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Lady Ostapeck poses with Ellen Elizabeth,the subject of an exhibit of never-before-seen photos during a reception and book-signing Friday, Nov. 1, at Foothills in Oneonta. Formerly of Fly Creek and Nader Towers, Lady is now at a retirement home in Herkimer.
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tatewide, voters approved a change in the state Constituion to allow seven non-Indian casinos to be built Upstate, 642,001-477,177, or 57 percent to 43 percent. But Otsego County said otherwise, voting 409-275, or 60 percent to 40 percent, against expanding gambling. LIVE FROM FOOTHILLS!
State Sen. Jim Seward, RMilford, has partnered with SUNY Oneonta on a live broadcast/webcast of his second “Economic Development Summit” Thursday, Nov. 14, at Foothills. The webcast will allow students in county schools to watch the event in real time. COMING UP: “Variety
Tonite” by Theater To Go, an evening of Broadway music and dance to benefit Athelas Therapeutic Riding Inc., is at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at the Holiday Inn/Southside. Athelas uses horseback riding to help people with mental and physical challenges. $40. Call 783-2341 or 988-9044 for tickets. NO DUMPING! City
Hall is reminding the public that, to prevent flooding, it is unlawful to dump leaves, snow and other debris in the Susquehanna River or the city’s creeks.
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An elated Janet Hurley Quackenbush embraces hubby Mark when the tally was final: She’d won the Town of Oneonta seat on the county Board of Representatives.
Seward Declares ‘Great Night For Republicans’ By RICHARD WHITBY
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epublicans kept control and appeared to increase their strength of the Otsego County Board of Representatives on Tuesday, Nov. 5, posting a net gain of two seats
for a 9-5 majority in what state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, termed “a great night for Republicans.” “It says people agree with what we’ve been doing in the two years I’ve been chair,” said
Kathy Clark, District #3 Republican and the board’s current chairwoman. “We’ve dealt with some thorny issues that have been around for awhile – The Manor, a big one, the exit from MOSA and the completion of the microwave system for Please See VOTE, A6
Awaiting ‘Big Idea,’ Mayor To Go After Do-Able Ones By JIM KEVLIN
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ayor Dick Miller is looking for “a big idea.” Utica-Rome has one: nanotechnology, he observed in a pre-election interview. Unopposed, he was elected to a second term Tuesday, Nov. 5, 1,003-45.
Colorado Springs has one: fracking. Miller had just returned from visiting relatives in Colorado Springs, where he reported seeing pad after pad, hundreds, perhaps thousands, as far as the eye could see, sloping smoothly down toward the distant Arkansas River, surrounded by cornfield and grazing cattle. Please See MILLER, A7
By JIM KEVLIN
here will be no hydrofracking in Otsego County. Period. “It’s just not going to happen,” said Lou Allstadt, the former Mobil executive vice president and, previously, vice president of exploration & production, who was converted to the antifracking cause HOMETOWN ONEONTA on moving to Lou Allstadt, right, Cooperstown and Chip Northrup fulltime five say there’s too years ago. little gas to frack He and Chip here. Northrup, the Texas oilman and former ARCO planning manager, have reached the same conclusion. And they – along with geologist Brian Brock, Franklin, and retired IBM systems engineer Jerry Acton of Berkshire, Tioga County – detailed their findings Wednesday, Oct. 30, to 200 people who packed Cornell’s Hollister Hall. Please See FRACKING, A7
BYE, BYE FRACKING Check WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM for • Video of Jerry Acton presenting data • Lou Allstadt’s PowerPoint slides • Blogger Peter Mantius’ at-scene report
Housing Visions Plans 60 Homes In City By 2015 Developer Briefs Common Council By RICHARD WHITBY
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Mayor Miller holds up a poster he made up from an ad in the Wall Street Journal to make a point while SUNY CFO.
ity residents could be living in a new $15 million affordable-housing project – 40 units for seniors near Silver Creek, 20 for families on Center Street – as early as fall 2015. Ben Lockwood, director of development for Housing Visions of Syracuse, told Common Council Tuesday, Nov. 5, the plan is to acquire the necessary propPlease See VISIONS, A7
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2013
HOMETOWN People Highlight Of Halloween Parade: Wedding Proposal Made, Accepted
Hartwick Choir Director To Direct Choral Society
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. Colin Armstrong, moved to the who recently joined U.S., earning Hartwick College as a Ph.D. at the choir director, will lead the University Catskill Choral Society as of Illinois at music director for 2013-14, Urbanathe 60-member group’s 44th Champaign. year. He succeeds Dr. G. He came to Roberts Kolb, the interim Armstrong Hartwick from director. Susquehanna Armstrong’s first appearUniversity in Selinsgrove, ance will be at the upcoming Pa., where he had been holiday concert of Bach’s on the music faculty since “Magnificat” at 7:30 p.m. 2009. Friday, Dec. 6, and at 3 p.m. The “Magnificat” will feaSaturday, Dec. 7, at First ture a chamber orchestra and United Methodist Church, soloists Johana Arnold, Brad 66 Chestnut St. Hougham, Steven Nanni, A native of Vancouver, Barbara Paterson and Kasey When the Oneonta Teen Center contingent halted B.C., he earned a bachelor Stewart. in front of the reviewing stand at Muller Plaza during Oneonta’s Halloween Parade Thursday, of music in trumpet perTicket sales begin Nov. Oct. 31, onlookers were in for a surprise. During formance and bachelor in 3 in Oneonta at The Plains, the pause, Teen Center director Ian Austin popped education at the University Green Earth and Artware; the question to Libby Cudmore: Will you marry of Lethbridge in Alberta. in Cooperstown at Augur’s me? The answer was a delighted yes, and Ian He taught band, choir and Corner Bookstore; from any placed an engagement ring he had designed himmusical theater in middle CCS members; and at www. self – it included one diamond from her mother’s catskillchoralsociety.org. engagement ring, and two from his grandmother’s and high schools, and obtained a master’s, studyFor more information on watch – on his bride-to-be’s finger. Ian is also ing Leonard Ratzlaff at the the Catskill Choral Society, photographer for Hometown Oneonta and The University of Alberta. He call 431-6060. Freeman’s Journal, and Libby is our reporter.
