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DOUBLEDAY FIELD PAVED WAY FOR HALL Editor’s Note: This is the first of a series of articles base- 8 ball historian Tom Heitz, Fly Creek, will write during 2014 to 2014 INDUCTEES TO BE ANNOUNCED commemorate the 75th anniversary of the National Baseball Greg Maddux, a former Atlanta Brave and Chicago Cub, Hall of Fame. and Tom Glavine, former Brave and New York Met, were By TOM HEITZ COOPERSTOWN

eaders who picked up The Freeman’s Journal on Thursday, March 26,

1908, could not have fully realized the long-term implications of two frontpage articles, both summarized with staggered headlines in the journalistic fashion of the day.

considered the leading contenders as the National Baseball Hall of Fame prepared to announce the 2014 Hall of Fame inductees Wednesday, Jan 8., at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. For the announcement that day, check

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Along the newspaper’s right-hand margin readers saw the expected confirmation of a development

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that had been rumored for months: “COOPERSTOWN IS JUBILANT – To Have Fine Summer Hotel on

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Murder ‘Intent’ Alleged

The Fort Plain Hilltoppers were on CCS’ Team Captain Jordan Manikas like glue, but were unable to block the basket. The Hawkeyes went on to win the Dick White Christmas Tournament Saturday, Dec. 28, in Bursey Gym/MORE PHOTOS, B5

Vermont Expert Will Speak On Sustainability COOPERSTOWN

By JIM KEVLIN

ruce Seifer, former economic developer for the City of Burlington, Vt., will speak on “Sustainable Communities: Creating a Durable Local Economy,” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 15, at the county courthouse. Seifer, who assisted 4,000 businesses while at city hall, frequently speaks at national forums on sustainable community revitalization. The public is welcome, according to Adrian Kuzminski, moderator for Sustainable Otsego, which is the sponsor. HAPPY 206TH! With

this edition, The Freeman’s Journal enters the 206th year since its founding as The Impartial Observer in 1808 by William Cooper, Cooperstown’s founder. BYE, TANNENBAUM: To

dispose of Christmas trees in the village, simply drag them to the strip between sideway and street in front of your home.

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arry Renert, suspected of driving all the way from Florida to confront his former employer at the Seventh Inning Stretch baseball store, will face an “intent of murder” charge when he is brought back Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal

Renee Scialdo-Shevat, Herkimer, the Friends of Bassett president, makes the acquaintance of the evening’s royalty, the King and Queen of Hearts (Sal Pavia, center, and Anthony Fett, left, both of New York City and members of Shazaam Entertainment). The troupe was a centerpiece of the entertainment at the Friends’ 20th annual New Year’s Eve Gala at The Otesaga. On the theme, “Queen of Hearts,” the evening benefited Bassett Hospital’s Heart Care Institute, which on Dec. 31 complete its 10th anniversary year/MORE PHOTOS, A3

Hartwick Seminary Pipes Going To Make Way For Rebuilt Organ By JIM KEVLIN HARTWICK SEMINARY

here’s a gaping hole in the front right corner of Evangelical Lutheran Church here. And it’s only going to get worse.

Then, it will get better, and there will be beautiful music emanating from the 15-16 sets off pipes – up from the current five – that Sid Chase of the Chase Organ Co. is installing in time for the church to celebrate its 175th anniversary – aka, Please See ORGAN, A6

Lakefront – Edward S. Clark and Stephen C. Clark Purchase the Holt-Averell Property – New Hotel Next Year.” Thus was the birth announcement of what became The Otesaga, opened in July 1909. Over in the middle of the page came the stunning news: “Home of Baseball – Game Originated In Cooperstown – Abner Please See 75TH,A3

PIT STOP ROBBED BY 2 AT GUNPOINT

Deputies are seeking two armed men who robbed the Pit Stop at gunpoint the day after Christmas. Story, photos at WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM

to Otsego County, probably next week, according to District Attorney John D.A. Muehl Muehl. Renert, 62, sought in a Dec. 23 confrontation with his former boss, Vincent Carfagno Jr. in the former Smalley’s cinema at 137 Main St., was apprehended that evening at a bus station in Richmond, Va., seeking to board a bus, according to a Dec. 24 statement from Village Police Chief Michael Covert. Please See D.A., A7

Deck Is Laid, Cold Slows Curing, But Route 11C Span Opens Soon By LIBBY CUDMORE INDEX

ew year, new bridge. “We’re really close to finishing up,” said county Highway Superintendent Ron Tiderencel as he surveyed the

$1.7 million truss across the Susquehanna River nearing completion on Route 11C here. “It should be ready in about two weeks.” Work on the new bridge, designed by Shumaker Engineering, Binghamton, started in late September, after the 1932 trestle bridge had been struck March 20 by Please See BRIDGE, A6

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Father Paul Hunter Accepts Position Ministering to Albany’s Impoverished COOPERSTOWN

ather Paul Hunter, a parish deacon at Christ Church in Cooperstown has been named Canon Missioner at

the Cathedral of All Saints in Albany. The cathedral is located between the state Capitol and Arbor Hill, one of Albany’s poorest neighborhoods. Hunter will be in charge of

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organizing outreach programs to the community. It’s a position that hasn’t been filled in decades, recently brought back to help minister to Albany’s most underserved population. “We need to be ministering in this area,” said Hunter. “We need to figure out how we can get the gospel to these people.” Following in his father’s footsteps, Hunter, a graduate Thomas Aquinis and Rev. Paul the Trinity Hunter School for Ministry of was ordained at Christ Church on July 20, 2013. He is the son of Father Kenneth Hunter. rector at At. James Episcopal Church in Oneonta. In addition to his duties at Christ Church, Hunter had been volunteering at the church’s Oaks of Righteousness safe space café in Albany. He will begin work at the Cathedral on Monday, Jan. 6. KULL REPORTS: For Grace Kull’s Thanksgiving Home Notes on the holiday happenings there, follow link from www.allotsego. com

