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ewcomer Marcy Birch of Toddsville led the balloting in the Tuesday, May15, CCS board elections. But incumbents

Tony Scalici, the president, and David Borgstrom received sufficient votes, 346 and 305 respectively, to win another term. The fourth vacant seat – one year, to replace the resigning Paula Greene, went to Andrew Marietta, with 296 votes. First-time candidates Holly Hren and Jonathan Greenberg rounded out the ballot.

The board planned to meet Wednesday, May 16, to reorganize, which could result in Scalici’s reelection as president or the selection of another. The $16,772,080 school budget, which included a 1.89 percent tax increase, passed easily, 401 to 114. “It got off to a slow start because of the rain,” Please See CCS, A8

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Dominic Abbate escorts Christianna Fisk through The Otesaga’s lobby en route to the 54th annual Cotillion. (More photos, A7)

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fter three seasons of detours, the breach in East Lake he six court cases that Road’s pavement was being grew out of CCS hazrepaired and trafing scandal are about fic was expected to be resolved, according to to be flowing District Attorney John D. again by Friday, Muehl. May 18, on Since none of the boys the most direct facing hazing-related route between charges have records, he Cooperstown, and the six defense lawyers Hyde Hall and have agreed to ACD (adRoute 20 at East journments in contemplation Springfield. of dismissal), Muehl said. “Thank God If the accused stay out of trouble for six months, their John Reeves, they’re here,” neighbor, leans said neighbor records will be erased. on a stack of John Reeves, blocks used BRING BOOKS: The for the retain- watching the Friends of the Village work proceed ing wall. Library’s final book-colMonday, May lection day for the summer 14. “It was a killer to drive 10 miles book sake is 10 a.m.-noon over the mountain to get to CooperSaturday, May 19, at the stown – people were getting lost, library. Audiotapes, CDs, traffic was backing up, and it would Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal videos welcome; please, no have been worse if we didn’t have Sikot Mahoxay, general supervisor, Soil Nail Launcher Inc., Denver, Colo., oversees the fourtextbooks. that mild winter.” man crew sinking pilings Monday, May 16, as the East Lake Road pavement, washed out by Please See REPAIR, A8 Tropical Storm Lee, was repaired. RELAY HERE: The 2012 Relay For Life of Cooperstown/ Northern Otsego County steps out at 6 p.m. Friday, May 18, at Cooperstown Dreams Park, and continues overnight. back,” Bob Harlem Jr., By LIBBY CUDMORE Oneonta Block president Congressman Aims To Serve All Otsego GARDEN FEST: The and Citizens Voices coKid Garden at Cooperstown ONEONTA chair, instructed the 50 might connote a tendency Central School’s annual By JIM KEVLIN attendees at the Carriage toward rigidity. Spring Festival is 2:30-6 he pro-business House. “Home Rule legislaIt didn’t turn out that way. p.m. Wednesday, May 23, Citizens Voices met tion is bottled up in comCOOPERSTOWN Having to deal with all types including a sale of herb and Tuesday, May 15, to mittee – you had a hand in of people in a 24-year Army vegetable plants. assess progress made in its this.” hen Republican career taught him to “treat five-month of existence, and The state’s Home Rule Chris Gibson first everybody with dignity and acknowledged some satisdoctrine – where any powran for Congress respect,” he said. “I never The Freeman’s Journal faction. ers not claimed by the state in 2010, he won Tea Party make it personal.” U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson “Pat yourself on the Please See CITIZENS, A2 backing, which to some Please See GIBSON, A9

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CITIZENS/From A1 devolve to the towns – has been the basis for bans on hydrofracking in the towns of Middlefield, Cherry Valley and, just last week, Butternuts. Milford is also considering a ban. State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, had introduced legislation to affirm Home Rule, a move to protect towns that adopt bans from having to fight expensive challenges from naturalgas companies. That’s the legislation Bob Harlem was referring to. Seward’s spokesman Jeff Bishop acknowledged the Home Rule legislation is still waiting to be put on the agenda. “At this point, with the court cases in Middlefield and Dryden, that’s the rule of the land,� he said. “It’s still in with the Senate.� “I love Home Rule,� said Oneonta Town Attorney Richard Harlem, Bob’s brother. “But I don’t want anything that pits neighbor against neighbor. This Home Rule bill is designed to limit property rights.� Bob Harlem ticked off several other successes since Citizens Voices’ inception in late 2011, including slowing down the rush to controversial road-use agreements, which they see as interfering with business growth. “If Chobani has to get a roaduse agreement from Otsego County, they’re going to buy from Chenango,� he said. Moratoriums are another concern, including a 12month one against heavy industry passed by the Town of Oneonta. “When a moratorium outlaws every kind of heavy industry, including pharmaceuticals, it’s kind of scary,� said Harlem. “If you’ve got concerns about gas, voice that concern, but don’t outlaw all industry.� “The problem is overreach,� he said. “Each project should rise and fall on it’s own merits.� Oneonta Town Board member Scott Gravelin countered, “The 12-month

