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Oneonta’s Susan Monser was among thousands drawn to the Grand & Glorious Tag Sale Saturday, Sept. 6, on Main Street.
etired Ogdensburg City Manager John Krol – Martin D. Murphy calls him his foremost mentor – remembers his protege’s humor, but also his energy and, most of all, his ability to get things done. When Murphy, who will
join City Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 1, as Oneonta’s second city manager, became involved in his hometown’s civic life after returning from SUNY Brockport with a master’s in public administration in 1989, the historic post office was a shambles.
Abandoned by the postal service, the 1867 twostory Neo-Classical landmark at 431 State St. had been a source of community pride. Various efforts to revive it in private hands failed, but Murphy took it on, obtained grants to renovate it, and succeeded
in getting the U.S. Postal Service to move back in on a long-term lease. Again a source of pride, U.S. Sens. Schumer and Gillibrand introduced legislation in 2009 to rename it the Frederic Remington Post Office, in honor of the Maple City’s most famous son. Murphy can take credit Please See MURPHY, A3
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SUNY Oneonta’s campus was “Red Day” indeed Friday, Sept. 5, as the college celebrated its 125th birthday. Those in the mood included, from left, RDs Juliane Schnibbe and Matt Shaler, with seniors Tyler Itzkowitz, Marielle Coffey, Samantha Schanzer, Samantha Riccardi, Samantha Murray, Amber Talbot and Julianne Mayne.
On Anniversary, Campus Reflects On Its Legacy Though SUNY offers a day of festivities at the start of every fall semester, this year coinrmed with noisemakcided with the Sept. 4, 1889, ers, feather boas, sparkly founding of Oneonta Normal beads and School. “This isn’t red T-shirts, SUNY your grandparent’s Oneonta students college, or even gathered around your parents,” said President Nancy Dr. David Brenner, Kleniewski to cut retired associate the cake and sing director of academic “Happy Birthday” for affairs at SUNY the 125th anniverOneonta. sary of the college’s But one thing has founding. remained across “It’s a day of generations — the Dr. Brenner recelebration,” said counts the school’s college’s commitHal Legg, director of history at a celPlease See communications. 125th, B7 ebratory luncheon. By LIBBY CUDMORE
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Jim Seward has halted DOT from taking action against Otsego Lake camp owners, including several from Oneonta, fighting Route 80 repairs next to Otsego Lake.
Entrepreneur Fulfills Dream In Scare-a-Con Since A Boy, He’s Liked Spooky
ephyr Teachout hammered Governor Cuomo in Otsego County in the Tuesday, Sept. 9, Democratic primary, 1,372-480, although Cuomo won statewide. In the 21st Assembly District, Bill Magee won this county and Madison and turned back a challenge from Sherrill Council member Mike Hennessy. In the Town of Oneonta, Republican Trish Riddell Kent beat Democrat Dave Rowley emphatically in the Democratic primary, 214-78. Rep. Chris Gibson’s H.R. 4701, the Tick-borne Disease Research Transparency and Accountability Act of 2014, passed the House of Representatives Tuesday, Sept. 9. It sets up an inter-agency working group to combat Lyme Disease.
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Bank of Cooperstown President Scott White cuts the ribbon Monday, Sept. 8, at the bank’s first branch, at 34 Main St., Oneonta. Others, from left, are community board members Tony Casale, Cooperstown, and Mark D’Amico, Oneonta; bank Vice President Christine Amos, Oneonta; Lori White, Scott’s spouse; teller Evelyn Zuk, Oneonta; personal banker Jennifer Deleo, Delhi; attorney Don Snyder, a community bank member; Gavin MacMillan, representing Eastman Associates, the builder; branch manager Rachel Jessup, Oneonta; community board member and Northern Eagle President George Allen, Oneonta; bank director Bob O’Neill, Cooperstown; Eastman Associates’ Matt Katz; Otsego County Chamber President Barbara Ann Heegan, Oneonta; former Cooperstown mayor Carol Waller, representing U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, and Rick Eastman, president, Eastman Associates.