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Time To Let Abner Doubleday Go 75TH/From A1 On Aug. 3, 1934, Doubleday Field was Doubleday, Afterward Major General, formally dedicated. Its Originator – A Monument SuggestThe idea for a museum grew from ed.” “Cooperstown is the birthplace of a seed planted by Alexander Cleland, baseball.” “An expert commission of an employee of the Clark Foundation baseball authorities (the Mills Commis- reporting Stephen C. Clark. After a sion), appointed three years ago, has so visit to Cooperstown in the summer officially decided, and there is now no of 1934, in a memo to Clark, Cleland further room for doubt of it,” the article suggested the possibility of a separate underlying the headlines began. museum for baseball artifacts. Clark, a Thus was the dawn in 1908 of what man of wealth and influence, took hold has evolved over the decades since as and ownership of the idea. Cleland Cooperstown’s baseball tourism inremained in the project, working under dustry. The readers of The Journal that Clark’s direction. The museum was week could never have foreseen that chartered in late 1935 as a non-profit day in June 1939, when the acknowlentity. edged greats of the National Pastime Ford Frick, a former sports writer would gather in Cooperstown to be and then president of the National lodged at The Otesaga and honored as League, proposed the concept of a Hall the first inductees into the newly estab- of Fame. The Hall of Fame idea further lished National Baseball Hall of Fame. ignited the interest of baseball execuThat photograph of Babe Ruth and the tives, players, team owners, village other living immortals seated on a plat- officials and sportswriters who would form in front of the new museum on choose the greatest players. Main Street launched a new image for Cooperstown’s prosperity, to a village formerly known largely for the extent that it is linked to baseits literary connections with novelist ball history, is thus linked to Abner James Fenimore Cooper. Already the Doubleday. However, the story that two-story museum structure was filling Abner Doubleday invented baseball in up with a rapidly growing collection Cooperstown in 1839 is false and withof historic baseball artifacts, artworks, out factual foundation. Historians attriphotographs and documents. bute baseball’s creation to an evolution In the 75 years (1939-2014) since of social stick and ball games that the National Baseball Hall of Fame cannot be ascribed to a single event or opened, the institution has grown by inventor. “Abner Doubleday did not leaps and bounds. At first, growth came invent baseball – baseball invented slowly, largely due to the disruption Abner Doubleday,” it has been said. of WW II. However, by the 1950s, the The report of the Mills Commission museum emerged from the war years in 1908 was attacked from the outset as a nationally and internationally as false and the detractors persisted recognized sports and museum instituthroughout the 20th century. Howtion. Television coverage of induction ever, those who decried the Abner ceremonies and an emerging baseball Doubleday Baseball Creation myth memorabilia industry fueled growth were drowned out by a flood of pubIn recognition of the Mills Comlicists and defenders of the myth. The mission’s findings, local promoters, Doubleday defenders included officials baseball enthusiasts, notably Dr. E.L. of the National Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher, together with elected village who reaffirmed their commitment to Paper:Hometown Oneonta / Freeman Journal officials first focused their efforts the Doubleday myth in 1989 when the Size: 2x4 on honoring Abner Doubleday,Run theDate:1/8 Hall of Fame celebrated its 50th angame’s inventor, with a monument niversary. Finally, as the 21st century Editions: – a statue perhaps. But, by 1916, their dawned, the Hall of Fame disavowed efforts turned to establishing a new the Doubleday creation story. baseball field and naming it in DouIn 2014, the Hall of Fame’s plans for bleday’s honor. That initiative came celebration will focus on the museum’s to fruition in the fall of 1920 when the growth as the repository for the game’s Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce true history and the ever-growing acquired property rights to the PhinHall of Fame’s pantheon of baseball ney pasture, the venue now known immortals. There is also a library and as Doubleday Field. The Chamber archive packed with the photographic passed the property to the Village of and documentary history of the game, Cooperstown in 1923. a feature that often goes unnoticed by Gradual improvements to Doubleday visitors and uncelebrated by the Hall of Field and a children’s playground sited Fame itself. there were made by the village in the Now, in 2014, it is high time to put 1920s. In the spring of 1934, as the the Doubleday story aside for good. centennial of Doubleday’s invention This is the year to celebrate the museapproached, the field was closed for a um’s growth and achievements over complete overhaul of the grounds, the the three-quarters of a century since it fencing and the primitive grandstand. was dedicated in 1939.

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Tom Morgan, guest of honor at the Friends of Bassett’s 20th annual New Year’s Eve Gala at The Otesaga on the theme, “Queen of Hearts,” credits Bassett Hospital’s Heart Care Institute with saving his life three times. Morgan, who lives in Franklin and is retired principal in the Morgan McReynolds Group/Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Oneonta, suffered a heart attack shortly after the institute opened. The gala proceeds go to support the institute, which completed its 10th anniversary celebration on Dec. 31.

Mad Hatter Bill Waller, Cooperstown, chats with Dr. John Kelley, Bassett’s chief of cardiac surgery, and Kelley’s wife Karen.

Connie Jastremski, Bassett Hospital chief nursing officer/vice president, patient services, and husband Mike make a grand entrance.

