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Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, April 18, 2014
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Charter To Be Reviewed
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s Oneonta’s first city manager prepares to depart, Mayor Dick Miller has gain the agreement of Common Council on a “pageby-page review” of the new City Charter adopted just 30 months ago after a year of study and deliberation. “It has been suggested, and I think it is a good idea that we step back and review the charter, how it is working and if there might be adjustments
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Zach Brown and his son Jameson, Oneonta, look at the winner of this year’s Canstruction competition at the Southside Mall, a Sea Monster created by the South Kortright Central School National Honor Society. All food used in Canstruction is donated to area food banks.
Seward Hosts Forum Against Heroin In City
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Oneonta’s Quade and Kylie Miller examine the textures of butterflies and seashells that Sid brought with him.
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made to it, or changes in how the city operates under it,” Miller wrote in a memo to the Charter Commission reviewed by Common Council Tuesday, April 15. “In that regard I am asking that you reconvene.” HOMETOWN ONEONTA Common Council also agreed to name Laurie ZimMayor present recommendations. Please See SEARCH, A6
SID, what a kid!
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tate Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, will host the Joint Senate Task Force on Heroin & Opioid Addiction 9:30 a.m.-noon Monday, April 28, at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom. This is one of 12 such forums being held around the state aimed at developing recommendations for treating and preventing addiction. “Heroin is infiltrating all social, economic and geographic sectors of our state and we need to take definitive action to halt this ugly trend,” Seward said.
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Muscles in Motion co-owners Jim Phraner, front, Tom Knuth, left, and Billy Reisen are ready to host the state’s best powerlifters.
For the 1st time, ny’s powerlifters to Compete Here By LIBBY CUDMORE Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
Laura Emmett, Oneonta, helps granddaughter Leena Egbert color a Sid poster.
ARTS FEST BACK: CANO has announced it will sponsored the City of the Hills Art & Music Festival again this year, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13, in the Dietz Street Parking Lot. SERVING OFO: Opportunities for Otsego has two openings on its board of directors for representatives of low-income individuals and families in Otsego County. If interested, call OFO’s Lindsay France at 433-8000. BUILD THE FENCE: Common Council Tuesday, April 15, accepted a gift of fencing around the Swart-Wilcox Little League field.
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State Roadwork
Dot Starts repairs to 2 Bridges on i-88 By LIBBY CUDMORE
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pring brings with it longer, warmer days, beautiful flowers and plenty of roadwork. “It’s work that needs to be done,” said Dave Hamburg, information officer for BinghamtonPlease See ROADS, A6
If Nakia Facey of Oneonta (with dad Nake and mom Kirchelle) looks a little uncertain at meeting PBS’ Sid the Science Guy, can you blame her? Still, the popular TV character’s appearance drew 200 young fans Saturday, April 12, to Foothills.
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s Tom Knuth, co-owner of Muscles in Motion, is quickly finding out, there are no small events in the world of power-lifting.
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OWL, SUNY Ready Kids For Big Future In Tininess Dr. Kelly Gallagher helps young Ben Conti focus the microscope on braineating ameoba.
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ittle scientists, little-er science, big future. That was the idea behind SUNY Oneonta and Oneonta World of Learning’s annual NanoDays Saturday, April 12, at the SUNY’s Science Discovery Center. “Nanotechnology is the next big thing in technology,” said Dr. Kelly Gallagher. “People need to understand that we can use special tools to sense what we can’t see.” Please See NANO, A7 Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST CIRCULATION NEWSPAPER 2010 WINNER OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD
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The Easter Bunny strikes a pose with Jennifer Weaver and her children, Jordyn and Johnathan, on the Easter Bunny Train in Milford Sunday, April 13. The kids were visiting grandmom Maria Frank, Oneonta. The holiday train continues Easter weekend from the Milford Train Station of the Charlotte Valley & Susquehanna Railroad.