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duties, Ferrara blogs regularly at www.askmyprofessor.org and is finishing a book, tentatively titled “A Palace of Ashes: Global Convergence and the Decline of American Higher Education.� Ferrara will serve as the executive board officer, member of the Labor-Management delegation and columnist for the Sentinel until June 2015.
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MURPHY/From A1 for the turn-around, Krol said, but that’s not all. As his director of planning and development from 1993 to 2007 (and, previously, administering the Empire State Zone and directing the Ogdensburg Growth Fund Development Corp.,) Murphy had played a key role in the downtown revival in that city of 11,000 on the St. Lawrence River. A community civic center and swimming pool were built downtown. The marina was expanded, and visitor center, boardwalk and recreation trail added. Brownfields – from oil-tank farms on the riverbank – were cleaned up. Some 1,700 housing units were added. Oneonta’s Common Council learned of all these accomplishments in searching for a replacement to Oneonta’s first city manager, Mike Long. After a search conducted under a cloud of controversy, council moved
– moved on in 2007 to a top job, Saranac Lake village administrator, and to the Cortland job in 2010. In an interview the day after his hiring, the new city manager said the idea of again focusing on one municipality attracted him to the Oneonta, and he’s eager to get started. “We” – himself and wife Penny – “were here looking at real estate on Wednesday,” he said. The couple – he is 54 – have three grown sons, the eldest who is in the medical HOMETOWN ONEONTA field; the youngest, a recent Mayor Miller welcomes college graduate, is looking toward a career in law the new city manager. enforcement. The parents away from a preferred local enjoy the outdoors, playing candidate and, after a second golf and hiking. interview Wednesday, Sept. When it was over, partici3, reconvened the following pants in the search said there evening and selected Murhad been a group on Comphy, most recently Cortland mon Council that favored County manager, by a 7-1 the promotion of Director of vote. Finance Meg Hungerford to “I think he’s going to be city manager. In the course terrific,” said Mayor Dick of interviews, they said, HunMiller. “He’s got all the cregerford excelled in discussdentials and experience and ing matters of finance – her personality to do a first-class area of expertise – but other job.” With his mentor retiring in candidates did better on the broader range of city-man2005, Murphy – his former ager responsibilities. associates call him Marty
In developing a new city charter in 2010-11, the Charter Commission had made an MPA a city-manager requirement. In discussing his academic background – after graduating from SUNY Plattsburgh, he immediately went on for his MPA – Murphy said the training he received was particular helpful in the area of labor law and negotiations. “This is what was envisioned in moving to a city manager form of government,” said Lori Zimniewicz, a member of the original Charter Commission who chaired the Charter Review Commission after Long departed in May. She added, “The experience and credentials Mr. Murphy brings to our city will ensure the infusion of new ideas and opportunities that should bring us strong success.” The one holdout in supporting Murphy’s hiring was Council member Mike Lynch, gave a reporter this explanation after casting his “nay” vote on the 4th, “She’s done a terrific job. He’s very well qualified. I’m sure he’ll do a very good job. He just wasn’t my #1 choice.”
