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Cooperstown’s Lakefront is “Bobby’s Park” after solemn Memorial Day ceremony The Village of Cooperstown marked Memorial Day as did villages, towns, and cities across the country — a parade up Main Street, a tribute to the fallen men and women who gave their lives in battle to protect freedom for all Americans. Some 200 village residents, area veterans, family, and friends gathered Monday afternoon, though, in a special, somber, and emotional ceremony dedicating a plaque in Cooperstown’s Lakefront Park to the memory of PFC Robert W. Atwell, a 1966 graduate of Cooperstown High School who was killed in action in Vietnam on March 21, 1968. 54 years after his death, the memories were still sharp as his sister Neal Atwell Franklin addressed the crowd. “The knock on the door came on March 21, 1968 and time stopped for our family,” Cooperstown Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh, left, and Neal she said, recounting the events Atwell Franklin, sister of PFC Robert W. Atwell, with surrounding her brother’s death the plaque newly dedicated to PFC Atwell at Lakefront and the return of PFC Atwell’s Park in Cooperstown after Memorial Day ceremonies. body to Cooperstown for a rare
Sunday funeral on March 31. She thanked village residents, the Village Board of Trustees, and Cooperstown resident Wayne Moakler for the honor — a plaque placed permanently in front of the flagpole in the beautiful lakeside park. Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh delivered an emotional remembrance of PFC Atwell and the impact his death had and continues to have on the village. The Atwell family, she said, had deep roots in Cooperstown — Atwell Road, home to Bassett Hospital, is named after PFC Atwell’s paternal grandfather, Dr. Floyd Atwell. PFC Atwell’s father, Robert, was a World War II veteran and long-time Otsego County Clerk; his mother, Mabel, was a teacher at Cooperstown Central High School. “PFC Robert W. Atwell was only 20 years old when he was killed on March 21, 1968,” she said. “20 is so incredibly young. But residents who were half that Continued on page 6
Chestnut Crossing nearing completion; ‘passive housing’ leads with standards for energy savings Josh Edmonds stood outside Chestnut Crossing — the 13unit apartment building nearing completion at 10 Chestnut Street in Cooperstown — and described the construction process that will render the building a Certified Passive House, a concept manifesting renewable energy and environmentally friendly designs that set standards for ‘green’ buildings everywhere. Mr. Edmonds’s company, Simple Integrity, is building the project. “I don’t know why every new construction isn’t done this way,” he said. “For now, it has to be a lack of education for contractors and home-buyers.” “When buyers sit down with a contractor, they’re thinking more about how they want a free-standing tub or a wood-burning stove more than they’re thinking about the way we’re going to blanket the building in insulation or install heat pumps,” Mr. Edmonds said. “We start our presentations with that design-and-build standard.” Building to the certified passive house standard, he said, adds an estimated three- to four-percent premium over the cost of a house built to current code. The buyer recoups that initial outlay within the first four years of ownership. Francesca Zambello is his partner in ZAED Properties, LLC, which owns the Chestnut Crossing project. Both Continued on page 6
INSIDE ►’MEET THE CANDIDATES: Republican gubernatorial candidate Harry Wilson talks crime, Democrat congressional candidate Matt Castelli visits Cooperstown, page 2.
Clinton Canoe Regatta springs back to life
►ULTIMUTT GOES TO THE DOGS: Because ‘goes to the dogs’ is an old headline joke that every newspaper trots out when there’s a great dog show on tap, page 3 ►TIME FOR ‘SUMMER DREAMS’: This week, we bring back our oncea-week guide to summer fun insert with a walk around Betty and Wilbur Davis Park, a visit to Van Gogh, and local restaurant reviews you can use! (Insert). ►ONEONTA MURDER: Oneonta Police investigating May 30 Dietz St. incident as a homicide, page 10. ►A FEW THOUGHTS ON IMPORTANT THINGS: Our columnists this week wonder how to have the tough discussion on today’s issues, look at breakthrough COVID in the gym, ask if hopes and dreams can outweigh thoughts and prayers, and spread some kudos as the county’s summer season begins, pages 4 and 5. Follow Breaking News On
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Intrepid rowers of all skill levels tested their racing, endurance, and navigational skills in this year’s General Clinton Canoe Regatta, which kicked off from Otsego Lake’s Brookwood Point early in the morning of May 29 on its way 70 miles south along the Susquehanna River to Bainbridge. “It’s the only marathon I know where you start with a two-mile dead heat,” one solo kayaker quipped as he passed from the lake to the river’s mouth at the site of Clinton’s Dam and Council Rock. It was the race’s first real-time run since before the 2020 COVID epidemic, and racers from throughout the northeast were delighted to put the oars in the water.
