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LESSON: DAVIDS CAN BEAT GOLIATHS
Fracking Foes Rejoice As Court Upholds Ban Local Lawyer’s Idea Credited For Victory By JIM KEVLIN
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Beekman 1802 COO Megan Holken arranges products at the boutique’s Cooperstown pop-up store that opened Monday, June 30, in Olli’s Restaurant, which is also now open at Main and Chestnut.
DOT Warned Of Dangers In Hartwick HARTWICK
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Zagata at OHS, receiving an award with Tenneco’s Phil Oxley, fishing with Pataki.
OUTDOORSMAN, NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED CONSERVATIONIST, FORMER STATE DEC COMMISSIONER, WHY IS MIKE ZAGATA OF WEST DAVENPORT...
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orries about traffic dangers at Routes 205 and 11 in Hartwick hamlet are moving to the next level. The planning board Tuesday, July 1, passed a resolution asking the town board to advise the state DOT the town will accept no liability for any crashes at the intersection. Planning Board chair Alex Thomas said the DOT has declined several request to install signs, claiming “sign clutter.” That’s unacceptable, he said: “We believe it is a hazardous situation.” ANOTHER STAR: CMA award winner Hunter Hayes has joined the Hall of Fame 75th anniversary concert line-up, and the promoter planned to announce Wednesday, July 2, that an Oscar winner will also perform. See WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM STIRRING WORDS: For the 29th year, Tom Heitz, at 2 p.m., will be reading the Declaration of Independence at The Farmers’ Museum’s Fourth of July celebration.
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he lesson many are drawing from the state Court of Appeals’ decision, issued Monday, July 1, to uphold the towns of Middlefield and Dryden’s The Freeman’s Journal fracking bans, is an Michelle Kenancient one: Davids nedy outlines her strategy in can beat Goliaths. “It’s a huge dem- 2011. onstration that local communities, when they get together, can actually influence things,” said Lou Allstadt, the former Mobil executive vice president who has joined the antifracking cause since retiring to Please See FRACKING, A8
Bassett Explores Expanding Role Of Fox Hospital Brown Seeks Input On Study By JIM KEVLIN
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n the 40-acre hillside behind Mike Zagata’s home, six pathways have been cut between shoulder-high bushes. His retrievers, staid Briar, 10, and Scout, a frisky 5, love to run there. But the thick bushes are also ideal habitat for songbirds.
A hundred yards further up South Mountain, Zagata brakes his Kawasaki ATV by a logged hillside. Only a half-dozen tall trees still stand; sun shines through and thick ground cover flourishes. “Listen to what you’re hearing here,” Zagata said amid of chorus of chirps. “It’s a cacophony of sound.” This somewhat scruffy scene, the tops of bushes nibbled away by grazing deer, is what wildlife needs, not Longfellow’s forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlocks. Please See ZAGATA, A6
n e-mail is circulating from Bassett Healthcare’s new president/ CEO that outlines “a series of recommendations” that would significantly enhance Fox Hospital’s role in the eight-county network. The e-mail is dated Dr. Brown Friday, June 27, four days before Dr. Vance Brown officially assumed his new responsibilities, and it references a healthcare consulting firm’s study that made the following suggestions: • Evaluate consolidating obstetric and pediatric-inpatient programs into one program at Fox Hospital. Please See BASSETT, A9
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LOCALS Physician From Detroit Named Bassett’s Neurosurgery Chief neurosurgeon, surgically treating the breadth of neuark J. Hornyak, rological disorders of the M.D., a board brain, spine and peripheral certified neuronerves. Dr. Hornyak spesurgeon, is the new chief cializes in treating intracraof neurosurgery at nial tumors and Bassett Hospital. other lesions in and Most recently, he around the brain. was chief of neuroHe is an active surgery at Detroit Remember of several ceiving Hospital, an medical societies assistant professor at and has been pubWayne State Univerlished in a variety sity and he cared for of neurosurgipatients at the Detroit cal journals. Dr. Hornyak Medical Center and Hornyak has also Henry Ford Hospital. been active in his He earned his undergradu- community as a physician ate degree at Loyola Colcoordinator for the Think lege and his medical degree First Foundation. at University of Maryland School of Medicine, both in ELMIRA HONORS: Baltimore. He completed his Two Cooperstown students, residency in neurosurgery at freshman Alexis Devenpeck New York Medical College, and junior Natalie Grigoli, Valhalla, and a fellowship in are on the Dean’s List at skull base surgery at University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Elmira College for the spring semester. Dr. Hornyak is a general
DIANA NICOLS-DILORENZO NEW ROTARY PRESIDENT
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Tallman Leads Cooperstown’s Fire Department
COOPERSTOWN ire Chief Jim Tallman has been elected for another term in annual elections of the Cooperstown Fire Department. Other officers elected are Scott Ayers, first assistant; Mike Malloy, second assistant. Captains are Scott Monington, Shawn Vass, Kevin Preston and William Smith. First lieutenant is James Leslie. Corporate officers are Bruce Maxson, president; Glenn Falk, vice president; Gerard Wilson, treasurer, and Thomas Redding, secretary.
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Diana Nicols-Dilorenzo, center, is president of the Cooperstown Rotary Club, effective July 1. Other officers for 2014-15 include, from left, Margaret Savoie, secretary; Gary Kuch, vice president and president elect; Jeff Katz, immediate past president, and Val Paige, sergeant at arms. Other officers are Angie Erway, treasurer; Patrick McKinley, assistant treasurer, and assistant secretary, Cathy Raddatz. Also at the July 1 meeting, attorney Susan Lettis was inducted into the club and longtime Rotarian Mary Wright marked her 90th birthday.
