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Election debate to be held Oct. 20 The Oneonta Area League of Women Voters will hold an election debate via Zoom at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 20.

Mayoral candidates Len Carson and Mark Drnek, both Common Council members, will discuss their platforms and answer questions from the moderator and viewers.

Residents’ questions for the candidates should be sent in advance to: lwvoneonta@ gmail.com, Subject line: Debate Questions. Technical assistance for connecting to the event will be available at lwvoneontatech@gmail.com.

Go to www.lwvoneonta.org to sign up for the event or for more information. Or visit the group’s Facebook page, LWV of Oneonta, NY. INSIDE ►The end of an ERA: Church and Scott Pharmacy owners retire, sell business. Page A2. ►PArk Pavilion: Lions, Friends of Parks team up to buy new pavilion for Badger Park in Cooperstown. Page A2. ►Flood Prevention: Otsego County representatives are told by a local expert that more flood mitigation is needed or extremem weather events like the August flooding in the Butternut Valley will keep happening. Page A3. ►Locally owned: Columnist Adrian Kuzminsky writes in support of locally owned businesses Page A4. ►TVL REGULAR SEASON TITLES: Franklin-Unatego boys, Schenevus girls finished TriValley season undefated in league. Page A7. ►November or BUST?: Editor Greg Klein asks what makes a successful soccer season?

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►Police Promotion: Oneonta Common Council removes the interim tag from Police Chief Christopher Witzenburg’s job title. ►VETO ANGER: Gov. Kathy Hochul’s veto of a bill to help the Oneonta City School District is panned by local politicians. ►Sports UPDATES: Get playoff updates daily. ►COVID UPDATES: Otsego County reports another death from COVID last week. ►BARK PARK: Oneonta cuts ribbon on new dog park.

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SUNY Oneonta president seeks to improve student experience

By KEVIN LIMITI ONEONTA — The new SUNY Oneonta President, Alberto Cardelle, said he is aiming to make things easier and safer for students as well as to improve town-gown relationships.

Prior to taking over the role of SUNY President, Cardelle was a provost and vice president for academic affairs at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts. Before that, he spent 15 years at East Stroudsburg University, where he began as an assistant professor for public health in 1999, eventually becoming a department chair in 2001.

Cardelle spoke about his experiences growing up and what led him to take over the mantle of president at the largest college in the area.

“I was always in higher education, first as a faculty member and then moved up and continued to work as an administrator, because higher education, I believe, is one of the most important vehicles for social mobility and for transforming the opportunities of individuals,” Cardelle said. “I don’t know anything else except maybe healthcare that can be the great equalizer with regards to opportunity that people have to improve their lives.”

Cardelle said he grew up in Miami, but “not the one you see on TV. Miami was a small town.” He is the son of first-generation Cuban immigrants, which informed his experience as an educator. He grew up in a close-knit community with other Cuban immigrants. Cardelle said

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growing up was “wonderful” and he liked sports such as soccer and baseball and went to Walt Disney World as a kid many times.

“In that sense of being a close-knit family is what I remember growing up,” Cardelle said. “It was not until I left Miami that I realized I was part of a minority. I got my education about being an immigrant after I left Miami, which was interesting, because in Miami we were so insulated from that.”

Cardelle described an experience where he was in north Florida and was speaking Spanish with a dad.

“Somebody just walked by, came up to us and said ‘you’re in the United States, speak English.’ And so that was the first time that occurred to me that not everybody felt as if we belonged here.”

He said watching the embarrassment his parents have was “rough.”

“I think that many students that come from immigrant’s background don’t really understand how to work

higher education,” Cardelle said.

“The truth is, even if you’re not from an immigrant family, if you’re a first-generation student, if you’re a student that none of your parents have gone to college, you really don’t have anyone to ask what’s an office hour, what’s a syllabus, how do I graduate.”

Cardelle said 29% of incoming freshman are racially or ethnically diverse, indicating a changing demographic to Oneonta.

“I had to learn a lot and try to navigate higher education and the college experience by myself,” Cardelle said. “And that’s partially why I was so attracted to being an administrator in higher education, because I wanted to make it as easy as possible for everyone,” Cardelle said.

“Everybody needs higher education,” Cardelle said. “Without regional comprehensives we wouldn’t have teachers, we wouldn’t have healthcare professionals, we wouldn’t have nurses, we wouldn’t have artists, writers. All societies need institutions like ours that are accessible.”

Cardelle said “fantastic teachers” and the ability for SUNY to give students the opportunity to “take what they learned and apply it” makes SUNY Oneonta a place that stands out from other colleges. “Not many places have that to the extent that we have here,” Cardelle said.

Cardelle called SUNY Oneonta an “aesthetically beautiful” place where you can “feel safe and get to know people the way it’s laid out.”

“I think it has a real small town

feeling within the campus,” Cardelle said. “I think the community is small enough for it to be safe but then provides great restaurants, great performing arts. It’s a really great combination. Students are attracted to go into town and the town wants them to go there. And that doesn’t always happen that way.”

Cardelle said the school has been working a lot on improving town-gown relationships including a plan dedicated to educating off-campus students. “They are part of a community and they have to be good citizens of that community,” Cardelle said. “And we also try to work with community members to let them know how they can work with the students themselves. … I am committed to working closely with the common council, the city leaders and the county leaders to ensure that Oneonta remains an important true partner in the community.”

Cardelle said COVID numbers are trending in the right direction, mostly thanks to vaccines. He said there is one student in isolation, but pool testing shows low positivity testing.

“A lot of the work we continue to do is paying off,” Cardelle said.

“We get affected by things that happen outside the campus but right now I say our campus is doing everything we can do to continue to plan to wrap up the semester in person and without any disruptions and we’re already starting to think about planning for the spring.”

Cooperstown bench dedication honors Kuhn

By GREG KLEIN COOPERSTOWN — About 40 people turned out Saturday, Oct. 9, to see the village of Cooperstown, the Cooperstown Community Christmas Committee and the Cooperstown Rotary Association dedicate a bench in Pioneer Park to Paul Kuhn.

Kuhn, who died June 2 at 83 of complications from heart disease, was best known as the village’s Santa Claus for decades, setting up shop in a special house in Pioneer Park, not far from where his bench now rests.

“We are dedicating Paul’s bench in a place where all the children will see him and be able to greet him,” said Peg Leon, who was representing the Cooperstown Community Christmas Committee.

Cooperstown Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh said Kuhn also did amazing work for Rotary, including being the coordinator for the Rotary Youth Exchange program.

“I don’t know if people know all the work he did,” Tillapaugh said.

Kuhn’s widow and Mrs. Claus, Mary Kuhn, was at the dedication and received flowers and a special staff made by Emilie Rigby with a Santa carved into the handle.

“It is not just the spirt of Christmas that you and Paul have brought to the village,” Tillapaugh said. “It is everything you have done for the village.”

Tillapaugh said when the village was approached about dedicating a bench to Kuhn, it not only approved of the idea, but insisted on paying for the bench out of respect for everything Greg Klein/The Freeman’s Journal Kuhn and his wife had done for the villlage over the years.

“We said 100 percent (supportive of the idea) and the village Mary Kuhn, widow of Paul Kuhn, looks over the bench dedicated to her late husband Paul at Pioneer Park in Cooperstown on Saturday, Oct. 9. has to fund this bench as well,” she said.

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Sale of Church and Scott marks end of era STAFF REPORT

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The new pavilion in Badger Park arrived Wednesday, Oct. 6, and there will be a ribbon cutting Saturday, Oct. 16.

Ribbon cutting at Badger Park to mark opening of new pavilion

By PATRICK DEWEY A ribbon cutting will take place at 10 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 16, at Cooperstown’s Badger Park to open a new pavilion.

The purchase of the pavilion is a result of a partnership between Cooperstown Friends of the Parks and the Cooperstown Lions Club in conjunction with the village.

Susie Knight, the acting chairperson of Friends of the Parks, said her group first had the idea for the pavilion.

The idea came about because during the coronavirus pandemic, locals and tourists alike were visiting Badger Park frequently to play basketball or use its playground.

As part of the Lions Club’s annual president’s project, the club raised money for a significant portion of the pavilion cost. Tom Hohensee, as a member of both FOP and the Lions Club, was able to organize this collaboration, Knight said.

The pavilion, built by the Amish Barn Company, has room for two picnic tables. It is a goal of the Lions Club, FOP, and the Village of Cooperstown that the pavilion be accessible to those who use mobility devices such as wheelchairs and walkers.

Knight said she anticipates the pavilion being utilized to provide shade on a sunny day. She said it would make a great place to take a break after playing on the playground or playing basketball.

It will also provide protection from wind and rain.

“There had been consideration of a Badger Park pavilion by FOP for some time, so this was a great way

for our two organizations to make a collaborative effort,” Hohensee said.

Deirdre Crouse has been a Lions Club member since 2014 and is the past president. Crouse said there will be a fundraiser event at Badger Park during the ribbon cutting. The event will raise money for the Cooperstown Lions Club Childhood Cancer Support Fund.

This fund was established to provide financial support for the needs of children and families affected by childhood cancer. Any family with a child who is being treated for cancer in the Bassett Healthcare Network is eligible to receive funding.

