an interventional cardiology program
and a regional cancer center, and became an acknowledged model of exemplary rural health care delivery across the state and throughout the nation. And while there are no doubt some who might bemoan the fact the Bassett has become too big, the truth is that maintaining the status quo was never an option. The alternative to strategic growth and development would have been shrinkage or extinction, neither of which would have been in the best interests of our staff, our patients or our region. All of Dr. Streck’s accomplishments were unquestionably built upon the efforts of his predecessors at Bassett, Dr. George Miner Mackenzie, Dr. James Bordley III and Dr. Charles Ashley. They also resulted from the hard work and dedication of countless Bassett employees and physicians. But none of these accomplishments would have been realized without the singular vision and dogged persistence of our leader Dr. Streck. There is a tendency among some individuals to assume that all of this growth was accomplished as a result of some pre-ordained recognition of Bassett’s preeminence among
its peers; this is simply not the case. The organization’s growth came as a result of Dr. Streck’s countless hours spent in negotiations with local hospitals and physicians, regional businesses, state regulators, and politicians. Much of this activity was largely invisible to the majority of those within the hospital and the broader regional community. And yet as Dr. Streck plans for his departure, all Bassett patients and staff benefit from having a thriving and vibrant health-care system that is still expanding its vision despite the daunting financial and existential challenges faced by all health care providers. It’s no wonder that Dr. Streck is not only widely admired within our region, but is also revered among his colleagues across the state for all he has accomplished. So as Dr. Streck prepares to leave Bassett we should offer our heartfelt thanks, and wish him the best as he prepares for his next challenge. Change is a constant and we must embrace it. Mike Stein is currently Bassett vice president of development.
LETTERS
Stammel: Ban Fracking, But Don’t Spurn Pipeline Benefits To the Editor: Last week, the Oneonta Town Board voted unanimously to ban fracking and the disposal of fracking waste in our community, and I was honored to be able to join in this bipartisan vote. Any limited benefits to allowing fracking in our town were far outweighed by the potential damage to our water, our existing and future industries, and our quality of life. Thank you to everyone who supported these efforts to protect and preserve Oneonta for future generations. The debate continues regarding the
proposed Constitution Pipeline, which would transport natural gas from Pennsylvania to Schoharie County and beyond, passing through Delaware County near its border with Otsego County. Although it’s natural for many people to link this pipeline with fracking in our area, they are only tangentially related. It is defeatist to insist that the pipeline’s presence would naturally lead to fracking in our county. If towns do not want to allow fracking, I urge them to exercise their home rule right to ban it, just as Oneonta has.
Unlike with fracking, the presence of this proposed pipeline has the potential to offer benefits to the wider community. Our region’s economy has been stagnant or deteriorating by and large for several decades and we should not immediately rule out any proposal that may attract new business or reduce operating costs for existing businesses. Access to additional or cheaper natural gas would benefit our local schools, colleges, hospitals and other nonprofits and would likely ease burdens on the average taxpayer and Please See LETTER, A6
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EYE ON THE WEATHER Editor’s Note: David Mattice, National Weather Service observer in the Oneonta area for the past 30 years, is providing monthly and annual summaries of local weather as a public service.
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100 Years Ago
Arrangements were completed yesterday for the lease of Wilcox Flats for the use of Barnum & Bailey’s Circus on Friday, July 10, and the contracting agent, Mr. McIntyre, closed the contract after residents of the city had become responsible for $50 additional to the rental which the circus people would pay. The Mssrs. Wilcox, yielding to the arguments of the local parties who interested themselves in the matter, consented to accept the $150 rental. The early coming of the circus this year will result in harvesting the hay earlier than is profitable on this field and they felt they should be paid more than the rental they would ask in August. April 1914
80 Years Ago
