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Komron Ostovar, Cooperstown, questions the Smithy Art Center’s Kristin Bergene about the silent auction, now underway at 55 Pioneer St., Cooperstown, leading up to the live auction with Don Raddatz and Mike Stein as auctioneers, part of the Smithy’s third annual fundraiser 5:30-9 p.m. Wednesday, July 30.

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‘Loop’ Gives Hearing Impaired ‘Clarity’ At Christ Episcopal Church over the past few days, a futuristic – in the U.S. if not in Europe – magnetic loop has been installed under the floorboards, allowing hearing-impaired parishioners with “T-coils”

in their hearing aids to hear The Word with “incredible clarity.” Those are the words of Angela Plowden-Wardlaw, who convinced the vestry to undertake installing “the absolutely best system for

people who are hard of hearing.” It is the only system between Albany – one church in Delmar has it – and Binghamton, she said. Friday, July 25, Tom Chapman, a technician from Shanahan Sound in Lowell, Mass. – the company Please See CLARITY, A3

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petition signed by 57 neighbors proposes barring not only tour buses from Lake and River streets, but most buses and heavy trucks from the “village core.” After hearing comments Monday, July 28, at the monthly Village Board meeting, trustees named a committee to study the matter/DETAILS, A3 WELCOMING BAND: Mayor Katz at 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 1, on the steps of 22 Main, will proclaim “Baseball Project Day,” in honor of the band performing that night at Brewery Ommegang. It includes two R.E.M. members in the Rock Hall of Fame.

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Village Cobbler proprietors Wayne and Laura Jane Alexander, in red shirts, wend their way Sunday, July 27, along Main Street busy with fans from Atlanta, Chicago and New York who would cheer their heroes at Induction that afternoon.

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20 BASEBALLS: Bill Glockler, Town of Middlefield, won the case of 20 autographed baseballs raffled off Tuesday, July 29, by the Cooperstown Rotary Club.

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DOGS SHOW STUFF: The state police K-9 unit will demonstrate skills at 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 4, at the Village Library. CCS’ Elijah Sandler, left, Liz Millea and Michael Kern sell hot dogs by the dozens to 48,000 fans at Induction 2014 Sunday, July 27.

his wasn’t just an ordinary induction weekend – it was a town-wide party, and everyone was invited. For the first time since the Cal Ripken Jr./Tony Gwynn Induction of 2007, Baseball Town shut down Main Street, allowing the 48,000 visitors – the third largest crowd in the Hall’s 75 years, after 1999 and 2007 – to flock downtown. “By turning the sidewalk into vending and the street into the sidewalk, it created more of a block-party atmosphere,” said Mayor Jeff Katz. “I think we should do it Please See INDUCTION, A7

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Christ Church Pioneers New Sound System CLARITY/From A1 has installed 50 systems in New England and New York in the past two years, including Boston’s Symphony Hall – was in the church, consecrated in 1810, hooking up the system. In preparation for Chapman, the Rev. Mark Michael, the rector; sexton Michael Page and volunteers from the congregation, Antoine Bourbon-Parme, Kai Mebust and John Odell and his son, Jack, had squeezed through the crawl space under the sanctuary – there is a full cellar only under the altar – stringing the required cable. Plowden-Wardlaw – she is hearing impaired herself, and she and her husband, James, are parishioners – proposed the idea to the vestry two years ago. In recent months, she found an ally in Heather Dickey, a Bassett Hospital audiologist who spoke to the congregation about the benefits of the new system. The final step was the funding, and a gift to cover the installation was offered in memory of the three Cooper siblings who passed away since December 2012, Katherine L.F.C. Cary, Susan F.C. Weil of Cooperstown, and James F. Cooper. Father Michael, who pointed out the Cooper family has been associated with Christ Church since its founding – the village’s founder, William, and famed novelist James Fenimore are buried in the churchyard – said the new system may allow the church to connect with its roots in another way: “This means more community groups can use this space. Churches were not just spaces for worship, but for community gatherings.” The common type of hearing aid used in the U.S. is described by hearingloop.org as “in-the-ear loudspeakers.” These new “induction-loop systems” transmit a signal