Funds are distributed based on family need to offset costs such as travel, lodging and food, that are not covered through insurance. These funds will also be used to offer comfort for children directly by providing toys, games, stuffed animals, and other items for their well-being.

The fundraiser, which will take place after the ribbon cutting, will be a corn hole tournament. The divisions will be 12 to 18, and 18 and over.

“We want to see a diverse group of people participating and different age groups will be tossing the beanbags at different times,” Crouse said.

She said there will also be a 50-50 raffle.

Hohensee said the Cooperstown Lions Club will provide ongoing assistance with landscaping around the pavilion.

The Cooperstown Lions Club, whose motto is “We serve,” has participated in and organized many service projects. These include Lions

See, a program providing screenings to children under six to identify potential visual issues and then provide support for quality eye care. The Lions Club has also helped with the Kid Garden located behind Cooperstown Elementary School. Annually, the Lions Club collaborates with the Rotary Club to help keep the Susquehanna River clean.

“It’s important to me to volunteer for the betterment of the community. My goal is to see all the good in the community and try to make it even better,” Crouse said.

FOP has the mission of improving and enhancing Cooperstown’s six parks.

“The parks are a big reason why I moved back to Cooperstown, so I love giving back to the community through involvement with Friends of the Parks,” Knight said. She said since the time she joined FOP more than 15 years ago, she has seen and participated in the expansion of Badger Park. At first, Badger was just a skating rink with a small parking lot and shack. With help from FOP, the park grew to include basketball hoops, a childfriendly playground for those under five, and other enhancements. “The pavilion is the icing on the cake,” Knight said.

You can find both Cooperstown Friends of the Parks and the Cooperstown Lions Club on Facebook for more details.

For details or questions about the Lions Club corn hole tournament and the related fundraiser effort contact Crouse at 607-3530044 or donleydeirdre@ gmail.com.

It’s been a family affair since 1950.

David Adsit, owner of Church and Scott Pharmacy, retired Wednesday, Oct. 13.

His brother Bill, whom he worked alongside for many years, retired in March.

Their father bought Church and Scott Pharmacy in 1950 from Al Meehan, 71 years ago, when it was at the corner of Main and Pioneer Streets in Cooperstown. It remained there until 1993 when the business moved to State Route 28, in front of Ace Hardware, just outside of the village.

“I’ve enjoyed doing this for the last 41 years.

Cooperstown has meant a lot to me and my family,” David said. “It’s been a great community and the support has been incredible. I’ll forever be indebted to our loyal customers and to our staff. Now I will try to do

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From left, Bill Adsit, David Adsit, retiring Church and Scott owners, with new owner Rob Makofske.

nothing for a while, except, of course, my horseracing.”

Pharmacist Rob Makofske, who has been at Church and Scott since 1993, is buying the store.

“I’m feeling great about this,” he said. “The Adsits worked at this for years.

Between them and Bob Smullens, everything that is here is because of them and they’ve given me the opportunity to move the store

forward. I’m the sole owner for the moment, but I will be bringing a partner on soon.”

Thomas Adsit, David’s son, will still work at the story as a pharmacy technician.

“Thomas and the entire staff are a huge asset,” Makofske said. “We’re a good team and will carry on the tradition of offering Cooperstown an independent pharmacy and sundries store.”

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Village unveils renovated wastewater treatment plant

By GREG KLEIN The Village of Cooperstown held an open house Thursday, Oct. 7, for its almost $9 million Wastewater Treatment Plant upgrades.

The plant, just outside the village in the town of Otsego, had been 20 years past its expiration date 10 years ago when then Mayor Jeff Katz and the Board of Trustees started searching for funds for an upgrade.

Because of tougher standards for water released into the Susquehanna River and the Chesapeake Bay Watershed starting in 2025, the upgrades were urgent legally as well as environmentally.

Environmental Facilities Corporation provided $8.7 million for the upgrade.

EFC COO and Senior Vice President Molly Larkin sent a prepared statement Cooperstown Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh read to the 30 people in attendance Thursday afternoon.

“The upgrades to the original plant, which was built more than 50 years ago, will allow the village to meet the nitrogen and phosphorus effluent limits for the Chesapeake Bay standards scheduled to take effect in 2025,” she said.

Tillapaugh credited Katz with beginning the process of getting the upgrades funded and thanked Delaware Engineering officials ,for engineering the project and helping to secure the Greg Klein/The Freeman’s Journal funding.

“This is a happy occa- From left, Cooperstown Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh, village employee Quinton Hasek, Public Works sion,” Katz said. “I think this Superintendent Mitch Hotaling and Deputy Mayor Cindy Falk celebrate the new Wastewater Treatment Plant in Cooperstown on Thursday, Oct. 7. is amazing.”

Local expert: flooding will happen again without drastic actions

By GREG KLEIN COOPERSTOWN — The type of flooding that ravaged the Butternut Valley in July is going to happen again unless the county takes drastic action to help its towns fix inadequate and dilapidated infrastructure, a local expert told the Otsego County Board of Representatives at its meeting Wednesday, Oct. 6, in the county office building at 197 Main St. in Cooperstown.

Jordan Clements, district manager of the Otsego County Soil and Water District, said the repairs done to fix the July damage to roads and bridges in the towns of Butternuts, Morris and Pittsfield are not enough to prevent a similar flood from doing similar damage in the future.

“It is like putting a Band-aid on a bullet wound,” he said.

The three towns and the Butternuts village of Gilbertsville sustained millions of dollars worth of damage when the Butternut Creek and its subsidiaries flooded Saturday, July 16.

Gov. Kathy Hochul recently gave the region a disaster declaration, opening the possibility of residents and businesses to get low-interest loans from the state. However the damage was not in a large enough region of high enough dollar amount to draw FEMA relief help. That causes a major problem for the towns that suffered in July, Clements said, because they can’t pay for millions of dollars of repairs; the

towns don’t even have annual budgets in the millions, he said.

Clements concluded Otsego County is going to have to invest heavily in infrastructure soon and if it does not decide to do it proactively, it will be forced again to do it reactively.

In other business Wednesday: • Clements said an ag tour Tuesday, Oct. 5, went well, with several Assemblymen and about five state Senators from downstate showing up to see Otsego or Delaware county farms.

• Cassandra Harrington, the executive director from Destination Marketing Corporation, and Josiah Brown, the CEO of New York’s Best Adventures spoke about the shifting focus of tourism. Brown said he liked to stress tourism marketing helps a community and its residents and is for them, and not for tourists. He said the old paradigm of work, live, play has been inverted so now people want to live where they play and the work follows.

• Susquehanna SPCA Executive Director Stacie Haynes spoke during the board’s “privilege of the floor” section to inform the board of recent rescues and how they portend for the county. She said more resources are needed, not just for her organization, but also within the county organizations she deals with. She said several recent rescues have been part of child welfare situations, including one house so overrun by cats, it was unsanitary for the children.

Haynes said there is a cat problem in the county, and therefore at the shelter, with a 500- to 1,000-spot waiting list, based on people asking for cat interventions. In addition to the child-welfare case, she said one man had ceded his house to his cats and had moved into a trailer on the property.

Haynes said the SQSPCA needs help funding rabies prevention and also spay and neutering to help with the cat problem.

• New County Administrator Josh Beams made his first appearance at a county board meeting. Beams started Monday, after a two-plus-year process to define the role and find a candidate.

After the meeting, Beams invited the county representatives to his office for pizza and salad.

• Public Safety and Legal Affairs Chair Dan Wilber, R-Burlington, Edmeston, Exeter, Plainfield, said he would appear at an upcoming Oneonta Common Council meeting to address Oneonta-based concerns about the county’s new EMS plan essentially double charging residents in Oneonta, which has its own professional EMS services. By contract, lack of services countywide has been tragic in some circumstances and harrowing in others. As a result, the representatives approved the purchase of two county ambulances with COVID relief money and the hiring of up to 20 EMS workers to staff backup services for county residents. See Page A12 for more on the EMS story.

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From left, Ean Mitchell, Jordan Clements and Kate Mitchell give a tour of Chicory Creek Farm in Mount Vision on Tuesday, Oct. 5.

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Hail to the Chief

A legendary member of the Otsego Lake community has bid us farewell this week. Ownership of the Chief Uncas, the 55-foot electric launch that has continuously plied these ancient waters for just fewer than 110 years, has been transferred to the Susquehanna National Heritage Area, in Wrightsville, PA, a not-for-profit organization focused on the cultural and natural resources of the Susquehanna River and the communities along its shores.

The Chief Uncas arrived on the lake June 15, 1912, delivered to Adolphus Busch, founder of the Anheuser Busch Company, who had just eight years earlier purchased Uncas Lodge, the large house and farm at Three-Mile Point. And so began the storied history of a remarkable craft and the loving family that cared for her.

The Uncas was built by ELCO, the Electric Launch Company of Bayonne, New Jersey. She was one of the last electric boats produced by the company, which debuted its first diesel yacht in Sept. 1912. Handcrafted of Honduran mahogany to “the highest grade of construction, equipment and finish” with finely detailed interiors of highly polished wood paneling and intricate carvings and cupboards behind panes of stained glass, she was – and is — an exceptionally elegant and graceful beauty.

