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Frankenstorm Isn’t A Monster After All By LIBBY CUDMORE & JIM KEVLIN
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Red-wigged Clayton Hollister, 25, was one of runners who got in the Halloween spirit for the Coop Loop Sunday, Oct. 28. He ran the 5K in 18:32, for fourth/ MORE PHOTOS, A7
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he Otsego County Conservation Association have named Lou Allstadt and Ron Bishop co-recipients of its 2012 Conservationist of the Year award. The Middlefield Neighbors will receive a Special Recognition for Environmental Advocacy. Recipients will be honored at OCCA’s Annual Dinner Friday, Nov. 16 at The Tryon Inn, Cherry Valley. Cash bar at 5:30 p.m.; dinner, program at 7 p.m. Reservations, $35, due by Friday, Nov. 9. at admin@occainfo.org. ON NPR: WAMC quotes Brewery Ommegang spokesman Larry Bennett saying Wine, Beer Summit attendees Wednesday, Oct. 24, were told not to ask Governor Cuomo about fracking. Bennett was able to mention the importance of clean water to Cuomo at a reception that followed in the Governor’s Mansion. END OF ERA: Joe Harris, chief groundskeeper at Doubleday Field for 20 years, has advised the Village Board he plans to retire at the end of the year. He hopes to continue to work parttime during his retirement.
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ars lined up outside Stewart’s Monday, Oct. 29, as drivers filled gas tanks in case they needed to evacuate their families. Inside, and at every grocery and quick-stop, D batteries had been sold out since the afternoon before. Cooperstown Central School had closed (it would close again Tuesday, as would schools across Otsego County). At 4 p.m., so did Southside Mall in Oneonta. Just up Route 23, the shelves Wal-Mart dedicates to camping stoves were picked Winds whipped clean. the Stars and And as the winds Stripes at Main howled at up to 51 and Pioneer at dusk Monday, MPH – at Three Mile Point, it was Oct. 29. hard to stay upright – and the rain fell across Otsego County, residents hunkered down and waited Please See STORM, A3
Andy Bergford surveys the branch that blocked Delaware Street, Cooperstown’s only storm damage. Village crews had cleared it away shortly after 7 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30.
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A 100-foot evergreen toppled on Bob Hill’s house on Westford’s Main Street, the most serious damage countywide from Frankenstorm.
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Smithy Executive Seeking Grants For Cinema Center By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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magine a Cooperstown of aspiring directors and famous filmmakers? Danielle Newell does. Newell, Smithy Center for the Arts executive director, sees Cooperstown as the next in an ever-growing list of small towns and off-the-path locales that have become destinations for cinema buffs and cameramen alike. “Tourists would come out just to see where the movies they saw were shot – the way they come to the Hall of
Route 28 and Goose Street was closed off, awaiting NYSEG crews to cut power to downed lines.
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hen future Titanic Fame to see where ‘A survivor League of Their Own’ Grace Scott Bowen was filmed,” she said. was a pupil in the “I want it to become 1880s at the Frog a hub for filmmakers, and what better way to Hollow schoolhouse on Pioneer Street, accomplish that than through a Cooperstown she depended on the clock in the Cinema Center?” In recent days, New- First Presbyterian Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal Newell Church’s steeple to Tom Heitz examines the clock hands ell has been preparmake sure she was to and mechanism now replaced with ing an application to class on time. electric motors in First Presbyterian ArtPlace, a coalition of the National Until the Village Church’s steeple. Endowment of the Arts, national and of Cooperstown regional foundations and banks, for a complete with clocktower, where was created in 1888 and built grant to allow her plan to move forthe Chestnut Street firehouse Please See CINEMA, A9 its original municipal building, Please See CLOCK, A8
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Democrat Tom Hohensee makes a point during his debate against Republican Paul Russo, left, during a debate Thursday, Oct. 25, at the Otsego Town Hall in Fly Creek. Martha Clarvoe moderated on behalf of the League of Women Voters, Cooperstown chapter. The candidates are seeking to fill a vacancy on Otsego Town Board held for a one-year interim term by Lang Keith, who chose not to run. The town includes the Village of Cooperstown west of the Susquehanna River.
Here’s Johnny (or rather, Ethan Russell as the Great Carson – and Carnac the Magnificent) spins off some of the talk show host’s jokes. In the background are Rosa Parks (Emily Santoro) and Alexander Graham Bell (John Stavola).
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Grace Kelly (Jane Gozigian) – with her Oscar, for “Country Girl” – was thrilling fans.
Elvis Presley (Ethan Niles) shows some of The King’s attitude during the 2012 Night of the Notables Thursday, Oct. 25, at CCS. Eighth graders, under the guidance of teachers Mary Beth Murdock and John Brotherton, communicated the accomplishment of famous people through history.
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inspired her to be a writer. “I made a big push for their authentic writing,” she said. “And I discovered, indeed, I could write.” The retired teacher and art mission director at the First United Methodist Church in Oneonta recently published her first book of art and poetry, titled “Melodies of Life.” Chase will be holding a reading and a signing 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at the Green Toad Bookstore.
