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Foiled Heist Turns Shopper Into Hero Bystander Subdues, Sits On Suspect
Colbie SangettiDaniels returns to the scene of his heroic act: Foiling a robbery at Smokers Choice.
Assemblyman Bill Magee, D-121st, foreground, and his Republican challenger, Brookfield Town Supervisor John Salka, met Monday, Oct. 20, at SUNY Oneonta’s Morris Hall for a debate sponsored by the League of Women Voters. Details, WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
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olbie Sangetti-Daniels wasn’t planning to be a hero the night Smokers Choice was robbed. In fact, he wasn’t planning on being there at all. “I had texted my friend,
asking him to pick up some cigarette making supplies so that I wouldn’t have to go over after work,” said Colbie. “When I asked if he had, he said he didn’t.” Colbie, the assistant manager at the Shoe Dept at Southside Mall, had just closed the store at 9:30 Please See HERO, A7
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he author of the graphic novel, “Persepolis,” SUNY Oneonta’s “common read” this year, will deliver the Mills Distinguished Lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, in the Alumni Field House. The lecture is free and open to the public. The novel, by Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-born author, illustrator and filmmaker, chronicles her children during the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War.
CITIZENS MEET: Residents in Oneonta Wards 7 and 8 are invited to meet with their Common Council members, Chip Holmes (Ward 8) and Bob Brozozowski (Ward 7), and their Otsego County representative, Kay Stuligross at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, in Council Chambers at City Hall. Police Chief, Dennis Naylor will be present, and perhaps City Manager Martin Murphy as well.
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hen you help a child return to his or her family from foster care, that kind of success is so special,” says Eve Bouboulis, Cherry Valley, the new commissioner of the Otsego County Department of Social Services. For a profile, visit WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
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ALUMNI DUE: Hundreds of SUNY Oneonta alumni and fans will be on campus Friday-Sunday, Oct. 24-26 for Homecoming & Family Weekend for events ranging from touring renovated Fitzelle Hall to a 2.6-mile run/walk. Details, WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
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tsego County government has been spending $5 million a year on Otsego Manor, its nursing home. Now it’s been sold. So that must mean it now has $5 million for something Dan Crowell else. Wait a minute, said county Treasurer Dan Crowell in an interview this week. First, $1.2 million was spent on “impact payments” – a “flat bonus,” $1,000 Please See CROWELL, B8 Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
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he walking dead gathering in the Ford Av-
enue parking for the annual Zombie Walk Saturday, Oct. 18, are Sarah Maney, Port Crane; Tyler Bassett, Oneonta; Billy Combes, Norwich; Harry Combes, Oneonta; Terrah Smith, Oneonta; Brendon Heck, Oneonta; Luna Vega, Oneonta; Chriss Stott, Oneonta, and Aimee Decker, Oneonta. Not even little Serenity Combes, right, Oneonta, was spared from the curse of the undead, but luckily, she could snack on severed body parts during the long shamble down Main Street.
Experts To Study Fire Department’s Needs By LIBBY CUDMORE When Martin Murphy assumed the City Manager position on Oct. 1, he already had plans to ask for a comprehensive analysis of Oneonta’s fire, police
and EMS resources. “We want to create a management framework to increase efficiency and performance,” he said. “We need to evaluate where our departments are and where we want to be.” At the Common Council’s last meeting on TuesPlease See EXPERTS, A6
Bassett Adopts Proactive Steps In Ebola Scare By LIBBY CUDMORE
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ith fears about the Ebola virus raging nightly across the national news, Bassett Healthcare has formed a task force to prepare for a worst-case scenario if a stricken patient were ever to appear at Bassett or Fox hospitals, or any of the other facilities in its eight-county region. “It’s on the top of everyone’s mind,” said Karen Huxtable-Hooker, Bassett public relations director. “It’s all a lot of people are talking about.” Please See EBOLA, A7
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GOHS To Honor Chip Klugo For Bresee’s Redevelopment
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harles (Chip) Klugo, redeveloper of the former Bresee’s department store, will receive the Greater Oneonta Historical Society’s 13th annual Albert E. Morris History Award during a 2-4 p.m. reception Sunday, Oct. 26, at the History Center, 183 Main St. “Until Chip Klugo of Corning became the developer of the property, the end result was in question,” GOHS Executive Director Bob Brzozowski said of the Bresee project and associated renovation of 1 Dietz St.