Adolphus died the following year and the boat passed to his son, August A. Busch, whose love for her was encompassing. It was he who set the high standards of care and respect for the beloved boat that his daughter, Alice Busch Gronewaldt, and her heirs have honored to this day.

The Busch family was not alone in their love of this beautiful boat and most every Cooperstonian who has lived and died in the past century has felt some attachment to her. If one considers that Adolphus, who was born in 1839, may have been among the oldest to know the Chief Uncas at the beginning of her reign, and kids today who are old enough to know her and will live well into the 22nd century, there are potentially three centuries of people who have known and loved her. And many more to come, of course, in her new home.

And for good reason. Countless recollections of the Uncas by locals throughout the many years of her service have endeared her to the generations. She represented glamor and romance — gleaned from well-known images of Alice in repose on the bow as a teenager, brushing her long locks as the boat moved silently across the mirrored waters. She represented a pure and delightful sense of fun — gleaned from an era when the anti-German sentiment surrounding the First World War affected the Busches’ eligibility for membership at the local country club, and August would happily pull the boat up alongside the club dock during its social functions and often entice the entire group of revelers to ditch the party and come aboard to enjoy the very best champagne and caviar. She represented importance and power — gleaned from the time Herbert Hoover was a guest aboard her when the Prohibition-supporting President asked August for an alcoholic drink. Busch was livid at the hypocrisy, ended the cruise, and initiated a long, determined and ultimately successful campaign to end the temperance measure.

While the Chief Uncas will be here no longer, she will continue to rest in the waters of Otsego Lake as they pass beneath her in her new Susquehanna River home. We shall miss her, and we will hold dear the many deep connections we have so cherished over these many years.

Life Sketches

Remembering a Corvette summer, lifestyle Back around 1960, I religiously watched the television show “Route 66.” A fine formula: two guys traveling across the country, meeting all kinds of people, trying to leave things in better shape than they found them before moving on. Martin Milner was the collegiate type; George Maharis was streetwise and a little crusty. Their Corvette, not the most practical car to go cross-country in, was a symbol of freedom and mobility with little room for emotional-type baggage or for that matter Samsonite-type either.

These days, such heroes would travel down the road in a Jeep or a four-wheel-drive pickup. That way they’d be able to take on hitchhikers or lost dogs or whatever any particular episode’s script threw at them.

But not Milner and Maharis. During one show, they found themselves in an Oklahoma oil field. For lack of an alternative, they used their Corvette to power a drilling rig. They removed a rear tire from its rim and then used the mounted rim to drive a belt that was attached to the oilrig. Simple, here was the Corvette, justifying itself, serving mankind as well as an imaginative story line.

Years later, I lived out my own “Route 66” fantasy when I got my ’63 roadster. Friends and relatives criticized the car for being so impractical, which pressured me to prove the car could be as useful as a four-door sedan. One time I drove home from the lumberyard with a couple of bags of cement on the front fenders. Another time I put the top down and loaded three ten-foot Lombardy poplars onto the jack storage cover behind the seats.

Each burlap ball around the trees’ roots weighed over forty pounds.

This evidence notwithstanding, my cousin Charlie said when I got married, “Well, I guess you’ll get rid of the Corvette.”

That was more than five decades ago. One time, when my elderly but high-spirited Aunt Ruta came to Brooklyn from Richfield Springs for one of her week-long visits, I took her for a ride in the roadster.

“It’s a snazzy car,” she said, “but this seat is like sitting in a hole. My aunt liked to read Star magazine and always had her eyes peeled for Burt Reynolds. She had read an article in Star telling how Doris Day managed to look so young.

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Five decades after buying it, columnist Terry Berkson still has his dream car.

“She put Vaseline all over her face before she went to sleep,” my aunt explained.

Aunt Ruta tried the Vaseline treatment for several months. The pores of her skin eventually clogged, leaving unsightly, oily blemishes her old eyes couldn’t see. Alice and I told Aunt Ruta what she was doing to her complexion and urged her to discontinue Doris Day’s magic formula.

“Maybe I’ll switch to Jergen’s lotion,” she replied.

“Let’s give you a facial first,” Alice suggested.

Aunt Ruta’s pride kicked in, “I don’t need ...”

“Would you want Burt Reynolds to see you now?” That won her over.

My aunt sat on a stool as my wife began steaming and scrubbing her face. “We need some sort of suction,” Alice said, discouraged. She was about to give up when I thought of the t-junction on the vacuum advance line feeding the distributor on the Corvette.

It would surely do the job.

“Let’s go out to the garage,” I said with my aunt in tow.

“What for?” she said holding back.

“Is this going to hurt?”

“Trust me,” I said as I seated her in a chair next to my car. I cleaned a long piece of rubber vacuum hose with

alcohol and throttled the Corvette’s engine up to a fast idle. At about 800rpm the manifold produced about 22 inches of vacuum which created a suction that could be regulated.

“Are you crazy?” Alice whispered when she came out to the garage and saw my set-up.

“I know what I’m doing,” I said pressing the hose into her hand.

Alice, in a huff, grabbed it and reluctantly went to work on Aunt Ruta who seemed to shrink in the chair. The contraption worked like a charm.

I took in the scene: Garage doors wide open. My frail aunt leaning far back in the chair as the Corvette’s engine cooked. My wife busily vacuuming Aunt Ruta’s deeply wrinkled face. A dream come true. Just like “Route 66.” My car had become one of life’s essential daily tools. Now, Milner and Maharis weren’t the only guys to have used a Corvette in an oil field.

“What do you think Charlie would say about the Corvette now?” I asked my wife.

Aunt Ruta’s leg kicked as though she were having a tooth pulled.

Then Alice declared, “He’d say you can get just as much suction from a station wagon!”

Correction/Clarification Rescue.me is running an afterschool homework-helper program in Cooperstown. A story on childcare in the Oct. 7, edition of The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta mistakenly reported the afterschool homework program is not running.

The Utica concert mentioned in the story in the Oct. 7, editions about the women in film weekend is a Donna Summer tribute show. Because of an editing error, the word tribute was omitted from the story.

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Local business ownership is a benchmark of prosperity Many people are unaware of a unique feature of commercial regulation in New York State. Our state — alone in the country — requires that licenses for liquor stores, retail outlets selling wine and spirits for consumption off-premises, be limited to one location in the state owned by a single individual.

No one can own more than one liquor store in the state.

The 1934 Alcoholic Beverage Control Law ensures that each of the state’s more than 1,300 liquor stores are independently owned by sole proprietors.

Why does this matter? The effect of this unusual law has been to keep an important sector of retail commerce decentralized by ensuring the wide distribution of store ownership. By limiting ownership to one store per person, the law effectively bars chain stores from selling liquor in the state.

In doing so, it provides opportunities not normally available for local entrepreneurs to succeed as independent business owners.

Local ownership should be a benchmark for prosperity.

The profits from locally-owned businesses are locally retained and reinvested, keeping wealth in the community.

Independent business ownership fosters a class of local leaders with experience and independence of judgment.

The competition and cooperation among independent proprietors in a community is democratic in spirit; local business leaders tend to promote and sustain local civic organizations and cultural life.

There was a time when most businesses were locally owned and operated by independent producers: The family farm, the village shopkeeper, the blacksmith, the tailor, the sawmill, the saloon keeper, the doctor, the furniture maker and so on.

Today, it’s the other way around. Most locally owned, independent businesses have long since been replaced by corporate giants, from big box stores to global internet companies. Our Main Streets have been hollowed out and

our local communities have lost their economic security and resilience.

It was not nature or technology but humanly made laws of incorporation which allowed private businesses to be indirectly managed for passive investors, and operate in multiple locations with few limitations.

These corporations were able to concentrate economic power to become the big businesses which dominate our economy today. As a result, distant investors are able to capture profits and drain wealth that would otherwise remain in local hands. Corporate legalisms — including the fiction of corporate “personhood” — have made possible the corporate colonization of our communities.

The Liquor Laws of 1934 could be written as they were because the repeal of prohibition created a clean slate for the reintroduction of alcohol into society. There were few vested interests to resist decentralization.

A similar situation obtains today with the recent legalization of cannabis in New York State. Here, too, an encouraging step towards decentralization has been taken: One can be either a cannabis grower or retailer, but not both.

The idea of limiting how much of an industry can be owned by one person or corporation is worth taking seriously. If ownership of liquor stores can be limited to one per owner in the interest of a vibrant local economy, what about hardware stores, or grocery stores, or even restaurants?

There are economies of scale and other advantages to bigness, to be sure, and these need to be balanced against any attempt at economic decentralization. But it is also the case that the cheaper goods and services produced by big centralized corporations have seriously undermined the economic health of our communities. Thinking about how we might decentralize the corporate structure for products and services we take for granted might be an important first step in beginning to revitalize our local economy.

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Let Bassett help clean your medicine cabinet Compiled by Tom Heitz/SHARON STUART with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library

135 YEARS AGO

110 Years Ago

August 1886

Alexander R. McKim of Albany, a representative of the Conservation Commission at Albany, which has charge of the inspection of all dams in New York State, was in Otsego County early this week looking over some of the principal dams in this vicinity. Regarding dams in this vicinity Mr. McKim had this to say: “I have inspected all the dams in this vicinity, including that at Colliers, and the Electric Water Power and Milling Company dams in Oneonta. I find all to be in excellent condition and with absolutely no danger of their being affected by high water.

