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“common spaces for studying, programming and gathering.” Hartwick College’s newest learning-living complex, a $7 million, 76-bed building, was approved by the city Planning Commission on May 18, and work is due to start next Monday, June 6, hoping for completion by June 2017. With a target enrollment of 1,500 and there only 1,176 Please See HOUSING, A7

THE FLAME LIVES

er experience with Regional Economic Development Council’s – like our Mohawk Valley Region – will be the topic when Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochal speaks at the noon luncheon at a Small Business/Workshop Development Summit 10:30-3:30 Thursday, June 8, at The Otesaga. Organized by the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce, it includes panels through the afternoon. To Register, call 432-4500.

Work starts Monday, June 6, on Hartwick College’s new “Learning-Living Residential Complex,” aiming to bring 75 students back on campus.

On Mend, Seward Bound For Albany He Takes Pocket Full Of Bills He Aims To Bring Back As Laws In Just 3 Weeks planned to depart for Albany that afternoon, t’s the where the last toughest three weeks thing I’ve of the state ever done – just Senate’s current ask Cindy,” state session were due Sen. Jim Seward, to begin. R-Milford – his life He put his toe had been a whirlback in the waHOMETOWN ONEONTA ter of public life wind of constant Seward back at Friday evening activity since he Oneonta ofwas first elected in his the 27th, crossfice. 1986 – said of his ing Route 28 just-completed six weeks from his Milford home and of enforced leisure as he speaking at a “Celebration recuperated from a bladder of the Life and Legacy of cancer operation in April. Niles Eggleston,” the busiAs of Tuesday, May 31, nessman, civic and church however, it’s over, as the leader and neighbor of the senator was back on the job senator, perhaps best known in his Oneonta office and Please See SEWARD, A7 By JIM KEVLIN

‘I In top photo, Boy Scout Ethan Dugan, Troop 23, lays a wreath on monuments there/MORE PHOTOS, B3 Oneonta Vets Club Commander Len Carson, right, the newly elected county rep, presides for the last time at Memorial Day ceremonies in Neahwa Park.

WHITHER DOWNTOWN?

The LA Group, Saratoga Springs, has been developing a strategy to revive downtown Oneonta since last fall, and will report their findings Tuesday, June 7, at the 7 p.m. Common Council meeting.

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CHARTER VOTE: Also

at that meeting, Common Council will vote on fairly minimal changes in the City Charter that came out of a four-month review.

By LIBBY CUDMORE

19TH FORUM: Candid-

dates seeking to succeed U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-19th, will meet at a Wednesday, June 8, forum at Foothills in Oneonta. Republicans at 7 p.m.; Democrats at 8:30 p.m., sponsored by the League of Women Voters.

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Hartwick To Bring Students Home

ven the laundry room has a couch. “The college students on our steering committee said that social spaces and kitchens were important to them,” said Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Gregg Fort, Hartwick College’s Home from Broadway, vice president for college adAlexandra Fassler of vancement. Other colleges are Oneonta performs the likewise building residence halls National Anthem at the

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hen rising star Cuyle Carvin was a student at OHS, being a jock didn’t mean he had to pick on the nerdy guy. “There was this one kid who was always alone, always looking down at the

ground when he walked,” said Carvin. “One day, I passed him a note that said, ‘If you need a friend, I’m here’.” The boy responded, and Carvin invited him to lunch. Please See CARVIN, A6

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Labroo VALEDICTORIAN, Louckes SALUTATORIAN AT OHS

Michael Lee’s Research Wins NSF Acclaim

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Nisha Labroo, left, is the valedictorian of Oneonta High School’s Class of 2016; Emily Louckes is salutatorian. Nisha, daughter of Jancis and Sunil Labroo, plans to study energy engineering. Emily, daughter of Tammy and Norman Louckes, will study geo-science at Penn State.

NEW GRAD: Robert Thomas Meyerhoff, Oneonta received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from Clarkson University on May 7.

larkson University aeronautics major Michael Lee of Oneonta, who graduated in May, was awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. Lee, son of Dr. Richard and Virginia Lee and a former OHS valedictorian, was in Clarkson’s Honors Program and was a teaching assistant for the first-year honors courses in ethics. His research on nonplanar wing aerodynamics suggesting a new relationship between wing bending and efficiency. It won him the three-year annual stipend of $34,000, plus a $12,000 cost of education allowance, and to conduct his research at any accredited U.S. graduate institution he chooses.

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Jenee’ Rassmussen To Wed Ronald Green This Summer

r. and Mrs. William Rasmussen of Oneonta are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Jenee’ Rae Rasmussen, to Ronald James Green II from Orange, Calif., son of Christine Beckhorn Estrada of Wellsville and Ronald J. Green of Little River, S.C. Jenee’ graduated from Oneonta High School in 1989. Ronnie graduated from North Myrtle Beach (S.C.) High School in 1991. Ronnie and Jenee’ work together at Rasmussen Land Surveyors, PLLC. An August 2016 wedding is planned.

Sarah, George Etzls Fund One-Year Scholarship to Oneonta Nursery School

hanks to Sara and George Etzl of Otsego Physical Medicine, one 3-year old will be able to attend the Oneonta Nursery School free of charge. The couple have agreed to fund one

three-year old child’s Tuesday/Thursday enrollment in the non-denominational, non-profit program, located at the Red Door Church, for a year. The total cost for the program comes to $1,150 annually. Interested

families can download the application from the Oneonta Nursery School’s Facebook page, or pick up a copy at Otsego Physical Medicine. Applications must be completed and received by Friday, June 10.

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Les Grummons and Len Carson, left, observe as the firing detail salutes our fallen soldiers during the ceremony in Neahwa Park, following the parade.

OHS salutatorian Emily Louckes reads Logan’s Orders.

Liam Baldanza had stars in his eyes riding the Lighthouse Christian Academy parade float.

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“I would not be here if you had not liberated us from the Japanese,” said Rev. Randy Palada, pastor of the First Baptist Church, in his opening prayer.

Cappagnia-Lynne Chase plays the clarinet with the Oneonta High School band as it marches down the Main Street parade route.