moratorium was put in place to give us time to develop a comprehensive plan – you have to get involved to make sure the plan is done correctly.� Job creation is still the group’s biggest concern for Otsego County. “We need to be pushing to create new jobs,� he said. Tom Armao, Bob Harlem’s co-chair and head of the Public Information working group, said, “In any economic system, scarcity wrecks it. We’ve had a scarcity of opportunity. People are taking their families and moving out of the area. We have to have a reason to stay. We need to build profitable companies we can sell to our children – or someone else – so we can retire here.� “This end of the county hasn’t had much opportunity for growth,� he added. “We need viable businesses for us to survive.� “Many of our problems will go away if we have more jobs,� said Jamie Reynolds, NBT Bank regional executive. “The more people we have working, the better we’ll be on all fronts.� Heathcare and education are on the docket for upcoming meetings. “It’s important for us to drive the bus, so to speak,� said Harlem. “We need mandate relief for the schools and health care reform.� The June 15 meeting, with Seward, Assemblyman Bill McGee, D-Nelson, and Brian Sampson, executive director of Unshackle Upstate, will focus on workers’ compensation concerns. Attendees are encouraged to bring two people with them. “When we have members of government come and share their time with us, we need to come out en masse,� said Harlem. “Small numbers don’t impress them – large numbers do.� “The battle isn’t over,� he said. “It’s an ongoing conversation.�

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t’s another one of those pesky unintended consequences, a whole passel of them, actually. Who didn’t support the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), which, noting New York State’s wide range of per-pupil costs, sued, seeking to establish a uniform baseline? In 2006, the Court of Appeals, our state’s equivalent of the U.S. Supreme Court, agreed with the CFE, ordering that equal funding be done. That affirmed the rich-district, poor-district system the state Education Department uses to allocate aid. One way the state directed aid to what it defined as poor districts – a faulty definition in say, lake communities like Cooperstown, where the summer homes of the wealthy from elsewhere skew the numbers for everyone else – was through building projects, which led to construction of educational Taj Mahals throughout Otsego County, from Edmeston Central School to Gilbertsville-Mount Upton to Morris to Laurens to Schenevus to Worcester, where Saturday, May 12, the ribbon was cut on a $32.6 million expansion/renovation. We equalized spending, but did we really improve education? Still, the letter of the court decision was met and the state Education

get crisis, Albany is cutting school aid at the same time it is imposing a 2-percent ceiling on tax hikes, which created the crisis surrounding Oneonta’s Center Street School and a pinch everywhere else. Governor Cuomo is right: Localities can’t absorb 7 percent school tax increases year after year when residents’ incomes are rising only 5 percent or 2 percent or not at all. Seven percent would double taxes in 10 years, while someone getting a 2 percent annual raise would see an increase of only 20 percent. (Cuomo is wrong to Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, Saturday, May impose a tax cap without 12, escorts Virginia Basso, who cut the riblifting state mandates. New bon that officially recognized the completion of York City is now exempt $32.6 million in renovations to Worcester Central from the onerous 1948 School. At left in Supt. of Schools Gary Kuch. Wicks Law, requiring multiple contracts on a single job; Department could check off Stamford. Upstate should be spared a box. Because while all this as well, although too late, This is not necessarily was going on, enrollment given the orgy of school to criticize. Many of our was going through a preconstruction just coming to school buildings were old, cipitous fall – 30 percent a end.) even substandard. For inoverall in the ONC BOCES • stance, Worcester Central’s schools, and in such individStill, the obvious is obvicafeteria was in the baseual districts as Cooperstown ous. Does Otsego County, ment, a code violation that Central. Oneonta did better, with 60,000 people, need required an annual variance but others did worse. 12 school districts? Does it – dangerous, too. So, at a time we probneed 12 districts to serve 30 • ably should have been percent fewer students? The But the incentives were looking at retrenchment, answer is a ringing “probwrong, locking in place we were pouring more and ably not.” an increasingly inefficient more money into school So how many districts do status quo. One of the districts serving fewer and we need? Would two sufexpensive renovations was fewer youngsters. In other fice? Greater Oneonta at the in Jefferson, one of the words, we were investing in south end and Glimmerglass smallest schools in the ONC yesterday’s school districts, Regional at the north, perBOCES region and a prime not tomorrow’s. haps based around Richfield candidate for merger with Now, with the state’s bud-

