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Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, April 25, 2014
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Oneonta’s Andrew Stanton and his sister Jennifer pick up trash around the viaduct Saturday, April 19, part of a neighborhood clean-up organized by the Oneonta YMCA Teen Center in honor of Earth Day. The group collected seven bags of trash from the embankment leading to the railroad tracks.
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ere they come to save the day... The Charter Commission, which brought the city’s 100-year-old founding document into the 21st Century, is headed back into the breach. “They only have the best in mind for Oneonta,” said Laurie Zimniewicz, Ioxus Plans Chairman a former commission Second Plant, Zimniewicz member who ac30 New Jobs cepted Mayor Dick Miller’s invitation to chair a commitoxus is planning a tee to review the new charter in the second production site wake of City Manager Mike Long’s in Pony Farm Industrial resignation. “They want Oneonta to Park in the Town of Oneonta succeed in all ways. I’m looking forand will hire 30 new people, ward to working with them again.” the company announced. The “they” Zimniewicz is The news follows the Please See CHARTER, A7 company’s announcement that the Long Island Railroad plans to use Ioxus ultracaCounty Roadwork pacitors to provide wayside traction power in its system. The Pony Farm building had previously been used by Covidien for storage.
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$300 SCHOLARSHIP: The Reminiscers’ Car Club of Oneonta is offering a $300 scholarship to a graduating senior planing to pursue further education in automobile repair/restoration. Application forms at ONC BOCES or from Dick Powell, 431-9029. Winner to be announced at Reminiscers’ 40th Annual Car Show on Fathers’ Day, Sunday, June 15, at Neahwa Park.
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t the SUNY Oneonta Human Ecology Department’s annual Earth Day Fashion Show Monday, April 21, students Marielle Genoves, Brianna McLoughlin and Zubaida Azam (above) strut their eco-friendly dresses made from recycled materials.
Potholes, Potholes, Potholes, And New Bridge On Rt. 11C By LIBBY CUDMORE
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ravelers trying to take Hartwick Seminary’s Route 11C bridge across the Susquehanna will find that the bridge saga is not over yet. Completing repairs to the former truss bridge damaged March 20, 2013, when a 13-foot, 4-inch tall truck carrying bottles bound for Ommegang became entangled in the 10-foot, 3-inch structure, tops county FUNDING FUN: Apply Highway Supt. Ron Tiderencel’s toby Friday, May 20, for Arc do list for 2014. Otsego Summer Wishes Fit In January, temporary approaches & Fun Recreation Grants, were laid down to get the bridge up to $250. Applications are reopened for traffic, but with spring www.arcotsego.org Please See COUNTY, A6
In left photo, designer Amelia Graj, right, stands with Madison Blodgette, Marykate Plew and Brittany Rendon, who modeled her creations.
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That’s one way to get going in the morning! Here, Meg Perez models a dress made of coffee filters and bright beads.
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benches and coffee tables as staff tried to pack more chairs into rows. “It’s a thrill to see this many people r. Cindy Falk’s 20th annual Suhere,” said SUNY Oneonta Presisan Sutton Smith Prize lecture, dent Nancy Kleniewski. “We’ve “Barns of New York,” drew a never had a crowd like this bebigger crowd than anyone was anticifore.” pating. Falk, Cooperstown Graduate Students and public packed SUNY Program professor of material culOneonta’s Morris Conference Center Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA ture (and a Cooperstown village Thursday, April 17, sitting on piano Please See FALK, A6 Professor Falk at Smith lecture. By LIBBY CUDMORE
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berg, Scoutmaster David Morell, former scoutmaster David Flynn and former scoutmaster Ed Uhlig, after being awarded the rank of Eagle Scout at a ceremony at St. James church Saturday, April 5. For his project, he designed and built three weather-resistant platforms to cover the creeks along the Greater Plains nature trail, as well as building a picnic table, clearing a fire pit and creating and installing a tree identification guide for use by the elementary school.
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ogan Pondolfino of Oneonta placed third in the carpentry category at the 14th annual state Postsecondary (college level) SkillsUSA competition March 29-30 at SUNY Alfred’s School of Applied Technology, Wellsville. Pondolfino will represent SUNY Delhi in the National SkillsUSA Championship at the National Leadership and Skills Conference in Kansas City in June. The championship is the showcase for the best career and technical students in the nation. More than 12,500 students, teachers, education leaders, and representatives from more than 1,000 national corporations, trade associations, businesses and labor unions attend the event.
