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Oneonta’s Nobel Friend POET DEREK WALCOTT PAYS 26TH VISIT
By LIBBY CUDMORE
Keith Wilber, chief manager of Rental One, shares concerns with 100 fellow landlords and neighbors of the proposed student housing complex on Bugbee Drive during a Wednesday, March 6, meeting at the Unitarian Universalist Church.
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hen I first came to Oneonta,” said Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, “I was surprised at how barren the hills were. It was late winter, and Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA I had to adBrittany Young of just – then Otego, and Michaela Young and Rachel GriffI could see ing of Oneonta model that this blues and greens at place was Prom-A-Palooza, a very beautipre-prom fashion show ful.” HOMETOWN ONEONTA Sunday, March 10, at It was Nobelist Derek Southside Mall. this sense Walcott shares his of beauty Lady Jackets, latest poems with a Hartwick College that inspired Irvington Vie him to write audience. “Upstate” In Final Four while traveling from Oneonta on fter their 55-52 an NYC-bound Trailways bus. The victory over Utica poem appeared in 1981’s “The FortuNotre Dame Saturnate Traveller.” day, March 9, the Lady YelThe attraction remains. Monday, lowjackets head to Troy this March 11, Walcott returned for his weekend for the Final Four. 26th visit since 1979 to Hartwick At 10 a.m. Friday, March College as the third in the “Four 15, they’ll take on threeWriters Who Changed The World” time state defending champ reading series. “He has been a friend Irvington at Hudson Valley Please See NOBELIST, A3 Community College. “Our hands are full, but we’ll go after them,” said Athletic Director Joe Hughes. The winner will go on to the championships at 4 p.m. Saturday, also in Troy.
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MANOR MEETINGS: The Otsego Manor Committee has scheduled the first of three public meetings on privatization at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 16, at the American Legion, Worcester. Meetings will follow in Cooperstown on the 23rd and April 6 in Oneonta. WHITHER FOTOT? Patrice Macaluso, who heads the Friends of the Oneonta Theatre, will give an update on the status of its revival at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 16, at the History Center, 183 Main. Public welcome. STILL TIME: Nominations will be accepted until Monday, March 25, for the city’s seventh annual Trailblazer Award. Nomination forms at www.oneonta.ny.us/ pdf/trailblazer.pdf. Call Joyce Miller, 432-8751.
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Neighbors, Landlords Organize Over Student Housing Complex But Mayor, Developer Say Many Of Concerns Won’t Come To Reality
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ides are choosing up over ON THE WEB: Newman Folks objecting to Development Corp.’s the Blodgett Drive proposed 325-student project were due at housing complex to the city Environmental Board Wednesthe north of the SUNY day, March 13. Full Oneonta campus. report at: In one camp are www.allotsego.com landlords and people living in the Bugbee INSIDE: For an Drive neighborhood “Other Views” comwhere the project is mentary by Rick planned. About 100 of Weinburg, proprietor them met Wednesday, of Rental One, Inc., March 6, at the Unitar- SEE A4 ian Universalist Church on Ford Avenue to discuss their options. The landlords are concerned students will be siphoned away from their downtown rental units; residents fear the impact on their neighborhood and its environment. In the other is Jeff Smetana, Newman’s vice president, who is making the case that SUNY Please See HOUSING, A3
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Peter Clark of Peter Clark Rentals helps himself to a sign expressing opposition to the project.
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ugh Henderson was raised on Oneonta’s isolated Southside – yes, isolated – and it wasn’t that long ago. When Henderson and his brother, Bob, were milking 40 Holsteins (where Lowe’s is today), there was Simonson’s Southside Dairy, processing milk from the neighboring dairy farms. Christopher’s was Johnson’s Dairy. There was
the Maple Motel, HUGH HENDERSON Shade (across from EUGENE A. today’s entry BETTIOL JR. to Walmart.) DISTINGUISHED Did you CITIZEN ever pick up a soft ice cream at McKillop’s Igloo? That was about it. When Hugh and Betty Henderson’s four children were growing up, there was no Lettis Highway. To get to school, Betty would drive the kids down Please See HENDERSON, B2
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ne weekend, Laurie Neander, RN, was called to a home to administer pain control to a young boy who was dying, in a familiar setting, surrounded by loving family members. Before the era of organizations like At Home Care, “this child would have been in the hospital,� she recalled. “This little guy deserved that weekend� – his final one – “at home.� That weekend turned a profession into a vocation for Neander, an OHS graduate with training at Albany Medical’s School of Nursing and degrees from American and Catholic universities in Washington, D.C. Today, she is CEO of the Bassett Healthcare $10 million affiliate, serving almost 1,000 patients in five counties at any one time.
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BEER FOR KINGS: Ommegang launches Iron Ale, inspired by HBO’s “Game of Thrones,� at a wild game Great Beer Deserves Great Food dinner. 7 p.m. Friday, March 15. Brewery Ommegang, 656 Cnty Hwy 33, Cooperstown. Info, tickets, www. ommegang.com. PETER PAN: CCS Senior Class presents Peter Pan and Wendy. Adults $10, Students $5. 7 p.m. Friday, March 15, 3:15 and 7 p.m. Saturday, March 16. 39 Linden Ave, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-8181. CRAYON CREATION: Inflatable bounce houses, slides, games, and food and the Stroll of Nations where kids “visit� different countries through music, games, and more. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, March 16. Cooperstown Middle/High School, 39 Linden Ave, Cooperstown. Info, Alicia Chase, (607) 267-1483, achase@stny.rr.com. ST. PADDY’S FEAST The Knights of Columbus of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha will have their annual St. Patrick’s Day Dinner of corned beef & cabbage. Donations accepted. No charge. Noon-4 p.m. Sunday, March 17. St. Mary’s Parish Center, 31 Elm St, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-7524.
