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COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, June 21, 2012
CCS Targets Bias, Hazing ADL, Habitudes Approved By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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he Anti-Defamation League’s World of Difference program calls itself “a leading provider of
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anti-bias education and diversity training.” Atlanta-based Growing Leaders’ Habitudes program aims to “enable you” – Cooperstown Central School students – “to lead yourself and wisely influence others.” Please See CCS, A9
New Coach, New Philosophy By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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HAILING HEROES
Arlene Taylor, Harrisburg, Pa., with 60 other canoeists, prepares to embark on the first leg of the Susquehanna Sojourn Thursday, June 7, from Brookwood Point/OTHER PHOTO, A4
NY TIMES REPORT
Cuomo Frack Ideas Exempt Glimmerglass Otsego 2000 President Says ‘Moral Duty’ Will Require Local Activists To Fight On
Acquittal May Help Clemens Entry To Hall
By JIM KEVLIN
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LB star pitcher Roger Clemens’ acquittal Monday, June 18, on charges of lying to Congress opens the way for his entry into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. It’s now up to the Baseball Writers Association of America to decide – perhaps by next January – if Clemens has, not just the on-field record, but the “character, sportsmanship and integrity” to enter the Hall, said Brad Horn, 25 Main’s communications director. BRIDGING GAP: Leilani Craft Ulrich, first woman chair of the Adirondack Park Agency, will speak Sunday, June 24, at Cooperstown’s First Presbyterian Church following the 9:30 a.m. service. TRY OPERA: The Glimmerglass Festival is offering $20 tickets for the July 7 and 13 performances of “Aida” to Otsego County residents who haven’t attended the opera in four years, thanks to a Clark Foundation grant.
with an anti-hazing program and new ideas being pursued, new head coach Mark Segina hopes to bring the fans back to the stands. Though formal practice doesn’t begin until Aug. 9, Segina has already met with Please See COACH, A8
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Cooperstown’s Peg Wilson and daughter Taryn cheer Oneonta High School’s Class B championship baseball team as the Yellowjackets pass the flagpole at Main and Pioneer Saturday, June 16, during the Hall of Fame Classic parade/MORE PHOTOS, B1
he Cuomo Administration’s fracking plan – if a leaked report published in The New York Times Wednesday, June 13, proves true – would largely protect the Glimmerglass National Historic District around Otsego Lake. But, “as a moral principle,” it would be wrong for local activists to abandon the campaign to ban hydrofracking statewide, said Nicole Dillingham, president of Otsego 2000, the Cooperstown-based environmental group. “With the resources we have in our region,” Dillingham said in an interview, “we’ve been the leaders in Upstate New York. I think we’ve accomplished a lot, but we have to hold firm now to protect the entire state.” Please See FRACKING, A2
Hawkeyes Get Beer Of Their Own Cooperstown Brewing’s New Golden Ale Available At Doubleday Field COOPERSTOWN
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Hawkeyes owner Tom Hickey and brewer Chuck Williamson examine where it all began – a boiler at Cooperstown Brewing Co., Milford.
ooperstown Hawkeyes President Tom Hickey and Cooperstown Brewing President Chuck Williamson ran into each other, started talking and soon agreed. “It goes hand in hand,” Hickey reported: “Beer and baseball is where it’s at.” Soon, Williamson, who also owns Butternuts Brewery in Garrattsville, had devised a light, clear ale, golden colored. Hickey christened it, “Cooperstown Hawkeyes Golden Ale,” and the beer will go on sale
at Doubleday Field Saturday, June 23, when the Hawkeyes meet the Amsterdam Mohawks. The game starts at 5. “It’s a nice, balanced beer,” said Williamson. And with an alcohol content under 5 percent, “you can have one or two and not have to worry about the drive home.” Hickey believes the Hawkeyes may be the only team at this level – it is part of the Perfect League which, like the Cape Cod League, provides an opportunity for college ballplayers to hone their skills over the summer – with a beer of its own.