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Son Followed In Dad’s Soccer Footsteps James Brown, Soccer Hall President’s Dad, Played For U.S. For 1930 World Cup By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA
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dent of the Soccer Hall of Fame, sat down in his living room to watch the U.S. take on Belgium in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. On July 13, 1930, his father, James Brown, was lacing up his cleats in Uruguay
to play outside right against Belgium in the World Cup, beating the team 3-0. “My dad assisted in two of those goals,” said Brown. “And when they went to the semifinals against Argentina, he scored the only goal for the
team.” Then, the U.S. lost 6-1 against Argentina, but didn’t go down without a fight. “The goalie had a broken leg and one player got knocked out,” he said. “There were no substitutes in those days, so they were down to eight players, and the goalie kept playing!” Not bad for a kid from the Scotland shipyards. Born Dec. 31, 1908, James was raised in Troon, Scotland, the oldest of four brothers and one of eight children. The father abandoned the family and took off for The States, and in 1927 James looked him up and found him living in New Jersey. Though the
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Former Soccer Hall president George Brown shows off photos of his dad, James, who played with the U.S. team for the World Cup in Uruguay in 1930. two never reconciled, James “It was heavily sponsored stayed stateside, playing by corporations, and thousoccer for the Bayonne sands of fans would show Rangers. “Soccer was in its up for these matches.” heyday then,” said Brown. But the stock market crash of 1929 sent the corporations skittering, and many of the clubs folded. Under rules of the time, because of his father’s residency, James qualified for the U.S. World Cup team, and at 20, he was the team’s youngest player. “They put the team on a boat, gave them each a suit and $350, and sent them to Uruguay,” said Brown. “It took them a month to get there.” James played three games in the World Cup, first against Belgium, then Yugoslavia, winning 3-0, then against Belgium. Fresh Jumbo After the World Cup, James returned to play Atlantic Sea Scallops with the New York Giants Delivered the same and the Brooklyn Wanderers, but soccer hadn’t quite day to us regained its following in the United States. In 1932, he Call For Dinner Reservations moved to England, playing 607-264-9430 for Manchester United and Thursday - Sunday Tottenham Hotspur. “His Roseboom, NY www.redhencafe.com wages were seven pounds a week if they won,” he said. “That’s a little over twenty dollars.” That same year, he met and married Mary Cormack, F OOD 0 L ODGING 0 P UB a Highlands girl. Though he was a strong 192 MAIN STREET, SHARON SPRINGS, NY 13459 scorer, he was also a union man, which the teams wouldn’t tolerate. In 1948, Guest Rooms $150.00 after being put on the through July 6 Hotspurs reserves, he and Mary packed up the family, Serving Dinner nightly starting July 10 including George, then 13, Dinner beginning at 5pm and moved to Greenwich, Conn. Sunday Brunch 8am to 2pm He founded the ConSunday Afternoon Meals 11:30am to 4pm necticut State League and the Greenport United team, Reservations recommended Reservations recommended where he and George played together. “I was a kid playing with men,” he said. “It was sandlot stuff – someinfo@americanhotelny.com www.americanhotelny.com times you’d have 300 spectators, sometimes you’d have 5,000.” And they weren’t always on the manicured fields either. “We played a team called the Brooklyn Please See SOCCER, A8
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WANTED: An A-To-Z Plan On Our Local Energy Future
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istening to Mike Zagata of West Davenport, it’s hard not to think of another leading light in the energy industry who has retired to Otsego County, Lou Allstadt of Cooperstown. Both men rose to the heights, Zagata as chief environmental officer at Tenneco; Allstadt at Mobil, eventually, as executive vice president, engineering its merger with Exxon as his final contribution. And yet the two have ended up as representatives of opposite ends in our local energy debate. Allstadt has become, arguably, the most respected advocate of the anti-fracking initiative; Zagata, of a pro-business initiative that, while ambivalent about fracking, supports the tax revenues and lowcost energy the fracked-gas-bearing Constitution Pipeline would bring here. Spend time talking with or listening to either man, and you soon realize black-and-white characterizations are simply too simple. • While the anti-fracking movement makes it seem like despoilment is just around the corner, Allstadt marshalled the research – along with oilman Chip Northrup of Cooperstown, geologist Brian Brock of Franklin and
That said, Allstadt is also a powerful advocate of a better energy future, and has begun putting the pieces together to see if Cooperstown can achieve local energy sustainability through wind, solar and efficiency. Exciting idea. If one village of 900 homes can achieve it, so can hundreds of similar communities The Freeman’s Journal across the nation, and then the Lou Allstadt and Mike Zagaworld. ta both reached the heights And he’s sensitive to fracking’s of the fossil-fuel industry. subsidiary threats – even if the iffy practice never happens here – and engineer Jerry Acton of Owego testified before the state Legis– and showed there’s simply too lature in March on measures to little gas in the ground for Otsego prohibit offal from Pennsylvania’s County to have to worry, at least drilling pads from being disposed right now, perhaps ever. of, willy-nilly, in our neighborWhen the anti-fracking movehoods to the north. ment cast the Constitution Pipe• line as a stalking horse for frackNeither is Zagata uni-dimening, Allstadt bluntly said, not so. The industry will not – repeat, not sional. With a doctorate in wildlife – build infrastructure absent proof management and experience in that the resource is here. academe, industry and the nation’s He’d walked that walk; he foremost environmental organizaknew: When oil was discovered in the inaccessible Amazon jungle, tions, the National Audubon Society among them, he has as good Allstadt’s daunting mandate was an understanding of nature and its to build pipelines over the Andes resilience as anyone. to bring the crude fuel to Peru’s The benefits and threats of the ports and the world. If the reConstitution Pipeline may be source is there, the companies many but, Zagata argues convincwill do what they will to get it to ingly, it will not signal the end of market. No resource, no worry.
the natural world as we experience it in our fair hills and valleys. If anything, he said, the pipeline’s path will likely benefit songbirds, grouse and other sports birds, and – by thinning out sterile hardwood forests and allowing underbrush to grow – the deer herd, too. Zagata’s career, rather than promoting any industry’s evil designs, is a model of creativity in pursuit of the public good. Wetlands banking opened lands to oil exploration, while increasing the nation’s total wetland reserves. Artificial reefs created fisheries; cast-off pipes enhanced habitat. Good stuff. • The state Court of Appeals’ welcome June 30 affirmation of local fracking bans – the Town of Middlefield led the charge – opens a new phase in the local energy debate. Even if we accept that natural gas makes more of a contribution to global warming than coal or oil emissions, the nation runs on fossil fuel, the equivalent of 19 million barrels of oil a day. That’s not going to be changed overnight. At the invitation of Sustainable Otsego, economist Jannette Barth and activist Jessica Azulay outlined the state’s plan to achieve
energy sustainability by 2050 in a June 2 presentation at the county courthouse in Cooperstown. It’s encouraging we’re having those conversations, but the plan depends on erecting 13,000 windmills on land and sea, unlikely given the outcry in Cherry Valley a half-dozen years ago over six turbines, and a fight still underway in the Town of Richfield. It’s likely the eventually solution to the national and global climate challenge has still to be envisioned and yet to be invented, and we have to be open to it. • Which makes people like Allstadt and Zagata so important to any eventual solution. Both have suffered sharp criticism for speaking what they believe, and yet they continue to share informed conclusions. The two have met, but only briefly. It would be reassuring to imagine the two of them getting to know each other better and, if possible, arguing their way to a rough consensus, if not on every particular. An Allstadt-Zagata proposal to move our local world toward energy solutions – A to Z, if you will – now, that’s something that would be worth hearing.
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State’s Highest Court Upholds Town Of Middlefield Frack Ban
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ment subdivisions, and their respective exercise of legislative power. These appeals are not about whether hydrofracking is beneficial or detrimental to the economy, environment or energy needs of New York, and we pass no judgment on its merits. These are major policy questions for the coordinate
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branches of government to resolve. The discrete issue before us, and the only one we resolve today, is whether the state Legislature eliminated the home rule capacity of municipalities to pass zoning laws that exclude oil, gas and hydrofracking activities in order to preserve the existing character of their communities. There is no dispute that the state Legislature has this right if it chooses to exercise it. But in light of ECL 23-0303 (2)’s plain language, its place within the (state’s Oil, Gas and Solution Mining Law)’s framework and the legislative background, we cannot say that the supersession clause – added long before the current debate over highvolume hydrofracking and horizontal drilling ignited – evinces a clear expression of preemptive intent. The zoning laws of Dryden and Middlefield are therefore valid.