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POET HONORED: Hartwick College senior Elizabeth Greco has won the English & Theatre Arts Department’s Anna Sonder Prize of the Academy of American Poets for the second year for the sonnet, “Fire and Stars.” IN JAPAN: Mason Tiffany of Worcester is one of 38 SUNY Oneonta students studying abroad this semester. Tiffany, a junior majoring in economics, is at Seinan Gakuin University in Japan. HITE HONORED: Alyssa Hite of Morris has been named a member of SUNY Delhi’s Hotel Management Society for the 2013-2014 academic year. She is majoring in Hotel & Resort Management.
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Vet Clinic Adds Wildlife Rehabilitation, Acupuncture By LIBBY CUDMORE
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he Oneonta Veterinary Center hadn’t even cut the ribbon on their new expansion yet, and already, they had a new patient. Two girls had found a baby squirrel lying in the middle of Chestnut Street by Motel 88 and had taken two buses across town to bring it to Dr. Joan Puritz, who recently received her wildlife rehabilitation license. “It’s a good omen,” Puritz said as she mixed a tiny bottle of kitten formula to feed the squirrel. “But I’ll be up all night with this girl.” The vet clinic, which moved into the former Polar Scoops Ice Cream Parlor at 525 Main St. in December 2012, on Wednesday, April 16, opened its new expansion, adding five new exam rooms and a downstairs with a kitchen, shower and futon. “Our doctors are on call 24/7,” said Stacy Long, practice manager. “This way, they can cook for themselves or they can catch a nap before they drive home.” The expanded space will allow them to continue practicing more holistic forms of pet medicine. “We do a neoplasene herb treatment for dog cancer,” she said. “It’s not widely used. It kills all the cells, bad and good, but we used it to treat a dog with bone cancer, and a year and a half later, he’s still alive. He had only been given six months to live before that.” The office also offers veterinary acupuncture for animal pain management, as well a stem-cell therapy. “We’ve made dogs who can’t walk walk again,” she said. Puritz is also a certified Level One Reiki healer. “I use it a lot in diagnosis,” she said. “I can tell where an animal is hurting. There’s more than one way to diagnose and treat, and I’m open to those avenues.” It’s all a part of the larger holistic movement, she said. “People are taking better care of themselves, so they want to take better care of their animals.” Wildlife rehabilitation is another specialty of the clinic. They’ve rehabilitated squirrels, strays, even baby pigeons. “They were very cute,” she said. Puritz, who also owns Crescent Pet Lodge on Winney Hill Road, was one of the vets called in to take care of dogs seized in the January
2012 raid on Southside Kennels, where 22 malnourished dogs were removed from the property. “If someone finds something, they can bring it to us, day or night,” said Puritz. “We work with a lot of other rehabilitators, so we’ve got a nice network.” “Squirley” as Puritz named her, will soon be strong enough to be released outside, first in a nesting box, and then out into land behind her Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA house. “I haven’t done that part before,” she said. Dr. Puritz cuts ribbon on expanded clinic.
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EDITORIAL
Otsego County’s 2nd ‘Golden Age Of Hops’ About To Happen
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ven Welcome was a wasteland. In that Town of Pittsfield crossroads hamlet, James Fenimore Cooper’s grandson found only one sizeable home, occupied by a solitary widow, her children gone, who stayed there, it seems, only out of habit and memory. Pick up and review your copy of “The Legends and Traditions of a Northern County” by the younger James Fenimore Cooper, the 1920 memoir of Otsego County he wrote for Cooper his own grandchildren, and mostly you’ll find decrepitude. As Cooper, a partner in Cooper Erving & Savage, the Albany law firm, traverses the county in leisure hours, driving – or when, often, the roads are too far gone, on horseback – he finds overgrown fields, landscapes empty of human activity, old mansions vacant, with unsecured front doors creaking in the wind. Oh my. And this picture of failure and flight, almost a century ago, his founding great-grandfather’s dream shattered, was before the
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national recession in agriculture of the 1920s. What happened? • After 108 pages of this, the sun suddenly shines. “For years,” he writes, “hops made this country rich, and built many of the great farmhouses still standing … Extraordinary profits were made and it was not unusual for a hop grower to make the value of his farm out of one crop.” Happy hops, and Otsego’s “were considered the bestgrown in the world.” It cost 12 cents to produce a pound, and prices rose to $1.60. Buyers came from “everywhere,” and thousands of pickers at harvest time who raised local fears of lawlessness. “Much hard liquor was absorbed and the usual number of free fights resulted,” Cooper writes. Now largely forgotten, he describes Jimmy Clark’s “Hop City,” just south of Cooperstown where the Toddsville Road comes into Route 28, and stretching east to Phoenix Mills across those fields south of Otsego Manor. Alas, “then the change
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Family members pause from their labors at Hop City, south of today’s Otsego Manor, that was so big it included stores and a municipal court during the crop’s heyday in the late 19th century.
