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Repairs Near On OHS Pool

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he Oneonta City school board will go out to bid in midMarch on the OHS swimming pool renovations, aiming to finish work by Aug. 15, according to former interim Superintendent of Schools David Rowley, who has led the fundraising.

So far, $185,000 has been raised, Rowley said, including $28,000 toward the $40,000 an anonymous donor will match at 50 percent.

Another $12,000, to trigger a $6,000 match and reach the $200,000 mark, is being sought. To donate, call the district office, 433-8200.

NEW TRAILBLAZERS: The city Commission on Community Relations & Human Rights has named its 2016 Trailblazer Award winners: Coleen Lewis in the “Over 25” category, and Rory Decker in “25 and Under.” They will be honored at a reception Tuesday, March 15, before the Common Council meeting.

AUTO SCHOLARSHIP: The Reminiscers’ Car Club is offering a $300 scholarship to a student planning a career in automobile repair or restoration. Graduating seniors who intend to continue training in auto technology are encouraged to apply.

Applications available from BOCES or Dick Powell at 431-9029. Deadline is May.

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Experts: Charter Change Will Require Referendum State Of City Speech

Caitlyn Thompson, 8, sells Girl Scout cookies in the walkway to the parking deck. Troop 3007 will be doing so again 1-4 p.m. Saturday, March 6.

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Mayor Sees Good Future For Oneonta

Keeping The HEATOn

Student Chelsea MacMillan passes the heating plant.

Under State Law, Voters’ OK Needed

By JIM KEVLIN

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hile the city attorney is advising otherwise, key New York State experts on city governance say proposed changes in Oneonta’s city charter are significant enough ACCORDING to require TO HOYLE? another See proposed vote of the changes in City people, who Charter for yourapproved self at the existing ALLOTSEGO.COM document by 71 percent in 2010.

“It seems to me that you are altering the powers of an elected official (the mayor) … and conflating the powers of the mayor and Council Please See CHARTER, A3

n front of a nearly full gallery in Common Council chambers on Tuesday, March 1, Mayor Gary Herzig laid out a future of affordable housing, craft food and beverage, and updates to aging pipes, streets and sewers.

“By pulling Herzig together, staying focused and making good decisions, we can continue to build momentum,” said Herzig.

The new mayor praised Housing Vision’s plans just hours after the start of construction was announced, spoke of a city-county alliance on the airport, and announced the revival of Mayor Dick Miller’s “Community Alliance.”

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City ’Lifter Jim Phraner Vies In Vegas

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Bill Kerbin reviews downtown plans.

Mystery Solved: 9 Trees Go; That’s It

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n Tuesday, Feb. 23, many downtown Oneonta shoppers and business owners were dismayed to find that nine of Main Street’s trees were suddenly gone.

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Clockwise from front, right, Tom Rathbone, SUNY Oneonta associate vice president/facilities, Heating Plant Supervisor Pete Waterhouse, Director of Facilities Operations Terry Zimmer and Energy Manager Pat Ryan tour the campus heating plant.

‘Interruptible Power’ Cost $½ Million In 3 Years

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ith 6,000 students (3,400 living on campus), 1,400 staff and faculty, 50 some buildings on 250 acres, SUNY Oneonta is like a small city.

So price points make a difference, Tom Rathbone, associate vice presi-

dent/facilities & safety, said the other day in an interview in the NASA-like control room of the campus’ heating plant on West Dorm Drive.

During the past three winters – this warm one, and two that were colder than usual – SUNY Oneonta’s “interruptible power” contract with NYSEG cost the campus $477,100 in additional Please See POWER, A7

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o one noticed when Jim Phraner stepped onstage at the 2012 international Olympia Powerlifting Competition in Las Vegas. “It’s the biggest event in the world, 2,000 people, and it was my first time on a major stage,” Phraner he said. “But I didn’t have name recognition, so no one noticed me.”

But when he bench-pressed Please See LIFTING, A2

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Though he played football while a student at WalOneonta Business For Sale! ton High School, Phraner, Turn key, established Bar/ 31, didn’t began powerRestaurant business in busy lifting until 2012, while center city location. Contact working out at Muscles in Benson Agency Real Estate, Motion. “I bought the gym LLC at 607-432-4391 for more in 2011,� he said. “My girldetails. friend at time said I spent all TFN my time there anyway, so I thought it made sense to make it a business.�

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won, followed by the USPF Raw National Championships in Chicago, where he won first place – and his pro status. “Once you get your pro status, you can get sponsorships,� he said. “Titan Supports were my first sponsorship, and now it’s Overkill Strength Equipment.�

After his win at the 2012 Olympia, he continued to win at events throughout 2013. But one day, while chopping wood at his home, Phraner was injured when he slipped on grass and struck himself in the head with the ax. “I was in intensive care for months,� he said. “I had two titanium plates and 14 screws put in.�

The doctor told Phraner he would never walk again, but because of his intensive weightlifting, the bone grew back stronger. “Weightlifting saved my life,� he said. “Six months later, that same doctor who said I wouldn’t walk was telling me I could go back to lifting. I got lucky.�

He returned to lifting better than ever, winning this year’s international Europa and Olympia events. “I’m in the gym six days a week, two hours a day,� he said.

When his son, Cazmier, now 3, was a baby, Phraner used to bring him into Muscles in Motion. “I’d set up a pack-and-play and he would watch everybody,� he said.

Phraner will be lifting as part of Muscles in Motion’s CNY Pro-Am Weightlifting Championship, to be hosted by the gym on Friday, April 15.

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Minnie Beams, Schenevus, shows off “3D Baltimore,� the Viewers’ Choice at The Fenimore Quilt Club and CAA’s 26th annual Quilt Show.

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t 90, Minnie Beams of Schenevus said she’s sewn her last quilt after her “3D Baltimore� won the Viewers’ Choice Award at The Fenimore Quilt Club and Cooperstown Art Association’s 26th annual Quilt Show.

Beams began quilting in the mid-1970s with her friend, Jean Ciliberti, for the Bicentennial celebration. “I said, there’s no reason why we can’t,’ and we learned it

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3 Experts Say Recommended City-Charter Changes Must Go Back To Voters

CHARTER/From A1 with regards to the selection of the manager,� said SUNY New Paltz VP Gerald Benjamin, director of the Center for Research, Regional Education & Outreach (CRREO). “I read the Municipal Home Rule Law (section 23) to require a referendum in these circumstances.�

With shifting CEO responsibilities from the city manager to mayor, “it’s no longer a council-manager plan,â€? added Bob McEvoy, a professor in local government at SUNY’s Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Politics in Albany, who advised the original 2009-10 Charter Commission. â€œâ€ŚThat’s really a substantial change. There’s nothing wrong with it; it’s just people have to vote on it.â€? “Here’s the difference,â€? said Jerry Faiella, former executive director of the New York City Managers Association. “If hiring, firing goes to the City Council, that’s where the allegiance is, not with the person being asked to be your chief administrative officer.

You hold the person responsible, and yet they lack any authority over anyone who doesn’t follow direction.�

That’s significant enough to require a referendum, he said.

The three commented after being emailed copies of recommendations by Mayor Gary Herzig’s ad hoc Committee on Charter Revision so they could fully assess the proposed changes, (which may be viewed in full at www. allotsego.com).

City Attorney David Merzig, who is advising that the changes can be adopted by majority vote, said “get me something in writing� when advised the experts believe a referendum is necessary.

That some might disagree with his advice didn’t surprise him. “Even the Supreme Court votes 5-4 on issues,�

Merzig said.

His view, he said, was informed by discussions with NYCOM, the state Council on Municipalities. (The receptionist there said General Counsel Wayne Beltramo wasn’t authorized to talk to the press, only Executive Director Peter Baynes, and he didn’t return the call.)

If citizens object to the Council vote, Merzig said, they can hire a lawyer and file an Article 78 challenging

the action. They could also petition to have a version of the charter put on the ballot on the next general election.

The proposed revisions would give the mayor a vote on the city manager’s selection; heretofore, the mayor has only been able to vote to break ties on the eight-member Common Council.

While that’s the provision that most concerns the experts, the revisions also remove city manager qualifications from the charter – the original commission put them there as a firewall against cronyism – and for the mayor and Council to change them year to year by majority vote.

Operationally, the most significant change might be the shift of CEO powers from the city manager to the mayor, in particular the power to hire and fire: The city manager would be responsible to direct people he/she would have no authority over.

Contrary to what’s recommended

by Albany, the mayor would take control in emergency situations; and the mayor would be the liaison to state and federal agencies, not the city manager.

At the outset, members of the last Council on the ad hoc committee favored removing the residency requirement from the charter; but members of the incoming Council said residents want it, and so it stayed.

Mayor Herzig, who appointed the ad hoc committee in October, originally with the idea of implementing changes before a new Common Council was seated Jan. 1, said his intent is to treat the charter revision like changes to any other local law.

The document will go to a special meeting of Common Council’s Legislative Committee for review at 4 p.m.

Thursday, March 10. He said a public hearing will be set on a proposed law containing the revisions, and Common Council will be asked to vote on it, probably sometime in April.

Council member David Rissberger, who chairs the Legislative Committee, said he shares the concerns raised

by Benjamin, McEvoy and Faiella.

(Rissberger was also chair of the original Charter Commission.)

He also is concerned about the ease in changing the city manager’s qualifications, although might agree with

that if safeguards were in place.

The qualifications were originally put in the charter, which was approved by 71 percent of the electorate in 2010, “to prevent, down the road, anyone coming into that position because someone thought their cousin or their brother could do the job.�

Another member of the Charter Commission, Paul Scheele, said he believes that’s the intent of the changes: for the mayor and Council to put whomever they want in the job. “I think it’s a setup ‌ to hire whomever they want, regardless of qualifications,â€? Scheele said in an e-mail, “exactly what the Commission wanted very much to avoid. Perhaps not with this mayor or this CC, but further ahead, just watch for ‘the old boy network’ to come into play.â€?

For his part, Bob McEvoy recalled how excited former Mayor Dick Miller was about moving to a city manager model, “the largest system in the country and the largest growing.�

Apprised of what’s happening in Oneonta, McEvoy said, “I think he would be very disappointed.�

9 Trees Cut, But Now Good Things Happen Downtown TREES/From A1 Gone, but not for long. “An arborist came in to assess the trees and see which ones were dead or dying or diseased,� said Bill Kerbin, City Hall’s Community Development director. “It was about the health of the trees, but we’re not removing every tree downtown.�

Eight maples and one locust tree were removed, to be re-

placed by mid-June with a mixture of elm, Japanese Zelkova, Katsura, Maidenhair, cherry and pear, although Kerbin says the latter are flowering, not fruit producing. “You won’t be able to walk down Main Street picking fruit,� he said. “These are trees that can handle downtown conditions, such as salt during the winter.�

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The tree removal is another step in the city’s downtown renovation project, which will see benches refurbished, planters and garbage cans replaced, and new, healthy trees lining the streets. “It’s going to be really nice when it’s done,� he said. “Once people see the end product, they’re going to really like it.�

Twenty-six planters and 21 benches are planned for downtown, including a large wall planter, filled with perennials, across from Dietz Street, in the area of Subway to the Clarion Inn. Curb planters will also be placed at the corners of Ford & Main and Ford & South Main, as well as across from Muller Plaza. And in Muller Plaza, the city is still looking to get a permanent stage. “We’re exploring the availability of funding once bids are open,� said Kerbin.

The work is being paid for, in part, by a $400,000 state grant, as well as a city match of $32,500 from general fund and $32,500 from community landscaping fund.

Bids are due Friday, March 4, and work is to begin in April, with a projected mid-June finish date. Kerbin stressed that no sidewalks will be closed, but some may be temporarily “narrowed� while workers install benches or plant trees.

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The State Of The City, 2016

Herzig: City’s Future Hinges On Housing, Jobs, Revenues Editor’s Note: This is the text of Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig’s first State of the City speech, delivered Tuesday, March 1, to Common Council and the public.

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his past year has been a challenging one for Oneonta – we have had transitions in leadership, a tax cap that leaves us virtually flat funded, a reduced workforce, and an infrastructure of roads, water, and sewer systems that are showing their age.

Despite these challenges – as you have seen - our city team, led by acting City Manager Meg Hungerford, has made considerable advances in improving efficiencies, our quality of life,

and our infrastructure. So, to Meg and the entire team, I say, “Thank you.”

Of particular importance are the innovations on this list: • We now have a GIS system for the city’s infrastructure. This is the work and vision of City Engineer Greg Mattice. Thank you, Greg.

• We have a new creative GPS system for OPT buses thanks to work of Transportation Director Paul Patterson. Thank you, Paul.

