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neonta cats and dogs will soon have a place of their own at the Southside Mall.

Petco, a national retailer based in San Diego, Calif.,

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is the fourth national chain in a year attracted to the Route 23 facility.

“They’ll have a wide selection of food, accessories, even clothes,” said

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apt. Evelyn Hopping has arrived at the Oneonta Salvation Army as its new officer in charge.

Replacing Majors James and Mary Jane Smith, who retired, Captain Hopping had previously been officer in charge at Watertown.

FLOWERS, ART: “Art in Bloom,” a juried show that features artwork matched with floral arrangements from the Oneonta Garden Club opens at 5 p.m. Friday, July 13, at the CANO Gallery in the Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave. PRINS SHINES: Rene Prins’ “Oneonta Community Concert Band March,” composed in 2001, will be among highlights of the band’s concert at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 19, in Neahwa Park’s large pavilion. Bring a lawn chair or blanket.

MEETING VETS: U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-Kinderhook, a retired Army colonel, is planning a meet and greet with local veterans at “1900 EST” Friday, Aug. 10, at the Oneonta Vets Club.

TOP ROTARIAN: Paul Patterson is new president of the Oneonta Rotary Club, succeeding George Brown/ PHOTO, A3

Luisa Montanti, Southside Mall manager. “I thought a pet store would be a good addition to Oneonta.”

Petco will occupy a new building under construc-

tion to the west of TJ Maxx, which opened last August.

To the west of Petco, a Dick’s Sporting Goods is under construction, due to open in October. Petco is

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Gordy Carey and Dave Null help themselves to Brooks BBQ and Foti rolls Sunday, July 8, as the OHS Class of ‘65, whose members turn 65 this year, celebrated at the Sixth Ward Booster Club playground/OTHER PHOTO, A3

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aiming for a January 2013 opening. Dick’s and Petco will open onto the front parking lot, with no entrance from the mall proper.

Petco offers reptiles, fish, small birds and cage animals such as hamsters, Please See PETCO, A7

Hospitals Relieved At Ruling Streck In Front-Row Seat

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Chip Klugo of Klugo Oneonta, the Bresee redeveloper, tells MSO members he’s on track to complete the department store rehabilitation by the end of 2013, at the latest.

Above, listening intently are, from left, Michelle Catan, Small Business Development Center; Bob Brzozowski and Art Torrey, Greater Oneonta Historical Society; City Council member Madolyn Palmer; Nancy Scanlon, Sport Tech; Wendy Peeters, Silks & Treasures; Rachel Lutz Jessup and Mary Beth Hyde, NBT Bank, and Jeff House, the city’s Community Development director.

he conference room at Lake George’s Sagamore Resort was filled on the morning Dr. Streck of Thursday, June 28, with people intensely interested in the pending U.S. Supreme Court decision on so-called Obamacare.

The 40 board members of the Healthcare Association of New York State – all top leaders of the state’s hospitals, including Bassett Healthcare President/ CEO Bill Streck – were convened for their annual meeting. The audience Please See STRECK, A6 Father Ken Hunter and son Greg came up with the idea.

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Work On Schedule – And About That Penthouse!

By JIM KEVLIN

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eople who need things done seek out Chip Klugo.

Twenty-five years ago, the contractor got a call from Fortune-500 Corning Inc. about a job – rehabbing the former Noah’s Ark store, part of that

Southern Tier community’s Market Street Rehabilitation Project.

“When you look at these kinds of buildings. They are so dilapidated. Pigeons and everything.

It’s pretty gloomy looking,” he said.

Nonetheless, he was undeterred. He responded to the RFP (request for proposals). He got

the job. Corning helped him wend his way through the maze to obtain state and federal historic preservation money, “all the way up to the Department of the Interior.”

By the end of the project, “I just fell in love with rehabbing, redoing, replicating.”

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ather Ken Hunter’s son, Greg, a self-professed movie buff, gave his dad the idea. “We were looking for different things to do in the summer that are fun and relaxing,” said the rector at St. James’ Episcopal, “not only for our congregation, but for the community.”