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After Perils Of Pauline, A Rescue At City Hall
ou can say this: When Oneonta’s new city charter was allowed to work, it worked. Sure, the help-wanted ad may have been crafted to allow a pre-selected candidate for city manager to compete, but the solicitation was wide enough to attract a field of fully qualified applicants. When interviews were conducted, two candidates came to the fore, and second interviews with the two finalists Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 3, in advance of a decision that evening, resulted in a consensus – with one regrettable holdout – for Martin D. Murphy, the Cortland County administrator, who received an enthusiastic 7-1 endorsement. Mayor Dick Miller, who can only vote in the event of a tie, not required in this case, said he is fully sold on Marty Murphy, too: “I think he’s going to be terrific. He’s got all the credentials and experience and personality to do a first-class job.” • As noted in this space before, every man, woman and child in Otsego County has a stake in Murphy’s success. (Not TOO much pressure, we hope.) As the only professional governmental manager in the county, Oneonta’s city manager is a pioneer. His success may convince the county Board of Representatives, with its $110 million budget and four dozen departments, to – fingers crossed – take the step recommended eight years ago now in a study by the eminent David W. Brenner, former county board chair, Oneonta mayor and retired SUNY Oneonta dean, and hire a county administrator. It may convince a motivated Cooperstown Village Board, which has spent
Miller is a leader: If he’s determined the new system will work, it will work. • More problematic is Council member Mike Lynch, former deputy mayor and a veteran who should know better. He participated in the effort to pre-select a city manager from the ranks, and was unrepentant even after he got caught. He cast the one “nay” vote when the new city manager was chosen Thursday, Sept. 4. He was the Council member who told the Charter Revision Commission when discussing the new document, “It doesn’t pertain to my job.” That makes no sense. Maybe it doesn’t pertain to the way HE has done or intends to do his job, but it defines what his job is. If he doesn’t want to do the job, then he should be Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA contemplating whether he wants to run again when A beaming Common Council poses with Oneonta’s new city manager, Martin Murphy, who was selected Thursday, Sept. 4, by a 7-1 vote. From left are Council members Dave Rissberger and Madolyn his term expires next year. O. Palmer, Murphy, Council members Larry Malone, Bob Brzozowski and Chip Holmes, Mayor Dick Happily, Lynch is one vote; Miller, and Council member Russ Southard, deputy mayor and chairman of the search committee. the mayor and council can quarantine him as necessary. months, more than a year in city charter is that the mayor the new arrangement makes in city elections in Novem• some cases, without being and Common Council what Bernier proved works ber 2011, has been applied. A better model is Council able to complete initiadecide what to do; the city part of the organizational Many employees hadn’t member David Rissberger, tives, from comprehensive manager then gets it done. chart. read it, few knew their roles who chaired the original sign, vendor and seasonal Anyone in any size business • under it. A structured series Charter Commission. He landlord regulations, to a knows that when the boss For it to actually work, of training sessions would was steadfast in insisting hospital zone. A village starts circumventing his or though, the new city manhelp ensure the new regiOneonta must be a city of manager could help good her managers, morale and ager will need the support of men is clear to all. (Perlaws, that Common Council things happen. effectiveness suffer. the mayor and all Council haps CRREO, SUNY New must fulfill its responsibil• If you have eight Council members. (And, in return, Paltz’s Center for Research, ity to Oneonta’s citizens as The departure of Oneonmembers going to indihe will have to earn their Regional Education & contained in the charter. ta’s first city manager, Mike vidual department heads, trust and confidence, as does Outreach, which helped It was a lonely place to Long, in May after only 18 it’s a mess. The city manany CEO with his/her board redistrict the city’s wards in be for a while, but Counmonths was unfortunate, but ager prioritizes, assigns and of directors.) The elected 2012, could set this up.) cil members Brzozowski, not unusual. Often, as the ensures accountability, and officials must resist the For the charter to work Hennessy, Holmes, Malone, city Charter Commission can tap the creativity and temptation to go around the will require leadership on Palmer and Southard (he learned during its year-long experience of the people manager. And they must re- the part of Mayor Miller, chaired a search committee deliberations in 2010-11, who work for him. buff any department head’s but you get the impresof the whole), as well as first city managers are tranThis is not giving up effort to appeal directly to sion he’s emerging from a the mayor, recognized the sitional, as city halls work control. It’s ensuring things them. It will take discipline, difficult few months with a wisdom of his position and, out the kinks inherent in any get done. but discipline will pay off. recommitment to the city’s in the end, fulfilled their new system. For years, Community The Charter Revision fundamental document. responsibilities. Now it’s time to settle Development Director Joe Commission set up after (The charter is not a plan, No doubt, they have the down and make the new Bernier filled that role of Long departed also found as some have suggested, it’s appreciation and support of system work. go-to-guy (without portfoshortfalls in how the docuthe city’s constitution.) a relieved electorate. Well The idea contained in the lio). But he’s retired, and ment, approved 1,128-348 No question, Mayor done!