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PAULA DiPERNA • THE SUMMER SCENE
‘Here’s To (Musical) Delights To Come’
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he note on my desk written in bold blue felt pen says, “Enjoy long May and June evenings.” I wrote it to myself in 2005, when I was in danger of forgetting the pleasures of long days and late-coming nights. With the advent of e-mails and computer screens, it was easy to stay inside, to think “just one more reply, just one more click,” and then Jamie Kraus/The Glimmerglass Festival poof, night had fallen. June Verdi’s “King For A Day” from Glimmerglass Feswas fleeting, then fled. tival’s 2013 season. This season begins Friday, Since then, I am attentive to July 11, with Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly.” that note. all the music and opera in der, class struggle, barkerAnd what a shame it Cooperstown.” For as sum- ing, bantering, wonderment, would have been to forfeit mer truly arrives, so does bafflement. And all to be this wondrous June. The the grand season of culture performed by some of the cobalt blue skies were one and one could be out and world’s greatest singers, all thing – rare enough in our about every night, so plentisinging their hearts out for Otsego. And the light, ful are the offerings. us. It is enough to make shimmering like clear glass, This year, under the guidone wish for a permanent always perfect. But, oh, ance of Francesca Zambelall-performance pass. But the clouds. Where did they lo, who to my mind could greed is ne’er rewarded. begin, I wondered, how did do for the development of There is plenty else to they tease themselves into young audiences of opera do, for the Festival persuch beauty? Pure white what Leonard Bernstein ac- formances are all compleand floating low, wispy and mented by the potpourri billowy, shaped like dragons complished for symphonic orchestras. Glimmerglass of special events. Where and caravels, duvets crying offerings are transcendent, else could we observe a out to be touched, rolling powerful and an irresistmaster class by the opera away like waves at sea, all ible menu of great timeless legend Jessye Norman, who taking the breath away. I stories: Puccini’s “Madame has been also singing jazz was blessed to be able to Butterfly,” Picker’s “An of late and has written a enjoy so much of the most beautiful June I can remem- American Tragedy,” Strauss’ superb new memoir, “Just “Ariadne aux Naxos,” and Stand Up and Sing.” Or ber. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ask a sitting Supreme Court But unless we add two “Carousel.” We will hear justice questions, as we did Junes to the calendar, June it all – heartthrobs and last year when Justice Ruth has become July. heartbreaks; love, lust, loss, Bader Ginsberg held forth Now, if I wrote a note to myself it would say, “Enjoy abandonment, empire, mur- on the vagaries of justice,
on stage and off, lending us her astute ear and wry observations. And this year, the grounds themselves have become an art form, as gallery curator and arts consultant Sydney Waller has commissioned sculptural benches by artists to mark the themes of the program, not to mention the superbly festive fluttering “butterfly banners” that beckon entry that I’m sure Puccini himself would have wanted to spirit away after the show. Perhaps enough to lure his avatar, the artwork will be available for sale at season’s end, with a portion of proceeds earmarked for Glimmerglass. Then laced throughout the summer, for those who like their music in the drawing room or The Farmers’ Museum, or The Otesaga ballroom, there’s the long-standing and venerable Cooperstown Summer Music Festival, brought to us by Linda Chesis, who turns out program after program of great performances across all cultures and ages. June may be over, and sad as I am to see it go, here’s to the delights to come. DiPerna, who summers in Cooperstown, is vice president of the Chicago Climate Exchange. She ran for Congress in the 1990s.
LETTERS
Rusting Flagpole Is Appalling To the Editor: Am I the only one who can see the terrible appearance of the village flag pole on Main Street at the intersection with Pioneer? It is rusted, stained and in poor condition, yet it is there, as a centerpiece of the village for all to see in the middle of summer. Its purpose is to bear the United States flag, but it does so in a shameful manner. Some-
Coverage Exactly Right To the Editor: Your newspapers’ coverage of the 75th Anniversary of the National Baseball Hall of Fame was excellent! The stories and the color photography were especially well done. It is exactly what a hometown newspaper should do. On a personal note, 74 years ago, my grandfather, Claude Hall, was a line-a-type operator for The Freeman’s Journal was located on the northwest corner of Main and Pioneer streets. The building has since burned down. STAN HALL Cooperstown
one apparently had time to plant flowers around it, but the pole itself remains a disgrace to all it represents. As in the past, it appears that whoever is responsible for the display and condition of our country’s flag in the village continues to view it as a low priority. I for one, am offended. DAVID K. BUTLER, SR. Cooperstown
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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library
200 YEARS AGO
At a circuit court holden in Delhi, in the County of Delaware, on Friday last, James Graham, was tried for the murder of Hugh Cameron and Alexander M’Gilvery. The evidence was circumstantial, but of such a nature as to leave no doubt of his guilt. It appeared in evidence, that Graham, with the two for whose murder he was indicted, was at a raising at a Mr. Kellogg’s, in Delhi, on the 24th of July last; that they left Kellogg’s together, between sundown and dark, to return home across the mountain in a foot path; that Graham picked up a club, came in behind the two deceased, followed them about 20 rods and there killed them both. The bodies were found with their heads and faces so mangled that they could scarce be recognized by those well acquainted with them. The club with which they were killed was found in a brush heap a small distance from the bodies covered with blood and human hair. The clothes which Graham wore to the raising were found in a wash tub at his own door, with evident marks of blood upon them. Other circumstances such as previous threats were strong presumptive proof against him. He was found guilty and sentenced to be executed at Delhi, on Friday the 29th of July between the hours of 12 and 2 o’clock of that day. July 7, 1814
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Fourth of July – We are requested to mention that the day will be noticed at Clarkesville (now Middlefield Center), by the ascent of a balloon at half past 12 o’clock, dinner at 2 o’clock, and a balloon and fireworks in the evening. We hear of preparations for the same object at Cherry Valley, Little Lakes, and other towns within a couple of hour’s ride of this place where the inspiration of patriotic feelings has produced animation among theHometown citizens.Oneonta, The day2x5 should never be suffered to pass by without some token of Run 6/25, 7/2 & 7/9 remembrance. July 1, 1839
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Prayer for our Country – Mr. Shaw: Allow me the medium of your paper to suggest that at no time since the commencement of this dreadful civil war has earnest, importunate, unceasing prayer to Almighty God for deliverance from national calamities been more strongly called for than at this time. The churches, all the members thereof, every praying person throughout the country, should daily make intercession at the Throne of Grace for an early peace; and while the conflict rages, for success on the part of those who stand in defense of the Government. Can any Christian man or woman do less? Hope. July 1, 1864