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Springs Central, (which has an exceptionally fine plant)? Maintain the elementary schools in the population centers. Perhaps that’s extreme but, with distance learning and the BOCES, perhaps not. There was an exciting discussion about distancelearning initiatives at the CCS candidates’ debate, although as an enhancement to, not a substitute for, human contact – AP Sanskrit for all! Blue-skying it, it makes sense to put the money where we want the growth, or where the growth is going to happen naturally: Certainly, the New City of Oneonta that’s now under discussion, with two colleges, commerce parks, Southside as the regional retail magnet and three I-88 exits, is one logical educational hub. (That’s why closing Center Street School now doesn’t make sense – in a few years, the city district will need more space.) It’s true that we always have the resources to accomplish our priorities, but we have to determine those priorities. Granted, it’s a toxic subject, but the educational establishment is letting us down. If a map exists outlining the optimum school district boundaries of the future, nobody’s talking about it. Yet, it’s an essential con-

versation, otherwise we’re on an ever-more-expensive treadmill, and treadmills lead nowhere. • At the Worcester Central ribbon-cutting, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, pledged to fight for a funding formula “to better aid communities like Worcester,” to ensure state aid is distributed “in a much fairer way to rural, less wealthy communities.” That would be like saying, 60 years ago, that state aid should be applied to preserving the one-room schoolhouse. While we do look back nostalgically to those days, no one really wants to return to teaching the 3Rs – AP Sanskrit, fuggedaboutit – to the tune of a hickory stick. Our admirable senator, long a member of the Senate Education Committee, knows better. In fact, he’s the logical leader of the conversation for future-looking change in educational funding, the way he has been in recent months in rethinking economic development in Otsego County and reenergizing that conversation. Go for it! Again, there’s no intent to be churlish on Worcester Central’s accomplishment. It’s a delightful building, user friendly, much needed; district residents should be proud. But what’s the big picture?

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Schools Must Consider Pupils’ Future Employability To the Editor: The Chronicle Of Higher Education recently tabulated that, between 2007 and 2010, the number of Americans with masters’ degrees who received Food Stamps and other welfare benefits increased from 102,000 to more than 290,000. The number of Ph.D.s on some kind of public assistance jumped from about 10,000 to nearly 34,000. Similarly many younger college graduates are either living home and mowing their parents lawn or toiling away at fast-food restaurants. Unfortunately many of these have pursued college educational credentials that have no real world

marketable values. The recent Cooperstown Central School’s newsletter slated that both technology and business courses are to be curtailed in light of severe financial difficulties. This seems very shortsighted, as such curriculums can lead to immediate employment, especially if augmented by some additional community college attendance. The lock-step guidance •F

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mantra leading each and every single high school student to college enrollment has proven to be in many cases a waste of time and money for both students and parents. Another recent study has determined that, on average, about 10 percent of a district’s yearly budget is spent on athletic programs than benefit less than 3 percent of the students. A switch to intra-mural sports programs, as has been done in many Western states, could help alleviate many budgetary problems in Cooperstown and in other schools as well. BOB O’CON Cooperstown

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our readers might be interested to know that over 100 people attended “Meeting the Energy Challenge for Otsego County: Local Solutions, Local Control, Local Jobs,” a conference put on by Sustainable Otsego Saturday, May 5, in Cooperstown. A dozen speakers did a great job in six hours covering many aspects of conservation and renewable energy. They examined everything from the big picture to nuts and bolts, from economics and money to insulation, heating, and renewable installations. A lot of new information was brought together in one place and shared with our local community perhaps for the first time in a systematic way. Powerpoints and other materials presented at the conference are available at the Sustainable Otsego website: sustainableotsego.org One of the initiatives announced at the conference is a conservation

program, “Tighten Up Cooperstown,” which is part of the sustainability initiative of the village. In an outreach effort to be coordinated by Sustainable Otsego Executive Director Antoinette Kuzminski and members of the Village’s environmental committee, in conjunction with NYSERDA, village residents will be contacted with information for financing retrofits and homes and small businesses. More details to be announced. The conference also highlighted the potential of local renewable resources, including biomass, solar, and wind. The potential of local biomass – utilizing wood processing, forest management, and agricultural biomass – is significant in our area. Local production of wood and grass pellets for heating is already underway in our area by Enviro Energy of Wells Bridge. We have plenty of sunshine to support photovoltaics and solar thermal