came; it was found that inferior hops could be grown on the Pacific Coast and elsewhere. Our Otsego growers were undersold and gradually the hop industry shrank; the growers failed and the yards were plowed up. “…The days when ‘Hops were King’ were the Golden Age of Otsego County. With the collapse came poverty to many. Farms were abandoned money loaned on them was lost.” • Suddenly, though, a second Golden Age of Hops is in reach.
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This does not mean that the libraries are becoming part of the school system. They will both remain as independent municipal libraries. It does mean that a new tax will be created and that the school district will be given the task of collecting that tax. In fact, very few new dollars are being requested. The support that is presently coming from the towns, the Village of Cooperstown and CCS will no longer be needed, resulting in tax saving for those entities. The end result of this proposition is a more equitable distribution of support and more stable funding for both libraries. I ask for your support for the Library Proposition on May 20. TOM SELOVER Member Board of Directors Cooperstown Library
Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-19th, hosted a forum Monday, April 21, at Richfield Springs Central School, where the top issue to emerge was how the county’s Route 20 corridor might benefit from the state’s $1 billion nanotechnology investment at SUNY/IT, north of Utica. Attendees included state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, foreground, and at left, county Board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, and Sandy Mathes, the county’s “single point of contact” economic developer. Inset is Richfield Town Supervisor Fran Enjem.
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foods in New York City alone. Sandy Mathes, the county’s new “single point of contact” for economic development, is exploring a local “food hub” that will connect with a regional hub in the Hudson Valley that will feed into Gotham’s markets. And to ensure an expert workforce for the hops revival, Hartwick College has launched a Center for Craft Food & Beverage. • And, then, what happened earlier this month can’t be celebrated enough. Lou Hager Jr., Town of Otsego, the Anheuser Busch heir, announced his Northern Eagle Beverage distributorship in Oneonta had purchased the Milford-based Cooperstown Brewing Co. from Chuck Williamson’s Butternuts Brewery. Northern Eagle is about to break ground on a new building in West Oneonta, where it plans to add the county’s first pelletizer. That will allow local hops crops, including a sizeable tract Hager is about to plant in Pierstown, to be converted into stable pellets that can be easily stored for later brewing use. That completes the circle, from farmer to brewer to customer. Sit tight, Welcome: Cooper’s “Golden Age of Otsego County” is about to happen again.
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Vote For Library Funding To the Editor: On May 20, we will be asked to vote on approval of the Cooperstown Central School budget. This year there will be a second separate proposition to be voted upon. The vote to approve funding for the Village Library of Cooperstown and the Kinney Memorial Library of Hartwick is somewhat confusing. In the past, the towns of Middlefield and Otsego, the Village of Cooperstown and CCS have been the primary fund providers for the Cooperstown Village Library. The Town of Hartwick has provided most of the support for the Kinney Memorial Library. Based on this proposition, the service area for the two libraries will be primarily the same as the geographical boundaries of the school district.