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regard to the question of the ballot as a means of freedom, advancement and political purity to the country. Through the courtesy of Garrett J. Benson, the Hotel Fenimore piazza as well as the street was filled with interested listeners. Miss Constable spoke of the responsibility man owed to the mind of a woman in giving her the vote, as well as the responsibility in which he acknowledged her as his equal in the Church. July 1, 1914
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A baseball used in the first game on record where gate money was demanded and received from spectators has just been added to the collection of mementos of the national game at the National Baseball Museum and Hall of Fame. The date of this game was July 20, 1858, when New York defeated Brooklyn 22 to 18. A companion ball used in a game between the same teams in the same series on September 10, 1858, was also donated. New York also won that game 28 to 19. July 5, 1939
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In 1817, George Hyde Clarke began constructing an English manor house known as Hyde Hall overlooking Otsego July 1, 1964 Lake near what is now known as Glimmerglass State Park. Designed by Philip Hooker, a leading Albany architect of the day, the 50-room, 200-foot-long “country home” was completed in 1833 and it is considered one of the finest Local: A game of baseball will be played on the Fair examples of pre-Civil War houses in America. The Friends Grounds Thursday afternoon between Salt Springville and of Hyde Hall organization, formed in 1964 to save the Cooperstown nines. building, continues the work of restoration. “What really The Lake is now the particular point of attraction and about every stranger sailing upon it for the first time speaks sets Hyde Hall apart is its quadrangular plan,” says Douglas Kent, executive vice-president of the friends group. enthusiastically of its beauty and that of the surroundJuly 5, 1989 ing scenery. The steamboats are all running. The sail and row boats are in order for those wishing to use them. The camping houses are beginning to be occupied. The hotels at Three and Five Mile Points are open to customers. At the The Episcopal Diocese of Albany, which oversees all of steamboat landing near the head of the lake stands Island the Episcopal congregations in the area, recently joined the Cottage which has been repaired and improved and is now Network of Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes, kept by Mr. Eugene D. Hecox. a conservative network formed in response to the conseJuly 5, 1889 cration of an openly gay bishop, Gene Robinson, in New Hampshire last year. Opinions are mixed as to what the final significance of the newly formed network will be. Robinson was consecrated in the fall of last year at a ceremony A suffrage meeting was organized last week by Miss Anna Constable of New York who is the guest of Mrs. Wal- in New Hampshire, making him the world’s first openly gay Episcopalian bishop. The appointment upset many of the 70 ter Watson Stokes at the Crooked Cottage. Miss Constable, million Anglicans worldwide. who is prominent in New York as a member of the WomJuly 2, 2004 an’s Political Union is an ardent suffragist and has secured many faithful followers through her plausible reasons in
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Zagata’s Career Wedded Love Of Nature, Big Business Cleaner air will ZAGATA/From A1 benefit everyone, “We’re not runhe continued. ning out of forest,” Low-cost natural Zagata continues, gas will ensure sounding like the Amphenol remains wildlife researcher in Sidney and save and Ph.D. that he local school disis. “We’re running tricts hundreds of out of young forest. thousands a year. We are so focused “Low-cost energy on what we per… would also ceive as pretty that make our region we’re ignoring the more competitive science.” Michael J. Za- in attracting new This foray up gata Jr., Mike’s business and help the logging road existing busihad spun off from dad, holds a an interview a few fish caught on nesses succeed minutes earlier in a Lake Ontario and grow,” he concluded. “That the Zagatas’ white outing. The means more jobs ranch home behind dad was always there for and the ability to a low stone wall the son retain our young on the east side of him, remembers. and working-age County Route 47. people.” Inside, the wildlife In response, letters to theme is everywhere – in trophies, paintings and etch- the editor questioned the success of Zagata’s tenure ings, including the original as DEC commissioner, art from “Deer of North America,” by one of Mike’s pointed out he worked at one time for Transco, now former students, Cindy owned by Williams, the House. company proposing to build In the basement famthe Constitution, and critiily room is the trophy of a buck, shot around here, with cized programs he initiated while working for the oil an impressive eight-point industry, including replacrack. In the ground floor ing wetlands and sinking sunroom is another eightabandoned oil rigs to create pointer, shot in Iowa, pure fisheries. “Mr. Zagata is white antlers and hide, a just another wolf in sheep’s regal head on a thick neck. clothing, trying to pull the While younger, it clearly wool over our eyes,” wrote was the superior animal, Bob Rosen, East Meredith. healthier, stronger than the Those letters brought one downstairs. Iowa deer, forth Zagata defenders, Zagata said, are simply including from Bob Harlem, better fed, and it’s not by Oneonta Block proprietor, accident. and Dave Rowley, retired Back on the hillside, ZaOneonta school superingata is connecting the dots. The low foliage is essential, tendent, who are associated with him on Citizen Voices, he says, not only for birds the pro-business group. Za(43 species are declining regionally; the meadow lark gata’s positions in industry, and bobolink among them), Harlem reported, garnered but for the health of the deer prestigious awards from the herd. He pointed to a young National Wildlife Foundation, Ducks Unlimited and maple: “The top of every The Conservation Fund. tree has been browsed.” “Mike’s a ‘class act’ He continues: “In the person who wants only the spring, when the fledgvery best for our country,” lings leave the nest, this wrote Jo-Ann LaMonica, is where they come.” The Oneonta. “Mike wants berries and insects in the thick underbrush strengthen people to be safe and move our country forward. I’m them for the fall migration. proud to call Mike a friend.” “Every time we protest a As for Zagata, he brushes tree cutting – or a pipeline off the furor: “If you can’t – we’re eliminating this (habitat),” he said, obliquely refute the facts, discredit the person.” getting around to what Mike Zagata was born prompted the interview in in Oneonta in 1942, son the first place: of Michael J. Zagata Jr. Why has Zagata be(the son’s middle initial is come the preferred target “D,” so he’s not a III), and of the local anti-fracking, Tressa Wormuth, daughter anti-Constitution Pipeline movement? After all, he’s a of Dutch Wormuth, the local plumber. The Zagata family fisherman and hunter since had moved to Oneonta from boyhood, an academic in Carbondale, Pa., in 1920, the wildlife field who held part of a historic migrahigh-ranking positions in tion: With anthracite-region the Wildlife Society, National Audubon Society and railroads complete, a whole National Research Council, population moved north to work in Oneonta’s D&H an innovative environmenyards. tal enforcer in Fortune 500 When young Mike was companies, a state Envi6, he contracted rheuronmental Conservation matic fever, and his parents commissioner and, most moved from the city to West recently, president of the Davenport, wanting their Ruffed Grouse Society. son to experience country The onslaught was set in life before his expected motion March 29 by an opearly death. As it happens, ed article in the Daily Star, penicillin came on line, where Zagata marshaled and the boy recovered; he’s arguments in support of the a hearty 72 today. (ZaConstitution Pipeline, statgata also credits raw milk, ing, “Some ask why should diverted directly from udder they be impacted and not to Pepsi bottle.) receive any benefits. The In West Davenport, truth is that we will receive Mike’s father turned a roadbenefits.”