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Harry Wilson talks crime, Matt Castelli talks national security as candidates hit the trail
At the top of his policy “It has me even more agenda — a reform of New energized,” Mr. Castelli York’s bail and discovery said in a May 27 visit to reform laws that he and Cooperstown. “I’m running others say have led to a against a person who spike in crime throughout endorses ‘The Big Lie,’ the state. questions whether January 6 “We need some common- was an insurrection, and has sense standards,” he said. pivoted to extremism for “We need to give discretion her own political gain rather back to the judges so they than concentrating on her can differentiate among the constituents.” different degrees of crimes It’s the first foray into being committed, a danger- elected politics for the ousness standard.” Saratoga Springs, NY, “The changes to the native, who joined the CIA discovery process have been after graduating from Siena Democratic candidate in the race for the 21st Congressional District Matt Castelli, center, talks with Village of Cooperstown a disaster,” he continued. College in Loudonville. He Trustee Dr. Richard Sternberg, right, and Melida Hardin, left “District Attorney offices led intelligence collection have become paper-pushers. and counterterrorism operaduring his May 27 visit to Cooperstown. The huge burden they face tions in Afghanistan and Iraq Two candidates, two about every circumstance, already is made even bigger — a part of the team that different offices — neither a company’s failures come with all this unnecessary found Osama Bin Laden — complete newcomers to from mismanagement by paperwork that even the ultimately serving as Director public service but each, leaders at the top. We’ve got defense attorneys say they for Counterterrorism in in his own way, relative a professional class of poli- don’t want. It has no bearing President Barack Obama’s newcomers to political ticians leading the state. We on the work they need to do.” National Security Council. battlefields. need a turnaround expert.” He cited fentanyl He stayed in that position in The Freeman’s Journal His overarching plan hits trafficking as among the the first year of the Trump /Hometown Oneonta spoke common campaign notes biggest societal and criminal White House. last week with Matt Castelli, — lower taxes, tough on challenges facing the state. His ‘tipping point’ to get a Democrat looking to crime, improved quality “They’re selling Xanax on into the race for the 21st, he unseat Republican Elise of life for New Yorkers. Tik-Tok and Snapchat,” he said, came in the immediate Stefanik in the 21st His difference, he said, is said. “We need to dramati- wake of the January 6, 2021 Congressional District, his skill set. Referencing cally increase the penalties. insurrection in Washington, newly drawn to include the a state Legislature today It’s affecting every city, D.C. Village of Cooperstown and dominated strongly by every town, every village in “That event threatened the northern half of Otsego Democratic majorities, he the state.” and jeopardized the way that County. The newspapers said, “It wouldn’t be the first we live,” he said. also spoke with Harry time I’ve dealt with hostile Matt Castelli visits Continued on page 6 Wilson, the Johnstown, New interests.” York native and Harvard “Every company I’ve Cooperstown Kut & University graduate running gone into, I’ve been met Democrat Matt Castelli Style in the Republican Party with a lot of resistance,” he is unfazed by reports primary for governor of said. “No one embedded in suggesting incumbent 21st NeWNEW LoCatioN, YOU… New York State. the company wants to make Congressional District Rep- New You, New Style NEW STYLE! That primary elec- the changes they need to resentative Elise Stefanik Perms tion takes place June 28; bring them back to life, but is on former President DonWash, Cut Mr. Wilson is competing my first question to them ald Trump’s shortlist for a against putative frontrunner is always this: ‘How’s that possible vice president run& Style Rep. Lee Zeldin, Andrew working for you?’” ning mate should he choose 6208 State Highway 28 • 547-7126 Giuliani, and former guber“My method is pretty to run for election in 2024. (On the Corner in Fly Creek) natorial candidate Rob simple,” Mr. Wilson conAstorino for the chance to tinued. “Don’t attack anyone run against the winner of personally. Lay it out: here’s the Democratic primary, the goal, here’s the path which pits incumbent Kathy — a data-driven path versus Hochul against challengers political rhetoric. I’ve found Rep. Tom Suozzi and New that can be enough to get the York City Public Advocate swing votes from moderates or independents who believe Jumaane Williams. “I’ve spent 30 years turn- in a vision to move the state Timothy McGraw 607-432-2022 ing corporations around,” ahead but need leadership to 22-26 Watkins Avenue, Oneonta Mr. Wilson said. “In just do so.” Monday through Friday 8 am - 4:30 pm
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Cooperstown Rotary, SQSPCA team up for ‘Ultimutt’ dog show nity to show off their four-legged friends in a family-oriented environment, while supporting two awesome organizations actively involved in our community,” said Allison Hungerford of SQSPCA. “I’m most excited to see some of our cutest SQSPCA alumni who I hope will be coming to the show!” From left to right, Susan Miosek of Cooperstown Rotary, Allison “Rotary has always Hungerford of SQSPCA, and Stacie Haynes of SQSPCA get ready for been such a wonderful the June 18 fun for all! partner for the SusqueThe Susquehanna SPCA and the Rotary hanna SPCA,” said Club of Cooperstown have combined to Stacie Haynes, Executive Director of hold the Ultimutt Dog Show, a family-fun SQSPCA. “We are thrilled to come together event on Saturday, June 18, from 10 a.m. again to bring this new and exciting event until 3 p.m. at the SQSPCA, 5082 State to our community. Our goal is to spread Highway 28, Cooperstown, across the road awareness of our two organizations, which from Kevin’s Royal Ford. both work to improve the world around Friendly, fun-loving dogs can be regis- us, and also to raise funds to support our tered for one or two classes at a cost of missions. We encourage folks to attend as $15 for one class or $25 for two. Each either competitors in the dog show or specparticipant receives an Ultimutt Dog Show tators there to enjoy the fun.” bandana and will have a chance to move Families are encouraged to come with or on to the final class to win Best in Show without their dogs to watch the show and — the winner of the entire show. The enjoy the activities — food trucks, vendors, classes include smallest dog, largest dog, activities for children, and more! Proceeds cutest, ugliest, best tail wagger, best trick, from the event benefit SQSPCA and the best costume and more! There will also be Cooperstown Rotary Club. first, second, and third place winners in Register before June 10 at www.sqspca. each class. org, where you also can find more informa“This event gives folks an opportu- tion about the event.
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Canoe & Kayak Rentals and Sales joins with the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce for a ribbon-cutting on its new Portlandville building at 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 4. The day includes a summer festival as the shop celebrates its new showroom — on Route 28 in Portlandville, between Milford and Oneonta. Head out for some fun!
The Fly Creek Valley Cemetery is seeking volunteers to participate on the Board of the Cemetery. The group meets approximately six times each year, the first Thursday of the month for which meetings are scheduled. If you have any interest, please call Sherlee at 607-547-9334 or contact Board President Bruce Andrews.