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Lutz Family, Fox Honored At Chamber’s Celebration Of Small Business
“Klugo and his team have been sensitive to the building’s history, restoring its Main Street façade, retaining several interior features, and Klugo highlighting the building’s history with interior displays. All are invited to the free reception in Klugo’s honor. Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact info@OneontaHistory. org or 432-0960.
Brooks Cooks New Record With 3,036 Chicken Dinners
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hese days, Brooks’ House of BBQ really has something to squawk about. On Tuesday Oct. 14, Brooks prepared a record 3,036 chicken dinners for the Bassett Healthcare Employee Appreciation Day. “We’ve catered events for over 1,000 people, but never even close to 3,000,” said Wendy Hunter.
The famous char-pit was fired up at 5 a.m., and a second pit had to be set up in the employee parking lot to accommodate the orders. Dinners included a halfchicken, baked potato with sour cream and cole slaw. The dinners took two and a half hours to prepare, using 150 gallons of their famous sauce and 800 lbs of cabbage.
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Richard Lutz, who founded Lutz Feed in 1958 in Roxbury, is surrounded by two subsequent generations who have helped the company grow and prepare it for the future. At right are son Steve Lutz, his wife Nancy, and son Blake and his fiance, Nicole Norwick. At left are son Bob, his wife Stephanie, son Nick and his wife Donna, and daughter Sarah Lutz. Lutz Feed was honored as Otsego County Chamber/Key Bank Small Business of the Year Thursday, Oct. 16, at the annual Small Business Banquet at The Otesaga.
Otsego County Chamber President/CEO Barbara Ann Heegan is flanked by the evening’s honorees, John Remillard, Fox president/CEO, who received the Excellus/Blue Cross Blue Shield Breakthrough Award, and Lutz Feed’s Blake Lutz. Others are, from left, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, who read proclamations from the state Legislature, chamber board Chair Scott Davis, and Jim Empie, Kay Bank Cooperstown manager.
DePauw Plays In National Band
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avid DePauw, tuba player, will be participating in the in the All-National Honors Concert Band next week in Nashville, Tenn. The performance is a part of the 2014 National Music Education Conference sponsored by the National Association of Music Educators (NAfME), parent organization of NYSSMA (New York State School Music Association.) David is the son of Mike and Lori DePauw. His father is band director at Oneonta High School.
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Oneonta, Cooperstown Daughters Give Honor To ‘Real Daughter’ Of Revolutionary War Vet By LIBBY CUDMORE CHERRY VALLEY
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nna Morse’s grave in the Cherry Valley cemetery is weathered and faded, but her legacy is not forgotten. Despite the rain Saturday, Oct. 18, Oneonta and Cooperstown’s Daughters of the American Revolution turned out to mark Morse’s grave with a DAR. “Real Daughter” placard. The ceremony included a “Call to Colors” by the American Legion post, a laying of flowers, a benediction and “Taps.” “Mrs. Morse was a hearty woman, and 134 years later, we honor her contribution to her family and her country,” said Lt. Col. Roberta Comerford, DAR District VI director. A Real Daughter is one whose father fought or supported the Revolutionary War. Morse’s father, Jerome Clark, was 20 when the Revolution broke out. He fought at Bunker Hill and helped pull down the statue of King George III in New York City’s Bowling Green. When the war was over, he left Connecticut for Otsego County. He married Nancy Ripley Waldo, who gave birth to Anna. Anna was 77 when she joined the newly formed DAR in 1890, even traveling to the 1897 convention in D.C., just one year before she died. “And we think we have it rough on the Pom Pom bus!” said DAR Historian Helen Rees, Oneonta, who related Morse’s biography at the gravesite. Jeanne Westcott, of the
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EDITORIAL ENDORSEMENTS
Reelect Governor Cuomo In 2nd Term, Please Take Us Beyond Fracking Debate
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he 52 miles from Albany to Cherry Valley are part of what was the first leg of four Great Western Turnpikes that, beginning in 1799, “dominated much of east-west transport” for 50 years, Cooperstown Village Historian Hugh MacDougall chronicles in the “History of Lake Otsego Roads,” just completed for Otsego 2000. Drive to Albany these days, and you’ll count dozens of abandoned houses – their owners simply walked away – along that once thriving stretch. It’s Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA a symbol for much of Governor Cuomo at the Baseball Hall of Fame Upstate, almost everywhere when President Obama visited there last spring. in decline. That’s in the process is the Mohawk Valley one a