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Dillingham: Cuomo Plan Lacking
Dillingham said the Hakim FRACKING/From A1 report may be just a “trial It’s positive that the balloon.” Cuomo plan recognizes the “There’s no question importance of historic and Cuomo is trying to develop cultural resources like the an alternative or a strategy. Glimmerglass district, she That’s his style,” she said, said, but “I can’t rest comadding, “It probably reflects fortably thinking our region the thinking of some may be protected people in the Cuomo when other people Administration. I are not protected.” don’t think it’s out of The Times article, thin air.” by reporter Danny A lawyer, DillingHakim, said the ham pointed out an administration plan inconsistency in the would try out fracking in five SouthDillingham approach: The generic EIS is intended to ern Tier counties: Broome, Chemung, Chenan- allow fracking to go forward Thomas Ealy, left, president of Allstate Insurance without requiring an Envigo, Steuben and Tioga. Co.’s Encompass division, congratulates Steve ronmental Impact Statement With a bow to Home Rule, Bieritz, president of Bieritz Agency in Cooperon every drilling operation. It would only be permitted stown and Morris Insurance, on being named a But either it’s generic or it’s in towns that agree to it, and Top 100 independent agency when measured not, she said. If the rules are it would be banned in New on growth, customer satisfaction and customer applied to just the five counretention in 2011 in auto and property insurance. York City’s Catskill waterties, it makes the generic shed and around aquifers. The presentation was made in Miami at Allstate agents’ annual conference. With a new version of the approach invalid; every site would need an EIS, she said. generic Supplemental EnviNEW ROTARIAN: Mary Livermore, Cooperstown, was ronmental Impact Statement “No, we cannot support inducted into the Cooperstown Rotary Club on Tuesday, it. Because we insist that the – the regulatory document June 19. As a teenager, she was a Rotary Exchange Student, that would govern frackstate environmental laws be and her daughter Grace follows in her footsteps this year. complied with,” she said. ing – due out this summer,
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THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2012
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EDITORIAL
‘Mantra Of The Sensible’ Must Be Open To Evolving Research
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rom the outset, the Mantra of the Sensible, if you will, has been: Hydrofracking should not be permitted until it can be proved safe. That’s a non-negotiable. Scientific American, in its cover story last fall, concluded the technology is not yet what it needs to be. It is updating those conclusions regularly with “The Evolving Truth about Fracking for Natural Gas” feature on scientificamerican.com. It shows the pros and cons evolving apace. Not all the news is bad for would-be frackers. A couple of weeks ago, the International Energy Agency in Paris released “Golden Rules for a Golden Age of Gas,” which outlines regulations it believes go a long way toward enabling fracking to be done with relative safety. (Go to www.worldenergyoutlook.org and take a look for yourself.) Some of the recommendations are slam dunks: for instance, no open-pond storage of toxic fracking fluids, a no-brainer that was nonetheless the unthinking standard practice for much of the industry when the debate began locally a few years ago. Commenting on “Golden Rules” in a June 9 editorial, The New York Times – its pro-environment credentials are above challenge – said oil and gas companies “need to drop their warfare against necessary regulations” and, along with regulators, become “much more aggressive in protecting the water and the air from pollutants released by the process.” Still, The Times’ underlying conclusion is that fracking, under a strict regimen, may be doable
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Standing on Otsego Lake’s Brookwood Point, Rich Shoemaker, Lewisburg, Pa., displays a map of the Susquehanna watershed as the Susquehanna Sojourn prepared Thursday, June 7, to depart for Oneonta and Sidney. The Otsego Lake watershed would be largely protected under regulations The Times reported are being prepared by the Cuomo Administration.