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As the Cooperstown Food Pantry marks 45 years of addressing food insecurity and poverty in the region, a new partnership with the Community Foundation of Otsego County will allow the organization to focus more on its core mission rather than investment management. CFOC Executive Director Jeff Katz said the new Cooperstown Food Pantry Fund “will allow CFOC to help the Pantry with financial oversight, and also create a new way to donate through the CFOC website, including processing stock transfers, bequests, and other complex gifts.” The Pantry program is part of CFOC’s Nonprofit Partner Investment Fund, a special service offered to 501(c)(3) organizations operating in Otsego County. The plan assists local nonprofits with investment management, accepts gifts from supporters, and monitors investment activities. With the program, CFOC can invest, account, and acknowledge gifts so a nonprofit can focus on its mission. The Nonprofit Partner Investment
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All five out of a possible five stars to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and its expert staff for kickstarting Cooperstown’s first learning-how-to-deal-withCOVID summer with the return of its joyous “Hall of Fame Classic,” a holiday weekend gathering that brought some 4,000 fans to Doubleday Field last Saturday and brought the village to near-summer-strength life almost overnight. Visitors crowded Main Street until everyone seemingly decamped to Brewery Ommegang for the Avett Brothers and Lake Street Dive show on Saturday night and left Main Street oddly quiet — but that was temporary. Sunday was another busy day. But what a great, unofficial kick-off to the summer season not just for Cooperstown, but for all of Otsego County. Visitors got to see us at our best — villages and the City of Oneonta marching and remembering the fallen with appropriately celebratory parades yet somber and reflective commemorations that followed. The return of the Clinton Canoe Regatta. Restaurants dazzling diners with outstanding offerings, servers, cooks, bartenders, and bussers working double-time to make up for staffing shortages. The Farmers’ Museum and Fenimore Art Museum opening for another season. Dreams Park reopening to welcome teams and families. These attractions are Otsego County’s lifeblood. To all of you who work at our museums, restaurants, beaches, bars, family recreation centers, stores, gas stations, and everywhere else, you have our thanks and appreciation. We’re rooting for all of you to bring in lots of visitors, make lots of money, and get the great tips you deserve. Summer 2020 was a bust, of course; 2021 a time to inch back to the ‘old’ normal. COVID’s omnipresence notwithstanding, we love to see attractions throughout the county preparing to welcome visitors and party like it’s 2019 all over again. To be sure, record-high gas prices and worrisome inflation will compete with COVID cabin fever as families decide how much to spend, but we hope we’ll all soon be fretting over crowded roads and long restaurant waiting lists. We don’t take for granted the jewels that attract visitors from all over the world. In a post to his Twitter account after the holiday weekend’s “Classic,” Baseball Hall of Fame President Josh Rawitch called Cooperstown “Baseball’s spiritual home.” It’s a spirit that makes even the longest-tenured major leaguers — Hall of Famers among them — bound onto Doubleday Field’s historic grounds as if it were the first day of their rookie year’s Spring Training. The field’s renovations are just about done — long-term planning and development begun under former mayor Jeff Katz and carried on by his successor, Ellen Tillapaugh, put a sensible, safe, and shiny new approach to the park. It’s impressive. This week, The Freeman’s Journal/Hometown Oneonta begins its annual ‘Summer Dreams’ insert — a section we write and design specifically to highlight dining and entertainment options available to yearrounders and visitors alike throughout Otsego County. We’ll have plenty on tap to share — concert events, art shows, out-of-the-way attractions, family-fun events, restaurant reviews and recommendations from our hungry and thirsty staff, and weekly ‘best bets’ for when you and/or your visitors are looking for something to do. Be sure to let us know if your organization has an event coming up — we’re excited and proud to spread the good word!
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I’m scared of guns. I’ve never held one and I don’t want to. With the dual murderous massacres in Buffalo and Uvalde still sickeningly fresh in what’s left of our nation’s conscience, I’m foursquare behind calls for more gun control. Governor Hochul and others are right, in my opinion, looking to prohibit the sale of automatic weapons to anyone under the age of 21. I’m nutty enough to go further and, personally, support banning the sale of Kevlar and prohibiting entry to gun shows for anyone under the age of 21. The last thing some adolescent male jacked up on testosterone needs is to take a walk around a gun show to look at all the pretty things he could buy to amp up the killing spree he’s got on his mind. If he can’t go into a nudie bar or buy a drink legally, then he can’t go shopping for the latest rifle bling. I’m also a realist, though, and I fear every one of what I consider wellintentioned gun law proposals will get tossed out by a court somewhere along the long trail of American jurisprudence. Every time a court rejects a state, local, or — if they had the guts to do it, federal — gun control law, it’s one more chapter of case law that the next National Rifle Association lawyer will wave around to prove they have the United States Constitution on their side. Take a look at what the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled just days before Buffalo and a couple of weeks before Uvalde — they threw out a California law banning the sale of semiautomatic weapons to “adults” under the age of 21. “America would not exist without the heroism of the young adults who
fought and died in our revolutionary army,” wrote a judge. “Today we reaffirm that our Constitution still protects the right that enabled their sacrifice: the right of young adults to keep and bear arms.” That sound you hear is the tapping happy-dance feet of the NRA’s phalanx of attorneys, thrilled that a federal court in a liberal state just wrote their arguments for every state that tries to block the sale of weapons to kids younger than 21. I do try to be optimistic and think that lawmakers can use those same court decisions to learn where they’re getting tripped up, then write the next draft to correct where the court objected. That doesn’t seem to work. Every overturned law emboldens a gun lobby that need never play defense. Like it or not, they have the Second Amendment on their side. I’m one of those naive guys who thinks that courts, Supreme or otherwise, should exploit the latitude to interpret the Constitution in terms of the times in which we live. “America would not exist without the heroism of the young adults who fought and died in our revolutionary army?” Please. Give me a break, says the argumentative Ted. Hang on, says the frumpier, less rose-colored-glasses Ted, the framers wrote the Constitution not to be a bowl of Jello that wiggles with every jolt, but as a bedrock that is going to fantastically be difficult to alter. There’s a process, as we know, one that even the White House calls “onerous.” “An amendment may be proposed by a two-thirds vote of both Houses of Congress, or, if twothirds of the States request one, by a
convention called for that purpose. The amendment must then be ratified by three-fourths of the State legislatures, or three-fourths of conventions called in each State for ratification. In modern times, amendments have traditionally specified a time frame in which this must be accomplished, usually a period of several years” (www.whitehouse.gov). Today, with so many Americans longing for a more up-to-date interpretation of the Second, or any other, amendment, it’s pretty darn depressing. It’s impossible to get half of the country to agree on anything, let alone two-thirds. For every one of us who think it’s common sense to look around and say, “Yeah, but back in 1791, things were a whole lot different; don’t you think it’s a little wacky to evoke memories of barefooted musket-toters in the Revolutionary War in a judicial decision handed down in 2022,” there will be a countervailing originalist voice saying “the Constitution says what the Constitution says and that’s why it’s so hard to amend it so kindly keep your lefty mitts off my guns and ammunition.” It’s impossible to get it right — even calling for mandatory background checks and red-flag confiscation leads to admonition from some in the mental health advocacy community that such laws “criminalize mental health.” “Thoughts and prayers,” they say whenever a roomful of innocents gets obliterated by an AR-15. That leaves some of us with little more than hopes and dreams for a modicum of common sense during times that have bcome all-too-common.