Hutchison, McCaffery Cited As OCCA Conservationists Of ’13
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ooperstown’s Rich McCaffery will share the Otsego County Conservation Association’s “Conservationist of the Year.” The award will be presented at the OCCA’s annual dinner Monday, Nov. 18, at The Depot restaurant in Oneonta; 6 p.m. cocktail hour and auction, 7 p.m. dinner. OCCA President Vicki Lentz praised the winners for “their dedication and behind-the-scenes contributions toward the protection, preservation, and improvement of the environment through community service.” Hutchison, a retired Hartwick College profesHAIT HONORED: Amy Hait of West Oneonta, a freshman majoring in environmental engineering, received the Wallace H. Coulter Endowed Scholarship for Clarkson University’s 2013-14 school year.
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sor, is longtime chair of the city’s Environmental Board. McCaffery is a volunteer for numerous causes. Tickets are $35 a person. Choice of prime rib, chicken marsala or eggplant spinach parmesan. Preregistration required at 547-4488 or at www.occainfo.org AWARD TO FRASCO: Gerald Frasco of Otego, a senior majoring in physics and electrical engineering, received the J. Paul Nessler ‘69 Memorial Endowed Scholarship for Clarkson University’s 2013-14 school year.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2013
THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-3
Turning 75, Bishop Hubbard Due To Retire
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ishop Howard J. Hubbard of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, which includes Otsego County, turned 75 on Thursday, Oct. 31, and under Vatican policy must submit his resignation to Pope Francis. The atmosphere was bittersweet at the chancery. The diocesan spokesman, Ken Goldfarb, said the bishop’s colleagues were wishing him a happy birthday, at the same time knowing that his career was coming to an end. Pope Francis does not have to accept Hubbard’s resignation, but the accepted practice would be to do so, Goldfarb said. Bishop Hubbard is both the longest-serving Catholic bishop in the U.S. – it is 36 years since his 1977 ap-
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pointment – and the longestserving in Albany diocesan history, Goldfarb said. “It’s pretty special to have a native son serve as bishop here” – Hubbard was raised in Troy – “and to serve as bishop here for his entire career,” said Goldfarb.
The letter of resignation will go to Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the apostolic nuncio (the equivalent of ambassador to the U.S.) in Washington D.C., who will forward it to Rome. Bishop Hubbard would continue to serve until his replacement is named, said Goldfarb, which could be a while. In the Diocese of Hartford, where the most recent appointment occurred, the process took a year. As it happens, the bishop is due in Otsego County on Friday, Nov. 8, where is will confirm 17 young parishioners at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Church in Cooperstown.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2013
EDITORIAL
Goodbye, Fracking. Let’s Shift Focus To Rebuilding County
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f Sustainable Otsego’s Adrian Kuzminski is Otsego County’s chief strategist of anti-fracking, then Lou Allstadt is the foremost statesman, one who holds sway well beyond our localities. That he and Chip Northrup, equally eloquent, expert and energetic in the anti-fracking cause, have concluded fracking will not occur in Otsego County, settles the question once and for all. It’s time to move on. In declaring to a packed forum Wednesday, Oct. 30, in Cornell’s Hollister Hall, that there is simply insufficient gas beyond a strip along the New York-Pennsylvania border to be profitably brought to market, they raised another specter: Upstate is in danger of becoming the dumping ground of fracking’s radioactive offal. That is manageable: All Otsego County towns should follow Middlefield’s lead – and that of seven
other local towns, plus the City of Oneonta – in adopting bans to ensure that doesn’t happen. • That Allstadt and Northrup’s declaration coincides with the Tuesday, Nov. 5, election that seems to have solidified the Republican majority on the county Board of Representatives is propitious. The chairman of the Board of Representatives, Kathy Clark of Otego, romped, defeating her Democratic challenger Stu Anderson, 771 to 423. That Anderson switched from Republican to Democrat so he could run against Clark on natural-gas alone signals the arrival of Fracking Fatigue. This editorial was written late on Election Night, so these results are unofficial. But it appears that Republicans Janet Hurley Quackenbush in the Town of Oneonta, Rick Hulse Jr. in the Town of Otsego and Craig Gelbsman in
City of Oneonta’s Wards 3 and 4 had claimed three county board seats from Democrats, giving the GOP a commanding majority. As leader of the rout, it can be hoped that Clark will be acclaimed into another term as chair, and that she will dance with the ones who brought her – Democratic reps Linda Rowinski and Kay Stuligross, the other two legs of a troika that achieved two years of bipartisan amity. It should also be a point of pride that three exceptional Democrats – county Treasurer Dan Crowell, incumbent county Rep. Beth Rosenthal of Roseboom, and newcomer Ed Lentz of Garrattsville – won their races. Otsego County’s electorate embraces merit. We’re in a good place to get back to the work of mending the local manifestations of decades of Upstate decline. Very exciting. • The anti-fracking fervor had an unintended consequence. It got the county’s businesspeople, community leaders and individ-
LETTERS