second term Tuesday, Nov. of being turned around, – and challenged localities 4, and he deserves Otsego as Governor Cuomo has to plan their futures, devise County’s support. aggressively extended his their own initiatives to get • predecessor’s nanotechnolthere, and compete within Certainly, there have been ogy initiative west to Utica, the regions and between the shadows in his first term, where a $1 billion campus regions for funding. May notably the meddlings in is rising at Marcy, and on to the best ideas win. Troopergate and, lately, in Buffalo. Governor Cuomo gets the Moreland Commission. Add Start-Up NY, creatit. Upstate needs help. His While indefensible, they ing tax-free business zones administration is providing are negative parts of a more around the 60-some SUNY it. With Real Clear Polipositive picture. facilities; aggressive tourism tics’ latest poll aggregation The largest cloud over promotion exemplified loshowing the governor with the Cuomo reelection is the cally by that great Joe Torre a 23.8 percent lead, absent lack of a decision one way ad last spring that helped a miracle for GOP nomior the other on fracking, a raise the gate 17 percent at nee Bob Astorino, Andrew lapse that no doubt resulted the Baseball Hall of Fame Cuomo will be swept in for in Zephyr Teachout’s victhis year; four prospective Upstate casinos, and creative promotions and Who Are You Supporting And Why? tax cuts for yogurt and home breweries. Editor’s Note: We are making our endorsements In another innovation, this week to give you, our readers, the opportunity to the governor decentralized agree, disagree, or simply express your views on your economic development, preferred candidate in the following week’s editions of dividing the state into 10 Oct. 30-31. Send letters to jimk@allotsego.com. The regional economic developdeadline is noon on Tuesday, Oct. 28. ment commissions – ours
tory in Otsego and 20 other Upstate counties in the Sept. 9 Democratic primary. That said, it’s a no-win issue, although public sentiment seems to have shifted away from a tie – a Quinnipiac Poll in August found 48 percent of New Yorkers oppose it, vs. 43 percent in favor. A clear majority favors the continuing moratorium. Nationally, NPR reported the other day, 70 percent of Americans favor pursuing renewable energy, more than believe that human activity created global warming. Renewable energy – even our the county Board of Representatives is considering SolarCity’s plan to build a solar farm in Laurens – makes sense. It’s time to get the conversation off fracking, (which, locally, Allstadt, Northrup, Brock and Acton have convincingly argued can’t happen anyhow: There’s too little gas around here.) Reelected, Governor Cuomo should institutionalize the fracking moratorium for 10 years – end the debate for a decade. By then, the whole question may be moot. Instead, focus on making New York State the national – even, international – leader in sustainable-energy technology and application. A huge public-private investment is making that happen in nanotechnology. A huge public-private investment can make it happen in sustainability.
WE SAY: Gibson, Magee, Rowley
Gibson, Magee, Rowley Show They Can Do Job
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e were looking forward to penning a thundering endorsement of state Sen. Jim Seward’s vision and leadership. He’s had quite a year – such a year, it turns out, that no one surfaced to challenge him. Suffice it to say: Mark his name on the ballot as a vote of confidence and thanks. Also deserving enthusiastic support on the Nov. 4 ballot are: • U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-Kinderhook, who, despite Otsego County’s location at the far and of the 19th District, has been a constant presence locally. Human resources professionals ask two questions: Can he do the job? He’s proven he can represent us, and well. Will he do the job? The intensity of his campaign underscores his determination to do so. Gibson and his challenger, Democrat Sean Eldridge, differ on issues of national and international import. But all politics is local, and Eldridge simply hasn’t spent enough time in Otsego
County for people to get to know him. Plus, his recent mailings have turned ugly. • Assemblyman Bill Magee, D-Nelson, who’s represented Otsego County for decades now. Magee in the Democratic House allied with Seward in the Republican Senate comprises a powerful combination for the local good. John Salka is an excellent and experienced public servant, but it simply doesn’t make sense to trade in a Democrat with seniority for a freshman in a House dominated by the opposite party. • David Rowley, running for Oneonta Town Board. A school superintendent who returned to his hometown on retirement, it would simply be a shame not to take advantage of his experience, knowledge and level-headedness. His opponent, Trish Riddell Kent, is energetic and creative, amd will contribute to community life for decades to come. At this point, Rowley is simply too good an opportunity to miss.