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ew York City’s subways were flooded and Otsego County families waited with anticipation as Superstorm Sandy headed our way Monday, Oct. 29. But despite gusts up to 51 MPH overnight, we awoke to sunny skies and little damage Tuesday morning.
David Probancher, grocery manager, Price Chopper Cooperstown, surveys the quickly emptying shelves of bottled water Monday, Oct. 29. He said the supermarket had experienced a 30-percent bump in business as shoppers stocked up for the expected Frankenstorm.
One of a long line of oaks along Route 28 just north of the Smith-Cooperstown Ford dealership was toppled during a storm in May; Superstorm Sandy took a second.
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County Emergency Services Coordinator Kevin Ritton, left, watches Sandy’s local path being tracked on the county’s Web site. With him is Robert J. O’Brien, assistant coordinator.
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Sandy roared across Otsego Lake on a counter-clockwise cycle, pushing waves onto Three Mile Point from the northeast. Gusts up to 51 MPH made it hard to stand upright as dusk arrived late Monday afternoon.
Toni Christensen, Laurens, left, and Darlene Clifford, Milford, from the American Red Cross, Cooperstown chapter, stack cots at St. Mary’s Parish Hall, Oneonta, which had been designated a shelter from Superstorm Sandy Monday, Oct. 29. By Tuesday morning, however, the threat had passed and the shelter had been dismantled.
Frankenstorm Gusts Up To 51 MPH, But No Monster After All STORM/From A1 anxiously for Hurricane Sandy – now Superstorm Sandy – to hit. And then it didn’t, or not to the degree expected, or the degree experienced in New York City, Philadelphia and the rest of the East Coast. “It was the storm that didn’t happen,” Mary Ann “Cookie” Travis, Cooperstown Village Court clerk and Roseboom town justice, observed Tuesday morning. “We had no calls,” said Oneonta Fire Chief Patrick Pidgeon. “And that’s a good thing.” While water dumped up to a foot of rain elsewhere, Otsego County stayed fairly dry. “One of my students measured just over half an inch in the rain gauge on top of the Science Building,” said Dr. Jerome Blechman, SUNY Oneonta Earth & Atmospheric Sciences professor. According to Blechman, the “Frankenstorm” was put together from several different weather situations: A Category 2 hurricane, plus an upper cold air trough
and the jet stream to drive it southeast to northwest in what’s called a “negative tilt.” “It picked up Sandy and brought it in,” Blechman explained. As of presstime, 1,000 people in NYSEG’s Oneonta Division, which includes parts of Broome, Schoharie, Chenango, Delaware and Ulster, as well as Otsego, were still without power. Jim Foote of Otsego Electric Co-Op had crews working to restore power to 400 homes in Cherry Valley, Otsego and Westford, down from 1,412, the peak, just before midnight on Monday, Oct. 29. The Red Cross set up a shelter ready to take in 100 people – and a tractor-trailer for pet crates – in St. Mary’s Parish Hall in Oneonta on Monday night, but by Tuesday morning it was closed down. With the Tuesday morning news dominated by images of flooded NYC subway tunnels and Atlantic City’s washed-out Boardwalk, residents were breathing a collective sigh of relief. “We dodged a
bullet,” said Kurt Carman, Cooperstown Village street superintendent. In Oneonta, only three trees were reported down, including one on the AAA New York offices on Oneida Street. “I was sitting in my office and all of the sudden I heard a crash,” said Michael Butler, regional president. “The whole building shook and I thought the wall was coming down. I was an Oneonta fireman for 20 years and not a lot shakes me, but I went running out of my office.” The tree crashed onto the new roof, but did no damage and spared the Hertz rental cars parked below. The worst damage happened in Westford, across the street and down from the general store, where a 100-foot-tall evergreen was uprooted by the wind and crushed the Greek revival home owned by Bob Hill, who, as luck would have it, now lives with his daughter Carol on the other end of the hamlet.
In Cooperstown, a tree was knocked down on Delaware Street, but that was removed shortly after 7 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30. “We took a lot of precautions,” Carman said – for instance, Sunday a crew came in to remove leaves piled up by homeowners on the sides of streets; this prevented storm sewers from being clogged. Six truckloads of leaves were removed. Last fall, Hurricane Irene “weeded out some of the weaker stuff”; another storm in May “took down 4-5 trees,” and that contributed to the relatively little damage this time, Carman said. Said Brian Clancy, public works superintendent: “No leaves – there’s less for the wind to catch.” NYSEG had crews out overnight, working on trees down and outages on Cornish Hill and Route 33 south in the Cooperstown area. Tuesday morning, a live wire was still sparking alongside Fly Creek Valley Road between Route 28 and Goose Street, which was closed off pending the arrival of a
NYSEG crew. But Tuesday dawned clear, with only slight scatterings of rain as any hint of the storms before. School had been cancelled in Oneonta, as it was across the county, and Eva Leon took the day off from school to walk her dog and play outside. “I’m going to have a playdate,” she said. “And then go trick-or-treating at the college.” People were grateful that there wasn’t more damage. “We got about as good as we could have hoped for,” said Blechman. “It was just plain dumb luck that it pursued a path further south.” “It was quite a bit better than we expected,” said Kevin Ritton, Otsego County emergency service coordinator. “It was still a long night, but nothing overwhelming.” “Everyone’s safe, that’s the main thing,” said Pidgeon. “We used it as a drill – it’s going to happen again. We have snow coming, we need to be prepared for anything.”