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Century 21 Honors Realtor Kellie Place
Falk Wins Top SUNY Oneonta Award
r. Cynthia Falk of SUNY Oneonta’s Cooperstown Graduate Program will deliver this year’s Susan Smith Lecture titled “Barns of New York� at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 17, at the Morris Conference Center’s Craven Lounge. Created to recognize faculty achievement outside the classroom, the Smith Faculty Prize for Academic Excellence is named in memory of the late SUNY Oneonta professor of English. Falk,
who is also a Cooperstown Village Trustee, is the 20th recipient. This event and the student awards presented are made possible by the gifts of SUNY Oneonta qlumni to the 2013-14 Fund for Oneonta. Dr. Thomas and Mary Smith created the Smith prize in memory of their daughter. The lecture is free and open to the public. A hearty hors d’oeuvre reception will follow the lecture.
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entury 21 Real Estate LLC has recognized Kellie M. Place Chesser Realty, Oneonta, with the 2013 Quality Service Producer Award, a national honor that recognizes “dedication to continuously exceeding the service expectations of her clients,� Century 21 President/CEO Rick Davidson announced. Kellie has also been recognized as a Century 21 Top Producer and Multi-Million Dollar Producer.
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Saturday, April 26, 2014, 7:30 p.m. Hunt Union Ballroom, SUNY Oneonta
THE HANS & EDITH WILK MEMORIAL CONCERT Suite No. 1, BWV 1066, C Major, Johann Sebastian Bach Music for Shakespeare, Edward Green Mass, C Major, K.317 “Coronation,�Wolfgang Amadeus Mozat Hartwick College Chorus, Dr. Colin Armstong, Director SUNY Oneonta Concert Choir, Dr. Robert Barstow, Director This concert is generously sponsored by Bassett Healthcare Network. Additional support from Excellus BlueCross BlueShield. Tickets are $30 and available at the door or in advance. Email: cso@oneonta.edu Phone: 607/436-2670 Online: catskillsymphony.net Free tickets for children/students with accompanying adults! Call the CSO office for details. This performance is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency. This performance is also supported by SUNY Oneonta.
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First United Methodist Church 66 Chestnut Street, Cooperstown, New York Roast Pork Dinner Friday, April 25th 4:30 pm to 7 pm Adults $9 | Children $5 Take Out Available
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INTERNSHIP: Alissa N. Garufi of Oneonta took part in an off-campus internship this spring through SUNY Oswego’s Experience-Based Education program. A sophomore majoring in history, she interned with Safe Haven Museum and Education Center in Oswego.
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SUNY Student Will Discuss Scrapbooks Of Esther Bresee SUNY ONeONta theatre DepartmeNt maSk aND hammer theatre ClUb
Saturday April 26 10 am to 2 pm
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the Hewitt Pantaleoni memorial concert series presents
Jeremy Wall “A Life in Music” Jeremy Wall - piano, composer Philip Hernandez - voice Janet Nepkie - Cello Carleton Trumpet CarletonClay Clay -- Trumpet
Tuesday, April 22 at 7:30 pm Sanford Auditorium (IRC#3) SUNY Oneonta Tuesday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m. FREE and open to all...tickets/reservations not necessary Sanford Auditorium (IRC#3) For additional info, please call the Catskill Conservatory at 607-436-3419 SUNY Oneonta For additional information,
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UNY Oneonta student Natalie Newton will present a program on three of Esther Bartow Bresee’s scrapbooks that are in the Greater Oneonta Historical Society Collection at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 26, at the History Bresee Center, Main and Dietz. The scrapbooks date from about 1926 to 1940, covering Bartow Bresee’s years at OHS and the Oneonta Normal School as well as her travels and other leisure activities after her 1931 graduation from college. She taught on Long Island and returned home to marry Wilmer Bresee, chairman of the board of Bresee’s Department Store. She was a community benefactor and a SUNY Oneonta Foundation charter board member. “It’s interesting looking at these scrapbooks, seeing Oneonta through Esther’s eyes and then walking outside and seeing it again through mine,” said Newton.
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Executive Service Corps Executive Director Rosalie Higgins, above, addresses the first Otsego County Chamber’s Leadership Program class Wednesday, April 8, at the CGP. Doug Gulotty, former Wilber Bank president, County Treasuer Dan Crowell and chamber execs Pat Szarpa and Barbara Ann Heegan addressed the gathering. In photo at right, NYCM executive Jim Potts, Cooperstown, right, and Dan Butterman, next to him, question the presenters.