The driver is the national trend toward craft beer – itself part of a consumer shift toward “artisanal food” and “value added” farm products. Not everyone can afford a $1 million one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan, but pretty much everybody can afford a high-quality glass of beer. And rarely a week goes by without another piece of the local hops’ revival falling into place. Brewery Ommegang’s success and the national expansion plans of its parent, the Belgian Duvel Moortgat,
is one much heralded piece. Ommegang began growing hops last year, and a half-dozen county farmers are doing the same, with more to follow. That piece is being driven by neighboring Madison County, where Cooperative Extension Agent Steve Miller has become the expert for the historic six-county Central New York hops-growing region. • Another driver is the 2012 state Farm Brewery Law, which requires that, by 2024 – just 10 years from now – in-state microbreweries get 90 percent of their raw materials – hops, barley, wheat, yeast – from New York State farms. Locally, GO-EDC, Albert Colone and Bill Shue’s Greater Oneonta Economic Development Committee, has led the conversation, bolstered now by a parallel effort by Mayor Dick Miller’s Oneonta Alliance. One outgrowth: Carly Ficano, the Hartwick College economics professor, is completing a master plan for hops’ local revival. Ficano is coordinating with Rebecca Morgan, executive director of CADE (the Center for Agricultural Development & Entrepreneurship), who has focused on a dramatic figure: There is $1 billion in unmet demand for craft beer and artisanal
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UP Oneonta is concerned that serious and perhaps escalating challenges confront adjuncts, part-time professionals and contingents. Fiscal matters, enrollment managerment and evolving decisions have the potential to reduce UUP employee numbers in those categories. This is a time for vigilance and clarity. UUP strongly asserts that any reduction in the number of adjuncts, part-time professionals and contingents should come about only through attrition. Moreover, the union and its members must continue to advocate for respect, resources and fair compen-
sation for adjuncts, part-time professionals and contingents. This is the concern of all of us. Division between full-time and parttime UUPers or between academic and professional employees will fragment all of us. There is strength in solidarity, as was evident Wednesday, March 12. UUP had issued a call for a meeting that day to its adjunct, professional, part-time and contingent employees – and their advocates. Due to the high numbers who responded, we moved from the UUP office to another room, and even that space filled to capacity. In addition, others who were pre-
cluded from attending due to schedule conflicts either e-mailed, phoned or face-to-face articulated ideas and concerns both before and after the meeting. It was agreed that a summary of the concerns and ideas would appear in the Sentinel (the UUP publication). However, no names or identifying information about attendees would leave the room. Within a supportive atmosphere, significant issues were raised. Bill Simons is president of the SUNY Oneonta chapter of the United University Professions.
FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2014
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Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library
125 Years Ago
G.H. St. John, representing A.C. Couch, president of the Oneonta and Richfield Springs railroad company, made Oneonta a visit in the interest of the proposed railroad on Tuesday. It is a singular fact that notwithstanding both from the name of the company and the commercial importance of Oneonta the town would naturally be supposed to be one of the first places the projection of the line would visit. However, this was the first time a representative of the company had been to Oneonta, the plan being to work from Richfield down. However, the newspapers have been alive to what has transpired along the route of the proposed road. Mr. St. John was agreeably surprised to find such a hearty interest manifested in the project on every side. Contrary to what was halfsuspected, he found the Delaware & Hudson Company were in no wise opposed to the new line, and he also found the citizens of Oneonta ready to lend substantial encouragement. April 1889
60 Years Ago
Bockes and Gardner, outfielders; Brown, catcher; Reynolds and Hebert, pitchers. During the workout, Coach Harold Hunt shifted players on each squad. Labrit, the flashy Cuban, suffered a badly sprained finger in practice Monday afternoon and was unable to participate. Labrit, who is expected to win a regular position in the outfield, will be back in uniform by the end of the week. April 1934
40 Years Ago
Tuesday was a good day for Oneonta High School track and Field competitors who met STAC rival Susquehanna Valley and posted an 85-55 victory. In the mile relay – Mike Pidgeon, Steve Parisian, Mitsu Iwanag and Tim Clapp – were timed at 3:56.8. Iwanaga was first in the 880 with a time of 2:15.2. Oneonta’s John Wertam won the pole vault with a 10’6� mark. Craig Tirrell was first in the long jump with a leap of 16’11� plus. Jim Fruscella heaved the discus 151’ 10�. Fruscella was also first in the triple jump at 36’ 2.5�. Rich Walling won the 100 yard dash in 11.2 seconds. Paul Laymon topped the high jump bar at 5’6�. Stu Gardner won the two-mile heat in 10.52. Brice Nichols took the 440 in 55.9. April 1974
100 Years Ago