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emocracy is not supposed to be a spectator sport. If people don’t know what their elected officials are doing, those leaders will run away with the store. The less the citizens know, the more that those representing them will do to perpetuate their own power.
I’m not talking about bribery or stealing, although that certainly happens too – I’m talking about the urge for those in power to load the game so that they can continue to stay in power. The more they do that, the more the other bad stuff happens. It’s human nature. Can you be sure that if you were in the game you wouldn’t be tempted to do the same thing?
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The people of New York State just don’t seem to care that much about what is going on in Albany. While the state’s population is largely in New York City where the major media are, the state capital was placed in Albany, ostensibly to keep the stench of corrupt urban politics from infecting the people. It turns out that by putting the government in Albany,
the politicians were hiding their nefarious doings from their constituents. You know, out of sight, out of mind. The upshot is that most people know very little about what their leaders are up to. We have allowed the people running things to fix the game. To this day, for instance, we allow the leaders of the majority parPlease See CHARTOCK, A6
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Suing President Simply Stunt To the Editor: Some misunderstandings regarding my letter in support of Sean Eldridge: First, the lawsuit that Congressman Gibson voted for against his former commander in chief was clearly a political publicity stunt. The suit will likely never be filed, and if filed, it will be tossed out on summary judgment. Representative Gibson either knew it was as stunt when he pushed the button, or he knows little about constitutional law. If the lawsuit remains un-filed, it will simply become part of the Tea Party mythology, which may have been its sole purpose. No sense in pretending otherwise. Secondly, Congressman Gibson clearly parlayed his employment in the military into a seat in Congress – because that was his resume – he has virtually no business experience. By contrast, Sean Eldridge’s involvement in finance is generating jobs in his district, which differentiates him from his opponent. And jobs is what the district needs the most. Not more political publicity stunts. CHIP NORTHRUP Cooperstown
Town Wants Water Plant, Unclear On What It Wants To Do With It To the Editor: Bob Harlem and I have been debating the proposed Southside water idea for several months now, and we’ve addressed the issue in a civil way through direct “face-to-face” conversation, in group settings, over the phone and through e-mails. He’s fixed on his positions, I have mine and, frankly, we probably have more in agreement on the issue than differences. He supports a narrowly focused “go-it-alone” town exclusive water strategy for the Southside, where I believe the very best answer rests in a broadened intermunicipal plan advanced jointly with the city. Since the 1950s, the “go-it-alone” approach hasn’t
worked here; doing so has failed terribly the two Oneontas and, in my judgment, it’s weakened both the city and the town, their shared economy and the people who call this place home. We can’t continue down this path. Here are other critical areas where we differ: 1) In a community and area where we are in an ongoing economic “free fall,” producing good paying jobs is of utmost importance. No one pushing the Southside water idea can give projections on job growth and new job payroll impact as a result of the project. A project bearing an $8.8 million capital price tag needs to have such job impact Please See COLONE, A6
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Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library
125 Years Ago
The Local News – John Smith of Oneonta, a Negro, had his leg crushed at the knee on Saturday, at Schenevus, while engaged in drawing logs. John has a wife and three children depending upon him for support and in his crippled condition is deserving of assistance from those charitably inclined. Detective Andrus of the D. & H. arrested a stocky-built man at Worcester on Friday evening, for stealing a ride on Train No. 3. The prisoner showed fight and succeeded in breaking one of the detective’s ribs before he was overpowered. He proved to be Martin Kirwin, a desperate character, and, as this is not the first time he has assaulted an officer while resisting arrest, he was taken to Cooperstown jail to await the Grand Jury. The Hon. David Wilber of Oneonta has more than 200 acres of hops in cultivation and employs 700 pickers which will cost him $5,000 to harvest his crop this year. September 1889
100 Years Ago
The State Education Department has made public a list of students of the public schools of the state who have passed the examinations necessary for college entrance diplomas and who are eligible for state scholarships under the amended school law of 1913. Those eligible and their test averages from Oneonta are: Riley Crippen (90.38); Alice E. Kilkenny (83.8); Earnestine Ethlyn Morse (77.7); George Herbert Fletcher (77.57); and Stuart Grant (70.5). September 1914
80 Years Ago