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Keep Your Small Town Prosperous: Buy Stuff There

return from their winter breaks and January Terms, and before the Cooperstown Winter Carnival starts the commercial juices flowing again – when buying local is most needed. Sure, you probably can’t buy EVERYTHING in Otsego County, but if you think about it, you’d be surprised how varied our local market is. Szarpa had some telling numbers: If you spend $100 with a local business, $68 stays in the county economy, (and passes from local hand to local hand two and a half times in a year). If you spend $100 with a national chair store, only $43 stays in the county. “If you spend outside the area completely,” said Szarpa, “nothing comes back to the county.” • Not to be a Luddite, but – if we value small-town living, and want that small town to be prosperous – we need to act in the self-interest of our communities. For all its glories, the Internet can work against that. If, for instance, instead of renewing your license and registration at the Otsego County Clerk’s local DMV offices – at 16 South Main, Oneonta, or 195 Main, Cooperstown – you do it via the Internet, the county loses its share – 12.7 percent – of the transaction. The average cost of renewing a registration is $60, but that can go up to $100. The average cost of a license is $64.50, of which the county gets $8.15. Renew online, the county gets a relative pittance. “How greedy are they that they take away our eight dollars and 15 cents?” asked County Clerk Kathy Sinnot Gardner, who serves on the DMV committee of the state As-

ith our nation pursuing unpopular wars for a decade now... With not a single ranking Wall Street banker in jail yet for fast practices that ruined the national and global economies five years ago now... With our Congress allowing the federal government to shut down contrary to the wishes of the vast majority of Americans... Well, you get the idea: It’s easy to sometimes think the world is spinning out of our control as individuals, citizens or taxpayers. As customers, though, we can take control. Which is why the “Think Local First” campaign, organized by the Otsego County and Cooperstown chambers of commerce, not only makes sense, but is, in a larger sense, reassuring. Each of us can retake control. “It does get personal,” Pat Szarpa, Cooperstown chamber executive director, declared at the panel discussion in mid-December at Springbrook that launched the local effort. “This is a personal choice we all make.” The choice is whether to help ourselves and our neighbors in multiple ways by spending our hard-earned dollars within Otsego County’s boundaries, or – as Szarpa put it – “push the Amazon button.” • It made a lot of sense for the two chambers to launch “Think Local First” two weeks before Christmas, when spending money on was on most people’s minds. But now come the economic doldrums – before SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College’s students

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Patricia Kennedy, Springbrook executive director, welcomes local businesspeople to the “Think Local First Kickoff” panel Wednesday, Dec. 11. Panelists, seated from left, are Bob Harlem, Oneonta Block; Chad Welch, Smith Ford, Cooperstown; Scott White, Bank of Cooperstown; Rebecca Llloyd, Pickett Lumber; Jeff Haggerty, Haggerty Ace Hardware, Cooperstown, Delhi and Walton. Not seen is panelist Betsy Westad Cunningham, Artware, Oneonta. At right are Otsego Chamber President/CEO Barbara Ann Heegan, Cooperstown Chamber Executive Director Pat Szarpa and Shelly Giangrant, Otsego chamber vice president/member services.

sociation of County Clerks and is quite expert in this matter. Last year, she continued, the state DMV received $523,618 in fees from online registrations and license renewals that originated in Otsego County. The county received 4 percent of everything over $429,000, the county’s threshold, or about $3,000. If the $532,618 had been processed locally, the county would have received $66,500, Sinnot Gardner said, or $63,500 more. Some two dozen services the county clerk provides are free – for instance, you can turn in your license plates locally – and the state’s not interested in those.

But, the county clerk asked, will the county Board of Representatives be willing to keep the DMV offices open if they don’t generate any revenues? Same goes with post offices. If you buy stamps on the Internet, your local post office doesn’t get credited for revenues and, thus, is more likely to be on the chopping block when the inevitable next round of closings occur. Use it or lose it. • This doesn’t have to be an either/or. Local firms are using the Internet, too. One of the chamber panelists, Rebecca Lloyd, reported her Pickett Lumber has a

local web interface: You can order online, then pick up your order locally. How convenient is that? Other panelists talked about how local purchases created an ascending cycle. Scott White, Bank of Cooperstown president, talked about making local loans, which are then paid back, then reloaned. “The dollars go round and round,” he said. “$100 becomes $1,000 pretty quickly.” Said Chad Welch of Smith Ford, Cooperstown: “Doing business with businesses that do business with you is vital to the county economy. Then I can pay my employees, and they can spend it with everyone in this room.” • There are many dimensions to the issue. In 2012, Hartwick College invited Michael Shuman, author of “Local Dollars, Local Sense,” to deliver the Rasmussen Lecture, and he gave several examples of how local investing can help communities prosper. In one case, a local bank dedicated a fund exclusively to local enterprises; and, when you deposited money, you could request it go into that fund. In another case, a popular coffee shop in Oakland, Calif., needed $40,000 to open a second shop; the proprietor offered $1,200 in coffee to anyone willing to invest $1,000, and soon had his money. This is all good stuff. Individually, let’s keep “thinking local first” front of mind: At this darkest time of year, we can light a candle for Otsego County’s prosperity. Before, as Szarpa says, you “push the Amazon button,” think: Can you walk down the street – good exercise, incidentally – and buy it locally? If you can, do so. You benefit, and all of your neighbors do, too.

As We ‘Think Local,’ Oneonta’s Uniquely Local Neptune Diner Closes Doors

peaking of “Think Local First,” who is going to replace the Neptune Diner’s BLT? It always included a chunk of crunchy iceberg lettuce and, even in deepest winter, tomato slices that actually tasted like a tomato. The bacon was as you might expect: crisp and savory. White toast was fine: You wouldn’t want to impinge on that perfect combination of texture and flavor. Mayo on the side, to ensure the final touch is just to your taste. A cup of cole The Freeman’s Journal slaw on the side. The sign in The Neptune Monday, Ah! Just right. Meet me at The Neptune! Dec. 30, read “section closed” – it didn’t say “forever.” Alas, no more. • the minds of the thousands of fans of the These kinds of happy memories and Neptune Diner, which closed its doors for mournful thoughts are, no doubt, filling good at midnight Sunday, Dec. 29.