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Mike Zagata has cut six pathways through tall bushes on the hill behind his home. His retrievers love to run there, and songbirds flourish there, feasting on the berries and insects.
house into the Tally Ho Restaurant – “rally at the Tally” was a common phrase then, when last call in Otsego County was 2 a.m., and Delaware County, 3. The property included 440 acres behind the restaurant; (eventually 400 acres were sold off, but the son retains rights to use it.) Day One in the country, Mike walked across the road to trout fish in Charlotte Creek, and his parents encouraged his outdoor life. Mom Tressa would drive him to Davenport, and he would fish his way back along the Charlotte. The Tally Ho closed at 4 a.m., and on opening day of trout season father and son would be thigh-deep in a stream by 5. Same on opening day of hunting season, although dad would soon find a comfortable tree trunk and fall asleep; the son remembers moving out of earshot – his dad’s snoring would scare the deer away. “The only reason he fished or hunted was for me,” Zagata says today. The parents were equally attentive to his younger sister, Sharon, who now runs a landscaping business in Florida; they never missed one of his sports events or her dance recitals. “That’s what a father and mother were all about,” he said. At Oneonta High School, Mike played on teams with, among others, standout
Zagata walks Briar, 10, in the foreground, a Gordon retriever, and a frisky 5-year-old, Scout, an English retriever.
athletes like attorney Jim Konstanty, son of the Major Leaguer, and Bob Terrell, who is in OHS’ Athletic Hall of Fame as a member of the undefeated 1959 basketball team. He was co-captain of the football team, and four-year captain of the rifle team. When he became an Eagle at age 13, he was the youngest local Boy Scout to do so up to that time. Mike received an appointment to Annapolis but, having injured his shoulder playing football the previous fall, opted to enter SUNY Oneonta for a year. He liked it so much – among other things, the female-male ratio was 13-1, and he found himself dating a Miss Oneonta – he never left, majoring in secondary education, intent on teaching biology, chemistry and other sciences. A mentor was Dr. John New, biology chair; he interned with him one summer at Devil’s Tombstone, near Hunter, where they set hundreds of traps daily for 30 days, proving there are a lot more species out there – jumping mice and kangaroo mice, a half-dozen types of shrews, meadow votes – that were kept in the background by more dominant species. He also fell in love with cars, buying a 1962 Dodge Charger and drag-racing for Chrysler throughout the Northeast for two years. He bought a 1964 Corvette, and has owned one ever since, (including a pristine tomatored sample in his garage today.) On graduation, he taught at OHS for four years and coached JV football, then spent another year at Southampton High on Long Island. While he points out that 99 percent of his OHS students passed the Regents, he laments the end of the non-Regents diploma issued on those days. Young people mature at different speeds and face different challenges. He recalled how his father flunked first grade on arriving in Oneonta: He only spoke Polish. Zagata tells the story of a student struggling in a
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conservation class he started at OHS; the teacher took the student outside and said: Identify one plant, and you’ll pass. Thirty years later, as DEC commissioner, Zagata met his former student, now head of a state agency, on an inspection tour in the Adirondacks. “Mullein,” the now-successful adult reminded him, “Verbascum thapsus.” Zagata describes himself as “project oriented” and “incentive driven,” and – while he praises many excellent teachers he’s known – he found himself increasingly frustrated by the rigid public-school system where advancement depended strictly on seniority. He entered Iowa State, emerging with doctorate in hand, and turned down a Wildlife Society job for a faculty appointment at the University of Maine. Four years later, he did join the Wildlife Society as research director, and got his first taste of public-policy controversy in helping the Bureau of Land Management develop an approach to free-range horses. Elvis Stahr, then National Audubon president, soon recruited him, saying, “We’ve got to move away from arm-waving emotionalism to basing policy on science.” Zagata played a role in developing the National Forest Management Act of 1979. When Russell Peterson succeeded Stahr and brought a new philosophy – “science isn’t quite as glitzy as saying, ‘the sky is falling,’” is how Zagata characterized it – the young professor began weighing his options. At a biology conference in Mexico City, he had been impressed by Kevin Hayes, former State of Colorado beaver biologist who had moved to Tenneco, and began considering the private sector. Zagata would hold highlevel executive positions for a number of large private enterprises, before and after DEC – Kerr McGee, Transco and, after DEC, Level III
and NRG Energy – but he recalls his time at Tenneco – 1970 until the conglomerate was sold off in pieces, beginning eight years later – as the glory days. Soon after meeting Hayes in Mexico, he joined Tenneco as manager of ecological sciences; most of his time there, he was director of environmental, health & safety. Six months into the job, he was invited to speak at a women’s energy forum in Alabama, and off he went with a slide carousel under his arm. “Energy development and a healthy environment are not mutually exclusive,” he told the gathering. “They are inextricably connected. Without the money to do things for the environment, it doesn’t happen.” Attendees included Tenneco President Phil Oxley. “When it was over, he came up and said, ‘Would you like to fly back (to Houston) with me?’” Zagata asked what flight, not immediately realizing he was being invited aboard the corporate jet. The two men clicked. The next morning, as he was passing a meeting of Tenneco’s top executives, Oxley called out, “Mike, come here.” Turning to the executives, he said, “I want you to listen to Mike because he can help us.” Said Zagata, “Do you know what that meant for my career?” The National Environmental Protection Act had been passed in 1969 and, in the Carter Administration, “regulations were coming in by the wheelbarrows full.” Until Zagata showed up, the Tenneco job had been filled by “good old boys from the inside,” but that was no longer enough. In launching projects that might take five years to complete, companies needed to anticipate how the regulations might change, and it was Zagata’s role to do that. “It was like shooting clay pigeons,” he said. “You don’t shoot at the bird; you lead the bird.” The job also created opportunities for innovation, the first in 1981 in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, where Zagata helped pioneer the concept of wetland mitigation banking. This allowed Tenneco to proactively protect wetlands, bank the acreage in an account maintained by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, then draw down the acreage for drilling projects in wetlands. “If I could get a permit in 10 days instead of 90, that was a $3.2 million savings” for Tenneco, said Zagata. “Plus, it maintained the nation’s goal of ‘no net loss of wetlands.’ Wetlands actually accreted faster than our model anticipated.” The following year, Zagata happened on an article about the Japanese building artificial reefs to improve fisheries. “When I looked Please See ZAGATA, A7
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Industry, Outdoor Halls Of Fame Recognized Accomplishments Of Boy From West Davenport ZAGATA/From A6 at the structure, I couldn’t believe the similarity to the ‘jacket’ of an off-shore oil platform.” It turned out Tenneco was about to dismantle Ship Shoal 198D off Louisiana, and Zagata got permission for it to be towed and sunk off Pensacola, Fla. Six months later, Zagata flew down two planeloads of VIPs from Washington D.C., who fished over the new reef for three hours and caught 900 pounds of fish. Fisheries had been unable to develop in the mud on the Gulf of Mexico; now they could. A study by the Sport Fishing Institute documented economic benefits to shoreline communities; the federal Florida Sea Grant program documented the increase in biological diversity, Zagata said. These two initiatives and others won Tenneco the Na-