Smokeout 10 Years Old: Time To Quit? To the Editor: Every year, we have the Great American Smokeout in November. What makes this year different? Well, it is the 10th anniversary of the Clean Indoor Air Act. Since New York went tobacco free in 2003, the state Bureau of Tobacco Control has stepped up efforts • to encourage smokers to contact the New York Smoker’s Quit-line • to create tobacco free parks, playgrounds and entryways for area businesses. • to convince stores to cover up tobacco ads and displays in retail stores. Such displays entice teens to start smoking. • to convince pharmacies to support a resolution of the Pharmacists Society of the
State of New York (PSSNY) to ban tobacco sales in pharmacies. To celebrate the smokeout we have invited a special guest. Peggy Keigley, MS, is the director of the Smoking Cessation Center at Seton Health Center in Albany. She is a former smoker who went on to co-author the “Butt Stops Here” smoking cessation program, which she will discuss at noon Thursday, Nov. 7, in Bassett Hospital’s Fieldstone Building in Cooperstown. Smokers are welcome. The program is being adopted this year at Bassett Hospital. MARCIA KOZUBEK Otsego County’s Rural Three For Tobacco Free Communities
Fracking Boom Would Be Illusory, Facts Show To the Editor: I would be glad to discuss the economics of fracking with reference to a specific county in Pennsylvania, as Mr. Downey suggests. The sources of the data are: DEC data from Jan. 1, 2012, to June 30, 2012; The Bureau of Labor Statistics, July 2012-July 2013; Stateimpact Pennsylvania (see npr. org); and the Network for Public Health Law (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation), drawing on data from the EPA. Let us look at Bradford County, the county in Pennsylvania with the largest number of drilled wells: 1,142 active well sites, compared to the next highest county with 808. The drilling “boom” began there in 2007. Unemployment peaked in Bradford County in the recession year of 2009, at 10.8
percent, and did certainly decline thereafter. But nearly half (over 46 percent) of the gas-related drilling jobs went to persons coming in from the Southwest, and unemployment now, with the exception of 2009 and the first 3 months of 2010, is as high or higher than at any time since 1993. While household incomes have increased 15.7 percent since 2000, this is lower than the State average rate of increase of 22.89 percent, and lower than the national average of 19.17 percent. Revenues apparently did not do much for the local school systems, which are ranked as being lower than average qualitatively in the State. Bradford can hardly be said to have prospered. The crime rate rose by 40 percent as persons from the outside with no vested or ongoing relationship to the
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community, came in. This costs money. The influx did – briefly – increase revenues from sales taxes – but these workers are leaving now. The largest operator, Chesapeake Appalachia, laid off 800 employees in 2013 nationwide. Impact fees, being tied to the price of natural gas, are declining also. And Chesapeake is facing a class action suit for unpaid royalties and practices such as charging landowners for transportation costs of the gas. Which brings us to costs related to infrastructure: Mr. Downey tells us that Chesapeake spent $92 million on road improvement. He does not tell us how much they should have paid, however. And are we to understand that it is acceptable to cause damage if, after the fact, you are obliged to pay for it? Impact on infrastructure also of course includes problems with traffic, noise, air pollution and other factors which are not compensable. With regard to real-estate values, house value growth rate in Bradford County is much lower than the State average rate of 70.62 percent and the national rate of 50.42 percent. There was certainly a marked increase in the cost of low-cost housing in Bradford and, if Mr. Downey objects to national or state comparisons on my part, he should certainly not be comparing Bradford County to Oneonta in a speculative manner. With regard to tourism: Please See LETTER, B2
ual citizens reflecting on Otsego County’s very real challenges. To wit, a half-century of decline is sapping our community vitality. Our young people should move away, they should experiment and experience the broader world. But when they choose to return, we need career options that offer a more-than-even chance at success, even prosperity. Same goes for young people who stay. The same for newcomers of all ages. The same for all of us. We need to build on our base, encouraging growth in existing enterprises, the way Don and Wendy Feinberg’s dream has grown into a Brewery Ommegang with national ambitions. The way Graham Labs, begun in a garage in Hobart, has become a vital part of multi-national Covidien. The way Custom Electronics spun off Ioxus, the futuristic ultracapacitormaker. And Chobani, wow. We need to optimize the impacts of our local colleges, supporting SUNY Oneonta as it embraces Governor Cuomo’s Start
Up NY initiative and Hartwick College as it considers a craft food and beer curriculum to provide expertise to a growing sector. As state Sen. Jim Seward, RMilford, seems to be intending to do in his second economicdevelopment summit Thursday, Nov. 14, at Foothills, we need to look for ways to participate in the nanotechnology boom happening in Utica, and look beyond our borders, region and even state to identify enterprises that would thrive here. • Yes, it’s time to set anti-fracking aside. Instead of glumly contemplating the future, bemoaning the roasting of our planet as inevitable, let’s accept that renewable energy will revolutionize our world, freeing us from enslavement to fossil fuels, although not right this minute. With that expectation, let’s set about solving today’s problems today, to creating a local society of opportunity, inclusion and achievement.