Mrs. George W. Fairchild, wife of Representative Fairchild of New York has a business ability, which if she had been a man would probably have made her a captain of finance. With characteristic modesty Mrs. Fairchild overlooks this fact whenever she is asked for information regarding her. But the truth concerning her may always be had upon the good authority of her husband who gives her credit in a large measure for his success as a businessman. He advises and consults with her on all business matters and does not hesitate to say that he values her sagacity and her judgment as highly as those of any man of his acquaintance. Before her marriage Mrs. Fairchild was Josephine Mills Sherman, niece of the late Joseph G. Mills of New York. Executive and business ability in a woman are usually arguments for woman suffrage. Mrs. Fairchild is anti-suffrage in her sympathies. She believes a woman’s influence will in no wise be strengthened by the right of franchise and that woman’s sphere is full of undeveloped opportunities for all woman kind. April 1914
80 Years Ago
A fast six-inning game featured the Oneonta High School baseball drill yesterday afternoon at Neahwa Park. Scoring five runs in the final inning gave the “A� squad a close vic-
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30 Years Ago
From the Shui Mai to the fortune cookies, Joe Poon provided a memorable meal for Oneontans Wednesday evening. It was his way of saying thank-you to the people, the church, and the college that helped him when he was a struggling SUNY undergraduate. Poon now operates the Sang Kee Peking Duck House in Philadelphia, Penn. but he has kept close ties with Oneonta. April 1984
20 Years Ago April 1954 tory over the “B� group. The winners lined up with Barry, first base; Mastro, second base; Ritchko, shortstop; Cerra, third base; Nader, left field; Bertuzzi, center field; Munson, right field; Munson, catcher; Genberg and Piper, pitchers. Team “B� consisted of Lorraine, first base; Super, second base; Swart, shortstop; Goodrich, third base; A. Nader, ANNuAl YMCA MeMber MeetiNg NOtiCe
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Eric Goddard, recently named Oneonta High School’s Student of the month for March, approaches his future differently from some of his peers. “I’m confident God will put me in the best position to help people that I can,� he said. Goddard was cited for his work as a volunteer line judge in the Susquenango League for volleyball games. April 1994
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Documenting Disappearing Barns Gains Professor Top SUNY Prize FALK/From A1 trustee), said a guide to the state’s barns, suggested by The Farmers’ Museum, wasn’t one she would have chosen on her own. But the winner of the $1,000 prize soon warmed up to the idea: “My family got used to me yelling, ‘Pull over, I need to take a picture of this!’ when we were in the car.” Similar guides exist for New England and Pennsylvania, but not as much in New York. “These barns are such familiar sights,” she told the gathering in the Craven Lounge. “We need to bring more attention to them.” For they are disappearing. In 2010, when her project was just beginning, Falk took a picture of a barn on Route 20 near Bouckville; in 2012, when she drove by it again, it was all but demolished. With help from her students, who helped with research and photographs, she published “Barns of New York: Rural Architecture of the Empire State” (Cornell University Press, 2012). Inside a barn in Tully, Onondaga County, she found bins stacked to the ceiling. “I was stumped,” she said. “But one of my students found a book with illustrations of a ‘New York-style Cabbage House’ – it turns out we’re the third largest
cabbage producer in the country!” In another barn she found a downstairs room (for pigs), an upstairs with slats for ventilation (to keep corn dry) and a front room with a chimney. “I figured out that they used the oven to boil the corn, which is what you do when you’re trying to fatten pigs for market quickly. It’s a very functional building.” As agriculture evolved, so did the buildings. “When there was an outbreak of typhoid, dairy producers had to get a certain number of points from a dairy inspector before they could take milk to market,” she said. “The inspector gave points for adding a milk house to a barn, and if that milk house had windows, and if those windows had screens. It changed not only what farmers thought about their products, but also the
County Crew Focused On Completing 11C Bridge
COUNTY/From A1 weather and summer traffic approaching, the bridge was once again closed Monday, April 21, for final repairs. government’s place in pro“We have to pave the approaches and cut tecting their consumers.” grooves into the concrete,” said Tiderencel. The restoration of historic “The grooves slow down drivers and keeps barns is eligible for a tax water off the bridge so cars don’t slide.” credit under the Farmer’s Workers will then seal the bridge, put in Protection & Farm Preservathe approach joints and clean the property tion Act. for the road’s residence. Weather permit“All of this is important ting, Tiderencel believes the bridge will be because we still feel the open again in two weeks. effects of our agricultural The season’s second major job is a Hotheritage in the present,” she In-Place Recycling surface treatment on said. “The market value of Route 34 in the Town of Roseboom, headour agriculture is $5 million. ing south from South Valley. We’re second in the nation The process, which heats asphalt with a for apples and maple syrup, rejuvenating oil and stone treatment, is one fourth for milk. It’s imporof the annual ongoing restoration projects tant to think of how these for the county. buildings can still work for “We can’t do all the roads in one year, so New York.” we do a little here, a little there, all over,” More than that, Falk he said. said, it’s about the place of Every day, county highway workers will historic barns in our colalso be patching potholes. “The potholes lective psyche. “We need are never-ending,” he said. “With the to think about the value of these places,” she said. “They can inspire paintings and photographs, they have a nostalgic quality. They’re our emotional, our spiritual resources.”