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EDITORIAL
We Have Raw Material. Otsego County Could Be Arts Hub
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eer town. Baseball town. Art town,” artist Megan Irving, a refugee from Gotham’s prohibitive rents, posited. “What if Cooperstown became more of a draw for artists from the city?” she asked at the March 14 forum to discuss possible collaborations between the Cooperstown Art Association and, two blocks away, the Smithy Center for the Arts. Another escapee from New York, potter Roy Kortick, picked up the theme at the second forum the following Friday, reporting how Beacon, Hudson and North Adams, Mass., have been revived by the arts. Go visit, he urged, “and see what a vibrant art scene is doing for those communities.” • Art we got. Not just in Cooperstown, but in Oneonta, and hither and thither throughout Otsego County. (Honey and Bernie Kassoy of Garrattsville come to mind, who for years invited artist friends to join them each Fourth of July to confect whimsies from accumulated lagan and derelict.) All that’s needed is a little coordination and promotion. Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller was an early adherent, convening an Arts Summit in January 2011 at
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Artist Megan Irving proposes enabling a Cooperstown arts community at the Feb. 14 forum on possible collaboration of the Cooperstown Art Association and Smithy Pioneer Gallery. Roy Kortick, behind her, repeated the call the following week. The two are flanked by two members of the new Cooperstown Arts Council, Robert Seward and Sydney Waller.
Foothills Performing Arts Center. The Arts Alliance that came out of it did result in the refocusing of the UCCCA as CANO, which is now about to renovate its Wilber Mansion home. One arts weekend, with Foothills and the Oneonta Theater collaborating to draw art tourists to downtown restaurants and shops, did happen. But artists are an independent breed, tough to herd.
• Baseball county. Beer county. Nanotechnology county. Artisanal food county. Higher Education county. Opera county. Museum county. Art county is another track to pursue as we limp out of the national economic downturn. Think about Cooperstown retail: Jeff Foster, Vinnie Russo and other baseball entrepreneurs will tell you those days of selling
dozens of autographed Mickey Mantle baseballs on a weekend are gone. Now, memorabilia are no farther away than your computer screen. With the baseball youth camps replacing the Hall of Fame as the summertime draw, it’s probably just a matter of time until someone builds a lower-rent baseball strip mall in Hartwick Seminary and a great sucking sound is heard on Main Street. But that’s good. Who hasn’t wished for a more varied retail mix in Cooperstown’s downtown? Rents will drop, perhaps to the point a commercial gallery, or two, or three, with artists’ studios upstairs, will be possible. Likewise, downtown Oneonta’s vacant upstairs, with big windows and bright interiors, would be ideal. • As it happens, Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz, hearing former Burlington, Vt., planner Bruce Siefer, in his “Sustainable Development” talk at the county courthouse in January, describe how a chance meeting between that city’s mayor and a cyber entrepreneur at the huge fall Arts Hop resulted in cars.com becoming one of the Queen City’s major employers, was inspired. Since, he called a meeting at Village Hall, and arts entrepre-
neur Sydney Wall, Sustainable Otsego’s Adrian Kuzminski, graphic artist Jim Herman and artist Robert Seward emerged as the Cooperstown Arts Council. The CAA-SCA combination is another potential vehicle for the Irving-Kortick vision. And Mayor Miller’s Arts Alliance is simmering, simmering, waiting to be brought to a boil. Otsego County, Arts Magnet, might be just the thing – or a thing – for the new privatized “heads-inbeds” tourism effort to get behind. Sandy Mathes, the county’s “single point of contact” economic developer, undoubtedly could provide helpful contacts. • Where to start? The Cooperstown council, with help from a collaborating CAA-SCA, could keep the Brush & Palette’s threatened Labor Day art show alive, bringing it back downtown. Oneonta’s Arts Alliance might do the same in adding energy to the City of the Hills Art Festival, planned Sept. 13 this year. With all the ferment, it seems inevitable that the arts will align. People would welcome a chance to visit New York State’s Cooperstown Arts Region, or dip into the Glimmerglass Arts Experience, or whatever. Let’s visualize it, plan it, then create it.