and even desirable: “While some environmentalists are determined to shut hydrofracturing down, the report says that shale gas can be safely extracted, and at relatively low cost, and is preferable to coal in terms of emissions that contribute to global warming.” • A few days later, The New York Times’ Danny Hakim, citing confidential sources, reported the outlines of the Cuomo Administration’s thinking on hydrofracking regulation in New York State. The revised generic Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement governing fracking is expected out sometime this summer. First, Glimmerglass. The idea is to protect “nationally designated historic districts,” and Otsego County’s is the largest National
Register district in New York State. The Glimmerglass district also corresponds to the watershed on Otsego Lake’s east and west sides; the south drains into the Susquehanna Basin; fracking bans in the towns of Springfield and Cherry Valley protect most of the north. The only vulnerability is from the Town of Warren in southern Herkimer County. Although the Marcellus Shale there is least desirable from a fracking point of view, nearby Utica Shale beds may be the next industry target. That hole should be plugged. Second, the idea is to allow fracking in five Southern Tier counties: Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Steuben and Tioga. Yes, the regulation would have to be “aggressive,” but if Broome,
why not Sidney? Why not the Town of Unadilla in Otsego’s southwest corner? If indeed it could be done safely, and watersheds protected, the economic benefits would be substantial. • The often-brilliant Nicole Dillingham, Otsego 2000 president, argues there’s a moral imperative, if Glimmerglass is secured, not to throw the rest of the state under the fracking truck. She’s right, of course, but only if hydrofracking cannot be safely done. (Big picture, Americans – we locals included – have benefitted for 80 years from environmental degradation around the globe. For instance, wetlands around the Niger River and the Bight of Benin are dead, killed as multi-nationals extracted and exported Nigeria’s oil for U.S. markets.) Start that conversation, and risk-management comes into play. James Blake of Schenevus, who may challenge state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, in a Republican primary, pointed out recently that there’s a fatal car crash every 13 minutes, and yet all of us, Sustainable Otsego members and not, routinely drive. That said, we can choose to drive safely and improve our chances. The fracking operation down the road is out of our hands. And while, statistically, nuclear power may look safe, the failures – Chernobyl and Fukushima – are so disastrous that the odds aren’t convincing. With fracking, the foremost concern is water supply. But every point on this earth is in a watershed. Are some watersheds – internationally celebrated Glim-
merglass, certainly, and New York City’s Catskills reservoirs – more significant than others? Take the Constitution Pipeline planned through northern Delaware County. It will carry fracked gas from the “sweet spot” in northeastern Pennsylvania to East Coast markets. Should the fracking origin prevent us from embracing new property-tax revenues from the line, or the possibility that communities along the route can plug into it and enjoy lower-cost gas? The Constitution, under one scenario, would assure Amphenol’s future in Sidney and its 600 jobs. • It must be said: It’s reassuring that, with shale exploitation for gas and oil, the U.S. is producing more than 50 percent of its own energy needs for the first time in decades, with more to come. Wind – not locally, but in our nation’s vast Plains and deserts – and solar power will contribute ever more greatly to energy independence in years to come. Happily, we have a great deal of local expertise to help us think through these issues. Not just Dillingham, but Lou Allstadt of Cooperstown, the retired Mobil VP, and Ron Bishop of Fly Creek, the SUNY Oneonta biologist, come to mind. And there are many others. The Mantra of the Sensible stands: If fracking can’t be done safely – not perfectly, but safely – it shouldn’t happen. But let’s remain tuned to the evolving research. Never, no way, nowhere, no how, as a matter of faith isn’t going to take our locality, state or nation where it needs to go.