• And I commend Chief Nayor on his purchase of body cameras to equip our entire force, a move that will certainly help in maintaining a trusting relationship between the police and the

workforce, reformulated our employee benefits, reconsidered the delivery of some services, and we have looked to reinvent our relationships with our neighbors in the town and the county.

And by doing so, we have been successful in weaning ourselves off of spending our reserves in order to balance our budget. This is a very significant accomplishment.

• First up in 2016, will be Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA the completion of a review, Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig delivers his first I commissioned, of our State of the City speech Thursday, March 1.

4-year-old City Charter. I believe we would be foolpeople of this city. Thank merous actions to maintain ish not to try and learn from you, chief. our essential services, and our experiences of the past • our quality of life. few years. I believe that With a virtual tax freeze, We have seriously the committee’s recomthe city has had to take nureduced the size of our

mendations will clarify and strengthen the role of the city manager and better define the relationship of the city manager and the mayor.

The committee will be presenting its recommendations this month and it is my hope the Council will act quickly so that the selection of a permanent city manager can begin shortly thereafter.

And, we will continue, as we have the past six months, to have the city’s day-to-day operation overseen by a the city manager, leaving the Mayor and the council to establish policy and set direction for the city’s future.

• As we move forward, my priorities will include better Please See MAYOR, A7

NICOLE DILLINGHAM OTHER VOICES

Natural Gas Simply Presents Too Many Risks, Too Many Costs Editor’s Note: Nicole Dillingham is president of Otsego 2000, the Cooperstown-based environmental group.

into the complex world of energy supply.

You suggest that we can rely on natural gas now, renewables later, but this begs the question, at what cost? The reality is that our region is now inundated with proposed methane pipeline projects spanning hundreds of miles up, down, and across our state, and each pipeline requires compressor stations every 40-50 miles.

The pipelines themselves are

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he headline “We Can Have It All” is so seductive. The concept is usually associated with presidential candidates, diet plans and online dating. In this case, The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta interject this simplistic marketing ploy

at risk of rupture, explosion and leakage. The required compressor stations emit high quantities of greenhouse gases and other toxics, not to mention the impacts of noise and unwanted industrialization imposed on quiet rural towns.

Further, the land necessary for the construction of the pipelines is taken from private landowners by power of eminent domain, without consent or adequate compensation for the full negative impacts,

not least the reduction in property values that the taking will cause.

The anti-fracking debate did not so much demonize natural gas as it revealed the risks which unleashing it would cause. To now decide that fracking should be done in other states to feed New Yorkers’ own desire for supposedly cheap natural gas is both immoral and uneconomic.

We cannot escape the costs of environmental degradation,

health care, earthquakes, property value destruction, and climate impacts that reliance on shale gas causes, wherever it is extracted.

The experience of Flint, Mich., is instructive. If you make the wrong decision, poisoning and despoiling a community, there will be political, economic, and moral costs to bear across the nation.

Those that would argue that profit is the only concern must Please See RISKS, A6

LETTERS

Sometimes, 2 Inches Of Snow Are Better Than Thaw, Freeze To the Editor: Hooray, the village trustees have dumped the snow-removal citations. Folks, an inch or 2 of snow on the sidewalk provides safe traction, as opposed to iced-over so-called cleared sidewalks.

So, if you really feel civic minded and want to remove the snow from your sidewalk, you must also remove the snow from a couple of inches

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of the grass on both sides.

Otherwise, this snow melts onto the sidewalk during the day, freezes at night and the result is a far more treacherous walkway than the snow covered walk.

Now 1-2 feet of snow is another story, but we haven’t had to deal with that this year, at least so far.

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Many Proprietors More Stable Than A Single Employer To the Editor: I have known Dick Downey for some years and I appreciate his response to my recent letter to the editor, but he may have missed my main point. We hold similar views in many ways about the struggling economy in Upstate New York, but we have some differing views on how to move toward possible solutions.

Dick’s position, that we need to create jobs to attract people, is understandable, but unfortunately no longer works that well in this country. It is more of a wish than a possible reality. In my view, we cannot hope to create enough jobs to attract young

families and others, to make much of a difference in the school populations or to significantly expand our economy. Otsego County, New York is not exactly a household name outside of Otsego County, New York (but it needs to be).

Dick is also a proponent of gas drilling and pipelines, and I am not.

Fossil fuels are destructive, and slowly losing ground, but renewable energy is not yet fully able to take us into the clean energy future that we desperately need. More renewable energy is coming online every day. We are in a period of a transformative energy transition while at the same time the

fossil fuel industry continues to choose profit above the future of life on earth.

New York State is a leader in transitioning to renewable energy and a high-tech economy, thanks in large part to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but the war is not yet won. New York State will rise again and it will be greater than it was before, in part because it is a state undamaged by hydrofracking and all that it brings.

While I think “lipstick on a pig” is a little harsh, I can understand why Dick said it. If we do not believe in the potential of Otsego County, then why should anyone else? If we are not Please See DEAN, A6

Register! So You Can Vote In April 19 Primary To the Editor: Oneonta and Cooperstown area residents have a chance to participate in important primary elections this spring.

The primary elections may be close, and a relatively small number of voters in most primaries mean your vote can be significant. Your vote is your voice, but to vote you must be registered!

The Presidential Primary election in New York is April 19. The primary battle for party nominations in both the Republican and Democratic parties will likely still be in full swing. To participate you must be registered by March 25.

To vote in our local June 28 New York 19th Congressional District Primary – where exciting contests to succeed Chris Gibson as our representative in Washington are now taking shape – you must registered in the district by June 3.

Later this year, primaries for state and local positions are currently scheduled for Sept. 13, with a registration deadline of Aug. 24.

Unlike the “open” primaries in New Hampshire and South Carolina, where you

can “cross over” and vote on any party’s ballot, New York holds “closed” primaries – in New York you can only vote in the party in which you are registered.

For already registered voters, the deadline for switching parties is long past, but – AND STUDENTS TAKE NOTE – in keeping with the deadlines above, you can change your legal address and be eligible to vote locally.

For instructions on how to register, get an absentee ballot, or check your current registration, party affiliation, polling place, etc. visit vote411.org, a service of the League of Women Voters or contact your local Board of Elections; (in Otsego County, at 547-4247.)

To help area voters make informed choices, once these primary election ballots are finalized, the local League of Women Voters chapters in Oneonta and Cooperstown intend to organize local candidate forums/debates.

PAUL CONWAY Steering Committee League of Women Voters Oneonta Area

Lee Winnie Always There For All Of Us To the Editor: Anyone who has taken stuff to recycling up on the hill will know whom I am writing about if they read on. He is the guy who has kept track of the bins, gave you a hand if you needed help, and always said “hello” if he was nearby.

I am writing about Lee Winnie of Fly Creek. He had a heart attack last November and has been on the mend since then.

I saw him as I was stopping at the Fly Creek Country Store the other day. I don’t know if or when he is returning to work, perhaps this spring. However, I do want to say thank you for his friendly help, rain or shine, wind or snow. Lee served our county well when he was on the job.

STANLEY E. HALL Cooperstown

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

125 Years Ago

The current number of the Hartwick Seminary Monthly contains public announcement of the fact previously known to a considerable circle of personal friends, that Rev. James Pitcher had formally tendered his resignation as principal of that institution. Professor Pitcher, who entered the school as pupil twenty-seven years ago, has been a member of the faculty for twenty years and principal for nineteen. In that time he has seen the endowment fund grow from $20,000 to about $70,000 and the endowed professorships from one to four, with a corresponding increase in attendance and public favor. For all these evidences of prosperity the institution is indebted in a large degree to Professor Pitcher. Mr. Pitcher, who has purchased the Manchester Place, a few rods below the academy buildings, proposes for the present to make it his home. Early next summer he will set about the erection of a suitable residence for himself and family.

March 1891

80 Years Ago

Pin-up girl holds the 305 butterfat record in New York State and the nation for a junior four-year-old. She also holds the winning 365 D butterfat record for New York State.

That record is 25,570 pounds of milk with a 4.9 percent test and 1,241 pounds of fat in 310 days. Mr. Inman spoke briefly about the cow and her management. For six months she maintained at least 100 pounds of milk per day for six months.

The Otsego County 4-H Division and the Otsego County Tractor Dealer’s Association will sponsor a 4-H Tractor Safety Certification program in March. The program provides the training necessary to drive a tractor and/or operate machinery. To qualify for certification, a youth must attend all meetings, present a 4-H demonstration, complete the 4-H tractor book and pass both written and driving examinations.

March 1976

30 Years Ago

Gasoline prices in the local region have dropped below the $1 barrier for the first time in more than five years.

Pump prices that had been $1.25 to $1.30 a gallon or more last year now are hovering near or below $1 a gallon. Prices have fallen rapidly in the past few weeks, following a drastic decrease in the price of crude oil. According to predictions from some in the petroleum industry, gas prices will continue falling for a while, but at a slower rate. Five years ago, just before the Arab oil embargo, the same gasoline was selling for 46.9 cents a gallon. On average, nationwide, gasoline prices fell 4 cents a gallon during the month of January.

March 1986

100 Years Ago

It was reported Wednesday afternoon that a force of 60 extra track laborers, at work in the D. & H. yards under Thomas Monahan had gone on strike. It was alleged that on Tuesday about 40 coal workers at Delanson had gone on strike demanding an advance in wages from 17.5 cents an hour to 20 cents. Wednesday morning an attempt was made to transfer a number of the track workers from here to Delanson. When the laborers learned that they were to take the place of the strikers they refused to go and a general discussion resulted in their also demanding an increase in wages. At noon a conference was held and they refused to return to work until their demands were granted. It is understood that the matters were satisfactorily adjusted.

March 1916

60 Years Ago

The University of Alabama’s trustees “permanently expelled� Negro coed Autherine Lucy on disciplinary grounds at a secret meeting last night. The action came within hours after U.S. District Court Judge H. Hobart Grooms ordered the 26-year-old former school teacher readmitted to the Tuscaloosa campus by Monday. Miss Lucy, the first Negro ever enrolled at the 125-year-old school was suspended February 6 after three days of rioting by students and “outsiders� over her presence. In Montgomery, the Alabama House of Representatives adopted a resolution to establish a legislative committee to determine if the National Asso-

March 1936 ciation of Colored People is communist controlled. Under the terms of the resolution, which now goes to the Alabama Senate, Miss Lucy would be subpoenaed as a witness. Her legal battle to enter the university has been backed by the NAACP. The Alabama Senate meanwhile shouted unanimous approval of a resolution asking for federal funds to transplant Negroes from Alabama to regions where “they are needed or wanted outside the South.�

March 1956

40 Years Ago

Bovina Center – The Delaware County Holstein Club gathered to pay tribute to Preble King Pin-up Girl, a fouryear-old cow owned by Bill and Mary Inman and family.

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Forget Fossil Fuels. We Need Total Commitment To Renewables Editor’s Note: Larry Bennett is an Otsego 2000 board member, Brewery Ommegang creative services director and co-owner of an East Meredith farm.

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LARRY BENNETT OTHER VOICES

hen debating the future of Upstate New York, we must consider more than the bottom line. We must question the American ethos that cheaper is always desirable and profit is always the greatest good, and that growth is more important than virtually anything else. We must disabuse ourselves of the idea that the future looks after itself.

Our deepest concerns are for our families and children. We make daily sacrifices for their well-being. We invest ourselves in preparing them for their future and to leave them a safe and welcoming world. We want our children to become educated, prosper, to find meaning and love in their lives, to contribute to their communities, and to go on to have families of their own.

In the broadest sense, the world

is our community, and humanity our family. We’re one small part of that family but we can influence the future of all. We must better consider how to fulfill our responsibilities and leave our children, grandchildren – and the rest of humanity – a safer and more welcoming world.

Our dependence on fossil fuels flies in the face of creating that world.

Evidence that we are destroying our future is clear. Arctic ice disappears. Glaciers retreat everywhere.

Greenland’s icecaps melt. Today, scientists track the loss of Antarctica’s ice. Global temperature is at the highest in 28 centuries – going back to when Homer wrote his epics and the Roman Empire was half a millennia in the future.

Robert E. Kopp, earth scientist at Rutgers University, finds evidence of our impact in new research. In one disturbing example, cited in a Feb. 22, New

Many Businesses, More Stability DEAN/From A4 willing to tell people about the benefits of life in Otsego County, New York, then why should we expect anyone to want to come to live and invest their own future here?

We should change our thinking about creating jobs to bring people, where we just sit and wait for something to happen (or not). The trickle-down economy to raise all boats never worked.