The dam at Colliers is an excellent example of concrete work and in both construction and form is as good as could have been built. The little leaking is not of a nature to cause any anxiety, while the slight flaking off of cement on the outside is due to winter freezing and expansion of concrete.”

October 1911

90 Years Ago

Thomas A. Edison died peacefully before dawn today, October 18, at Hilltop Estate, near West Orange, N.J., where he labored to give light, work and recreation to millions.

When he realized his complete recovery was improbable, the 84-year-old inventor, who lay deep in a coma at the end, did not wish to live. His wife of 45 years and six children remained close in attendance during the last stages of the 11-week sickness had been told by Mr. Edison that his work was finished. He would rather leave the world he said, than burden them with the disabilities of age and illness. Almost instantly the message girdled the globe by telephone and telegraph systems which were a part of the industries valued at $15 billion to which Mr. Edison contributed major inventions. Edison’s family issued a statement to answer the oft-asked question — whether the inventor changed his religious beliefs before death.

The statement read: “He was never an atheist. Though he subscribed to no orthodox creed, no one who knew him could have doubted his belief in a reverence for a supreme intelligence…” Mr. Edison’s body lay in state Monday and Tuesday in the library of his laboratory.

October 1931

70 Years Ago

The Chinese Wall on Chestnut Street represents many things to many people, but there’s no telling what it meant to Laurenz H. “Slim” Walters, 48, a lumberjack who currently lives in West Oneonta. Walters was locked up in the pokey last night to await arraignment in City Court at 9 a.m. today on charges of disorderly conduct. Police said he looked at the wall, then took another look and then jumped off. Unhurt, he remained seated on the lower level and wouldn’t return to the street when asked by the police.

That did it. He was then taken downtown and booked.

October 1951

50 Years Ago

Whoever entered the Center Street School sometime between noon Sunday and early Tuesday morning will be in serious trouble, if caught, school officials say. Robert Hathaway, school board president, and police detective William Wilsey agree that youngsters are responsible for the entry and vandalism that resulted from their intrusion.

The main doors of the cafeteria were defaced with ink. A number of desk drawers were gone through and things were removed from rooms and taken to other rooms. A small amount of cash was also taken. The intruders also helped themselves to cake in the teachers’ lounge. Hathaway said he suspects that the intruders entered the building through an exterior door as there was no evidence of a forced entry.

“The door was probably blocked open with a stone,” he said. Janitors are instructed to make sure stones aren’t keeping doors ajar. Over the past three months the cost of vandalism at city schools has cost well over $600.

October 1971

30 Years Ago

Heaven for Julie Carney is her own movie theater and a tall stack of Fred Astaire films. “I think the way he moves is so graceful and, when he’s with Ginger Rogers, it’s magic,” Miss Carney says. The 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Carney, of 44 Elm Street, was named Oneonta High School’s Student of the Month for October.

The self-styled film buff says old movies are her favorites and musicals rank at the top of her list. Besides Astaire, her favorite performers are Gene Kelley and James Cagney, and her favorite movie is “Holiday Inn” with Astaire and Bing Crosby, which includes the song “White Christmas.”

With an eye for old movies, Miss Carney’s vision of her future changes frequently. “I’m very open-minded about my future because if I settle on something now I’ll worry about all the other things I’m missing,” she says.

October 1981

Bassett Healthcare Network wants to help tidy up your house — or at least your medicine cabinet.

For several years, Bassett has encouraged its patients to bring unneeded, unwanted or expired medications to medication return kiosks at three locations: the outpatient clinic pharmacy in Cooperstown; the FoxCare Pharmacy at FoxCare Center in Oneonta; and the outpatient pharmacy at O’Connor Hospital in Delhi.

Here are some things to keep in mind when using this service: • This service is open to the public — you do not need to be a Bassett patient to participate.

• The program covers over-thecounter, prescription, and veterinary (pet) medications.

• Pills and liquids can be deposited in the kiosk. Inhalers and sprays should be brought to the pharmacy window itself. This program does not accept needles and other sharps.

• Participants should only deposit medications prescribed to themselves, a dependent, or someone who is deceased.

• Medications do not need to be in their original containers.

Bassett is preparing for a significant expansion next spring. But why all the fuss? Why does it matter if your medicine cabinet is cluttered?

Why not just toss medications in the trash? It is estimated that roughly 30% to 40% of prescribed medications are unused and discarded.

That’s not just clutter. It’s a danger to our communities and environment.

Safety and security Medicines are powerful tools for fighting infection, easing symptoms and helping your body recover from illness or injury. Like an electric

power tool, though, drugs can cause harm if not used in the correct way.

Each year U.S. poison control centers receive thousands of calls about injuries due to home medication errors — including cases of hospitalization and death. Children and pets are in the greatest danger since they don’t know better. But adults can confuse bottles as well, so the fewer the better.

Then there is the need to guard against addition. A friend or relative’s medicine cabinet can be an easy source for prescription painkillers for someone in the grip of opioid addiction. Many of us can’t imagine that of themselves or someone they know — but addiction can happen to anyone. It is best to eliminate the possibility.

Effects on the environment Of course, there are other methods of removing unwanted materials from homes. Why not throw leftover medications away? Or flush them down the toilet?

Drugs designed to dissolve and affect your body also break down in nature and affect wildlife. Drugs in the trash eventually seep into the soil and groundwater. Since wastewater treatment plans aren’t designed to remove drugs dissolved in water, medications flushed down the toilet enter nature even faster, endangering aquatic life and community water supplies.

Pioneering a better system Bassett’s drug takeback programs began with concerns about safety and the local environment. Network leaders estimated 4,000 pounds of unused medications are discarded in our local area each year. The network’s goal is to easily and safely handle the disposal of these unused medications.

Bassett’s drug take back program began in 2015 with a medical staff resolution to provide ready access for medication return and safe disposal.

Our resolution was adopted by the Medical Society of the State of New York in 2016.

Dr. Joseph Sellers, physician executive for the Bassett Medical Group, brought the resolution to the American Medical Association in 2016 where it became part of the AMA core strategies to address the opioid epidemic. Bassett and Medical Society representatives were also involved in the New York State Medication Disposal Act signed into law in 2018.

Rollout of the statewide law is still pending.

In the meantime, Bassett’s program has been a success and continues to expand. With its three current kiosk locations, Bassett collected almost 1,500 pounds of drugs for disposal in 2020. Between now and National Drug Take Back Day next April, Bassett will be installing four additional kiosks: at Little Falls Hospital, Cobleskill Regional Hospital, A. O. Fox Hospital and A. O. Fox’s TriTown Campus. The hope is these will encourage the regular disposal of medications with readily available, safe disposal sites. Expect to see that service highlighted during “Take Back Week” in April to encourage everyone to “spring clean” their medicine cabinet.

Dr. Richard Brown is a senior attending physician in the Psychiatry Department at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown.

Michele Taurisano, R.Ph. is network manager of pharmacy operations.

RICHARD STERNBERG, M.D.

A return to normalcy after COVID?

It appears the summer surge of COVID-19 in the United States is abating.

Numbers are going down except in the hardest hit states. The average number of deaths last week was approximately 1,800 per day and the number of daily infections is about 100,000. These seem to be trending down but if they flare up again and represent averages over the long-term we are talking about 675,000 deaths per year. By comparison, in the United States, the flu kills somewhere between 10,000 and 50,000 people a year. If the flu pandemic of 1918 is any guideline, we should expect further surges with the number and severity of the surges dying out eventually.

This does not mean that we are going to get rid of COVID-19. It will be with us to stay since immunity with vaccinations or previous infections is clearly not permanent. There will still be breakthrough infections. Granted we have better treatment options now and possibly we can decrease the fatality rate to somewhere equivalent to that of the flu. COVID-19, in the form of mutations, will become endemic. This means it will persist in the population but with only a small percentage demonstrating symptoms at any one time.

Effectively this is what happened with the 1918 flu.

Its descendants are still with us, but as a group we gained relative immunity by frequent exposures even while under the effect of the annual vaccinations.

Does this mean that we can become cavalier and accept it as part of our background environment and go about our daily business as we always have? Possibly, but there’s still work to be done.

In my opinion, as my regular readers well know, vaccination rates in the general population have to be higher, in the healthcare workers, it has to be almost 100%, and the vaccine has to become available for children. While there have been cases of severe reaction to

the vaccine, this has been so extremely low, that every time this happens to even one person, the story becomes newsworthy and generates a backlash of publicity and anti-vaccination outcry.

The benefit of the vaccine outweighs the risk at least 100-fold.

The number of boosters or third vaccinations is about to surpass the number of first-time vaccinations in the U.S. and in many cases, first-time vaccinations are probably because of mandates and job requirements.

A significant part of the population will probably avoid getting vaccinated, probably 10%.

Unfortunately, this 10% will still be floating around in the community and every time the virus reproduces there’s another chance for a mutation, which is more dangerous than what we currently have. At some point, we may even get a mutation that defies all vaccinations and all treatments we currently have and we may develop.

