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Cooperstown Woman Shares Joy As Friend Finds Lost Twin Sons By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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attie Dickinson, now an innkeeper at the White House Inn, and Christine Walker
met in fourth grade in Lansing, Mich., and were soon best friends. “She had an exotic New Jersey accent,” said Christine. “Everyone wanted to be her friend, but she chose me. She taught me to use makeup, how to
bleach my hair.” Their dads both loved baseball, and Christine’s father coached “all the boys we went out with,” said Christine. Year after year since, she made the pilgrimage to Please See JOY, B4
Newsstand Price $1 Pattie Dickinson, upper right, shared a happy reunion with girlhood friend Christine, her newly discovered twin son, Chris, his wife Patrice and their children, Alec, Bryce and Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal Josie.
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After 30 years, the neon “Tepee” sign shone again at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 12, at the Route 20 landmark in Cherry Valley. Owners Donna and Dale Latella collaborated with noted NYC neon artist Jeff Friedman to repair the lettering. 100 wellwishers cheered the occasion.
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illage trolleys are now running regular routes to Ommegang from the brewery’s “pop-up store” on Main Street, Peggy Bush, Birnie Bus Tour manage overseeing the trolley system, announced. Mayor Jeff Katz praised the initiative, saying Birnie, since taking over it operation in May, is making the trolley system “a more vital one that reflects the needs of our riders.”
ON COVER: Cooperstown writer Mitchell Owens’s visit to Laura and George W. Bush’s Texas ranch is the cover story of the August 2014 issue of Architectural Digest.
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Liam Heiland mans the OCCA water-tasting tent at the Otsego Lake Festival Saturday, July 12, at Lakefront Park, where attendees, in a blind taste test, determined Milford has the tastiest water, followed by Fly Creek, Hartwick, Middlefield, Oneonta and Springfield.
here’s no film score quite so connected to baseball as the Randy Newman’s Grammy-winning soundtrack to the 1984 Robert Redford film “The Natural.” You remember that haunting sixnote combination – de-DAH. Pause. de-DAH-de-DAH – in the next-tofinal scene, just before Redford’s Roy Randy Newman Hobbs’ home run hits will round out the stadium lights, the Hall’s 75th which explode like anniversary confireworks. cert Aug. 2. And on Friday, Aug. 2, Newman himself will be on stage at the Clark Sports Center to conduct those six notes and the score of the famous movie. “Having him as part of the Hall of Fame’s 75th anniversary concert is a natural,” said Loren Harriet, the Hollywood Please See NEWMAN, A3
Orthweins Seek Good Home For Polo Ponies By LIBBY CUDMORE CHERRY VALLEY
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t’s the end of an era for Red River Farms. Where once Pioneer Spirit, a proud black stallion, roamed
WANTED: Good home for polo ponies. Call Mike Alicino, 264-3032 the Cherry Valley hills with a herd of fine mares, looking to sire prize polo ponies, he is now penned and anxious, crying out
in frustration for his missing girlfriends. “We got rid of the mares yesterday,” said caretaker Mike Alicino. “I wanted to make sure these guys got good homes. I’ve taken care of them for so long, I feel obligated to make sure Please See PONIES, A3
Caretaker Mike Alicino consoles Pioneer Spirit at Red River Farm, Cherry Valley. Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal
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Orthweins Seek Good Homes For Polo Ponies Randy Newman Fills Roster PONIES/From A1 they’re safe.” One by one, the horses – which include polo ponies, Amish driving horses and riding horses, are being given away to loving families. “We had 20, now we’re down to 12,” he said. The farm was owned by Anheuser-Busch heir Adolphus Busch Orthwein, who passed away last fall, and his wife, Nancy, for use of breeding polo ponies to play at their Huntleigh Farm in St. Louis, Mo. “With my husband gone, we don’t really have any polo players up here these days,” said Nancy. The family had a farm on the other side of Otsego Lake growing up, but in the late 1960s Orthwein purchased Red River Farm