tional Wildlife Foundation’s Whooping Crane Award. Tenneco was a conglomerate of interests that ranged from oil drilling to tractor manufacturing. When it was dismantled, beginning in 1988, Zagata joined Transco, where he was vice president/environment, health & safety in 1990-94. It was Transco that eventually merged into Williams, the company seeking to build the Continental Pipeline through the OtsegoDelaware region today. Zagata brought his penchant for innovation with him, and Transco was soon donating 3,000 feet of 30-inch pipeline to create 160,000 acres of wetlands in the rice lands of Mississippi and Louisiana. That undertaking was recognized in the Ducks Unlimited Silver Teal Award. That and a contest challenging workers on the
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Alexander Calder Award. Zagata was singled out for honors, too. He is in the Offshore Energy Industry Hall of Fame and the New York State Outdoorsman Hall of Fame, representing different ends of a spectrum. In 1994, Republican governor George Pataki appointed Zagata as his first DEC commissioner; less well known is that Democrat Mario Cuomo brought him from Transco to Albany a few weeks before the 1994 election as DEC’s ambassador to the business community. When Pataki upset Cuomo, lobbying by, among others, the influential Walter Rich of Cooperstown, put him in the commissioner’s chair. While ethics complaints, mostly dismissed by the state Ethics Commission, punctuated his 22-month tenure – the average tenure of a DEC commissioner
had been two years up to that time – Zagata believes his efforts to streamline the department were productive. For instance, if permits involved three divisions, he sought to have inspectors visit sites the same day, or at least coordinate their findings. Despite the controversies, Zagata was heartened that at the DEC’s 40th anniversary celebration in 2010, a number of employees approached to thank him for his contributions, particularly on policies to expand employee involvement in decision-making. A few more years in private enterprise followed, and Zagata capped his career as president of the Pittsburgh-based National Ruffed Grouse Society, whose biologists work with landowners to improve the habitat for bird hunting. He and wife June returned to
his boyhood neighborhood in 2006. Back on South Mountain, Zagata pauses his ATV by a pond where he skated as a lad, then drives into the midst of a tall, silent forest. “People use the word ‘habitat’ as if it’s one thing,” he says. “Every species has its own habitat needs.” When you see 1930s photos of Oneonta, there are no trees. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, 100,000 Upstate farms were abandoned, and 10 million acres of farmland went fallow, he continues. In the decade that followed, growing brush made the region a hunter’s wonderland. Today, though, “it’s either pole timber or mature timber … The silence is deafening. Where do we see deer now in larger numbers?” he asks, replying, “In urban areas. There’s one reason: food.”
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As Did Dad, George Brown Dedicated Career To Soccer SOCCER/From A3 Italians,” he said. “They played in a truck parking lot the team owner owned, and he would clear out the trucks, set up the goal posts and we’d play there. I still have the scars!” Brown played with both the American Soccer League and the German-American Soccer League, playing on the German-Hungarian team with future Soccer Hall of Famers John Souza, Walter Bahr and Joe Maca. Brown was a top scorer and MVP in 1953, and the team took three consecutive league titles, as well as the 1956 New York State Cup. But by 1958, an injury to his ACL had ended his career. “Nowadays if you tear your ACL, you’re back in the field in a week,” he said. “But back then, I was in a cast for six months.” In 1960 and age 26, he entered the University of Bridgeport originally on a soccer scholarship, but his professional status got him banned from the team. To pay his way through, he took up coaching both soccer and tennis. After graduation, he joined Exxon as a human resource manager and remained with the company until his retirement. And when his dad was inducted into the Soccer Hall of Fame in 1986, he accepted his father’s plaque – his father had stayed out too late the night before catching up with his old teammate, Arnie Oliver. “There were more people on the platform than in the audience!” he said. “Afterwards, we went into a church basement and had ham and potato salad.” When George took the stage to accept his plaque in 1995, there were a lot more people in the audience, with a reception hosted by Hartwick College. But as Brown’s wife Peg
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FRACKING/From A1 Cooperstown. In the decision’s afterlooked around Oneonta, math, Sustainable Otsego she realized that, after 26 moderator Adrian Kuzminmoves, this was where ski recalled that it was she wanted to settle down. attorney Michelle KenThey bought their house on nedy, then recently arrived Hemlock Road before they in Cooperstown with her left town, sold their tourist Bassett doctor husband, who business and their home in came up with the formulaCape Breton, Nova Scotia, tion that resulted in Monand made one final move to day’s decision. Oneonta. “We can’t regulate it He and James are the only (fracking), but we can say father and son in the Hall, yes or no,” Kuzminski reand with George as interim membered Kennedy advisdirector in 2007, the Hall ing anti-fracking activists as had the most successful inlong ago as 2010. duction in its history, a class By then, Kennedy, who that included Mia Hamm had opened an office in and Julie Foudy. Main Street’s Key Bank The Hall closed its doors building, had identified in 2010, but inductions two cases that might be continue. germane: Free Run Gravel James died in 1994, but Product vs. Town of Carroll, George keeps a few souvedealing with gravel mining, nirs of that moment on the and Gernatt Asphalt Product world stage – a pair of his Inc. vs. the Town of Sarblue Wilson shorts, and his dinia. medal. Both cases were cited in
the high court’s decision issued the other day. Kennedy remembers attending a meeting where Chip Northrup of Cooperstown, the Dallas oilman and anti-fracker, spoke. Already, she was developing “just the seed of an idea.” When she expressed it that evening to Harry Levine, Otsego Land Trust president, he referred her to an article by an attorney for the New York State Association of Towns on precedents that might apply to resisting fracking. “To me,” said Kennedy, “that article immediately gave credibility to the notion we could use zoning to control fracking.” The town approved the ban. Cooperstown Holstein Corp., with the help of Anschutz Exploration Corp., sued the town. And three years later, the case has now been resolved in the town’s favor.
Said Kuzminski, “this settles the home rule situation as much as it could ever be settled. That’s not going to be changed anytime soon.” A dozen Otsego County municipalities, including the City of Oneonta, have banned fracking already. (Statewide, there are 70 bans, 100 moratoria.) Towns waiting for a decision, fearing they would be sued if they enacted bans, should act, he said. He also raised some cautions.
“Home rule is a twoedged sword,” Kuzminski said. “It can go the other way if a community chooses. So the ruling raises the question: Should there be a statewide ban? I think there should be. Fracking could still come to New York State.” The court’s decision also allows the state Legislature to block local zoning from barring fracking. But, Kuzminski said, “I don’t see it happening. Everybody’s watching them like hawks.”