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SUNY Oneonta’s Professor Pay Lags
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t is no longer cheap to live in Oneonta. As gas prices have increased and the peripheral towns and villages continue to lag, Oneonta serves as a regional housing, transportation, and service hub. Coupled with an increase in the number of students and faculty and staff hired at Oneonta over the past decade, the increases in housing costs have out-stripped inflation. It is the norm that new faculty rent apartments for about $700 a month and manage large student loan debts, usually in excess of $100,000. In general, faculty salaries throughout the country have stagnated and benefits curtailed in the past five years. The short-term prognosis for our salaries is not favorable. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that the future holds any panaceas. Over the next four years, we cannot dismiss the possibility of a recession and, with that, the dark cloud over state finances may negatively affect the results of state support. Many states, including ours, have very volatile and uncertain revenue projections. Raising taxes across the board remains an unattractive remedy. Other competing demands for state funds and the deteriorating fiscus of the federal government may add further downward pressure. Coupled with relentless financial pressures on comprehensive institutions such as ours and a re-orientation toward the R-1 institutions in SUNY, the prospects for a “pot of gold” in 2016 are not to be assumed. • Oneonta salaries have never been on the high range. Generally, our salaries were at the median. Many of us have taken less salary to come to Oneonta. I certainly did because I found the area attractive and the benefits good. Newer faculty starting in Tier VI will have to contribute to their retirements for the duration of
Benchmarking Professor Salaries
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Associate
Assistant
U Mass Lowell
127,900
99,100
82,300
Penn St U-IIA
118,600
94,100
78,900
Millersville U Penn
102,700
82,200
62,600
SUNY New Paltz
96,500
73,300
58,100
SUNY Purchase
91,800
74,200
56,300
SUNY Geneseo
89,800
70,400
56,300
SUNY Oneonta
85,500
66,700
57,200
SUNY Potsdam
79,600
63,200
51,200
Source: UUP Sentinel, 10/13
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their employment and at increasingly higher percentages based on salary levels. Health insurance increases will also take a larger percentage of new faculty salaries, because it is fixed amount for faculty earning over $40,000+ change. In higher education, the number of adjuncts increased significantly. At Oneonta, somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 percent of the faculty are part-time. In 1995, PT salary was $1,950 a course. In 2013 it is $2,500. I remember thenchair of political science, Paul Conway, offered me a job to teach one course. He told me that the college was embarrassed to offer such a low salary. Based on Consumer Price Index (CPI), the $1,950 is equivalent to $2,900 in 2012. Yet the starting salary for PT faculty is only $2,500 today. The failure of the higher education market is such that less than a third of the faculty nationwide are full-time tenure track. With weak and complicit regional accrediting bodies, this trend will continue. Low adjunct salary makes it difficult to raise full-time salaries. The erosion of state support for higher education throughout the country is privatizing a public good and transforming it into a private good. As administrative salaries and positions continue to increase along with the reliance on poorly paid adjuncts, management must find ways to squeeze out efficiency in their systems. Thus, there is a tendency to resort to “bean
counting” and methods to keep salaries in check. • Employers of choice increasingly realize that they must figure out effective strategies, including compensation packages to recruit and retain the best work-force. Invariably, a lot centers on money, but direct compensation is not necessarily the only avenue to increase the financial wellbeing of faculty. UUP will work with administration to consider ways to address issues of salary compression, stagnation and its failure to keep up benchmark institutions. UUP Oneonta will increase its legislative outreach, enrich the academic lives of our members through creating collaborative research opportunities, including applications for grants. We will work with statewide UUP for increased funding for the Drescher Affirmative Action Leave program and the Individual Development Awards (IDA). Align with UUP, and please activate yourself in service to the college, colleagues and students. To do nothing is to accept defeat and devolution toward mediocrity. Rob Compton, chair, African American & Latino Studies, and associate professor, political science, at SUNY Oneonta, is also UUP vice president for academics. This was excerpted from the October edition of The Sentinel, the United University Professions newsletter.
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125 Years Ago
The Local News: The new iron bridge across the Susquehanna will reach Oneonta about December 1st and will be in position December 15th. During the fifteen days the bridge is being put up teams will be required to cross by the lower bridge. A ferry will convey foot passengers across the river. A specimen of slag paving stone is on exhibition at Moody & Gold’s Store. The stone is now in use in portions of New York City and is said to excel all other pavements. It is durable, cheap, and is said to be the best sanitary pavement. Parties interested in paving Main Street are invited to call and see it. The Salvation Army holds regular evening services at their hall in the Westcott Building. The meetings are well attended, the hall being crowded every night. There are seven members of the Army here. Three services are held on Sunday. November 1888
100 Years Ago
A union temperance meeting at the First Presbyterian Church was addressed Sunday evening by Dr. F.D. Blakeslee of Binghamton. He said in brief, “A disaster like that of the Titanic is occurring every four days in our great country – the disaster of men going down to a drunkard’s grave – a disaster that is legalized. The remedy will have to come from the people – it will never come down from the head of the government unless the people demand it from the head. The slavery of the liquor traffic is infinitely stronger than African slavery and it is the purpose of the Anti-Saloon League to place men in the political stations of the country that will do this very thing. The saloon men say that they can sell more liquor if it is dry than they can if it is wet. But, why then do they fight so hard against the cause and against the advances made by the league? November 1913
80 Years Ago
The people of the country will recognize that if government forces meddle in private industry it will be but an entering wedge. The outcome will be that the government, and perhaps the President himself (Franklin Delano Roosevelt), will have more to say how a man’s business should be conducted than the man who fought his way valiantly through to success. No head of any industry big or little, winning a fair measure of success, has succeeded alone. He had carried with him pay rolls and assistance that meant success for others associated with him. This has provided homes, comfort and happiness for many others. While not approving the excessive salaries that have been paid beyond the capabilities of any man to be worth to any enterprise, yet attention is called to the fact that once we remove the incentive and stifle individual initiative, the
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30 Years Ago