In my view, we should decentralize our economy into many smaller pieces, rather than the few larger pieces with hopes for the best and increases in our economic risk. Employees will come from long distances to take jobs in Otsego County and then take that money back home. Business owners will live in Otsego County, bring money in, and spend that money in Otsego County. A pail with no holes is easier to keep full.

Advertise and promote Otsego County to people who already have jobs, and small businesses, and income to support themselves, or who want to start or relocate an agriculturally based or other businesses.

Thesea are people who already have the ability to relocate and conduct their small business from Otsego County; people who can bring in “outside money” (as I have been doing for almost 40 years) from many diverse sources, and possibly grow their businesses to provide additional employment.

Reach out to people who have never heard of Otsego County, New York. Sell the lifestyle and create a demand for country living as the desirable alternative to living month to month. Young, bright, creative, environmentally responsible people will drive the new clean economy of Otsego County and New York State. Laptops are cheaper than buildings and the lowly electron will rule the world. Yes, I know that we are broadband-challenged, and that Dick’s other points are well taken, but we need to work through that as

we go. Doing nothing is not an option.

If every business and cultural entity in Otsego County added “Otsego County, New York” to its brand and location, the world would soon know about Otsego County, New York.

What we take for granted many people can only dream of having in their own lives.

Not every New York county can offer what Otsego County has to offer.

Create the space, promote what we have to offer, invite people to come, and we will build our futures together.

Advertising works.

Otsego County, New York. The obvious solution.

JAMES R. DEAN Cooperstown

York Times article, Kopp notes the change in frequency of so-called king tides and the flooding they cause. He says, “…in the decade from 1955 to 1964 at Annapolis, Md., an instrument called a tide gauge measured 32 days of flooding; in the decade from 2005 to 2014, that jumped to 394 days.

Flood days in Charleston jumped from 34 in the earlier decade to 219 in the more recent, and in Key West, Fla., the figure jumped from no flood days in the earlier decade to 32 in the more recent...”

Today, all reputable scientists believe such changes are caused by human emissions. Kopp is one example of the effects of greenhouse emissions means it is entirely possible that our grandchildren will witness humanity abandoning coastal cities such as Boston, New York, Charleston, Miami, New Orleans, San Francisco and San Diego. These are the historic, cultural and economic hubs of our nation. The implications for business, trade, culture and our way of life are frightening.

Social and economic upheaval

on the scale of global war will result.

Why accept this? Are we helpless? Must we keep on until it’s too late?

If New York State were a nation, it would have the world’s 13th largest economy. It includes the most powerful financial district on earth. It is filled with talented businesspeople, skilled professionals, and dedicated college professors.

It has a vast and capable labor force. It has the financial acumen and resources to imagine, finance and build literally anything it desires. New York State has plenty of wind, falling water, tides, and sunshine. Upstate has vast open spaces for solar farms. Network infrastructure already exists to move renewable energy around the grid.

New York State can and must take the lead in creating a 100 percent renewable energy economy.

If the commitment can’t be driven top down by the state, it can be driven from the bottom up – by the grass roots. Universities, colleges and trade schools should be

at the front of this charge, as they have the knowledge, the resources and the moral obligation to ensure a better future. Local governments must participate to meet their duty to serve their constituents. Local businesses need to be a fundamental part of the change by investing in the future, not only counting profits for the latest quarter.

What we don’t need is further fossil fuel extraction. We don’t need more oil sand trains. We don’t need more coal from mountain top removal or strip-mined western land reserves. We don’t need more fracked gas trafficked from Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Ohio or other states where fracking has disrupted lives, economies, and the very earth itself. We don’t need more gas and oil pipelines.

We don’t need to invest more treasure and effort on fossil fuels, including so-called transitional fuels.

We need to invest in the future.

We need a total commitment to renewables. We need New York’s leaders, at every level, to make that commitment.

Natural Gas Presents Too Many Risks, Costs RISKS/From A4 realize that contamination has very real health, environmental, ethical, and property value costs, which cannot be contained.

Nor do the statements supporting last week’s editorial survive a fact check.

Gas is not the “cleanest, lowest cost” fuel when the health and environmental costs are considered. Methane leakage is a very real threat as seen in the recent massive escape of gas from underground storage wells in California.

Construction of the Constitution Pipeline across 124 miles of New York’s natural landscape, sacrifice of nearly a million trees, fragmenta-

tion of wildlife habitat, and threatening 277 waterways, including sensitive trout streams, will hurt our existing economy based on clean air and water, agriculture, tourism and recreational land uses.

Damage to these local assets is too high a price to pay for a promised increase in gas supply. In fact, the Constitution Pipeline has made no enforceable commitment to serve local businesses. No local contracts have been negotiated, and almost all of the gas the Constitution Pipeline is proposed to carry is slated to go elsewhere.

The view that what happens in our region has no broad consequence is

callous. We must be willing to take a stand for what we know is right. We must work together to protect our health, environment, landscapes and private property from the ravages of gas pipelines and the compressor stations they beget.

The time has come to

admit that “having it all” without grave risk is nothing more than false advertising.

Your editorial concedes that market forces are already driving down the cost of renewables. The time to make the switch is now. Getting it right is better than having it all.

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Housing, Jobs, Streets, Airport Priorities In New Mayor’s First ‘State Of City’

MAYOR/From A4 housing, economic development, increasing revenue, and updating our aging infrastructure. It is important to recognize that progress in these crucial areas cannot be made by the City working alone.

So my focus will be on engaging our neighbors in the town and in the county; our business community; our colleges; our not-for-profits, the state, and our county IDA. Several years ago, Mayor Miller convened a Community Alliance – an informal monthly meeting of area leaders.

I will be reviving and expanding this initiative.

We will formalize it and develop agendas important to the growth of the entire area because a healthy City of Oneonta is essential to a healthy Town of Oneonta and

healthy County of Otsego.

• On the issue of Housing: This spring, in partnership with the Otsego County IDA, we will undertake a housing study.

But even before we begin, we know that our city suffers from a lack of good housing for all income levels. We have a lack of affordable workforce housing, insufficient professional housing, and virtually no rental housing for families.

However, this week we will see five vacant abandoned buildings in our Center City demolished and contractors are already working on the abandoned eyesore on the corner of Spruce and Ford. This is the beginning of a $15 million project to create high-quality affordable housing for 40 or more of our senior citizens and

20 of our working families.

This project has been four years in the making and is the result of a partnership between the City of Oneonta, New York State, Housing Visions Inc., and private investors. This project will be good for our Oneonta families, good for our businesses, and good for our neighborhoods.

But unfortunately, this only represents, the tip of the iceberg when it comes to our housing problems.

We must also find ways to incentivize the development of quality housing if we hope to attract businesses and families to locate here. Recently, the council created a program, through which anyone renovating a vacant sub-standard building into rental apartments, can receive financial incentives from the City.

The complete renovation of two abandoned properties is already underway – one on Chestnut Street and one on Main Street. We will look to continue and expand these types of incentives in our efforts to address our housing shortage.

When I talk with our major employers – Hartwick, SUNY, Fox Hospital, Springbrook - they all tell me that the lack of housing impacts their ability to attract new employees. So I will be saying to them, “Can we find a way to work together and create partnerships to build better housing together in Oneonta?”

We have a shortage of housing, yet we have some beautiful empty buildings. Bresee’s has shown us that there is a market for quality downtown

housing and we are working with Chip Klugo to see that the Steven’s building is next. Let’s also look at our Armory building. Yes, there are obstacles – but that should not stop us from trying.

• Economic Development: By working in close partnership with the Otsego County IDA, a vision for a new Oneonta is starting to take shape. In the hillsides surrounding Oneonta, we are seeing an increasing number of small agricultural entrepreneurs producing organic vegetables, specialty crops, hops, and more.

Oneonta can and should be the center for this area’s growing craft food and beverage industry. Anchored by the Foothills Performing Arts Center, it is not hard to imagine Market Street as a hub for entertainment and hospitality, based upon the marketing of local foods and beverages.

Oneonta was originally built around the jobs produced in the D&H rail yards. Today we are looking to that same property to revive Oneonta’s economy.

As a result of the development know-how of IDA (Otsego Now) Director Sandy Mathes and the confidence in this City shown by the IDA’s Board of Directors, we will be moving forward this year with a complete environmental-impact and engineering study. This is a very important partnership, and I very much appreciate the IDA Board’s belief in the City of Oneonta and its willingness to invest in Oneonta’s future.

To make sure that these development initiatives are consistent with the vision of the citizens of Oneonta, we will begin an update to our Comprehensive Plan this spring.

We will seek the input of our residents, businesses, colleges, and other organizations in better defining the vision for a new Oneonta.

This past year, we have begun to reinvent the Oneonta Municipal Airport as a potential tool for future economic development. I want to thank our new volunteer Airport Commissioners for their vision and work – Ed May, Jeff Back, Dennis Finn, and Len Carson. Thank you. We are building a new taxiway, looking to expand the apron, and, thanks to the hard work of the students of the Oneonta Job Corps, we now have a fully renovated terminal building.

The Governor’s budget contains considerable aid to Upstate airports this year and, just last week, I was notified by the Governor’s Office that they see Oneonta as a strong candidate. This, however, cannot be a go-it-alone project for the city. The airport is a potential engine for economic development for the region – including the county and the town, and we will need them to recognize this and step up to join us in investing in this asset. And let me point out that grants are not free – every grant requires a percentage of local matching funds that simply cannot be borne by the City alone.

• Another priority area for the coming year must be looking

for new sources of city revenue. With a tax cap that could be as low as .0015 percent, we cannot sustain increases in health insurance and cost of living allowances without new sources of revenue. We must make certain that the city is properly compensated for any services it provides.

We also realize that we are not the only city in New York State facing this situation, so we will work together with other cities to share ideas and identify solutions. We are very fortunate that the City of Oneonta has healthy reserves; however, reserves will not last forever and without new revenue ideas, we can find ourselves with depleted reserves, as have some other cities in NYS. • And finally, we must prioritize taking care of our infrastructure of roads, water and sewer. We have pipes in the ground that are more than 100 years old. Our vision for a new Oneonta depends upon a reliable infrastructure. At a time when water quality across the nation is getting much attention, the residents of Oneonta are very fortunate to have safe drinking water that is carefully monitored and well maintained.

And I want to thank our Water Treatment Plant Manager Stan Shaffer, both for his expertise and his diligence.

• When I first began my campaign last year, I said that Oneonta was at a fork in the road. More and more people are noticing us as a quality place to live and work. Our recent accomplishments include Foothills Performing Arts Center, Bresee’s, and now Housing Visions. Our progress and our vision are being noticed both in the Mohawk Valley and in Albany.

We must balance paying for what we need today with investing in our future.

We, and our neighbors in the county, must work together to do this. This past year, the city and town of Oneonta combined generated more than a half million dollars in bed tax through tourism. Money that, at least some of which should be reinvested in our future. I believe it is very short-sighted on the part of our County Board, to neither distribute any of these funds to the municipalities that generated them, nor to show a plan for investing them in our future economic development.

As a result of the work and investment of many, the City of Oneonta has accomplished much in recent years. I would like to thank all those who have contributed – Businesses, Not-for-profits, Civic Organizations, Individuals, and of course our City Team.

By pulling together, staying focused, and making good decisions, we can continue to build momentum. We have an excellent new Council and many dedicated volunteers. To all, I say, “Thank you” and ask that “keep your energy level high and keep your eyes on the prize – the prize being the future of the City of Oneonta.”

Thank you.

Natural-Gas Users Brainstormed At First SUNY Oneonta Meeting POWER/From A1 costs when, during cold snaps, the plant had to shift from natural gas to Number 2 oil, according to the chart Rathbone uses to track energy usage.

In 2014, NYSEG exercised its “interruptible power” option 15 times; in 2015, 16 times, and this year, four times. In the particularly cold February of 2015, the campus was off natural gas for 22 of 28 days.

That prompted the campus’ energy manager, Patrick Ryan, to invite other “interruptible power” customers – locally, Fox Hospital and Lutz Feed, but also Chobani and other entities from Chenango County – to campus to discuss their common problem.

“We’ve been concerned we’re getting bumped off the grid a lot, with increased frequency and duration,” said Rathbone, adding, “We’re one of the first to get bumped.”

He continued, “we began looking at how much extra money we were playing as a driver for effective change.”

“Easily, six figures a year in extra costs,” said Terry Zimmer, director of facilities operation.

The campus works with a SUNY system-buyers group to get the best price on natural gas and Number 2 fuel oil, as well as electricity.