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Breakthrough COVID and long-term risks require careful attention in summer months I think most of us know someone who has had breakthrough COVID following either prior infection or vaccination on a recommended schedule. For the most part, these cases seem to be milder with less sequalae than those in initially unvaccinated individuals. Nature Medicine, the most highly cited pre-clinical medical journal in the world, points out that while the above is true, there is still a significant risk for reinfection and complications, especially in the immunosuppressed. (Read the May 2 article at https:// www.nature.com/articles/s41591022-01840-0.) The incidence of symptoms at six months from breakthrough infection, long COVID, is still significant, and does not appear to decrease very much from those who were initially minimally symptomatic, who subsequently developed the disease. Another epidemiological study, reported in The Wall Street Journal on May 28, shows the incidence of active COVID in the population is much higher than the reported incident — possibly as high as five times the reported number — due to many causes including the lack of self-reporting by those who self-test and the number of cases which have minimal or no symptoms. The authors of the first study strongly recommend the continuation of other protocols such as social distancing and universal mask wearing indoors when other people are present as a way of preventing breakthrough disease and its sequelae.
In another article in the May 24 New York Times, “Why the Air in the Gym Is More Likely to Spread COVID,” showed that people at gyms expire a shockingly high number of aerosol particles, which carry the virus, when they are heavily exercising. It referenced a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences released May 23 about respiration and exercise. The study looked at the number of respiratory aerosol particles-perminute 16 people exhaled at rest, compared to moderate and strenuous exercise. These particles are the very tiny bits of material, sometimes no bigger than a few microns, suspended in the air we exhale. The authors found that at rest, the subjects, including men and women, breathed out about 500 particles per minute. At strenuous aerobic exercise such as spinning, that number grew to over 76,000 particles per minute, an increase of over 150 times. The increase was relatively linear: the harder you breathe, the higher the number. They theorized this is why gyms have been noted as the sites of a number of super-spreader events. Therefore, in areas where there is a good possibility that someone in a gym has COVID, there is a higher risk of transmission, even with minor modifications. Most recently, the community level in Otsego County is moderate, down from high in the weeks preceding. There is recommendation, though, that people do not use this as an excuse to stop exercising — but rather
to make modifications. I have a very close friend who frequently reminds me not to get into situations with large numbers of people, who has tested positive with moderate symptoms. If she, who has been very careful and who follows all recommendations developed COVID, anyone can. I am hearing reports of my friends or members of their families developing COVID. Referring back to the above, I think the numbers — and therefore the community level — is probably much higher than reported, increasing the risk of transmission. Recommendations for how to handle this risk include moving your workout outdoors. This should work easily this time of year for aerobic activities. Increase airflow at the gym by either opening all the windows and either using large fans to increase airflow or set air conditioners so that they are constantly bringing air in from the outside and not just recycling what is in the gym. Air filters, whether manufactured or homemade (see Google), also help. Use N-95 masks indoors and, if that is too uncomfortable, use (less effective) surgical masks. Maintain and increase social distancing. We need to be safer inside or we will get sick and the government may once again close down gyms. Dr. Richard Sternberg, retired Bassett Hospital orthopedic surgeon, is providing his professional perspective during the COVID-19 threat. Also a village trustee, he lives in Cooperstown.
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The Local News – A job printing press now approaching completion at the machine shops of Miller & Co. on Mechanic Street is destined to bring a fortune to the inventor, if the press accomplishes all that it is intended it shall. The press is built upon principles differing materially from the average jobbing press, printing from a self-feeding roll of paper, and making several times as many impressions per minute as is possible with the press requiring a boy to feed it. An adjustable knife cuts the sheets to any size required as fast as printed. Mr. D.T. Eckerson of Worcester is the inventor. June 1887
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Recently, a lot has weighed on my mind — an ongoing war in Ukraine, rising inflation, hopeful shifts in Medicaid planning for NYS, and the leaked draft Roe v Wade decision. Then, in a week and a half, two horrific mass murders by gunmen occurred in our country. I have reached my limit—there is too much to think about, too much to weigh in on, too much to fear, too much hate, and not enough action. Enough is enough. Since the late 1960s, The School at Springbrook has offered a path for children whom others had dismissed. Located on our sprawling 200-acre campus, our school is unlike any other. It is a place where diversity is celebrated—where each child’s education is tailored to their unique needs — all with one simple philosophy — if a child is not thriving, change the tactic, not the child. It is also a residential campus, with 75 percent of our students living on campus. They come from communities across our state, many from hundreds of miles away. And, for each family, we make a promise — to keep their beautiful, unique, precious child safe. That is a heavy responsibility. Today I ask this: How do we continue to keep that
promise? It feels as though no child is safe anymore — as though no one is safe. Why? With every mass shooting, with every story that we
have become used to seeing, our leaders offer condolences, decry gun violence, and offer “hopes and prayers” to the families of victims. What they don’t do is act. And that inaction leaves the burden of safety on schools, educators, and families. Why do we ask children to bear the burden of gun violence? Why do we fence their schoolyards, lock their doors, subject them to lockdown drills — train them for the eventuality of gun violence? Why do we ask them to change? Why don’t we change our tactics? I am not naïve. I understand that solving the gun violence epidemic is complicated. I know that even saying the words “gun control” can trigger extreme emotions in people. But isn’t that what our elected officials are elected to do — solve complicated problems? Yet time and again, they reason their way out of acting. I say again, enough is enough.