Proprietor Paul Karabinis – either he or son Tasi, it seems, were always there, 24-7 – is nearing his 65th birthday and ready to scale back. Father and son will continue to operate B&K Coffee, so retirement is relative. (If you are one of the few folks who haven’t tried B&K, do yourself a favor.) The Neptune was one of those amazing modern diners – hundreds of selections, all ready promptly – that were mainstays across America this past half-century, but are _rarer and rarer these days. An amazing diner, but The Neptune was much more than that. How many hundreds of times a day did local folks say, “Meet me at The Neptune” or “How about The Neptune?” It was a county institution and a regional magnet but, foremost, it was an Oneonta

unifier, showing how meaningless is the “town-city” divide, (a debate that has traction in political circles, but nowhere else.) • The Neptune was Oneonta. Not the only such institution, certainly – Brooks, The Autumn and Morey’s come to mind, among others – but an important contributor to daily life in the City of the Hills that can’t be easily replaced. But replaced? Perhaps. The Karabinises proved the need – the demand, if you will – for such a full-service establishment, and perhaps some savvy entrepreneur will pick up the baton and carry it forward. Don’t “college town” and “24-7 diner” go hand in hand? The Neptune II? Yes, certainly, somebody out there should go for it. Please.

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To the Editor: It is apparent Global Warming can’t be stopped, only slowed down at best. Here are some thoughts regarding the rising seas. Balancing Act: The polar ice is melting! The damming of the Strait of Gibraltar to protect the Mediterranean from rising sea levels is one step towards heading problems off at the pass. The “Atlantropa” is a gigantic engineering project that was intended to be used for the generation of hydroelectricity and lower the sea level of the Mediterranean. Conceived by German Architect

Herman Sorgel, an important additional purpose would be to control the rising oceans. Other steps that should be taken are to divert water to deserts and arid lands: Huge desalinization projects. Increase the availability and promote the use of fuel cells to slowly diminish H20. Store water in lands below sea level. Slow down taking water from aquifers. Preserving the rain forests. Here’s some other research I’ve done in regards to projects already proposed: • The building of a canal to the Qattura Depression in the Sahara from the Mediterranean. This project has also

been proposed. Byproduct: hydroelectricity. • Adding a series of canals with glass covers, the water could be distilled and transferred to parallel canals. Byproducts: fresh water, salt and hydroelectricity. Another suggestion made years ago and a little more drastic. Nuke a passage through mountain ranges to allow moist air to reach arid lands. Maybe some of these or all of them. Of course, continue to try and control the release of green house gasses. GERRY WELCH Cooperstown

Poll-Watchers Are Governed By Rules. And Training Is Required To the Editor: I am concerned about a statement made by Otsego County Democratic Chairman Richard Abbate that it has been a long-standing practice not to collect pollwatcher certificates in rural

counties such as Otsego County. I am not sure where he got his information but all counties in New York State, Upstate or Downstate, must follow the law. I worked at the Board of Elections as Republican

deputy commissioner of election for 13 years, as the commissioner for the last five years, and I was the county chairman for six years. As the county chair I personally would never recommend that a candi-

date be a poll watcher. Is it illegal? No. A candidate can be a poll watcher per the election law, but they, like all poll watchers, need a poll watcher’s certificate. “Election Law 8-500, Please See LETTER, A6

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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz from Freeman’s Journal archives, Courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library

200 YEARS AGO

Died in this town on the 25th of December, 1813, Mrs. Mary Metcalf, aged 78. She had for many years been a professor of religion and adorned the doctrine which she believed. When the hour of her exit arrived she calmly resigned herself to her fate, and bade a final adieu to the transitory scenes of the world, under the full conviction that through the merits of her Saviour she should inhabit another and a better. Notice: Attend! The members of the Otsego SugarStick Society are requested to meet at Ostrander’s Coffee-House on Monday evening, the 3rd of January, at 6 o’clock. Per Order. Dec. 30, 1813. January 1, 1814

25 YEARS AGO

Estates, however, he probably did more for the village than any man in his generation, for it was he who built the Alfred Corning Clark Gymnasium, the Village Club and Library, the Cooper Park, the O-tesa-ga, the Country Club, and all the other enterprises both public and private that have been provided by the Clark family. Mr. Johnston also had charge of dispensing the many charities that are maintained by the family. December 31, 1913

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175 YEARS AGO

The poet Byron, with more of point than verity, has said: “The past is nothing.” Yet who among the human race, does not look back to that past, as the parent of all the good or ill that betides them for the present, and of much that they anticipate for the future? Who can regard that past with indifference? To who does not the recollection of it recall scenes, images and feelings, which yet throb in every pulse, are riveted to each link in the chain of memory and written so indelibly upon the heart’s inmost core, that nothing but the hand of Death can obliterate the impress? By common consent, the New Year season is hallowed to the festivities and social enjoyments of all; while to the reflective, it tenders a prominent point of observation, from which to look back upon the past, or forward into the dimness of the future. December 31, 1838

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150 YEARS AGO

Standing on the threshold of a New Year, the mind naturally turns to a contemplation of the stirring events which marked the outgoing of the late Administration, and which have distinguished that of the present. The civil war which now devastates the land actually commenced in January 1861, when the rebels fired upon the vessel sent to provision and reinforce the little garrison in Fort Sumpter – now a heap of ruins. The early leaders in this wicked rebellion no doubt contemplated the complete and comparatively easy consummation of their plans; they expected to effect the division of the Union, the secession of all the slave States, with little or no fighting. They were not prepared for such a demonstration of devotion to the Constitution and the Union – for such a determined opposition even unto blood, to any and every attempt to destroy the nationality of this mighty Republic. January 1, 1864

The Penn Athletic Club baseball team of Philadelphia has accepted an invitation to take part in the National Baseball Centennial in Cooperstown early in the coming summer. And fittingly enough, the Pennac Nine will play Connie Mack’s Athletics on a day to be known as “Connie Mack Day.” Mack, is one of the immortals whose name has been placed in Baseball’s Hall of Fame. He said of playing the Pennacs, “It’s a fine idea and I’m glad of the chance to play baseball at the game’s birthplace. The celebration of the birth of baseball 100 years ago is one of the greatest things the game has provided and those in back of the project should be commended.” January 4, 1939