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Cooperstown Generates So Much Bed Tax, It Deserves Bigger Share Of Revenues To the Editor: Last Thursday, June 14, I appeared before the county’s IGA (Intergovernmental Affairs) Committee to explain why Cooperstown is deserving of bed-tax money. Presenting a pie chart provided by the county Treasurer’s Department, I pointed out that two-thirds of the over $1 million generated in bed tax originates from the Cooperstown “magnet” – the towns of Otsego, Milford, Middlefield and Hartwick (after all, it is called “Cooperstown”
Dreams Park). From the information I’ve gathered, virtually all of the Town of Otsego bed tax is generated within Cooperstown’s boundaries. I spoke about how Cooperstown bears nearly all the burden of its infrastructure, while at the same time providing the economic engine for county tourism. The Gateway project, which will help village wide parking issues for visitors and businesses alike and vastly improve traffic patterns around Cooperstown •F
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of 1 percent of all county sales tax. That’s one out of every $100 created. Using the bed-tax number generated as a guide, it is likely that within Cooperstown itself, we create at least twice the sales tax dollars that we receive back. At the end of my talk I suggested two paths. One would be a direct distribution to Cooperstown of $100,000. Two would be an equitable distribution based on bed-tax creation. If, for example, $250,000 was carved out of annual
bed tax and sent back to the municipalities that created it, Cooperstown would receive $75,000. For the last two years, we’ve received nothing. I also recommended that whatever decision was arrived at, it would be helpful if this became, if not law, at least policy, so that each year it was not discussed anew. Ultimately, something must be done to recognize what Cooperstown provides financially to the economic well-being of Otsego County. It is increasingly difficult
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High School, is something Cooperstown is paying a sizeable amount for, with its beneficial effects spreading far beyond Cooperstown. I also touched on the engineering report for the proposed Main Street renovations, a project which, if completed, has, like the Gateway, positives that stretch beyond Cooperstown itself, in increased tourism and greater sales-tax generation. Bear in mind that as it stands now, by law, Cooperstown receives an allocation
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To the Editor: I think the recent retirement of Larry Thompson and the closing of Larry’s Barber Shop is worthy of note. Larry served as “vital factor,” if you will in the Cooperstown community for over a quarter of a century. He and his shop in Cherry Valley were never alien territory to anyone in need of great camaraderie, not to mention a great haircut. Larry left us his legacy in Dan Buddle, whose barber shop in Richfield Springs is the product of Larry’s tutelage. Many years
ago, Dan interned with Larry, who always said one day Dan would fill his shoes. He continues to do so quite well. Undoubtedly Larry will be missed. His shop was always a familiar fixture in Cherry Valley. Yet we all can still enjoy his presence. He is now involved in Security Administration at Fenimore House. Those of us who miss that great personality which framed his shop can rediscover it in a new setting. All the very best, Larry!! KEN KAVANAGH Cooperstown
Have You Ever Heard Of Clout Archery? To the Editor: Our archery club is considering sponsoring a Clout Archery Shoot. While performing web research, I came across an article by Cliff Huntington on stickbow.com about such a contest held in Cooperstown in 1922. I would like to make a presentation at our shoot, and want to make sure the information I have is factual.
I read on your web page that your press has been operational since 1808 and was founded by Judge William Cooper. I would appreciate any information you or your readers may have on that contest at the National Archery Association tourney there 90 years ago. FRANCIS GLAD Bemus Point fglad@windstream.net
for the taxpayers of this village to go it alone, especially since money created in Cooperstown benefits all the municipalities in the county and the county itself. It is sadly ironic that the village government of Cooperstown, responsible for keeping the village running, struggles to keep apace of the infrastructure needs required to keep the engine of so much economic production running smoothly. JEFF KATZ Mayor Village of Cooperstown