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Get Behind President Drugovich, And Let Hartwick Thrive

veryone’s a hero in a rising market. So there have been no heroes by happenstance in small liberal arts colleges over the past 15 years (or in the newspaper industry, for that matter.) Double that for Hartwick College, which was on the edge of bankruptcy when its former president (and later Oneonta mayor) Dick Miller was recruited in 2003. Miller was someone who understood budgets, and he knew how to talk to people – from students and faculty members to the wellwatered like Tom Golisano, whom he convinced to underwrite Hartwick’s last big capital venture, Golisano Hall. (Second-thought alert: Read on.) It looked like Margaret L. Drugovich, who succeeded Miller in 2008, was coming to a stable financial situation, but the housing crash and Great Recession found her laying off staff within her first few months, no way to cement the affections of the rank and file. What it did show was Drugovich had the backbone to do what was necessary, and when the bottom fell out of freshman enrollment in the spring of 2015, she did it again, laying of 18 non-faculty staff members to close the gap. The fallout of, frankly, a failure was predictable, and it continued to build, leading up to a vote of no

confidence – by a majority at the April Faculty Senate meeting, but not a majority of the faculty as a whole. • At the time, we wanted to write this editorial, praising Dr. Drugovich’s brains, scope (she is serving on a half-dozen boards of organizations charting the future of liberal arts colleges, so is plugged in to dealing with the future) and toughness. No hot-house rose here. The reservation was that key factor, freshman enrollment: If it hadn’t turned around this year, that would have been trouble indeed for the Drugovich Administration. Riding success is easy; it’s in occasional, inevitable failure that leaders show their mettle. As hoped, and expected, Drugovich did turn it around. And sure-footedly, not by accident. As the 2015-16 school year was about to begin, Karen P. McGrath arrived on Oyaron Hill as vice president of enrollment management. Previously, at Norwich University in Vermont, McGrath had cannily recognized the promise of Big Data, and used it to identify affinity groups – highachieving high-school students whose qualities matched those of students who succeeded at Norwich – and recruited them. Now, she’s done the same here.

thousands for that fourth year. Plus, expanding study abroad as a signature Hartwick offering. Plus, celebrating the product differentiation in the Pine Lake environmental campus. Plus, developing the Center for Craft Food & Beverage, putting the college in the center of a promising new business sector seeking to serve what’s said to be a $1 billion shortfall in New York City demand. And, now, devising – with the trustees – a number HOMETOWN ONEONTA of new majors. Stay tuned, Hartwick College President Margaret L. Drugovich they are now on the desks of during the “Big Blue” celebration in May 2013, the state Regents. where she announced the $32 million “It’s • Personal” fund drive and broke ground on the In their vote of no con$3 million William V. Campbell Fitness Center. fidence, faculty members cited “low morale” – a code • tainly on the way there. phrase for nothing more In an interview after the • Hartwick Board of Trustees Except for the enrollment specific. Professors, please, offered her an eight-year burp, Drugovich’s first eight put that on the shelf and get contract – double the usual years were, by any fair mea- behind the president. Her new contract guarfour – Drugovich erased sure, a big success. antees that, in trying times, that single reservation: Last Back to the secondHartwick will still be here, year’s incoming class of thought alert: Golisano and its faculty still em300 – a scary 100 less than Hall wasn’t the last big ployed, in 2024. Reconvene the goal – has been raised to capital effort. This presithe Faculty Senate and re373, a 24 percent increase. dent captured the interest place the previous vote with McGrath had delivered, of Bill Campbell, former a resounding expression of applying brainpower and Intel board chair, and he confidence and hope. shoe leather: She had idendonated $1 million toward All faculty members tified promising Hartwick the Campbell Fitness Center – well-paid, good bennies, prospects, and then her staff and related renovations. sabbaticals, protected by of six had called 20,000 of Plus, Drugovich negotiatthem last summer, inviting ed with Otsego Now for $30 tenure; their jobs rank Numero Uno in most surveys them to campus last fall. million in bonding for new of best careers; (adjuncts Despite the big improvetownhouses (see page A1) ment, Drugovich, herself and dorm renovations, not a are another matter) – should pause and reflect on their a former enrollment VP step taken by someone who good fortunes and ask: at Ohio Wesleyan, hasn’t isn’t supremely confident Am I, individually, doing declared victory and gone about Hartwick’s future. enough to become a star in home. The goal, she said, Plus, the three-year my specialty? is about 410 freshmen a bachelor’s degree, saving As English prof Tom year – and Hartwick is cermotivated undergrads many Travisano and sculptor (and

psychology professor) Stefanie Rocknak have shown, national reputations can indeed be built on a local foundation. It can be done, and it should be done routinely: To those whom much is given, yes, much should be expected. • In her post-new-contract interview, Drugovich also reasserted her belief in the humanities, in a liberal arts education, a much-challenged orientation in the era of STEM. Sure, college is too expensive, and graduates need jobs now, (in part, to pay those college loans). As those national challenges ease, though, the less specific, but no less real, value of a liberal arts degree will be recognized anew. For an example of that value, look no farther than across the valley, where the accomplished Paul Adamo, SUNY vice president for college advancement, has taken that college’s endowment over $50 million this year, a SUNY-wide record. How did he do it? He was an English major, he’ll tell you. It taught him to write. It taught him to speak. It taught him to think. Of course, many tell similar stories. Yes, even in this world where all knowledge is contained in a 4-by-6 inch screen, there’s immeasurable value in human curiosity, in human understanding, in human dedication to the greater good – in people like President Drugovich.

LETTERS

Why Are Upper Floors Allowed To Be Vacant? To the Editor: As I was walking down Dietz Street towards Main Street in Oneonta I looked up at all the empty windows on the second and third floors in the large buildings. I asked a friend about it and she said the landlords aren’t doing anything about their spaces. She said that the town was thinking of applying for a “Main Street Revitalization” Grant for $10 million. Now where do you think that money will come from? Us … the taxpayers. We have to give money to people who can’t come up with creative ways to use the spaces they own? It seems to me if they aren’t a vibrant part of the city, maybe they shouldn’t be able to own the building in the first place. I see a lot of empty spaces around. Yet I hear: “Shovel-ready sites.” Build more, build big …

we aren’t controlling what we already have and people want to add more? Instead of letting landlords just sit on their hands, they should turn the buildings over to people who have creative ideas and can create a vibrant economy through innovation. The concept of pouring money into projects supported by tax dollars from people who are just getting by has nothing to do with capitalism or supply and demand. It’s that whole concept of pouring taxpayers’ money into projects and then maybe the economy will grow. The pattern is a big growth and change to the infrastructure and then after a while the company wanders off and the locals are left with the burdens. Let’s be more creative. R. SCOTT DUNCAN Hartwick Forest

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The second and third floors of the Ford Block at Dietz and Main, Oneonta, have been vacant for decades.