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and took to training the horses to stop, go and turn quickly for the game. “He raised a lot of good horses there,” said his son, Steve, who at one time served as the chairman of the United States Polo Association. “I have some that I still play with.” The farm was also used for breeding and practice, and often hosted players from all over the world who came and bought horses. “Our ponies won best playing pony in so many matches,” said Nancy. Polo is played by trying to drive a small ball into the opposing team’s goal using a long-handled mallet, all the while riding a horse down a 300-yard field. Three of the Orthwein sons, Steve, Peter and Dolph Jr., still play, sometimes alongside their own sons and occasionally against each other. “Peter is my twin, and we played against each other in col-
Nancy Orthwein shows off a trophy from her late husband Augustus’ poloplaying prime. Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal
lege,” said Steve. “He’s now the president of the polo club in Greenwich, Conn., my sons and I started a polo club in Port Mayaca and Dolph founded the Atlanta polo club.” Orthwein played polo until he was 81 and died in November 2013, shortly after celebrating his 96th birthday at Red River. But even when he wasn’t playing, polo was still important to him. “Even after Mr. Orthwein stopped playing,
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NEWMAN/From A1 agent who is organizing the tribute concert. “He’s a very important figure.” Randy Newman is the final addition to the concert lineup, which includes Paul “Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio” Simon, former Yankee Bernie Williams, Gospel legend Yolanda Adams, C&W star Hunter Hayes and Juan Luis Guerra, winner of several Latin Grammys. “We’ve got four multiGrammy winning artists, two members of the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, a 22year-old country sensation and the Boston Pops,” Harriet said Tuesday, July 17, in announcing the complete lineup. “It’s a pretty solid lineup.” In addition to “The Natural,” Randy Newman will also play two songs at the concert. “It’s pretty cool to have him here,” said Harriet. “It’s unbelievable, really.” Baseball-wise, in addition to his score for “The Natu-
ral,” his best-known song, “I Love LA,” from 1983’s “Trouble in Paradise,” album is played before Los Angeles Dodgers games. The album also featured a duet with Paul Simon, titled “The Blues,” but Harriet says no formal set list has been determined. It’s not Newman’s first trip to Cooperstown. In July 2007, Newman was on hand as part of the Hall of Fame’s “Voices of the Game” series, discussing baseball and music. Newman has been nominated for 20 Grammy awards, winning twice for “If I Don’t Have You” from “Monsters Inc.” and “We Belong Together” from “Toy Story 3.” He’s a sixtime Grammy winner for his film scores and a three-time Emmy winner for the scores to “Cop Rock” and “Monk.” He is also a member of the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, The Songwriting Hall of Fame and a Disney Legend.
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bserve Cooperstown’s municipal happenings for a while, and you get the impression that Bassett Hospital is one thing only, a parking problem. Of course, it’s much more than that. It’s the largest employer, the mainstay of the village’s professional class, the foundation of a pricey real-estate market, the support of high-end restaurants and everything else in a 265-day off-season. It’s a magnet for well-off retirees, who contribute their brains and experience to community betterment. When it’s not being discussed as a parking problem, it’s a source of community pride, as it should be. • It’s also become so much bigger than the Village of Cooperstown, home to 1,800 souls, down 15 percent from 2,100 since 1990. As just-retired 30-year president/CEO Bill Streck understood and acted on, only by growth could Bassett survive in the dramatically changing healthcare environment of the last quarter century. Even today, the eight counties that depend on Bassett have a 600,000 population, when the latest target for a sustainable healthcare system is 1.2 million. In recent months, Streck and his team came to see Bassett’s future as not just buildings and trained physicians but, perhaps foremost, as an insurance system. If Bassett Gold, the system’s product on the state’s Obamacare exchange, can flourish, enrolled patients can be funneled to Bassett services exclusive of others. In other words, a healthy Bassett Healthcare Network will not depend on bigger and bigger buildings in Cooperstown, a community that resists an expanded campus, but on focused, thriving, specialized nodes, strategically placed to best serve market niches. Enter, Fox Hospital, Oneonta. •