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MLS#91234 $450,000 Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Benjamin D. North house is a Federal-style residence built 1799–1802. This meticulously restored 3-story brick home w/addition is situated on 16.83 gorgeous acres w/barn, pond, perennial gardens and historic outbuildings. The sun-drenched interior features wide-plank floors, 3 fireplaces, 10'-ceilings, original doors, hardware and moldings, built-in bookshelves, china room and stone-floor wine room. Farmhouse kitchen features newer appliances, woodstove and original sink. Equestrian friendly, the property is approximately 60% open, 40% wooded. Gorgeous views from every window. Just a few miles away from private airport, Village of Cooperstown, Otsego Lake and much more!
Historic Cherry Valley Fieldstone House—This home is built on bedrock w/3’-thick walls. Most original architectural details remain. Possibly a showroom for the Cherry Valley Organ Company which was next door, this artist-owned property offers wood floors, beautiful stone detail, LR, DR w/Rumford fireplace, fully applianced kitchen, and a newer addition of family room/art studio w/full basement. Also on the main floor: ¾ bath w/1 wall an original outside stone wall. Upstairs are 3+ BRs and ¾ bath. Basement has cooking fireplace w/Dutch oven. The property consists of just under 4 acres bordering 2 streets. Cherry Valley Creek (a designated trout stream) runs through the property, and backyard has spring-fed meditation pond, gardens, trails. Offered Exclusively by Ashley Connor Realty $274,000 Visit us on the Web at www.ashleyconnorrealty.com Contact us at info@ashleyconnorrealty.com For APPoiNtmeNt: Patricia Bensen-Ashley, Broker, 607-437-1149
Jack Foster, Sales Agent, 607-547-5304 • Donna Skinner, Associate Broker, 607-547-8288 Christopher Patterson, Sales Agent, 518-774-8175
Home of the Week 3 BR, 1 bath home on over 4 acres. This beautiful home is nestled in a quiet creek-side setting on a dead-end road. Very secluded and park-like. Cooperstown Schools. Eat-in kitchen, gas fireplace, wood flooring, in-ground pool, new paint.
MLS #94874 Offered at $249,000
John J. Mitchell, Realtor Cooperstown Realty 265 County Highway 59 Cooperstown, NY 13326 Primary: 843-457-3968 Secondary: 607-435-4093
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EYE ON THE WEATHER Editor’s Note: David Mattice, National Weather Service observer in the Oneonta area for the past 30 years, is providing monthly and annual summaries of local weather as a public service.
JUNE 2014 Highest Temperature.............................................84°F (June 30) Lowest Temperature.................................................41°F (June 1) Average Maximum Temperature........................................73.5°F Average Minimum Temperature..........................................51.7°F Monthly Mean Temperature................................................62.6°F Precipitation Total....................................................................6.18″ Most Precipitation in One Day...............................1.13” (June 18) Thunderstorms.........................................................2 (5 for 2014) Snow...................................................................0 (50.9” for 2014) Most Snow in One Day..................................................................0 YTD Precipitation..................................................................21.75” Number of Days at or below 0°F........ .................0 (20 for 2014 ) Number of Days at or below 32°F......................0 (113 for 2014) Comments: Wow, It’s July! We’re half way through 2014! It’s less than nine weeks until the Labor Day weekend. Yikes! June’s mean temperature was 62.6°, which is 1.6° below the norm. Not surprising though, every month in 2014 has been colder than normal except for May. We had a very wet month, receiving 6.18 inches of rain, 2.56 inches above average. Some areas had more, some less, depending on the paths of a couple rounds of thunderstorms. It made it tough for a lot DAVID of farmers as they worked tirelessly to get th¬eir first cutting of hay in the barn. Year to MATTICE date, precipitation is just 2.88 inches above normal. Summer is here, it’s time to have fun! Make sure to visit the greater Cooperstown area and enjoy the Baseball Hall of Fame and help celebrate its 75th anniversary. Take in The Fenimore House, The Farmers’ Museum, and visit the breweries. Spend some time in the Oneonta area visiting the parks, Gilbert Lake, and join in the fun in Neahwa Park for the Fourth of July celebration. This is truly one of the most beautiful areas in the country, there is so much to see and do! Be careful in the sun, use lots of sunscreen and stay hydrated. Keep a heads-up for thunderstorm activity, take all watches and warning seriously. But this is what we’ve has been waiting for, warmth and sunshine! Enjoy every minute of it and as always, keep your eye on the weather!
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Bassett Looks To Fox For Future Expansion BASSETT/From A1 • Evaluate consolidating ophthalmology surgery at Oneonta Specialty Services, One Associate Drive, at the end of River Street. • Enhance the FoxCare Center on East Main Street as “a community resource for outpatient services.” • Expand dental care services at Fox Hospital. “The next step is to establish several task groups to analyze the recommendations, solicit patient and community feedback, and determine if implementation of any, a portion or all of the recommendations is feasible in a way that benefits patients,” Bassett said in a July 1 statement. “The end goal is to assure the delivery of the right care at the right time and place, but how that’s achieved is the work ahead of both organizations over the next several months.” Hearing about the email, Mayor Dick Miller expressed enthusiasm. He called “these areas of study and possible action ... wonderful news for Fox Hospital and those who depend on its vitality in the multi-county Oneonta region. I hope these initiatives can move forward expeditiously.” The Brown e-mail said
“opportunities for improved integration and better coordination of services” has been under study for four years, which would date back to Fox joining the Bassett system in 2010. Last year, A.O. Fox Memorial Hospital recently held an open house for its new 14-bed observation unit, the final phase of A.O. Fox Memorial Hospital’s “Gold Standard of Patient Care” modernization project, designed by MorrisSwitzer ~Environments for Health. This $8-million medical/surgical inpatient renovation created 53 private rooms which provide privacy for patients, increase infection control and improve patient flow throughout the hospital. Last year, a $8.5 million state grant, combined with a $1.7 million community fund drive in Oneonta, implemented “Gold Standard of Patient Care” renovations of the hospital, the first major upgrade since the 1960s. The undertaking converted all of Fox’s double rooms into 53 singles, added a 14-bed observation unit to monitor Emergency Room patients to determine if they need to be admitted, and implemented patientflow and infection-control enhancements.
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for the first time we have a doubleheader, so fans get to enjoy 2 games for free. First game is at 3:30 pm, second game starts at 6 pm. Both games against the Cortland Crush. Fireworks, courtesy of Five Star Subaru, after second game.
19th Annual Treadwell Stagecoach Run
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saturday, July 5 and sunday, July 6 10 am to 5 pm
Saturday July 5 – Southside Mall/Five Star Subaru Kids Night
All kids 18 and under admitted free. Another bonus – instead of one game, it’s a doubleheader against the Cortland Crush. The first game starts at 5 pm, and the second game starts at 7 pm.