“There are a lot of movies about Jesus,” he continued. “Some are good, some are bad, and we came up with Please See FILMS, A6

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George Brown, outgoing president of the Oneonta Rotary Club, hands the gavel to Paul Patterson, incoming president. From left are visiting District Governor Dale Flinn, Ithaca, Brown, Patterson, club Treasurer Loree Allen and club Secretary Catrina Truesdell. Patterson is director of Oneonta Public Transit; Brown is retired Soccer Hall of Fame president.

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EDITORIAL

Shop The O! Mall, Downtown Collaboration Offer Benefits To All

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ega-retailers need to grow for their stock prices to continuing rising. So it’s inevitable that TJ Maxx, Dick’s Sporting Goods and – now – Petco are finally getting around to Oneonta. They’ve maxed out – maxxed out? – in metropolitan and larger media markets.

There’s no sentiment, no love of Oneonta and Otsego County, per se. It’s all done by the numbers, by the number of potential shoppers in a 15-mile radius, by the demographics – age, gender, income level, etc.

(Thirty years ago, former Binghamton mayor Juanita Crabb DID personally appeal to Al Boscov, the Reading, Pa.-based department-store wizard, to put in that downtown store, but that’s so rare it’s the exception that proves the rule.)

Once they open a store on Southside, though, the mega marketers are surprised to find the real numbers are significantly higher than the projections. For Southside draws, not from 15 miles or from 30, but from an astonishing 40-mile radius.

When you think about it, it makes perfect sense.

From Richfield Springs to Bainbridge and beyond, from Cobleskill, from

Montanti

Miller

Delhi, Walton and even Andes, driving to Oneonta is six of one, half a dozen of the other, a nicer drive, and less aggravation than battling the traffic and crowds at Albany’s Crossgates and Colonie or Utica’s Sangertown Square or Binghamton’s Oakdale Mall.

Oneonta’s the one-ta.

“Shop The O!” • For a quarter century, beginning in the 1970s, the Pyramid Corp. strived mightily to site a covered mega-mall in Williston, Vt., 15-20 miles outside the City of Burlington. That would have been a disaster for what continues to be a delightful downtown in Vermont’s largest city.

Shoppers would have had to make a choice – downtown or Williston. The sites were in competition.

Vermonters fought back, primarily through the state’s anti-sprawl Act 250, the regional-planning vehicle that sought to force-feed

commerce into community centers as less wasteful and more efficient. (And this was well before the sustainable cry went up everywhere.)

Things are much more laissez faire in New York State, and regional planning much less tooth-full.

Regardless, you can throw a rock – please don’t do that – from downtown Oneonta and hit Southside, (and vice versa – please don’t do that either). Shoppers don’t have to make a choice.

They can shop downtown AND Southside on one convenient trip. And, particularly if they’ve driven 40 to get to Oneonta, they probably want to.

• Southside Mall’s engaging general manager, Luisa Montanti, is a born-andraised Oneontan who is impatient with all this citytown talk. (Incidentally, her name is actually “Luiga,” with a “g,” the female version of “Luigi,” but after years of being misunderstood and having her name misspelled, she bowed to the inevitable.)

She “gets it.” To her, Oneonta is one community.

(And, in truth, except for the political classes, few distinguish between the two, as will become ever clearer

Let Greater Oneonta Chamber Lead, But Not Absorb, Others

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eparately, Mayor Miller approached the Otsego County Chamber, suggesting it change its name back to the Greater Oneonta Chamber of Commerce and refocus on the economic betterment – retail, light-industrial and commercial – of the New City that’s coming. This is part of the same piece.

After 20 years, can we accept that the county-chamber idea may not make sense?

The split revealed by fracking emphasizes that. Let’s move on. Merger isn’t essential for us to do together what we can do better together, and separately what we can do better separately. as study of forming a New City of Greater Oneonta continues to go forward.)

People live “in Oneonta,” not the city or town. They cross the municipal boundary unthinkingly to go to school, to shop, to worship, to be entertained, and to visit friends and kin.

Montanti began her retail career downtown at the Alpine Shop. She then worked for JC Penney for years, then ran her own store in one of the strip malls before assuming her current responsibilities last year. So she looks at the challenge of creating an ever-more-thriving retail magnet from every side.

So it was great news to hear that she and Oneonta

Main Street Oneonta was created because the Otsego Chamber was no longer performing nuts-and-bolts downtown-promotion functions. The county’s economic developer, Carolyn Lewis, has assumed functions – the Bresee rehab and National Main Street Center membership come to mind – that would burnish a Greater Oneonta chamber’s reputation and raise its value to the community.