installations and we have a number of local businesses who install them. The Mohawk Valley Biofuels Cooperative is developing biodiesel for local use. Wind power is also available in our area. As with the other renewables, it turns out that scale is important. Moderately sized local projects strike the best balance between the production of energy we need and the protection of our other local assets. In the case of wind, properly scaled communityowned or municipalized projects seem to provide the best option for meeting this goal. Whether we like it or not, living sustainably is not going to be a choice; it is going to be something we will increasingly be forced to do as we deplete non-renewable resources. Whether that’s a messy or orderly transition depends on what policies we adopt now. Please See OP-ED, 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

Charleston, South Carolina – The Polly, Capt. Daniel, came in on Saturday from the fishing ground, off the bar. Whilst lying there, she was spoken with by the schooner Nancy, Capt. Holland, 14 days from La Guayra. Capt. H. informed, that the Earthquake, which happened at Carraccas, on the 25th of March, was one of the most destructive that has been known since that of Lisbon; he said that more than three thousand houses were destroyed and twelve thousand persons perished. May 16, 1812

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Dr. Channing on Temperance – There is another prey upon which intemperance seizes, still more to be deplored, and that is woman. I know of no sight on earth more sad than woman’s countenance, which once knew no suffusion but the glow of exquisite feeling or the blush of hallowed modesty, crimsoned and deformed by intemperance. Frail woman is not safe. The delicacy of her physical organization exposes her to inequalities of feeling, which tempt to the seductive relief given by cordials. Man with his iron nerves little knows what the sensitive frame of woman suffers, how many desponding imaginations throng on her in her solitude, how often she is exhausted by unremitting cares, and how much the power of self-control is impaired by repeated derangements of her frail system. The truth should be told. In all our families, no matter what their condition, there are endangered individuals, and fear and watchfulness in regard to intemperance belong to all. May 22, 1837

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Refreshment Rooms – Chas. B. Cooley has opened rooms of this character in the upper part of the stone building owned by the Cooley estate, south of the post office, where he will keep on hand refreshments of various kinds, fresh and preserved fruits, and in the season, ice cream, &c. The rooms have been fitted up in neat style, and the ladies and gentlemen are invited to visit them. The proprietor is a young man whose deportment and walk in life has been such during his ten years employment in the Office (the Freeman’s Journal), as warrants us in commending him to the patronage and favor of a public whose confidence and respect he has won, and we trust will ever retain. May 9, 1862

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75 YEARS AGO

Green College in Cooperstown, New York. Abner Doubleday, the man who invented the game, if you call it an invention, came to our school and interested us boys in his idea. We went out on the college campus, and Doubleday drew the diagram of his game in the sand. It was much like the diamond of today, but the distance between bases was longer, and the distance from pitcher to batter was shorter. We played 11 men in those days; two shortstops and four outfielders.� May 22, 1912

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Members of the Cooperstown Rotary Club were luncheon guests Tuesday of Louis Busch Hager, president and developer of the Woodland Museum north of Cooperstown at the Copper Top Restaurant on the grounds of the village’s newest of five museums. The Woodland Museum will open for its inaugural season on Memorial Day. Rotarians were taken on a guided tour by Mr. Hager of the 12 and a half acre museum complex devoted to nature exhibits, Cooper lore, and history. Starting at the gate house at the entrance to the museum grounds, the guests went along the quarter-mile Nature Trail, first to the Cooper building where dioramas and a topographical map of the Otsego Lake May 19, 1937 countryside depict scenes from James Fenimore Cooper’s “The Deerslayer.� Along the trail there are 100 varieties of holders and taxpayers of Cooperstown on Monday last, wild flowers, unusual root and vine formations, magnificent the polls being open from 12 noon to 3 p.m., and unusual evergreen and hardwood trees, brooks and waterfalls. pains were taken to inform all interested of the fact. Those May 16, 1962 who pay only a poll tax were not deemed to be voters under the special act providing for this election. There are 355 residents on the corporation (85 of whom are women) Genevieve Smith and Ellen Beebe have each completed who are voters, and of these 176, about 50 percent, availed swimming 1,000 miles at the A.C.C. Gym. It takes 36 laps themselves of the privilege on Monday – 109 voting for and 67 against the project. A special effort was made by the or 72 lengths of the pool to make a mile. Over a number of years at two different facilities, the two ladies have each opponents of the project to rally the women voters against completed 36,000 laps – no small feat. it and with so much success that of the 23 votes cast by May 20, 1987 them, 18 were against. So, 104 men voted for, and 49 voted against the project. May 20, 1887 An exhibition on Martin Luther King that is touring the country has strong ties to Cooperstown. Gretchen Sullivan Sorin, the director of the Cooperstown Graduate Program, Baseball Originated Here – More evidence bearing upon was the principal curator of the exhibit titled “In The Spirit the claim of Cooperstown as the birthplace of baseball is of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, presented by J. Arthur Eddy of Chattanooga, Tennessee Jr.� The exhibition featured works of art inspired by the who sends a clipping from the Denver Post of May 9. Mr. words and the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. Recently, Eddy suggests that a monument to the National Game be Sorin was honored for her work with the exhibition when erected in Cooperstown. The article recounts an interview she received the State University of New York Chancellor’s with Abner Graves, a participant in the first game of baseAward for excellence in scholarship and creative activities. ball ever played in the United States. “I was a student at May 17, 2002