Adults pay for one game, but get to enjoy two games for the price of one! Sunday July 6 – 5 pm game against the Cortland Crush
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MLS#92572 $19,999 Convenient Location only 10 minutes to Oneonta! 5-acre building lot w/driveway. Level and mostly open. Call Bill Vagliardo @ 607-287-8568 (cell)
MLS#90097 $59,900 waterfront sacrifice! Reduced 30K! 7 acres w/340’ Susquehanna riverfront. Cooperstown Schools. Call Thomas Spychalski @ 607-434-7719 (cell) Virtual Tour: www.NYLandFind.com
MLS#95274 $149,900 excellent buy! Charming New Lisbon farmhouse with large barn and tons of storage! 4+ BRs, 2 baths, 2-story home w/nice pond. Call Lynn Lesperence @ 607-434-1061 (cell)
MLS#94947 $127,500 affordably Priced! West End Oneonta within walking distance to school! 3 BRs, 2 baths, 2-car garage, private backyard. New bath, kitchen, roof, windows and AC! Call Bill Vagliardo @ 607-287-8568 (cell)
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MLS#94842 $182,000 spectacular seclusion! Solid contemporary home on over 26 acres near Cooperstown has 3 BRs, 2 baths. Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633 (cell) Virtual tour: www.realestateshows.com/710440
MLS#93417 $75,000 fantastic location w/rights to Silver Lake. Sturdy 3 BR, 1 bath home close to employment opportunities. Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633 (cell) Virtual tour: www.realestateshows.com/710308
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MLS#94145 $249,900 Classic Lake home! Creatively appointed home w/3 BRs, workshop, outbuildings, covered porch. Furnished. Call george (ROD) Sluyter @ 315-520-6512 (cell) Virtual tour: www.canadaragohomes4.com
MLS#94147 $239,000 Lake house and Cottage! 58’ of frontage. Furnished, year-round home plus cozy lake-side guesthouse. Call george (ROD) Sluyter @ 315-520-6512 (cell) Virtual tour: www.canadaragohomes5.com
MLS#94889 $309,500 have It all today! New custom home overlooking the water on 43 gorgeous acres. Trails, creek, 2 ponds. Call Kimberley Anne Thornton @ 607-222-8571 (cell) Virtual tour: www.realestateshows.com/722103 MLS#93225 $86,000 Adam Karns 607-244-9633 (cell) MLS#91517 $685,000 breathtaking Queen anne victorian the heart of Spacious 4 BR, 2Tastefully bath house is close to5 I-88. Cooperstown. renovated BR, 4Large bath home. backyard, small shed. Call Kristi J.workshop/garage, Ough @ 607-434-3026 (cell)Make your appointment today. Priced to go this week! Virtual tour: www.cooperstownhome.com Virtual Tour: www.RealEstateShows.com/708598
MLS#93743 $165,000 Custom-built Ranch on 1 acre. 3 BRs, 2½ baths, open floorplan w/kitchen, family room w/fireplace, LR/DR. Full lower level, attached 2- car garage, covered porch. Call Pamela V. Andela @ 315-717-1907 (cell)
MLS#94594 $265,000 tranquility awaits! Secluded 3-BR, 2-bath home w/cathedral ceiling, hardwood floors, stone fireplace on 30.98 acres. Large barn/garage. Nature at its best. Call Pamela V. Andela @ 315-717-1907 (cell)
MLS#93198 $329,000 Custom designed 3-BR, 2-bath Fly Creek home has radiant heat, cherry kitchen w/SS appliances, DR, master BR, 2-car garage, stone wall, pond. Cooperstown Schools. Call Katherine L. Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683 (cell)
MLS#93092 $175,000 Prime land on a country road between Fly Creek and Cooperstown. 45+/- acres, 1,800+/-’ road frontage, rolling hills, fantastic views. Call Katherine L. Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683 (cell)
MLS#94457 $349,000 Contemporary home on 36.40+/- acres 3 BRs, 2 baths, glassed LR and family room leading to deck, DR w/sliding door to stone patio, pond and htd cabin. Call Katherine L. Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683 (cell)
MLS#93990 $199,900 Location! Location! Price! Price! Endless business opportunities on St Hwy 28 in Milford. 2 buildings, 2 lots. 5 miles to Cooperstown, close to Oneonta. Call Katherine L. Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683 (cell)
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MLS#93282 $195,000 totally Renovated! New electric, roof, siding, septic, flooring, countertops, dock. 2-stall garage. Furnished. Call george (ROD) Sluyter @ 315-520-6512 (cell) Virtual tour: www.canadaragohomes1.com
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MLS#93225 $84,000 Spacious 4 BR, 2 bath house close to I-88 for an easy commute. Large backyard, workshop/garage, shed. Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633 (cell) Virtual tour: www.realestateshows.com/708598
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MLS#93460 $200,000 furnished! Open LR/DR, kitchen, fireplace, 4 BRs, 1½ baths. Remodeled in 2007. End of private road. Views! Call george (ROD) Sluyter @ 315-520-6512 (cell) Virtual tour: www.canadaragohomes3.com
MLS#90345 $119,000 Reduced! 3-BR, 2-bath country house w/farm charm. Wood-burning fireplace, garage, great barn, shop. Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633 (cell) Virtual tour: www Adam Karns.com
Bring your horses! Magnificently restored farmhouse features tavern room, bright DR w/cooking fireplace, hearth oven, wide plank flooring (some stenciled), open-beam ceilings and hand-planed doors w/original hardware. 5 BRs, 3 baths, wonderful master suite w/sitting room, full bath, also possible master suite on first floor. Covered porch, gazebo, pond, 2-car garage, 2-story barn, attached carriage barn, electric pasture fencing. $299,900 MLS#95327
MLS#93140 $219,000 James Vrooman 603-247-0506 (cell) MLS#90624 $495,000 amazing opportunity! Buy now for investment on this rapidly expanding prime location on Southside. Cooperstown Village home. Seller pays closing Call Linda B. Wheeler @ 607-434-2125 (cell)costs (up to offer). or$3,000 Sharonw/acceptable P. Teator @ 607-267-2681 (cell)
$179,900 MLS#95123 Lizabeth Rose, Broker/Owner
When Quality Meets Convenience! This spacious West End home has loads to offer. First
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floor has front LR w/built-ins, attached family room w/wood-burning fieldstone fireplace, formal DR. Large updated kitchen w/ Wood-Mode cabinets and SS appliances is open to DR. First-floor also has laundry, nicely updated bath, and master BR w/walk-in closet. Second floor has 2 BRs, half bath, loads of storage. Front exterior is fieldstone which adds to the curb appeal of this nicely landscaped home. Enjoy spending time on the covered deck overlooking the deep, tree-lined lot. Black-topped driveway leads to 2+ car garage w/plenty of parking space in the back as well. Easy access to I-88.
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An opportunity for year-round living in a peaceful lakeside community. This one-owner unit is well maintained and has had many updates. Lake views from all living areas and deck. Monitored, professional security system. Sliding glass doors lead from LR w/vaulted ceiling to large private deck. 2 BRs, 2½ baths, DR and fully equipped kitchen. State-of-the-art septic system, water from 1 of 2 drilled wells. 6.40 acres with approximately 1,500' lake frontage. Attached garage, boat slip available. Condo fees cover common areas and maintenance. Large pavilion provides a gathering space for friends and family while enjoying the prettiest land and frontage on the lake.
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