Perspectives
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Fight Risk-esia! Vote For Barack Obama, Julian Schreibman
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en Franklin had it right 160 years ago. A member of Union Fire Company, his and other Philadelphia fire companies formed the Philadelphia Contributorship, the first successful fire insurance company in the 13 colonies. The concept: PRESIDENT, Share the risk. CONGRESS In 1886, Otsego County farmers together formed the Leatherstocking Cooperative Insurance Co., which celebrated its 125th anniversary last year. Barns, struck by lightning or subject to spontaneous combustion, had been burning down. Alone, the individual farmer couldn’t afford to rebuild the sizeable structures; through Leatherstocking, they could. The simple, logical concept: Share the risk. A few years ago, we Americans suffered, let’s call it risk-esia: We don’t need each other. Let’s go it alone. The first manifestation came in
1978 with 401Ks: Mitt Romney, the Rather than pool Republican nomiour resources in nee for president, a pension that we or share-the-risk all can depend on Barack Obama, (even if not all the Democratic of us will live to incumbent. benefit from it), The contrast is let’s go it alone. most dramatic in We’ll contribdivergent views Barack Obama and Julian ute a little bit on the future of Schreibman are better each week to be choices for our nation and Medicare. Rominvested in the ney supports a region at this time in hisstock market. At tory. voucher system. the end of a 40Instead of assured year career, we’ll have enough, all coverage when we most need it, by ourselves, to retire. we’ll be given vouchers to buy Of course, the methodical ants our own coverage in the private contributed; the grasshoppers marketplace. Rots of ruck! didn’t and are in particular trouble. Obamacare – the president has But the Internet bubble burst in finally embraced what was intend2000 and the real-estate bubble in ed to be a perjorative label – looks 2007 – stocks rose not at all in the to share the risk, and to share it in first decade of this century – so new ways, with 30 million needy even the ants are in trouble. Americans not covered now, with We didn’t share the risk, and college students who can stay on here we are. their parents’ policies until age 26, • with our ailing fellow citizens who And that’s the choice Americans can no longer be cut off for preface Tuesday, Nov. 6: Go-it-alone existing conditions.
Town of Otsego Decides On Hohensee Vs. Russo
To the Editor: I have known Paul Russo and his family for over 13 years and strongly support him for Otsego Town Board. As an optometrist, volunteer football coach for Cooperstown High School, military officer, combat veteran and active National Guard member, Paul is extremely qualified and will be an asset to the town board. His military experience makes him a strong and decisive leader and I know he understands the importance
I recall him working on the petition for its adoption. On the contrary, his opponent, Tom Hohensee, was one of the 25 people that made a total of 1,160 phone calls to registered voters in favor of Home Rule and spoke in favor of it at town meeting from the outset. So again, although Home Rule is an accepted Jeffersonian principle in real Republican Red States like Texas, New York Republicans – except Senator Seward, who supports Home Rule – remain highly suspect on the matter, and therefore not to be entrusted with a vote. CHIP NORTHRUP Cooperstown
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Editor’s Note: The day after being booed at the FERC hearing on the Constitution Pipeline Wednesday, Oct. 24, Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller issued this memo to ‘My Environmental Friends.”
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Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller voices support for the Constitution Pipeline as boos arise and protesters begin to wave placards in a packed 700-seat Foothills main theater Wednesday, Oct. 23, during a FERC hearing.