But it depends on NYSEG to bring the gas to campus along an 8-inch line that connects DeRuyter, near Cortland, with Norwich and then Oneonta.

Given the natural-gas challenge, “we decided to consider a local buyers group,” said Rathbone.

“A lot of people called back very quickly,” said Zimmer.

The natural-gas discussion is part of a campus-wide effort to reduce energy usage, said Patrick Ryan, the campus’ energy manager, ranging from new windows to a possible solar farm at the campus’ north end.

Attendees includes Sandy Mathes, the Otsego Now (former IDA) president, who later voiced concerns that NYSEG would be unable to provide a dependable source of natural gas if a manufacturer were attracted to the county’s first “shovel-ready site” in the Oneonta Commerce Park, (the former Pony Farm).

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MLS#100073 $264,900 3-4 BR ranch brings historical styling to modern efficiency. Secluded waterfront property in tranquil setting of Larchwood Lake. 500’ lake frontage.

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MLS#100693 $34,900 Oneonta Schools! Rushing trout stream! Super private! Super price! 4 acres, very private. Won’t last!

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MLS#104121 $229,000 Horse Facility on 20.28 Acres 30+ stalls, tack room, ½ bath, indoor and outdoor arenas. Several paddocks.

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MLS#103946 $114,900 Walton – 4+ BRs, 2 baths, pool, pellet stove and more. Plenty of room for the family just starting out or one that may need a bit more space.

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MLS#99707 $279,500 2 Houses on 72.7 Acres! Main house has 3-4 BRs, 3 baths. Second house has 1 BR. Great place for a hunting camp!

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By JIM KEVLIN ONEONTA is first snowstorm, magical white flakes falling out of the night sky: It was a pivotal point in his life.

“It was like being in heaven,” Ashok Malhotra remembers.

It was Dec. 21, 1965, and he and Nina Finestone, after cleaning up from his 24th birthday party, had just left the apartment near the NYU campus where he rented a room.

Just three days before, Ashok and a pal – another foreign student – had been chatting in the snack bar in the basement of the Loeb Ashok Malhotra and Nina Finestone in the days after Student Center. “The door opens,” their chance meeting in late 1965 in the basement snack back of NYU’s Loeb Student Center. he remembers, “and a beautiful

woman walks in.”

“Are you people from Pakistan?” she asks.

“No, we’re from India,” he replies.

“Do you have four wives?”

No, he explains, Indians are mostly Hindus – one wife. It’s the Moslems, in Pakistan, who are permitted more than one.

Ashok ends up buying her French fries, and they talk from 2 to 8 p.m. They walk out into Greenwich Village, and were still walking and talking at midnight.

She calls the next morning: “I’ve been thinking of you; I’ve been missing you.”

He replies, “I’ve been missing you, too.”

A few days later, they meet at 11 p.m. at Café Feenjon, a Please See MALHOTRA, B3

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With Von Trapps, Inge Roemer Fled Nazis To Better Life Here

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hile visiting family in Hamburg, Germany, Inge Roemer, now 95, received a message she would never forget: “The American Consulate sent a telegram that said, ‘Leave Immediately.’ A friend of my parents had a car, so he picked me and another woman up.”

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home. Hitler was closing the borders at midnight that night, and they crossed into Denmark at 5 that afternoon. “All I had was a little suitcase. I had been there 10 months, but I left all my clothes behind. I asked at the Consulate, ‘Will this pass?’ And they said ‘You have to go back to America.

Hitler is going to have himself a war.”

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Christ Church Parish Hall, 69 Fair St., Cooperstown. Info, or to volunteer, call (607) 435-8257.

‘LOL’ READING: Reading of “The Cherry Orchard.” 7 p.m. Friday, March 4. Free by donation; all welcome. Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www. fenimoreartmuseum.org CCS CONCERT: Cooperstown Concert Series presents Nicholas David, in “Music from the Heart, for the Heart.” 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 5. David, a 2012 finalist on “The Voice,” performs genres from Prince to Beethoven. Tickets $8-$20; under 12 free with adult. The Otesaga, 60 Lake St., Cooperstown. Info, www.cooperstownconcertseries.org SUGARING OFF: First of four “Sugaring Off Sundays” in March, featuring full breakfast, maple syrup demos, kids’ activities & more. 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. breakfast; 9 a.m.-2 p.m. activities, Sunday, March 6. Admission: $9 ages 13 & up; $5 ages 7-12; free for 6 and under, includes full breakfast.

The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www.farmersmuseum.org

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A shipmate of the Von Trapps in escaping Nazi Germany, Inge Roemer, now 95 and a resident of the Plains of Parish Homestead, pursued musical interests of her own.

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CLARK REPRISE: Cooperstown’s Friends of the Village Library presents a reprise of January’s popular “Cooperstown and the Clark Family Legacy,” program, featuring speaker Jane Forbes Clark. 3 p.m. Sunday, March 6. Free; all welcome. Those who left names in January will receive priority seating; also register at the Village Library’s front desk.

Ballroom, The Otesaga, 60 Lake St., Cooperstown. Info, www.villagelibraryofcooperstown.org

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Foothills Performing Arts Center • Saturday, March 19 at 8 pm Grammy Winners for Best Bluegrass Album, the SteelDrivers soulful brand of bluegrass has made them one of the most successful contemporary bluegrass bands.

Friday is a FREE event.

Saturday $30 for music from noon to 8 pm, including The SteelDrivers.

Tickets on sale now.

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Dessert Theater

featuring short stories, sung and spoken

Tickets in advance $15 adult/$8 student Call 607-441-3206 or at the door $18 adult/$10 student $18 adult/$10 student Ticket price includes delicious homemade desserts and beverages!

desserts and beverages!

Featuring performances by Ben Friedell, Diana Friedell, Chava Granett, Doug Hallberg, Tim Horne, Jeannie Langdon, Karl Seeley, Kathy Shimberg, Duncan Smith & Rosemary Summers

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March 4th & 5th 7:30 PM

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Friday, March 18 • 7 to 10 pm

We kick things off with a FREE event in our atrium featuring Tumbleweed Highway, and the Horseshoe Lounge Playboys.

Saturday, March 18 • Noon to 8 pm

Leading up to our featured performers The SteelDrivers at 8 pm, we are proud to present The Howlin’ Brothers, Hop City Hellcats, Milkweed, and the Ruddy Well Band.

Proudly sponsored by The B Side Ballroom & Supper Club, Eastman Associates, Five Star Subaru, The Hampton Inn, Hughson-Benson Associates, Northern Eagle Beverages, Southside Mall With AllOtSEgO.com/Hometown Oneonta/The Freeman’s Journal, Bettiol Enterprises Ltd., Community Bank, The Daily Star, Hurricane Car Wash, NBt Bank, Sweet Home Productions, town Square Media, The Village Printer, WCDO

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Kitchens in America Monday, March 14

Hors d’oeuvres ~ 5:30 pm Presentation ~ 6 pm Bruce Hall Home Center 206 Main Street, Cooperstown • 607-547-9961 Our newly renovated Kitchen and Bath Design Center and Showroom is coming soon!

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Music from the heart, for the heart • The VOICE Finalist 2012

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Saturday, Mar. 5 at 7:30 pm Otesaga Resort Hotel Cooperstown www.cooperstownconcertseries.org

Please call the Otesaga’s Hawkeye Grill at 607-547-9931 for dinner reservations before the show!

TiCkeTS: $20 for adults $15 for senior citizens and college students with current ID $8 for students age 13-18 Children age 12 and under free when accompanied by an adult.

Call 607-547-1812. Tickets also available at Church & Scott Pharmacy, Fly Creek General Store and Riverwood.

Remaining tickets will be available at the door.

Upcoming Event: Willy Tea Taylor Saturday May 21, 2016

Cooperstown Concert Series programs are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Other support provided by Sound Performance.

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From Boyhood Setback To Academic Excellence And Romance “The whole class is apMALHOTRA/From B1 plauding,” Malhotra reTurkish restaurant in The Vilcounted, 65 years later, in an lage. “Get up,” the proprietor interview at his Center Street tells them, “and you can sing home. “I couldn’t believe it. with us and dance with us.”

I felt so nervous. I also felt “Hours passed, eating and so elated – to be on top of the dancing,” Malhotra rememclass. I can do something! I bers. made up my mind: I’m never As they left at 3 a.m., Nina turns to Ashok: “I’ve fallen in going to let my teacher down.”

He went through high love with you. And I’m going school with the highest GPA, to marry you.” plus playing field hockey and “Wait a minute,” the surprised suitor replies. “We just achieving “top bowler” – ace pitcher – on the cricket team. met a week ago. You don’t On graduation, “I could write even know me.” my own ticket.” He was ac“No,” she says emphatically. “I’ve decided: I’m going to cepted at BITS, India’s MIT, the Birla Institute of Technolomarry you.” gy & Science. (G.D. • Birla, India’s RockAshok Malhotra, efeller, established the founding professor national university.) of SUNY Oneonta’s After two years, philosophy department he ran out of money – he retired in Deand had to drop out cember after 49 years of school. He sought at the college – was out his father, now born in 1940 in Feroza molasses vendor epur, three miles from in Kanpur, in UtIndia’s future border Young tar Pradesh, east of with Pakistan. With 10 Ashok Punjab. “If you go to brothers and sisters, his college, I want nothparents and grandparing to do with you,” was his ents, he grew up in a tranquil daily domestic round he never father’s welcome. “Going to school gives you ideas.” expected to end.

Molasses, piled in a room But it did, abruptly, with of Nihal’s tiny sweltering riots and looting that folhouse, stank. After a few lowed The Raj’s end on Aug. months, Ashok and a friend 15, 1947, and a devastating ran off and joined the Indian flood the following year that Air Force. Realizing he’d covered Ferozepur to 14 feet made a mistake, he was able to and drowned the family’s talk his way out of a 15-year 10-cow herd. His father, commitment a year later.

Nihal Malhotra, discouraged With a little money in his and depressed, abandoned the pocket, he returned to BITS, family. where he began tutoring Grandfather Hari C. Chowealthy students in calculus pra, a retired stationmaster, – “one of my favorite courses” had built three houses, and – and paid his way through the rent from two of them college. “The next four years, provided a meager income. life became easier.”

His mother, Vidya, made an He graduated and went on arrangement with a jersey facfor a master’s, influenced by tory to obtain the cloth pieces removed when leather patches a Dr. Sinha, a “very vibrant, very special” professor who were sewn on the elbow. guided him into philosoAt home, 2-3 hours a day, phy, which – in India at the as her children turned the time – tilted heavily toward crank on a manual sewing psychology, Mesmer, Freud, machine, she would craft the Adler, Jung. And Behaviorpieces into outfits for newism: Kafka, Skinner, William borns.

James. “I could understand Krishan, the oldest of my mind!” As it had been Ashok’s eight brothers, got a since his fellow students apjob teaching economics at a plauded in Ferozepur, “I had local college to help support the highest GPA in the whole the brood. “The family was university.”

OK,” Malhotra remembers.

By this time, he was a pre“But it was barely meeting fect – the British system’s verends.” sion of an R.A. – sitting in his At 10, Ashok entered high room, when his professor of school, and a “transforming Hindi hurried in with a newsexperience” occurred. There paper clipping: The USIA (the were 60 students in his class.

The teacher began handing out now defunct U.S. Information Agency) was announcing the graded tests. “He’s going an “all-Indian competition” from the best to the worst,” – “350 million people,” Malthe anxious young man told hotra marvels – for scholarhimself. He returns all tests, ships to obtain Ph.D.s from its except Ashok’s.

East-West Center in Honolulu.

“Come over here so every“Of all the people at BITS, one can see you,” the teacher you are the only person who told the boy. can get it,” Professor Sharma “I wanted to run,” said told him.

Ashok.

“I couldn’t refuse,” said “Turn around the look at the Ashok. “I respected my class,” the teacher ordered.

Pause. “Don’t you ever for- teacher.” So a week later, he was on the train to distant get him,” said the man at the Delhi – reading Bram Stoker’s head of the room. “He’s got “Dracula,” he remembers the highest grade in the class.

– where he rented a floor Come on. Clap.”

The award-winning architecture of the East-West Center, upper right, greeted the young Ashok Malhotra in Honolulu. Lower right, Ashok and Nina Finestone wed; her father, Jack, is in the background. At left, Malhotra appears on the front cover of the 50th anniversary publication of the East-West Center, two photos above Stanley Ann Dunham, Barack Obama’s mother. space in the railroad station’s the price of defeat?” the presiPART III of “The Night“guest house,” 5 rupees a day. dent asked ruefully.)