Death came to only nineteen residents of Cooperstown in the year 1888. This is a very remarkable record for a village with a resident population of about 2,600 and from 300 to 500 visitors during the summer. The eldest of the departed were Mrs. Catherine F. Barrows on January 24; Mrs. Bridget Kraham on February 13 and Miss Betsey Crafts on March 26, each of whom lived to the age of 87 and beyond. The youngest was James Volks, an inmate of the orphanage, who was aged 8 years. Leaving the child out, only three others of the nineteen were under 52 years of age and the youngest was 34. Absent the child the average age of the remaining eighteen was 65 and one-half-years of life. Cooperstown is a remarkably healthy place. January 4, 1889

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The death of J.A. Melrose Johnston in the early morning of December 26th brought deep sorrow to the people of Cooperstown. Death was attributed to heart failure. Mr. Johnston had never been sick in bed a day in his life. As custodian of the wealth of others, J.A.M. Johnston gave his entire time to that and never accepted any of the honors of a public nature that his townsmen might have given him. In his capacity as agent for the Clark

The Walking Example Group will present the second annual “Deck the Halls” Walking Tour led by Pat Thorpe on Sunday, December 28, at 2 p.m. Thorpe will provide an “up close and personal” tour of the holiday designs of Theatricum Botanicum. The walk will depart from the Otesaga Hotel near the Hawkeye Grill entrance. January 2, 2004

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Election Inspectors Trained, Supervised LETTER/From A4 paragraph 3: The appointment of watchers for any election shall be by a certificate in writing issued by the chairman or secretary of the political party or independent body, or the candidates. Such certificate shall be delivered to an inspector at the election district.” Election inspectors must attend a class and pass a test each year to be certified. In class, they are trained on everything they will need to know to do their job, and that includes how to handle poll watchers and to ask for their watchers certificate. Election inspectors are at the polls from 5:30 a.m. until approximately 9:30 p.m. and they all try to do their best to make the elections run as smoothly as possible. I, as a commissioner, truly appreciate the work that the inspectors do for the voters of this county and I am also aware that this can be a thankless job. Remember, it is also the responsibility of the watcher to deliver their watcher’s certificate to the inspectors. SHEILA M. ROSS Otsego County Republican Elections Commissioner

BRIDGE/From A1 a truck carrying bottles to be filled at Brewery Ommegang. Particularly during the 100day tourist season, the 11C closure caused 10-20 mile detours as Cooperstown Dreams Park families went through Milford or Cooperstown to get back and forth to their accommodations. Worsened by the reconstruction of the Chestnut-Walnut reconstruction at Cooperstown’s south end, 20-30 minute delays were not uncommon. Tiderencel originally estimated a new bridge could not be put in place before next spring, but he fast-tracked the project as the impacts became clear. He aimed to have the new span complete by Christmas, but cold weather and mid-December storms slowed progress. “You work a little slower in the cold,” he said. “It takes a little more time.” The bridge’s concrete deck was poured Monday, Dec. 23.

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County Highway Superintendent Ron Tiderencel inspects the 11C bridge; the deck has been poured and heaters are in place, helping the concrete cure.

But it needs 14 days to “cure,” and cold weather had slowed that process, the roads chief said. The process is being encouraged by a series of “top hat” propane heaters underneath deck. Water drawn from the river is warmed and a series of soaker hoses keep the concrete

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compromising the structural integrity of the bridge. Shumaker ordered a 24-footwide, 155-foot-long pre-fabricated bridge from Contech Bridge Solutions as the replacement. “We put it on over two and a half days a week before Christmas,” said Tederencel. “During that really cold snap. It took a day to set the two trusses and we laid the floor beams the next day.” When the concrete has cured, Tiderencel’s crew will seal the bridge and put down a “winter mix” on the 20-foot approach before the bridge. “It’s temporary,” he said. “You can’t lay blacktop in the cold, so this will be until the spring.” Temporary guide rails will also be set in place, with more permanent fixtures going on in the spring. “We just want to get it open,” he said. “It’s been quite the process, but it came out great.”

ORGAN/From A1 septaquintaquinquecentennia – later this year. “We will be using electricity,” said Chase, assisted by Jason Beams, Worcester, on this project, “which moves much faster than air does in these silly tubes.” The silly-tube technology – more specifically, “tubular pneumatic action” – was shortlived at the M.P. Moller Organ Co., Hagerstown, Md., which built church’s organ, #3002, in 1920. And it has served the congregation for 94 years. (Moller produced 11,000 organs in its 90-year history, installing its final at the Chapel by the Sea in Fort Myers, Fla., in 1992). Serviceable as #3002 has been, more than tripling the capacity will be heralded by organist, the organ-maker predicted. “Organists always want bigger organs,” said Chase. “You can interpret the music better.” The Hartwick Seminary project got underway last April, when church members retrieved a 1964 Moller 600-pipe instrument that had been built for the Vatican Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair. It had been used at the Immaculate Conception Convent, Hastings-on-Hudson, which was about to be demolished. Martha Frey,

the historic preservationist, had heard about the threat and alerted Chase. At about the same time, St. Anthony’s, a Slovakian church in Johnstown, Montgomery County, was getting rid of a Moller dating from the 1970s. Chase salvaged that as well, and pipes and mechanism from both instruments have been stored in the Evangelical Lutheran’s basement since then. “Of all the organs I’ve ever built, this is the most amalgamation of parts,” said Chase, whose current projects include completing a 2,500-pipe instrument at his home church, Second Baptist in Worcester. This week, Chase has been removing the most of the old organ from its arched nook at the front of the church. He has recommended that church father’s remove that nook, opening up the space to the ceiling. That will make room for the new pipes, and will also allow the music to flow freely into the nave. Chase pointed out the lack of insulation in the nook. Insulated, the whole church should be cozier. The project should be completed by spring, and word is the congregation will celebrate by inviting in organists from churches around the area for the launch.