ning hydrofracking ● the city submitted an amicus brief in support of Middlefield’s request for home rule ● the city has invested over $4,000,000 in energy conservation projects – the resulting utility cost savings will pay for the project in 15 years during which the project has a positive impact on the city’s budget every year ● the Common Council has adopted a report, “Oneonta 2030 ... Growing
Into a Sustainable Community” (prepared by a citizens’ task force) and has begun implementing it ... many measures are included in the $4,000,000 project noted above, acceleration of being a “bike friendly community” and a number of other projects under development and consideration ● the city is working diligently with surrounding towns encouraging them to enact ordinances that assure the Please See MILLER, A6
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know that many of you, perhaps all, are disappointed in the position I have taken reference the proposed pipeline. Simply stated, and as you know, I believe that pipelines are safe and that this particular project will have no impact on whether hydrofracking ever takes place in areas that are of legitimate concern to the Oneonta community. I’m pleased that Lou Alstadt concurs. My position on the issue of the expanded use of natural gas in our country is best articulated by Tom Friedman in a recent article of the New York Times. Paraphrasing, he said in summary: ● strictly regulate extraction • of listening to the issues, ● use low cost, clean burning natural weighing each side, making gas (when compared with other fossil a decision, and then comfuels) to reduce pollution and stimumunicating why the decision late the economy was made. ● use increased financial resources I know Paul to be a very created by expanded use of natural gas motivated, disciplined and to accelerate development of sustainextremely focused indiable energy technologies vidual. He will demonstrate I believe the city’s environmental fiscal discipline and be a record is a good one. During the last model for environmental three years: stewardship. ● the city passed an ordinance banI urge you to join me in supporting Paul by voting for him on Nov. 6. CHRISTOPHER HAGE Fly Creek Editor’s Note: This is the testimony of county Rep. John Kosmer, D-Fly Creek, at the hearing. JU
To the Editor: Got a call from Dr. Paul Russo this morning about the Letter to the Editor I wrote cautioning voters against supporting candidates that were late to the party on “Home Rule.” I pointed out that I did not single out any candidate, except Senator Seward, who I praised as one of the very few state Republicans that had stood up for Home Rule from the outset. I noted that, while I appreciated Dr. Russo’s campaign pledge for “Home Rule,” I don’t recall seeing Dr. Russo at any of the early meetings on the matter in the Town of Otsego. Nor do
not go back. Vote Obama. • The race for our local 19th Congressional District has come to mirror the national campaign, with Republican Chris Gibson embracing a voucher mentality and Democrat Julian Schreibman tilting toward sharing the risk. Based on their individual qualities – both are brainy; Gibson, perhaps through long experience as an officer in our polyglot army, comes across as more warm and approachable; Schreibman, more academic, perhaps, has shown he can be a scrapper – both men would be adequate representatives of the Central New York district. But we can’t go back. Gibson is an adherent of go-it-alone; Schreibman of share-the-risk. We go with Ben Franklin. Fight risk-esia. Vote Schreibman. The lion – and vulture – exult in the Law of the Jungle. But what about everyone else?
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Bassett Healthcare’s Bill Streck – hospitals, incidentally, have bought in, anticipating they’ll make up lost revenues with more patients – observed Obamacare has expanded coverage, but hasn’t tackled too-quickly rising costs. That remains to be done. All businesspeople, in enterprises large and small, and Americans generally share deep concern about that lapse. But turning back – as Romney proposes – would be a disaster. We need to tackle the challenges the future holds, and not just in health care – in energy, in Social Security, in tax reform and income equity, in justice for all, including spanking our national bankers for their recklessness and giving a leg up to Americans still coping with the fallout. Letting free markets be free markets, enticing as that might seem, didn’t work and won’t work. The run-up to the 2007 financial fiasco was proof positive. Let’s
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zations have made great strides against fracking in the past, now and will continue to in the future. We have added to those efforts opposing the Constitution Pipeline, which is inexorably bring only one thing for FERC tied to fracking and liquid natural gas to take away from this meeting. export. Five years ago when we began to When I took office, I swore to inform our communities about the danuphold the New York State and United gers of fracking, we were told it was States constitutions. Our grass-roots impossible to stop the most powerful efforts are in service to upholding the industry on earth, the oil and gas comNew York State and United States panies, from fracking New York State. constitutions and our citizen’s rights Today, that area has constricted from New York State to possibly only County Rep. John Kosmer, D-Fly under them. They include but are not five counties. It is also doubtful if Creek, emphasizes a point during limited to, our New York State constitutional right of Home Rule and our fracking will happen here at all. That his remarks. United States constitutional right of turnaround, due to our efforts with a caused 230 municipalities, using their freedom of speech, the right of peacecoalition of grass roots groups, inNew York State constitutionally guarable assembly and the right to petition cludes four main points: anteed “Home Rule” rights that have • One, 80,000 comments, lobbying been upheld in 3 New York State court to the Government for a redress of grievances. Albany and demonstrations that have cases, to pass bans, pass moratoriums The one thing I bring for FERC to caused the DEC to extend their final or progress to institute them. Those take away from this meeting is that if DSGEIS report until a health impact numbers grow every day. they do not accede to the will of resistudy is done that may cause them to • Three, peaceful demonstrations at dents to reject this pipeline, then just possibly miss their deadline, requiring fracking related sites. as happened with the New York State them to restart the process. • Four, potential New-York-State• Two, hundreds of people in New wide lawsuits that threaten to go on for DEC DSGEIS hearings on fracking, these FERC hearings are not the end York State local towns that signed many years. but just the beginning. petitions for a ban. To date that has Our coalition of grass-roots organi-