A Greater Oneonta chamber, as host to a Delaware-Otsego Council of Chambers of Commerce (rather than the threat local chambers perceived it to be today) would actually increase its regional influence.

Mayor Dick Miller have been meeting and discussing how downtown and Southside Mall can collaborate for the benefit of both.

A first resulting step is a flyer – now being developed

by Montanti, county Tourism Director Deb Taylor and Julia Goff, MSO (Main Street Oneonta) coordinator – that will promote Shopping the O – the whole O, not O-town or O-city. A second step will be signage, directing shoppers back and forth. A third step should certainly be a variety of regional promotions.

(Happily, Miller and Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz have also been in conversations, and you can see how similar collabora-

tions would benefit Otsego County’s largest community and its iconic community.

In the summers, Oneonta’s offerings can help enrich the experience of Cooperstown tourists and Dreams Park families; in the winters, Cooperstown’s museums, shops and restaurant can enrich the lives of Oneonta’s 6,000 college students.)

The Montanti-Miller collaboration suggests a twopart way of thinking. One, just because something IS doesn’t mean it’s the best option; brush out the cobwebs. Two, in all pursuits, let’s think about what we can better do alone, and what we can better do together, then proceed accordingly.

OTHER VOICES

Friendlty, Well-Behaved Crowd Made Hometown Fourth Special To the Editor: Something amazing happened on the Fourth of July that made me very proud to call the Oneonta area my home. The Hometown Fourth and Hills Afire Music Festival took place in Neahwa Park and an estimated 15,000 people attended without one reported theft, fight or incident of any kind aside from the occasional lost child!

Lieutenant Brenner of the Oneonta Police Department was in charge of security at the park and he said that all of the officers there felt able to relax and have a good time.

I was staffing the festival as a member of the First Night Oneonta board through LEAF Inc. and none of us observed anyone acting obnoxious or inebriated during the entire day.

My husband had just had surgery and was using a knee walker and he said many people were joking with him or offering to help him. Everyone I encountered there was polite, and

people were as friendly as could be.

Our company, Catskill Puppet Theater, has performed at thousands of festivals over the past 35 years and I know from personal experience that this type of courtesy and kindness are quite unusual in a huge crowd of people.

First Night is a volunteer board and our main worry about undertaking a festival this large was assuming liability for the event. When we saw families enjoying themselves and behaving so beautifully on the Fourth, it gave us the confidence we needed to begin to plan an even bigger and better festival for next year.

I think the mayor and the city, the police, firefighters and parks department, and all of the wonderful sponsors who donated money so that we could have a free event feel exactly the same way.

Thank you so very much to all of you who attended!!

With gratitude, CAROL MANDIGO

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Tracie Hrnicek Other Voices

Boys Learn Lesson From Tragedy: Help Others Kansas City Royals’ star Alex Gordon poses with the Play In PINK team that raised enough for the trip to Cooperstown Dreams Park, plus $65,000 for the American Cancer Society.

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am a mother of a 12-year-old who is playing on a baseball team, the Nebraska Diamond Dawgs, the week of July 13-20 at Cooperstown Dream Park. This is a special group of young boys who have played baseball together, most of them, since they were 7-years-old.

One year ago in February, one of the boys on the team, Skye, lost his mom, Tracy, to breast cancer. She was 36 years old. Another boy on the team, Butch, lost his mom eight years ago to colon cancer. After Tracy died, the boys rallied around her son Skye and his family to help them through the grieving process.

One of the things the boys decided to do was to “play for PINK.” They donned special pink jerseys and wore them wherever they played. These jerseys were not like all other jerseys.

Instead of having their last name on the jersey, the boys decided they would put a word on the back of their jersey that signified the fight against cancer to them. Words like fearless, cure, inspire, attitude, and battle.

They wore the jerseys to raise money for breast cancer research, as Tracy was a Hero for Hope for the American Cancer Society, and they also wore them to raise awareness around the ball park.

Wow, did they make a SPLASH! Many stood up, took notice and the boys really made a difference. One of the last requests that Tracy had of her doctors was to help keep her alive until the Cooperstown tournament. She really wanted to see them play ball there.