The Williamsport Grays, champions of the second half of the New York-Pennsylvania Baseball League, have been booked to play the Oneonta Merchants on Neahwa Park diamond Thursday afternoon at 4:15 o’clock, according to Fred Naegley, secretary of the Oneonta Club. This will be the first appearance of a league team in this city in several years and a large crowd is expected. Art Mills, who twirled for the Merchants last season, is one of the star hurlers on the Williamsport club and he is planning to work part of the game against his old teammates. Mills has won 11 games and lost 7. Oneonta will have an opportunity to view the league’s most valuable player in action. He is Frank McBride, leftfielder for the Grays. In 489 times at bat this season, McBride has collected a batting average of .376. He leads the league in batting, runs batted in, and home runs. Hearn, leading pitcher of the league with 21 wins is another star player. Hearn is scheduled to join a major league club next year. September 1934
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Oneonta public schools have registered a total of 2,135 pupils for the start of the 1954 school year. This repre-
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sents an increase of 13 over opening day figures. Total enrollment is the highest in 30 years. It includes 1,120 in the grades; 542 in Junior High and 473 in Senior High. Oneonta’s Superintendent of Schools, Harold V. Hager says he will ask the Board of Education to approve a new policy eliminating any thought of abolishing Kindergartens because of space limitations in the school buildings. Elimination of Kindergartens, in order to keep the rest of the grades on full-day schedules, would eventually hurt the youngsters involved. “Kindergartens,” he said, “are essential to progress. Our records show that a youngster who goes through Kindergarten is a better reader and writer and has made a better social adjustment.” September 1954
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23 older, deteriorating Steinways – 20 studio uprights and three grand pianos. “It sounds like a good deal for both parties,” said local piano technician Eric Mazarak. “I think they both made out very well. Baldwins are a good quality piano. Steinway has the name, but I would rather have a new Baldwin than a worn-out Steinway. September 1994
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More than 60 people who participate in Fox Hospital’s Lifeline Program attended a coffee reception recently to celebrate Lifeline’s upcoming first anniversary in November and to swap stories. Lifeline, an emergency alert system attached to a subscriber’s telephone, is operated by a device worn around a subscriber’s neck, or on the wrist. When help is needed, the subscriber pushes a button on the device, which alerts hospital personnel that help is needed. The subscriber is called and asked what type of help is needed. If no answer is received, hospital staff will call one of the subscriber’s “responder’s,” friends or relatives who then go to the subscriber’s home and notify the hospital of the situation. September 1984
At the close of the 1973 season Oneonta State soccer coach Garth Stam was faced with the unenviable task of replacing Joe Howarth and Altamont McKenzie. Howarth was undoubtedly the best defender ever to play at Oneonta State while McKenzie had enough speed and ball handling skill to break a game wide open. Just the same, Stam feels that with the new talent he has, the 1974 Red Dragons will be a more cohesive force than ever before in his 14 years of coaching here. The Red Dragons will get their first taste of good competition today when they play a select team from Slough, England, coached by David Dornan who is making his second visit to Oneonta. Stam’s 1974 team will be built around eight veterans with the main line of experience coming from All-American Farrukh Quraishi and defender Carl Mohammed. September 1974
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Comments: I started writing this column in January and I am starting to think that I may have cast a spell upon you fine folks in the Oneonta/Cooperstown area! I’m sure you are not surprised at all to learn that August was much colder than normal, just like every other month of 2014 with the exception of May! Please don’t blame or harm the messenger, I can’t change it, I can just tell you about it. Our mean temperature was 2.7 below normal, the summer is going to be one of the coldest on record, and the year is headed in the same di- DAVID rection. The highest temperature recorded this MATTICE August was 82, (average daily highs normally range from 77-82). Aug. 15 we set a record low high temperature for the date, a scant 59, which broke a record that stood for over 100 years. During August we measured 2.29 inches of rain in Oneonta, which is 1.41 inches below normal, but for the year we have received 30.71 inches of liquid precipitation, 4.22 inches above the norm. In Oneonta, we had just one thunderstorm during the month but other areas nearby got pounded by some copious rainfall from some additional, nasty thunderstorm cells. Our neighbors to the northeast, Sharon Springs, had a torrential downpour one evening and in just a couple of hours there was significant flash flooding, which damaged homes, businesses and streets. As school opens, don’t forget that we still have three weeks of summer left. We usually experience a warm spell or two before the wonders of the autumn season set in and treat us to some glorious beauty, with gorgeous colors in the hillsides, deep blue skies and a fragrant, crisp, and cool air. Just a reminder: Sunburn and thunderstorms still pose a threat from time to time; over the next six weeks or so, be mindful that you need to be alert to avoid dangerous situations. It is not snowing yet, so get outside, (except when you need to be studying, kids) and enjoy this magnificent time of the year! There is so much to do and see in the greater Cooperstown/Oneonta area. Take in as much as you can, remind your friends and family to do the same, and as always, Keep Your Eye On The Weather!