Abuses Led To Contractor-Parking Law

To the Editor: You obviously had a great deal of fun writing last week’s editorial in The Freeman’s Journal! In doing so you seem to have omitted facts for the benefit of a good story. The need for a contractor-parking law came about because: 1) business owners complained when three or four construction vehicles took up all the parking in front of their business, when the contractors were working at other businesses, not theirs. (2) as contractor Glenn Falk noted at the public hearing, there were abuses of the system (parking with cones while eating lunch or dinner) and hospital employees parking on streets (Elm, Fair) with their personal truck, and putting out cones to avoid having to move their vehicle after two hours. There was no contracting work being done. Unfortunately, abuses and complaints led to the need to formalize the process for contractor parking. Essentially there was no law on the books which gave contractors a free

22-Room Hotel Just What Village Needs

pass from either time limits or parking fees, so in essence they would have had to abide by two-hour parking limits and pay parking fees. The board wanted to legalize their ability to park overtime and without paying parking fees. And while at least two contractors recommended a higher permit fee (than the $25 annually) and a higher fee for violation of the law (the law stipulates $75; contractors suggested $500), we stayed with the lower costs. Your editorial made it sound as though it was changed to $500. In essence the only change to the law was the ability to save a space with a cone. Not really that much of a change. And oh, you printed the wrong vote. It was four for the law; one abstention; one nay. There were only six trustees present. May I assume you were counting your own vote? Best, ELLEN TILLAPAUGH Village Trustee Cooperstown

To the Editor: We fully support the adaptive reuse of the Railroad Avenue buildings as a hotel. The Village is land-locked and built-out, so the best way to grow the property tax base is up (literally) with commercial uses. What’s proposed sounds like it fits that need. Owners Mike and Carol Manno ensured that the building was refurbished in top condition; Architect Sue Snell made sure that it is hysterically correct. The Village Board should approve the application and grant any waivers necessary to adaptively re-use the building as a hotel. Some hysterically correct upper floor windows might be in order. Agway fertilizer sacks didn’t need views, hotel guests might. CHIP NORTHRUP Cooperstown

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Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library

150 Years Ago

Two new first class locomotives have been added to the rolling stock of the Albany and Susquehanna R.R., within the past week. One is called the “Peter Cagger,” and is run by W.M. Blake; the other “John Westover” is run by Tom Hardy. These engines were built by Danforth, Cook & Company, Paterson, New Jersey. Thus it will be seen that the Susquehanna Road is rapidly adding to its facilities. They now have 11 good engines on their road. Last Friday evening a man from Delaware County was at the Freight Depot with his team, and leaving them stepped into the office. When the construction train came up the horses got frightened by the locomotive and started on a run coming around the freight house and onto the track just as the locomotive got there. The horses passed over and the engine struck the wagon, causing the pieces to fly in every direction and knocking it all to pieces. The horses ran with the tongue, which broke off, coming in contact with a pile of lumber, and the broken tongue was thrust into one of the horses injuring him very much. The other horse got off without much damage. People will learn after a while that when they are at the Depot their teams should not be left unattended. June 1866

60 Years Ago

100 Years Ago

Success is a spiritual goal, the Rev. John H. Sprock, pastor of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Utica, told the graduating class at Hartwick College yesterday. “In the truest sense of the word success, ultimate termination is a spiritual goal…to win one’s soul one must have faith in the ultimate meaning of life – that means in the author of life – that means God.” He used as his text the words of Hebrews 10:39: “We are not the men to shrink back and be lost, but to have faith and so win our souls.” He said if there is one thing a college graduate should know it is “for whom and for what am I giving my life?” And, he said the successful person is the one who realizes that he is giving his life for God.” June 1956

40 Years Ago

The 1,400 students graduating from SUCO heard author George Plimpton urge them to “follow their North Star” even though they knew they would never reach it. By striving for a goal they knew they would never attain, they would discover a new world, he said. The well-known “professional amateur” chastised the present generation for “not daring to give a damn.” “So this is the world we bequeath to you, Red Dragons, an unholy mess, and you are the only ones who can clear it up,” he told the graduates, parents and friends. The SUCO student government paid Plimpton $2,000 for their graduation address. June 1976

125 Years Ago

Several tables of new design have recently been put on the market by the Oneonta Table Company, making the number of styles manufactured about eighty. The company now employs 45 men and is constantly rushed with orders. The open season for black bass began with Monday of this week and closes January 1. Fish under half a pound in weight are unlawful and if caught must at once be returned to the stream where they were taken. Last night, T.A. Norton, superintendent of the Oneonta Water Company, received nine cans containing 100 black bass, from ThreeMile Bay, Lake Ontario. The fish were about six inches long and weighed over a quarter of a pound each. They were taken at once to the Upper Reservoir, where in a few years there will be fine angling. Mr. Davies of Delhi is at the park this week with eight alligators ranging from two to twelve feet long. This interesting exhibit leaves town in a few days for Atlantic City, where it will remain during the summer. June 1891

80 Years Ago

Cornell University’s New York State veterinary college today announced the death of “R-1149” a hen which lived eight years and three months and laid 1,515 eggs. The hen’s life answered two questioned posed by scientists. 1. How long would a hen live if it were not for chicken dinners?

20 Years Ago

More than one-third of America’s poor children, or about June 1916 5.6 million kids, live in working poor families according to a survey of children’s well-being released by the Annie E. The answer was an average of nine years. 2. How long Casey Foundation. Only 14 percent of children in workwould a hen produce eggs economically if given a chance? ing poor families were born to a teenage mother, the report “R-1149” had seven years of producing and averaged more says. Most were born to mothers over 25 years old. Half than 200 eggs annually. of those surveyed lived in married, two-parent households The British government has ordered forty million gas where at least one parent, usually the father, was working masks for her civilian population. “Wings over Europe” year-round. The poverty standard in 1994 was $11,821for a might be wings over England. Those wings might come family of three. from Italy or from Germany, the two countries most June 1996 threatening to European peace. If they came, there would be a cloud of them flying high and merely dipping to place their shots, then rising and fleeing before the anti-aircraft Nearly one in five students at two Ivy League schools guns could get many of them. So there must be bomb-proof say they have purposely injured themselves by cutting, tunnels and gas masks everywhere. Those forty million gas burning or other methods, a disturbing phenomenon that masks are an illuminating sign of the times. Fortunately, psychologists say they are encountering more frequently. America is still isolated enough to be remote from such For some young people, self-abuse is an extreme coping peril. But even our immunity may vanish with further progress in aviation and asphyxiation, if the scientific killers are mechanism that seems to help relieve stress. For others, it’s a way to make deep emotional wounds more visible. allowed to run loose. June 2006 June 1936

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EYE ON THE WEATHER for MAY 2016

Month Brought Trace Of Snow, And Record-Breaking Heat Editor’s Note: David Mattice, National Weather Service observer in the Oneonta area for the past 30 years, provides monthly and annual summaries of local weather as a public service.

he cool spring weather continues. That’s right, believe it or not, May was 0.7 degrees below average, despite the last six days of the month seeing high temperatures in the mid and upper 80s. It was the hottest four-day Memorial Day weekend ever experienced in Otsego County! On Saturday, May 28, we easily beat the record of 86 degrees, set in 1911. Normal high temperatures for the end of May are just a tad one side or the other of 70 degrees. If we hadn’t sweated through the record-setting heat, the month would have finished somewhere between two and three degrees below normal. April, as some of you may recall, was over four degrees below the norm. We received only 2.83 inches of rain during May in Oneonta, and that is just over an inch below the average.