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JAMES McCUE HISTORIC PERSPECTIVES
Novel Imagines Jedediah Peck, Early County Activist
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Editor’s Note: James McCue of Oneonta has recently published, “The Legend of the Plough-Jogger,” a novel about Jedediah Peck, a Democratic foe of Federalist William Cooper in the county’s early days. McCue provided this rumination on the Town of Burlington farmer who is also considered father of New York State’s public schools.
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ho was Jedediah Peck, alias “Plough-Jogger?” Well today, very few people in Otsego County would know who the Plough-Jogger was. Nevertheless, back in 1799, Jedediah Peck was a very popular and influential man in Otsego County. Perhaps he became too influential amongst the common populace, which in turn, made some serious political enemies amongst the Federalist gentry. While Otsego and the State of New York were firmly a Federalist political stronghold, Jedediah Peck traveled the countryside sharing with whomever
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Jim McCue’s book cover bears a photo of Jedediah Peck’s gravestone, visible from Route 80, Town of Burlington
would listen to his radical Democratic-Republicanism. Wherever he traveled, his saddlebags were always stuffed with political literature, which become one of his trademarks. Despite having had no formal education, Judge Peck often wrote very compelling and witty political letters that were printed in the Otsego Herald, always
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signing with his alias, Plough-Jogger. Many of his letters found fault with his own party’s policies and conversely, he wrote favorable opinions for the Republican views. This did not sit well with William Cooper, Jacob Morris and Thomas Clarke, all Federalists. What truly made the Plough-Jogger so popular was his workingman’s hero persona. He was an outspoken advocate for the rights of the common man, while vehemently denouncing the aristocracy’s stranglehold on political power. The political wars in Otsego came to a climax in September of 1799, when a warrant was issued for the arrest of Judge Peck. He was accused of passing out seditious petitions, aimed at repealing the Alien and Sedition Acts. As the story goes, the Plough-Jogger was taken from his home in the
middle of the night, handcuffed in irons and carted off to Albany and then, onto New York City to stand trial in Federal Court. Jabez Hammond, a historian from Cherry Valley wrote: “…A hundred missionaries in the cause of democracy, stationed between New York and Cooperstown, could not have done so much for the republican cause as this journey of Judge Peck, as a prisoner, from Otsego to the capital of the state…” ... The whole case against Judge Peck fell apart when the District Attorney could not produce witnesses. The arrest of Jedediah Peck, a Revolutionary hero, turned the political tide in Otsego. By the 1800 elections held in April, the PloughJogger had single-handedly turned Otsego County from being a Federalist stronghold into becoming a Republican majority! That would be like Jim Seward converting Otsego into a Democratic stronghold. Indeed, that would be another good story.
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Jill Carey Michaels of Oneonta is a singer, songwriter, storyteller, performs in a band, is an adjunct lecturer in composition and creative writing in SUNY Oneonta’s English Department. – and an artist. She began her “Tellingtales” illustrations as an adjunct to her Tellingtales Internet radio program, accessible through the link at WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
ISSUE & DEBATE: Is Astorino Or Cuomo Most Anti-Tax?