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Bob Brzozowski, Greater Oneonta Historical Society executive director, dusted off samples of Oneonta newspapers For the Postcard and Ephemera Show on Saturday, March 9. George “Buddy” Beams of Buddy’s Coins in Maryland, holds a rare uncirculated 1881 Carson City Silver Dollar under the magnifying glass at the 23rd Annual Coins, Cards and Collectables Show on Sunday, March 10.
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was meeting Wednesday, March 13, and the landlords and neighbors planned to attend. Smetana’s next step in the process comes Wednesday, March 20, when he reviews plans with the Planning Commission. In an interview, Rick Weinberg, proprietor of Rental One Inc., one of the city’s two main studentrental companies, said he’s afraid any tax abatement on the new project will put existing landlords at a disadvantage. “It’s America,” he said, “and if they have a legal right to build it, they have a legal right to build it. But we want a level playing field; we don’t want our tax dollars to be used to compete against us.” The Binghamton-based Newman’s project will take $3 million out of the city annually, money now being spent locally by local landlords, he said.
In a fly sheet distributed prior to the landlord/neighbor meeting, Weinberg estimated the Newman project would increase downtown vacancies by 20 percent; rents will drop, landlords will sell and vacant properties in the city will rise. He said upstairs apartments on Main Street subsidize street-level retailers, and those rents would have to go up, too. For his part, Smetana said the futuristic complex is “a product that the college really needs.” While SUNY hasn’t explicitly endorsed his plan, he pointed out that it quickly shelved its own 200-townhome plan when his plan surfaced. Weinberg argued enrollment is stable, but Smetana said the student body has grown by 250 in five years: Future growth will be “grad students and international students who would need
12-month occupancy, something beyond traditional housing.” “The city’s own master plan for center city,” he continued, “saw the further encroachment of student housing into quality neighborhoods as a problem. Student housing is starting to overreach, forcing up prices for homeowners and renters. Colleges expressed the concern incoming faculty can’t find reasonable housing.” As for Miller, he said concerns are premature. “The neighbors who live on the hillside, their concerns will be addressed by the Planning Commission. That process is underway.” Common Council has provided funds for the commission to hire its own independent engineer. “The concerns about abatement are, from my point of view, also premature,” he continued. “Although Newman has expressed
interest, no application has been made. That would have a life of its own as well.” While declining to go into further detail, he provided a March 11 memo to Common Council on the findings of the Housing Task Force, formed a year ago after lively debate at a packed Housing Summit at Center Street School. “The task force identified as major issues, the lack of affordable housing and significant deterioration of some student rental properties,” it read in part. It went on to discuss an alliance with Housing Visions, a Syracusebased non-profit, where $300,000 in city money and a $400,000 state grant would leverage $13 million in private investment for “the acquisition and renovation of single and multi-family housing units (to be owner-occupied incrementally).”
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It was a reunion, of sorts: Walcott wrote his 1989 play “The Ghost Dance” for the college’s Cardboard Alley Players. Former director of the Hartwick Theatre Company Duncan Smith was in the audience, as was Phil Young, who did the publicity art for the show when it was entered in the American College Theatre Festival. The play was dedicated to Benson and Smith. Now 83 and in a wheelchair, Walcott was escorted to his table by Bensen and Jason Curley. He read quietly from his latest collection, 2010’s “White Egrets,” which won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Boscas Prize for Caribbean Literature. His gravelly voice trembled at times as he read two poems remembering friends who have died. Many of his poems, including the open-
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t’s easy to spend somebody else’s money, but listening to Otsego Land Trust chair Harry Levine’s report on efforts to keep Brookwood Point open to the public, it was hard not to think about SUNY Oneonta. The state campus routinely spends $40 million a year on renovation and new construction – and spends it well: The campus looks very smart. It is obviously loved and tended, (a credit to, among many, Tom Rathbone of Milford, the associate VP for facilities.) But SUNY Oneonta is not just the main campus. Its initiatives in the northern part of the county have been fruitful for the institution, the Cooperstown area and academe in general. The master’s in lake management, offered by the Biological Field Station, halfway up Otsego Lake at Thayer Farm, is the first of its kind in the nation. SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski often speaks of the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, a collaboration with the New York Historical Association, as a “jewel in the crown” of her striving, everstriving institution. And what a success story, as punctuated by CGP grad Greg Harris’ elevation last fall to president of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. • Saturday, March 9, in Cooper-
IF YOU DONATE: Contributions to raise the $62,000 local match on a $188,000 U.S. Scenic Byways Grant for Brookwood may be sent to Otsego Land Trust, Box 173, Cooperstown NY 13326, or call 547-2366 stown’s Templeton Hall, Levine was briefing the public on the Land Trust’s efforts to keep Brookwood Point in the public sphere. It is the only remaining acreage that can provide any further public access to James Fenimore Cooper’s Glimmerglass. In 2011, when it looked like the 22 acres, then owned by the Cook Foundation, might go into private hands (now-U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna was negotiating to buy it), the public outcry prompted the Land Trust to step forward. After negotiations, the Cook Foundation merged with the Land Trust, and the new entity assumed Brookwood’s ownership. (The Land Trust was already fully subscribed; it holds easements on 10,000 acres, and has put together a recreational trail for canoeing, fishing and recreation from Deowongo Island in Canadarago Lake to Oak Creek’s entry into the Susquehanna at Hartwick Seminary. But this was important.) Since 2011, as Levine reported, an ice-out last spring crushed Brookwood’s docks, a source of
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Is the Otsego Land Trust’s Brookwood Mansion on Otsego Lake a liability – or an asset?