Missed Sale? Don’t Despair To the Editor: Well, there you go again. For those of you that didn’t make it to the Cooperstown Rotary Yard Sale a few weekends ago, you missed out big time. It was advertised all over the place for everyone to see. I know you had it in the back of your mind to attend, but next year you should mark your calendar, or put a big post-it note on the fridge right now. Thanks to your Rotarians, especially Tabetha Rathbone and Jim Howarth, we had a warehouse full of items on Railroad Avenue in Cooperstown, from the very big (furniture), to the very small (jewelry), something of “value” for everyone. And was it ever a successful event. But you forgot. I know, you’re saying to somebody, “Honey, shoot, why did you forget? It’s all your fault!”. The bulk of the sales proceeds goes back to the community in the form of scholarships, our famous Youth Exchange Program, the Food Bank, and a multitude of other allocations that many of you no doubt know of. Ask a neighbor of yours about Rotary, good chance they are one as we are all through the village and countryside. Anyway maybe we’ll see you at Waterfront Park for the Fourth of July fireworks, or Applefest, or maybe Pumpkinfest, perhaps Election Day Pancakes. Don’t forget. You’re wondering what we do? “Service Above Self” is what Rotary is all about. BILL GLOCKLER Past President, Cooperstown Rotary
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THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2012
BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz from Freeman’s Journal archives, courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library
200 YEARS AGO
Comets doubtless answer some wise and good purpose in the creation – so do Women. Comets are incomprehensible, beautiful, and eccentric – so are Women. Comets shine with peculiar splendor, but at night appear most brilliant – so do Women. Comets are enveloped with a lucid nebula, through which their forms are visible – so are those of Women, through their light and elegant attire. Comets confound the most learned when men attempt to ascertain their nature – so do Women. Comets equally excite the admiration of the Philosopher and of “the clod of the valley” – so do Women. Comets and Women are therefore closely analogous; but the nature of each being inscrutable all that remains for us to do is to view with admiration the one, and almost to admiration, love the other. June 20, 1812
175 YEARS AGO
father is the manager and chief supporter. There are also four sisters, who form the cheering section. Completely outfitted in uniforms they are ready to meet any team made up exclusively by brothers. June 23, 1937
50 YEARS AGO
Social Security Checks going to Otsego County residents have grown by leaps and bounds in the last three years. Total payments to local beneficiaries are 39 percent higher than they were in 1958. At that time they amounted to $3,437,472 a year. Now, by virtue of an increase in the number of beneficiaries as well as an increase in the size of individual checks, the total has climbed to $4,782,960. At the beginning of this year there were 6,470 persons in Otsego County who were getting checks each month as against 5,102 in 1958. June 20, 1962
150 YEARS AGO
The laws of this state forbid that any person shall travel in this state for the purpose of selling goods or merchandise, the product of a foreign country, without a license procured of the Secretary of State. Every pedlar who has not such a license is liable to be taken before any Justice of the Peace in the State and fined $25. Any pedlar who refuses to produce his license to any officer or citizen who shall demand the same, is liable to a penalty of $10. And citizens may apprehend a person trading as a pedlar without license, and take him before a Justice, who is bound to proceed summarily. There are doubtless scores of pedlars traveling this state without a license, who are amenable to the law. June 20, 1862
125 YEARS AGO
Union School – The annual exhibition, graduating exercises, and awarding of Regents’ diplomas, of this institution, will take place at the Court Room on Friday evening of this week. Admission 25 cents. Prize essays will be read as follows: “Druidism,” by Fannie H. Murray; “Cooperstown,” by Minnie U. Marsh; “Foliage,” by Minnie E. Averell; “Seesaw,” by Fannie E. Austin; “Charity,” by Gertrude A. Bunn; and “Poetry,” by Grace H. Farmer. The following are the thirteen academic graduates: Fannie E. Austin, Minnie E. Averell, Gertrude A. Bunn, Ella Corwin, Byron J. Field, Fred L. Hills, Minnie U. Marsh, Fannie H. Murray, Nora M. Osborn, Emily G. Shumway, Arthur J. Taylor, Nettie B. Taylor, and Ida M. Van Deusen. June 24, 1887