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constant freeze-thaw cycle, it was a rough winter for our roads.” And when those projects are finished, Tiderencel said, the crews will be working on road shoulders, ditches and cutting down trees. “The normal maintenance we do,” he said. With the exception of the 11C bridge project, Tiderencel says no roads will be closed. NEXT WEEK: City of Oneonta’s street projects for this summer.
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Cottage with otsego Lake Access This very sweet cottage is in move-in condition w/most furnishings being negotiable. Everything has been redone. Nicely renovated kitchen w/maple cabinets, pine breakfast bar leading into DR which has doors to the deck w/a privacy fence and lake views. LR area has lake-view window and woodstove. 2 BRs and full bath. Lower level has a pine-paneled room for storage or perhaps extra sleeping space. Lake access is at Hickory Grove Point as well as a 5’ lake right-of-way on Lake Shore Drive. This darling cottage is available for immediate occupancy. Offered Exclusively by Ashley Connor Realty $169,900
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Commission Members Come To City Hall’s Rescue CHARTER/From A1 referring to are the original Charter Commission members, who soldiered through 2010 and 2011 in revising the city’s 1908 charter to include, among other innovations, the position of city manager. Miller has asked all of them to serve on the new charterreview committee, and nine of 11 agreed. Voters approved the new charter in November 2011, it took effect Jan. 1, 2012, and Long, a veteran city manager from Auburn and Poughkeepsie, was hired as City Hall’s first professional executive that October. At the end of March, however, Long announced after only 18 months that he is retiring, sparking a round of City Hall self-scrutiny. In an interview, Zimniewicz was praiseful of Long’s accomplishments, but she, as well as Miller and others interviewed, said the challenge now is to ensure the citymanager position is structured correctly to help ensure the next city manager will succeed long term. The mayor, at the Tuesday, April 15, Common Council meeting called to discuss the Long success, proposed the committee and since, Zimniewicz said, the issued the invitation to the 11 Charter Commission members. Two, Karen Geasey and Tom Kelley, citing other obligations, have demurred. But the other nine – professors, businesspeople and civic leaders – have agreed to take on the task. They are the original commission’s chair, Dave Rissberger, and Larry Malone, both now Common Council members. Also, John Dudack, Martha Forgiano, Steve Londner, Sarah Patterson, Paul Scheele and Kay Stuligross. Miller said he is convinced Zimniewicz is the right chair “by her demonstrated interest, and by her passion and energy, and longevity in the community, and being active in so many different ways – this was the person to take this project on.” The new chair, who is returning to the city this week after a two week getaway, said she expects Miller will – or already has – asked Kathy Wolverton, City Hall’s HR director, to again act as liaison between the former commission members and Common Council. Zimniewicz, a one-time teacher, then a marketing and business consultant, now the principal in Z Solutions (and a recent appointee to the Fox
Hospital board), said she expects to convene a first meeting the week of April 28. Miller said he hopes the committee can report its recommendations by the end of June, to have maximum influence on the hiring of Long’s successor. Zimniewicz did not object to that, but said the process will take as long as it must to come up with the right recommendations. After what he characterized as a cursory review of the charter, Miller identified three areas for consideration: • One, creating a deputy city manager position to help shoulder the responsibilities. • Two, adjusting budget deadlines and responsibilities (now, the city manager, not the budget director under the city manager’s guidance, is primarily responsible for budget
preparation). • Three, renaming the Parks & Recreation Department as simply the Parks Department to reflect a new reality: With the Oneonta Family Y, the Oneonta Outlaws and others assuming programming responsibilities, the department’s new focus is maintaining facilities. The two Council members who are on the charter committee, Rissberger and Malone, didn’t object to those areas of consideration. However, both pointed out that the charter gives Common Council considerable leeway to make operational adjustments without having to take the document back to the voters. For more on Rissberger and Malone’s observations, visit www.allotsego.com
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Motivated Seller!—Beautiful log home in a country setting on almost 7 acres. This home features 3 BRs, 3½ baths, stainless steel appliances, hardwood floors, open LR, DR and kitchen area w/vaulted ceilings and loft area. Master BR has master bath w/walk-in closet. Basement is finished w/bar and family room. This home has a huge wrap-around deck, great for entertaining. The detached 2-car garage w/ electric is 28’ x 28’ and has paved parking area. House sits off the road w/mountain views. This is a must see bring all offers! $209,900 MLS#93821
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