If Andrew Cuomo still aspires to the presidency – we’ll hear more about that after the election, for sure
– here’s an issue to get him there, meanwhile re-earning us the “Empire State” moniker for a new era.
LETTERS
A Solution That Won’t Divide To the Editor: The tour bus situation is shaping up like a “divide and conquer” solution: Solving River Street’s bus problem by putting buses back onto Fair Street. Leaving buses idling on Main Street, when they should drop off on the east side of the Baseball Hall of Fame, then turn around and go back where they came on Main Street. In Corning, the Glass Museum provides its own highway bus access in the back of the building. All
other highway buses have to stop at the town’s remote lot and passengers go into town center via trolleys. So the precedent for such an approach is in Corning. And it works fine. If Dreams Park goes to trolleys, they are part of the highway bus solution. Bravo. If the HoF does not provide highway bus access on private property on its east side, it’s part of the problem. Boo. CHIP NORTHRUP Cooperstown
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Invasives Can Harm Water, Property Values, Recreation To the Editor: Non-native plants and animals are entering Otsego Lake. Despite the best practices of the Otsego Lake Association and like-minded organizations who educate boaters and inspect, wash and monitor boats at launch sites, these exotic and often invasive organisms travel from lake to lake in weeds, mud and hull water of unclean boats and trailers. Then, they sneak into our lake at unmonitored sites. New York has passed much needed legislation mandating clean boats traveling between water bodies. Likewise, successful county legislation in the Adirondack area has been put in place with the fear that precious time will be lost
while the DEC fine tunes the regulations for the new state law. Now is the time to press our elected county officials to come together and make drinking water, property values and the recreational attributes of our Otsego Lake a top priority by supporting legislation to prohibit the transportation of living material on boats from one water body to another across our county roads. We have been doing a good job. Lake invasion would be much worse without constant commitment, but now it is time for the next step. SCOTTIE BAKER Otsego Lake Association Board of Directors
Reward Gibson’s Life Of Service To the Editor: In this era of social media a political identity can easily be crafted with instant communication, spin, identity politics, and, most importantly, money. Positions are staked out and sound bites are issued. Poll tested statements from the candidate add to the marketing campaign – and the race is on. In the 19th Congressional District it’s a little different. Chris Gibson has spent a lifetime in service to his country. Over decades he has acquired experience in leadership, built a reputation and demonstrated his character. These attributes take time to acquire and can not be bought. In the past few years I have gotten to know Chris Gibson. While his resume is strong what has struck me is his integrity. I have asked him questions on many issues and have always gotten a clear, direct answer. Often that answer is not what I expected. It was, however, always well thought out and sincere. Chis Gibson is an example of a genuine public servant. He does not just aspire to service – he has lived it. We are fortunate to have him as our Representative. I urge my fellow citizens to vote for him on Nov. 4. JIM HOWARTH Cooperstown
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ov. Andrew Cuomo has a new autobiography out and it is getting a fair amount of newspaper ink. One of the best stories in the book is about how Daily News columnist Ken Lovett called one of Cuomo’s guys on the phone. Cuomo aide Josh Vlasto took the call and thought he was forwarding it to voice mail. He wasn’t. This, of course, was a reporter’s dream. There sat Cuomo and his crew discussing intimate political matters and
there was Lovett, listening in and taking notes. Then the columnist did the right thing – he called the Cuomo people to confirm the juicy stuff that he had heard, only to be met with a denial that there had even been such a meeting. Lovett was subjected to a series of what could only be called threatening phone calls from the “second floor,” telling him that he had broken the law by illegally eavesdropping. That was nonsense and since a good part of the autobiography maintains that Cuomo was reformed and is no longer the old arrogant Andrew (what the New York Times referred to as “the Prince of Darkness”), Please See BOOK, A6
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125 Years Ago
The Local News – The fire engine was out on Wednesday for the purpose of pumping the water from the old cistern on Dietz Street near Brown’s Hardware Store. The old reservoir is to be filled up. It is the last of the several cisterns scattered about the village that once furnished water with which to subdue fire in Oneonta. The advent of the waterworks, however, rendered them useless, and they have been gradually filled up. The Eckerson Printing Press Company, in sales of presses made the past week, have touched upon the two extremes of the continent. On Monday, a press was sold in California and the following day an order for a machine came from eastern Maine. The perfecting press recently built by the Eckerson Company is attracting widespread attention, and inquiries relative to it are pouring in from all parts of the country. Ezra Rowland’s team is the first to take a run without a driver over the new pavement. The horses became frightened while standing near the railroad crossing and came up through Main Street at a gait that did them credit. Turning up Ford Avenue, they ran to the end of the street, where they were stopped. Little damage was done. October 1889