revenue now lost. But wedding rentals and a one-time windfall – $20,000 in insurance for the docks, which haven’t been rebuilt – allowed Brookwood to finish 2012 at $20,000 in the black. The trajectory, though, is headed in the wrong direction. Levine estimates it will cost $25,000 a year to keep the property stable – among other things, the gardens, planned by landscape architect Frederick de Peyster Townsend at the beginning of the 20th century, are being revived and that has to
be ongoing. A plan is also in hand to develop Brookwood – it’s a delightful place, looking across the lake toward Kingfisher Tower – for passive recreation: canoes, picnicking, bird-watching. During the recent Cooperstown Winter Carnival, it was the jumping-off point for a snow-shoe and x-country-ski trek across the lake and back. And a $188,000 U.S. Scenic Byways Grant has been obtained to make that happen. A $62,000 match is required, and one-third has already been raised. But Levine is adamant: The Land Trust can’t afford a drag on its finances; sooner rather than later, Brookwood Point will have to pay its way. One liability – or is it an asset? – is the former Cook home on the property, complete with Victorian filigree, which over the years fell into disrepair. It will cost an estimated $90,000 just to raze it, $130,000 or so to stabilize it. • The good news is that Virginia Kennedy, the Land Trust’s new executive director (she starts work March 19), has a background in development and fundraising. Ideal. Further, the county has no park on Otsego Lake, and this would be an ideal property to adopt. However, Otsego Manor’s grow-
ing deficit has sucked up all the oxygen. Until The Manor is stabilized, there will be no money for something like Brookwood – or, for that matter, anything else, including the $90,000 needed for a water district on Southside Oneonta, which would enable development that would pay for itself in a couple of years. But what if SUNY Oneonta adopted, at least, the old Cook mansion, renovating it for a conference center, housing for CGP students and/or lodging for visiting dignitaries? It would be another gem in the college’s crown, unique – and relatively inexpensive. A reasonable lease would help make Brookwood sustainable. When you think about its adjunct campuses, should SUNY Oneonta be rechristened SUNY Otsego? Or SUNY Glimmerglass Region? Or somesuch. Attention, marketers. Everyone agrees that SUCO, today’s generally used moniker, is no adornment for a campus competing with Geneseo to be The Harvard of the SUNY System. In any event, a Land Trust/ SUNY Oneonta alliance would be worth a conversation, one Levine no doubt would welcome. “Community Partnership” is one of the “six pillars” of SUNY Oneonta’s new strategic plan, and this just may be a low-cost, low-risk way to put a toe in the water.
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Only Public Ownership Provides Quality Care To the Editor: Anyone who has been in any other area nursing home besides Otsego Manor knows that, with profit as a motive, something has to give. I’ve done my research by talking with people who work/worked in the field and reading the university studies showing that for-profits negatively affect the level of care. My mother was in one for two weeks until moved to The Manor. The care was night and day. I’ll state the obvious - as people age, their ability to snap back lessens; a what is normally a small problem becomes much more serious. A small wound, without proper nutrition, won’t heal. A fall can cause bruising and broken bones. People in poor health frequently don’t consume enough calories to fight back, and become depressed if isolated. They die quicker. Care is key, and we have it. The thought of privatizing a taxpayer facility, while ignoring the public outcry to consider other options without true input from the community, is despicable. The county board will tell you they did consider
“all options.” This isn’t true. They hired no consultant as they did with MOSA. They are truly “kicking the can” and getting it “off their plates” due to sheer laziness. It takes effort to find solutions, work together across the aisle and draw in all the political clout necessary to make it work. It takes no effort to privatize, form an LDC and pass the responsibility on to another group, while taxpayers lose out. We all lose on accessibility, ownership and control, quality of care – and our workers, salaries and pensions that are spent in our county and drive the economy. A financial solution must be found quickly and one including renegotiations with CSEA was suggested, but county Reps. Stuligross, Powers, Clark and Lindberg would not consider it, nor any increase to sales tax. They offer NO ideas. Stuligross says she is committed to “quality” care, but is heading in a direct path in the opposite direction. She doesn’t get it. She cares only about her Please See CULBERT, A6
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OK Student Complex, City Loses $3 Million A Year
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he decisions we make opment will be requesting that on Newman Dethe taxpayers of the velopment Group’s City of Oneonta fund their proposed 325-bed student own city’s decline when they Complex on Blodgett Drive ask the IDA to grant a tax is a pivotal moment in abatement. This development Oneonta’s history. It may will be providing almost no seem like just another develpermanent jobs or lasting benopment, but the choices we efit to our community. It most make now will have farcertainly will result in lost reaching consequences long jobs, bankruptcies, and foreinto the future. Everyone’s closures and it will ruin the home and business values lives of many of our indepenHOMETOWN ONEONTA dent landlords. Businesses on will be adversely affected if we allow this project to be Newman VP Jeff Smetana discusses project with our Main Street will suffer as city Planning Board in January. developed. less students shop downtown. I am a property manager Main St. building owners may regarding foreclosed properties in and landlord who rents to both famibe forced to raise rents on retailers as Cleveland, Ohio, stated, “when there lies and students, so admittedly I do student-occupied apartments go vacant are three or four boarded up houses have a vested interest in the outcome. above our storefronts. on your block, your house is not just However, one only needs to think I have built a property-management worth less, it’s worthless.) The Cenabout the effect a complex such as this ter City will be subject to crime and business and work force that has 22 will have on our economy. The profull-time workers. I have been in busiundesirable activity as boarded up posed complex will have 325 students houses will always attract an undesirness in Oneonta for over 35 years. My paying approximately $9,000 per year able element. firm, Rental Company One Inc., proto live there. The $3 million the