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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz from Freeman’s Journal archives, courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library
into its own Saturday afternoon by defeating West Winfield High, 43-0. The Redskins’ over-powering offense drove deeply into the invader’s territory throughout the contest, and the result was never in doubt from the opening whistle. Members of the team are Don and Dorrance Weir, Bliss, Putnam, Wells, Callahan, Hintermister, Fowler, Eggleston, Chapman, Bailey, Cortez, C. Pugliese, Lettis, R. Dodge, Stergas, Rathbun, Knapp, Wilmot, Gilchriest, Kinney, Russo and Holden. November 3, 1937
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Yesterday, William Henman, a soldier of the 15th United States’ regiment, in pursuance of the sentence of a court martial, was shot. His crime was desertion, with intent to go over to the enemy. Another soldier of that regiment, who deserted at the same time, was brought out for execution, but was pardoned by General Bloomfield; it having appeared that he was enticed away by Henman. October 31, 1812
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Editor’s Note: In 1837, members of the Democratic Party were sometimes referred to as republicans. Reasons Why the Democrats of Otsego County should give their Ticket now in nomination a united and vigorous support at the coming election. 1. The Convention which nominated it comprised the bone and muscle of the democratic party of the county – men, who in no situation in life – could be made to yield their integrity. 2. The Ticket was nominated in the most fair and unexceptionable manner, by open ballotings. 3. The Ticket is composed of men of the first respectability who have been repreatedly pronounced worthy of confidence by the citizens of several of the towns, and by the county – and who are well qualified in every respect for the proper discharge of their duties of the respective stations to which they are nominated. 4. The candidates are all Republicans, “good and true” – men who have principles, and possess that integrity which will unflinchingly maintain them. 5. The peculiar position of the political affairs of the country, on the question of vital importance, calls for an unequivocal & full expression of opinion on the part of the democracy. October 30, 1837
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Personal – A little four-year-old lad the other day strongly hinted to an aunt who often gratifies his childish wishes that it would be the proper thing to do to request Santa Claus to send him a “real live pony.” When informed that Santa Claus confined his gifts to books, toys, etc., he came close to the side of his aunt and whispered in her ear: “Don’t you think God would send the pony, if we telephoned him?” The little fellow’s faith was strong. A branch of the Salvation Army invaded Cooperstown on Tuesday last, holding services on Main Street. There are two men and three women in the band. Give them a fair chance and an open field to do all the good they can. People who do not believe in their methods, need not hear them, and those who choose to attend their meetings should keep order.
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November 4, 1887
Woodrow Wilson’s Message to the People: “I am glad to have an opportunity to state very simply and directly why I am seeking to be elected President of the United States. I feel very deeply that this is not an ambition a man should entertain for his own sake. He must seek to serve a cause, and must know very clearly the cause it is he is seeking to serve. The cause I am enlisted in lies very plain to my own view: The Government of the United States, as now bound by the policies which have become characteristic of Republican administration in recent years, is not free to serve the whole people impartially, and it ought to be set free. It has been tied up, whether deliberately or merely by unintentional development, with particular interests, which have used their power, both to control the government and to control the industrial development of the country. It must be freed from such entanglements and alliances. Until it is freed, it cannot serve the people as a whole. Until it is freed, it cannot undertake any programme of social and economic betterment, but must be checked and thwarted at every turn by its patrons and masters.” October 30, 1912
75 YEARS AGO
A rejuvenated Cooperstown high school team came back
John Sheffield of the Cooperstown Central School Cross Country team scored another victory on Saturday when he crossed the finish line at the Cooperstown Country Club to take top honors in the Center State League Championship Cross Country meet. His time was 11:34 for a distance just slightly less than 2.4 miles. Cooperstown won the meet with a score of 25. CCS coach William Eldridge stated that the track was very fast and he was very proud of the excellent time by Sheffield. October 31, 1962
25 YEARS AGO
The Cooperstown Central School Board of Education will draw up plans to implement state mandated AIDS instruction at this week’s board meeting. An advisory board will be created to pursue the issue and determine how the program will be fused into the K-12 classrooms. The state mandate requires that “all elementary schools shall provide instruction concerning the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) as part of the sequential health education program.” The establishment of an advisory board is also mandated. November 4, 1987
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Jane Forbes Clark was the featured speaker at Tuesday’s Cooperstown Rotary club meeting at the Pepper Mill Restaurant. She addressed a number of topics including a planned $10 million renovation to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the $3.6 million renovation and restoration project currently underway at the Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home. Frank Maloney, general manager of the Otesaga Hotel, introduced Clark. “Jane picked up the reins from her dad 10 years ago,” he said. “And I think it’s fair to say that our landscape has not been the same since – she’s the person who is truly responsible for making all this happen.” November 1, 2002
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LETTERS
Schreibman Spreads 4 Falsehoods About Gibson In Race For 19th To the Editor: Mr. Schreibman’s campaign continues to print erroneous information about Congressman Gibson. The spin is so furious I’m surprised Mr. Schreibman can stand it and is not nauseous. The falsehoods can be proven and are a matter of public record for those willing to pursue them. • “Gibson is a radical.” False. He’s proven to be the third most independent voter in the House. He’s a bi-partisan voter. Are you, Mr. Schreibman?