The next morning, he “That’s when all the fun ingale & The Firefly” makes his way to the interstarted.” En route to the – in next week’s edition view, stationing himself in a campus, a rainbow appeared.

– takes Ashok Malhotra waiting room. 9 a.m., 10 a.m., “I am in paradise,” Ashok to SUNY Oneonta, noon, 2. He waits all day. thought to himself. “I’m gofurther tragedy, and the Finally, at 4, “I’m the last one; ing to stay here forever.” founding of the Ninash everyone else is done,” and He was paired with a U.S. Foundation. he’s summoned through the student – in his case, David door. There’s an oval table, Ishizaka, from Wisconsin.

10-11 people grouped around (Barack Obama Sr., from destitute after a huge flood an elegant, white-haired Kenya, was in the program thrust his family into poverty, woman. awakened one night in the heat earlier. He met Stanley Ann One chair is vacant. He Dunham there in 1961, marand stench to find a giant bull sits down. The woman walks ried her; they divorced after rubbing against his cot while over. “She picks up a cigathree years, but not before the feeding on molasses, found rette. Lights it. Blows it in future president was born.) himself on Sept. 9, 1963, my face.”

Because of the psychology aboard a Pan Am jet, after 17 “If someone did this to you, hours in the air, approachemphasis at BITS, ever-overwhat would you do?” she asks. ing Honolulu International achieving Malhotra had to “My blood was boiling.” complete his master’s philosoAirport.

He said to himself, “I’m not “The world is what it is,” he phy requires, plus doctoral going to be selected anyones: He took 66 credits in reflects. “You don’t have any way.” So he reached for the four years, instead of the control.” cigarette, inhaled, and blew required 30.

• the smoke back in her face.

The students made time He had $8 in his pocket.

“Everybody cracked up,” he for fun, learning about each What if no one meets him? A recalled. other’s countries through Thai girl from the East-West The questions began and weekly “cultural nights.”

Center does. She puts a lei – by happy coincidence – just Ashok taught his fellow stuaround his shoulders and about all dealt with issues he’d kisses him on both cheeks. dents the bangr, a rowdy dance just read about or studied. from rural Punjab. In annual “It’s a first time that any girl Why was the Chinese army reunions that continue until had given me a kiss.” beating the Indian one in the this day, the East-West alumni He joined dozens of Himalayas? Because the dance the bangr and relive students from throughout Chinese had trained in the their cricket games.

Asia, recruited to the Easticy mountains; the Indians “Why doesn’t the U.S. learn West Center with the idea – “they are freezing their toes from us,” the students would they would gain their Ph.Ds., off” – on the sweltering plains absorb American culture and ask each other. They were furbelow. ther stunned by how the povdemocracy, and return to take What did he know about a erty in which they were raised leadership positions in their radical philosophy gaining a contrasted with the plenty they homelands.

European following. Existenfound around them.

(At the time, the program tialism! Dr. Sinha had intro“It opened up my mind,” cost $50,000 per student, for duced his students to Sartre said Malhotra. “I don’t belong a reason. The story is that and Camus just weeks before. to just Punjab. I’m a citizen Eisenhower asked after Korea “It was just like someone was of the world. I belong to no stalemated: How much did it helping me,” he remembers. country. It made me a citizen cost to kill one soldier? The When it was over, they all of the world.” answer: $50,000. “So that’s stood up: He had the scholarship – four years education, all paid; plane ticket, all room and board, and a monthly stipend, no strings attached.

And so, the young lad who watched killings and looters from his family’s home,

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“I told my parents,” Nina told him after the night at the Feenjon, and they insisted he meet them. “They’re very upset. They think I’m crazy.”

“Yes, I think you’re crazy too,” Ashok replied.

So, an only child, she took Ashok home to Stuyvesant Town to meet her Jewish parents in their apartment, above the roar of the Eastside Highway. Her father, Jack, was seated at the piano – “hello, how are you?” – and he continued playing Mozart as the suitor arrived.

The questions followed.

Income? None yet. Intentions? Honorable. Are you a good person? “So far.”

Finally, “Do you have four wives?” Reply, “I’m not even married.”

The next day, Rockefeller Center. “She taught me how to skate.” Central Park. Radio City. “The next 10 days, we saw each other every day.

A whole world opened up in 10 days.”

And so Ashok Malhotra returned to Honolulu in January 1966, with three semesters to go on his studies. “To keep our love alive, we wrote each other every day. I still have them,” he said, holding a palm out horizontally above his head.

And so to the travails of romance. She graduates from college in May, goes to Hawaii, goes home to a Head Start job, then back to Honolulu. The rabbi won’t marry them – only Jews with Christians or Moslems, People of the Book. Her mother won’t come; or her favorite aunt.

But dad does. A JP performs the ceremony, then rushes off to a football game on TV. A romantic celebration at Ilikai, a rotating restaurant above Duke Kahanamoku Lagoon – there’s Waikiki Beach, and Diamond Head, and the East-West Center campus, “the whole panoramic view.”

Champagne, wedding music (Don Ho), a couple of bottles of champagne, she had steak, he salmon, then a honeymoon trip to all the islands. “I exhausted my $210,” the groom remembers.

Then, back to reality. EastWest graduates could spend two years teaching in the U.S. Job applications. A college in Texas is looking to start a philosophy department, and one in the Midwest.

And then, a letter arrives from Oneonta.

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Legal notice IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF TAX LIENS BY PROCEEDING IN REM PURSUANT TO ARTICLE ELEVEN OF THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW

BY OTSEGO COUNTY. NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on the 22nd day of February 2016, the Otsego County Treasurer, hereinafter, the “Enforcing Officer”, of Otsego County, hereinafter, the “Tax District”, pursuant to law filed with the Clerk of Otsego County, a petition of foreclosure against various parcels of real property for unpaid taxes. Such petition pertains to the following parcels: Oneonta City Friery James M 288.10-1-6.1 Res 0.31A 2 College Park Dr Friery James M 288.10-1-6.6 Res 0.25A 24 Bugbee Rd Kropp Dennis 288.14-3-44 Res 0.16A 46 East St Keown Stephen 288.17-1-64 Res 0.16A 36 Cherry St Martella Robert 288.17-2-79 Res 0.17A 49 Spruce St Martella Robert 288.17-4-28 Res 0.06A 24 Columbia St Martella Robert 288.18-1-88 Res 0.07A 25 East St Martella Robert 288.18-1-94 Res 0.07A 10 Irving Pl Alpha Delta Omega Inc 288.18-3-30 Res 0.29A 62 Elm St Martella Robert 288.18-6-21 Res 0.20A 9-11 Walling Ave Campanelli Penny Lynn 288.19-1-14 Res 0.13A 4 Draper St Gillette James 299.12-2-21 Res 0.43A 22 Duane St Loyal Burch Angela J 299.16-3-28 Res 0.24A 30 Miller St Casey Thomas W III 300.5-1-7 Res 0.19A 28 Clinton St Nickerson Jack 300.5-2-54 Res 0.11A 8 High St Lincoln John H 300.5-2-64 Res 0.11A 21-23 Church St Martella Robert 300.5-3-41 Res 0.07A 16 Church St Vergari Frank 300.5-3-42 Res 0.06A 14 Church St Gallusser Joshua 300.5-4-13 Res 0.17A 115 Chestnut St Daniels Theodore 300.5-4-73 Res 0.21A 15 Watkins Ave Gergich Cassandra G 300.6-2-72 Res 0.06A

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234.00-2-4.00 Res 0.20A 106 St Hwy 23 Sheldon Daniel M 234.002-30.00 Res 0.61A 510 Creighton Proskine Zachary 269.00-1-4.02 Res 3.40A Coye Brook Rd Penny John 270.00-2-36.03 Res 10.04A 191 Bell Hill Rd Bellotti Darrell R 270.00-2-37.02 Res 1.99A 944 Co Hwy 8 Hurd John 271.00-2-15.02 Res 0.76A 479 Taylor Rd Hogan Daniel Jr 282.00-1-14.01 Res 4.06A 137 Lovers Ln Lichwick Frank 283.00-1-34.04 Res 75.15A Lobdell Rd Hunt Christopher J 294.00-1-22.04 Res 8.01A 388 Shaw Brook Rd Zapatero Carmen 294.00-1-26.00 Res 21.63A McCarthy Ln Hoag Damion K 294.00-1-27.00 Res 23.10A McCarthy Ln Hoag Damion 294.00-1-29.00 Res 5.77A 192 McCarthy Ln BCL Group Inc. 295.00-1-5.01 Res 55.05A Lulu Coon Rd BCL Group Inc. 295.00-1-5.02 Res 35.47A Lulu Coon Rd Hartwell Brian K Sr 295.00-1-26.22 Res 0.26A 386 Lulu Coon Rd Coons Stephen Wayne Jr 303.00-1-13.00 Res 3.65A Oregon Rd Henriksen Walter J Jr 303.00-1-77.00 Res 30.64A River Rd Adorno Eliseo M 313.00-2-6.00 Res 0.97A 583 River Rd

Barringer Rd Petrozza John T 45.00-1-30.07 Res 6.56A Barringer Rd Miller Everett J 45.00-1-36.00 Res 0.51A US Hwy 20 Petrozza John T 45.00-1-45.01 Res 57.95A 254 Barringer Rd Petrozza John T 45.00-1-47.00 Res 5.36A Willie O Neill Rd Chapman Richard Jr 46.00-1-21.00 Res 70.91A 373 Ray Mower Rd Harbolic Patrick 74.00-1-27.02 Res 2.76A 1205 Co Hwy 50

Village of Cherry Valley Heinrich Daniel C 58.10-2-5.02 Res 0.05A Main St Ellis Debra 58.14-2-33.00 Res 1.48A 92 Main St Town of Cherry Valley Quinn Lee A 18.03-1-8.00 Res 0.62A 3282 Co Hwy 31 Craig Robin A 18.03-1-24.01 Res 6.86A 679 Salt Springville Rd Petersen Theodore W 31.00-1-31.03 Res 17.99A Barringer Rd Chapman Richard H 32.00-1-8.01 Res 241.09A 234 Ray Mower Rd Heinrich Lisa 44.00-1-9.02 Res 133.35A Neilsen Rd Myatt James P 44.00-1-18.01 Res 89.01A 4508 St Hwy 166 Myatt James P 44.00-1-21.00 Res 25.17A 7076 US Hwy 20 Petrozza John T 45.00-1-22.32 Res 1.41A Barringer Rd Petrozza John T 45.00-1-30.05 Res 18.38A Barringer Rd Petrozza John T 45.00-1-30.06 Res 9.88A

Town of Decatur Burke Michael C 151.00-2-17.00 Res 12.65A 1310 Co Hwy 38 Rezek Miroslav 152.00-1-10.02 Res 8.48A 285 Mravlja Hill Rd Kenlein Kenneth 153.00-1-20.02 Res 4.35A 438 Reservoir Rd Presti Rosemarie 167.00-2-5.10 Res 5.87A 659 Babcock Hill Rundbladt John 167.00-2-18.01 Res 1.48A 2272 Co Hwy 39 Blanchard Barbara 167.02-1-6.00 Res 0.37A 2285 Co Hwy 39 Mravlja Peter 168.00-1-1.01 Res 54.99A Co Hwy 37 Mravlja Peter 168.00-1-2.01 Res 94.60A Co Hwy 37 Mravlja Peter 168.00-1-2.03 Res 7.80A 315 Co Hwy 37 Mravlja Peter 168.00-1-3.01 Res 10.21A Lease Lot Hill Rd Town of Edmeston Gott Michael T 62.00-1-8.03 Res 4.63A 216 Mill Creek Rd Cirillo James Jr 76.00-1-23.01 Res 170.54A Co Hwy 18* Cirillo James Jr 76.00-1-23.02 Res 3.03A 5527 Co Hwy 18 Chadwick John R 91.00-1-13.33 Res 12.74A 636 Bert White Rd Holbert Susan 91.00-1-23.00 Res 16.00A Mott Hill* Rd Briggs Trevor E 91.00-1-26.02 Res 2.21A 620 Mott Hill Rd Spielberger Edward 107.00-1-1.41 Res 5.54A Co Hwy 18 Klingler Arthur R 108.17-2-20.00 Res 0.67A 21 East St Tatini Mauro L 108.17-2-34.00 Res 0.05A 14 East St Bancroft David L 108.17-2-48.00 Res 0.22A 11 South St Reidenbach Katrina 108.17-2-54.00 Res 0.20A 27 South St Reidenbach Katrina 108.17-2-56.00 Res 0.63A South* St Vibbard Joseph 122.04-1-22.00 Res 0.53A 282 Co Hwy 20 Wheeler Jeffrey John