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ADAMS AHOY: Cooperstown’s Sam Goodyear, touring Washington State with his one-man John Adams performance, was grand marshal at the May 1 Loyalty Day parade in Long Beach, Wash., on the Pacific. He recently participated in a naturalization ceremony at Washington’s headquarter’s in Morristown, N.J., an event reported in the Newark StarLedger. WINS PRIZE: Kristin Pullyblank of Fly Creek has received SUNY Oneonta’s Corning Microbiology Award for excellent performance. She is daughter of the Rev. Thomas and Kristin Pullyblank.

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THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2012

In Just 8 Days, Novel Technique Repairs Breach In East Lake Road REPAIR/From A1 The washout occurred last September, during Tropical Storm Lee, nine months or three seasons ago. “The side of the hill just had jets of water shooting through it,” said Reeves. “The water overflowed the ditch and it looked like a raging river. The guard rail was suspend-

ed in the air.” Using a novel technology, it was only expected to take eight days for a crew from Soil Nail Launcher Inc., Denver, Colo., to literally nail the road back up against the sandstone wall on the east side of the road. The nails, 58 of them, were 20feet long, said Sikot Mahox-

ay, the company’s general supervisor. The four men supervised by Mahoxay then shot fastdrying Shotcrete against the bank, and held it in place with a steel mesh while they drove 75 “micro-piles” vertically along a 75-foot path on the lake side of the road. A concrete-block wall

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was then built atop those piles to the road grade, more Shotcrete filled the gap between the wall and embankment, and the road was repaved. At a cost of $250,000 – Otsego County pays 20 percent – the work began Wednesday, May 9, and was to be completed in a week and a half, according to Ron Tiderencel, the county highway superintendent. Because of the steep drop from East Lake Road to Otsego Lake, Tiderencel said that at first, he wasn’t sure how to proceed. “It was like, ‘Oh boy,’” he said. One idea was to rebuild the hillside. Another, said Reeves, was to span the hole with a bridge. Then, over the winter, Tiderencel and his deputy, Kevin Flint, attended the County Highway Superintendent Association’s winter conference in Albany and saw a program on the naillauncher technology. They said to each other, “This may be the answer’,” Tiderencel said. Two other cracks on East Lake Road need repairing, but that will be done by the county crew. Soil Nail Launcher’s crew had just come from repairing I-75 in Tennessee, one section of which had been extensively washed out by

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recent rains. “There’s been a lot of rain,” said Mahoxay, who is headquartered in Denver. “That’s our job security.” Added his assistant, Patrick Ross, a Tennessean, “We used to hate rain.” And everyone smiled. Once East Lake Road (County Route 31) was complete, the crew planned to cross the lake and firm up sections of West Lake Road

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slightly higher turnout than last year, she said. Scalici, who has served on the school board for 18 years, said, “This is not a game for an individual,” and predicted “the board, as a group, will come up with goals this summer.” Among the immediate challenges at hand are implementation of more rigorous APPRs, annual professional performance reviews, required by the state Education Department. “They’re very regulated and very demanding,” Scalici said, “and it changes the whole dynamic by formulating structures and applying very specific benchmarks so administrators have better control over teachers who aren’t meeting expectations.” With the campaigning done and the school year almost finished, Scalici knows it’s time to start planning. “We’re going to figure out our priorities – what we did last year, what we’ve got coming down the pike.” There were no proposals on the ballot.