This is a complicated problem. And there are myriad ways to find a solution — you just have to be willing to try. Yes, we should reassess mental health supports. We should remove the stigma associated with mental illness — again, let’s change the tactics. People with severe mental illnesses, and those we support at Springbrook, who manage intellectual and developmental disabilities, are at a far greater risk of being victims of violence than they are of perpetrating it. Why do we place them in a box and forget about them? Yes, we should address complex topics like racism, bias, and prejudice, in our schools. We should face those topics head-on. Because if we don’t, hatred wins. And, yes, we should enact stricter gun controls. Poll after poll shows that the majority of Americans are in favor of more robust gun controls. And studies from counties worldwide show that gun controls work. Yet, here we are, adding more names to the growing list of innocent children killed because of our inaction. I have no uplifting ending to this piece. I simply ask again: why? Patricia Kennedy CEO, Springbrook
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Double Con Job…It’s interesting how some movies com-pair to others June 1887
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The first commencement exercises at Hartwick College will be held Monday morning, June 13, at 10:30 o’clock at the First Methodist Church in Oneonta with Dr. Frank Pierrepont Graves, president of the University of the State of New York giving the address. Senior exercises will be held Thursday night, June 9, at which time a senior banquet will be held. In reality this will be the first alumni banquet since in future years it will occupy this position on commencement programs. June 1932
40 Years Ago
Governor Hugh Carey confirmed Tuesday that he will sign a bill to raise New York’s minimum drinking age from 18 to 19. The change in drinking age is the first since 1933 when Prohibition ended. The legal drinking age in Connecticut was raised to 19 recently. This leaves Vermont as the only state in the northeast where 18year-olds can legally drink. Richard Snelling, governor of Vermont recently vetoed a bill to increase his state’s drinking age to 19. Governor Carey cited studies showing that 18-year-olds were responsible for a disproportionate number of drinking and driving fatalities. June 1982
30 Years Ago
In the past 27 years, more than 1.5 million seriously disadvantaged young people have gone through the Job Corps experience — an intensive program that offers schooling, vocational training, and counseling for social adjustment and group living. Job Corps students live in dormitories, receiving meals, health care, and work clothing from the center. In the year ending in June 1989, 69 percent of Job Corps students nationwide had been placed in meaningful jobs, or had moved on to further education. The Job Corps is the most expensive employment and training program operated by the federal government at $20,000 per student annually. June 1992
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ACROSS 1 Like a minx 5 Give ___ go 8 Extractor’s letters 11 Song set in Rosa’s Cantina 17 Hawaii’s ___ Bowl 19 Peri on Frasier 20 Santa’s coat? 21 Bates, in Psycho 22 Rattling threat 23 Toward the tail 24 Contraband star, 1940 26 1956 camp classic with John Wayne as 123 Across 29 Lily family plants 30 Author Jaffe 31 Singer in College Confidential, 1960 35 A wd. to Kmart shoppers 37 Money-raising org. 40 “Agreed” 41 Amer. defense installation 43 It means “milk” 45 Mingle 47 Actresses Danning and Thorndike 51 Brother of Ethan Allen 52 Ruin 53 Fashion first name 55 Mead subject 56 Hustles 57 ___ Sanctum 59 Something in mind 61 Segal-Gordon comedy, Where’s ___? 63 Tedious exercise 64 Advise and Consent setting 68 Impressive layout 72 Blind-no-more cry 74 Exhaust 75 Knightly daring 77 George Thorogood’s “___ the Bone” 78 Co-star of both The Constant Nymph (1943) and Congo Crossing (1956) 81 Adolph of the Times 82 Borders on 84 Dry, in Durango 85 Indian city 87 Very colloquially? 90 Flower part 93 Not even ajar 95 Ben-Hur, for a while 97 Cinema channel 98 ___ Mater (hymn) 100 Marine headquarters? 101 Pondered (with “over”) 102 Iranian language
105 The Virginian author Wister 107 Vow taker 109 TV’s McHale et al. 110 William Conrad western, 1956 115 Capt. Hook biter 117 Japanese city 118 S ynanon co-star, 1965 (see 69 Down) 123 See 26 Across 127 Start of “Eight Days A Week” 128 Composer Morricone 129 Yearly 130 Dollar opener 131 Curly whacker 132 Does a November duty 133 Perfumes 134 Her relative? 135 Little guy 136 Gambling city
12 1960s protest of a sort 13 Magic word 14 Gallic pal 15 Lamentable 16 Can. prov. 18 East of Eden son 20 Bakery items 25 DC-10 gauge: abbr. 27 Time out 28 Pier sight 32 Goya’s duchess 33 Small group 34 Tall tale 35 Green and others 36 Pudding favorite 38 Actress Brenneman 39 Honda model 42 Russian accords? 44 Fight shout 46 Canceled DOWN 48 Brats 1 Tense description? 49 Less confining 2 Where Goliath fell 50 Fool 3 C onfessions of a Married Man 54 Meaning star, 1983 4 First song to win an Oscar, 1934 56 Convicted star, 1986 58 French street (written by Con Conrad) 60 Cheese improvers 5 Gulf War target 62 Mushy stuff 6 Soy product 63 Mushy stuff catcher 7 Texcoco resident 65 Disney’s dwarfs, e.g. 8 Portals 66 “Is awesome” 9 Put on 67 The Miocene and Pliocene 10 Maverick 69 S ynanon co-star, 1965 11 Bless (see 118 Across)
70 Trembling 71 Proposition position 73 Sound unhappy 76 Of drs. 79 Spanish verb 80 Where Joan was burned 83 Good times 86 Mentalism 87 Brit. flyers 88 Mus. chord 89 Phobia starter 91 Peek ender 92 Watering, cutting, raking, etc. 94 Greek letter 96 White and others 99 Science prefix 103 Clavell bestseller 104 Since 106 1960s Madame 108 Mil. club member 111 Tough as ___ 112 Time served: abbr. 113 Green veggies 114 Carol start 116 A bbr. after Paul Laxalt’s name, when he was a senator 119 Look up? 120 Meal maker 121 Zip, to Zola 122 Mediocre 123 Natural fuel 124 Corral, e.g.: abbr. 125 Trav. heading 126 “Did you say something?”