25 YEARS AGO
Margaret McGown, Cooperstown, has been awarded
June 19, 1837 a master’s degree from Russell Sage College, Albany in look their prettiest for the straight silhouette which remains fashionable is varied endlessly in all sorts of becoming ways. With the new wrinkles in coats, sashes, frills and piping, it’s an easy matter to so change the aspect of a last year’s gown that its own maker would fail to recognize it. Color contrasts and the mixing of odd materials are carried to the limit of combination seemingly and then there are others. Piping and facing and bands of odd colors bring out the lines of a costume or turn a trying somberness of hue into stunning becomingness. No one need hesitate to select black, brown, or gray, because it does not accord with one’s coloring. White accessories at the neck with a dash of blue, yellow, red or lilac will make anything right if judiciously used. Contrasts are the smart note in up-to-date fashion. June 26, 1912
75 YEARS AGO
Baseball fans of Cooperstown who were interested in the performance of Don and Doug Weir as catcher and first baseman respectively for the Cooperstown high school nine, would have had an added thrill had they realized that these two boys were members of another and more remarkable team – the Weir Wonders, all brothers, and children of Mr. and Mrs. Elial G. Weir of Oaksville. Although they range in age from Leslie, who might be mistaken for the mascot, if his name were not Weir, to Douglas, who was a post-graduate this year at the local school, they are capable we are assured, of filling every post on the diamond. Their
Congratulations! Leadership Otsego Class of 2012
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Surely never before did the girls have such a chance to
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John May, MD, director of the New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health (NYCAMH), was honored recently with the Stueland Scholar Award. The award is presented annually by the Marshfield Clinic in Marshfield, WI, for leadership in agricultural health and safety. May accepted the honor at a conference last month in Marshfield during which he spoke on the topic, “Occupational Health in Agriculture.” Affiliated with Bassett Healthcare, NYCAMH has worked since 1983 to promote safe and healthy farming practices. June 21, 2002
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CCS Hires New Football Coach COACH/From A1 players to discuss plans for the upcoming season, including two new playbooks and several of his favorite plays. “The kids are really enthusiastic,” Segina said. “I started reviewing the tapes in April, and the fun part begins when I can start coaching, start getting to know them and know their families.” Segina played strong safety and cornerback for
Juniata College before transferring to Hartwick, where he graduated in 1990. “Once your playing career ends, coaching is as close as you can get to being back on the field,” he said. “But to tell you the truth, I get more nervous coaching than I ever did playing. Those kids are your responsibility. You just hope you taught them well, but you’re nervous for every single one of them.” In coming to Cooper-
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CCS Targets Bias, Hazing CCS/From A1 Together, the programs speak to local concerns about racism and hazing that followed the Good Friday 2010 shooting of one CCS sophomore by another, and CCS revelations last November that hazing had been occurring on the varsity football team for some time. Both programs were recommended by the CCS district’s Character Development Committee, formed in December in the wake of the hazing revelations. And Wednesday, June 13, the CCS board was briefed on each, then approved folding both approaches into the school’s curriculum beginning when school reopens in the fall. Action begins immediately: A CCS team will depart Wednesday, June 27, to Atlanta for Growing Leaders’ two-day annual National Leadership Forum to become immersed in the program. Saturday the 29th, the team will undergo an intensive one-day session on Habitudes methods, which involves using 52 postersize images to get students discussing and defining ethical concepts. The ADL’s program will be launched with a one-day on-site program in September, where all CCS employes – from the superintendent to bus drivers, and everyone in between – will begin exploring how they can help elevate the district’s atmosphere to minimize prejudice and encourage acceptance. While the two programs aim to target local issues the community has been grappling with, they also meet mandates in the state’s Dignity for All Students Act, which CCS and all school districts are required