Hartwick College has received a collection of letters, some written by the Rev. John Christopher Hartwick, a Lutheran minister who bequeathed his estate for the formation of a religious seminary near Cooperstown, which was the forerunner of the college now located on Oyaron Hill in Oneonta. The letters were given to Hartwick College by Yale University. “We’re extremely pleased that Yale officials have given them to us so that they can be part of the documentation of our history,” said Jane Des Grange, director of museums at Hartwick College. Hartwick, who was born in what is now East Germany, preached in the central New York area during the Revolutionary War era. When he died in 1796, he left his estate for the establishment of a Lutheran Seminary. The school became the first Lutheran Seminary in the United States. Mrs. Des Grange said the letters have been laminated. November 1983
20 Years Ago
For Stan Sessions, phone calls are passé and letter writing is practically a lost art. When it comes to correspondence, he lets his computer do the talking. “No one is paying attention to memos and letters anymore,” says Sessions, a biology professor at Hartwick College in Oneonta. “They figure if it’s important enough, it’ll be on e-mail.” E-mail, or electronic mail, is becoming the dominant mode of communication at colleges, schools, and big business. It has the immediacy of a telephone call and the hard-copy capabilities of a letter and could be a way of life for the masses by November 1973 the 21st century. Electronic mail began 15 years ago when the first bulletin board services (BBS) were created as local message centers for a handful of computer users. The employed will suffer far more than those who made the number of BBS users in the U.S. has reached about 500,000 employment possible. November 1933 and some estimates expect that to climb to as many as 20 million by the year 2000. November 1993
60 Years Ago
The New York State Thruway Authority said today it had spent or obligated approximately 506 million dollars so far for construction for construction of the 427-mile cross-state expressway. Seventeen miles of the route remain to be contracted for, to which must be added the costs for construction of restaurants and gas stations, rights of way, and other items. A spokesman said the authority had not estimated how high additional costs would run. In addition to the 500 million dollar bond issue the authority has a loan of 80 million from the state, made before the bond issue was authorized. Those funds will be used to get construction rolling. The New York to Buffalo route is expected to be completed by the summer of 1955. November 1953
10 Years Ago
The Rev. Mitchell Spring, pastor of Spirit and Truth Christian Assembly, is lecturing at Hartwick College on “End Time Bible Prophecies.” Pastor Spring will appear in Room 202 of Miller Hall on Thursdays, November 6, 13 and 23 beginning at 7 p.m. The meetings are free and open to all. Geshe Thupten Kunsang, who was in Oneonta for the Buddhism Semester at Hartwick College in 2000, is visiting the area. Kunsang will be available for appointments before November 19 and will return for teachings on the first stages of Lam Rim in late December. November 2003
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In Town Of Oneonta, GOP Claims County Board Seat, But Dems Win 2 Town Seats VOTE/From A1 emergency broadcasts.” Clark asked about the board’s bipartisanship during her tenure, referred to the current 7-7 split and said, “We’ve had to look for what unites us and not for what divides us.” In at least one of the races, the numbers were so close that absentee ballots ultimately could determine the winner. If the initial tallies stand, however, Republicans increase their weighted votes from 3,529 to 4118, while Democratic votes dove from 2,638 to 2,049. However, in a signal that she may continue her bipartisan approach of the
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an Crowell, Middlefield, was reelected county treasurer Tuesday, Nov. 5, despite questions about his absence during the first half of this year to undergo Crowell’s special smile said operations it all. training as a military reservist. It was a landslide, with Crowell defeating Cooperstown Village Treasurer Ed Keator of West Oneonta, 6,7314,017.
past two years, Clark made a brief appearance at the Democratic election gathering in The Red Caboose on Oneonta’s Main Street, a gesture that county Democratic Chairman Richard Abbate noted in his address to the crowd. “Thanks for coming Kathy,” Abbate said to applause. Only half of the 14 the seats on the board were contested, and these were the unofficial results in those races: • District 2 (Butternuts, Morris, Pittsfield): Republican incumbent James P. Powers of South New Berlin fought off a challenge by Democrat Teresa Winchester, 729 to 636. Winchester also challenged Powers two years ago and lost by 100 votes. Powers also had the Conservative and Independence lines, while Winchester also had the Working Families line. • District 3 (Laurens, Otego): Clark, of Otego, the board’s current chairwoman, coasted to victory, 771 to 425, over Democratic/Sustainable Otsego candidate Stuart E. Anderson. • District 4 (Town of Oneonta): Councilwoman Janet Hurley Quackenbush, a Republican, defeated Democrat Daniel Buttermann, 267 to 216, for the seat currently occupied by Democrat Richard Murphy, who is retiring. Buttermann also ran on the Citizen Oneonta line, while Hurley Quackenbush had the Conservative and Independence lines.
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Leading Local Anti-Frackers Declare There’s Too Little Gas To Drill Here FRACKING/From A1 Anthony Ingraffea, the professor who is researching the potency of methane as a greenhouse gas, emceed. In his summation, Allstadt told the SRO gathering a drilling boom in Central New York is “highly unlikely.” Intensive drilling is “possible near the P-A border,” but “unlikely to be widespread.” Test wells are “very likely” in the Southern Tier; some may also be drilled elsewhere Upstate, but will not be successful, he said. “We’re in the epicenter of the hype,” Northrup said of the fracking debate that has roiled the county for five years now. In a follow-up interview with him and Allstadt Monday, Nov. 4, back home in Cooperstown, he added, “As Lou just pointed out, nobody in the industry ever believed it.” However, there remains an issue of grave concern, Allstadt said: With disposal sites filling up or full in Pennsylvania and Ohio, fracking companies are looking to New York for disposal of “flow-back
fluids” or “brine,” much of it radioactive; drillers are seeking to spread it on roads or run it through municipal water treatment plants. Already, a handful of disposal wells have already been approved in the Southern Tier. In one case, radioactive drill cuttings from Pennsylvania were so “hot” they were rejected by an Upstate landfill, and the trucker hauling the material didn’t find a resting place for his cargo until reaching Idaho, he continued. However, Allstadt said, he believes town bans, most of which are focused on “heavy industry” instead of
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a rear-guard action, with all the hype they’ve been spreading for years.” “The ones who don’t want to hear it the most are the landowner groups,” he continued. “They are the most vitriolic about it.” But anti-frackers who have been energetically fighting something that now, it seems, isn’t going to happen were also resistant, Northrup and Allstadt said. Anti-frackers have argued that if the price of natural gas were to rise, interest in Otsego County’s possibilities would revive. But, Northrup said, “Zero times $10 is still zero.” The session was held at Cornell, considered a neutral setting, and sponsored by organizations who were considered neutral, such at the local League of Women Voters and the university itself. The men hope to duplicate the presentation in New York City and, also, in Otsego County, possibly at Foothills or one of the colleges. They are currently seeking similarly neutral sponsors.