develvides good well-paying jobs. Almost However, the worst effects will be oper will collect will leave Oneonta. all of my employees have worked in unseen. What will be the effect of $3 Just a few jobs will be available at the leaving the City of Oneonta? Previous- my firm for more than 20 years, and complex. What will Oneonta receive more than half over 20 years. They all ly landlords collecting this rent would for the privilege of having this comhave a 401K matching retirement plan. spend this money on maintenance plex on Blodgett Drive? I estimate that if the Newman Project workers, building supplies, automoThe number of students attending is approved, I will be forced to lay off biles, vans, and all other things busiSUNY Oneonta is stable and is not workers and cut my $700,000 payroll ness owners’ purchase. In Keynesian expected to increase. In recent years considerably. I believe that more jobs economics, there is concept known as many landlords have already begun the “Local Multiplier Effect, where ev- will be lost in my one company than experiencing vacancies due to a large Newman Development will provide at ery dollar spent in a small community oversupply of rental apartments. With is multiplied five times. This means $3 this complex. The millions of dollars 325 students taken out of the center my firm and other individual landlords million leaving Oneonta for Vestal is city, there will still be approximately and corporations have spent in recent equivalent to the City of Oneonta los1,700 students left in center city and in ing $15 million.. years renovating our existing housdowntown apartments. Why would we even consider doing ing stock will be forced to end. Our However, now there will be approx- this? Some people believe that the community’s philosophy has always imately 120 additional vacant apartbeen one of fostering job growth. If relatively small amount of money we ments (utilizing a figure of 2-3 stumay get in real-estate taxes will some- this project is approved, and tax abatedents average per apartment.) This will how make up for the nearly $3 million ments are granted, jobs will be taken cause additional houses to be boarded away from our local workers and huge leaving Oneonta. Others have said up and there will be less maintenance sums of money will be exported to that this will encourage more affordon existing properties as landlords are a large national developer based in able single-family ownership. If this unable to rent. Lawns will be mowed concept were correct, why are families Vestal. less frequently, and exterior mainAt my firm, my workers have lanot already purchasing the dozens of tenance items such as painting and mented that the newly minted phrase, vacant properties that currently exist? roofing will be even more difficult to “Life Enjoyed,” may unfortunately Shouldn’t we first solve the problem of accomplish. become “Life Unemployed.” I trust existing vacant homes before embarkAs the basic laws of supply and that our mayor and Common Council ing on a plan that will create many demand take hold, rents will fall and will not let this occur. more vacant homes? What amount of landlords will be unable to pay their money in real-estate taxes would be mortgages and maintenance expenses. needed for anyone to be in favor of Rick Weinberg is proprietor of This will cause foreclosures and Rental Company One, which rents sending $3 million to another comforced sales. Both single family and apartments to students and non-stumunity? rental property values will decline, as dents in the city. To make matters worse, Newman more houses are vacant and boarded Development will be asking for realup. A recent “60 Minutes” story estate tax abatements. Newman Devel-
HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-5
FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2013
HOMETOWN
Douglas H.
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Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library
125 Years Ago
The bright, spring-like weather of Friday and Saturday last, a warm sun shining on bare ground, was succeeded by a dark day Sunday, and that night began the heaviest snowfall of the season. The wind came up with the day, and the dry, powdery snow still falling, drifts formed very quickly. The scene on Main Street Tuesday morning was Arctic enough – nothing in sight but great heaps and long reaches of dazzling snow, with here and there a puzzled wayfarer; and nothing astir but the snow shovel. Toward noon things wore a livelier aspect, and many got out to enjoy the fine sleighing, while trade went on in a small way. But, it was a pretty dull day in the stores and business places. Not a stage or a train the whole day long and most of the telephone and telegraph lines down. Wednesday brought a marked change. The day dawned bright, the sun shone warm and the whole countryside was soon up and armed with shovels to clear the roads. The stage from Davenport was the first one to reach Oneonta, getting here about noon. That from Morris arrived toward night – having toiled through mighty drifts. The Hartwick stage pulls through today and perhaps that from Delhi, though the drifts on the hills are of fifty to a hundred feet at a stretch and six to eight feet deep. March 1888
100 Years Ago
Saturday night the local high school quintet played the Morris team on the latter’s court and were victorious by the score of 56 to 13. The game was rather one-sided, but nevertheless interesting. The team work of the Oneonta boys was excellent and aided materially in winning the game. Soden and Gregory of Oneonta were the stars of the game, the former throwing ten baskets and the latter seven. Bull, the fast left guard of the Oneonta team, was unable to go with the team and Manager Polley was substituted in his
place. He too, played a good game, holding his man down to one lone basket, while he caged the sphere three times himself. March 1913
60 Years Ago
Camilla Williams, leading soprano of the New York City Opera Co. for five years, will be heard at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday, in State Teachers College auditorium in the third and final program of the 1952-1953 Community Concert Series. As a concert singer she has captivated audiences from Venezuela to northern Alaska, and as a soloist with orchestras she has won the praise of noted conductors, among them Stowkowski. She is the first prima donna of the Negro race who had a steady job in a major opera company. Early in 1946 she auditioned for Laszlo Halasz, director of the New York City Opera Company and soon broke tradition by creating the most talked of post-war Cio-Cio-San in Madame Butterfly. Her roles have been Nedda in Pagliacci, Mimi in Lae Boheme, and the title role in Aida. She has sung excerpts from Butterfly on the Kate Smith television hour. MGM and Columbia records have released a number of her selections. March 1953
40 Years Ago