to implement by the fall. The ADL program and Habitudes will be used in health class – and in a new course called “Freshman Seminar” that will also deal with research, skill building and writing composition to help ninth-graders succeed in high school. And it will be incorporated into interscholastic athletics, said Superintendent of Schools C.J. Hebert. The initiatives were approved as a new varsity football coach, Mark Segina, the Edmeston-Unadilla Valley modified football coach, has joined CCS and is preparing for the start of practice in early August. (See related story, this page) Also, Hebert said, the school board is planning to hire a new athletic director, also from outside the district, at its Wednesday, July 11, organizational meeting, to replace Jay Baldo, who resigned from those duties to refocus on his responsibilities as guidance counselor. The athletic director, unnamed so far, will be on the team attending the Atlanta conference. Others are health teacher Justin Hobie, and Jennifer Pindar, Ann Olmstead and Michelle Hitchcock, who will teach the Freshman Seminar. Both Segina and the new athletic director subscribe to “a coaching philosophy that is parallel to our district beliefs,” said Hebert. He continued, “We certainly believe our athletic programs are designed to support the whole studentathlete at different levels of participation,” in developing sportsmanship, character and skills. “There’s an understanding that we’re also playing the contest to win,” the superintendent said, “but
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MLS#84719 - ADORABLE FULLY FURNISHED SEASONAL COTTAGE on private road on the East side of Canadarago Lake. Just a stone’s throw (65 ft) to the shoreline w/a 50’ right-of-way shared w/only 3 other homes. Gorgeous views & sunsets from the front porch & enclosed sunrm. All the advantages of lake frontage w/only $1,000 total taxes. Move right in!! $89,900 Call Rod & Barb @ (315) 520-6512
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MLS#81762 – NEWER LODGE-LIKE LOG HOME w/4 CAR OVERSIZED BARN/GARAGE set HIGH & DRY, WAY BACK OFF THE ROAD on OVER 15 OPEN & WOODED ACRES in the foothills of the Northern Catskill Mountains just 3 hours from NYC. STUNNING VIEWS, 3 STOCKED PONDS, ATV TRAILS THROUGHOUT, bordering 1000’ of TROUT STREAM. MAJESTIC VAULTED CEILINGS w/huge exposed log rafters, CENTRAL AIR CONDITIONING, FINISHED BASEMENT. $339,900 Call Tom @ (607) 435-2068
MLS#84349 - Views as far as the eye can see! This lovely move-in condition ranch awaits you. Home offers 3 bedrms, 2 full baths, lrg living rm w/french doors to private back deck. Spacious kitchen w/wood flrs & french doors that fill the room w/light. Oversized MLS#82700 – BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY LOCATION! Nicely maintained 3 br, 2 ba 2-car attached garage. Nicely manicured bushes & shrubs. ranch home on one and a half acres in a private and peaceful setting with a A complete country package, come view all this home has to offer MLS#84647 - Charming cottage in the beautiful hamlet of Fly GREAT YARD SURROUNDED BY WOODS, and minutes to downtown Oneonta. today. $299,900 Call Kristi Ough @ (607) 434-3026 MLS#84787 - Magnificent Otsego Lake Home w/stunning views of Creek. This well-maintained home features 2 bedrms & 1 bath $128,500 Call Tom @ (607) 435-2068 w/wood flrs throughout, & open flr plan w/vaulted ceiling in Otsego Lake. 3 level home w/a grand gourmet kitchen w/cherry E D! C living rm. A great investment rental property w/a location of 3 I E flrs, a Wolf french cook top stove, granite countertops, customPRDUC made cabinets & a giant center island. Kitchen opens to spacious miles to Cooperstown, & 10 miles to Dreams Park baseball fields. E Is & has been a Dreams Park rental w/great rental history. R living rm & dining rm area w/fieldstone fireplace & vaulted Walking distance to Fly Creek Cider Mill & General Store. cathedral ceilings. Master bedrm offers a heavenly bed & lrg Motivated sellers. $139,000 Call Chris @ (607) 376-1201 