Unfortunately, that was not possible.

Now she probably has the best seat in the house, right next to Butch’s mom, cheering on the boys as they play their way to Cooperstown. All of their games for the past two seasons have been in loving memory of Tracy and Nikki.

One particular home-town Major League hero took notice of what the “boys in PINK” were doing: Alex Gordon, left fielder and Gold Glove winner for the Kansas City Royals. He teamed up with the boys to help them in their endeavor to raise money for

their Cooperstown trip and for breast cancer research.

Alex Gordon’s mom is a breast cancer survivor. Together, the Diamond Dawgs and Alex Gordon raised $140,000. To raise the money a Playing for PINK Casino night was held.

Eight other major league players and coaches were also in attendance at the event. The monies were split between the Dawgs’ Cooperstown Dream Fund and The American Cancer Society. In March, the Diamond Dawgs presented the American Cancer Society with a check for nearly $65,000.

The Nebraska Diamond Dawgs accomplished their goals for giving money to the ACS and they will soon be playing in Cooperstown – another dream accomplished through hard work, dedication, loyalty and team support.

These boys know what it takes to win on the ballfield, but they also now, know even more about what it takes to lead a winning life – love, compassion, team work, respect and community service.

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History

HOMETOWN

Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library

125 Years Ago

The Local News – The China woman with the troupe exhibiting in Oneonta last Thursday evening had feet less than three inches long – smaller than her 17-month-old child’s.

Her pedal extremities are so dwarfed that she cannot go up or down stairs without assistance, and after hobbling along the street the distance of a block, she is exhausted.

The small feet of the women of China have been so much written about that they may have been envied of some of their western sisters with larger understandings. But, if so, a glance at the wretched work made by this specimen of the small-footed sisterhood would have put their minds at rest forever on this score. The entertainment furnished by the Chinese troupe was quite interesting.

July 1887

100 Years Ago

Monday evening at 8:25 Officer A. Howatt, a Russian member of the Binghamton police force arrived in the city and at once commenced a search in the Slavish section for one Mike Sawka, who is wanted in that city charged with assault in the first degree upon Mihaki Karaskin of that city, a countryman, with whom he quarreled on the evening of July 4 following a drunken fracas – the men having formerly been firm friends. The officer went at once to Williams Street, where he said he had been led to believe that the man might find lodging should he have reached Oneonta.

He discovered on peering into a home on that street the man whom he wanted and whom he knows having boarded in the same vicinity in Binghamton. He rapped on the door and as soon as it was opened he covered his man and soon had the nippers on him. The fellow was brought to the city police station and placed in a cell and was taken on the sleeper this morning to Binghamton for arraignment.

July 1912

80 Years Ago

Oneonta will soon have a new American-LaFrance fire truck it was announced Saturday by G.A. Dewar, fire commissioner. The decision to purchase the LaFrance apparatus was made at a meeting of the Board of Public Safety on Saturday. The contract will be closed this week. The funds for the purchase are part of a sum secured by a $22,000 bond issue recently approved by the voters for necessary equipment. Fire alarm boxes, hose, and other minor equipment will also be purchased from the fund. With the new piece of motor fire apparatus, the local department will have

10 Years Ago

pending appeal of a Zoning Board ruling against her.

Vrooman advised the residents they should file a deposition if they believe Mrs. Wendland is violating the law by continuing to operate the business. However, Oneonta City Patrolman Rudolph Kreck of 16 Telford Street revealed that he and his wife had filed depositions on June 22. “We’ve heard nothing further on them,� Kreck said, noting that the depositions were processed by the police department. The next step would have been for the depositions to go to the City Court for a possible warrant against Mrs. Wendland requiring her to answer the charges. Mayor James Lettis and Vrooman promised they would check on the status of the depositions with court officials. Discussion was heated with several residents contending they have been getting July 2002 the runaround from city officials.

July 1972 one of the most modern fire trucks manufactured, embodying the latest features in modern fire fighting design.

July 1932 The U.S. Senate opened debate Monday on a politically popular constitutional amendment to balance the federal budget, a proposal which President Reagan said is needed “to stop squandering and over-taxing� by the government.