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Gibson Promotes Broadband, Also Likes Nanotechnology, Innovations In Solar Power GIBSON/From A1 One subject area where he could apply that approach turned out to be broadband. In the course of his first campaign, as he criss-crossed the then-20th District, from Ticonderoga

to Prattsville, he kept hearing that word, one that is surfacing more and more frequently in Otsego County – broadband. Rural communities want it. When Mr. Gibson went to Washington after defeating

incumbent Democrat Scott Murphy, he learned that his majority in the U.S. House of Representatives was about to eliminate low-interest loans for, yes, extending broad-band Internet service to rural communities.

“When I learned that was the intent,” he said in an interview during a two-day visit to Cooperstown Thursday-Friday, May 10-11, “I told the leadership, ‘This isn’t going to work’,” and he would go to the floor

ENJOY OUR MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND SUNDAY BRUNCH Main Dining Room • 11:30AM-2:00PM You’re invited to The Otesaga’s Memorial Day Weekend Family Brunch, Sunday, May 27th, in The Hotel’s Main Dining Room from 11:30AM until 2:00PM. Sample a seemingly unending variety of Waffles, Omelettes, Eggs Benedict, Fresh Fruits, Breakfast Meats, Cheese Blintzes, and a wide assortment of cheeses, pastries and juices. Also enjoy Slow-Roasted Prime Rib of Beef, Roast Turkey Breast, Seafood Newburg, Salmon, Scallops, Shrimp, a tantalizing selection of healthful vegetables and salads, and an array of delectable dessert confections. Only $42.95 (9 & above) per person. Live piano music too. Kids Can Enjoy Their Own Fun & Healthy Buffet Too. In addition to Mom & Dad’s buffet, kids can dig into Hot Diggity Dogs, PB&Js, Honey-Stung Crispy Chicken, Mac & Cheese, and more. Plus an assortment of sides and lots of delicious desserts. $21.50 (8 & under).

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MLS#82015 – OWNER MOTIVATED. COME TAKE A LOOK & BRING A REASONABLE OFFER. Wonderful A-Frame home that is bigger than you think w/a great yard that boasts serenity. There are outbuildings & part of the yard is fenced in for kids or animals. The sellers have insulated the enclosed porch so this rm can be used as another rm for guests or an office. Could easily be a 4 or 5 bedrm. With a master bedrm on the 1st flr, tiled kitchen & bath, you cannot go wrong. $79,000 Call Sharon @ (607) 267-2681

MLS#80701 – Richfield Springs, VILLA ISADORO, Restaurant, Bar and B&B on Rt. 20. Start your new business today! $725,000 Call Jim Vrooman @ (603) 247-0506

MLS#81221 - Beautifully maintained 3 bed 2 bath home in beautiful Fly Creek. Full finished walk out lower level, oversized garage with work shop and walk up loft for crafts or hobbies all on almost 2 acres with a stream out back. $199,000 Call Chris @ (607) 376-1201

MLS#83636 - Custom built home offers 3 bedrms, 3 baths & 3 flrs of living space. An open flr plan w/loft & cathedral ceilings. Gorgeous windows gleam the sunshine into your kitchen & living rm. A gourmet kitchen awaits you w/a tile flr, stainless steel appliances & granite countertop. Master bedrm suite w/a master bath, double sinks & heat lamp. $350,000 Call Kristi Ough @ (607) 434-3026

MLS#82273 - REDUCED! Beautiful views of the valley below and adjacent ponds with abundant wildlife. Very close to Oneonta with well and septic on property. $24,000 Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633

MLS#81852 - Great location for a perfect fixer upper. Make this house a home with a little paint and elbow grease. Convienient location on rt 20 for easy access to Cooperstown, Utica, Otsego lake, Canadrago lake, and The Baseball Hall of Fame. $58,000 Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633

Affordable City Home!

Everything and the white picket fence! Very spacious, 4 bedroom, 2 bath, family home near center city Oneonta. Large master bedroom on the first floor, open floor plan, nice hardwood floors throughout. Perfect for large family or extended family. Private driveway plus a small yard loaded with perennials. Short walk to all amenities. $105,000. MLS#84088

MLS#83832 - Charming unspoiled circa 1865 colonial located in Historic Cherry Valley village. This large 6 bedroom 2 bath home featuring original antique light fixtures, claw foot bath tub, and period wood work with crown moldings. Come take a look at this home from yesteryear in all its glory. $195,000 Call Chris @ (607) 376-1201

MLS#82403 - ABSOLUTELY Marvelous! This Alta log home is like new w/brand new cherry wood flrs. The open flr plan is great & leaves plenty of rm to move around. It has a heated 2 car garage w/a workshop. Also a pond, stream, a 2 level deck w/a CLEAN WORKING hot tub. Move right in & enjoy everything about this home including the great 4.9 acres that comes with it. $239,000 Call Sharon Teator @ (607) 267-2681