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Angela Plowden-Wardlaw tested the new system in the Christ Church pulpit. With her are Father Mark Michael, rector, and Tom Chapman, a technician with Shanahan Sound.

directly to “T Coils,” or “telecoils” contained in the most up-to-date hearing aids and cochlear implants. “It gives incredible clarity,” said Plowden-Wardlaw. “It’s like being blind and regaining your sight.” Europe, where governments provide hearing aids to hearing-impaired citizens through their health plans, is much farther ahead in adopting the new technology, she continued. In London, taxicabs are looped, Michael said. “In Europe, it’s everywhere,” added Chapman. “If you go to a McDonald’s, it’s in the drive-thru.” The U.S. has lagged because, given hearing aids cost $7,000, fewer people buy them. Plus, “a lot of people with hearing loss are older: They are resigned to not hearing,” Plowden-Wardlaw said. Still, the Hearing Loss Association of America is determined to “loop America,” and the Albany chapter is particularly active, so the technology, novel today, may soon be much more available, she said.

Neighbors: Ban Buses, Trucks In ‘Village Core’ By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN

hat began as a petition drive to divert tour buses from River and Lake streets has grown into an effort to ban not only heavy buses but heavy trucks from the “village core.” The scope widened over the course of collecting 57 signatures, Chip Northrup, River Street, told the Village Board at its July meeting on Monday the 28th. “The village has the opportunity, for the first time, to address this issue more comprehensively,” he said. He suggested that the village ban the big buses and big trucks, with the exception of school buses, ambulances and trucks making local deliveries, and that tourists be dropped off at the new Blue Lot south of town and take the trolleys or shuttle buses into the village center. Speaking in support of Northrup, neighbor Roger MacMillan, Main Street, pointed out that similar systems are in place on Martha’s Vineyard and Williamsburg. After some discussion, the Village Board asked

Trustee Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, who chairs the Police Committee, to form a task force to study the matter. It will include Police Chief Michael Covert, but also representatives of the Baseball Hall of Fame and perhaps Cooperstown Dreams Park and the tourist industry, said Mayor Jeff Katz. “From where I sit right now,” Katz said in a followup interview, “we recognize the neighbors’ concerns, but to do a spur-of-the-moment rerouting without understanding the ramifications does not seem like a prudent way to go.” At the meeting, neighbor Jim Howarth, Lake Street, listed three concerns: Damage to infrastructure, congestion and safety. “People are being endangered getting in and out of their cars,” he said. Neighbor and mother of five Jocelyn Wittstein, Fair Street, added, “There are a lot of children in this neighborhood. It’s disheartening to see buses in this community.” For a few years now, tour buses, including those from Dreams Park, are dropping off riders on Main Street in front of the Hall of Fame, continuing to the stop sign at River, turning left onto that narrow street, turning left again onto narrow Lake

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Street, then turning left onto Chestnut and heading out of town on Route 28. When the issue was first raised a couple of years ago, it was suggested that buses continue east on Main Street, cross the Susquehanna, take a right on Estli Avenue, merge onto Route 33 south and turn right on Route 11C to return to Route 28. The streets are wider and that route passes fewer houses, most of which are set back from the road. At the time, Katz said, the 11C bridge was determined to be too old to accommodate all that heavy traffic. However, it was struck by a truck a year ago April and has been rebuilt, so things have changed. “Ellen’s committee will look at solutions and report to the board,” the mayor said. “The board will then likely make a proposal and schedule a public hearing.” Meanwhile, in a followup e-mail, Northrup said the petition drive will continue to seek more signators “to reduce/ remove highway buses from Village residential streets. If the Dreams Park think they can continue to run highway buses with impunity over the village’s residential streets, they will do so. We cannot let that continue.”