100 Years Ago
One of the most sudden and tragic of deaths Oneonta has ever known occurred last Saturday when David J. Kelley, an expert stone setter employed by the contractors for the new post office building at the corner on Main and South Main streets, was almost instantly killed. During the morning Kelley had been engaged in setting the cap stones and cornices. Three cap stones over the Main Street side of the building had been put in position during the forenoon. At about 11:30 o’clock, Kelley was engaged with Italian laborers in placing them in permanent alignment. He directed the workmen to move the
30 Years Ago
M. Baker, general chairman of the affair this year, presided at a meeting attended by representatives from the Kiwanis, Rotary and Lions clubs. The marchers will assemble in Walnut Street and proceed down Elm Street to Main, Chestnut and Academy streets beginning at 7:30 o’clock. The parade will consist of three or four divisions of school students and one of adults and floats. Persons planning to enter vehicles must register with Capt. Danforth D. Bolton at the Building & Loan office not later than 10 a.m., Wednesday, October 31. Prizes will be given for 12 different types of costumes and floats. As the parade disbands on Academy Street, the younger students will be taken to the gymnasium at the Academy Street School for a special program. October 1934
60 Years Ago
October 1984 stones back one-half inch, and himself stood upon the scaffold in front and a little below lifting on one of the stones, when it became loosened, and carrying five others with it, fell forward and crashed through the scaffold on which Kelley was standing, falling to the ground a distance of about 25 feet. In the fall Kelley’s head struck upon one of the stones and a second stone fell upon him as he lay doubled up. Workmen lifted Kelley from the wreckage Drs. Marx and Lang were at hand to offer assistance, but the injured man died within five minutes without regaining consciousness. He was 45 years of age. October 1914
80 Years Ago
Plans for the Fourth Annual Halloween Festival under the auspices of the service clubs of Oneonta are complete. Capt. Lewis
Mrs. George Quimet, 475 Main Street, says she saw a big woodpecker the other day gracefully, but mechanically, pecking four holes into her pear tree. Mrs. Quimet believes it is the same pileated woodpecker that caused such a stir in the East End earlier this spring. “He’s the biggest I ever saw. He looked larger than he was last time we saw him. He had a long black back, gray beak and a large red tuft across the back of his head. And he was gray underneath. He looks like a big duck.” Mrs. Quimet recalled that a similar woodpecker wreaked havoc with Vernon Collins’ pear tree on Valleyview Street many months ago. And, she added, significantly – Woody flew away from her pear tree headed in the direction of Seventh and Valleyview, toward the Susquehanna River. October 1954
40 Years Ago
The Oneonta segment of Interstate 88, the Oneonta bypass, will be opened promptly at 11 a.m., Thursday, with ceremonies to take place at the Grand Street approach to
the new highway. Ceremonies will include speeches by Oneonta Mayor James F. Lettis, and 113th District Assemblyman Peter S. Dokuchitz. NYS Transportation Commissioner Raymond T. Schuler, and Binghamton district highway chief James Connors will be present and Governor Malcolm Wilson might attend as well. The Oneonta High School band will play. Mayor Lettis will cut the ribbon opening the highway whereupon the officials will take a first, formal tour of the road by automobile. Local merchants, schools and the general public are invited to attend the ceremonies. October 1974
20 Years Ago
Hartwick College, in conjunction with the State University of New York at Oneonta, will present a performance of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by the Open Hand Theatre of Syracuse and the Skomorokh Theatre of Tomsk, Russia, at 8 p.m. in the Goodrich Theatre on the SUCO campus. Two theatres from opposite sides of the world collaborate in a blend of language, dance, music and puppetry, masks, music, mime, and dance. The theatre combines fine arts with folk arts by using ancient forms of puppetry and modern theatre with contemporary topics. October 1994
10 Years Ago
In a recent national survey half of the college students polled admitted that they had gone on at least one drinking binge in the previous two weeks. Thirty percent of surveyed students admitted driving under the influence and 34 percent missed classes because of drinking. “At SUNY Oneonta, I’d like to believe it’s not one of our top issues,” said Stephanie Gross, president of the New York student assembly and a SUCO senior. October 2004
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By Serving Tourists AND Residents, Village Hall Will Regain Respect Editor’s Note: This is the text of a letter Fair Street resident Mike Manno sent to the Village Board prior to its October meeting at 6:30 p.m. on the 27th at 22 Main.