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$100 a day worth of natural gas. Both companies eventually poured concrete down their drillings. “When it’s plugged and abandoned, that’s it,” said Allstadt. Gulf and Anschutz Exploration Corp.’s wells in Delaware County were similarly dry, and Chesapeake Energy and XTO Energy permit applications to drill haven’t moved forward. “They’ve admitted defeat,” added Northrup. Adding to the skepticism, Allstadt said, was his review of a range of available mapping done by industry, government and academics that show drilling viability petering out north of the Southern Tier. Plus, the minimal local production was “dry” gas, less desirable than the “wet” gas emerging in Pennsylvania. The clincher was a model developed by Acton, based on the extensive data drillers were required to report in Pennsylvania, Allstadt said. There are eight factors used to measure a field’s productivity, including the thickness of the forma-
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Those thoughts may have been front of mind, since Miller was preparing stage-setting remarks for the second “Seward Summit” Thursday, Nov. 14, at Foothills. By then, you can expect this musing to be tightly focused. For his first four years have been. When asked what the top three accomplishments of his first term were, Miller replied, “five.” And he ticked them off, ranging from Common Council collaboration to the five-year financial plan to OPD reform. “We changed a lot about the structure of how we do business,” said Miller, who, after a career in business and academic administration in Rochester and Albany, came to Oneonta in 2003 as president of Hartwick College. Lacking a big idea, Miller expects to move forward many mid-size ideas about economic development, building on the successes of 2013: Construction of the $25 million, 350-student highrise on Blodgett Drive, completion of the $10 million Bresee’s conversion to apartments and shops, and the Bank of Cooperstown’s recent announcement it plans to build a sizeable office building, complete with
clocktower, across from River and Main. He pointed to other promising activities that will help Oneonta: Chobani, and the expansion of Amphenol, Kraft, Ioxus and Corning. “Do we have a site?” he asks himself if a business comes knocking. If not, “I don’t want to drive Northern Eagle Beverage” – now building a new distribution center in the Town of Oneonta – “to Delaware County.” Ray Gillen, chairman of the Schenectady Metroplex Development Authority, has a $10 million budget. “When you have a $10 million budget, you have an enforcement entity,” Miller said. Lacking that, he recently announced the “Oneonta Alliance,” a loose coalition aimed at making sure the city is in the front row of economic-development decisions. The lack of one person with a big budget – a Ray Gillen – makes the Alliance essential, he said. “The unintended outcome of the fracking debate was the wake-up call the community has heard about the stagnation of our private economy,” said the mayor. “Not that we’ve got all this energy, we have to get it directed in an efficient way.”
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housing tax credits, and approval of those credits would be critical to its construction, Lockwood said, adding that 85 to 90 percent of applications are rejected, but that Housing Visions has an approval rate of 85 to 90 percent. The tax credits would then be used to raise capital from private investors interested in taking advantage of the credits. City Manager Michael Long, who has worked with Housing Visions in the past, told Council the company has a reputation for quality construction and management. In response to a question, Lockwood pointed out that, as a private entity, it has no power of eminent domain and had never asked a government to use its eminent domain powers on the company’s behalf. One key to the organization’s success was a rigorous vetting process for prospective tenants, including credit checks, reference checks not only for an applicant’s previous landlord, but also for the landlord before that, Long said.
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MLS#89316 - Move-in ready 4 BR, 2 bath Cape on over 8 acres in Cooperstown School District. Open floorplan w/kitchen, full bath and 2 BRs on 1st floor. Kitchen w/slate floors, SS appliances. Upstairs, master BR w/skylight and cathedral ceiling, full bath and 4th BR. Family room, office, laundry room. Wrap-around deck, pool, 2-car garage and invisible fence. $219,000 Call Kristi Ough @ 607-434-3026 (cell)
MLS#89527 - Move-in ready on 1¼ acres of treed, beautiful lawn, 63’ on Canadarago Lake. 4 BRs, with bonus BR over 2-stall garage. T-shaped dock is one of the best on the lake. You must see this lake home! $324,900 Call the Sluyter Team @ 315-520-6512 (cell) MLS#90345 - Great location close to I-88. Turn-ofthe-century classic farmette offers hardwood floors, woodstove, and the craftsmanship of yesteryear. Large outbuilding was once a wood-working shop. $147,000 Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633 (cell)
MLS#90712 - 5 BR, 2 bath village Victorian w/3-level carriage barn on an oversized lot. Upgrades include exterior paint, roof, windows, furnace, interior paint. Easily converts to a 2-family home w/upgraded electric, 2nd kitchen on 2nd floor. Full walk-up attic. $99,900 Call Thomas Platt @ 607-435-2068 (cell)
MLS#90534 - Inside completely gutted. New floors and some walls studded out. Blank canvas to finish for investment property. $47,500 Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633 (cell)
MLS#90578 - Queen Anne Victorian on an oversized lot. Lots of character, original hand-crafted woodwork, spacious rooms w/10’ ceilings, hardwood floors, 6 fireplaces, 4 pocket doors w/beveled glass, master suite w/walk-in closet and sitting room. Insulated walk-up attic, 2-car detached garage, balconies overlooking the spacious yard $195,000 Call Thomas Platt @ 607-435-2068 (cell)
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(7765) Perfect home for an owner occupied investment! This 5 BR, 5 bath historic home in Cooperstown features remodeled kitchens, new hardwood floors, knotty pine built-ins. Large sunroom leads to a deck surrounded by perennials. Utilities are separate. Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive–$299,000
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Only one family has owned this centrally located village Cape Cod style home since it was built in 1949. The house has a large living room with fireplace, dining room and large kitchen. Off of the kitchen is a glass enclosed sun porch with doors to the large backyard. Four bedrooms with two on the first floor and two on the second. A large open area on the second floor provides space for a variety of activities. There is a bath on each floor. The basement is partially finished and could easily be developed into more usable home space. The one car garage is oversized and allows for safe and easy access in all types of weather. No more shoveling out the car before you have to leave! A quick walk to the elementary school and the Sports Center. Bassett Healthcare and grocery stores are within walking distance, several blocks away. This house is in totally convenient location. Call for an appointment to visit and be the second owner of this Cooperstown Village Home! Exclusively offered by Don Olin Realty at $279,000