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s millions of New Yorkers prepare to file their taxes today, it is a stark reminder of our notorious status as the highest taxed state in the nation. New Yorkers pay Astorino nearly 40 percent more than what people pay on average in the country. Governor Cuomo’s oppressive taxes are taking a real toll on our shrinking middle class, which is leaving New York for better opportunities elsewhere. Andrew Cuomo once promised us the bold reforms that would reverse the direction of this state, but all we’ve seen is political maneuvering and gimmicks designed to boost his own power and poll numbers. The result of that is nothing has changed: New York
is alone at the peak of the tax mountain, while 49 other states pay less and have better business climates. Today’s deadline is further realization that as a state, we are losing. Tax Day statement from Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, who is seeking GOP nomination for governor • t its root, much of the animosity lies in some Democrats’ suspicion that Cuomo is not really one of them ... On economics, he’s embraced tax cuts and is skeptical Cuomo of labor unions. “At a time when the national Democratic Party seems to be moving in the direction of [focusing on] income inequality and fair taxa-
tion, Governor Cuomo is moving in the opposite direction,” (former Democrat state Sen. Richard) Brodsky says. Against this backdrop, there was bound to be conflict between Cuomo and New York City’s new mayor, who struck an emphatically populist tone in his campaign. Days after Bill de Blasio’s inauguration, an educationpolicy battle erupted that typifies the opposing wings of the party the two men represent. De Blasio wanted to fund a universal prekindergarten program with tax increases on the wealthy and to rein in some of the city’s charter schools; Cuomo vociferously opposes tax hikes and is a staunch defender of alternative public education. Excerpt from “Why New York Democrats Have Turned Against Andrew Cuomo,” in Atlantic, April edition
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History
Compiled by Tom HeiTz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library
125 YEarS aGO
The Local News: Tuesday was moving day at the Oneonta Union School, and though many boys and girls, on passing to new grades and advanced studies regretted separation from the care and instruction of teachers for whom they have formed attachments, yet there was much elation, and new ambitions were awakened. One little fellow, in speaking of the future, mapped out his entire course of study in his present school, and finished with the declaration that he would “then go to an agricultural college.” His mother having in view a possible financial obstacle at about that time, asked, “But how are you going to get there Davie?” and the child, with the utmost confidence answered: “Why, I shall go on the cars.” The hostler ran Engine 150 into the “pit” at the round house Tuesday evening. It took a gang of men nearly all night to get her out and it will take a lot of money to repair her. April 1889
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30 YEarS aGO
President reagan has approved a series of measures, including pre-emptive strikes and reprisals designed to get the upper hand on terrorism worldwide, administration officials revealed. One of the key elements of the policy is an effort to switch from defensive action to offensive, partly by increasing the ability of U.S. operatives to gather intelligence in order to stop terrorist activities before they occur. While the U.S. government has been increasingly concerned with terrorism for several years, new impetus to deal with it occurred when 241 U.S. servicemen died in the truck bombing of a U.S. Marine headquarters bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, last October 23. A n anonymous White House official said Reagan did not scrap an existing prohibition against assassination attempts by U.S. government agents.” The general idea is that we don’t allow terrorism to go unpunished,” the source said. April 1984
100 YEarS aGO
The last specimens of the large number purchased by Willard Yager in his recent trip among the Indians of the south and west have arrived. They include from 60 to 70 baskets, about 100 excellent works of pottery, and a large number of miscellaneous articles. This makes Mr. Yager’s collection not only the finest collection of archaeological remains from this location anywhere and one of the best collections from any district, but the equal of any practical working collection in the country. Of the 100 specimens of pottery, 70 are from the cliffs and mesas and hence belonged to prehistoric peoples. among the general articles there is a rare old apache bow and quiver which had been in an old Spanish family in Santa Fe for about 75 years. There are in the collection two of the rare Pomo burden baskets and one of the magnificent feather baskets of the same people. This last deserves more extended description. Feathers of various birds and in their natural bright colors are woven in the basketry in beautiful and intricate designs. The effect beggars description. April 1914
60 YEarS aGO
Postmaster General Summerfield today announced plans for a more colorful mail service. He said the department is starting a program to gradually convert the familiar olive drab mail truck to a flashy red, white and blue. The department has already experimented with these colors for trucks in Miami, Boston and New York. Summefield said the tests showed that the bright colors are easier to keep clean. Eventually, street mail collection boxes will also be painted a matching red, white and blue. robert Ellsworth Gardner, known to many as “Professor Bob,” has passed from the scene at the age of 70, but he will not soon be forgotten. For 16 years he was the able leader of the Oneonta High School Band. Under his
20 YEarS aGO