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Renert Extradited, Due Back Next Week; D.A. To File ‘Intent Of Murder’ Charge D.A./From A1 The suspect waived extradition Friday the 27th. Deputy Jason Munson and Village Police Officer Jim Cox have been assigned to go to Virginia and bring Renert back. Because of a snowstorm expected Thursday, Jan 2, and temperatures near zero the following day, Muehl said the officers may not make the trip until early next week. Back in Cooperstown, Renert will be arraigned in front of one of the village justices, Leslie Friedman or Gary Kuch, the D.A. said, and confined in county jail. A grand jury was already scheduled to be convened after the first of the year, but Muehl said he doesn’t expect to present the Seventh Inning Stretch matter until mid-month. The alleged animus between Carfagno, who also operates stores in Utica’s Sangertown Mall and Syracuse’s Carousel Mall, and Renert, his longtime manager locally, goes back to August, the D.A. said. Carfagno “felt Mr. Renert might be taking money from the business and fired him,” said Muehl, (who marked his 10th year as district attorney on New Year’s Day.) After the firing, Renert, who was living in Richfield Springs, had a falling out with his wife; on Sept. 5,

he was charged with criminal contempt, second degree, for violating an order of protection, according to a state police release at the time. The mug shot distributed to the press the morning of the incident Barry Rendated to that episode. ert’s mug As a result, Renert shot shows tattoed tears had been remanded to county jail on $1,000 uner his bail. At the time of right eye. his latest arrest, however, he was identified as living in Seminole County, Florida, inland from Cape Canaveral, near where his grown daughter resides. On the morning of the 23rd, he had allegedly traveled 1,036 miles north in a rental car, entered the store and pointed a gun at Carfagno in his downstairs office. Carfagno, who was carrying a pistol, was able to fire a shot and the suspect fled. A force of village police, sheriff’s deputies and state troopers surrounded the former theater and ordered a lockdown at Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown Central School and other major institu-

tions, but Muehl believes by then the suspect “was halfway to Binghamton.” Village police are conducting an embezzlement investigation, and those findings would likely be used to show intent in the “intent of murder” case, Muehl said. However, “even if one were considered a motive for the other, it wouldn’t be tried at the same time,” he said. Given that Renert is in custody removes some of the immediacy from the second case, he added. (Chief Covert said he has been in conversation with the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce on training for merchants in inventory control and tracking revenues, so a financial record can be more easily reconstructed if embezzlement allegations arise in the future.) The latest Renert mug shot shows two tears tattooed under his right eye. To some Inner City gangs, that would indicate the bearer had shot two people, but Muehl said there’s no indication that, in Renert’s case, it is anything more than a fashion statement. On his arrest, Renert had added a tattoo over his left eyebrow: The word “respect.”

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Within a half hour of the report, cruisers from village, county and state departments were at the scene, and volunteer firefighters, including Chief Jim Tallman, were directing traffic.

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ast year, Village Police staged in an exercise at Bassett Hall, testing how to respond if an armed gunman was on the loose in Cooperstown. Little did Chief Mike Covert know he would be applying lessons learned in a real-life situation. For at 8:53 a.m. Monday, Dec. 23, Covert’s phone

rang. It was the 911 center, reporting “an active shooter” at Seventh Inning Stretch, 137 Main St. Two ofCovert ficers were on duty – Covert and Officer Joelle West. And within a minute, they were at the scene. Seconds later, Deputy Ron Johnston, who had been up the street at the county District Attorney’s Office, arrived. “We’re looking for the safety of ourselves, the safety of others, and trying to stop the situation from getting worse,” Covert summarized in an interview this week in his office in 22 Main. According to pre-existing protocols, deputy sheriffs and state troopers were soon at the scene. “The more manpower you have, the safer you are,” said the chief. Courthouse and Bassett Hospital security officers assisted, and the village’s volunteer firefighters assumed traffic-control responsibilities, diverting traffic away from the Main Street block between Chestnut and Pioneer. First thing, major institutions – Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown Central School, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the Clark Sports Center among them – were in lockdown. Officers walked along Main Street, asking merchants and their customers to remain in stores until the emergency had passed. At Covert’s request, two state police K9s were brought to the scene. The dogs were taken through the building, and the chief had concluded by about 9:20 that the suspect was no longer on site. However, the suspect, soon identified a reportedly disgruntled Seven Inning Street store manager Barry Renert, 62, who had been fired in August, was still at large. A flurry of activity occurred along Willow Creek about 10 a.m. Covert said residents had observed an individual in the creek, and thought the suspect might be slipping away from police by following the watercourse that runs under the Doubleday Field parking lot. The individual turned out to be a contractor on a job, the chief said. State police cruisers – plus one of the department’s Bearcat armored vehicles – continued to arrive in the village, but by 11 a.m. Covert was able to reassure reporters at a briefing on the sidewalk in front of Willis Monie Books that any danger appeared to have passed. Meanwhile, village police had issued an APB – an all points bulletin – that alerted police departments along the East Coast that Renert had fled in a rented vehicle with Florida plates. Richmond, Va., officer picked him up that night trying to board a Greyhound at the bus station there. Covert said he never doubted the suspect would be captured. He declined to go into too much detail, but he said, “Technology is a great thing. We all love our technology. But it can really help police in return.”