Bicycling shoppers will get a place to “park” their bicycles on Main Street, if locations suggested by the city’s Anti-Pollution Board are accepted. The merchants division of the Chamber of Commerce has offered to put up bicycle racks and the Common Council asked the Anti-Pollution Board to suggest locations for the racks. AntiPollution board members decided to ask for bicycle racks on each Main Street downtown block, one on each side of the street from Chestnut Street to Dietz Street to Ford Avenue. It will be suggested that another bicycle rack be placed on the north side of the Main Street block from Ford Avenue to Elm Street. Other racks would also
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be recommended for each park and in the municipal parking lot. The city will celebrate Earth Week in conjunction with the State’s Earth Week from April 9 to 15. March 1973
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30 Years Ago
Americans are among the world’s most satisfied people and are more likely to believe in heaven than in hell, according to a poll taken in 16 countries. Danes and Swedes also rank among the world’s most content people. However, Japanese, Italians and Spanish ranked as the most dissatisfied. The report also found that 80 percent of Americans and 55 percent of British were “very proud” of their nationality, but only 21 percent of East Germans, 30 percent of Japanese and 33 percent of French said they feel that way. Asked if they would fight for their country in a war, 71 percent of Americans and 62 percent of British citizens said they would. March 1983
20 Years Ago
Opinion: Few people were surprised when they heard that Michael Griffin, dressed in his Sunday best, armed with a 38-caliber revolver, had shot Dr. David Gunn in the back. It was inevitable, said a pro-choice leader, who heard about the murder. “While Gunn’s death is unfortunate,” said Don Treshman of Rescue America, “it’s also true that quite a number of babies’ lives will be saved.” “While it is wrong to kill,” said Randall Terry of Operation Rescue, “we have to recognize that this doctor was a mass murderer.” “Praise God,” said a protester at a clinic in Melbourne, Florida. “One of the baby killers is dead!” If abortion is murder, after all, then the moral arithmetic taught by this rhetoric would seem to justify killing one life to save hundreds. Michael Griffin cannot become the next step on an escalator of violence. He must be the last step. March 1993
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A-6 HOMETOWN ONEONTA
FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2013
Proposed Student Housing Complex Will Bring Nothing Positive To Oneonta To the Editor: I have resided in Oneonta for more than 30 years and have never before found it necessary to write a letter to the editor. It has recently come to my attention that something that I consider to be disastrous to our small city is about to occur. I refer to the 325bed student complex proposed by Newman Development at the top of Blodgett Drive. As I have driven about Oneonta over the past several years, I have been struck by the large multitude of empty houses that are either boarded up or with “For Sale” signs on the front lawn. There are multiple examples on nearly every street in the city. It is my understanding that the city already must maintain at least 80 abandoned houses as it now stands. The city is about to entertain the concept of many years of tax abatement to an out-of-town pri-
vate investor, whose project will cause the vacancy and likely sale of nearly 100 or more additional properties. Other people will desperately try to sell their homes and move out as property values begin to plummet due to the surrounding vacancies. Store fronts in downtown will continue to become vacant as rents will begin to rise, because the upstairs apartments become vacant with no tenants to subsidize the costs of building maintenance and taxes. The entire concept of the high-end apartments above the Bresee’s project will be cast asunder with no renters available. Nearly $2.7 million will leave the city each year in the pockets of outside investors, with no tax benefits returning to the city. Few to no jobs will be created in the process. The apartments likely are run by student tenants paid with various incentives of rent abatement.
Sure, in the short term there may be some construction jobs, but that’s over in the first year. With this firm jobs will likely be mainly given to outside firms (as recently seen with an outside surveying firm mapping the property). After Hartwick College built its new dorm, there are now 15 homes vacant and boarded up between West Columbia and Clinton streets. Empty houses all over the city entice vagrants and encourage the start up of crack houses. Neighbors get scared and move out. It would be prohibitively costly for any future family to move in and attempt to convert a multi-unit house back into a single-family home. I have one four-unit rental home that was part of the deal when I purchased my medical building. Each year I have spent many thousands of dollars upgrading and maintaining each of these
units. Those dollars were spent at local shops and building supply stores (Munsons, etc). I employ local building tradesmen in the repair work. This will no longer happen without tenants, and this is only one of the hundreds of rental properties in the city. None of our local entrepreneurs have ever received even $1 in tax abatement for their efforts to maintain or enhance their properties and they shouldn’t. The city receives taxes from each of us, workmen receive wages and pay more taxes, and local businesses sell their products used in renovation. Money spent in Oneonta stays in Oneonta and multiplies itself 10 times in most business economic models. It works! Accountants, bankers, realtors, building supply stores, plumbers, electricians, Main Street and the entire city will be adversely affected by what they are con-
templating. The whole concept is extremely ill advised. SUNY Oneonta is not planning to increase its enrollment, as has been confirmed in several conversations with their administration. They have 30 empty rooms, there are no “triples” (the crowding of three students into space built for two), as suggested by the developer citing the need for his project. Hartwick, in order to fill its dorms, have just restricted the whole junior class from living off campus. The rental industry brings a lot of benefit to its community. Cities where this concept has been put in place have only survived because of their size. The economic impact on a small town of our size will be pure devastation. Unfortunately I cannot perceive anything positive coming from this extremely ill-conceived plan. Paul J. Sweet, MD Oneonta
Ed Lentz May Run For County Board – But Not Yet