MLS #84023 - Spacious four-five bedroom, one and a half bath home is ripe with potential. Owners are extremely motivated! Call David for more information @ 607-435-4800

new LIStInG - MLS#84245 - Lrg restored farmhouse on over 112 beautiful & level acres in the Town of Springfield & only 10 minutes from Cooperstown. This home features 4 lrg bedrms, 1 full & 2 half baths, 1st flr master bedrm, wide pine wood flrs, (some cut nail) lrg living rm, formal dining rm, & oversized kitchen w/breakfast nook. Also a lrg accessory apartment w/separate entrance, 3 bedrms, 1 full bath, kitchen, dining, and living rms w/french doors leading to private deck. 2 lrg barns, workshop, chicken coop & 2 ponds. Home can be sold w/less property for lower price. $399,000 Call Chris @ (607) 376-1201

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MLS#80579 - Set above the rest!!!! Yes that is how you will feel new LIStInG - MLS#84218 - LOCATION LOCATION. Ranch home with over 1/2 acre of beautiful lawn on a corner on quiet in this wonderful 3 bedrm 1 bath modular home. This home is situated on 1 acre of land w/panoramic views. This home is only residential street in Richfield Springs. This 6 yr old home with 3 minutes from the village of Franklin & approximately 10 miles to bdr, 2 baths and open kitchen/living room floor plan is in mint condition and ready to move into. $159,900 Oneonta. $ Sharon Teator 607-267-2681 $139,750 Call Rod & Barb @ (315) 520-6512 Call Sharon Teator @ (607) 267-2681

MLS#83311 – Fly Creek, Rustic cabin on 1.25 acres, large newer garage. Only $84,800 Call Jim Vrooman @ (603) 247-0506

MLS#83841 - ELEGANT RANCH HOME ON DESIREABLE STREET WITHIN easy walking distance to the center of Richfield Springs. 3bdm 2.5 baths, formal dining room, living room with gas fireplace and spacious eat-in kitchen. Large 100 X 250 village lot on quiet street with other well kept homes. Attached 2 car garage. $179,700 Call Rod & Barb @ (315) 520-6512

MLS#83285 - CUTE AS A BUTTON, NEAT AS A PIN! Chalet-like Gingerbread Cape w/attached garage located in a peaceful and quiet neighborhood in The Village Beautiful. Set on a lovely landscaped lot the home features NEWer WINDOWS, a NEW rocking chair front covered porch, a covered side PARTY PORCH, FRESHLY PAINTED EXTERIOR, Hardwood flring throughout downstairs, NEW carpet upstairs, modern updated spacious kitchen w/NEW appliances, & more. $109,000 Call Tom @ (607) 435-2068

MLS#80433 – IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME... A HOTEL, for instance on this PRIME PROPERTY perfectly positioned at the intersections of I-88, St. Hwy 7, & St. Hwy 28, just minutes to Oneonta & Cooperstown. Zoned for COMMERCIAL, Agricultural, & Residential, this property is 1 of only 3 w/ deeded rights for a curb cut along this particular stretch of WELL-TRAFFICKED State Highway. $189,900 Call Tom @ (607) 435-2068

MLS#83519 - Home offers privacy of ½ mile road frontage. 4 bedrm, 2 bath home features: lrg kitchen, formal dining, cozy living rm w/fireplace, bay window & beautiful hardwood flrs throughout. Upstairs 4 bedrms, 1 bedrm has private upstairs play area. Master bedrm w/private balcony overlooking the inground pool & pond. Bluestone walkway leads to back deck & private fenced in ground pool w/pool house & ½ bath. A picture perfect dollhouse for the kids w/upstairs loft & grapevined gazebo. Pond w/koi fish. Lrg barn offers rm for animals or storage. $269,900 Call Kristi Ough @ (607) 434-3026

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oneontarealty.com CLEAN & BRIGHT 4-BR has 2 full baths, gas fireplace, finished basement, manicured lawn, large wrap-around deck. Close to Village but the feel of the country. $149,900 #83914

PRICED TO SELL!! Cozy 3-BR in the Village of Otego. One floor living, wood floors and spacious, bright dining room with French doors leading to deck. This home has a lot to offer. $119,900 #83084 Lizabeth Rose, Broker/Owner Cricket Keto, Lic. Assoc.Broker John Mitchell, Lic. Assoc. Broker Stephen Baker,Lic. Assoc. Broker Peter D. Clark, Consultant