healthcare system however necessary, makes sense. • Meanwhile, the Village of Cooperstown was creating a complicated “hospital zone” to regulate Bassett Hospital’s growth. For the first time, the village code actually recognizes Bassett’s right to exist, and that’s great. However, any variances would still have to go through the regular process, and plans would have to gain approval of the Historic Preservation Architectural Review Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal Board. New parking requirements triple Better coordination between Bassett, left, and Fox hospitals is under study. the needed spaces, meaning that Bassett, although grandfathered, couldn’t move to It should be fascinating to everyone, • its current site if it wasn’t there already. cheering to Oneonta, and a caution for At first blush, and second blush, upgradWhen the proposed zone – it goes to Cooperstown, that one of the first missives ing Fox’s offerings makes perfect sense. public hearing at the Village Board’s Monto the Bassett community from Streck’s sucOneonta is the region’s population center day, July 28, meeting – was raised at last cessor, Dr. Vance Brown, called for “studyand the center of Bassett’s Otsego-Delamonth’s meeting, the concern was immediing opportunities for improved integration ware-Chenango-Schoharie sphere, with ate: How can we protect the single-famand better coordination of services” beCooperstown, Delhi-Walton, Sidney and ily homes along Fair Street, and thus the tween Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown and Cobleskill within a half hour, and I-88 runstreetscape? New concept, old thinking. Oneonta’s Fox, in four priority areas: ning through it. (It’s less convenient to the In the course of the hospital-zone deliber• Cost savings through “expanded inteMohawk Valley affiliates.) ations, the bigger picture – Bassett’s stratgration of support services.” With Cooperstown’s population and egy for the future – was not even discussed. • Consolidating inpatient child-bearing Cooperstown Central’s enrollment dropThat discussion should begin immediately, and child-caring at Fox. ping, and Oneonta’s young families produc- before a hospital-zone vote. That is, if • Consolidating eye surgery at Oneonta ing the region’s children, it certainly makes Cooperstown wants to assure – maybe not Specialty Services, Dr. Jim Elting’s former sense to move obstetrics and pediatrics – that the institution remains Cooperstowncampus on outer River Street. there. Plus, there’s excess space and plenty centric. (There is plenty of room to expand • Expanding the FoxCare Center on the campus toward the Clark Sports Center Oneonta’s east side. It now provides a range of room to grow. Last year, the Oneonta community raised in the Town of Middlefield.) of services, from a gym to outpatient testing $1.5 million for Fox in a matter of months: Undoubtedly, Bassett’s board and decito MRIs. If Cooperstown is ambivalent about Bassett, sionmakers have a sentimental attachment • Expanding dental care at Fox Hospital. Oneonta certainly is four-square behind to Cooperstown. But it’s a cold, cruel world (This is still a crying need throughout the Fox. Paired with an $8.5 million state of healthcare out there, survival of the fitU.S., a shameful one, given that remedies grant, the local match launched the most test. Bassett will do, and must do, what it are so straightforward.) must to survive, much less flourish. ambitious upgrade since the 1960s, creatThe recommendations grew out of a fourCommunities would be wise to align their ing 56 state-of-the-art single rooms, plus a year study, initiated when Fox entered the strategies for the maximum benefit of our futuristic observation ward for ER patients Bassett system in 2010. Brown called the region’s largest employer, its patients and and other innovations. situation “extremely complex” and requiremployees, or be left behind. Oneonta will. Oneonta’s on the make, and tying its ing “detailed analysis,” but he expects a Cooperstown should. fortunes to Bassett’s, accommodating the decision in six months.