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161.00-1-33.00 Res 2.07A 878 Co Hwy 45 Arnot David R 176.00-1-17.01 Res 22.46A 580 Pleasant Valley Rd Kane Matthew D 176.00-1-38.02 Res 3.00A 2376 Co Hwy 11 Powers Daniel 178.00-1-18.00 Res 79.10A Goey Pond West Rd Martinez Zoe 178.00-1-40.00 Res 32.66A 383 Co Hwy 45 Powers Daniel 178.00-1-42.01 Res 75.47A 462 Co Hwy 45 Partridge Richard J 178.00-1-49.00 Res 11.83A St Hwy 28* Martinez Zoe 193.00-1-12.00 Res 2.79A Chlorinator Rd

246.00-1-28.00 Res 1.83A 779 Co Hwy 41 Alessi Rosa 246.00-1-40.00 Res 33.49A Co Hwy 56 Kibbe** Teresa 261.00-1-52.00 Res 23.99A 129 Blueberry Ln Rickett Robert M 261.00-1-67.00 Res 1.03A Leonard* Rd DeSantis Michael 262.00-2-22.00 Res 15.20A Bush Hill Rd Moan Patrick 264.00-1-19.01 Res 13.13A Center Rd Shelton Packy 279.00-1-7.01 Res 23.63A Iron Kettle Rd

Village of Laurens 7120 Ft Hamilton Pkwy LLC 240.15-2-68.00 Res 13.72A 16 Louden Dr Town of Laurens Moxley Daniel J 224.00-1-17.02 Res 0.63A 416 Pool Brook Rd Sakowitz Mark L 225.00-1-44.01 Res 85.33A St Hwy 205 Knarich George A. 238.00-2-9.07 Res 7.23A 183 Peterson Rd Holmes Raymond 240.11-1-38.00 Res 0.35A 136 Co Hwy 12 Zito Roseanne 255.00-2-5.00 Res 10.02A 170 Fisk Rd Short Ronald 255.00-2-42.22 Res 3.00A 553 Hathaway Rd Reed Revocable Trust 257.00-1-67.00 Res 1.00A 420 Co Hwy 11 Turrell Richard 274.00-1-25.01 Res 235.68A Co Hwy 11 Town of Maryland Jaquish Glenn 198.00-2-21.03 Res 25.68A 117 Waterman Rd Herr Doreen 230.19-1-3.01 Res 0.32A 15 Main St Scott Allen F 230.19-1-54.00 Res 0.24A 16 West St Murphy Patricia A 230.19-2-41.00 Res 0.21A 53 Race St Kaneg Gail A 230.20-1-9.01 Res 0.50A 174 Main St Kaneg Gail A 230.20-1-9.02 Res 2.79A Main* St Kaneg Gail A 230.20-1-68.00 Res 1.02A Main* St Sisson Brett J 244.00-2-18.02 Res 5.78A 186 Crumhorn Lake Rd Brower Allen 244.00-2-19.01 Res 25.64A St Hwy 7* Alvarez Edward W 245.09-1-30.00 Res 1.94A 7540 St Hwy 7 Balbuena Jacqueline Kilts 245.10-1-7.00 Res 1.26A 7581 St Hwy 7 Hendrickson Roy Sr

Town of Middlefield Holbrook James S 86.01-1-22.00 Res 0.60A 3152 Co Hwy 33 Campbell Alan W 118.00-1-2.03 Res 1.00A 2672 St Hwy 166 Willis Jane B 133.00-1-12.14 Res 23.73A Rezen Rd Ross J. Samuel A. 133.03-1-7.00 Res 0.33A 3692 Co Hwy Ross J. Samuel A. 133.03-1-64.00 Res 0.12A Co Hwy 35 DiLorenzo Mark 146.00-3-33.00 Res 1.08A 1238 Co Hwy 33 Holbrook James S 147.00-1-13.00 Res 19.50A Sibley Gulf Rd Gibbons Barbara 147.00-1-40.01 Res 93.56A 420 Sibley Gulf Rd Oliver Robert A 164.00-1-13.07 Res 41.87A Co Hwy 35 Beatty Robin Bryant 180.01-1-6.00 Res 0.48A 2685 Co Hwy 35 Wahl Anthony S 195.00-1-29.02 Res 34.07A 568 St Hwy 166 Wahl Anthony S 195.00-1-30.00 Res 4.90A 533 St Hwy 166 Village of Milford Summers Linden D III 194.20-2-63.00 Res 0.10A 63 S Main St Wahl Anthony S 194.20-2-78.00 Res 0.08A 68 S Main St Wahl Anthony S 194.20-2-79.00 Res 0.11A 70 S Main St Munro David A. 195.17-1-4.00 Res 1.58A 161 E Main St Brown Gerald L 195.17-1-19.00 Res 0.29A 101 River St Town of Milford LPD Construction Company LLC 195.00-3-2.00 Res 0.37A 15 Kilts Rd Roe Kenneth J 209.00-1-40.03 Res 4.16A 621 Lougheed Rd Teixeira Nancy 226.00-1-2.00 Res 4.94A 215 Concrite Rd Spence James A 243.18-2-17.00 Res 0.66A 109 Happy Valley Road Spur Sobey Albert Jr 260.05-3-73.00 Res 0.54A 185 Lee Dr

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Town of Otego Giannini Donna 272.00-1-60.01 Res 0.29A 2150 Co Hwy 8 Dugan Michael J 272.00-2-31.00 Res 5.00A Co Hwy 6 Welch John W 273.00-2-22.01 Res 42.89A 110 Welch Ter Schwed Karl R 285.00-1-17.00 Res 1.30A 1866 Co Hwy 8 Hunsucker Fred 285.00-1-24.01 Res 124.87A 1261 Co Hwy 7 Hunsucker Fred 285.00-1-24.02 Res 5.90A Co Hwy 7* Hunsucker Harry L 285.00-1-26.00 Res 6.13A Co Hwy 7* Perry Samuel H Jr 285.00-1-34.04 Res 5.44A 347 Upper Green St Packard Amy 285.00-1-38.00 Res 0.77A 970 Co Hwy 7 Conklin Charles R 286.00-1-10.02 Res 1.38A 107 W Oneonta Rd Turrell Richard L 286.00-1-26.00 Res 65.52A West Oneonta Rd Turrell Richard L 286.00-1-27.00 Res 4.23A West Oneonta Rd Strickland Wayne R 286.00-1-35.81 Res 1.90A 136 Forest Way Grabo Randy J 297.00-1-34.04 Res 5.48A 308 Upper Green St Turrell Richard L 298.00-1-10.00 Res 61.00A Mill Creek Rd Lawyer Garry W 306.00-1-39.01 Res 1.11A Haney Rd Mowers Kenneth L Jr 308.00-1-41.02 Res 1.29A 3985 St Hwy 7 Butler Vernon J 316.00-1-33.01 Res 67.34A Wheaton Creek Rd Klinger George H Jr 317.00-1-11.42 Res 19.22A 161 Haney Rd Anderson Thomas E 317.00-1-25.00 Res 0.26A 272 Flax Island Rd Anderson Thomas E 317.00-1-26.00 Res 0.31A 276 Flax Island Rd Anderson Thomas E 317.00-1-31.04 Res 96.76A 215 Anderson Ln Anderson Thomas E 317.00-1-50.00 Res 0.35A 74 Otsdawa Ave Savage** Norma 318.00-1-5.01 Res 5.12A 3493 St Hwy 7 Savage** Norma 318.00-1-5.04 Res 1.21A 3489 St Hwy 7* Brown Karen 318.00-1-52.05 Res 0.66A 112 Mick Lane Ext Bond Faron 325.00-1-12.00 Res 0.58A 462 Co Hwy 48 Freudenmann Tamara 325.00-1-17.01 Res 2.18A 831 Franklin Mt Rd Village of Cooperstown, Town of Otsego

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Gadomski Christopher R 115.18-2-36.00 Res 0.40A 4 Pine Blvd Stabinski Eric 131.06-1-23.00 Res 0.23A 58 Chestnut St Dimick Charles John 131.06-2-47.00 Res 0.03A Main* St Lewis Constance S 131.10-1-41.00 Res 0.21A 39 Delaware St Davis Nancy M 131.10-1-44.00 Res 0.26A 45 Delaware St Town of Otsego Bancroft David L 113.00-1-20.01 Res 10.38A 107 Cemetery Rd Klein Gregory L. 113.00-1-51.00 Res 1.86A 461 Christian Hill Rd Wright Therese A 114.00-1-4.00 Res 0.41A 6144 St Hwy 28 Curran Gifford 130.00-2-16.02 Res 0.11A Co Hwy 26 Congden Jeffrey S 67.00-2-12.00 Res 0.86A 822 Keating Rd McCord John 67.00-2-2.02 Res 14.48A 1772 Co Hwy 22 Summers Sylvia V 69.00-1-9.02 Res 1.13A 6743 St Hwy 80 McNulty Family Trust Murial 82.00-2-2.21 Res 2.91A 551 Keating Rd Leatherstocking Region Federal 82.00-2-2.22 Res 23.54A 544 Keating Rd Reiss Howard K 84.00-1-15.12 Res 3.22A Co Hwy 28 Holbrook James S 84.00-1-30.00 Res 0.28A 379 Co Hwy 28 Jones Henry W 96.00-1-7.00 Res 6.66A Thayer Rd Jones Henry W 96.00-1-8.01 Res 119.80A Thayer Rd Jones Henry W 96.00-1-8.02 Res 1.38A 170 Thayer Rd Jones Henry W 96.00-1-9.00 Res 96.36A Thayer Rd Ostapeck Alma 98.00-1-1.01 Res 4.26A 1133 Co Hwy 26 Town of Pittsfield Whitehill Arnold G 139.00-2-15.02 Res 1.52A 885 St Hwy 80 Adamo Joseph 140.00-2-23.12 Res 3.33A Longview Dr Bice Judy 155.00-1-12.221 Res 23.79A 791 St Hwy 80 Bice Judy L. 155.00-1-16.00 Res 10.42A St Hwy 80 McAdams Helen B 155.00-1-30.00 Res 0.82A 297 St Hwy 80 Hughes Russell D Jr 155.00-1-4.00 Res 78.43A 120 Card Rd Markham Barbara L 155.00-1-52.02 Res 0.87A 138 Pecktown Store Rd Bice Judy L. 155.00-1-6.00 Res 13.71A

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24.08-2-17.00 Res 3.35A Linden Ave Saalfelder Stephen C 25.00-1-19.02 Res 3.79A 380 Butternut Rd Unlimited Upside Properties 38.00-1-12.00 Res 0.30A 561 Wing Hill Rd Pugliese Carmel J 38.12-1-33.00 Res 0.11A 104 Jackies Rd Davenport Thomas 38.25-1-7.01 Res 0.33A 8162 St Hwy 28

288 Main St Stevens Sondra J 334.19-3-55.00 Res 0.90A 280 Main St Colby Mellissa L 334.19-3-57.00 Res 0.25A 272 Main St Caratelli Caspere L 334.19-3-61.00 Res 0.26A 262 Main St

Res 0.21A 459 St Hwy 7* Savino Hildegard 336.02-1-63.02 Res 0.66A 430 St Hwy 7

James K 216.00-1-22.02 Res 0.60A 652 Smith Rd Aboueid Georges J 217.00-1-11.00 Res 65.59A 168 Roe Rd Walsh Olivia Lee 217.00-1-35.00 Res 2.06A Charlotteville Rd Shaw Melinda 233.00-1-16.04 Res 5.11A 792 Center Valley Rd Sang Miguel A 233.00-1-16.12 Res 5.55A Burnside Rd