Other locations in the Cooperstown /Oneonta area had some gully-washer thunderstorms this past Sunday, so their totals were significantly higher. Normal year to date precipitation is 15.25 inches through May, and we’ve only had 13.59 inches of the liquid sunshine. Normal snowfall for the month is about a half inch, and we saw only a trace. For the year just 25.4 inches of snow has fallen and that’s less than half of 53.2 we usually enjoy during the first five months of the year. Fortunately, we had only one thunderstorm for the month. Remember, May and June are the two months of the year when the most severe weather, including tornadoes, occur nationwide. Just pray that our good luck continues in June. An interesting factoid: Did

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may 2016 Highest Temperature...............................................88°F (May 28) Lowest Temperature..........................................27°F (May 10, 11) Average Maximum Temperature.........................................66.4°F Average Minimum Temperature..........................................41.8°F Monthly Mean Temperature................................................54.1°F Precipitation Total...................................................................2.83″ Most Precipitation in One Day................................0.64” (May 13) Thunderstorms........................... ..............................1 (4 for 2016) Snow..........................................................................................Trace 25.4 inches for 2016 Most Snow in One Day.............................................Trace (May 15) Year-to-Date Precipitation......................................................13.59” Number of Days at or below zero F..................................0 for April 5 for 2016 Number of Days at or below 32°F.........................2 (67 for 2016) you know that men are five times more likely to be struck by lightning than women? I have no further comment about it; just thought you might like to know. Thunderstorms and tornado action can develop quickly, so please heed all watches and warnings, and know what to do if you are caught in a bad storm, it may save you from serious injury or death. I’m sure your agenda is jammed packed with all sorts of outdoor activities, weddings, graduations and other

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Cooperstown Discusses Running Sewer Line To Water Park By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN

ayor Jeff Katz had been discussing how he’s noticed the state is more likely to fund local infrastructure projects – like new sewagetreatment plants; the Village of Cooperstown needs one – if they generally contribute to economic development in the neighborhood.

“How can we do infrastructure things that would actually abet growth?” he said, paraphrasing what he’d said at a special Village Board meeting Tuesday, May 31, with representatives of Delaware Engineering, which has offices in Oneonta and Albany. In response, John Brust, Delaware Engineering vice president, rolled out “a big schematic” that had one such idea: A sewer line running from the municipal wastewater treatment plant at the village’s south end down Route 28 to the site of the $60 million waterpark in Hartwick Seminary proposed by Hyman Hemispherics LLC. “They had prepared a drawing.” Brust didn’t return a call in time for this edition. The Village Board has been seeking grants to repair the waste-water treatment plant, which was built in the late ’60s with a 30-year lifespan; that expired two decades ago. In 2015, it applied for a CFA grant – CFA stands for “consolidated funding application,” the single way to get state economic development funding – with the help of Lamont Engineering, Cobleskill. No luck. At its meeting the other morning, the trustees were meeting with Delaware Engineering in anticipation of trying again. At the end of the presentation, the Village Board did agree to hire Delaware to help in this year’s application, which is due in mid-summer, with awards being announced in December. Brust was accompanied by another vice president, Dave Ohman, Project Manager Mary Beth Bianconi and Project Engineer Brock Juusola. “We talked about a lot of things,”

Katz said. In making the case for collaboration with the waterpark, the engineers used the example of Fulton-Montgomery Community College’s “Global Village at FM” proposal, designed to create a college-town atmosphere, attract better students and increase economic activity in the vicinity. “The state gave them $3.75 million to help this happen,” said the mayor. Delaware Engineering has also worked with the Catskills’ Town of Windham, which – the opposite of Cooperstown – sees a lot of economic activity in the winter due to its ski slopes, then it drops off in the summer. The firm has obtained $40 million in grants for that community over the past 14 years, Katz said.

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challenges nd limitations associated with leach fields. “That’s a boon to economic development near the village, not within the village,” the mayor said. “… Someone else can bear the cost, and the village can get the revenue. That’s good.”

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or 70 years, Paula Pugliese has been making sure that Cooperstown suits are tailored, prom dresses are properly fitted and that no pants are left too long. A war bride from the French colony of Algeria, in North Africa, “I moved here in 1946 with my husband Angelo,” she said. “He was born here. When I arrived, I asked, ‘Where are all the people?’” Pugliese, now 93, is still Cooperstown’s premier seamstress, working out of her house on Main Street, where she’s lived since she arrived. “When I came here, there was just one tailor, an elderly man, but he did not cut suits,” she said. “My Please See SEWING, B3 She still depends on her 1947 Singer Sewing Machine, complete with original manual.

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B&B, he was hailed as a hero in Mississauga. “My fiancee Cathy and I were at a Howard Johnson in Ontario and her kids, Lita and Jess, were playing ‘Marco Polo’ in the pool,” said Cece. “I was in the deep end, and I backed up, and bumped into a body.” The 13-year-old girl was lying at the bottom of the pool, blood streaming from the back of her head. “I Please See HERO, B3

CLIMB THE LADDER: CANO presents Karen Butler’s vaudevillian romp “Conciousness Ladder” is part of the of the opening of CANO’S annual Mansion Show. 5-8 p.m. Friday, June 3 (show at 6:30), Wilber Manson, 11 Ford Ave, Oneonta. Info, www.canooneonta. BOXING DOC: Film screening. of “T-Rex,” the story of Claressa “T-Rex” Shields of Flint, Mich., winner of 2012 Olympic boxing medal. 7 p.m. Friday, June 3, The Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 St. Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-1453. LAW & ORDER: Fairy tales get the Dick Wolf treatment with the Hartwick 4-H Theater Guild’s presentation of “Law & Order: Fairy Tale Unit.” Free, donations accepted. 7 p.m. Friday, June 3, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, June 4. Hartwick Community Center, 450 Cty. Rte. 11, Hartwick. Info, (607) 547-2536 ext. 225 DUCK DERBY: An afternoon of rubber ducky races, music by DJ Patrick Dewey and a visit by the Hill City Ice Queen. Sponsored by the Family Resource Network. Noon-4 p.m. Saturday, June 4, Neahwa Park, Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-0001. MEET SHIRLEY: Chat with centenarian Shirley Skinner, who was recently interviewed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s press team. Open house sponsored by the Iroquois Chapter of Worcester. 1-4 p.m. Saturday, June 4, Wieting Building, Worcester.