masterbath w/pebbled corner shower. Upstairs offers 2 bedrms, a full bath & a gorgeous view of the main flr. The lower level opens to a lrg game rm w/pool table, card table, slot machine, pinball MLS#83638 - Prime 15.7+/- Surveyed Acres, 800’ Road Frontage & full bar. Private furnished boathouse w/over 100 ft of lake on paved country road, level & open, hillside & wooded with access. $1,400,000 Call Kristi Ough @ (607) 434-3026 wonderful opportunity for new home sites. In addition there is a new LIStInG - MLS#84831 – Jordanville – Log cabin style home post & beam barn. Just minutes from Cooperstown. with 3 br, 3 baths, country kitchen, open concept floor plan and 2 outbuildings. $115,000 Call Kathy @ (607) 267-2683 Owen Young school system. Only $135,000 Call Jim Vrooman @ 1-603-247-0506
new LIStInG - MLS#84847 - Dutch Colonial w/4 Bedrms & 2 Baths in the heart of Cooperstown Village. Home has hardwood flrs, fireplace, spacious rms, french doors, back & side porch & a wonderful 30’x20’ 3-bay, 2-story carriage barn! Home w/brand new roof & newer furnace. Just a walk across the street to Bassett Hospital. $249,000 Call Kathy @ (607) 267-2683
MLS#84304 - COZY 1880 FARMHOUSE ON 2.8 ACRES w/beautiful views. All the pleasures of country living yet minutes to the center of Richfield. 2 bd, 1 ½ baths, living rm w/fireplace, formal dining rm, eat-in country kitchen, & an 8x18 enclosed front porch. 2-car attached garage, 33x11 workshop w/electricity, a storage building & a 20x20 woodshed. $168,500 Call Rod & Barb @ 315-520-6512
new LIStInG - MLS#84753 - FANTASTIC FARMHOUSE w/modern contemporary addition on ALMOST 5 ACRES completely renovated from top to bottom & features LOTS OF NEW! A BRIGHT & OPEN flr plan, vaulted cathedral ceilings, lrg windows allow sweeping views of Ouleout Valley, french doors from MASTER BEDRM SUITE to private balcony overlooking new LIStInG - MLS#84735 – Cooperstown – A completely landscaped back patio & yard, updated kitchen w/GRANITE COUNTERTOPS, & bathrms w/MARBLE FLRS. All systems are renovated home with 2 br, 2 baths. Open floor plan, sun room with gas stove, 2 car garage, manicured landscaping with .6 acres. NEW: roof, siding, well, water heater & furnace, as well as NEW plumbing & electric. $215,000 Call Tom @ (607) 435-2068 Cooperstown schools. Only $239,000 Call Jim Vrooman @ 1-603-247-0506
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4 Bedroom, 3 1/2 Bath contemporary home with large stunning light filled rooms. The first level offers a great room with living & dining spaces that open to the deck & the kitchen. The oak kitchen with breakfast bar is open to another living space that could be utilized as a family or dining room. The powder room & laundry w/over-sized Maytag stacked washer dryer are also on the 1st floor. Master Bedroom Suite with newly renovated Custom Bath (picture: marble, glass and a steam shower), plus 2 additional bedrooms that share a full bath on the upper level. Newly finished lower level with Family Room, Guest Room/ Office, travertine-tiled full bath. Lots of closets & storage space. Radiant LP gas hot water heat (2010), REA electric, 2 woodstoves & electric baseboard heat. Attached 2-car garage with electric overhead door, asphalt driveway. Large L-shaped Private Deck, perennial gardens. On 4.86 peacefully private acres with pond & woods. Oneonta Schools, minutes to center city, close to both colleges. $295,000 MLS# 83576
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Historic Cooperstown Farm. Gracious 1840’s Greek Revival post and beam farm house has been carefully restored with painstaking attention to both detail and style. Custom gourmet kitchen with top-of-the-line appliances, living room with stone fireplace, formal dining room, three family bedrooms and two and one half baths. Upstairs laundry. All with refinished wide pine floors, original millwork and period style fixtures. The fieldstone patio and demi Lune verandah were recently added for outdoor entertaining. All systems and mechanicals have been engineered to the best possible result. A three bay carriage house was built in 2004 and has a dynamic second floor studio. There are 181 acres of forest and fields which have protective covenants assuring proper woodlands management. Suitable as a year-round residence or a fabulous country get away! Only 10 minutes to Cooperstown Village with its many Museums and other attractions. A Lamb Realty exclusive: $985,000. Listing # C-0200
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