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liminating tour buses from our quaint historic neighborhood and streets is my purpose in this letter and my ultimate goal. Tourism is a good thing as long as it stays within acceptable boundaries and everyone is served! If Cooperstown is going to live up to this notion of being “America’s Most Perfect Village,” it will have to roll up its sleeves and get to work on serving the whole community equally through consistent, practical and forward-looking policy changes. I speak from experience and have seen first-hand the biased, discriminating laws that clearly favor tourists at the detriment of others and for no justifiable rea-
son. The tourist buses are a case in point! The village should lead by example, fulfill its obligation for the “Common Good” and reassert the commitment to the preservation of the Historic District. In the future, when we view our street through those historically correct windows (forced on us) they will be void of intrusive tour buses no one ever wanted (also imposed on us). This is a contradiction of standards. If you would think about the village as a house that has rooms of attractions and districts, all different and yet special in their own way – the lake, Doubleday Field, Hall of Fame, Historic District, Bassett, commercial districts, Main Street merchants, residential neighborhoods, etc. – then all the rooms are deserving of equal consideration, appreciation, protection and support. No one entity should rise above and be given special privileges,
rights or laws over the rest. All should help fund the cost and live by the same rules, especially in such a small town! No free rides mean an easier pull for everyone else! My suggestion is simple! The cost is low! The return is huge! 1. Buses drop tourists off at the Doubleday lot. The recent discussion about a green apron from Main Street to Doubleday Field can be part of a bigger plan whereby the Doubleday Lot becomes “Tourist Central,” a great place to show off all the beauty the area has to offer, where buses load and unload. Tourists can walk or catch a trolley to any of the wonderful attractions. With the information center already close, the convenience factor could not be better. Where tickets for all the attractions in the area can be purchased. With some imagination and
ingenuity the parking solution and money to support the village can come from this Tourist Central concept. 2. Merchants will gain traffic and exposure (better sales to pay rent/taxes, fund growth, increase inventory). 3. Historic District gains ambience and quaintness while reducing noise, pollution and congestion. “Quiet Enjoyment is Our Entitlement” for our financial support of the village. 4. The Village saves on wear and tear of the roads, improving budget pressure. 5. More tourists will have an expanded Cooperstown Experience (a really good thing) and more variety of items to buy. 6. The millions of tax dollars spent on the Main Street are to the greater benefit of all, including the locals. Everyone will be saying, “Now I understand why we did it; it all ties together.” 7. The Tourist/Local relation-
Andrew Cuomo, Machiavellian In Albany’s Corridors BOOK/From A4 it wasn’t comforting to see the Cuomo guys going after Lovett. The book does not deal with the Moreland Act scandal that has the Cuomo office under federal investigation for disbanding the corruption-fighting group he had appointed with instructions to ferret out corruption in the Capitol. He included himself among those who could be reviewed by the “independent” commission but reporters began to find out that the investigating group was getting too close to some of Cuomo’s major donors. Cuomo announced that it was his own commission and he could disband it whenever he wanted to. Needless to say, this was not comforting to those of us who were looking for the proof that this was the new non-arrogant Andrew. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has been investigating the Cuomo move. Obviously, this was not something the Governor was going to talk about in his book. I am sure that the Cuomo camp felt the less
said about the scandal, the better. Perhaps the most interesting story behind the book involves a reporter/columnist for the New York Post (whose name I never utter). This guy was one of the reasons why Mario Cuomo lost his election against George Pataki, so virulent was his invective. But when Andrew was elected, he made a convenient alliance with the Post guy. He appeared with great frequency on the man’s radio show. Reporters had to listen, in case the Governor made news. It was great for both the Governor and the reporter until the absolutely inevitable falling out came. That happened when Cuomo did the single most courageous thing of his governorship – his sponsorship of the New York SAFE Act that offered some semblance of sanity when it came to regulation of guns in the state. Apparently, the reporter didn’t like that at all and things became quite acrimonious. The reporter had an arrangement with a Murdoch-owned publishing company for a book about the Governor and the Governor was cooperating. But now things had
Upgrade To Gas Line Worries County’s Fracking Opponents By JIM KEVLIN