Privatization Degrades CULBERT/From A4 re-election, which hopefully won’t happen. The Manor serves the whole county, not just the folks currently in the Manor. In last week’s newspaper, Mr. Harlem’s letter looks at this county service from a narrow view. Perhaps he looks at the jail differently, or road crews, or the office workers. If it serves the county, it serves all of us. We must pay for these services; our taxes, whether state or federal, all go to that end. Taxes go up with expenses. Thanks to the weak board, we are now on a path to lose The Manor, and in the 11th hour. We need a “Hail Mary” pass. Step up and speak out now. MAUREEN CULBERT East Springfield
To the Editor: There have been several recent reports to the effect that I am the Democratic Party candidate for the county board, District 5 (New Lisbon, Hartwick, Milford). In fact, many people have offered congratulations and encouragement. However, the truth is that I am not the Democratic Party candidate, at least not yet, and that I have not yet made up my mind about running. My dilemma has several sources, including that I enjoy being a New Lisbon Town
Board member. I believe I am making a useful contribution to our community in that capacity and part of me would prefer to run for re-election there. In addition, I will not run for the county board unless and until I convince myself that I will have the time to manage my legal practice, co-manage our farm (with our son), ably serve on the County Board, and still have a family life. On the other hand, reasons for running include that I could perhaps make more of a contribution to our community as a
county representative and that the residents of New Lisbon, Hartwick and Milford deserve stronger representation on the board, especially when it comes to issues as important as hydrofracking, The Manor, the pipeline, county management and others. I should also make clear that while many members of the Democratic Committee and others have encouraged me to run, the process remains an open one. Whatever I decide about myself, and whatever endorsements the committee may
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development,” said Lewis. “I see this as a potential boon to attract people and new businesses to rural areas,” said Seward. “I was happy to support this application.” The project will take 18-24 months to complete, and Lewis says she’s eager to get all contracts in place and requirements met. Meanwhile, a working group is being put together to decide which area will get to test the program out first. “We could try it out in Roseboom; it would be a great boost,” said county Rep. Beth Rosenthal, D-Roseboom, who uses the Internet for her work booking Middle East trips for executives through a San Francisco agency. “It would be a great boost.” Noting expense may still be a hurdle, she continued. “It’s not easy to get access here at all. Satellite is expensive, and there are weather issues: It goes out if there’s a storm.”
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Saturday, March 16 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sunday, March 17 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Many new vendors and unique gift ideas. Spend the day with us and have lunch at the Cyber Cafe!
COOP FARMERS MARKET -- 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Pioneer Alley. Info, (607) 547-6195, www. otsego2000.org ONEONTA FARMERS MARKET -- 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Garage Walkway, Main St. Plaza. Info, www.Oneontafarmersmarket.com CRAYON CARNIVAL -- 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Bounce house, slides, games, food. Stroll of Nations where kids “visit” different countries through music, games. Cooperstown Middle/ High School, 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown. Info, Alicia Chase, (607) 267-1483, achase@stny. rr.com. BENEFIT SUPPER -- 1 p.m. Corned Beef and Cabbage dinner benefit for Susan Drake Skillin. Irish music, Chinese Auction. Hartwick Veteran’s Club, 3099 Co. Hwy. 11, Hartwick. Info, (607) 293-7511. SENIOR PLAY -- 3:15 & 7 p.m. “Peter Pan and Wendy.” Adults $10, Students $5. Cooperstown Central School, 39 Linden Ave, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 5478181. SOCCER DINNER -- 5-8 p.m. SUNY Oneonta Women’s Soccer team hosts 8th Annual “Dinner and Auction with the Dragons.” All you can eat pasta, adults $10, 10 and under $5. Elks Club, 84 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, Liz McGrail, (607) 436-3474. COFFEE HOUSE -- 6:30-8:30 p.m. Chris Wolf-Gould Ensemble performs. All welcome, refreshments available by donation. Elm Park Church’s Coffee House, 401 Chestnut St, Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-6552. MOVIE -- 6:30, 9:30 p.m. shows. “Silver Linings Playbook.” Free with SUCO ID, $3 to all others. Red Dragon Theatre, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, (607) 436-2550. CELTIC MUSIC -- 7 p.m. Glenravel and the Claddagh Ring Irish Dancers perform to traditional Irish music. Unadilla Valley Central School Auditorium, 4238 NY Hwy. 8, New Berlin. Info, Bonnie Jean Bauer, (607) 847-9747. WIZARD OF OZ -- 7:30 p.m.
Milford School Music Association’s production of “The Wizard of Oz.” $7.50. Milford Central School Theater, 42 W. Main St., Milford. Info, (607) 286-7721, ext. 8210. PHILHARMONIC -- 8 p.m. Fly Creek Philharmonic with “Location, Location, Location.” Benefits Cooperstown Food Bank. Fly Creek Methodist Church, Fly Creek.
Sunday, March 17 St. Patrick’s Day
SUGAR SUNDAYS -- 8:30 a.m.2 p.m. Sugaring-Off Sundays. Pancake breakfast, demonstrations, opening of the Empire State Carousel. $9 adults, $5 under 13, under 6 free. The Farmer’s Museum, 5775 St. Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-1472. NATIONAL KIDNEY WEEK -- Noon-3 p.m. Bassett Healthcare Network and the Northeast Kidney Foundation bring together people impacted by chronic kidney disease and kick-off the formation of the Kidney Club of Oneonta. Event is free, food and refreshments available. If weather questionable, event will be postponed to 4/21. Hampton Inn, 225 River St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 547-3914. CORNED BEEF -- Noon-4 p.m. The Knights of Columbus of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha annual St. Patrick’s Day Dinner of corned beef & cabbage. Donations welcome. St. Mary’s Parish Center, 31 Elm St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-7524. MOVIE -- 6:30, 9:30 p.m. shows. “Silver Linings Playbook.” Free with SUCO ID, $3 to all others. Red Dragon Theatre, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, (607) 436-2550. FLOOD PLANNING -- 1:30 p.m. Bryan Quinn, restoration ecologist and landscape architect, presents “Planning for Flood Events in the Butternut Valley.” New Lisbon Town Hall, 908 Cty. Rd. 16, Garrattsville. Info, Teresa Winchester, (607) 783-2064. LIBRARY LECTURE -- 2 p.m. Erna Morgan McReynolds speaks on socially-responsible investing. Cooperstown Friends of the Village Library lecture series, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-8199. WIZARD OF OZ -- 3 p.m.