Thrills, chills and spills reminiscent of the old-time During a year in which the federal deficit will approach dare-devil shows was revived in miniature yesterday as a $100 billion, the proposed amendment is sure to be aplarge crowd watched model airplane enthusiasts from four proved by the Senate, although substantial opposition is counties hold their first annual demonstration on Webb expected in the House of Representatives. Republican Island. Under ideal weather conditions, the crowd watched spellbound, as plane after plane soared gracefully overhead. Senator Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, said approving a large federal deficit in the same year Congress votes for a Charles Hanor, chief counselor of the Oneonta Y.M.C.A.’s new model plane club, which sponsored the field day, said it balanced budget amendment “isn’t the type of behavior that was “most successful.� Probably the most spectacular thrill inspires public confidence.� Strom Thurmond, Republican of South Carolina said the amendment is needed to end a came when a small “flip-up� owned by Keith Beardsley of Walton, lost a wheel while stunt zooming at 60 m.p.h. – and decade of deficit spending in which Congress has failed to raise enough tax revenues to match spending on new and crashed and disintegrated. One of Gerald Ferguson’s Delhi expanding federal programs. entries also crashed after losing a prop in mid-air. High July 1982 grass prevented many of the exhibitor’s models from successful take-offs. A contest planned for this fall will feature controlled and free flight, pole-line gliders and formation flying.

After more than four years of preparation, the Oneonta July 1952 Job Corps Center will open its doors today to economically disadvantaged single mothers. “It’s really an outstanding opportunity,� said Gary Herzig, center director. “Many of the women who are attending this program have been livAngry residents of the Thorn Street and Telford Street ing in homeless shelters. They now have the opportunity area in the Fifth Ward turned out at last night’s Common to change the direction of their lives and their kids’ lives.�

Council meeting to protest what they contend is the illegal The new Solo Parent Program will allow up to 24 women to operation of a dog grooming business by Mrs. Mary Lou take classes while their children remain on campus in a day Wendland. City Attorney Harold Vrooman told the protestcare center operated by Head Start. ers the Council could do nothing as Mrs. Wendland conJuly 1992 tinues to operate the business at her Thorn Street residence

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LETTERS

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To the Editor: I genuinely enjoy Hometown Oneonta – I find the articles to be generally of interest and well-balanced.

In your most recent edition, however, was an article regarding the move to make the Oneonta Municipal Airport into a county municipal facility.

The arguments in favor were two-fold: first, that a more active airport would be conducive to economic growth in the county, and, secondly, that since we are “a tourist destination second only to New York City in New York State� (paraphrase), an airport would support that industry as well. These are both strange statements to my mind.

In the 20+ years of the

Oneonta Airport, the notion that it is “good for business� has not been enough to sustain interest or investment.

There is so little air traffic in Oneonta, in fact, that the mayor has all but shut down the airport in recent months because the City of Oneonta does not want to foot the bill for personnel.

Prior to that, the air traffic has consisted almost entirely of small private jets on several busy (Hall of Fame) weekends in the summer, the odd corporate flight, and private flying lessons here and there.

The statement that Otsego County has more tourists than anywhere in the state except New York City is preposterous. Ever heard of Niagara Falls, Lake George

or the Hamptons? Also, tourists do not fly into Cooperstown, they drive. How does an airport help them with that?

At some point, we have to figure out that what we like about this place is not that every inch of it is paved over and exploited, but that it retains a rural atmosphere.

This, in my opinion, is our most valuable asset.

SUSAN MOSS Oneonta

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NY Hospitals, Bassett Included, Relieved Dad, Son Devise Unusual Film Fest a father bring his 7-year-old daughter A1 Court Decision Keeps Original Plan Intact FILMS/From – when she got tired, he spread a blanthe slogan ‘The Good, The Bad and The Holy,’ after Clint Eastwood’s ‘The ket out on the floor and she watched STRECK/From A1 included another 150 interested parties. And already that morning, the gathering had received electrifying news: Dan Sisto, HASNY’s longtime president, announced he would be retiring in the next year.

But even that wasn’t enough to distract the attendees. For shortly after 10 a.m., the Supreme Court was expected to announce whether the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act would stand, fall or go forward with perhaps crippling adjustments.

At 10:06 a.m. a buzz of dismay rippled across the room.

CNN (and Fox, simultaneously) had just announced the court had declared Obamacare unconstitutional.