• “Gibson wants to end Medicare as we know it.” False. What ends Medicare is the status quo. This is not an option for Gibson. He wants to preserve the pledges made to Medicare and the people. • “Gibson voted against the Small Business Research Fund.” False. Congressman Gibson voted four times (HR366, HR2608, S1082, and HR1540) to extend and reauthorize the SBRF. • “Gibson’s votes send jobs overseas.” Ridiculously false! To paraphrase a quote:
The only jobs that Gibson has ever sent overseas were his, and his troopers, to protect the freedom that Mr. Schreibman’s campaign enjoys, but chooses to distort. Mr. Schreibman may claim he has no control over what supporters may put out, but he can take the honorable tack and apologize for these falsely spun, wide spread claims. I did hear this a.m.that infamous quote: “Oh, It’s Just Politics as Usual.” But I recall a more famous quote by a man I voted for, JFK: “Ask not what your
Pipeline Is Not Fracking, Would Benefit Economy To the Editor: I consider myself to be a native of Oneonta. I have lived here 60 years, went to school here, returned after college to live here, raised my family here and have built my business here. My family’s roots are here. My brother and sister live here and have also raised their families here. Our families have been and are active members of the community. This is an area we truly call home.
With that said I feel it’s important to note that we will never do anything to jeopardize that what we call home. A natural gas pipeline, such as the Constitution Pipeline, is not a novelty to this area. We have over halfcentury of history regarding how a gas line will impact the people and the environment. History has proven that a pipeline is one of the safest ways to transport natural
gas. One need look no further than the Tenneco or Texas Eastern pipe lines to see the benefits. The Constitution Pipeline “Alternate Route M” will provides a reliable source of natural gas that can be used to provide clean energy at reasonable prices, while also providing much-needed tax revenue for the towns, villages, counties and schools, not to mention the very real possibility that jobs will be retained and most likely
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be added to existing businesses. You have heard many reason why people are concerned or fear the pipeline, but I would ask you to consider the facts and not the misrepresentations of a certain vocal few. You have heard and will continue to hear that the area will suffer because the Constitution Pipeline will facilitate hydrofracking. The two are not related. We need to build a tax base if we are going to survive. There is a need for clean energy that will allow us to meet the energy needs of the community while providing a cleaner alternative that diesel or coal. Please look favorably upon the Constitution Pipeline “Alternate Route M,” as the benefits outweigh the concerns and will help to insure the future of not only the approximate 100 associates at our companies but all the people and communities along its path. ROBERT HARLEM JR. Oneonta
country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” Chris Gibson has, and is living, this life style! We can have hope that civility will return and change the political process for the better. It’s been going on too long, some 200+ years! But then, I’m a realistic dreamer. BILL GLOCKLER Fellow veteran Cooperstown
Respect Each Other’s Positions MILLER/From A4 safety of our water supply ● the city is using funds created from the selective harvesting of timber on city-owned properties in the surrounding towns, to plant hundreds of 6- to 8-footplus caliper trees throughout the city on public and private property I suspect that I will always be more interested than you in the economic considerations of decisions we make on issues related to the environment. I believe that we have to have both a sustainable environment and a sustainable economy. The evidence of our declining private-sector economy has perhaps been exemplified by declining property values in the city, the closing of the Center Street School, and the critical condition of notfor-profit entities that have historically depended on private support. The city has been sheltered from this decline by extraordinary reserves and
significant underutilized debt capacity. But, that cushion is evaporating and we will soon have to begin cutting essential services. The major potential impact from such revenue sources as PILOT agreements with the colleges, consolidation of the city and town, and increased state support are years away, if they will ever be realized. So too will be the results of a more vibrant private sector economy. But, I believe that I have an obligation to do everything I can to stimulate that. I believe that the only area where you and I differ, to this point at least, seems to be the pipeline. I would like to think that we could come together on it, but I’m not naïve. I write simply to explain my position on the subject in the context of broader environmental and economic issues. I am entirely comfortable with my position and hope that you will respect it. I respect yours.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2012
LOCALS The Coop Loop – That’s One Spooky Race
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The Addams Family had nothing on the Siebuhr Family, who came to the Coop Loop dressed as several colorful “things.” Standing in the back are dad Karl and Mom Dawn. The siblings, from left, are Doria, Chase, Emma and Derek.
...and he does it again. Cooperstown’s Josh Edmonds, who won the 16th Ricky “Pit” Parisian 10K earlier in the month, took top honors again in the 12th annual 5K Coop Loop Sunday, Oct. 28, at the Clark Sports Center, finishing in 15:44. Top female was Samantha Fanion, Cooperstown, 19:41, breaking Merle Myerson’s 2001 record of 19:52.