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To the Editor: As one who has benefitted from your support, I have known that when it comes to editorials, the sword cuts both ways. I write to correct errors in your piece in last week’s edition of your newspapers and to give you my perspective on the subjects you addressed, which varies greatly from yours. Now to the facts, and the process to date. A small thing, but you state that I only have two more years in office. The fact is that I have three and a half more years in office. Common Council could choose to exclude me from the search committee. But whether or not I am on the committee, only council members will vote on the appointment of the new City Manager. I will vote only if there is a tie. Interestingly, the Charter prepared by the original Commission states “the Common Council shall conduct the search.” As to the process, on April 7 the council’s Human Resources Com-
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ne of the biggest fights involves how much effort to put into stopping leaks of methane gas into the atmosphere... Among a few academics and on the far left of the environmental movement, cries are going up that the president is about to lock America into a supposed solution to climate change that will be worse than burning coal. Is that claim plausible? The basic scientific facts are pretty clear. By far the most important greenhouse gas that humans are spewing into the atmosphere is car-
bon dioxide, which comes from burning fossil fuels. The second most important is methane, which comes from many sources. It is released when coal is mined; it escapes when wells are drilled for oil or natural gas; and it leaks from pipes that distribute natural gas. Certain agricultural practices also throw up a huge amount. Pound for pound, methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. But in stark contrast to CO2, methane breaks down quickly in the atmosphere. Every time you flip on a light switch, causing more coal to be burned and CO2 to be released, you are slightly altering the earth’s climate for thousands of years. Release a puff of methane, scientists say, and the climate influence will be gone in a few decades.
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Editor’s Note: That natural gas is the worst contributor to global warming has been an article of faith for some Constitution Pipeline opponents.. This perspective is an excerpt from the New York Times by Global Warming reporter Justin Gillis.
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To the Editor: A couple of weeks ago I wrote a letter to this newspaper publishing my complaint about the unsightly and poor condition of the village flagpole located on Main Street at Pioneer. A day or so later I had the occasion to speak with Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz on the street and he explained the village’s short- and long-term plan regarding maintenance of the flagpole. A week or so later, I received a phone call from Village Trustee Ellen Tillapaugh who told me of the upcoming plan to paint the flagpole, and just a few days later, it was finished! And it looks great. Thank you to the mayor and trustees for doing what needed to be done in a very timely fashion. DAVID K. BUTLER SR. Cooperstown
mittee conducted a wide-ranging conversation, in which Laurie Zimniewicz participated. You and Denise Richardson from the Daily Star were present at the meeting. Laurie was the only member of the public, besides the press, who chose to attend. The outcome of that meeting was that I was asked to make a recommendation to the council, which they then accepted at their meeting on April 15. The recommendation was public, and the process thus established has been faithfully followed and is on schedule. At the same meeting I informed the council that I was asking members of the original Charter Commission to reconvene with a specific charge to review the document, reporting back to me by June 30. That action did not require council approval and came upon the recommendation of your newspaper and Laurie Zimniewicz (who, incidentally, had worked hard on my re-election). The charge to the committee specifically excluded involvement in the search process and,
as I understand the likely content of some of its observations, I expect the council to act promptly to embrace many of them. More on the facts. While it is true that I believe Meg Hungerford is an excellent candidate, I stated clearly to you on Monday afternoon, July 7, after the Human Resource Committee at which Steve Londner delivered his letter, that she could not possibly be my first choice because I did not know who the other candidates were at that point. In the end, I want the best possible candidate appointed to the position. Anyone who questions that doesn’t know me. Paul Scheele raised the issue of the MPA as a qualification, which started an immediate e-mail discussion among council members as to whether it was an inviolate requirement. The exchange of ideas among people of various opinions required, in my judgment, legal input. City Attorney Merzig’s interpretation, which, by Please See LETTER, A6