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THURSDAY-FRIDAY, JAN. 2-3, 2014 Carlo Menotti. Staging â&#x20AC;&#x153;Amahlâ&#x20AC;? with cast of local children and talented musicians has become a holiday tradition for the area. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss this performance. All welcome. Children free. Suggested donation $20. Church of Christ Uniting, 22 Church St., Richfield Springs. CANTATA -- 3-4:30 p.m. Davenport Community Choir performs its Christmas Cantata. Free, open to the public. St. James Manor, 9 St. James Place, Oneonta. Info, (607) 436-

WORKSHOP -- 1-3 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Design For Your Home Gardenâ&#x20AC;? workshop with Otsego County Master Gardeners. $5, register by Jan. 9. Cornell Cooperative Extension, 123 Lake St., Cooperstown. Info, registration, (607) 547-2536, X-0. BEER DINNER -- 7 p.m. Chef Evan Brown presents a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Great Beer Deserves Great Foodâ&#x20AC;? Dinner. Tickets, $75. Brewery Ommegang, 656 Cty. Hwy. 33,

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FITNESS -- 8 a.m.-noon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Commit to be Fitâ&#x20AC;? registration. Bonus points and prizes. $10. Conference Room, Clark Sports Center, 124 Cty. Hwy. 52, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-2800, X-116. BOTTLE DRIVE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 9 a.m. Cooperstown Scout Troop 1254 monthly bottle drive. Please leave deposit bottles and cans curbside. For special pickup, call (607) 547-5237. ROBOTS! -- 10:15 a.m. 4-H Robokronos Annual kickoff. Join otsego Co.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s award-winning robotics team to annual kickoff session. Watch NASA simulcast with high school teams around the world to get 2014 game assignment, kicking off 6-wk race to design and build best competition robot. Masonic Temple, corner Grand and Main streets, Oneonta Continues Sun. at 1 p.m. for brainstorming session #2. RSVP to Bruce Van Buren, RoboKronos mentor, (607) 4357767, bruce@delsegosystems. com SNOW TUBING â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Snow tubing at Glimmerglass. Warming tent, tubes provided. $5. Glimmerglass State Park, 1527 Cty. Hwy. 31, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-8662. BONFIRE -- Noon-5 p.m. Retire your Christmas tree to Ommegang bonfire and receive a free Ommegang glass. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Worst Giftâ&#x20AC;? swap, prizes and giveaways. Brewery Ommegang, 656 Cty. Hwy. 33, Cooperstown. Info, John Tuchowski, (607) 544-1800 X-813.

Sunday, January 5

SNOW TUBING -- 11 a.m.- 4 p.m. Snow tubing at Glimmerglass. Warming tent, tubes provided. $5. Glimmerglass State Park, 1527 Cty. Hwy. 31, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-8662. AMAHL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 3 and 6 p.m. Two performances, Patrick Calleo presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;Amahl & the Night Visitors,â&#x20AC;? an opera by Gian

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Tuesday, January 7

STATE OF THE STATE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 8-10 a.m. Networking with elected county, state and federal officials 8 a.m.; 8:30 a.m. breakfast. Learn of Otsego County Chamber of Commerceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public policy agenda and the call to action. Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-4500, shelly@otsegocc.com PASTA! -- 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Spaghetti and meatballs with salad and bread. Eat in or take out. 6th Ward Athletic Club, 22 West Broadway, Oneonta. Info, (607) 436-9136. LINE DANCING -- 6.30-8.30 p.m. Weekly Tues. line dances, new beginner class also. First United Presbyterian (Red Door) Church, 2 Walling Ave., Oneonta. Approach upper room from bridge on Roosevelt Ave.. Info, Bonnie Gale, (607) 336-9031, bonwillow@frontiernet.net

Friday, January 10

DEADLINE -- Last day to register for 4-H Veterinary Science series starting Jan. 29. $20, for members, $30 non-members. Class size is limited to 15. Info, registration, (607) 547-2536. PIZZA & POTTERY -- 6-9 p.m. Make and glaze bowls for the CANO chili bowl. Pizza, snacks provided; BYOB optional. Carriage House, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, (607) 435-8718, www. canoneonta.com FREE FILM -- 7 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Place in the Sunâ&#x20AC;? (NR). Cabin Fever Film Series. Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, (888) 547-1400. SQUARE DANCE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 7:30-10 p.m., Doubleday Dancers Western Square Dance Club Winter Dance. Ray Taylor calls Mainstream and Plus dances; Elma Taylor cues. $5 per person, payable at the door. At Cooperstown Elementary School, Walnut St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 2648128, (607) 547-8665.

Saturday, January 11

SNOW TUBING â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 11 a.m.- 4 p.m. Snow tubing at Glimmerglass. Warming tent, tubes provided. $5. Glimmerglass State Park, 1527 Cty. Hwy. 31, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-8662.

Cooperstown. Info, John Tuchowski, 544 1800, X-813. CONCERT -- 7:30 p.m. Roger Peltzman plays solo piano. Cooperstown Concert Series at The Otesaga, 60 Lake St., Cooperstown. Info, tickets, (607) 547-1812 .Sunday,

January 12

SOUP! -- 11 a.m.-2 p.m., â&#x20AC;&#x153;Second Sunday Soup,â&#x20AC;? serving homemade hot soup. All welcome, donations appreciated. At the Polly House (next to the Fire House), Schuyler Lake. SNOW TUBING -- 11 a.m.- 4 p.m. Snow tubing at Glimmerglass. Warming tent, tubes provided. $5. Glimmerglass State Park, 1527, Cty. Hwy. 31, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-8662. BRIDAL SHOW -- Noon. Foothills annual Bridal Expo featuring vendors, fashion show and more. Foothills Performing Arts Center, 21 Market St., Oneonta. Info, registration, www.foothillspac.org LECTURE -- 3 p.m. Professor emeritus Paul Conway discusses â&#x20AC;&#x153;Questions About Courage Raised by Research in Rwanda and Elsewhere.â&#x20AC;? Friends of the Village Library Lecture Series, Cooperstown Library, 22 Main St. Info, Hilda Wilcox, (607) 5479725. .Tuesday,

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Jordan Manikas has the ball and Christian Alexander, right, makes sure he keeps it, as the Cooperstown Hawkeyes dominate against the Fort Plain Hilltoppers to claim the title, 64-40, Saturday, Dec. 28, in the Dick White Christmas Tournament at Bursey Gym. The team had topped CobleskillRichmondville the evening before. Alexander won all-tournament honors.