Town of Roseboom Tucker Warren S 105.00-1-16.00 Res 0.19A 116 Bill Marne Rd Tucker Warren S 105.00-1-17.00 Res 0.46A 102 Bill Marne Rd Geer Robert M 118.00-2-2.31 Res 8.90A Middlefield Rd Geer Robert 118.00-2-2.32 Res 5.01A Middlefield Rd Geer Robert 118.00-2-2.33 Res 5.01A Middlefield Rd Geer Robert 118.00-2-2.34 Res 5.01A Middlefield Rd Geer Robert 118.00-2-2.35 Res 6.31A 906 Middlefield Rd Sheldon Henry L Sr 119.00-1-48.00 Res 4.04A 224 Honey Hill Rd Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 119.01-1-4.00 Res 0.86A 471 St Hwy 165 Arno John Michael 120.03-1-35.00 Res 0.66A St Hwy 165 Mabie Linda 135.00-1-20.02 Res 1.93A 2989 Co Hwy 39 Town of Springfield Diotte Travis 15.00-1-27.01 Res 6.00A 160 Koenig Rd Guardian Preservation, LLC 27.00-1-15.01 Res 2.29A 4917 Us Hwy 20 Carson Kenneth A Jr 42.00-1-2.03 Res 14.68A Continental Rd Stocking Billy 42.00-1-2.04 Res 7.71A 217 Continental Rd Tracy Martin A 42.00-1-35.02 Res 2.60A 2034 Co Hwy 31 Village of Unadilla Batson David B 334.14-1-13.00 Res 0.50A 53 Clifton St Rudolph Richard 334.15-1-38.00 Res 0.34A Maple Ave Mertz Wendelin 334.18-2-18.00 Res 0.39A 6 Sanly St Gagliardo James 334.18-2-48.00 Res 0.17A 22 Bridge St Kadchinski Rodney 334.19-1-19.00 Res 0.15A 16 Clifton St Decker Timothy C 334.19-3-46.00 Res 0.08A Main St Ragonese Amy L 334.19-3-53.00 Res 0.54A

Town of Unadilla Jones Jerry P 314.00-1-54.00 Res 1.43A 674 Co Hwy 3A Washburn David 314.00-1-61.01 Res 67.15A 690 Co Hwy 3A Short Jared 315.00-1-32.05 Res 5.74A 372 Sisson Hill Rd Barkman David S 321.00-1-38.01 Res 1.04A 321 Lockwood Hill Rd French Lisa A. 323.00-1-15.34 Res 2.13A 127 Sowles Rd Scott Gordon A 324.03-1-35.00 Res 0.21A 2381 St Hwy 7 Dana Daniel R 324.03-1-38.02 Res 0.12A 2387 St Hwy 7 Black ** Charles 324.13-1-5.00 Res 5.51A 193 Dentwood Dr Niles Craig 328.00-1-6.01 Res 21.50A 161 Lockwood Hill Rd Youngs Phillip M 329.00-1-1.03 Res 4.63A 830 Co Hwy 2 Martin Dennis R 329.00-1-17.03 Res 4.46A 514 Kilkenny Youngs Philip M 329.00-1-3.00 Res 0.73A 854 Co Hwy 2 Martini Ryan J 329.00-1-37.22 Res 3.00A 420 Co Hwy 3 Mattice Janice 329.00-1-43.00 Res 1.92A Co Hwy 3 Schusteritsch Edward A 330.00-1-4.07 Res 1.32A 130 Ledgewood Acres Dr Roldan Judith A 330.00-1-4.135 Res 1.39A 154 Overlook Ln MacDonald Raymond M II 330.03-1-76.00 Res 0.60A St Hwy 7* Unadilla Sham Rock Village LLC 330.03-1-86.00 Res 0.80A St Hwy 7* Patrylo Garry S 332.00-1-61.01 Res 6.29A 235 Co Hwy 1 Kipps Hill Road Corp.

332.00-1-83.21 Res 79.44A 342 Co Hwy 1 Lopez Gary J 333.03-2-42.00 Res 0.30A Sanly Rd Unadilla Shamrock Village LLC 334.00-1-47.00 Res 3.09A 1676 St Hwy 7 GR Enterprises of the Northeast 336.00-1-46.01 Res 1.82A St Hwy 7 Button Karel 336.02-1-32.00 Res 0.81A 117 Co Hwy 1 Yale Susan 336.02-1-39.01 Res 2.33A 187 Old Hill Rd Roldun Judith A 336.02-1-39.05 Res 1.92A 185 Old Hill Rd Hunt WIlliam A Jr 336.02-1-45.00

Town of Westford Gaskin Brian 149.00-1-10.00 Res 12.16A 361 Tabor Rd Rifanburg Dennis 149.00-1-22.00 Res 0.90A Tabor Rd Rifenbark Matthew 150.00-1-36.03 Res 3.91A 2082 Co Hwy 34 Marullo Joseph 166.00-1-43.03 Res 1.56A 908 Co Hwy 36 Regg Frances A 166.00-1-46.00 Res 0.85A 674 Co Hwy 36 Parsons William H 166.01-1-20.00 Res 3.24A Middlefield Rd Parsons William H 166.01-1-31.00 Res 0.15A 1759 Co Hwy 34 Scott Nancy 166.01-1-43.00 Res 0.14A 1753 Co Hwy 34 Scanlon Roger E 180.00-2-16.04 Res 1.52A 1493 Co Hwy 42 Traweek Adrienne 180.01-2-4.00 Res 0.72A 2702 Co Hwy 35 Taft Frances B 181.00-1-17.00 Res 14.98A Cronin Rd Pagillo Richard 196.00-1-16.02 Res 1.28A 1131 Co Hwy 42 Jones Danny M 196.00-2-2.05 Res 5.20A 251 Hickory Hill Rd Hoag Douglas B 196.00-2-2.12 Res 13.81A 196 Hickory Hill Rd Hoag Douglas B 196.00-2-2.13 Res 5.87A Hickory Hill Rd Town of Worcester Schrom Sarah 185.00-1-48.01 Res 1.79A 284 Co Hwy 38 Happel Veronica 185.00-1-54.03 Res 5.67A 115 Brooker Hollow Rd Nigro Kathleen 185.09-1-41.01 Res 0.81A 141 Main St Martinez Archie 185.13-1-1.00 Res 0.14A 15 Main St Suydam Brian T 185.13-1-33.00 Res 0.74A 86 Main St Kersmanc Susan 199.17-1-86.00 Res 0.19A 19 Church St McCabe Thomas J 199.17-1-93.00 Res 0.29A Church St McCabe Thomas 199.17-1-94.00 Res 0.35A 3 Church St Barbera Anthony A 199.18-1-52.00 Res 0.27A 14 Maple St Ciancioso Richard W Jr 199.18-3-40.00 Res 0.12A 256 Main St VanWormer Thomas 199.18-3-49.00 Res 0.25A 5 Chase St Warf Dale V 201.00-1-3.07 Res 11.17A 1099 Smith Rd Tamra Sagak Spc Needs Trust 215.00-1-40.01 Res 3.59A 296 Smith Rd Flemm

Effect of filing: All persons having or claiming to have an interest in the real property described in such petition are hereby notified that the filing of such petition constitutes the commencement by the Tax District of a proceeding in the court specified in the caption above to foreclose each of the tax liens therein described by a foreclosure proceeding in rem.

Nature of proceeding: Such proceeding is brought against the real property only and is to foreclose the tax liens described in such petition.

No personal judgment will be entered herein for such taxes or other legal charges or any part thereof.

Persons affected: This notice is directed to all persons owning or having or claiming to have an interest in the real property described in such petition.

Such persons are hereby notified further that a duplicate of such petition has been filed in the office of the Enforcing Officer of the Tax District and the Otsego County Courthouse and will remain open for public inspection up to and including the date specified below as the last day for redemption.

Right of redemption: Any person having or claiming to have an interest in any such real property and the legal right thereto may on or before said date redeem the same by paying the amount of all such unpaid tax liens thereon, including all interest and penalties and other legal charges which are included in the lien against such real property, computed to and including the date of redemption. Such payments shall be made to Dan Crowell, Otsego County Treasurer, 197 Main Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326. In the event that such taxes are paid by a person other than the record owner of such real property, the person so paying shall be entitled to have the tax liens affected thereby satisfied of record.

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Service of answer: Every person having any right, title or interest in or lien upon any parcel of real property described in such petition may serve a duly verified answer upon the attorney for the Tax District setting forth in detail the nature and amount of his or her interest and any defense or objection to the foreclosure.

Such answer must be filed in the office of the County Clerk and served upon the attorney for the Tax District on or before the above date mentioned as the last day for redemption.

Failure to redeem or answer: In the event of failure to redeem or answer by any person having the right to redeem or answer, such person shall be forever barred and foreclosed of his or her right, title and interest and equity of redemption in and to the parcel described in such petition and a judgment in foreclosure may be taken by default.

Enforcing Officer Dan Crowell Otsego County Treasurer Attorney for Tax District Ellen Coccoma Otsego County Attorney 197 Main Street Cooperstown, NY 13326 1LegalMarch3 Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY The name of the entity is Suntime LLC, for which the Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State on January 21, 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 1130 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10128.

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The name of the entity is N811SA LLC, for which the Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State on January 20, 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 Legal notice against it may be served, and the post office adNOTICE OF dress within this FORMATION State to which the OF LIMITED Secretary of State LIABILITY shall mail a copy COMPANY of any process against it served The name of the upon her is 1130 entity is P & L Park Avenue, Properties VII, New York, N.Y. LLC, for which 10128. The purthe Articles of pose of Please See LEGALS, B7

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Friday, March 4, 2016

Inge Roemer’s 95th Birthday Brought 160 Fans To Plains

IN MEMORIAM Pat Grasso, 82; Venerable Laurens Central Coach, AD LAURENS – Pasquale He is survived by his J. Grasso “Pat”, 82, died daughter, Margaret Grasso on February 23, 2016 at Falardeau, son-in-law, Bassett Medical Center, John A Falardeau; his son, Cooperstown.

Michael James Grasso; his Pat was born July 24, granddaughters, Lydia Rose 1933, in Schenectady, the Falardeau, Emma Grace son of James William and Falardeau; his sister, MadRose (Mazzotti) Grasso. elyn Damioli (Bruno DaPat graduated from Mont mioli); his brother, Lawrence Pleasant High School in Grasso (Gerry Grasso); his 1951 and graduated sister-in-law, Joyce from Ithaca College Broe (James); brothin 1957. Pat was ers-in-law, Maurice a standout athlete McLaud, Morton who played football McLaud (Dorothy), in high school and David McLaud (Barcollege. bara); sister-in-law, He married the Joan McLaud and love of his life, several nieces and Marilyn Margaret nephews.

McLaud, on Aug. 18, Pat Grasso He was pre1962, at St. Mary’s deceased by his Catholic Church in Oneonta. beloved wife, Marilyn M Coach Grasso came to Grasso and his mother and Laurens Central School in father, James and Rose 1957 where he was named Grasso. athletic director, a title he Calling hours will be held held until his death. While 5-7 p.m. on Friday, March at Laurens, Pat taught physi- 4, at the Lewis, Hurley & cal education and coached Pietrobono Funeral Home, football, basketball, and 51 Dietz St., Oneonta. baseball for over three deThe funeral mass will be cades. Pat was the executive 10 a.m. on Saturday, March secretary/treasurer for the 5, at St. Mary’s Catholic Tri-Valley League, as well Church, 39 Walnut St., as on several committees Oneonta, with the Pasfor the Section IV Athletic tor David Mickiewicz, as Association. Pat was also celebrant. the section IV representaAt noon, following the tive to several committees funeral, all are welcome to of the NYSPHSAA and was join the family for a recepinducted into the Section IV tion at the Laurens Central Hall of Fame in 1996.

School to continue celebratIn addition, Pat was ing the life of Coach Grasso inducted as a charter memand have an opportunity to ber of the Laurens Athletic share memories.

Hall of Fame during the In lieu of flowers, con2008 dedication of the Pat tributions can be made to “Coach” Grasso Gymnathe Catskill Area Hospice, 1 sium. For many years, he Birchwood Dr. Oneonta, NY was a volunteer fireman 13820. and an EMT on the Laurens Arrangements are entrustEmergency Squad. ed to the Lewis, Hurley & While he was known to Pietrobono Funeral Home. many as “Coach,” the name he cherished most was “Pop Pop,” the name given to him by his adoring granddaughters, Lydia and Emma.

ROEMER/From B1 on the wrong side of the road. That’s how they drive there.”

German Reichsmarks used to buy the tickets were suddenly worthless outside Germany. But another car flagged them down. “He was another American, he asked if we had enough money for a trip home. I showed him my ticket, but he said I couldn’t use it.”

The man was a baker from Jersey City, not far from where her parents lived. “He loaned us the money to get back,” she said. “It was Americans helping Americans. When there is a need, we help each other.”

That money bought them all passage on the Norwegian SS Bergensfjord, and although they were in the cabins below deck, they got to spend a little time with the ship’s most famous passengers – The Von Trapp family, also escaping the Nazi regime.

“They would give concerts for us!” she said. “We didn’t make that big of a deal out of it. I didn’t know they were famous! They were just a nice, wealthy family. They had a big cabin up front, but I was just a poor student, so I was below deck.”

Inge made it home safely, and her father paid back the baker for his kindness.

It was one of the Bergensfjord’s last passenger voyages before it was converted to a troop ship in 1940. “I was lucky,” Inge said. “I had a girlfriend whose mother was sick with cancer, so she had to stay in Germany until she died, then she had to sneak over the border illegally into Italy.”