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MLS#83636 - Custom-built beauty, w/3 BR, 3 baths, 3 floors of living space. Open floorplan w/loft and cathedral ceilings. Light-filled kitchen and LR. Gourmet kitchen w/tile floor, SS appliances and granite countertop. Master BR suite w/master bath. $299,000 Call Kristi J. Ough @ 607-434-3026 (cell)
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MLS#90328 - 3 BR, 2 bath home, off the beaten path, in great condition. Over 11 acres, including 4 outbuildings,and a barn. 3 options of heating this home, oil, wood or electric. $229,099 Call Donna A. Anderson @ 607-267-3232 (cell)
MLS#90753 - Remodeled 2 BR, 1 bath home on 21.49+/- acres. Converted garage w/workshop and storage room w/concrete flr, electric, heat, telephone and water. Smaller storage bldg w/electric, stocked pond, meadow, woods and trails. $115,000 Call Katherine L. Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683
MLS#89932 - 2 bedroom 1 bath Quaint Cottage! Country living, new roof, new kitchen. $69,900 Call Gabriella Vasta @ 607-267-1792 (cell)
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MLS#89246 - Professionally restored post-and-beam 3 BR, 2 ½ bath home on 16.11 acres w/breathtaking views. Beamed ceilings and pine floors in great room, country kitchen, studio, family room, library/den. 1700+ sq ft workshop, pole barn w/ 2 horse stalls, stocked pond, orchard, pasture and woods. $399,900 Call Michelle Curran @ 518-469-5603 (cell)
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BETWEEN COOPERSTOWN AND ONEONTA!! Spacious 4+Bedroom House with ACREAGE, PRIVACY AND VIEWS Is On Your Wish List Your Search Is Over! This house has all you could be wishing for and more. And then there are the outbuildings. Home features include large living room with fireplace open to dining room and kitchen. Dining room has a french door that leads to a deck/balcony with gorgeous views of the mountains. First floor has 2 bedrooms and 2 full baths. Lower level features a nice family/rec room, 2 more bedrooms a full bath plus another room for a den, office or another bedroom if needed. With the floorplan as it is this house lends itself to being made into a possible 2-family or DREAMS PARK rental. Bottom floor could be totally separated with a separate entrance and another driveway is possible off the current driveway on the right hand side of the house. Upper garage could be 4-car and is well insulated, has heat, water and large windows. Lower garage has 1 car plus room for animals or storage. All of this for $264,900. MLS#90119
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LETTER/From A4 Mr. Downey implies that tourism has not been hurt by fracking in the Finger Lakes region. That is because the Finger Lakes region has not been fracked: Drilling there to date involves vertical drilling only. There is active local opposition to fracking, both because of concerns about the negative impact on water quality and agriculture and the potential impact on tourism. Completely absent from
Mr. Downey’s accounting are the costs, some established and some incalculable because they impact the future, of environmental damages from air pollution, leaking holding tanks, depletion of water and land resources, habitat destruction, the injection of toxic chemicals into shale and their migration into wells and aquifers, and the repeatedly documented violations of even the inadequately established and policed
drilling codes. An EPA report in 2011 unequivocally linked fracking fluid contaminants to underground water pollution, and wastewater byproducts reach the Susquehanna. Chesapeake has had 3,331 violations with regard to its 6,391 wells since 2009. They have paid only $4.9 million in fines. What happens on anyone’s land has consequences far beyond the immediate landowner. Compulsory integration, which is the law in New York State, means
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that gas may be extracted without compensation from land where 60 percent of adjacent landowners have signed leases. Increased seismic activity, sink holes, and contaminated air, land and water affect us all. Mr. Downey lauds the decline in COS emissions over the last 20 years, but these are not all due to a switch to natural gas. Furthermore, the point about CO2 emissions is that it is a greenhouse gas which is causing global warming. Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 and over a 20year period would, molecule for molecule, contribute
72 times as much to global warming over a 20 year period. And whatever the apparent immediate increase in job creation associated with natural gas drilling, the average well life is 8 years, creating a boom-bust cycle similar to over-building in the speculative housing market. In 2013, Bradford County was the only county in Pennsylvania to show an increase in the unemployment rate. MARY ANNE WHELAN Cooperstown
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Julia Bruce, 92; Employed At Homer Folks, SUNY, Hartwick BURLINGTON FLATS – Julia Bruce, 92, formerly of Burlington Flats, died early Monday morning, Nov. 4, 2013, at Bassett Hospital. She was born Oct. 29, 1921, near Altoona, Pa., a daughter of Austrian immigrants Anton and Agnes (Sernel) Oblak. After moving with her family to Otsego County, she was first employed at Homer Folks Hospital in Oneonta. It was here that she met her future husband, Gerald W. Bruce, a baker at the hospital. On Oct. 6, 1946, Julia and Gerald were united in marriage in a ceremony at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Roman Catholic Church, Cooperstown. Julia later worked in the dietary department at Hartwick College and in cleaning services at SUNY Oneonta. A communicant of St. Mary’s in Cooperstown, she was also a supporter of the Cooperstown Art Association. She loved animals, and had a special affection for her dogs and horses. Julia is survived by one son and daughter-in-law, John F. and Irene Bruce of Port Crane; two daughters and sons-in-law, Patricia A. and Stanley Bunal of Bristol, Vt., and Kathleen and Candeloria Seoane of Rome; three grandchildren, Adam
Bruce and his wife, Genevieve, of Denver, Colo., Anthony Seoane of Rome and Robert Seoane of Schenectady; one sister, Dorothy Kelly, Town of Exeter; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband of 60 years, Gerald, who died Dec. 4, 2006. She was also predeceased by three sisters, Agnes Reed who died earlier this year, Mollie Kirn who died in 2005, and Mary Pernat who died in 2002, and three brothers, Anton Oblak, Jr. and Frank Oblak who both died as young children, and her twin, Louis A. Oblak, who died in 2008. A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12, at St. Mary’s in Cooperstown, with the Rev. John P. Rosson, pastor, officiating. Burial will follow at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Index. Arrangements are entrusted to Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home.