About 69 percent of the students of the Normal School admit cheating in the various examinations according to the answers compiled in a recent questionnaire investigating dishonesty in the school and conducted as a sociology project by Julia B. Carson. Answers were made anonymously by about 450 students. Two hundred and eleven either approved of cheating or were indifferent to it. Two hundred disapproved, 83 of which indicated “indignant disapproval.” A large majority, 323, disapproved of reporting cheaters to the faculty. Only 53 favored reporting cheaters and the remainder were indifferent. Ten causes for cheating were listed on the questionnaire to be marked in the order of their importance. 1. Pressure of circumstance. 2. Too much emphasis on high grades. 3. Cheating seems to be the custom of the school. 4. Student carelessness in preparing work. 5. Unfair tests justify deceit. 6. Ease with which student can cheat. 7. Students’ low standard of honor. 8. Reluctance to offend by refusing help. 9. Student of foreign parentage; has no American standards. 10. Student’s family probably low on social scale. April 1934
60 Years Ago
There weren’t any bands or horns tooting yesterday. Just nostalgic memories, as railroad passenger service in the Catskills bowed to Father Finance and quit. Fifty-four years of passenger service ended shortly after noon as the last train left Oneonta bound for Kingston on the old Ulster and Delaware Railroad, now formally known as the Catskill Branch of the New York Central. When the first U. & D. train pulled into Oneonta on July 15, 1900 with five coaches and two baggage cars behind locomotive engine No. 9, a huge crowd was on hand for the occasion. Back then, the
railroad was the only means of trans-mountain travel other than the horse. Train travel was standard for thousands of residents who rode the rails for business and pleasure. With the era of the automobile, the highway truck, and the bus, the railroad and the horse were left behind. April 1954
40 Years Ago
April Fools’ Day did not go unheralded in Oneonta. A bomb scare in Tommy’s Place on West Broadway forced proprietor Tommy Pondolfino to close his establishment early last night but the promised explosion never happened. The motive behind the bomb scare, Pondolfino suspects was a late night April Fools’ prank. A waitress at the bar received a call around 10:50 p.m. last night from a man who warned that the bomb would detonate within half an hour. Pondolfino contacted city police who evacuated about 20 customers still in the building. April 1974
MARCH 2014 Highest Temperature........................................53° F ( March 12) Lowest Temperature...........................................–5° F ( March 1 ) Average Maximum Temperature........................................34.1° F Average Minimum Temperature.......................................12.8° F Monthly Mean Temperature..............................................23.4° F Precipitation Total...................................................................2.67″ Most Precipitation in One Day..........................0.85″ ( March 13 ) Thunderstorms...............................................................................0 Snow...........................................................................................1.5″ Most Snow in One Day........................................0.6″ ( March 13 ) YTD Precipitation.....................................................................7.97” Number of Days at or below 0°F.........................4 ( 20 for 2014 ) Number of Days at or below 32°F.....................29 ( 87 for 2014)
Comments: March 2014 was the second coldest March for our area since record keeping began in 1854! The persistent cold and windy conditions that started before New Year’s just wouldn’t loosen its grip on much of the northern continental U.S. The mean temperature for the month was 23.4°F, or 7.9° below the normal 31.3°F! Precipitation, (which is rain and the water equivalent Pregnant teenagers have friends in the area waiting to of snow and sleet), was 2.67”, just 0.34” help them. The Respect for Human Life Committee was below the normal 3.01”. Oddly, it was the organized in 1979 by several people who felt some action least snowy March on record, at least in the was needed to fight the U.S. Supreme Court decision allow- Oneonta area with a scant 1.5”, which is 13.3” below normal! The massive arctic air ing abortion and to assist local pregnant teens. Though the group remains small, they have sponsored several informa- mass hunkered down over central Canada and pushed the jet stream far to our south, keeping low prestional advertisements and hold yearly collections of baby sure systems and their associated moisture far enough away items which are distributed through Community Maternity to keep us in arctic but arid conditions. Just a gentle reminder Services and Birthright. Community Maternity Services is in case you forgot: January was 5.2°F below normal, February a Catholic charity of the Albany Diocese funded by monwas 4.3°F below normal and then March at 7.9° below normal! ies from the State Division for Youth and from the Diocese Year to date precipitation is 7.97”, just 0.13” below the norm; Development Program of the Catholic Church. Last year 48.0“ of snow for the same period is only 3.5” below normal. CMS social worker Sherry Frohme assisted 40 pregnant The 85.9” of snow for the winter is 7.9” above the normal. I teenagers, making 300 home visits, plus office visits and don’t know about you but I’ve had enough, goodbye “Old Man Winter,” we’ll remember you for many years to come! And transportation. April 1974 remember, always keep your eye on the weather!