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SKATERS/From A1 petive skiier, then applied those skills to competitive skateboarding. A few years ago, Chantelle, through Women in Action, an international organization based in Worcester, Mass., that seeks to empower women everywhere, found herself in Nicaragua, teaching children who had so little hope and self-assurance. “I brought my skateboard,” she said. “It helped quite a few of them.” When a coup closed the school and forced her to flee, she shifted to Honduras, where she participated in building a school in Perlas de Oriente, then built a skate park there and formalized her thinking about skateboard-
Citizens Must Be Vigilant CHARTOCK/From A4 ties to draw their own districts. They create political boundaries where only they can win. Even after that process was supposedly “reformed,” the so-called reform turns out to be a sham. The problem is that everyone is in on the game, even when they say that they are not. In the case of redistricting, for example, the governor says that he is in favor of reform but makes a deal to perpetuate the system and then further fools the people by giving them a so-called constitutional amendment that will keep things going the good old corrupt way. Redistricting is only the tip of the iceberg. We allow people seeking influence to buy power the same way they would buy bacon at the grocery store. They walk up, pay the cashier and get what they want. Why do you think a governor who says he is for campaign reform would be
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ing in an organization called Bridge To Skate. “A child who is given a skateboard will find success comes with patience, focus and discipline,” Chantelle writes on the website, www. bridgetoskate.org. “They’ll see that creativity and self expression will show style, and that love will show greatness.” Lately, her focus has been on South L.A., where she’s built skate parks and solicited donations of hundreds of used skateboards – 350 a year – from skaters everywhere, which are repaired and donated to youngsters. Chantelle was telling her story Sunday, Sept. 7, in Neahwa Park’s skate park, where she and Yasir had organized
COLONE/From A4 documentation, which should be insisted upon by the mentioned funding agencies. 2) A project of this magnitude also needs to have a clearly defined plan. If, as Bob says, the water idea is to “put us in the game” by having “shovel ready sites,” then there should be some established development plan that defines what’s going to be going on out there. It can’t just be maps showing where wells are to be located and colored lines to represent extended water pipes; not when your going to be spending $8.8 million. The town needs to make a much tighter plan available to the public and I don’t think it’s too late to even consider a more expansive effort in collaboration with the City. ALBERT COLONE Oneonta P.S. GO-EDC recently processed a multi-question survey surrounding the potential of growing 300 new good paying jobs within the footprint of the city and town of Oneonta through 2018. In that survey, 73 percent of respondents agreed that there should be one water district that services the Town and City of Oneonta; 26 percent disagreed. Readers can download the complete survey report by clicking on: www. goedc.org, then scroll-down to where it says; “click here for “300 in 3 challenge” survey summative.”