Then someone stood up: “This may seem unbelievable, but we are getting conflicting news reports.” Minutes of consternation followed until, at 10:15, CNN reversed itself and reported the individual mandate had been upheld. The room breathed a collective sigh of relief.

“Relief is a favorable emotion,” Streck said in an interview a few days later. “Relief is more than delight.” If the Affordable Care Act had been overturned, “it’s hard to know what would be going on right now.”

The health industry, he pointed out, was a player in the development of the original

bill. It had surrendered $155 billion in savings – the impact on Bassett was $86 million – during negotiations that led up to Congress approving the bill and the president signing it into law in March 2010. In exchange, the industry expects to make up that loss when 33 million uninsured Americans receive coverage.

“Had it been overturned,” said Streck, “the $155 billion never would have been returned, and the Medicaid reimbursement” – the source of new funding to cover newly insured patients – “wouldn’t have been forthcoming.” The future, said the executive who oversees Bassett Hospital, Fox Hospital and hospitals and providers in a nine-county region, “would have been fraught with uncertainty.”

So “the health industry, in aggregate, considers this good news,” he said.

As it is, there is uncertainty enough. The $155 billion in savings kick in next year, but the increased Medicaid reimbursements don’t begin until the following year, 2014.

Further, Streck said, “the Affordable Care Act was a law to increase coverage; it was not a law to decrease costs. It’s really a law to increase coverage – and then see what happens.”

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the movie from there.”

“It has so many cameos,” he said.

“Donald Pleasance is Satan, John Wayne makes an appearance – Greg joked that he was surprised he wasn’t in that movie.”

Also on the list is “The Gospel According to St. Matthew,” in Italian with English subtitles, made by Pier Paolo Pasolini who, although an atheist and a Communist, was friends with Pope John Paul. And the comedy “Monty Python’s Life of Brian” will help viewers ease some of the tension. “It really pokes fun at the Hollywood conventions consistent with these Biblical epics,” he said.

Greg will offer a no-spoilers introduction to each film, and discussion will be held afterwards. “People can talk with no fear of censure,” Father Hunter said. “They can talk about how it made them feel and discuss it with everyone.”

Father Hunter’s favorite? “I confess to a weakness for Godspell,” he said.

“The music is great, and it just has such a joyful feeling.”

Good, The Bad and the Ugly’.”

He challenged his son to come up with a comprehensive list of featurelength films, excluding TV dramas or miniseries, that study the life of Christ in various interpretations. “‘Jesus of Nazareth’ is beautiful, but it’s too long,” he said.

The films include the musicals “Godspell” and “Jesus Christ Superstar,” an Italian film, a comedy and such dramas as the controversial “Last Temptation of Christ” and Mel Gibson’s violent “The Passion of the Christ.”

“No other film comes close to showing Christ’s suffering and pain, and there’s value in that,” said Father Hunter of Gibson’s Aramaic epic. “It’s powerful, but it’s not for everybody.

If I was watching it for the first time, I would want to talk about it afterwards.”

The first film, “The Greatest Story Ever Told,” also the longest film on the list, drew a good crowd Sunday, July 8. “We had a wide range of ages,” he said. “We had retired people, we had

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Since most of the Affordable Care Act’s provisions – insurance pools, for instance, and adjustments to coverage Americans already have – won’t go into effect for two years, the affirmed act will be little felt by patients for the time being, said Streck.

“They will see the benefits in the investments to far,” in particular, the enhanced EMR – electronic medical record.

Within a year, he said, patients will have access to their electronic records for the first time.

Bassett had been in the running to become an ACO, an Accountable Care Organization with a regional franchise.

The idea was that ACOs would provide “metrics” – measurements that would allow the federal government to track the quality of care; however, HASNY hospitals stepped back on concluding the additional regulations would create a burden not offset by the benefits.

As for Bassett, Fox and the affiliated hospitals and services, Streck said the biggest challenge will be in processing a wide range of new insurance options once the “pools” are created. But that is “less disruptive than having to deal with people who don’t have insurance,” as is the case now, since the Bassett hospitals and clinics don’t turn away anyone in need of treatment.