Milford School Music Association play. $7.50. Milford Central School Theater, 42 W. Main St., Milford. Info, (607) 286-7721. ext. 8210. TEA & GARDENS -- 3 p.m. Renowned lecturer Katherin Astor on Small English Gardens, preceded by a proper English tea party. Free, all welcome, please RSVP. Templeton Hall, 63 Pioneer St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-8877, ny900@aol.com.
Monday, March 18
GRANT WRITING -- 6-8 p.m. Career Opportunities for Rural Education class in Grant Writing. Pre-registration required. Oneonta Adult Ed., 31 Center St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 286-7721, erickard@milfordcentral.org. ABRORIST - 6:45 p.m. “The Comeback of the American Chestnut Tree” with Allen Nichols. Friends of Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-8096.
Tuesday, March 19
CONCERT -- 7:30 p.m. High School Mid-Winter Concert, Cooperstown Central School, 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown.
Wednesday, March 20 Spring!
GREEN WORKSHOP -- 4-7 p.m. Green Jobs Green NY Workshop on energy-efficient homes. Cherry Valley Community Center, 2 Genesee St., Cherry Valley. Info, (607) 723-0110, www.energywiseotsego.eventbrite.com. TOWN HALL MEETING -- 7 p.m. Rep. Beth Rosenthal meeting to hear concerns and questions. Old School Cafe, Cherry Valley Community Center. Info, (415) 264-9537, district7Rep@ gmail.com, http:\\tinyurl.com/ Rosenthal7
Thursday, March 21
CLARINET -- 7 p.m. Hartwick clarinet instructor Robin Seletsky performs newly commissioned “Concerto for Klezmer Clarinet and Wind Ensemble” with the Hartwick College Symphonic Band. Hartwick College, Anderson Center for the Arts Theatre, 1 Hartwick Dr, Oneonta. Info Jason Curley, (607) 431-4802.
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Maple Weekend Open House March 16 and 17, 23 and 24 8 am to 3 pm Pancakes and sausage, our own maple syrup!, applesauce, orange juice, coffee and milk Adults $6, Children $4, Children under 5 free maple cream • maple sugar • maple popcorn maple cotton candy • product samples • jack wax 382 state Hwy 28, richfield springs
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IN MEMORIAM Glenadore B. Super, 96; 1st Little League Auxiliary President ONEONTA – Glenadore B. Super, 96, a founding member of the Little League Auxiliary, passed away March 7, 2013, at Fox Nursing Home, Oneonta. She was born March 9, 1916 in New Berlin, the daughter Ralph and Anna (Sherburne) Bassett. She married Edward Super on Nov. 22, 1941, at St. Mary’s Rectory in Oneonta. Glen was employed at the Oneonta High School in the Food Service Department for over 40 years.
She was a member of the 6th Ward Athletic Club and a founding member and first president of the Little League Auxiliary. She enjoyed bowling, playing cards and watching the Yankees. Most of all she loved spending time with her family. Glen is survived by a daughter, Karen and Allen Burrows of Oneonta; a son, Michael Super of Louisville, Ky.; grandchildren, Scott and Rozlyn Burrows, Todd and Laurie Burrows,
Chad and Andrea Burrows, Jennifer Super and Edward Super; great-grandchildren, Lucas Burrows, Brooke Burrows, Kylee Burrows, Carter Burrows, Bryce Burrows and Ryan Burrows; and several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband, Edward on Sept. 3, 1966; a sister, Marjorie VanDellon; and a daughter-in-law, Patrice Super. A funeral was held Monday, March 11, at the Lewis,
Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home, Oneonta, with the Rev. David Mickiewicz, pastor at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, officiating. Interment will be in the Mt. Calvary Cemetery at a later date. Donations in her memory to the 6th Ward Athletic Club Foundation, Attn. Joe Sperry, 4 Petri Drive, Oneonta, NY 13820. Arrangements are entrusted to the Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home, 51 Dietz St., Oneonta.
Terry A. Sperry, 60; Maintained SUNY Grounds For 29 Years DAVENPORT – Terry A. Sperry, 60, a former SUNY Oneonta groundskeeper, passed away Friday, March 8, 2013, at Fox Hospital. Terry was born on July 12, 1952, in Oneonta, the son of the late Ernest D. and Kathleen (Montgomery) Sperry. On Oct. 8, 1971, he married Linda Bakker in
Oneonta. Terry was a graduate of Charlotte Valley High School in 1971. He was employed by SUNY Oneonta as a groundskeeper for over 29 years. His favorite hobbies included field trailing, water racing his coon hounds and hunting. Terry is survived by his
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wife of 41 years, Linda Sperry; his two sons, Dustin (Kimberly) Sperry and Daniel (Patty) Sperry; his beloved dog, Pancake; and his grandchildren, Olivia, Nolan, Samantha, and Rebecca Sperry. He is also survived by his sisters, Mildred “Milly” Sperry and Penny Whitmore; his nephews, Wayne Sperry, Steve
Sperry, and Charlie Whitmore; and his niece, Tammy Whitmore. Terry was predeceased by his brother, Ernie Sperry. In keeping with Terry’s wishes, there will be no public calling hours or funeral service. Arrangements are entrusted to the Bookhout Funeral Home, Oneonta.