Southside Water Plan Raises Questions To the Editor: I have a few questions surrounding the idea of bringing public water to Oneonta’s Southside; and none of them are concerned with where the water is sourced. Here they are: • When was the last time Town of Oneonta government led on an $8.8 million capital project; for that matter, when was the last time the town led on a $4.4 million capital project? This town water plan idea is four times larger than the town’s annual budget. • How many good-paying, longterm jobs will result from this water project? More minimum wage jobs will do nothing to raise the standard of living and consumer power of the people in our area. We need good paying jobs! Whenever public funds are involved, the number and value of new jobs needs to be the top priority before funding is approved! • How is the town’s Southside wa-
ter idea positioned towards extending water throughout the entire town to include the West Oneonta area? This Southside water idea seems to be strictly “a shoot from the hip” effort and not part of a comprehensive town-wide water plan. • Where will the added Southside water go after it’s used; does it have an impact on the city’s waste-water treatment facility and operation? Will capacity at the existing plant have to be increased or will it require the town to develop its own wastewater system? Who might have to pay for an expanded or new system? Before any money is spent on this idea, more research and study needs to be done and more answers need to be provided to all area taxpayers! ALBERT COLONE Oneonta
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William Cheney informs his friends and the public in general, that he will communicate to any person, the art of breaking horses or cattle, so that they may be made docile and gentle, or will break them himself for a reasonable compensation. He can inform any person, so that they will be enabled to break a Horse, that can be rode, in the space of one hour – even the wildest that can be produced. His terms can be known by calling on him. Oaks Creek, July 20, 1814. July 21, 1814
175 YEARS AGO
An Interesting Incident: While taking his breakfast on a visit in New York City, President Van Buren was informed that an old lady, upwards of one hundred years of age, was present and anxious to see him. Upon this, the President left the table and went into the hall to invite her into the room. It appeared that she is in her 104th year. Her name is Hannah Gouge, and she lives at 135 Reade Street. She said she had seen every President of the United States and had shaken hands with Washington and was quite delighted to see the present incumbent. She walked without assistance from her residence, but was escorted back by Robt. W. Bowyer, Esq. July 15, 1839
150 YEARS AGO
Lakewood Cemetery – Excerpts from the Eighth Annual Report of the Trustees. The grounds as originally laid out are so rapidly filling up that new plots will soon be required to meet the demands of the community. Since the last annual report 26.5 lots have been sold and 28.5 graded and put in order besides many minor improvements which have been made on others. The present number of lot owners is 199 and the number of lots sold is 276.25; of these 206 have been graded. The total number of interments made since the opening of the Cemetery is 348, of which 196 have been removals from other grounds. During the past year there have been 27 burials and 58 re-interments. July 22, 1864
125 YEARS AGO
For The Ladies: Is the health of the future mothers of the country being ruined by the modern demands of education? To get a medical opinion on this question I asked one of the woman physicians whose practice lies almost entirely among women and among growing girls thinking she would be the first to notice it and cry out against it. There is no trained observer in the country who has given more atten-
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invention of the game of baseball in Cooperstown gave impetus for the ambitious undertaking of an all-summer program celebrating 100 years of baseball. Friday, July 22, is Firemen’s Day and plans call for a gigantic parade in which 1,100 fire fighters will be seen in line with equipment. At Doubleday Field the day will be topped off with a baseball game between two of the fastest colored teams in the east, the Mohawk Colored Giants and the Havana Cubans. July 19, 1939
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State Comptroller Arthur Levitt said this week that civil rights should not be an issue in the forthcoming national election. Speaking at the 49th annual convention of the New York State Election Commissioners Association at the Hotel Otesaga, Mr. Levitt called for a bipartisan approach to civil rights. “No thinking person would want either party to July 16, 2004 flounder over such an issue as civil rights,” he said. “There tion to the health conditions of women than Dr. Lucy M. is a place for both partisanship and bi-partisanship in our Hall, who is resident physician and assistant professor of system of government.” physiology at Vassar College. “Have you found that the July 15, 1964 girl who wishes to study is, as a rule, physically injured by the strain of the so-called higher education? She answered: “Rules are hard to formulate, because everything