WEST ONEONTA – Mary Stucin, age 100, who farmed with her husband in the Fly Creek Valley for decades, passed away Sunday, Nov. 3, at her home in West Oneonta. She was the daughter of the late Frank and Gertrude Korosec (Knapp) and the wife of the late John Stucin. The Stucins owned a family farm in Fly Creek Valley until 1974, when they retired to West Oneonta. Mary emigrated from Slovenia when she was 13 and grew up on her parents’ farm in Schuyler Lake. Her married life with John on the farm was a balancing act of raising children, farming, cooking and hosting legendary family gatherings. She was multitasking before anyone invented the term when she was able to feed family and guests while being a full-time partner in running the farm. She carried on her Slovenian heritage by enjoying
local social gatherings with the Slovenian National Benefit Society and the Farmers’ Independent Benevolent Mary Society at Stucin the Cornfield Hall in Fly Creek. She made delicious strudel, poticia and other traditional Slovenian foods. She visited and kept in touch with cousins Minka and Lojska in Slovenia. Even in her retirement, she had huge flower and vegetable gardens and felt great joy in feeding family, friends or giving away bushels of vegetables. She was a mother to many and easily made connections with friends young and old with her giving spirit. Her greatest delight was to feed and nourish loved ones with her delicious meals. She gave from her heart, freely and often. A devout Catholic, she was first a member
of St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Church in Cooperstown and later at St. Mary’s Church in Oneonta. She is survived by her daughter Mary Ann Hartmann (Joseph) of West Oneonta, her son John Stucin of Fly Creek, her daughter Joan Saboda (Karl) of Troy; six devoted grandchildren, Sarah Hartmann of Brooklyn, Peter Hartmann of New York City, Douglas Stucin and Jamie Stucin of North Augusta, S.C., Brian Saboda (Lauren) of Guilderland and Kevin Saboda of Buffalo; sister Sophie Smith of Gansevoort; sister-in-law Jeanette Korosec of West Winfield and brother-in-law Frank Struckle of Cresco, Pa., and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by three sisters, Jennie McCarthy, Anna Kerzick
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Edward Anthony Robinson, 84; Retired Teacher DAVENPORT – Edward Anthony Robinson, 84, a retired teacher, passed away on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013, at Fox Hospital Nursing Home. His wife, Patricia, is also a resident there. He was born on Dec. 25, 1928, in New York City, the son of Edward M. and Margaret (Arnold) Robinson. He married Patricia Kathleen Irish on Sept. 7, 1950. He served in the Marines from 1946 to 1947. For 31 years, Ed was a teacher for the Blue Mountain Middle School in Montrose, N.Y., retiring in 1981. Moving here in 1985 from Peekskill, Ed attended St. Mary’s Church in Oneonta. He was a member of the Marine Corp League and NYSUT.. Ed enjoyed travel, history, reading and woodworking. In addition to his wife of 63 years, he is survived by their six children: Mary (Jay) Champlin of Parksville, Sullivan County, Edna (Richard Green) Robinson of Sleepy Hollow, Ruth (Dennis) Carr of Davenport, Chris (Laura) Robinson of Hyde Park, Ed Robinson of Frederick, Md., and Mike (Adrienne) Robinson of Springfield, Va; 19 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by a daughter, Irene Robinson. A funeral mass was Tuesday, Nov. 5, at St. Mary’s, with the Rev. David Mickiewicz, pastor, officiating. Memorial contributions may be made to a charity of choice. Condolences to the family may be made online by visiting our website at www. grummonsfuneralhome.com Arrangements were entrusted to Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home.
and Elsie Struckle and brother Frank Korosec. Visitation will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 9, St. Mary’s in Oneonta, immediately followed by the funeral mass at 1 p.m. with Rev. David Mickiewicz, pastor, officiating. Burial will be at the convenience of the family at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Cooperstown. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Catskill Area Hospice, 1 Birchwood Drive Oneonta, NY 13820; St. Mary’s Church, 39 Walnut St., Oneonta, NY 13820; Farmers’ Independent Benevolent Society (The Cornfield) c/o Deborah Green 224 Bissell Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Arrangements are with the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home, Oneonta.
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