able to raise $35 million to run for office? Does anyone think that all that money is given to provide for clean government? If you believe that, it’s time to get back on the turnip truck. Lobbying is big business. When politicians retire they often become lobbyists. They know how to work the levers of power. The leaders have so much power that they can create the agenda. It looks like one thing but upon a closer look, the stink of rotten fish is unmistakable. The present governor loves the idea that the Republicans are kept in place despite their minority status in New York so that the Democrats don’t pass legislation that will threaten the entrenched players. Even if the Democrats take the Senate, the governor will find a way to keep the status quo. Alan Chartock is president of Northeast Public Radio, WAMC, which broadcasts in Oneonta at 99.3 FM.
the second Bridge To Skate competition, and two dozen youngsters were challenging each other to match and surpass various tricks on the park’s ramps and jumps. It’s part of a game called SKATE, like basketball’s HORSE: If someone fails to match your trick, they get a letter. Spell SKATE, you lose. Chantelle and Yasir organized the first such competition July 7, and plan to do more. This time, the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity helped with food and refreshments, and Choice Ultra Lounge and others contributed to the effort. Meanwhile, Yasir’s pursu-
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ing an associated venture of his own. The other week at the opening of the Sidney Skate Park, Yasir met six foster kids who were intrigued by skateboarding. In the weeks since, he put on a drive for used skateboards, and so far has collected a dozen. The Sidney kids never followed through, but Barton is determined to find young Oneontans who might benefit from the sport and help them get started. “I was a foster kid, too,” he explained.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2014 SPOOKY/From A1 hood a little more frightening. “I’ve met Lon Cheney’s family and Boris Karloff’s daughter, Sarah,” said Johnson, former county rep and former owner of Central New York Radio Group. “I’m friends with John Russo, who co-wrote ‘Night of the Living Dead’, the film that created the modern zombie genre. We wouldn’t be watching ‘The Walking Dead’ without him.” Cast members from both – and many more – will be on hand at
Scare-a-Con Showcases Many Of JV’s Spooky Pals Scare-a-Con, the horror movie and pop culture convention Johnson started in 2011, on Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 12-13, at the Turningstone Casino in Verona, west of Utica. Johnson, who published the Ghost Hunters magazine, TAPS and the horror film fanzine, The Horrorphile, got started on the convention circuit while working with Syfy’s “Ghost Hunters” TV show.
“I brought them to Hyde Hall and The Otesaga,” he said. “I started doing the conventions with them, and realized that, hey, these are fun – Upstate New York shouldn’t have miss out on this.” The first convention included Adrienne Barbeau, star of “Swamp Thing” and “The Fog,” and Reggie Bannister of the “Phantasm” series, as well as Sarah Karloff. The convention will also feature
a chance for old horror movie actors to catch up, with reunions of the casts of “Sleepaway Camp” and “Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” But with that comes a little bit of fan sadness. “We were saddened by the passing of Marilyn Burns,” said Johnson of the woman who played heroine Sally Hardesty. She had been scheduled to appear, but she died of natural causes in early August.
There are panels on ghost hunting and the history of horror films, a film festival and a steampunk fashion show, but Johnson’s favorite part of Scare-a-Con is the Saturday night party, where fans and favorites mingle and dance to the 80s sounds of the Pop Rox. “The celebs don’t just sit in their rooms,” he said. “That’s where the real connections are made. It’s so great to share a drink with someone whose work you admire – that happens all the time here. They become friends.”
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New Purchases and refinances • Debt Consolidation Free Pre-Qualification • Fast Approvals • Low Rates Registered Mortgage Broker Matt Schuermann NYS Banking Dept. Loans arranged by a 3rd party lender. 31 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown (directly next door to Stagecoach Coffee)
MLS#96500 Milford $499,000 The Milford Inn is an historical hotel and bar w/newly renovated DR and bar area. Rent out the 6 modern BRs w/private full baths for additional income. This excellent income property is close to Cooperstown, the Baseball Hall of Fame and Dreams Park. All restaurant and bar inventory is included. 2-car detached garage for extra storage.For additional information, and photos of rooms for rent, please visit their website www.themilfordinn.com.
Bim Ashford 607-435-3971 Madeline K. Woerner 607-434-3697