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Candidates gearing up for big campaigns Continued from page 2 “My seven-year-old niece saw the news on television and called me — she knew I was in Washington — and she wanted to know if I was okay.” “It frightens me that the ‘big lie’ that incited insurrection is something that people think gives license for political violence,” he said. “It’s the same sort of thing we saw with jihadist terrorism. Look at Buffalo. Extremist rhetoric espouses radical action.” Mr. Castelli said he has been driving himself around the sprawling 21st District — which comprises 15 counties and much of the state’s North Country — since announcing his run for office in September 2021. He jokes that he counts the number of miles he has driven through the number of required oil changes to date — five in total — but it has introduced him to the people and decisionmakers throughout the region. He boasts the support of the Democratic Committees in each of the counties included in the newly-redrawn district. “I see what people are going through in the district,” he said. “Hey — I feel it every time I fill the car up with gasoline. It’s a real challenge for farmers, for everyone who uses
diesel. With a global marketplace there are certain things I think we can do to alleviate pain supply. There’s a failure by both parties here to address it head-on.” He said driving around the district allows him to be ‘on the ground and accessible’ — qualities he intends to keep should he win the November election. “Health security, economic security, job security, the nation’s security,” he said. “Those are the things people say are important, and I want to be accessible to them. I’m not a politician, I’m a public servant. I know enough about Washington, D.C., to understand the mechanism, but I know enough about the 21st District to understand the true sense of the electorate and how to put the country before a political party.” “When I said I was going to run, my friends asked me why I’d want to be a part of ‘that circus’ down in D.C.,” he said. “It is a circus! My thing is, though, is that it doesn’t have to be.” [The Freeman’s Journal/Hometown Oneonta has offered to other candidates the opportunity to discuss their respective races in the gubernatorial primary and congressional elections and will publish reports should they become available.]
Cooperstown building at environmental lead Continued from page 1 said. “It’s a third-party certification that gives the building owner the assurances they need to know they’re at the very she and Mr. Edmonds say they see the building as a way top of the efficiency ladder.” to educate the community — homeowners and contractors Among the criteria: climatealike — on the value of passive specific data for the region in which house certification and the relative the building is to be erected. Data ease with which it can be incorpofor Cooperstown, Mr. Edmonds rated into new building design. said, will differ significantly from They had hoped to invite the data out of Arizona. Builders in public to an open house before the a given region use hyper-local walls went up to demonstrate the climate numbers to build strucprocess by which they’ll achieve tures with efficiency standards energy efficiency goals required that best meet local conditions. for ‘passive’ certification. The building, outside and in, “Passive housing is a model looks no different from any other that everyone should be using,” at this late stage of construction, Ms. Zambello said. “It’s not just but Mr. Edmonds pointed out a do-good thing, it’s not just a fad. several of the specifics that It aligns with our firm dedication improve on its ultimate efficiency. to the environment and our recogAmong them, an exterior insunition of the need for new and lation that “creates a complete affordable housing in and around blanket around the building” Cooperstown. that he said makes a huge differPassive house principles “create ence in the building’s ability to safe, resilient, comfortable and — stay warm in the winter and cool most importantly — energy effiin the summer. Also, an air-tight cient structures,” says the website construction that controls the of PHIUS, the Passive House inflow and outflow of air to keep Institute of the United States. It looks like any house under construction, but indoor air quality at its highest. PHIUS certification doesn’t come Chestnut Crossing has something special. Mr. Edmonds showed one easily — Mr. Edmonds said the of four units in the building group works to establish efficiency standards in much the same way that automobile that feature MERV-13 filters — hospital-grade — that he designers work to achieve standards for what is or is not a said are becoming standard for schools and multi-family structures such as Chestnut Crossing. fuel-efficient vehicle. With the building on target for a Fall 2022 opening, he “It’s hard to nail down exactly what an ‘energy-efficient’ and Ms. Zambello said Simple Integrity has more projects building is,” he said. “One builder might say ‘you can use a on the way; the company already consults for other builders double-pane window here and it’s energy efficient,’ another looking for energy efficient design techniques and trends. might say ‘we use a triple-pane window and we’re energy “Passive housing is an important way to respect the efficient.’ The definition can change from builder to builder. That’s not wrong, it’s just that there aren’t a lot of set stan- environment and isolate yourself from future changes in the energy market,” Mr. Edmonds said, noting $7/gallon dards out there.” “The passive certification, on the other hand, demands heating oil prices. “It’s not that difficult to do and we think certain and verifiable levels of performance,” Mr. Edmonds it shouldn’t be long before it’s the standard.”
Lakefront plaque honors Vietnam hero Continued from page 1 age in 1968 can tell you where they were when they heard the news of his death and of its profound impact on our community.” “We would learn that at the time of his death he was a member of the First Airborne Battalion of the 321st Artillery of the 101st Airborne Division, and was defending the battery during a mortar and ground attack,” she said. “His commanding officer wrote that in that attack, the perimeter wire had been breached but that Bobby’s heroic actions stopped the attackers before they were inside the battery position. He was killed by automatic weapons fire.” “His death left a profound hole in his family and our community and remains with our collective memory to this day,” she said. VFW Commander Floyd Bourne told the audience that as a child, he grew up fishing from the shore at Lakefront Park and felt a certain amount of ‘personal ownership’ of the public space. “Today we know whose park this is,” he said, his voice breaking. “It’s Bobby’s park.”