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HERO/From B1 don’t remember going under to get her, but I must have,” he said. “I put her up on the side of the pool and yelled ‘Does anybody know CPR?’” No one did, but he knew he had to do something. “Her lips and her nails were Navy blue,” he said. “At first I thought it was just nail polish, but I realized that’s how close she was to death.” She didn’t have a pulse, so he emulated what he had seen on TV to try and bring her back. He pushed on her stomach to try and get the water out. He plugged her nose and tried breathing in her mouth, but she wouldn’t draw breath. Frantically, he turned her over on her side, bracing her back against his knee while he pumped her stomach, and finally, she began to cough. “It was my birthday, but my gift was saving this girl’s life,” he said. “The firemen told me that by turning her on her side, it opened up her airways and saved her life.” Alisha was epileptic, and she’d had a seizure, hitting

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her head before falling into the pool. The ambulance took her away, and although the hotel paged the mother’s room three times, she wouldn’t come down. “I talked to another woman at the pool, and she said she’d gone to meet Alisha’s mom earlier so their kids could play together, but when she opened to door, she was drunk,” he said. “She didn’t even ride in the ambulance with her daugh-

ter. I saw her later in the hallway with an older man and he said, ‘That’s the man who saved Alisha’s life,’ but she didn’t say anything to me.” The next day, he and his family continued their sightseeing, and upon returning to the hotel, there was a message that the radio station had called for him. “They called me a hero,” he said. “We were in the newspaper, on TV. The funny thing is, we almost didn’t stay at that motel. We looked around at a few others, but then went back to that one.” And now, he’s hoping to reconnect with Alisha, a native of Mississauga. “I want to know that she’s safe, that she’s doing okay,” he said. “I’m hoping someone can get on the computer and find her.” But more importantly, as summer approaches, he wants to raise awareness of learning CPR. “You never know when you might have to use it,” he said. “I didn’t know how to, but I got lucky.”

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War Bride Followed Husband To Cooperstown, Still Big Part Of Community Life 70 Years Later SEWING/From B1 husband would take his suits to the dry cleaners, and he told them I could sew. I couldn’t speak English, so my husband had to introduce me, and they hired me right away.” Paula Bonnet was raised in Algiers, the colonial capital, in a French-speaking family; her father was a captain in the French Army. She would have been a teenager in the early 1940s, when the city was under the control of Nazi GerIan Austin/ OTSEGO.seniority many and Vichy France. In The day she was interviewed, Mrs. Pugliese had just finished relining a fur coat for a customer. November 1942, the Allies launched Operation Torch, received her certificate. “To at the Smart Shop, a dress led by General Eisenhower, pass, you had to make a pair store next to Ellsworth & and captured the city. of trousers and show the Sill. “When you bought a About that time, Paula, teacher,” she said. “They dress, it always needed al15, was sent to trade school didn’t have zippers then, so terations,” she said. “I was to learn how to be a seamit was all buttons. It was there many years, until a stress. quite a job!” friend of my husband’s said, “I have always loved sewAnd she got good at her ‘Why do you have your wife ing,” she said. “When I was trade. “When I was young, working at a store when she a girl, I would make doll I could make a pair of pants could have her own place?’” clothes, toys, even clothes in four hours,” she said. She took that advice, for myself.” opening Paula’s Shop on At the school, she learned “Once you know how to do it, it is not very hard.” Pioneer Street, which she how to cut and make men’s She met her husband, ran until 1965. “I would go suits. “Back then, you Army Air Corps Staff Sgt. to Albany and buy women’s didn’t go to a store and buy Angelo Pugliese, during dresses, children’s clothes a suit,” she said. “You went World War II, while he and sell them,” she said. to a store and got measured, was stationed in Algiers., “Many times, I would do the picked your fabric, and they a sizeable metropolis even little alterations too, fix the would send it all away to a then; today, it is home to clothes.” school to get it made.” 3.5 million people. The She and Angelo raised The inseams and lining two were married there on three children, two survivwere done by hand, which June 19, 1946, moving to ing, Mary Dorsman and she says is still her favorite Ralph Pugliese. way to sew. “I used to prick Cooperstown soon after. He worked for 30 years as When the shop closed, myself with the needle, let a mechanic for the Clark Pugliese continued doing it bleed for a second and go Sports Center, passing away alterations out of her home, right back to it,” she said. in 2001. and worked as a cashier at After two years, she In the 1950s, she worked the Cooperstown Elemen-

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tary School. “Even now, people see me on the street and they say ‘Mrs. Pugliese, do you remember me’?” she said. “But I don’t, really, because the last time I saw them, they were so little!” And she kept further active in students’ lives by taking in prom gowns and Cotillion dresses. “I’d rather do alterations than make a dress,” she said. “Once you make it, they want you to change it, to do it over. Enough already!” She works on two machines, a 1947 Singer that she bought when she first arrived and a 1980 Singer that Angelo bought for her. “The older one works the best,” she said. “The new one does zig-zag stitch, but I do all of that by hand.” In addition to her sewing, she also knits hats, booties and blankets for newborn babies at Bassett Hospital, as well as shawls and hats for cancer patients. “We meet on Tuesdays at St. Mary’s and Fridays at Woodside Hall,” she said. “We knit from 10 in the morning until 1 in the afternoon.” She just finished re-lining a fur coat, and has two pairs of pants and a skirt waiting to be hemmed. “People always ask, ‘Can you show me how to do that?’ and I say ‘No, then you will take my job’!” she teased. “But I always show them. I think it’s something everybody should know.”

HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO Thursday, June 2 HIGH SCHOOL ART SHOW – 2-4 p.m. Roseboom Historical Association First Annual Regional Art Show. Drawings, photographs, collages, paintings. Closing award’s ceremony 1-3, Sat., June 4. Roseboom Historical Assoc., St. Hwy. 165, Roseboom. Info, roseboom.historical@gmail. com OUTLAWS – 7 p.m. Home Opener! Oneonta Outlaws vs. Elmira Pioneers. $10 reserved box seat, $5 general admin adults, $3 youth and seniors, $3 children under 12. Damaschke Field, 15 James Georgeson Ave., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-6326.

Friday, June 3

HIGH SCHOOL ART SHOW – 2-4 p.m. Roseboom Historical Association First Annual Regional Art Show. Drawings, photographs, collages, paintings. Closing award’s ceremony 1-3, Sat., June 4. Roseboom Historical Assoc., St. Hwy. 165, Roseboom. Info, roseboom.historical@gmail. com ICE CREAM! – 5-8 p.m. Fab Friday ice Cream Sundaes for $1.50 in honor of GOHS 150th building anniversary.. Greater Oneonta Historical Society, 183 Main St., Oneonta. OPENING RECEPTION – 58 p.m. Annual CANO mansion show, featuring a performance of Karen Butler’s vaudevillian romp “Consciousness Ladder.” Music by Wendy Slicer Band. Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave, Oneonta. Info, (607) 4432-2070, www. canooneonta. LAW & ORDER – 7 p.m. Fairy tales get the Dick Wolf treatment with the Hartwick 4-H Theater Guild’s presentation of “Law & Order: Fairy Tale Unit.” Free, donations accepted. Hartwick Community Center, 450 Co Rd 11, Hartwick. DOCUMENTARY – 7 p.m. film screening. T-Rex, story of Claressa “T-Rex” Shields of