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t was quite a scene on Wednesday, Oct. 8, in the Georgetown Town Hall, east of Cazenovia. “People were shoving and shouting,” Nicole Dillingham, Otsego 2000 president, said the other day. “It was very uncomfortable for everyone” – 200 in a room rated for 132 – “who was there. It should not have been allowed to proceed. It was basically out of control.” The occasion was a FERC hearing, not on the proposed Constitution Pipeline to the south of Otsego County, the scene of mass turnouts locally in the past two years, but on an upgrade to an existing natural-gas line that Dominion Transmission Inc. is attempting. “It’s moving more gas up into New York,” said Keith Schue, an anti-fracking advocate in Cherry Valley. “Part of the concern is they’re rushing the job. They’re rushing through public hearings, denying people the right to be heard.” The hearing earlier this month concerned a compression station Dominion is planning at Georgetown. But of more concern locally are plans to double the capacity of an existing pump station at Brookman Corners, Mont-
gomery County, in the vicinity of Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville. Compression, Dillingham said, allows more fracked gas from Pennsylvania to move through existing lines, but also adds more pressure to the 50-year-old pipes. The Brookman Corners station would emit 96 tons of greenhouse gases annually, not including “blowdowns,” a cleaning process. “Our people are going to breathing that air,” said Dillingham. “When it rains, emissions are going to be falling in our lake,” Otsego Lake. “It’s five miles north of Otsego County,” said Schue. Dominion presented a fairly aggressive timeline on the $159 million undertaking, predicting its completion by 2016, and Dillingham sent a letter on behalf of Otsego 2000 urging FERC to slow it down and schedule additional hearingst. In recent days, the Otsego, Cherry Valley and Springfield town boards each passed resolutions raising concerns and urging more hearing. Friday, Oct. 17, Schue received word from FERC that the comment period will be extended and another hearing will be schedule, but also in Georgetown. “It’s infuriating to people who are demanding to have hearings in the other places,” said Schue.
changed. Cuomo approached the same company and offered his own book to them. From that moment on, the reporter’s book was off the boards. It was one of the most Machiavellian, brilliant things I have ever seen a politician do. The poor reporter must not have known what hit him. Look, every person who is considering a run for the presidency has to have a book. Thousands attended when Hillary Clinton gave her Barnes and Noble book signing speech. There were far, far fewer people there when Cuomo gave his. He has ticked off reporters who want to talk to him, saying that he won’t talk to them about anything BUT the book. Cuomo, who says he wants transparency, has a long way to go before he achieves that goal. Chartock is president of WAMC/Northeast Public Radio, aired at 90.1 FM in Oneonta, and 97.3 FM, Cooperstown.
ship is less stressed with tour buses gone from our unfit streets. 8. By taking charge, the village will start the process of gaining back control and respect. To pursue the potential of a “different way,” to plot its future, and set a course that the community will embrace, is a essential step for future growth. Above all else, fix the “double standards culture” that’s been a fundamental flaw of the village for years. It not only splits the community into factions that tug in different directions creating so many conflicts, it also discourages new business startups, diversity and risk taking, all of which we need so desperately. Serving the whole gets everyone pulling together to make Cooperstown a better place! It is a community improvement opportunity where everyone wins! MIKE MANNO Cooperstown
Keep Zephyr’s Message Alive To the Editor: If you, like me, voted in the primary for Zephyr Teachout for governor with great hope in your heart and, like me, saw your hope go up in smoke, you can still retrieve something of value out of the flames: You can cast your vote for Cuomo under the Working Families Party. Why? Because that party’s leaership brokered a deal: the WFP would endorse Cuomo if, in exchange, Cuomo would fight for a minimum wage hike, the DREAM Act and public campaign funding. Since Teachout-Wu took 40 percent of the vote, 20 counties, it deserves this boost: Vote for Cuomo under the Working Families line. HILDA WILCOX Cooperstown
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Consultant To Help City Determine Before Any Evidence Of Ebola Arises, ‘Best Equipment At The Best Price’ Bassett Team Puts Procedures In Place EXPERTS/From A1 day, Oct. 7, Murphy spearheaded the tabling of the $989,000 purchase of a Ferrara 100 Mid Mount Platform aerial truck in hopes of bringing in the Center for Public Safety Management to analyze the city’s fire and EMS needs. “This will help us understand what we need for equipment and what is the best price,” he said. Though Council Member Mike Lynch was the one “nay,” he was not on hand at the Tuesday, Oct. 21, meeting. The motion passed without dissent. The abridged CPSM
analysis will cost $13,000, with a $2,000 stipend for travel. Murphy is hoping the Center can start the assessment by Nov. 3, with a report delivered no more than 21 days after the study is complete. “We told them time is of the essence,” said Murphy. “It’s prudent for us to make the right decisions.” Assistant Fire Chief Jim Maloney says that while calls for September were Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
Common Council unanimously supported City Manager Murphy’s move to assess fireequipment needs.