SEASONAL COTTAGE ON WEST SIDE OF OTSEGO LAKE WITH 92 FEET OF DIRECT FRONTAGE

Camp Leatherstocking was originally located on the corner of Leatherstocking and Chestnut Street in the village of Cooperstown. It was moved to its present location in the early 1920’s and comes with 92 feet of frontage on Otsego Lake, complete with aluminum staircase to the beach and aluminum dock. This four bedroom seasonal cottage is being sold furnished, minus a few personal items. It features an eat-in kitchen with wood cabinets and double sink; a great room with fieldstone fireplace with propane insert, a screened in covered porch across the front of the cottage and a full bath on the first level. The four bedrooms are located on the second level. Special features include original wide pine floors, a new, certified septic system, a 165 ft. well and panoramic views of the lake. This is the perfect place for summer family gatherings “at the lake.” This Lamb Realty Exclusive is being offered for $379,000 which is almost $300,000. less than the assessed/full market value. Call Lamb Realty at 607-547-8145 to schedule and appointment to take a look. Listing # L-034

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stunning otsego Lake ranch (7525) Exhilarating 3BR/2BA lakefront Ranch with wide-span views with 200’ of private lake frontage. This gracious residence boasts cathedral beamed ceilings, a large lake-view deck, large family room. 2 fireplaces. Airy and bright floorplan, new carpeting. Kitchen w/Eating bar, Sauna, 2 car garage. Impressive easy access lakefront and beautiful features. Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $699,000

(7572) Settle down in quiet elegance, or entertain vibrantly, in this dazzling 3BR/3+BA residence with great Red Creek valley views. Moravian tiled fireplace. Custom kitchen with granite counter top & breakfast nook, formal dining room, den. Main-level Master Bedroom. Radiant-floor heating, Additional outdoor Wood furnace, thermal glass, cherry flooring. Large view front porch. 2 car garage w/studio apartment. 2 miles from Cooperstown. Gracious styling and superb features. Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $519,000

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MLS#83868 - AMAZINGLY AFFORDABLE LAKEFRONT PROPERTY ON OTSEGO LAKE boasting THE most fantastic lake views. 4 bedrm, 1 bathrm cottage features upgraded & reinforced poured concrete foundation, lots of basement storage, NEWer roof (2007), screened in porch overlooking the lake. Offered at an incredible price $269,900 Call Tom @ (607) 435-2068

(7589) Partake of the delights in this superbly-kept 3-bedroom home. The many extras include formal dining room, hardwood flooring, Modern kitchen. Garage, rocking-chair front porch. Near shops, lake, and golf course. Will capture your fancy! Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $299,000

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Enjoy the sweet life in this graciously restored farmhouse on 44+Acres. This comfortable home offers 4 bedrooms, and 2 baths, is professionally landscaped, and overlooks majestic views of the countryside. Currently a working farm, the 200x60 ft barn and additional out buildings offer many possibilities for use. An artist’s studio, caretaker’s cottage among many. Also a short drive to Cooperstown’s amenities. Offered at $550,000.00. Mls #83981

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(7590) Just 4 miles from Cooperstown on 3+ acres. Features 2-3 bedrooms, Living room with gas fireplace, 3 season sun room, new composition deck, attached 1 1/2 car garage. Circular drive, central air, new generator. A well built home. Cooperstown Schools. $198,500.

(7550) Live comfortably in this well-maintained 4BR/3BA Ranch-type featuring country scenery on 1.80 acres. Offering cathedral beamed ceilings, great room, finished basement. Spacious floorplan, main-level master bedroom w/jacuzzi. 1 Acre Eat-in Kitchen w/oak cabinets, laundry room. Energy efficient, Two-car garage, 12x24 workshop, decks. Tiered deck. Be sure (6989) Pierstown area just minutes from Cooperstown. Nice to see this delightful home just 2 1/2 miles from Cooperstown! building lot good area. Possible owner finance. Good access on main road. Country views. Cooperstown Schools. Cooperstown Schools Hubbell’s Exclusive. $225,000 Hubbell’s Exclusive $49,000

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(7514) A real treasure! You will want to see this 3BR/2+BA centrally located home. Among its features are newer kitchen with Corian counter top, Pergo flooring and newer furnace. Cozy fireplace. Spacious living room, family room, walk-up attic. Formal dining room. Garage, newer roof, deck, central air. Mature plants. Fully remodeled. Come home to an air of comfort and welcome. Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $279,000

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