Point guard Park Summers paced the CCS boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; victory.

Alani Tsouvas, right, sparks the Hawkeye cheerleader routine.

January 14

PASTA! -- 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Spaghetti and meatballs with salad and bread. Eat in or take out. 6th Ward Athletic Club, 22 West Broadway, Oneonta. Info, (607) 436-9136.

Wednesday, January 15

AL-ANON -- 7:30 p.m. Group meeting every Wed. When you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know where to turn because someone drinks too much, Al-Anon meets at Otsego Manor, Phoenix Mills Crossroad, near Rte. 28, Cooperstown.

Thursday, January 16

PUBLIC HEARING -- 7 p.m. First Town of Oneonta 2014 Comprehensive Plan open hearing held at Town of Oneonta Town Hall, 3966 St. Hwy. 23, West Oneonta. Full report available www.townofoneonta.org, in Town clerkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office and at Huntington Public Library, Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-2900.

The tournament is named after legendary CCS coach, who over 27 years achieved a 410-155 record for his then-Redskin teams, winning 14 Center State Conference Championships. He passed away in 2007. His sons, John, from Utica, and David, from South Carolina, brought their families to this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tourney.

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OBITUARIES Maryellen Wrubleski, 53; Nurse Practitioner COOPERSTOWN – Maryellen Wrubleski, 53, a nurse practitioner in Bassett Hospital’s Cardiology Department who had recently earned her credentials as a certified nurse anesthetist, passed away unexpectedly Saturday evening, Dec. 21, 2013, at Bassett. A native of Massachusetts, Maryellen was born on Feb. 1, 1960, at Hubbard Regional Hospital in Webster, a daughter of Richard and Dorothy (Brezenski) Dabrowski. She attended Loretta Heights College, graduating with a bachelor of science in nursing in 1983. She later attended the University of Massachusetts’ medical school, earning a master’s

in nursing and receiving her nurse practitioner certification. After resigning from University of Maryellen MassachuWrubleski setts Medical Center, Maryellen and her family moved to Cooperstown, where she spent several years in Bassett’s Cardiology Department. She recently completed post-graduate work at the University of Scranton to become a certified nurse anesthetist at Bassett. Maryellen was an active communicant of St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the

Lake” Catholic Church. She chaired the annual food drive for the Cooperstown Food Pantry and most recently chaired the first annual antique furniture sale. Maryellen was a loving daughter, wife, mother, sister and friend. Her ability to make others look inside themselves to become better people and her compassion for learning is what truly made her great. Her love was inspiring and anyone in her presence felt her overwhelming desire to help those in need. In addition to her loving husband of 28 years, Brian P. Wrubleski, she is survived by two daughters, Alexandra Gunther and her husband, Steven, and

Natalie Wrubleski; her parents, Richard and Dorothy Dabrowski; one brother, Mark Dabrowski, and her loving animals, Bentley, Zoe, Karen and Jinx. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Monday, Dec. 30, at St. Mary’s, with Father John P. Rosson, pastor, presiding. Burial followed in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Index. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Breast Cancer Foundation, 1220 B East Joppa Road, Suite 332, Towson, MD 21286 or Springbrook, 2705 State Highway 28, Oneonta, NY 13820. Arrangements were entrusted to Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home.

Gertrude T. DeRonda, 91; Started Farm in Her Retirement

SPRINGFIELD CENTER – Gertrude T. DeRonda, 91, who moved to Springfield Center to start a farm in her retirement, died Friday, Dec.27, 2013, at the Alpine Rehab and Nursing Center after a short illness. Born in Annsville, Oneida County, on Jan. 8, 1922, to Albert Lent and Margaret J. (Kiley) Lent. Gertrude’s lifelong love was her husband of 72 years, Roger, and her family. She moved to Springfield Center with her husband after he retired and they pursued their interest in farming. Gertrude enjoyed fishing with her sister and spending time with her family. She is survived by four

sons and one daughter, Roger F. of Putnam Valley, Albert W. and wife Diane of Berea, Ky., Garry C. and wife Arlene of Spring Hill, Fla., Dennis A. and wife Susan of Stanfordville and daughter, Darlene F. Barnhart and husband Michael W. of Springfield Center. She is also survived by 14 grandchildren; and 15 greatgrandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband, Roger, 11 days earlier, and by two sisters, Margaret Wakely and Jane Hamilton; and two brothers, Thomas Lent and Albert Lent. Funeral services were held Tuesday, Jan. 31 at the Ottman Funeral Home, Cherry Valley with the Rev.

Terry Brant officiating. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Heart

Marie E. Hinds, 96; Raised Family On Springfield Farm SPRINGFIELD – Marie E. Hinds, who operated the family farm in the Town of Springfield with her husband, died Monday, Dec. 23, 2013, at Otsego Manor. She was 96. She was born March 25, 1917, in Springfield Center, daughter of Helen Smith Ely and Carl Ely. Her father died when she was one year old and she was raised by her mother and stepfather, Robert Gros. She was a graduate of Springfield schools and SUNY Cortland. She married George C. Hinds October 1945, and they raised their children on the Hinds family farm. George died in 1975. She is survived by her

children, Richard W. Ford of Syracuse, Roxanne Ellis, Suzanne Barrett, Georgia and Thomas Cantwell and Patricia Hinds, all of Springfield; her beloved sister-inlaw, Esther Gros of Cortland; eight grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild, two nieces and one nephew. In addition to her husband, she was predeceased by her brother Robert Gros and her son-in-law Robert Barrett. Memorial contributions may be made to the Springfield First Responders or the Richfield Springs Emergency Squad. Arrangements were entrusted to the Ottman Funeral Home.

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