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Gateway Creates Parking For Bassett – But Accomplishes So Much More
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To the Editor: In 2003, the project that has had many names – Linden Avenue, The Gateway Project, CIT – began with a letter from Bill Streck, Bassett Healthcare president/CEO, to then-Congressman Sherwood Boehlert. Regardless of what it was called, the goals were always the same: 1. To create a parking area which, when used by tourists, local employees and others, would take some pressure off our village streets; 2. To create new green space (originally intended for use by Cooperstown Youth Baseball until they decided to look elsewhere; the space is now under the Village Parks Board’s direction); 3 To create a nicely laid out trolley stop for our current users and, through increased signage, direct more users to employ the trolley system; 4. To make huge im-
provements to Linden Avenue itself so this residential street and those who live by it could benefit from new surfacing, sidewalks and plantings; 5. To help all school district residents spend less time in the morning and afternoon traffic that goes to the school by creating a real way in and out (not a backof-the-streets minefield) for cars to make their way back to Route 28. We have accomplished all of that due to the work of many. From Bassett Healthcare, Bill Streck and Joe Middleton; from the Village, Technical Committee members Giles Russell, Brian Clancy, Tom Breiten and Peter Loyola and chairs Paul Kuhn and Chuck Hage and Mayors Carol Waller and Joe Booan. Mayor Waller was the original promoter of the project even before I was on the board or served as chair of the Technical Committee (which oversaw the proj-
Hohensee Right On Quality Of Life To the Editor. I am voting for Tom Hohensee for Otsego Town Board on Nov. 6. Tom, his wife Roberta and their family are our friends and neighbors. They have lived in the Fly Creek Valley and more recently in the Village of Cooperstown for a total of 24 years. Tom understands both town and village issues and will bring well-rounded experience and understanding to the position.
As a Bassett healthcare professional, Tom will fight for clean air, clean water and a high quality of life in our town and village. His professional administrative, financial and management skills will help keep the Town of Otsego on solid ground going forward. Please join me in voting for the right person for the job. Vote for Tom Hohensee for the Otsego Town Board on Nov. 6. JAMES R. DEAN Cooperstown
ect). Every trustee who has served since the fall of 2004 has, in some way, been involved in this project that, now nearing completion, will serve the village well. Thanks also to Ron Coleman at state DOT for helping us through the process, and the Otsego Town Board for making the final part of the pre-construction period end so positively. Special thanks to Village Clerk Teri Barown, whose role as grant administrator was crucial to the success of the project and to Village Attorney Martin Tillapaugh, who provided a huge amount of expertise when the project was most vulnerable. It has been a long long haul but now that it’s almost finished, Linden Avenue/ The Gateway Project/CIT is something to be proud of. We will all benefit from its existence. JEFF KATZ Mayor Village of Cooperstown
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A-8 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2012
After Years, Punctual Public Can Again Depend On Presbyterian Church Clock CLOCK/From A1 is now, farmers in town for supplies and other Main Street shoppers and businesspeople likewise depended on the church’s timepiece. In the past two decades, however, the ticking landmark has been of little use to anyone. “It’s essentially worn out,” said C.R. Jones, church historian. “Now it would have to be rebuilt.” Rebuilding the original mechanism would be expensive, so the church decided to go electric, ordering a kit,
complete with new hands, to bring the clock up to date. In the past few weeks, electricians C.R. Jones Paul Mihan, Steve Eldred and Kevin Preston installed one electric motor on each face – north, south, east and west – that can be controlled from the ground floor. The result may not be
authentic, but time is now told dependably, that that is satisfactory enough for now to Jones and Tom Heitz, Town of Otsego historian. Less satisfactory to the two historians is the clock’s fuzzy history. They believe it was installed in the decade that followed the Civil War, but have found no notation in church records. The clock was built by the Card Company, in England. In those days, most clocks would have been built to the specifications of a particular steeple, but
Jones and Heitz believe this one may have been removed from another church, perhaps after a fire. The church, where Elm enters Pioneer, is the village’s oldest, built in 1807, and the clock may have been an extension of the building’s public function. In 1817, an early county fair was held in the neighborhood. Independence Day commemorations were typically held there. On July 4, 1824, said Heitz, local blacks gathered there to celebrate their emancipation
under New York State law. For perhaps two decades around the turn of the 20th century, the clock wasn’t working, according to the single newspaper clipping Heitz – he does this newspaper’s Bound Volumes column – found on the topic, in The Otsego Farmer from 1917. Jones, a native of Clark City, Iowa, came to Cooperstown in the early 1960s to attend the Cooperstown Graduate Program. After a few years in Concord, Mass., he returned, and has
been associated with the church ever since. Dependable until the 1980s, the clock then began getting balky, Jones said. After it was repaired, he was on a team that would wind the timepiece, which was then supposed to be good for eight days. Sometimes, the clock would stop before then; other times, it would stop after a few seconds, leading to some frustration, Jones said. Eventually, the efforts lapsed, and the clock hasn’t run for years.