About 20 scientific groups around the world are working on developing a universal vaccine that will work against all Corona viruses. Hopefully they will be successful, but we still don’t have a universal vaccine for all influenzas. Polio, which has been eradicated in 99% of the world, still exists in very small numbers in Afghanistan and Africa. There has been resistance to vaccinations in some groups in these areas. Therefore, the virus will survive and runs the risk of getting out to the general population, which is no longer getting vaccinated routinely.

With the current downward trend in the number of new cases and deaths, we have a chance to change the nature of COVID in our communities.

It’s a shame that we have so much resistance to doing so. Nevertheless, we could be seeing the end of the beginning.

LETTERS

Writers support Pindar, Leon in Middlefield board positions With around three weeks until the Nov. 2, election, we are writing to encourage Middlefield residents to vote for Peg Leon and Jenn Pindar van Kampen for Middlefield Town Board.

They have pledged to oversee the policies and laws of Middlefield in an open and respectful manner. They seek to protect farms and rural life while encouraging small business growth as it fits the needs and desires of the citizenry. Broadband availability to all is high on their agenda.

Many of us know Jenn Pindar van Kampen as a dedicated teacher at Cooperstown Central School. In addition to heading up the history department, Jenn coaches girls varsity soccer, and for many years she has organized the spring trip abroad for CCS high school students.

She is respected for her leadership, her organizational skills, and her non-divisiveness.

Peg has been an active resident of our community for over 25 years and is completing her first term on the town board, so she has both experience and willingness to work with others towards solutions to town concerns. Over the years, Peg Leon has been elected to the school board, chaired the PTA, and been involved with Friends of the Village Library, the Cooperstown Christmas Committee, and the food pantry.

Perhaps most importantly Peg Leon was a founder of Middlefield Neighbors, which fought to protect water, roads, and rural landscape from fracking.

This effort was overwhelmingly supported by the community and unanimously by the Middlefield Town Board.

Early voting begins October 23. We strongly urge our fellow Middlefield residents across party lines to vote for Peg Leon and Jenn

Pindar van Kampen for Middlefield Town board.

Bill Ralston, Christine Heller, Nancy and Emery Herman, Susan & Frank Miosek, Robert Seward Middlefield Editor’s Note: All election endorsement letters must be submitted

by Monday, Oct. 25, in order to run in The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta before election day.

Letters will be run on a firstsubmitted, first-printed basis and not all endorsement letters can be guaranteed to be printed. Therefore early submission is vital.

Submit letters of no more than 250 words to info@allotsego.com.

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Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Soraya Victory, 425 E 58th St, Apt 31E, NY, NY 10022.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

6LegalNov.18 Legal nOtice NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF RESOLUTION SUBJECT TO PERMISSIVE REFERENDUM NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Trustees of the Village of Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York at a meeting thereof held on the 4th day of October, 2021, duly adopted pursuant to section 6-C of the General Municipal Law, a resolution subject to permissive referendum, the purpose and effect of which is to authorize an appropriation of up to $23,000.00 from a capital reserve fund (Village Sewer Equipment) to be used for the purpose of covering the costs for repairs at the sewer plant.

BY ORDER OF THE VILLAGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF COOPERSTOWN, NEW YORK Jenna L. Utter Village Clerk Village of Cooperstown 22 Main Street Cooperstown, NY 13326 (607) 547-2411 (phone) jutter@cooperstownny.org (email) 1LegalOct.14 Legal nOtice D&A PROPERTY HOLDINGS, LLC Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company Arts. of Org. of D&A Property Holdings, LLC (“LLC”) filed with Dept. of State of NY on September 30, 2021.

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Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 297 Dutch Hill Road, Oneonta, NY 13820, principal business address. LLC does not have a specific date of dissolution.

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Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Trustees of the Village of Cooperstown will hold the following public hearing in the Village Office Building, 22 Main Street, Cooperstown, New York on Monday, October 25, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as can be heard, to discuss the following Proposed Law No. 3 of 2021 - Amend Traffic and Vehicle regulations § 270-12 Parking prohibited in designated locations, section A. to include on-street parking on Fenimore Lane (north, south, east and west sides and north end).

Any resident of the Village of Cooperstown is entitled to be heard upon said local law at such public hearing. Disabled citizens, who require assistance in attending said public hearing, or in furnishing comments or suggestions, should contact the Village Clerk to request assistance. A copy of the proposed law is available for inspection at the Village Clerk’s office, 22 Main Street, Cooperstown, New York during normal business hours Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Dated: October 4, 2021 By order of the Village Board Village of Cooperstown Jenna L. Utter Village Clerk Village of Cooperstown 22 Main Street Cooperstown, NY 13326 (607) 547-2411 (phone) jutter@cooperstownnny.org (email) 2LegalOct.21

Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: AHRENS BUILT LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 24 September 2021.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 659 Cty Hwy 59, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalNov.11 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: COOPERSTOWN COZY YURT LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 24 September 2021.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 418, Cherry Valley, NY 13320.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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LLC was organized in PA on 3/28/2011.

Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC process may be served. SSNY to mail process to 4599 Applebutter Rd., Perkasie, PA 18944,

26 GENESEE ST CV LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 24 September 2021.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 418, Cherry Valley, NY 13320.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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A certified cashier’s check payable to the NYSDOT for the sum specified in the proposal or a bid bond, form CONR 391, representing 5% of the bid total, must accompany each bid. NYSDOT reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

Electronic documents and Amendments are posted to www.dot.ny.gov/ doing-business/opportunities/const-notices. The Contractor is responsible for ensuring that all Amendments are incorporated into its bid. To receive notification of Amendments via e-mail you must submit a request to be placed on the Planholders List at www.dot. ny.gov/doing-business/opportunities/ const-planholder.

Amendments may have been issued prior to your placement on the Planholders list.

NYS Finance Law restricts communication with NYSDOT on procurements and contact can only be made with designated persons. Contact with non-designated persons or other involved Agencies will be considered a serious matter and may result in disqualification. Contact Robert Kitchen (518)457-2124.

Contracts with 0% Goals are generally single operation contracts, where subcontracting is not expected, and may present direct bidding opportunities for Small Business Firms, including, but not limited to D/W/MBEs. The New York State Department of Transportation, in accordance with the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat.

252, 42 U.S.C. 2000d to 2000d-4 and Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, Department of Transportation, Subtitle A, Office the Secretary, Part 21, Nondiscrimination in Federallyassisted programs of the Department of Transportation and Title 23 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 200, Title IV Program and

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Region 09: New York State Department of Transportation 44 Hawley Street, Binghamton, NY, 13901 D264622, PIN 9WW02A, Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego, Schoharie, Sullivan, Tioga Cos., STRUCTURAL WHERE & WHEN, 21-22, Bid Deposit: 5% of Bid (~ $40,000.00), Goals: MBE: 5.00%, WBE: 10.00%, SDVOB: 6.00% D264621, PIN 9WW021, Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego, Schoharie, Sullivan, Tioga Cos., HIGHWAY WHERE & WHEN CONTRACT 2021/22 NYSDOT Region-9, Bid Deposit: 5% of Bid (~ $375,000.00), Goals: MBE: 5.00%, WBE: 10.00%, SDVOB: 6.00% 2LegalOct.14 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a Limited Liability Company (LLC).

The name of the LLC is: Tego Spring Water Company LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) office on: August 17, 2021 The County in which the Office is to be located: Ostego The SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is: 283 County Highway 6, Otego, NY 13825 Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Name: DK ENTERPRISES OF ONEONTA, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with NYS Department of State on September 7, 2021.

Office location: Otsego County.

NYS Department of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to PO Box 75, Oneonta, New York 13820.

Purpose is to engage in any lawful act or activity under the LLC Law of New York.

6LegalOct.28 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Upstate Lubricants, LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on August 28th, 2021.

Office Location: Otsego County.

SSNY Designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of the process to PO BOX 203 Cherry Valley, NY 13320 Purpose: to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalOct.28 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company Name: SCHLATHER & BIRCH PLLC. Certificate of Conversion filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 16 September 2021.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to192 Main St, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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Filed: 9/13/2021 Plaintiff designates Otsego County as the place of trial.

Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated.

Nationstar Mortgage LLC d/b/a Mr. Cooper, Plaintiff, against Joseph R Marsh, Jr., as Heir to the Estate of Joseph Marsh, Cheryl Marsh, as Heir to the Estate of Joseph Marsh and Joseph Marsh’s unknown respective heirs-at-law, nextof-kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors, and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in the real property described in the complaint herein, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, United States of America, Defendants.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your Answer or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the attorneys for the plaintiff within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York; or within sixty (60) days if it is the United States of America. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $70,000.00 and interest, recorded in the office of the clerk of the County of Otsego on April 11, 2011 in Instrument No. 20111669, covering premises known as 198 Brighton Road, Worcester, NY 12197.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt

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secured by the Mortgage described above.

with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 30 August 2021.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 365 Morton Rd, Cherry Valley, NY 13320.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: Bay Shore, New York September 10, 2021 Frenkel, Lambert, Weiss,Weisman & Gordon, LLP BY: Linda P. Manfredi Attorneys for Plaintiff 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, New York 11706 (631) 969-3100 Our File No.: 01-087665-F01 4LegalOct.28 Legal nOtice Notice of Formation of Pure Pixels LLC. Filed with SSNY on 9/8/2021.