Commander Bourne was among the dignitaries who addressed the crowd immediately following the village’s parade, as well, reviewing briefly the history of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Washington, D.C., and commenting on the dedication of those soldiers who volunteer and are chosen to guard it. “The Honor Guard never stops,” he said. “A hurricane, a blizzard, they walked their post. If you haven’t been there, go there; it’s a place of honor.” Mayor Tillapaugh called the names of PFC Atwell, Sgt. John Winslow, Cooperstown Central Class of 1966, who died in Vietnam in 1969, and Sgt. Kevin Coulman, CCS Class of 1974, who died in Lebanon in 1983 during the U.S. Embassy bombing in Beirut. “Whether the names of our fallen soldiers are on a stone memorial or engraved on our hearts, let us on this national day of remembrance reflect on their supreme sacrifice which allows us to safely stand here today as free and proud Americans,” she said.
Terry Berkson T here A re S m i les Got a call from our old friend Shirley the other day. She thought we might still have a copy of a photo of her and her late husband George that she treasures but somehow misplaced. I told her I’d do my best to find it but after looking through dozens of boxes and photo albums I didn’t come up with the picture she had in mind. So, instead my wife and I took a nice photo of Shirley and George with a party hostess standing between them and cut out the middle figure in order to put them together. I must say we did it rather skillfully because you had to look twice to see that the photo had been altered. Shirley was due back in town to attend a class reunion. I planned to first have the scissored picture photocopied, which would make it look even more convincing, and then deliver it to her at the gathering. Of course it wasn’t the shot she wanted but to my satisfaction she liked the photo and had to give it a second look to realize it had been altered. During our conversation I asked her if she had ever read a story I had written called “A Night At Harry’s.” There was a scene in it that involved her George. She hadn’t read it and asked, “What’s it about?” I began with, “You weren’t married at the time.” It was a Saturday night and Harry’s was mobbed. I had to push my way into the place and past the crowded bar. Couples were out on the floor dancing to the Contour’s “Do You Love Me.” I made my way to a naugahide booth where George was sitting oddly alone with his elbows resting on the table and his head in his hands. He looked depressed. “What’s the matter, George,” I asked above the loud music. He shook his cradled head. “I had her in the palm of my hand,” he groaned. “I was making all the right moves. She was hanging on every word I said. I lit her cigarette like a pro. But, when I went to blow out the match, my upper plate flew out on the table. She gasped and almost stood up on her seat! ” It seems George had somehow broken his dentures and was keeping the two halves loosely in place with the back of his tongue which made him talk like Humphrey Bogart. “So where is she now,” I asked. “Dancing with that guy,” he said nodding towards a couple out on the floor. Shirley laughed and then began to tell me her story about George. “You remember we owned two houses in town. When we were getting along we lived in the same house but when things weren’t so good we lived separately.” She went on to say that during one of the times they were living apart she bought a little dog named Moe to keep her company. She was now on speaking terms with George and when one Sunday she had to go on an overnight family trip she asked George if he would take care of the little pooch. He was by now lonely and was glad to do Shirley the favor. That night when George went to sleep he put his then intact upper plate in a glass of water on the night table next to his bed. When he awoke in the morning the teeth were gone. Predictably he found them in the little blanket-lined cardboard box he had provided for Moe. The mutt had chewed on them like on a bone and now looked up at George with a “What?” expression on his face. George was miffed and picked up Moe as he headed for his car and Shirley’s house. She had just arrived home and when she came to the door her husband angrily thrust the little dog into her arms. “What’s the matter?” she wanted to know. “He chewed up my teeth!” George yelled before stepping back and letting the door slam. Then he abruptly turned and headed for his car. Frank Dibble, a nosey friend and nearby neighbor phoned Shirley to find out what the commotion was all about. Later in the day Dibble met George on the steps of the post office downtown. “Hey George,” he said. “I saw Shirley’s new dog.” “So,” George said begrudgingly. “He’s got a smile just like yours!” George threw up his hands and headed for his mail box.” “That’s a great story,” I told Shirley. “Did he ever get new teeth?” “Yeah,” she said. His smile looked even better than Moe’s — so we moved back in together.”
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‘Classic’ weekend makes fans out of MLB vets, Hall-of-Famers
Hall-of-Famers and recently retired Major League Baseball stars gathered in Cooperstown over Memorial Day weekend to play the 2022 Hall of Fame Classic at Doubleday Field, meet the fans, and share stories on the field for an afternoon of fun. At left, Atlanta Braves ace Bruce Chen stopped for a photo with Hall of Fame staff working the event. The star pitcher spent the pre-game warmup greeting every fellow MLB player on the field and grabbing an enthusiastic selfie with each one. He called his first trip to Cooperstown “a joy and an experience,” then went out and pitched some great baseball. Former New York Met Todd Zeile, now an analyst for the Mets’ SNY Network, was happy to be warming up to play rather than just calling the game. This was his tenth trip to town and his first since 2019. “Ah, we’re all a little older, a little creakier,” he said of himself and his Classic teammates. “We’re all thrilled to be here. It’s a game we grew up loving and a game each one of us still loves today.”
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Baseball Hall of Fame President Josh Rawitch caught up with his former Arizona Diamondbacks pal Chris Young as the MLB players prepared for their pre-game warm-ups.
s The Cooperstown Central School Class of 2023 spent the day selling hot dogs, soda, water, and other goodies to feed the crowd and carry on the annual tradition of CCS students raising money for their senior class trip. From left to right, Andrew Mulligan, Margaret Raffo, and Oliver Wasson were thumbs-up and ready to deliver the goods.