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With support from the City of Oneonta, merchants and property owners plan a downtown clean-up Sunday morning thanks to the Downtown Oneonta Improvement Task Force, known by the acronym DOIT. The group will convene today at City Hall to reach a consensus on a plan for downtown’s future, and to form a Downtown Council. The plan proposes hiring a manager for downtown. DOIT will be considering the impact of losing Bresee’s Oneonta Department Store which has served as the anchor retail store on Main Street for decades. Bresee’s President Marc Bresee
announced that his store will close by the end of June. April 1994
10 Years Ago
A dead cow has been beached in the Susquehanna River for more than a week. City officials, who are waiting for water levels to recede, are pondering how to safely extricate the carcass from a clog of debris in the middle of the swollen river. April 2004
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and it was only there, “exposed to some of the most brilliant minds in biomedical research,” Dr. Brown many trained as physicians, that he discovered his vocation. He spent a year with VISTA in Muskogee, Okla., where he witnessed the lack of healthcare in a rural community, then entered Yale Medical School. He completed a residency in family medicine at the University of North Carolina hospitals – he was chief resident his final year – then a second residency in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Medical Center, then further training at UCLA Medical Center. His wife of 29 years, Lauren, a nurse practitioner, will be joining him here. The couple has a son, who graduated from college last year and is living in Nashville. For the past decade, they have shared a camp in the northern Adirondacks with his sister’s family, and hope closer proximity will allow them to use it more. Bill Streck, now 67, who
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advised the Bassett trustees a year ago of his retirement plans, and will be involved in transition planning until the July 1 changing of the guard A native Oklahoman, Streck received his M.D. from Oklahoma State University. During a postgraduate fellowship at the University of Arizona, he met his future wife, Karen. (The couple raised three daughters and one son locally.) An endocrinologist, he joined Bassett in 1978 after completing an internship and residency at Strong Memorial in Rochester. Streck’s rise began almost immediately, when he proposed developing a strategic plan and was chosen to lead the process. The resulting “ Department of Medicine’s Report on Goals, Priorities and Strategies,” and Streck’s selection as the first elected Department of Medicine chair, as called for in the report, got him involved in issues of policy and administration, according to Dr. Walter Franck, his first boss, and led to his promotion to director – the title is now
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First City Manager Makes It Official: He’s Retiring TRANSITION/From A1 City Treasurer Meg Hungerford will fill in as interim city manager until Long’s successor is determined. So ended five days of closeted negotiations between the mayor and city manager following Miller’s short e-mail announcement Thursday, March 27, that Long “has advised me of his decision to retire later this spring or summer. We are discussing the details of his retirement plans.” To many, the announce-
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mayor and city manager, an “agreement” with Long referred to in an announcement issued by the mayor earlier Tuesday afternoon – to Council members and department heads – seemed to ensure no one would be talking. “One of the terms of our agreement is that statements that (Long) and representatives of the city ... might make about one another must be cleared by the other party in advance and not in any way be disparaging,” Miller wrote. “This term is usual and common in such agreements. I write to make sure all concerned are aware of this requirement,” he concluded. The statement Mayor Miller read at that evening’s council meeting praised Long for adding “enormous value in the areas of community development, plan-
ning and grant seeking.” He observed, “Perhaps most important, he has taught us the nuances of a new form of government.” The city manager position came out of a year-long study in 2009 by a Charter Commission, chaired by Rissberger, that was approved in city elections that November. Miller took office in January 2010, and during his first term he launched a nationwide search that identified three finalists, including Long. At the time, Long was city manager in Poughkeepsie. More than two decades of his career was in Auburn, where he rose from a planning position to city manager, and was credited with many innovations in community development and energy efficiency. His Oneonta appointment was announced in September 2012, effective that Oct. 1.
Pots. Pans Pepper Price Chopper POTS, PANS/From A1 Janet Kostbar, non-foods manager. “It’s been big.” Indeed, the pallets of pots and pans are stacked almost to the ceiling in some places. The grill pan and the stir-fry pan have drawn the most interest, but Zawisza says that the whole set has been selling pretty evenly. “I love the grill pan,” said Golub. “I use it for chicken and seafood — at least until it’s beautiful enough to use the outdoor grill again.” A 1.5-quart saucepan or 8-inch fry pan will run 900 points, while the 3-quart casserole pan will be free with 1200. If a customer is short 300 points, they can pay $15 to make up the difference. “That’s what I’m going to do today,” said Zawisza. “The customers have been trying to figure out the best way to buy – two pots for 1,600? One for 1,500? We had one woman come in
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MLS#91037 $199,000 this is a steal! Ranch home in Oneonta School District on just under 10 acres of great hunting land. Garage, outbuildings, large rooms, dry basement, deck. Call Bradley Vohs, II @ 607-434-9234 (cell)
MLS#92433 $139,000 Nice country setting for this 2 BR, 2 bath house on 11 acres. Close to town! Over-sized heated garage. Call Bill Vagliardo @ 607-287-8568 (cell) Virtual Tour: www.otsegocountyliving.com
MLS#89638 $159,000 absolutely a steal! 3 BR, 2 bath house on 5.24 acres. This move-in ready home is a pleasure to show! Call or text Sharon P. Teator @ 607-267-2681 (cell) Virtual Tour: www.realestateshows.com/682081
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MLS#93418 $190,000 Close to both oneonta colleges! 5-BR, 2 bath. Call Suzanne A. Darling @ 607-563-7012 (cell) Virtual Tour: www.realestateshows.com/710456
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MLS#93004 $319,000 Cooperstown area horse Farm 4,000 sq ft Morton barn w/every amenity! 3 BR, 2 bath ranch on 50+ acres. Call Lynn Lesperence @ 607-434-1061 (cell) or Bill Vagliardo @ 607-287-8568 Virtual Tour: www.morrishorsefarm.com
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MLS#92515 $210,000 Modern delhi village home w/2 full baths, 3 BRs, LR, DR, family room, deck, garage, full basement, river frontage…all on over 1 acre in the Village. Call Bradley Vohs, II @ 607-434-9234 (cell)
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MLS#90345 $139,000 reduced to move immediately! Charming 3 BR, 2 bath country house, w/fireplace, garage, great barn. Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633 (cell) Virtual Tour: www.AdamKarns.com
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