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Timothy J. Mallery, 59; Catskill Historian ONEONTA – Timothy J. Mallery, 59, a board member of the Mountain Top Historical Society, died after a long illness on Feb. 19, 2013. He was born in Baltimore to Guy Mallery Jr. and Audrey Joyce Mallery, formerly of Oneonta. He worked as an information technology professional for 20 years at the Wilber National Bank. He was an avid historian of the Catskill Mountains region and served on the board of the Mountain Top Historical Society. The family will have a private service. Arrangements are entrusted to the Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home, 51 Dietz St., Oneonta.
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MLS# 87807 - Everything is new: roof/interior/refrigerator/ dishwasher/stove/carpet/all flooring/doors/bathtub/ shower and more. Roomy LR w/large windows, 2 BRs/large kitchen w/dining area. Situated on 5.52 acres w/stream and over 600’ of rd front. Cherry Valley school district. $83,000 Call Rod and Barb @ 315-520-6512
MLS#85025 - Motivated sellers will consider all offers. Come take a look at this home set on 2.62 acres. $95,000 CALL OR TEXT SHARON TEATOR 607-267-2681
New Listing MLS#87635 - Great location, close to Chobani and NYCM, this 3 BR ranch is also close to great trout fishing and the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. $149,000 Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633
MLS#85578 – Location, seclusion and views make this solid contemporary build ideal for working, living and playing in the Cooperstown area. Within minutes of Dreams Park, Otsego Lake and the Baseball Hall of Fame. Sub-dividable w/driveway and well on Cty Rt 33 also. $229,000 Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633
MLS#87821 - Richfield Springs Car Wash. Manual wash w/2 bays, heated floors, 2 vacuums, well maintained. Also available: 4WD tractor w/plow and snow blower. Adjacent home can be purchased w/or separate from the car wash: see listing MLS #87819 (below). $52,900 Call Rod and Barb @ 315-520-6512
MLS#87819 - Great starter home, empty nester or income home. Quiet street in Richfield Springs. Close to school, church, shopping. Large yard. Property can be purchased separately or w/Richfield Car Wash MLS #87821 (above). $64,900 Call Rod and Barb @ 315-520-6512
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MLS#84747 - Village building w/good investment potential, or live and work in the same location. 1 retail space; 2 BR and den apt w/eat-in kitchen; roomy 1 BR apt w/eat-in kitchen. New storm windows, roof, and glass on front of retail space. Rental income of $1470 per month. $119,500 Call Michelle Curran @ 518-469-5603
MLS#84059 - This home can be your castle—a 7-BR center hall Colonial that is perfect for an extended family. $169,900 Call or text Sharon Teator 607-267-2681
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MLS#83178 - Amazing investment on Main Street in Sidney! Over $150k of updates and renovations. Income potential galore! Make an appointment today! $89,900 Call David @ 607-435-4800
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MLS#84923 - Renovated 3 BR, 2.5 bath farmhouse on 3.2 acres. Country kitchen w/ stainless appliances, LR and formal DR w/ fireplaces, large master suite. Fencing, run-in shed and barn for horses or livestock. $250,000 Call Michelle Curran @ 518-469-5603
MLS#87014 - Well-maintained historic 4+ apartment bldg. Live in 1 unit and let the tenants pay your mortgage. $179,000 Call Michelle Curran @ 518-469-5603
New listing! MLS#88048 – Charming Colonial offers wood floors, LR w/fireplace, DR w/original cupboards and French doors to covered porch, kitchen w/cherry cabinets. Downstairs 2 BRs, 2 baths. Upstairs 4 BRs, 3 baths. Master BR w/private bath. Detached 2-car garage, pond, horse barn and land on both sides of road. Cooperstown School District. $369,000 Call Jim Vrooman @ 603-247-0506 or Kristi Ough @ 607-434-3026
MLS#81815 - Endless possibilities in beautiful Bovina! 3 BR, 2 bath farmhouse and an historic 2-story storefront building —all on over 8 acres in Delaware County. $229,900 Call David @ 607-435-4800
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MLS#87153 - Absolutely turn-key, lock, stock and barrel. Come take a look at this great deli. $139,000 Call or text Sharon Teator 607-267-2681
New listing! MLS#87948 - Impeccably kept 3 BR, 2 bath home features attached garage w/automatic door openers, newer on-demand water heater, roof, windows, furnace, central air, generator, paved driveway and water softener. Energy efficient w/gas fireplace. Close to Cooperstown, Oneonta, Norwich, Richfield and Chobani! $119,000 Call Kathy Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683
MLS#84128 – Well maintained and freshly painted home awaits your offer. Walking distance to all conveniences. 4 BRs, DR, LR, kitchen, 2 full baths, den and sunporch. Once was a 2-family and could easily be renovated back. $169,500 Call Linda Wheeler @ 607-434-2125
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MLS#84612 – Location, seclusion, views on 10.8 acres! Close to Oneonta and Delhi, this secluded location is convenient to schools, hospitals and shopping. $199,000 Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633
MLS#87163 - Wow! A move-in ready house on 1.2 acres in the village of Stamford. $119,500 Call or text Sharon Teator 607-267-2681
Great income producer! Hartwick $139,800 MLS#83060
Large 3-BR is the entire second floor, first floor has 2-BR and 1-BR apt, downstairs 2-BR is furnished to rent for $690 per week in summer.
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Country in the city w/this charming Victorian overlooking Oneonta on over ½ acre of landscaped privacy. Spacious open floorplan, 3-4 BRs, new roof, freshly painted, woodstove provides cozy winter warmth. $111,000—MLS#88190
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Cherry Valley $120,000 MLS#80843 Four-apartment multi-family home with a good rental history.
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(7636) Pristine remodeled 3 BR/3 bath Colonial provides eat-in kitchen, formal DR, private master suite, mud room, cherry flooring, radiant-floor heat, front porch, side porch, carriage barn, mature foliage. Lovely place with real style! Cooperstown Schools Hubbell’s Co-Exclusive—$445,000
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