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Tim Iversen’s in-demand keyboard stylings were the perfect soundtrack to the afternoon’s festivities (even though he declined a request for the “Meet The Mets” theme).
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Hall-of-Famer Tim Raines and Kansas City Royals royalty Willie Mays Aikens study Los Angeles Dodger veteran Steve Sax as he takes his pre-game batting practice.
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center, Dodgers great Steve Sax, and California Angels star Craig Grebeck were trading batting and fielding tips when they stopped to pose for our camera.
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Hall-of-Famer Ozzie Smith took a moment to give some batting tips to Cooper Steltz, right (wearing an Ozzie jersey, no less) and his brother, Braden, of Chatham, New York.
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Otsego County honors the Fallen with Memorial Day ceremonies Otsego County’s villages and cities rolled out the red carpet for veterans as residents remembered and paid tribute on Memorial Day to those who gave their lives in service of their country. For some, it was the first in-person parade and ceremony since the start of the pandemic — lending added solemnity to an already meaningful day. Parades delighted, speeches reminded, and beautiful spring weather welcomed spectators taking time to remember the meaning behind the long holiday weekend.
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The Brookside Inn at Laurens offered a hearty patriotic welcome to the village from the west, with this giant American flag draped from its eaves.
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dedicated the Lakefront Park plaque to PFC Robert Atwell, killed in Vietnam in 1968.
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The Hartwick Fire Department’s famous white fire engine came out shiny and spiffy for Cooperstown’s Main Street parade.
Kyle Besemer, Oneonta, holds his six-month-old daughter Scarlett at her first parade in Oneonta.
Lincourt, Commander Albert Peterson, Mindy Baker, librarian at the Richfield Springs Public Library, and Paul Blake, band director for Richfield Springs Central School, and also a veteran.
Lt. Col. Paul Lent’s plaque will be on public display in the Richfield Springs Public Library and the Richfield Springs Central School.
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Oneonta, New York State police investigating May 30 homicide The City of Oneonta Police Department says it is investigating the May 30 murder of a 24-year-old Oneonta man, identified as Kaleb J. O’Neill. According to a press release issued at noon on May 31, “At 8:10 p.m. the Oneonta Police Department received a 911 call of a male being stabbed in the alleyway of 6 Dietz Street. Officers and Oneonta Fire Emergency
Medical were dispatched to the area. Upon arrival, responders located Mr. O’Neill in the alleyway, suffering from multiple stab wounds. Responding members administered aid and he was subsequently transported to A.O. Fox Hospital by Oneonta Fire Department Ambulance and Paramedics, where he was later pronounced deceased. “The New York State Police (NYSP)
Forensic Identification Unit and the NYSP canine unit were called to the scene and an attempt to locate the suspects was undertaken but revealed no other information at this time. There is little information in regard to the suspect(s) in this case but it is not believed to be a random attack. As such, there appears to be no ongoing risk to public safety.
“This case remains under investigation by the Oneonta Police Department in conjunction with the NYSP Oneonta Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Major Crimes Unit. “Anyone with additional information on this investigation is asked to contact the Oneonta Police Department Detective Division at 607-432-1111.”
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Otsego Chamber event celebrates 2020, 2021 award winners The Otsego County Chamber of Commerce hosts its annual award dinner extravaganza Tuesday, June 21, beginning at 5:30 p.m. under a tent at Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown. The dinner catches up for time lost to COVID by honoring eight businesses and individuals winning the Chamber’s prestigious awards in 2020 and 2021. Honorees include: Eugene A. Bettiol, Jr., Distinguished Citizen Award: Sen. James Seward (2020), Ben Guenther
(2021). Sponsored by Bassett Healthcare Network. Distinguished Business of the Year Award: Custom Electronics (2020), Hartwick College (2021). Sponsored by NBT Bank. Breakthrough Business Award: Pathfinder Produce Mobile Market (2020), OE Connect (2021). Sponsored by Excellus Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Small Business of the Year Award: Theresa’s Emporium (2020), The Village Printer (2021). Sponsored by Key Bank. The evening includes Brewery Ommegang’s famous Belgian-style beer along with wine and cocktails, as well as regional foods prepared by Lucy
Townsend Catering. The Stan Fox Quartet and Roundhouse Rockers will provide music for the gala event. Individual tickets cost $160; tables of eight are available for $999. To register, visit www.otsegocc.com; call the Chamber at 607-432-4500 for more information.
Learn all about local invasive species Cornell Cooperative Extension Schoharie and Otsego Counties marks New York Invasive Species Awareness week with free workshops in Oneonta and Cobleskill, promoting knowledge and under-
standing of invasive species and the harm they can cause. The Otsego County presentation begins at 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 9, at the Oneonta Town Hall (3966 Highway 23) with a discussion of local invasives; in Schoharie County, join the Extension at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, June 7, at the Cobleskill Creek Trail parking lot on Warnerville Cutoff. Please note the Cobleskill discussion requires approximately two miles of walking; please be prepared with proper clothing and footwear. Both workshops feature common invasive species found throughout our counties, include visual examples
of the species, descriptions, their negative impacts on our area, and solutions to slow their spread. There is no charge for either workshop, but registration is required at http://www.cceschoharieotsego.org/NYISAW.
The rain date is Sunday, June 12. With eight pickleball courts, the tournament offers men’s, women’s, mixed, and open divisions, as well as brackets for levels of play. Participants are guaranteed three games, with swag Tournament time bags for all. Participants for pickleballers must be 18 or older to play, Time for a pickleball the cost is $25 for a team of two. tournament! Register at www.otseThe Otsego County Chamber of Commerce and gocc.com by clicking on Oneonta Family YMCA the ‘Upcoming eventsponsor the second annual Pickleball’tab.Alternatively, Pickleball Tournament on e-mail Kathryn@otesegocc. Saturday, June 11, begin- com or call 607-432-4500, ning at 8 a.m. at the courts extension 2. in Neahwa Park in Oneonta.
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