Cty: Otsego.

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Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 24 So Main St, Milford, NY 13807.

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Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 324 Armstrong Rd, Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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GREG KLEIN

Is it a successful soccer season? Ask me again in November Years ago, when I began covering high school sports here, I coined a truism about New York State Public High School Athletic Association seasons.

If you are playing in the spring season, you need to be playing in June to have a successful season.

If you are playing in the winter season, you need to be playing in March to have a successful season.

If you are playing in the fall season, you need to be playing in November to have a successful season.

I mention this because I have been trailing around the Cooperstown’s boys soccer team this fall. My son is a reserve on the team and I had a small hand in training these boys — specifically for this season — and perhaps a larger hand as their cheerleader.

I believe it was 2015 when I first starting saying (or typing) #november2021. Class of

2022 would have been in fifth grade then.

Since then, a dedicated group of players, not to mention their parents and coaches, have worked consistenly hard to achieve those goals.

On Monday, as I wrote this, the boys were 12-0, and had a shot at clinching a division title Tuesday at Sauquoit in a game that took place after deadline. There have been a lot of gritty wins, occasionally a close game and an incredible amount of team bonding this season.

So far, it is exactly what I thought and hoped it would be. Of course, it is only mid-October. To get to November soccer, the team will have to avoid an upset and get past a lot of teams that will be gunning for them, based on the regular-season success.

In soccer, that task seems harder than other sports. There are plenty of stories about teams that were great in the regular

season, only to see their hopes dashed mid-October.

Don’t get me wrong. This has been an amazing season to watch and for the players to participate in. At a time when the world, our country and, to be honest, our family, has had a lot of issues to deal with, watching the Cooperstown boys try to live up to their potential, and thus far, succeed greatly, has been special and uplifting.

I know, in following the boys around, I have been neglecting other sports and other teams. I regret it to a point. I miss covering other schools and I hope I still can cover some other schools during playoff time.

Still, as a dad, a coach and a person, I couldn’t and can’t miss this Cooperstown soccer season.

On the other hand, thanks to a collaboration with Nate Lull, WCDO’s sports director, and great work by photographer

Cheryl Clough, our sports coverage is more comprehensive than it was in the spring. So, I hope a) people understand my prediciment this fall and b) they have still enjoyed our coverage.

Cooperstown entered this week needing to play four games in five days to finish the regular season. By this time next week, the playoffs will be underway and, for some, already over. I hope our boys have heard the stories and remember some of the disappointments of the past, so they can set a different path for themselves.

It has been a great season, already, with a rare win over South Kortright for a Chic Walshe title, 12 wins and counting and a lot of exciting games.

However, would I call the season a success?

Not yet, because it is incomplete.

Ask me again in November.

Off and running

Jesse Klee

Cooperstown runners right, are among the teams starting to race Wednesday, Oct. 6, in a cross country meet at the tower course in Middlefield.

Sports Roundup: Schenevus girls, Franklin/Unatego boys clinch TVL regular-season titles STAFF REPORT The Tri-Valley League playoffs began this week, but the regular season ended with perfect league marks in soccer for the Schenevus girls and Franklin/Unatego boys.

In Schenevus, Friday, Oct. 8, the host Dragons got four goals and an assist from Taylor Knapp and three goals and two assists from Angie Competiello to win a TVL match over Laurens, 10-1, and finish the league season undefeated.

Lily Competiello had two goals and an assist and Shawna Whiteman had three assists for Schenevus (14-0, 10-0).

In Sharon Springs, Thursday, Oct. 7, Matthew Serrao scored twice and Braedon Johnson and Brandon Gregory had a goal and an assist each as Franklin/Unatego finished TVL play undefeated with a shutout of the host Spartans, 5-0.

Austin Wilde also scored for Franklin/Unatego (11-1-1, 8-0), which got an assist from Jacob Kingsbury.

BOYS SOCCER Monday, Oct. 11 CV-S 2, Worcester 1 In Worcester, Max Horvath scored a goal and had an assist as the visiting Patriots won a TVL match over host Worcester.

Will Heinrich scored the other goal for Cherry Valley-Springfield (6-2, 6-3).

Connor Fancher scored on an assist from Ben Ballard for Worcester (7-5-1, 3-5).

Saturday, Oct. 9 Schenevus 3, G-MU 2 In Gilbertsville, the visiting Dragons scored late to top host Unadilla Valley/GilbertsvilleMount Upton in boys soccer, 3-2, Saturday, Oct. 9, in a non-league

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Cooperstown junior Ben Agostino tries to keep the ball away from a Hamilton defender during Cooperstown’s 3-1 home win Friday, Oct 8.

game.

Trevor Schneider scored a goal and had an assist for Schenevus (85, 5-3), which also got goals from Cody Feil and Cody Keator.

Friday, Oct. 8 Cooperstown 3, Hamilton 1 Colby Diamond, Ollie Wasson and Aidan Spencer scored for host Cooperstown, which improved to 12-0 Friday, Oct. 8, with a 3-1 win over Hamilton in a Center State Conference Division III match.

Diamond got the Hawkeyes on

the board quickly, taking advantage of a loose ball in the box less than 10 minutes into the game.

Wasson scored on a penalty kick with less than seven left in the half for a 2-0 lead.

However, Jake Wright took advantage of a missed mark in the box to get one back for the Knights two minutes later.

Spencer got the only goal of the second half, scoring from the 18 after a flurry of Cooperstown chances to make it 3-1.

“Hamilton always plays us tough,” Assistant Coach Lucas Spencer said, filling in for Coach Frank Miosek, who had a family obligation this weekend. “It is something about the names on the jerseys that always make this a tough game.”

Cooperstown (12-0, 8-0), outshot Hamilton (7-5-2, 4-5-2), 12-3, but the Knights had a 3-2 advantage in corner kicks. Finn Holohan had two saves for the Hawkeyes and John Hughes had four saves for

Hamilton.

Schenevus 4, Morris 0 In Morris, Trevor Schneider scored twice and had an assist as the visiting Dragons won in the Tri-Valley League.

Wyndham Spooner had a goal and an assist for Schenevus, which also got a goal from Jordan Regg and an assist from Jackson Reed.

Jonathan Child made 17 saves for Morris (3-8, 1-7).

Thursday, Oct. 7 Windsor 5, Oneonta 4 In Windsor, Drew Buckler scored twice to help the Black Knights upset the visiting Yellowjackets.

Finlay Oliver scored a hat trick for Oneonta (7-5, 7-3), which also got a goal from Matthew Rubin.

Milford/Laurens 4, Worcester 1 In Worcester, Riley Stevens had three goals and an assist to help Milford/Laurens to a TVL road win.

Brock Mann also scored for Milford/Laurens (10-4, 7-1), which also got assists from Justin LaPilusa and Adam Peddie.

Connor Fancher scored for Worcester.

Wednesday, Oct. 6 Cooperstown 3, Poland 2 Ollie Wasson scored the gamewinner as Cooperstown completed a comeback from a 2-0 deficit to beat Poland, 3-2, in a Center State Conference Division III match Wednesday, Oct. 6.

The Hawkeyes were stymied early by a packed Poland defense and fell behind for only the third time this season when Austin Huckabone scored on a pass from Jason Victor with 17:28 left in the first half.

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Roundup: Bulldogs give Unatego girls first loss of soccer season Roundup/from Page A7 when Victor’s shot was batted down but not controlled by keeper Finn Holohan and Carter Cookinham finished with 13:12 left in the half.

“I thought we got away from our game for that little stretch,” Cooperstown Coach Frank Miosek said.

However, after a corner kick by Aidan Spencer, the ball bounced around the box and senior Gavin Lesko collected it and finished to get Cooperstown to 2-1 with 8:26 left in the half.

“That was a big goal by Gavin Lesko coming off the bench,” Miosek said.

About 11:30 into the second half, the Hawkeyes tied it again in the aftermath of a corner kick. The Tornadoes nearly clearly the ball on a Luca Gardner-Olesen corner, only to see it bounce to Aidan Spencer who tied the game on a shot from the 18.

Wasson scored the game winner about 5:15 later when a defender misplayed a ball and he took it away and finished.

“We played our hearts out today,” Miosek said.

The Hawkeyes held on during a wild finish that saw both teams lose players to red cards and finish the final 20 minutes 10 on 10.

“We packed out defense in,” Miosek said. “I think we really did some good things those last 18 or so minutes.”

The Hawkeyes outshot Poland (4-7, 1-6), 23-7 and had a 4-2 advantage in corner kicks.

Milford/Laurens 5, Sharon 0 The Milford /Laurens boys soccer team recorded a 5-0 TriValley League win over visiting Sharon Springs on senior night Wednesday, Oct. 6.

M/L honored eight seniors at halftime: Brock Mann, Tony Provost, Adam Peddie, Riley Stevens, Martin Thorsland, Sawyer Eckberg, Zach Brown and Thomas Konnick.

The Wildcats wasted little time scoring on a short handed Sharon Springs team as Cyller Cimko

scored the first goal a little over three minutes into the match. Four minutes later, M/L got on the board again as Brock Mann headed in a ball from Martin Thorsland. With 18 minutes left in the half, Adam Peddie got the third M/L goal as he got free in front of the Spartans net.