depends Sam Hoskins and his boys, Matt and Andy, have a barn on the individual; but in general, it is safe to say that the full of pheasant chicks in Fly Creek. The chicks, all 75, health of college girls averages better than that of girls out came by mail from Iowa. They were shipped on one day of school and without occupation. College work is often a and arrived the next day, one-day old. The young pheasants good physical tonic.” are from the Cooperative Extension Program. The boys will July 19, 1889 raise them and when they are eight to ten weeks old the pheasants will be released. The Hoskins’ boys are the only Fly Creekers with pheasants this year. Altogether, 1,630 The 57th Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of baby pheasants were given to 21 families in Otsego County. Lakewood Cemetery shows the total number of lots sold Hugh MacDougall has recently published a booklet titled since the opening of the cemetery to be 733.75 and the “Cooper’s Otsego County – A Bicentennial Guide of Sites number of interments made 2,920, of which 544 were in Otsego County Associated with the Life and Fiction of removed from other grounds. During the past year 44 inter- James Fenimore Cooper, 1789-1851.” Hugh compiled this ments were made. There were 12 bodies placed in the vault book to celebrate Cooper’s 200th birthday. during the winter. The treasurer’s report shows receipts of Recent guests at the home of Gerry and Dufie Bushnell $3,453.48 and disbursements of $3,285.58 during the past on Walnut St. is their daughter Prudence and her husband, year. At the meeting of lot owners, Charles T. Brewer, Fred Richard Buckley, of Reston, Virginia. Prudence and Richard L. Quaif and Waldo C. Johnston were elected trustees to leave this month for Senegal, West Africa, where Prudence serve three years. will serve as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy July 15, 1914 in Dakar. July 19, 1989
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Now Is The Time For Massive Investments In Wind, Solar, Not Oil, Gas To the Editor: Why is Mike Zagata a lightning rod? Because, in previous issues of our local papers, as with your July 3-4 editions, far too much space has been allotted to someone whose claims are unsubstantiated. The scientific findings that oppose his agenda are substantial. Yet you print his complaint that “we’re ignoring the science “ regarding wildlife’s needs for young forest. Apparently he’s ignoring a three-year study by the USDA and
Penn State showing that pipelines are dissecting forest habitats of Pennsylvania and can lead to the extinction of numerous songbirds. The Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society opposes the Constitution pipeline for this very reason. Contradicting Zagata’s claims, they state that birds benefiting from such cutting already have adequate habitat in the region and those that will lose interior forest are already in decline. If young forest was needed, we could certainly provide it through selective cutting, not
cutting determined by the “preferred” route of a gas company. You both are ignoring the science when he states, and you print, “Cleaner air will benefit everyone.” The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration’s findings support studies showing that fracked gas, overall, is dirtier than coal. Your editorial, in the same issue, states that even if we accept that natural gas is dirtier than coal, we’re not going to change things overnight. Well, we’ll never change things
if we continue to promote massive investments in, and subsidization of, gas and oil instead of wind and solar. Your paper’s position is clear. We’ve seen your seemingly endless series of articles by Citizen Voices (whose focus, according to the Daily Star, “has been to oppose attempts to ban hydraulic fracturing”), promoting the expansion of the gas industry for its short-term financial benefits, while ignoring its long-term costs. Why is Mike Zagata a lightning
Mayor Pledges ‘Thoughtful, Independent’ Hiring Decision LETTER/From A4 the way, is consistent with minutes of original Charter Commission meetings at which the subject was discussed, supports the view of many that while an MPA is desirable – unlike a position that requires a license as in the case of a physician – a candidate could be appointed without such a degree if his or her experience was indicative of future success in the position. On the advice of our search consultant, a bachelor’s degree requirement was stated in the advertisement in order to cast the widest net and thus bring the greatest number of candidates into the pool. Steve Londner’s letter was addressed to the Council, which meets on Tuesday night (the 15th) and may consider the matter, if it so chooses, under the correspondence section of the meeting. It came almost three months after the search process was announced. On July 21 our consultant will be presenting to the council, in executive session, a suggested list of the best candidates from which finalists may be selected. Steve’s letter suggests that token involvement late in the process would not be acceptable, and while the council can do as it wishes to adjust the process in place, his request thus seems to immediately disqualify itself. His letter is the first on the subject since the process was announced on April 15. I had a call from Laurie Zimniewicz at the time the process was being designed and another from her last week, asking for more public involvement in the process. But I have heard from no one else on the matter over what is now almost a 90-day period. More to the point, Steve’s letter demeans the breadth, experience, intelligence and