Cornell West, a scholar of Afro-American studies and the author of the book, “Race Matters,” will speak on Wednesday, april 27, at 8 p.m. in the Hunt Union Ballroom at the State University College at Oneonta. In his book, West argues that the major obstacle to harmonious race relations in the United States is nihilism – a sense of worthlessness that he sees as growing among American blacks. West is coauthoring a new book with Michael Learner titled “Blacks and Jews: Conflicts and Coalescence. West will be leavApril 1934 ing Princeton University after the school year to teach at Harvard University where he will divide his time between the Department of afro-american studies and the Harvard guidance, music gained prominence as an extra-curricular Divinity School. activity at the school. To Bob Gardner, an interest in music April 1994 was essential to any man – and he did not hesitate to say so. But, Bob Gardner was not only a musician – he was also a man who worked through many channels as a force for President Bush’s efforts to ban gay marriage are driving good in the community. gay rights activists to plan protests and other attention-grabApril 1954 bing events in New York City this summer during the republican convention. This is an issue that has really swept the country from coast to coast and is dominating public The League of Women Voters of the Oneonta area wants discussion about civil rights,” said Kevin Cathcart, director to obtain at least 2,000 signatures this week on a petition of Lambda Legal, a gay rights group. Bush publicly backed urging campaign finance reform in 1974. The local drive is a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriages part of a nationwide effort to bring pressure on Congress to after the high court in Massachusetts ruled it is unconstituenact campaign spending legislation. The Oneonta petition tional to prevent gay couples from marrying. drive will run from Wednesday, April 17 through Saturday, April 2004 april 20. League members will circulate petitions throughout the city and town. Booths will be set up in Hartwick College’s Bresee Hall and Oneonta State’s Hunt College Union. Booths will also be opened at several downtown
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DOT Focus In Summer: I-88 Bridges ROADS/From A1 based state Department of Transportation’s Region 9, which includes Otsego County. Two of the main projects the DOT is planning locally this summer have already begun on I-88: The largest will be a bridge deck repair between Exits 16 and 17, halfway between Colliersville and the Lettis Highway exits. You’ll see a concrete barrier there, reducing the two 12-foot travel lanes to one 11-foot lane and narrowing the 10-foot shoulder to 6 feet. “They’re placing a thin overlay treatment to improve the riding surface of six bridges,� said Hamburg. “It should be completed by the end of the year.� Further on down the road between Exits 12 and 13 (the Otego and Route 205 exits) will be proactive repairs to a deteriorating bridge joint. Weather permitting, the repairs are scheduled to be finished by Friday, April 18. And anyone who’s been on the roads recognizes the damage left by the long, brutal winter. “Potholes don’t discriminate in one area or another,� said Hamburg. “The temperature changes, going from freezing to thawing out, coupled with the precipitation has caused more potholes than we’ve seen in years.� Road crews are in the Town of Maryland moving from pothole to pothole, filling them with “hot mix,� a long-lasting asphalt. “You’ll be seeing a lot of that throughout the county,� said Hamburg. Most of the work will be done in daylight. Though state troopers will spend time in work zones to protect both workers and motorists, Hamburg encourages drivers to slow down and “expect the unexpected.� NEXT WEEK: Learn what roadwork county Highway Superintendent Ron Tiderencel has in store for us this summer.
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2014
New City-Manager Search Launched SEARCH/From A1 niewicz, a member of the original Charter Commission, to chair the commission as it conducts the review. Two members of the original commission who now serve as Council members, former commission chair David Rissberger and Larry Malone, will remain on the commission during the review. Council also agreed with the mayor’s recommendation that the council’s Human Resources Committee, chaired by Council member Russ Southard, conduct the search with HR Director Kathy Wolverton and Miller himself “supplying staff support.� None of the Council members expressed reservations about the existence of the city manager’s position, which was established by a charter revision approved by voters in 2011. A previous attempt to do so – in the 1970s – failed. The sequence of events began Thursday, March 27, when the mayor announced City Manager Mike Long would retire in the spring or summer. That was part of a report, quoting sources, that Long was in
danger of losing the confidence of the Common Council. Council members expressed surprise, until Miller announced an agreement with Long that prohibited anyone from discussing the matter publicly. While Miller’s presentation Tuesday evening dealt with what should happen next, there was little further clarification on what had happened to bring the city to this point. In his memo, entitled “Thirty-Month Review,� Miller identified three areas for adjustment : the budgeting schedule; the establishment of an acting or deputy mayor; and changing the name of the Department of Recreation to the Department of Parks. It was unclear why those points mattered. The page-by-page review should focus on “the interactions of the city manager, the mayor and the council,� it continued, with no explication of why. “We can adjust many of the things that we do, if we choose to do that, not only committee structure, but also issues related to the authority of the city manager to approve expenditures, both capital and operat-
ing,� the mayor added. “The limits on that are quite low.� Rissberger said he, too, had some ideas for improvements, though he did not elaborate on them during the meeting. “I can see the inner workings a little bit more now,� said Rissberger, who was not a Council member at the time of the earlier charter revision. “So I think it’s good to review the charter, review the government process and how that’s reflected in the charter,� he added. In a second memo, “Search Process,� Miller suggested that the committee, at its first meeting, consider hiring a regional hiring consultant, rather than conduct a nationwide search, as was done when Long was hired two years ago. Candidates from the Northeast would be the most appropriate for the position and a regional consultant would cost less, he said.