Born in Germany, little Inge had been raised in the States. “We moved to Fairview, N.J., when I was 2 1/2,” she said. “I had an uncle who moved there in

1923, and he said to my mother and father, ‘You have no future there,’ and sent us tickets to America.”

Her father studied English enough to pass his engineering exams and worked for a powerhouse that supplied electricity to the Lipton Tea plant.

OTSEGO.com “I was there the day before they opened the George Inge Roemer’s daughter, Washington Bridge, in 1931. Helga, is visiting from Germany this week.

I took my grandmother to see it, because we didn’t And shortly after she know why anyone would moved to Otego, she want to build a bridge in No returned to Germany for Man’s Land!” the first time since the war Inge graduated from to visit her father-in-law.

Cliffside High in 1938.

“I took the children out The trip to Germany was a of school, and it opened chance for her to meet relaMartin’s eyes so much that tives still in the old counhe made honor roll when he try, as well as to begin her got back,” she said. training as a school teacher, But what she found was studying the methods of kin- not the Germany she left. dergarten founder Friedrich The house she had stayed in Wilhelm August Froebel. was completely bombed out, A year after she returned as were the homes around from Germany, she met and it. “There was a lavatory married her husband, Martin hanging off the side of a Otten, and in 1947, the two building,” she said. “It was bought a farm in Otego. awful.”

“The real estate agent said, The family had fled to the ‘I have this farm, it is a good basement when the bombs house, it has good water, it fell, and hid there for days. is a good price and no one Cousins and uncles had will buy it’,” said Inge. “I been killed, and her grandasked why not, and she said mother had died during the it was because there was a bombing, but no one knew cemetery on the plot! But it whether it was a result of the did not bother us – the chilbombing directly. dren – Helga, Martin, Bettie But the family was reand Melanie – even picked building, and she was able violets there.” to stay with those remaining

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for a time. “They always had a bed for us,” she said.

Once back home in the states, Inge finished the studies that had been interrupted by war, receiving her degree from SUNY Oneonta. She taught fourth grade at Mount Upton elementary school for 22 years.

Martin died in 1996, age 88, and in 1999, she married Carl Roemer, a widower, relocating to his home in Fly Creek. “He told me that he had prayed to God to send him someone to keep him company,” she said. “Then he met me, and we were married a year later!”

He died in 2013, and in 2015, Inge moved to the Plains at Parish. But she still travels back to Germany to visit family – Helga, also a SUNY Oneonta grad, lives there with her family. “I go anytime it pleases me.”

On Feb. 1, she celebrated her 95th birthday with a party over 160 guests attended, helping to fill a guest book she’s had since 1948.

And she still savors little pieces of her German heritage. “I bought this harmonica in Germany 50 years ago, but I never played it until I moved here,” she said. “Now whenever I feel lonesome, I go down into the lobby and play for everyone!”

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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. 6LegalMarch3 Legal notice BARRISTER AND MANN LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/04/2016. Office loc: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Devin S. Morgan, ESQ. Hoffman Warnick LLC, 540 Broadway, Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

6LegalMarch3 Legal notice MEGAMOTION, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/11/2016. Office loc: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 3514 Craig Road, Clinton, NY 13323. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

6LegalMarch3 Legal notice EMILYSARA, L.L.C. Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 01/07/2016. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY designated Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to C/O TROSSET GROUP ATTORNEYS, P.O. BOX 28, Cooperstown, NY 13326 Purpose: Any Lawful purpose.

6LegalMarch3 Legal notice THE EMPIRE HOUSE HOTEL, LLC filed with SSNY 12/18/15. Office location: Otesgo County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Sasan Khashaei, 136 Marion Avenue, Gilbertsville, NY 13776.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalMarch17 Legal notice Notice of Formation of Brower Property Management, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 01/25/2016.

Office location: Otsego County.

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6LegalMarch31 Legal notice Notice of formation of MELODY PINES FARM, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on February 17, 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 served.

The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to: The LLC, 608 County Highway 51, Morris, New York, 13808. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

6LegalApril7 Legal notice Visions of Home, LLC The name of the limited liability company is “Visions of Home, LLC” The date the Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York was February 23, 2016. The County within the State in which the office of the limited liability company is to be located is Otsego County. The Secretary of the State of New York has been designated as agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address within or without the State of New York to which the Secretary of the State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company served upon him is: Visions of Home, LLC, 101 Spruce Street, Oneonta, NY 13820. The purpose of the business of the limited liability company is any lawful business purpose.

Counsel for the Company: The Dalton Law Firm, LLC 112 Spring StreetSuite 307 Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 518-587-9600 6LegalApril7 Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF New Hyde Park Construction, LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with Sec’y. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on February 16, 2016.

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6LegalApril7 Legal notice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: MP Test Equipment, LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 12 February 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 2121 County Hwy 22, Richfield Springs, NY 13439. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalApril7 Legal notice WILLSUE, LLC ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION OF WILLSUE, LLC Under Section 203 of the Limited Liability Company Law The name of the limited liability company is: WILLSUE, LLC The county, within this state, in which the office of the limited liability company is to be located in OTSEGO. The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. The address within or without this state to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company served upon him or her is:

LOL PLAY READING – 7 p.m.

Reading of “The Cherry Orchard.”

Free by donation; all welcome.

Part of series of “LOL” play readings at Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www.fenimoreartmuseum.org FREE FILM – 7 p.m. Free screenings of “Son of Man,” 2006 film was the first South African film to debut at the Sundance Film Festival. Part of Lenten series of films focusing on Jesus. Parish Hall, Christ Episcopal Church, 69 Fair St., Cooperstown.

CONTRADANCE – 8-11 p.m.

Otsego Dance Society hosts.

Music by Traverse ; Gary Aney calls. No partner or experience needed. All dances taught. Suggested donation $8 adults; $4 students and 18 & under; ages 12 & under free. First Presbyterian Church, 25 Church St., Cooperstown. Info, www.otsegodancesociety.blogspot.com

Saturday, March 5

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. The Troop thanks the community for support. Special pickups, questions, call Bruce at (607) 267-6730.

REGIONAL SPELLING BEE -- 10 a.m. Regional Spelling Bee, featuring students from Otsego, Delaware and Chenango, including Oneonta Middle School champion Mary Noorlander.

Goodrich Theater, Fine Arts Bldg, Ravine Pkwy., SUNY Oneonta.

Info, www.oneontacsd.org EMPTY BOWLS BENEFIT – Noon-2 p.m. 10th Annual Empty Bowls Luncheon. For a donation of $15, get a soup lunch served in a hand-thrown locally-made bowl of your choice, to keep as a reminder of “empty bowls” and hunger in Otsego County.

Cooperstown Food Pantry’s largest single fundraiser. Christ Church Parish Hall, 69 Fair St., Cooperstown. Info, or to volunteer, call (607) 435-8257.

HD OPERA BROADCAST – 12:55 p.m. Metropolitan Opera Live in HD, “Manon Lescaut,”

by Puccini. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Production Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Tickets, info, www.foothillspac.org ALL-COUNTY SCHOOL MUSIC FESTIVAL - 1 p.m. & 2:30 p.m. concerts. OCMEA All-County School Music Festival.

Cooperstown Jr./Sr. High School

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auditorium, 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown.

CCP AUDITIONS - 2 p.m. Open auditions for Catskill Community Players production of “Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike,” by Christopher Durang. Please bring printout of your schedule/ conflicts. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, director Nancy Bondurant-Couch, (607) 4330575, nancybcouch@yahoo; or producer Diana Friedell, (607) 433-2089, dfriedell@stny.rr.com CONCERT – 7:30 p.m.

Cooperstown Concert Series presents Nicholas David, in

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SUGARING OFF SUNDAY -- 8:30 a.m.–1 p.m. breakfast; 9 a.m.–2 p.m. activities. First of four “Sugaring Off Sundays” in March, featuring full breakfast, maple syrup demos, kids’ activities & more. Admission: $9 ages 13 & up; $5 ages 7-12; free for 6 and under, includes full breakfast. No reservations required.

The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www. farmersmuseum.org

CLARK TALK – 3 p.m. Cooperstown’s Friends of the Village Library Sunday Program Series presents a reprise of January’s popular program “Cooperstown and the Clark Family Legacy,” featuring speaker Jane Forbes Clark. Free; all welcome. Those who left names at the full January program will receive priority seating. Also register for priority seating at the Village Library’s front desk. Ballroom, The Otesaga, 60 Lake St., Cooperstown.

Info, www.villagelibraryofcooperstown.org

HELP WANTED The Greater Oneonta Historical Society seeks a part-time Assistant Collections Manager For job description go to http://www.oneontahistory. org/contact.htm Send cover letter & resume to info@OneontaHistory.org

DO YOU LOVE YOUR JOB? EXPERIENCED REGISTERED NURSES ($5,000 sign-on bonus*) MEDICAL TECHNOLOGISTS ($3,500 sign-on bonus; $12,000 loan forgiveness) SOCIAL WORKERS | BEHAVIORAL HEALTH COUNSELORS St. Peter’s Health Partners is holding a RECRUITMENT EVENT you won’t want to miss!

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TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2016 | 3 – 6 PM Roots Brewing Company 175 Main Street | Oneonta, NY 13820 If questions, contact Dana Hennessy at Dana.Hennessy@sphp.com, 518-525-2384.

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AllOTSEGO.opportunities Actors Wanted Glimmer Globe Theatre Company and the Templeton Players are seeking actors for summer theatrical productions and the Dramatic Interpretation Program. Experienced actors are desired, but no auditioner will be turned away!

Please come to the Louis C. Jones Center at The Farmers Museum on the following dates: March 9th, 10th, 16th, 17th, 23rd, 24th and 30th and 31st. Auditions will take place from 6-8 pm. We will have sides available, but prepared monologues are accepted. For more information about the productions and/or the Dramatic Interpretation program, please contact Andie Alban at a.alban@nysha.org or 607-547-1453.

The limited liability company is to be managed by: ONE OR MORE MEMBERS.

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Sunday, March 6

Brewery Ommegang is seeking a Packaging Manager. This position will be responsible for safety and compliance, packaging quality, reporting, ordering, and maintenance of the packaging hall of the Cooperstown facility. Minimum 2 years maintenance experience. Packaging/maintenance required. Must be forklift certified. Please see our website for full job description at http://www.ommegang.com/#!jobs.

Resumes should be e-mailed to rick@ommegang.com.

Brewery Ommegang is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

THE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY 50 Main Street Cooperstown, NY 13326

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“Music from the Heart, for the Heart.” 2012 “The Voice,” finalist performs genres from Prince to Beethoven. $20 adults; $15 seniors & students with ID; $8 ages 13-18; under 12 free with adult. The Otesaga, 60 Lake St., Cooperstown. Info, www.cooperstownconcertseries.org

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Village of Cooperstown Seasonal Positions Caretakers for Village Parks Lifeguards for Village Parks Boat Wash Attendants for Boat Launch

The Village of Cooperstown has seasonal openings for the positions as listed above. For further information including applications please contact the Village Clerk at the address listed below or by calling 607-547-2411.

Positions will be needed from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day for caretaker and lifeguard positions at both Three Mile Point Park and Fairy Spring Park and mid-May to the end of October for Boat Wash Attendants at the Village Boat Launch. Applications will be accepted until positions are filled. EOE. Teri L. Barown, RMC, Village Clerk Village of Cooperstown PO Box 346 Cooperstown, NY 13326 Email: vcooperstown@stny.rr.com

Responsibilities: —Assist/back-up Webmaster on assigned web projects —provide basic website support for external customers, including logging and verifying web site issues —provide eRp database and interface maintenance and support —Assist with the determination and implementation of best practice in the eRp software —CRM support, including but not limited to database design, module display design, data access between the CRM package and other applications —other application development and support, especially those that are browser-based eduCAtion RequiRed: Associates degree in Web design and development, with emphasis on database design & Management, or equivalent degree/work experience. expeRienCe desiRed: 2 years working with HtMl, pHp 5.x, Css3, Mysql, Javascript libraries, programming frameworks/CMs, responsive design techniques/ libraries. prior Ms sql experience a plus. Familiarity with Restful Api (important for CRM work).experience with report-writing software (especially Crystal).

Qualified candidates are invited to submit their application and resumes in confidence through our online application process: www.goldenpaints.com/company_jobs questions about this and any other career opportunity with Golden can be made to bill berthel, HR director Golden Artist Colors, inc. 188 bell Road, new berlin, nY 13411 or email to bberthel@goldenpaints.com please visit us on the web at www.goldenpaints.com

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