the independence of Common Council members. Members of the Council subject themselves to the election process; each member attends at least four to five meetings per month – 12 months per year. Council members have to live with their decisions and criticism of them on a dayto-day basis. To suggest that they constitute a “good ol’ boy network” governed by “personal whim” is simply inconsistent with my experience with them individually and collectively based on chairing, to this point, 109 council meetings since becoming mayor. Commission members are appointed to accomplish specific tasks, and unless they comprise a body permanently established by the charter of the city, they are discharged after they have accomplished their goals. The original Charter Commission did a splendid job in preparing the new charter and in convincing the public to approve it. I ran in 2009 in part on a platform that recommended a new charter that includes a city manager, on the basis that I felt we needed full-time professional leadership. The group that reconvened at my request to review the charter is made up of individuals whom I consider friends. The group was not asked, as indicated earlier, to review the search process, and I have only heard from three members on the MPA issue or the make-up of the Search Committee. To my knowledge the group has not taken a formal position on either matter, which would be, in any event, outside the charge of the responsibility they agreed to undertake. Your paper’s disclosing the name of a specific candidate and taking a position
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rod? Because you consider his life story to be front-page news worthy of over a full page of print, while in the same issue, devoting a mere snippet to an historic court decision upholding Middlefield’s ban on fracking. So why is Mike Zagata a lightning rod? The answer is simple. He’s not. Your effort to give him credibility and use him to promote your own views are what fuel reactions like this one. MICHAEL STOLZER
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Briar Hill Farm—Nestled into the hills of Springfield, this very early post-and-beam farmhouse is being offered for sale with 1.97 acres. With about 2,300 sq ft, the home offers a formal entry, LR w/fireplace and closet, parlor or downstairs BR, partially renovated full bath, DR w/plank-wainscotted walls, original walk-in butler’s pantry, delightful kitchen. Upstairs are 2 BRs w/en suite baths. Over the kitchen is a large room, perfect for master BR or family room. Attached 1-car garage w/walk-up attic, cut-stone building w/oven, small older barn, in-ground pool w/cabana, slate patio, and building that opens onto a “party patio”. This property has not been lived in for several years. House mechanics seem fine, but it needs some TLC and is being sold “as is”. Otsego Lake rights at Springfield Public Landing. Offered Co-Exclusively by Ashley-Connor Realty $265,000
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MLS#94824 $74,900 state Land nearby this chalet w/3 BRs, 1½ story htd garage and workshop. 0.35-acre lot w/views. Call Suzanne Darling @ 607-563-7012 (cell) Virtual tour: www.realestateshows.com/723055
MLS#95482 $429,000 4 BR, 2½ bath ranch has finished walk-out lower level, fireplace, master suite, laundry. Lake views Spacious 4 BR, 2sun bath house I-88. Large8.63from enclosed porch andis close deck.toAdditional backyard, small shed. Make your acre lot canworkshop/garage, be sold w/this property for $499,000. appointment Priced to@go this week! (cell) Call Katherinetoday. L. Fistrowicz 607-267-2683 Virtual Tour: www.RealEstateShows.com/708598
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MLS#93140 $219,000 James Vrooman 603-247-0506 (cell) MLS#91030 $299,900 Move-in condition 4 BR, 2 bath home on 7 acres in Fly Creek. Large LR w/wood floors, family room, entry w/ Cooperstown Village home. paysSpacious closing costs (up woodstove leads to DR andSeller kitchen. master. to offer). Call$3,000 Kristiw/acceptable J. Ough @ 607-434-3026 (cell)
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MLS#95360 $139,000 outstanding Location and Priced to sell! 3 BR, 2 bath ranch w/additional lot in Milford. Quiet and spacious yard. Oneonta School District. Call Lynn Lesperence @ 607-434-1061 (cell)
MLS#95192 $135,900 Light, bright, updated FHA-qualified Oneonta home in a quiet neighborhood! 3 BRs, 2 full baths, new upto-date kitchen, large DR, good-sized fenced yard. Call Kimberley A. Thornton @ 607-222-8571 (cell)
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MLS#94363 $129,000 This 4-BR, 2-bath ranch is move-in ready. Newer roof and heating system, finished basement w/full bath, large wrap-around deck, lush green lawn. Call James Vrooman @ 603-247-0506 (cell)
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