down by 18 compared to last year, overall, there has been an increase of 13 calls. “I think we need two ladder trucks to protect this city’s property,” he said. “I hope that’s what they find.” If the council decides to go forward with a full analysis of additional departments, CPSM will credit the city the $13,000 already paid for the fire/EMS study. “Obviously, the fire department doesn’t replace equipment very often,” said Murphy. “But when they do, we need to take time to investigate what is the most appropriate apparatus.”
Foiling Robbery Turns Customer Into Hero HERO/From A1 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16, and went over to Smokers Choice, across Route 23, where he struck up a conversation with clerk Charlene Kachel. He didn’t see a man in a quilted mask come up behind him with a gun. “He said, ‘Empty the register!’ but we all thought it was a joke,” said Colbie. “I mean, if he had been wearing a black ski mask, I might have taken him a little more seriously – but in that fuzzy mask, he looked more like he needed a hug!” The masked man repeated his demands, and clerk Kathleen Borak came up to Colbie with a plea for help. “She had a box of incense and she said, ‘Sir, can you tell me how many are in this box?’ then nudged me in the ribs to get my attention. I knew that was my cue.” Colbie grabbed the man’s wrist and threw him into a display. When he got back up, Colbie grabbed him again and threw him into the candy rack, then held him down on the ground. “If you keep moving, I’m going to hit you, do you understand?” he told him. And though man replied, “Yeah,” he continued to try to get up, and Colbie subdued him again. “He was being stupid,” he said. “I felt sorry for him.” Colbie has no military or police background, but said that “playful fighting” with his cousins growing up helped him to know what to do. “My mom was mad when I told her, she was worried I could have gotten hurt,” he said. “But if the gun had been real, he could have shot those two clerks and they wouldn’t be going home to their kids. I had to do something. Anybody would have.” Lt. David Brenner, Sgt. Ralph Pajerski, Ptl. Jeffrey Gallisser and Ptl. Ryan Pondolfino arrived on the scene and arrested a suspect, identified as Joseph Cardo. The gun turned out to be a BB gun, and Cardo was charged with attempted tobbery, criminal use of a firearm and menacing, and was confined to the Otsego County jail on $30,000 cash bail. But despite the attack, Colbie holds no ill will
towards the man he subdued. “I hope he gets on the right track,” said Colbie. “He was obviously at a low point, and I know how that
feels. “I’m no saint, and I don’t always do things by the book, but I did what anybody would have done.”
EBOLA/From A1 “There is understandably considerable concern among the general public about the outbreak,” said Dr. Charles Hyman, chief of medicine, who is leading the task force. In addition to Dr. Hyman, the team includes COO Bertine McKenna; Ruth Blackman, infection prevention specialist, and Brinton Muller, network manager of Emergency Preparedness. The task force has been meeting daily for the past week to review developments from the CDC and the state Health Department. According to the CDC, Ebola is spread through direct contact with broken skin, mucus membranes or bodily fluid. As with all emergencypreparedness possibilities, like mass casualties and major weather incidents, Bassett is conducting drills
in all areas in the hospital. “We have a person the staff does not know come into the emergency room and Hyman they give their travel history and based on the criteria, we see how the staff responds,” said Huxtable. Employees in registration and triage are instructed on how to collect a travel history from a patient, while doctors and nurses are being trained on the donning and removal of Personal Protective Equipment, transport and isolation of an Ebola patient, and disposal of con-
taminated needles, linens and clothing. And although the drills are going well, the spokeswoman admits that it is an “enormous undertaking” and that guidelines are changing every day. “We just got new issues on the PPE yesterday that say no skin can be exposed,” she said. “It’s very fluid, and it’s something we continually need to test. One drill doesn’t hardwire anything.” But while preparedness is key, Dr. Hyman says that it shouldn’t overshadow more prominent health risks in Upstate New York, including influenza . “This is a shared responsibility,” he said. “Expect to be asked about your travel history and symptoms.”
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