Flint, Michigan, winner of 2012 Olympic boxing medal. Info, registration (recommended, not required), (607) 547-1453. The Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 St. Rte. 80, Cooperstown. CELTIC CONTRADANCE – 8-11 p.m. Music by fiddler Erik House and Friends, caller Pamela Goddard. Otsego Dance Society at Presbyterians Church, corner Church and Pioneer sts., Cooperstown Suggested donation $8 adults, $4 students and teenagers, free for 12 and under. Info, (607) 965-8232, (607) 5478164, www.otsegodancesociety. blogsport.com

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COOPERSTOWN TRIATHLON – 8 a.m. 18 mile bike, 3 mile run within Glimmerglass State Park, and 800m swim from the pristine Glimmerglass Swim Area. Glimmerglass State park, 1527 Cty.. Rd. 31, Cooperstown. Info, registration, atcendurance.com PLANT SALE – 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Sixth Annual Richfield Springs Garden Club Plant Sale. Perennial and annual plants, bake sale, free garden tours, raffles, herbal team demonstration. Rain or shine! Public Library Grounds, 102, West Main St., Rte. 20, Richfield Springs. SCOUT BOTTLE DRIVE – 9 a.m. Troop 1254 invites Cooperstown residents to place clean returnable bottles & cans on curb or porch steps visible from street. Monthly bottle drives fund troop activities, events, and trips. Special pickups, questions, call Bruce at (607) 267-6730. VOLUNTEER BRUNCH – 9 a.m. Otsego land Trust Volunteer Rendezvous lunch. Lean about volunteer teams, free catered brunch by Jerry’s Place. Guided hike around some of the 1,170 protected Green woods, including Cranberry Bog. RSVP by Thurs., June 2, (607) 547-2366, sara@ otsegolandtrust.org Greenwoods Conservancy, 800 Zachow Road, hartwick MORE CALENDAR, B4

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VINEYARD STROLL – 11 a.m.-4 p.m. To benefit Relay for Life. Stroll vineyard, enjoy wine tastings. Prizes, more. Farmers/Artisans Market, pig roast, live music. Rustic Ridge Winery, 2805 St. Hwy. 80, Burlington Flats. Info, (607) 965-0626. DUCK DERBY – Noon- 4 p.m. An afternoon of rubber ducky races, music by DJ Patrick Dewey and a visit by the Hill City Ice Queen. Sponsored by the Family Resource Network. Neahwa Park, Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-0001., info@familyrn.org, www.familyrn. org FOSSILS – 1 p.m. Victor Tollerton of the NYS Museum presents “Rocks Beneath Our Feet”. Richfield Springs Historical Association & Museum, 134 W. Main St., Richfield Springs. Info, (315) 858-0027. CHINESE AUCTION – 1-3 p.m. Lunch & bake sale, 3:15 p.m. drawing. First Baptist Church of Burlington, 2225 Cty. Hwy. 16 (corner Cty. 16 & St.. 80), Burlington Flats. DAR OPEN HOUSE – 1-4 p.m. Iroquois Chapter of Worcester open house featuring history of centenarian Shirley Skinner. View Shirley’s live through classic and iconic photographs! Wieting Building, Worcester. HIGH SCHOOL ART SHOW – 1-3 p.m. Roseboom Historical Association First Annual Regional Art Show Awards Ceremony. Roseboom Historical Assoc., St. Hwy. 165, Roseboom. Info, roseboom.historical@gmail.com

LAW & ORDER – 2 p.m. Fairy tales get the Dick Wolf treatment with the Hartwick 4-H Theater Guild’s presentation of “Law & Order: Fairy Tale Unit.” Free, donations accepted. Also at 7 p.m. Hartwick Community Center, 450 Co Rd 11, Hartwick. OPENING RECEPTION– 5-7 p.m. “Works on paper” features 14 area artists including Nora Crain, who was a long-time resident of Cherry Valley. Cherry Branch Gallery, 25 Main St.,

Cherry Valley. Info, (607) 22649530, info@cherrybranchgallery. com BLUES EXPRESS – 7 p.m. Saturday night blues train featuring best bands in upstate N.Y. Riders enjoy food and drink. Cooperstown Blues Express, depart Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad, Milford. Info, reservations, (607) 432-2429, (607) 432-2824

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PANCAKES– 8 a.m.-noon. Roseboom Historical Association Pancake Breakfast. Adults $8, Children $4, Children under 5 free. Roseboom Historical Building, Rte. 165, Roseboom.

BIRDING– 8:30 a.m., “Birding by Ear” at Betty and Wilbur Davis State Park, Westford. DelawareOtsego Audubon Society event. Youth ages 12-17 $15; Adult 18 and over $25. Pre-registration required, contact Becky Gretton, (607) 547-5648, info@doas. ICE CREAM SOCIAL – 1-5 p.m. Owl Ice Cream Social. Free ice cream & family fun. Rain or shine! Fun children’s activities by OWL and participating organizations. Info, http://www.

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Club Nissan free digital fingerprint and photo safety program. Country Club Nissan, 55 Oneonta St., oneonta. Info, (607) 4322800, countryclubnissan.com TALKING OPERA – 7 p.m. La bohème: Glimmerglass Music Director Joseph Colaneri presents “Listening to La bohème with New Ears.” Free, all welcome. Refreshments, informal discussion. Christ Church Parish Hall, 69 Fair St., Cooperstown. MORE CALENDAR, B8

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Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY The name of the entity is Chuck’s Towing and Collision Service LLC, for which the Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State on May 19, 2016. The office of said entity is to be located in Otsego County, New York. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the limited liability company, upon whom process against it may be served, and the post office address within this State to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon her is P.O. Box 191, Richfield Springs, New York 13439. The purpose of the business of such limited liability company is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the Limited Liability Company Law. 6LegalJuly7 Legal notice RAIL TECHNOLOGY PARK, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/5/2016. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o

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Kehoe & Merzig, 8-12 Dietz St., Ste. 202, Oneonta, NY 13820. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 6LegalJuly7 Legal notice Notice of Formation of Red Shed Brewery LLC. Arts. of Org. were filed with Secretary of State (SSNY) on 04/29/16. Office Location: Otsego Cty. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail any process to the LLC 817 Butter Bowl Road Cherry Valley, NY 13320 Purpose: any and all lawful business activity permitted under NYS laws. 6legalJuly7 Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Hillside 21 LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on May 11, 2016. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 15 Stevens Lane, Otego, New York 13825. Purpose: Any lawful activity. 6LegalJune30 Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Stevens Excavation LLC

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Arts. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on May 11, 2016. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 15 Stevens lane, Otego, New York 13825. Purpose: Any lawful activity. 6LegalJune30 Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Anita’s Acres, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on May 2, 2016. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 155 Hoose Road, Oneonta, New York 13820. Purpose: Any lawful activity. 6LegalJune30 Legal notice WOODS MAPLE, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/5/2016. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 467 Lockwood Hill Rd., Mount Upton, NY 13809, which is also the principal buisness location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 6legalJune30