Another goal by Mann and one by junior Donta Sherwood off a cross

by Carter Stevens in the second half finished off the scoring for M/L. Sawyer Eckberg was also credited with an assist.

Freshman goalie Chase Long got the shutout for Milford/Laurens.

GIRLS SOCCER Monday, Oct. 11 CV-S 5, Worcester 1 In Cherry Valley, Ari Bosc scored three goals and had two assists as the Patriots won a home TVL match.

Joleen Lusk scored and assisted on two of Bosc’s goals. Kailey Barnes scored the other goal for Cherry Valley-Springfield (5-6, 5-5).

Izzy Odell scored for Worcester (4-8-1, 3-7).

Saturday, Oct. 9 Little Falls 5, Cooperstown 0 In Schoharie, Olivia Lindsay had a hat trick to lead the Mounties to a win over Cooperstown in the consolation game of the Schoharie Tournament.

Schoharie 4, Unatego 2 In Schoharie, Bailey McCoy and Lilyanna Barnes scored but the Spartans lost to the host school in the finals of the Schoharie Tournament.

Avery James had one assist for Unatego (12-2, 9-1).

Friday, Oct. 8 Franklin 7, Worcester 0 In Worcester, Kayla Campbell had four goals and an assist as Franklin closed its TVL scheduled with a win.

Shannon Kingsbury had one goal and one assist and Zoe Warren and Andrea Alvarez scored the other goals for Franklin (11-1-2, 8-1-1).

CV-S 4, Morris 0 In Cherry Valley, Ari Bosc scored

twice to lead the host Patriots a TVL win.

Morgan Huff and Kailey Barnes also scored for Cherry ValleySpringfield (4-6, 4-5), which got assists from Joleen Lusk and Brin Whiteman.

Thursday, Oct. 7 Delhi 2, Unatego 0 In Delhi, the host Bulldogs gave Unatego its first loss of the season in Midstate Athletic Conference play.

Eleanor Wagner and Georgiana Verspoor scored for Delaware Academy, on assists from Libby Lamport and Natalie Vredenburg.

Delaware Academy (8-4-1, 5-21) outshot the Spartans, 12-9, and keeper Sylvia Liddle stopped a penalty kick by Unatego (12-1, 91), to help preserve the win.

Oneonta 6, Windsor 0 In Oneonta, Julia Joyner scored a hat trick to lead the YellowJackets to a home win in the Southern Tier Athletic Conference.

Veronika Madej scored twice and had an assist for Oneonta (94, 8-2), which got a rare goal from keeper Liz Brantley during a stint out of goal for her, and also got assists from Josie Scanlon, Emily Zeh and Emma Bitterman.

Milford 2, Worcester 0 In Worcester, Kara Mertz and Grace Cohn scored on assists from Julia Barown and Taylor Beckley as Milford (10-2-2, 7-1-2) won a TVL match on the road.

Franklin 8, Sharon Springs 0 In Franklin, Kayla Campbell scored three goals and Shannon Kingsbury had two goals and two assists as the host Purple Devils won in the TVL. Valentina Temple had a goal and an assist for Franklin (10-1-2, 7-11), which also got goals from Patty Rodriguez-Matias and Meredith Shivers.

G-MU 3, RS 2, OT In Richfield, Madeline Pain scored a goal and had an assist as the visiting Raiders won in a TVL match.

Hannah Bonczkowski and Kyra Demmon scored for GilbertsvilleMount Upton (1-8-2, 1-8-1).

Camryn Marshall and Maggie Worobey scored for Richfield (1-12, 0-10), with Marshall also assisting on Worobey’s goal.

Laurens 2, Edmeston 1 In Laurens, Jaidon Brodie and Gabriela Andrades scored for the host Leopards in a TVL win.

Andrades scored the game winner on a penalty kick for Laurens (8-5, 6-3).

Molly Rifanburg scored for Edmeston (6-8, 4-6).

SV 2, Cooperstown 0 In Sauquoit, host Sauquoit Valley (13-0, 7-0) stayed undefeated thanks to goals from Alena Weibel and Olivia Kalil. * Sam Vezza had 12 saves for Cooperstown (2-12, 1-5).

CROSS COUNTY CCS hosts home meet In Middlefield, on the Tower Course, the Hawkeye runners hosted Clinton, Canastota and Herkimer for a meet, with Clinton runners finishing first for both sides and Cooperstown posting team-best third-place finishes from Lincoln DiLorenzo and Margaret Raffo.

John Musante won the boys race in 20:54, but DiLorenzo finished in 22:16 and Jonah Hitchcock placed fourth in 22:21.

Kate Stockwell won the girls race in 22:50, but Raffo finished in 24:57 and Cate Bohler finished fourth in 25:32.

Oneonta places second in Rome Oneonta took second place in the Coughlin Cross Country Invitational meet in Rome, with junior Nick Kahl finishing fifteenth for the Jacket boys.

Overall, five of the Oneonta boys runners finished in the top 20, including the three top teen winners of the 2021 Pit Run 5K a week earlier.

The Jacket girls did not have a complete team score, but Jordan Forbes placed 16th in the girls race.

FOOTBALL Saturday, Oct. 9 SV 56, Cooperstown 16

In Sauquoit, the visiting Hawkeyes dropped a game in the South-East division of eight-player football.

Friday, Oct. 8 Norwich 12, Oneonta 0 In Oneonta, the visiting Tornadoes were able to grind out a Division IV win behind 110 yards rushing and a touchdown from Mallachi Gaters and 105 yards rushing and a touchdown from Torin Lawrence.

Kaden Halstead threw for 43 and rushed for 55 yards for Oneonta (23, 0-2).

Unatego/Franklin 38, Notre Dame 6 In Otego, Logan Utter ran for three touchdowns to lead the Spartans to a non-conference win at home.

Shea Barber had 58 yards rushing and a touchdown, Reese James had a touchdown run, Jakob Sargent rushed for 90 yards and Jarrett Thayer had a pick six for Unatego/ Franklin (2-0, 1-0).

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Thursday, Oct. 7 Oneonta 3, CF 1 In Binghamton, Emily Lobb had 16 kills and 11 digs to lead visiting Oneonta to a 22-25, 25-18, 25-8, 25-22 win over Chenango Forks.

Abbie Platt had 16 assists and seven aces, Made Denning had 16 assists and Haley Utter had 15 digs and 12 kills for Oneonta (5-3).

Walton 3, Unatego 1 In Walton, the host Warriors got 16 kills and 11 aces from Kellie Dones to beat Unatego, 25-18, 2514, 23-25, 25-15.

Ava Hilton had four aces and two assists to lead Unatego (1-9).

GOLF Wednesday, Oct. 6 Norwich 233, Oneonta 239 At Oneonta Country Club, Julien Smith had medalist honors for Norwich, which edged Oneonta in a Southern Tier Athletic Conference match.

Aidan Gelbsman had a 45 to lead Oneonta (5-6).

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John J. Pohli, 75

June 26, 1946 – October 7, 2021 OTEGO – John J. Pohli, a lifelong area resident, passed away Thursday afternoon, October 7, 2021, at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown. He was 75.

Born June 26, 1946, at the A.O. Fox Memorial Hospital in Oneonta, John was a son of John J. and Margaret (Sorocco) Pohli. After graduating from high school, he attended Mohawk Valley Community College where he earned an associate’s degree in electrical technology. For 30 years he was

employed with NYSEG, and the area. Most of all, he retired as an elecloved his family, trical supervisor in his country and his 1990. home.

On September 2, John is survived 1966, John married by his wife of 55 Lillian J. Pearce years, Lillian, of in Oneonta. They Otego; their two enjoyed living in sons, Michael Pohli their log cabin in and Aaron Pohli and the countryside of wife, Linda, all of Otego.

John J. Pohli Sidney; and three At one time, grandchildren whom John, who was known to his he adored, Marley, Killian friends as Jake, was an avid and Liam. He is further hockey player and enjoyed survived by their beloved playing in games throughout dog, Gus.

He was predeceased by his parents.

With respect for John’s wishes, there will be no services. Instead, remember your times spent with John, smile, and know that he is at peace.

Arrangements are with the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home in Cooperstown.

Harry G. Brannigan, 73 August 3, 1948 – October 7, 2021

MILFORD – Harry George Brannigan, age 73, passed away early Thursday morning, October 7, 2021, at his son’s home in Mount Vision following a valiant battle with cancer.

He was born August 3, 1948, in College Point, Queens, a son of the late Harry and Margaret Brannigan.

A veteran of the Vietnam War, Harry enlisted with the United States Army on January 8, 1968, and served

in Vietnam with Company B, 9th Engineer Battalion. On January 2, 1971, he received his Honorable Discharge

metal worker and machinist for the Stella Corporation in Plainview.

In 1988, Harry and Carol

Harry G. Brannigan

from the military and returned home to Queens.

He met Carol Ann Spunt of Long Island while on a blind date arranged by mutual friends. The two hit it off, and were married May 5, 1973, in her hometown of Huntington on Long Island.

For many years, Harry was employed as a sheet

Ann moved upstate to the Town of Milford and Harry became an organic farmer. He truly enjoyed growing vegetables, and sold them for a time at his farm stand, Mountain Top Farm, in Emmons. In his leisure, he enjoyed watching movies, especially National Lampoon’s Vacation and,

no matter the time of year, Christmas Vacation.