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Klugo Aims To Beat End-Of-2013 Deadline To Complete Bresee’s Job KLUGO/From A1 Klugo was completing the rehabbing of the former Masonic Temple on Bath’s historic Pulteney Square – when he got another call, from Kevin McLaughlin, Southern Tier director of the Empire State Development Corp., who said: “I’ve got this awesome project in Oneonta.”

It was the former Bresee’s, an “albatross around the city’s neck,” as Deborah Blake of the Artisans’ Guild put it when Klugo briefed MSO members in a Tuesday, July 1, breakfast meeting at The Oneonta Theatre. She thanked him for taking on the project, and everybody applauded.

For in the 2 1/2 months since completing Bath’s Masonic Temple – “I only do one job at a time,” Klugo said – he has moved to Oneonta and taken personal charge of the long-awaited rehab of the former department store between Main and Wall streets, and the yellow-brick former telephone exchange (and fallout shelter) on Dietz Street.

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complete on the Dietz building, and will be complete on Bresee’s

by Aug. 1. “We’re gutting now as we speak,” he said in an interview after the MSO briefing.

Over the winter, crews will be framing the Klugo apartments – seven on the second floor, five on the third, and the single penthouse on the fourth. Next summer, sheetrocking and construction of the parking deck on the Wall Street side.

The goal has been to complete the project by the of 2013. “I want to beat that,” said the developer.

About that penthouse: It will have two bedrooms, a deck off to one side, its own “elevator egress” into the apartment, and a covered carport down below. “It’s very, very, very, very private,” said Klugo, adding, “The views on the park side will be gorgeous.”

The apartments – another seven are planned in the Dietz build-

ing – will rent for $700 to $1,500, and already there have been some nibbles, some from SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick alumni who are “selling their old Victorians” downstate and looking to the environs of their alma maters for retirement nests.

While Klugo – standing on the theater’s stage – was talking, images of blueprints, artist’s renderings and the Bresee’s interior were flashing on the big screen behind him.

In the Q&A, Joe Ruffino, Ruffino’s Pizza proprietor and past MSO president, observed it’s been described as an $8 million job, but “this is way bigger than that.”

The idea of state and federal funds obtained to date is to close the gap between the overall cost and what can turn a profit in the private market. Klugo said he is investing $6 million, and financing is such that revenues from the apartments alone – another seven are planned in the Dietz – would cover that.

“You don’t have 100-percent occupancy to make these projects work,” he said. “The banks

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There is demand for high-end apartments locally, he continued, from Corning and Ioxus executives, the hospitals and the colleges. The first-floor stores and offices are iffier, but Klugo, who went to Elmira Free Academy with the Hilfiger boys, would like to see that kind of national retailer move in. There’s a Bass Shoe store in the former Noah’s Ark; maybe that can be attracted here too.

Having done this kind of work for a couple of decades, Klugo is hard to surprise. Still, he said the loose cornice of the Dietz Street building – a line of 600-pound stones had been loosened by years of freeze, thaw – was cause for immediate action.

Don’t tell anybody, but he’s replaced those stones with EIFS (exterior insulation finish systems, also called synthetic stucco) replicas, 10 pounds each. “You couldn’t tell the difference unless you reach out and touch it,” Klugo said.

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Southside Mall Attracts Petco, 4th National Retailer In Year PETCO/From A1 gerbils, chinchillas and guinea pigs, but also hosts adoption events in conjunction with local shelters for dogs, cats and rabbits.

“It’s our philosophy to find forever homes for homeless animals,” said April Botta, regional marketing program manager for the northeast.

“If there’s a chicken rescue, we’ll help put that chicken up for adoption.”

The store will feature an adoption center, where cats, rabbits and other small animals will be boarded until they’re adopted. The dogs, Botta said, typically return to their shelter at the end of the day.

In addition to pet bedding, toys and fashion, Petco also offers grooming, dog-train-

ing classes and will host its famous annual events, such as the Hamster Ball Derby, pet photos with Santa and Howl-O-Ween, complete with a dog costume contests.

“We welcome any pet that wants to come and visit us,” said Botta.

Petco will also be selling a wide variety of national brand pet foods, including the Petco line of all-natural pet food called “It’s All Natural.”

“There really isn’t a place to buy pet food around here except for the supermarkets,” said Montanti.