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Legal notice Notice of formation of Worcester BTS Retail, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/29/2016. Office location, County of Otsego. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 14600 Detroit Ave., Ste. 1500, Lakewood OH 44107. Purpose: any lawful act. 6LegalJune23 Legal notice Notice of Formation of Winston Lax, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/4/16. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 3 Raymond Ave, Oneonta NY 13820. Purpose: Any lawful activity. 6LegalJune23 Legal notice Notice of formation of CLAPPER RENTALS, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on May 2, 2016. The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be serviced. The Secretary of

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: CHERRY VALLEY HARDWARE LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 26 April 2016. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 38 Genesee St, Cherry Valley, NY 13320. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws. 6legalJune16

Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: DANE & SONS EXCAVATING & LOGGING LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 9 March 2016. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1895 Co Hwy 19, Burlington Flats, NY 13315. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws. 6LegalJune16 Legal notice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: ROD’S WELDING LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 9 March 2016. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 141

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pany, upon whom process against it may be served, and the post office address within this State to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon her is 313 Brunner Road, Cooperstown, New York 13326. The purpose of the business of such limited liability company is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the Limited Liability Company Law. 6LegalJune9 Legal notice Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company The name of the entity is Ed’s Repair Shop LLC, for which the Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State on April 26, 2016. The office of said entity is to be located in Otsego County, New York. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the limited liability company, upon whom process against it may be served, and the post office address within this State to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon her is 3213 Co. Hwy. 16, Burlington Flats, NY 13315. The purpose of the business of such limited liability company is to engage in any lawful act of

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process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 10467 East Raintree Dr., Scottsdale, Arizona 85255. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 6LegalJune2

Notice of Formation of J.E.L. Transport LLC. Art. of Org. filed SSNY on 03/08/2016. Office loc: Otsego County. LEGALINC CORPORATE SERVICES INC. designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: LEGALINC CORPORATE SERVICES INC., 90 STATE STREET, SUITE 700 BOX 80, ALBANY, NY 12207. Purpose: any lawful activities. 6LegalJune9

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Damulis Trucking, LLC. Purpose is to transport goods within and outside New York State. Filed articles of Organization on 4/12/2016. The Secretary of State has been designated as an agent of the LLC, and the service shall be sent to 451 Gulf Rd, Burlington Flats, NY 13315. 6LegalJune2

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NOTICE OF FORMATION 195 BISSELL, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sec’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/13/2016. Office Location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 23 Third Street, Manhasset, New York 11030. Purpose: Any lawful activity. 6LegalJune2

REELTOURS 360 LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/23/2016. Office Location: Otsego County. Princ. office of LLC: 28 Fair St., Cooperstown, NY 13326. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Stephen Mahlum at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. 6LegalJune2

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Three pals from Worcester, Derek and Connor Land and Matt Millis, met their first MLB player, the Twins LaTroy Hawkins, at the BASE race.

EMTs Colin Wilcox, right, of Cooperstown, and Cody Benas from the Duanesburg squad, survey the bleachers to ensure no one was faltering under the sun and heat.

CCS seniors Clara Marra, right, and Amber Genova were in big demand today, vending cold drinks as part of their class’s fundraising efforts.

CLASSIC Fun Under The Sun There was a hum of Major League action under the Doubleday Field grandstand Saturday afternoon, on the first day of the Memorial Day Weekend, for the eighth playing of the Hall of Fame Classic, a contest between 30 players from the National and American Leagues, coached by Hall of Famers. Melvin Mora homered twice to capture the Bob Feller Player of the Game Award in front of 6,412 fans.

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Doubleday Field looked great, but not without the efforts of, from left, Quinton Hasak, groundskeeper and crew members Zach Crippen and Stephen Clancy.

Down from Fort Drum, Oliver Harris, 2, had simply had enough. Mom Tarra brought him into the shade for refreshing nap.

Downtown merchant Fred Lemister had a perfect bird’seye view of the action from the top of the Doubleday Field bleachers.

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IN MEMORIAM Frederick L. Palmer, 74; Steeple Jack, Silo Builder MORRIS – Frederick L. Palmer, 74, a steeple jack and master silo builder whose clients included playwright Arthur Miller, passed away Friday, May 20, 2016, following a brief illness. Fred was born Jan. 3, 1942, to LeRoy and Laura (Eldred) Palmer of Morris, and was brother to Audrey (Dr. Peter) Gregory, Sharon (Charles Esq.) Bosco and James (Gina) Palmer. Fred graduated from Morris Central School in 1960 where he was a class officer and was active in football, baseball, basketball, and dance club (landing himself a spot on American Band Stand in 1959). Following graduation, Fred served in the Navy as a corpsman until 1965. Upon completion of his service, Fred returned to Morris to follow in his father’s footsteps building wood silos. Fred ran his own business as an independent contractor for Unadilla Silo Co., building silos throughout the northeast. A few of Fred’s most notable projects included the weather observation tower on Whiteface Mountain in Lake Placid, a private art studio for playwright Arthur Miller and his family’s “Silohouse” home

in Morris. In addition to building silos, Fred was a steeple jack, restoring and repairing over Frederick 30 church Palmer steeples in the region, while also working on numerous other barns and structures and installed lightning protection systems. Following one of his falls he joked; “It is not the fall that gets you, it is the landing!” When he wasn’t scaling a roof he could be found tinkering, reciting history, talking politics, or carrying his own syrup to a pancake breakfast. Later in life Fred spent many a day driving the back roads reminiscing about days gone by, searching for sap houses, a fishing hole or the site of an obscure historical event, which always ended in a story to tell. Fred married Marguerite Ruocco in 1969 and had five children: Brayton (Lori) Palmer of Media, Pa., Elissa (Glenn) Steinke of Exton Pa., Matthew Palmer of Morris, Briggin (Heidi) Palmer of Littleton, Colo.,

and Lydia Palmer of Morris. Fred loved to tell stories, phrases and proverbs to his children, and has continued that tradition with grandchildren Noah, Jake and Julian Steinke, Jonah Baldo and Benjamin and Hailey Palmer. In addition to his immediate family, Fred is survived by close nieces and nephews Stacia, James, Mark, Pablo, Soraya and Orion. Fred is also survived by longtime companion Betty Cornish of Milford, as well as numerous Palmer and Eldred relatives and many close friends who have been with him through thick and thin. He was predeceased by his nephew John. A funeral service was held Friday, May 27 at Zion Episcopal Church, with The Revs. Robert Witt Jr. and J. Gary Norman presiding. Burial with military honors was in the Hillington Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the Zion Episcopal Church in Morris or the Morris American Legion in place of flowers. Arrangements are entrusted to Johnston’s Funeral Home, Morris.