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City Gym Hosts Statewide Lifting Contest
MUSCLES/From A1 little thing,� he said of a statewide power-lifting competition he has christened “Powerball�. “Over 100 people have already signed up.� The event, planned for Saturday, June 7, is the first time Oneonta will be home such a statewide competition, Kunth said. “We’ve been trying to host a competition for a while now, but they always hold it someplace bigger,� he said. “But we got it, and we’ve got people coming from as far away as Manhattan and Buffalo.� Power-lifting involves three attempts to lift: the bench press; the squat, where lifters have to bend at the knee and rise back up while holding the barbell, and the dead lift, where the barbell must be lifted to hip level and lowered back to the ground. Knuth, a 30-year veteran of the sport, holds the state masters – over 50 – record for the last
three years, including lifting 345 pounds at a meet in Buffalo in February. Jim Phraner, co-owner of the gym at 101 Main St., holds the world record for 766 pounds on the bench press. Billy Reisen, another co-owner, is just back from winning the NPC bodybuilding championship. But it’s not just for strongmen – there are categories for women and teens as well. “We’ve got kids from 13-17 signed up,� said Knuth. “The best part is introducing them to the sport. And some of these women could lift more than me!� But even for those who won’t be at “Powerball� to bench, there’s plenty to see. Local nutritionists and personal trailers will be on hand to give demonstrations and talks. GNC, Green Earth and MusclePharm, which provides Arnold Schwarzenegger’s bodybuilding supplements, will also have tables and samples.
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they’ve learned in their classes, but it also allows them to play with science without having to do a bunch of equations afterwards.� It’s important for students of all ages, Gallagher said, especially as Upstate New York moves to become a hub of nanoscience activity, with $1 billion in construction now underway at SUNY/IT, north of Utica, expecting to create 20,000 jobs in a decade. While the theme was nanotechnology, many of the
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Delightful 2,800 sq ft Cape Cod sits on 3 acres on a quiet road 2 miles from Cooperstown. This house offers 3-4 BRs, 2½ baths, formal LR, DR. Dining area off the remodeled U-shaped kitchen has new cabinetry and new countertops. An efficient laundry center is located off of the kitchen. Pine floors are in excellent condition. 2 fireplaces: 1 in master BR and 1 in LR add charm and warmth! Large private deck overlooks pond and Oaks Creek. Lower level has family room, bath, BR and kitchenette; a separate entrance to this floor allows easy access for guests. Large 2-car detached garage. Beautiful perennial gardens and mature plantings accent the outdoor spaces. This may be the home you’ve been looking for…call for an appointment to see this unique property.
Don Olin REALTY
For Appointment Only Call: M. Margaret Savoie, Real Estate Broker/Owner – 547-5334 Marion King, Associate Real Estate Broker – 547-5332 Eric Hill, Associate Real Estate Broker – 547-5557 Don DuBois, Associate Real Estate Broker – 547-5105 Tim Donahue, Associate Real Estate Broker – 293-8874 Madeline Sansevere, Real Estate Salesperson – 435-4311 Cathy Raddatz, Real Estate Salesperson – 547-8958 Jacqueline Savoie, Real Estate Salesperson – 547-4141 Michael Welch, Real Estate Salesperson – 547-8502
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