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(7572) Settle down in quiet elegance, or entertain vibrantly, in this dazzling 3BR/3+BA residence with great Red Creek valley views.

Moravian tiled fireplace. Custom kitchen with granite counter top & breakfast nook, formal dining room, den. Main-level Master Bedroom. Radiant-floor heating, Additional outdoor Wood furnace, thermal glass, cherry flooring. Large view front porch. 2 car garage w/studio apartment. 2 miles from Cooperstown. Gracious styling and superb features. Cooperstown Schools.

Hubbell’s Exclusive. $519,000 46 Acres (7601) Mostly wooded with 2 building sites, underground electric and phone. 170’ drilled well, 1374’ road frontage with good access, inviting FLy creek ambiance OtsegO Lake Find sub-dividable. Possible owner finance.

(7422) Entertain easily in this intriguing Contempo in (7608) Enjoy the distinction of this well-kept 3BR/3BA a country setting on 16 acres. Engaging, superbly-kept Hubbell’s Exclusive. $125,000. lake-area Chalet! Year-round residence offering a large home offering a large view deck w/ panoramic valley wraparound deck, den, airy open floorplan, gas fireplace. views, pond, hot tub, finished basement and hardwood Main Street Cooperstown Main-level master suite w/ walk-in closet and access flooring. 4 BR/3 and 1/2 baths. Gas stove. Tiled foyer, (6447) Business block on Main Street. Four 2 BR apartments. 2 to deck, modern kitchen, dining room, Lake privileges, handsome French doors, secluded den. large family commercial spaces.

2,500 sq ft total commercial space.

New windows, two-car garage. Parklike setting with mature gardens room, healthful exercise room, wet bar. Mud/Laundry new hot water furnace.

Storage space in cellar.

Well-kept stone and and trees. Cooperstown Schools. room. Two-car garage. Cooperstown Schools. brick building. Good income producer.

Hubbell’s Co-Exclusive. $419,000 Hubbell’s Exclusive. $347,500 Hubbell’s Exclusive $525,000

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TERRIFIC INVESTMENT With a reduced price, this exceptional property consists of a 2000 sq. ft. Victorian home plus a completely renovated and fully furnished Carriage House with another 1800 sq. ft.

The Victorian has 3 large bedrooms, 5 baths plus a private suite with bath. The Carriage House has a large living room, fully outfitted kitchen with adjacent dining area. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, laundry, central air plus a large back yard are just some of the pluses w/ the Carriage House. This property is set up perfectly for a full investment property or a residence in one and income in the 2nd home. Just 10 miles north of Cooperstown, it is near Glimmerglass Opera, Glimmerglass State Park and brings with it swimming and boating privileges at Springfield Public Landing. A one of a kind listing. All deposits for unfulfilled weeks of lodging will be conveyed at closing to new owner. 2011 season income was approximately $30,000 for Dreams Park season. Listing # 84071. Listing Price: $199,000 Dave LaDuke Broker 435-2405; Mike Winslow Broker 435-0183; Tony Gambino 516-384-0095; Rob Lee 434-5177; Mike Swatling 435-6454; Joe Valette 437-5745; Laura Coleman 437-4881

Think suMMer 2012! oTsego Lake CoTTage Co-exCLusiveLY offereD aT The neW priCe: $269,000 This is a perfect three season cottage!

New construction in 2004; it is all up to code.

Open floor plan with two bedrooms on the first level.

Doors lead out to a large deck. Large second story loft with private deck. 1.5 baths. This cottage overlooking Otsego Lake will be sold with all the contents. Be ready for a beautiful fall on the lake! four season Lake hoMe exCLusiveLY offereD aT $675,000 Year round living waits for you in this Otsego Lake house with private beach and 62’ of direct lake frontage. Stunning views from both balconies.

Set well away from the main road with room to park 5 cars. Quiet neighborhood with other year round neighbors. The living area is open and bright, cathedral ceilings outfitted with 3 ceiling fans and 4 remotely controlled skylights. Lake views from all rooms. Telephone and television are wired in all rooms. New retaining wall in the parking area. Large detached two story garage for parking and storage. Green play space above the garage. Greenhouse near the beach frontage. Front lawn leads right to the beach at the lake’s edge.

New boat hoist and dock. This property was built for minimum maintenance and maximum enjoyment for 12 months of the year!

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