Harry will be greatly missed by his son, Harry Michael Brannigan and his companion, Julie Smith, of Mt. Vision; one granddaughter, Shannon Brannigan and her fiancé, Edwin Rivera, of Johnstown; a great granddaughter, Ariyunah Jade Rivera; a brother, Patrick Brannigan of Cape Coral, Florida; a sister, Sharon Brannigan of College Point, Queens; and several nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his wife of 43 years, Carol Ann Brannigan, who died April 3, 2016; his father, Harry Brannigan, who died April 22, 1987; his mother, Margaret E. Brannigan who died April 28, 2021; and a brother, Fred Brannigan.

Harry will be laid to rest with Military Honors in the Gerald B.H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery in Schuylerville.

Arrangements are under the care and guidance of the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home.

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M-W-P to open new show Saturday about fashion creations made of paper STAFF REPORT Full-scale masterpieces, representing more than 500 years of fashion, history and artifice, expressed in paper by celebrated contemporary Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave, will be showcased in “Fashioning Art from Paper,” opening Saturday, Oct. 17, in the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica.

Through her manipulation of paper and paint, de Borchgrave fashions meticulously detailed reinterpretations of historic garments found in early European paintings and collections from around the world. Her work includes representations of the Renaissance finery of the Medici family, gowns worn by Queen Elizabeth I and creations of the grand courtiers of the 19th and 20th centuries.

De Borchgrave is a painter by training and uses paper and hand painting to reimagine historic fashions. Her collections have been shown internationally.

Munson-Williams is the only northeast American venue for this extended tour.

“Isabelle’s works have amazed audiences all over the world and we are honored and excited to be able to present these extraordinary works of art for our community,” said M-W-P President and CEO Anna D’Ambrosio.

The multimedia exhibit of nearly 100 hand-crafted paper artworks will relive elements of history, including the Italian Renaissance in Florence, the magic of the Ballets Russes (Russian Ballet) in Paris, and the flapper style of the 1920s Jazz Age. The exhibition is international in

scope and includes de Borchgrave’s works that draw inspiration from designs by Léon Bakst (Russian, 1866-1924), Giorgio de Chirico (Italian, 1888-1978) and Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973), as well as her Kaftans series, inspired by the Silk Road textiles of Central Asia.

The exhibit is a perfect combination of fashion, history, contemporary art, and dazzling technique.

“Isabelle de Borchgrave: Fashioning Art from Paper” is on view through Jan. 9.

This exhibition has been organized by Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, in cooperation with Isabelle de Borchgrave Studio.

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From left, ‘Le Cheval de Mer’ (Seahorse) 2010, ‘Maria-Maddalena d’ Austria’ 2007, and ‘Paysanne’ 2009, creations by Isabelle de Borchgrave are some of the works on display starting Saturday, Oct. 16, in a new exhibit on fashion made from paper at Utica’s Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute.

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Getting the grand tour

T he D O G C H A R M E R

Cooperstown Central School graduate Jacob Russell, right, gave a tour of the University of Georgia athletic facilities Thursday, Sept. 30, to a group of alumni, including Cooperstown’s Dave Burch, third from left, who is a UGA graduate.

What do you do about a biting, jumping dog?

Hi, Mr. Shelby: We have a soon to be four-month-old black female lab puppy who is very persistent with her jumping and biting.

Do you have some suggestions for us?

Marcia Dear Marcia, To me, the unofficial maturation of a dog goes from puppy to punk, to young adult, to adult to senior. Molly sounds like she went right into “punkdom.” I’m not a fan of all-rewards training, but rather adhere to the international system of LIMA (least intrusive, minimally aversive) especially when it comes to persistent jumping coupled with biting. I haven’t used the word “No” for many years, because by the time I get there, half the dogs think their name is “No!” I’ve met a zillion obnoxious four-month-old jumping, mouthing puppies in my career, and with the dog dragging a light leash I’ve probably gotten 90 percent of them to stop the unwanted behavior within three minutes. As the puppy’s front paws leave the floor I snap the leash to the side with a frown on my face while saying “uh un.” The split second four feet are on the floor I’m smiling, saying, “good dog.” The right timing of the correction and praise is critical. What really helps make the dog a fast learner is first teaching the pup to come with an automatic sit. When the dog arrives, my hand (with a small treat) rises up past his nose to my chest as I say “sit.” After a couple of those I don’t have to say “sit,” the hand signal alone will suffice.

As for the persistent jumping to bite, the aversive I’ve found to be quite effective is a spray bottle with a strong stream of water right in the face with an “uh un” as the front paws leave the floor. If a puppy is strong willed enough to persist through that it’s time for a time out. The leash is immediately picked up and clipped to a spot where she can’t reach anyone and is separated from the action for 10 or 15 minutes. Being social animals, most puppies will hate the separation and put it together, jumping to bite = separation. Having met Molly’s incredible persistence, I suggest that when she gets really obnoxious, she can’t have you to harass and abuse, she’s cut off for a period of time.

The good news is a dog with that type of perseverance, when channeled properly, can be a fantastic dog, for search and rescue or duck hunting or in general.

Persevere in the training now and it will make it well worth it for the rest of her life.

Dog Charmer Tom Cooperstown author Tom Shelby will answer pet owner questions on dog training.

Email your questions to dogsrshelby@msn.com.

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Russell coaches tight ends for the Bulldogs, who are ranked No. 1, in the NCAA Division I football polls this week.

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A-12 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA

Chief Uncas moves to new home

By KEVIN LIMITI

Cooperstown’s most famous boat, Chief Uncas, is moving to a new home.

The 55-foot-long boat, which is 109 years old and has been ridden by President Herbert Hoover, among other dignitaries, is set to be moved to Lake Clarke, Pennsylvania, so it can give boat tours on the Susquehanna River by the Susquehanna National Heritage Area.

Mark Platts, president of the Susquehanna National Heritage Area, said he has gotten “very intimate” with the boat, which has become a staple for Otsego Lake.

“We’ve come to appreciate how much people in Cooperstown really care about this boat,” Platts said, who mentioned he traveled up to Cooperstown seven Kevin Limiti/The Freeman’s Journal times. “I think people’s reaction to this boat is just visceral, emotional.”

Paul Nevin, director for the Zimmerman Center for Heritage, works The size and weight of the boat, on the Chief Uncas on Tuesday, Oct. 12, to prepare her to move which is 12 tons or 24,000 pounds, from Otsego Lake to Lake Clarke in Pennsylvania. presents a logistical challenge for transThe knowledge of how old the boat Although it was converted to a gasporting the boat to its new home. It is going to be dragged out by an excavator is, the types of parties they may have powered engine between the 1940s and initially before being craned onto a flat had on it starting in the early 20th 1950s, it went back to being electric truck. After that, it will take two days to century and moving through the roaring powered in 2012, on the 100th anniver20s, produces wonder that can’t be sary of the boat’s existence. transport it to Pennsylvania.

The boat was named after a histor“It’s definitely different than a replicated with a more modern boat.

Chief Uncas does and did not run on ical figure, Uncas, who inspired the pontoon for sure,” said Paul Nevin, gas, which made it one of the first of character of the same name in James director for Zimmerman Center for Heritage, who was working on its kind and the first on Otsego Lake. Fenimore Cooper’s novel “The Last of Instead it is propelled by electricity. the Mohicans.” the boat.

Beams: Oneonta won’t be double charged for EMS

By KEVIN LIMITI ONEONTA — Joshua Beams, the new Otsego County administrator, met with Rep. Jill Basile, DOneonta, Friday, Oct. 8, to reassure her constituents “there will be no fiscal impact for Oneonta” with new EMS plans for the county.

Beams stressed Oneonta, which has its own community-funded EMS, will not be double charged for the county’s supplemental ambulance service, which is direly needed in rural areas of Otsego.

According to Beams, the EMS service would be an “opt-in only program.”

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The county will still service Oneonta through mutual aid, but city and/or town residents won’t be taxed for the service if they chose to opt out.

“There will be no fiscal impact for Oneonta,” Beams said. “We’re going to come at this with a holistic approach where if you need it, we’ll provide it.”

Basile said the opt-in policy was the main point, but also said the EMS vote was taken “without a lot of foresight and that makes me nervous.

“Nobody had information on how that was going to effect my constituents,” Basile said.

The EMS service needs to fill 20 positions, which were approved at the September County Board of Representatives meeting.

The county also approved the purchase of two ambulances, with COVID relief money.

If a municipality chooses to opt-in to the service, cost will be based upon population, assessed value and calls per year (which won’t be determined until after the first year). People who need emergency service will also be charged a service fee.

Beams said he hoped to quash fears Oneonta would be charged for a service it didn’t use, an issue which

came up prominently in last Tuesday’s Common Council meeting. “I think it is important to get the word out,” Beams said. “I think it is pretty clear that this answers a lot of questions.”

Beams and Basile both acknowledged that a county wide ambulance service was necessary.

“It shouldn’t take 20 minutes for an ambulance to reach a kid dying from a ATV accident,” Basile said, referring to an incident in late August where a sevenyear old passed away after waiting for an ambulance to arrive in Decatur.

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