LETTERS
Rude Behavior At FERC Hearing In Oneonta Appalls Attendee To the Editor: Having attended the Oct. 25 FERC meeting at Foothills I was appalled and embarrassed at the rude behavior and the intolerance toward any difference of opinion as exhibited by the sign-waving Kuzminski group. It was like an attack of SEIU. I support the pipeline and the jobs and the affordable energy it may bring to Otsego County. It is a delivery system, not a drilling site. Living on a pension, I just paid over $3,000 for fuel oil. I want and deserve cheaper energy, independent of countries abroad who hate America and want me dead. Do not be misled again by Kuzminski and his “Sustainable Otsego,” a brilliant slogan but as empty as Clint Eastwood’s chair, a
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smoke screen that is far more insideous than the anti-fracking pretense it claims to champion. This is a far left group whose agenda, like Cooperstown’s, is to keep business development and energy development out of our county. This includes natural gas, coal, wind-generated power and atomic energy, which France has heavily used for 40 years. To this bunch, all these are taboo. We are supposed to remain an area of tourism with quaint pastoral dairy farms, though most of our farms are now gone. Ommegang, one of Kuzminski’s supporters and contributors is owned by a socialist European nanny-gate country, Belgium. Cast aside the clever misleading rhetoric; pay attention to actions, particularly the spending and your taxes, both of which
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Smithy Director Pursues Grants For Cinema Center In Village CINEMA/From A1 ward. “There are nights I stay awake writing grants,” she said. Plus, she would welcome any contributions that might be forthcoming from the community. “I’m determined to make this happen.” Meanwhile, she’s been The Freeman’s Journal scouting the village for ap- The renovated former Agway at Railroad and Glen, left; the former Smalley’s Cinema, center, and the original Smith-Cooperstown building across from the Cooper Inn are considered possibilities for the propriate venues, and has identified three possibilities. Cinema Center. The former Agway, for the Cooper Inn. Or perhaps “When we moved here, the festival would work.” That profit will carry the instance, restored to its even the former Smalley’s old Smalley’s Theater was The idea is that, in the organization through the original hops-barn ambience movie theater on Main, now closed. I had a thought of summer, the cinema will rest of the years. by Mike Manno, has open home to the Seventh-Inning an upstairs balcony theater, screen a variety of films, The cinema center, as space that might work. Or Stretch baseball store. and I always fantasized from summer blockbustNewell envisions it, would the former Smith-CooperMayor Jeff Katz, who about restoring Smalley’s.” ers to indie flicks to appeal also have a production stustown Inc. Ford dealership supports Newell’s idea, is He added, “I’ve talked to both locals and tourists dio, where local filmmakers across Chestnut Street from partial to the former cinema: to people who think a film families, generating a profit. can rent space to edit or
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he City of Oneonta wrote college students out of the political script in the 1970s. But in the 1980s, the City of Ithaca specifically wrote them in. Since then, Cornell students have regularly been elected to Ithaca’s Common Council and the Tompkins County Board of Representatives. Today, one of those students is Svante Myrick, 25, one of the nation’s youngest mayors. Another, county Rep. Nate Shina-
gawa, elected soon after graduating from Cornell in 2005, is running for Congress in the 23rd District. Irene Stein, who chairs the Tompkins County Democratic Committee, which sued in the 1980s to ensure college students could vote locally, called the results “varied.” “We’ve had students who should never have run,” she said, taking a break from the phone bank at the Shinagawa campaign. “They did not have the time; we did not perform due diligence. “Then,” she added, “we’ve had some good ones.”
College ber requires students a redistrictmake up ing every 10 roughly half years after the the residents Census, and of Oneonta, a redistricting population commission’s 13,000, and initial report, of Ithaca, released in population Ithaca Mayor Svante October, 30,000. would create Myrick, left, and Congressional candidate In a student maOneonta, a Nate Shinagawa went jority – 1,100 redistricting from Cornell into local of 1,694 politics. commisvoters, or 64 sion in the percent – in 1970s, with students’ antiWard 5, which encompasses war demonstrations fresh in Hartwick College. mind, divided up the student The ward is now reprepopulation into as many sented by Council Memwards as possible, miniber Madolyn O. Palmer, a mizing their electoral former Hartwick College impact. Citizens Board Citizen The new city charter of the Year, who said she approved last Novemwould be fine with such an
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dent of the Student Senate, said he’s from Binghamton, and a SUNY Binghamton student is running for Common Council for the first time. “I’m a senior now, so I won’t have that opportunity,” he said. “But 2-3 years ago, as a political science student, I certainly would have been interested.” The college’s Student Senate collaborated with the poli-sci department and the League of Women Voters on a registration campaign this fall, and in three days registered 115 Hartwick students to vote locally, he said. As one issue in particular that would interest students, he pointed to City Hall’s efforts to raise Hartwick’s water bill. “That would directly affect college tuitions,” he said. At SUNY Oneonta, Student Senate president Jimmy Johnston wasn’t sure of the impact. “In all honesty,” he said, “I don’t think enough students are registered in Oneonta. Certainly, it would happen. Personally, I don’t know anyone with that much time to commit.” He pointed out that SUNY students are more likely to be education or music-industry majors than political-science majors.
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