John Nowhitney, 93; In Veterans’ Hall Of Fame For WWII Service ONEONTA – John Patrick Nowhitney, 93, a member of the State Senate Veterans Hall of Fame for service in World War II, passed away Monday, May 23, 2016 at the NYS Veterans Home at Oxford. According to the citation issued by state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, in 2011: “Nowhitney saw service with the famed Task Force 58, and spent a great deal of his service time on board the aircraft carrier U.S.S Bealleau Wood in the Pacific Theater of Operations.” Task Force 58, also known as the Fast Carrier Task Force, pioneered the

use of aircraft carriers as a striking force against the Japanese Navy in the Pacific Theater, John notably the Nowhitney campaigns against Okinawa and Iwo Jima. Nowhitney was awarded a number of military honors for his service. including World War II Victory Medal, Navy Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic Pacific Campaign

Medal with one silver star and four bronze stars, Presidential Unit Citation Ribbon, Combat Action Ribbon, and Philippine Liberation Medal with two stars. “John Nowhitney is a true American hero,” said Seward in his remarks. “He risked his life to help secure the freedoms and liberties we enjoy each day, and protect those who he served alongside. Funeral arrangements will be announced at a later date. Arrangements are entrusted to the Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home, 51 Dietz St., Oneonta

Terry L. Cannon, 59, Survived By Sisters

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GRAVESTONES – 7 p.m. Laurens Historical Association hosts CR Jones as he discusses the best methods for cleaning gravestones. Hands on demonstration. Laurens Presbyterian Church, 23 Main St., Laurens. MIDDLE SCHOOL CONCERT – 7 p.m. Oneonta Middle School Spring Concert, 130 East St. Oneonta. Info, (607) 433-8262.

Tuesday, June 7

CHILD SAFETY DAYS – 10 a.m.-6 p.m. daily through June 10, Sat. June 11 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Operation Kidsafe and Country Club Nissan free digital fingerprint and photo safety program. Totally free and private, no database or record maintain; all records go home with parents. Country Club Nissan, 55 Oneonta St., oneonta. Info, (607) 4322800, countryclubnissan.com RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY CONCERT – 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Riverside Elementary School Spring Concert, 39 House St. Oneonta. Info, (607) 433-8273. 21st ANNUAL HAM DINNER – 4:30-7 p.m. Ham & scalloped potatoes, coleslaw, rolls & sweet breads, pickles & olives, strawberry shortcake. Donation, takeout service available. Middlefield United Methodist Church, 314 Cty. Hwy. 35, Middlefield. HIGH SCHOOL SPRING CONCERT – 7:30-9 p.m. Cooperstown Jr./Sr. HS Auditorium. 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown.

Wednesday, June 8

CHILD SAFETY DAYS – 10 a.m.-6 p.m. daily through June 10, Sat. June 11 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Operation Kidsafe and Country Club Nissan free digital fingerprint and photo safety program. Totally free and private, no database or record maintain; all records go home with parents. Country Club Nissan, 55 Oneonta St., oneonta. Info, (607) 4322800, countryclubnissan.com DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS – 4-5:30 p.m. Scholarship Foundation Awards Program, welcoming scholarship winners, parents, sponsors and fired. Sixty-on scholarship to be awarded. Hunt Union Ballroom, SUNY oneonta. Info, oneonta.dollarsforscholars. org CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE – 7 p.m. League of Women Voters candidates debate. Free, all welcome. Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. THE CRUCIBLE – 7 p.m. Behind the Curtain of The Crucible. Glimmerglass Festival Young Artists performance excerpts from

The Crucible. Free, all welcome. Village meeting room, Village Hall, 121 Main St., Cooperstown. ELEMENTARY SPRING CONCERT – 7:30-9 p.m. Cooperstown Jr./Sr. HS Auditorium. 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown.

Thursday, June 9

CHILD SAFETY DAYS – 10 a.m.-6 p.m. daily through June 10, Sat. June 11 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Operation Kidsafe and Country Club Nissan free digital fingerprint and photo safety program. Totally free and private, no database or record maintain; all records go home with parents. Country Club Nissan, 55 Oneonta St., oneonta. Info, (607) 4322800, countryclubnissan.com CHURCH SUPPER – 6:30 p.m. St. Mary’s Episcopal Church Parish Guild supper. Chicken casserole, tossed salad, glazed carrots, cake. Take out available. Suggested donation $8. Bring a place setting. Proceed benefits St. Mary’s Outreach Ministries and community works. Parish Hall, 112 Public Landing Road, Springfield Center.

2800, countryclubnissan.com HISTORY – 1 p.m. Otsego County Historical Assoc. interactive presentation on “Leaders and Legends of Otsego County. Historical marker book will be given to participants. New Lisbon Town hall, 908 Cty. Rd. 16, Garrattsville. Info, (607) 965-2112. OPENING RECEPTION – 5-7 p.m. Recent Paintings by Richard Saba; Miniature Show: “Petite Plantings,” and Leatherstocking Brush & Palette Club Show. Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, www.cooperstownart.com COMMUNITY BASEBALL – 5-7 p.m. NYS United Teachers (United University Professions) co-sponsor Oneonta Outlaws baseball game for the community. Free and open to all members of the community. Communication Works of America (CWA) V.P. Laine Madison will throw out the ceremonial fits pitch. Raffles,, give-aways. Info, contact Aaron

Sorensen, sorensen_aaron@ yahoo.com; Bill Simons, oneonta uupmail.org. Damaschke Field, Oneonta. PUPPETS! – 7 p.m. Photo & Supply, with handmade puppets and dynamic sets, this collective of Brooklyn artists brings to life a store about community and collective memory. In the face of a changing neighborhood, Phyllis, who has run a photo development shop for many years, must close its doors for good. In protest, boxes unpack themselves, floor tiles shake, and long-forgotten photographs burst to life. Also, Sat. “THE CHURCH (Artist Residencies & Performance Space”), 2381 State Hwy. 205, Mt. Vision. Info, upsi-ny.com

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CRAFT FAIR – 9 a.m.-3 p.m. 37th annual Friendship Craft Festival sponsored by Church of Christ Uniting, Richfield Springs. Crafts, famous bake sale,

Brooks’ Chicken BBQ (11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., plus dogs and burgers at community center booth. Also June 12. Spring Park, Rte. 20, Richfield Springs. Info, 222.rschurchofchristuniting. com CHILD SAFETY DAYS – 11 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Operation Kidsafe and Country Club Nissan free digital fingerprint and photo safety program. Totally free and private, no database or record maintain; all records go home with parents. Country Club Nissan, 55 Oneonta St., oneonta. Info, (607) 4322800, countryclubnissan.com BOOK SALE COLLECTION – 10 a.m.-noon. Friends of Cooperstown Village Library for annual summer June 25 sale. Used books, CDs, DVDs to Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. (NO encyclopedias, reference books, textbooks, magazines or travel guides.

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