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EDITORIAL

Induction’14 Shows How Much Tourism Can Help Economy

he gods may have cried the Monday after Hall of Fame Induction Weekend 2014, when 0.4 inches of rain fell on fair Cooperstown during the noon hour alone. But they smiled the day before, when it mattered. The thunderbolts, lightning and a downpour at 7 a.m. eased into a few morning showers. By 1:30 p.m., when 48,000 fans had gathered in the field on the east side of the Clark Sports Center for the 75th anniversary Induction, the intermittent clouds, in-and-out sunlight and a light breeze made The Freeman’s Journal it as perfect an Upstate afternoon as any. The Hall of Fame’s Shirley Tyler • helps guide a visitor to his destinaThere’s further good news. After a six-year dry spell, a combination tion: Induction 2014. Rickey Henderson, Roberto Alomar, Jim of a poor national economy and a drought Rice and the rest (Ron Santo’s widow Vicki of stars from baseball’s now ending – finattesting to his accomplishments as diabegers crossed – Steroids Era, the successful 2014 weekend is a portent of good things to tes sapped his vitality, was unforgettable) – three or four of the next five Inductions come. could be banner ones. In 2015, the Bleacher Report is predict• ing, Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez and A good Hall of Fame Weekend was Craig Biggio will be inductees, and there a matter of economic life or death for are big names – Ken Griffey, Jr., Johnny Damon, Hideki Matsui, Mike Piazza, Chip- years around here, but that’s been superseded, the baseball merchants will tell per Jones among them – leading up to the you, by Cooperstown Dreams Park and expected Derek Jeter coronation in 2019. Cooperstown All-Star Village. In effect, after six iffy years – not to Still, a banner Induction is a gift of huge take anything away from Goose Gossage,

economic proportions. The Hall estimates every Induction Weekend fan has a $500 impact on the regional economy, Destination Otsego’s Deb Taylor said. Multiplied by 48,000 fans, that comes to $24 million, in one day a tenth of SUNY Oneonta’s vast annual contribution. We say regional economic impact, since hotels as far away at Albany, Binghamton and Utica reported bookings this year. Still, most of the impact is in Cooperstown and Otsego County. If, as in recent years, it’s hit and miss, that’s feast, famine, fright. If, in fact, a healthy injection of dollars is more or less dependable, that consistency can make everyone breathe a bit more easily. Even when the more balanced economy being sought by the Otsego County IDA is achieved, $24 million is $24 million, good news to all. • It’s not all about money, of course. The main lesson of Hall of Fame Weekend is one of achievement, and players Tom Glavine, Greg Maddux and Frank Thomas, and managers Bobby Cox, Frank LaRussa and – the local favorite – Joe Torre, were magnificent exemplars. Torre told the tale of his three firings – from the Mets, Braves and Cardinals,

each more discouraging. But he persevered. (“You’re not dead, are you?” wife Ali admonished him after the third.) Perseverance resulted in his almost miraculous decade (1996-2007) with the Yankees, when the team won 10 division titles, six pennants and four World Series. Inspiring stuff. Also, the event’s fun, with 56 MLB stars in town, parades, hoopla and food. Still, Induction Weekend’s success is important to our economically challenged (for now) Upstate region, and it’s great to have the Hall of Fame back in that game. • The sun shines, then it rains. The day after the Induction, neighbors asked the Cooperstown Village Board to ban all tourist buses from the “village core.” If people want to visit, they can take a trolley from the periphery. So much for the tourism boom. The next day, some wag suggested an antidote: No one who doesn’t like tourists should live in Cooperstown. That’s the other extreme. Is a happy medium too much to ask for? (That said, the tour buses can and should avoid too-narrow River and Lake by taking Estli Avenue out of the village. That’s the likely solution.)

LETTERS

Big Enviro No David; Small Landowners No Goliaths To the Editor: In The Freeman’s Journal July 3 lead article, “Fracking Foes Rejoice As Court Upholds Ban,” with a subheadline, “Lesson: Davids Can Beat Goliaths,” editor Jim Kevlin gets some things right, other things not so right. The antis lawyered their way to victory, overcoming the clear intent of a law that separated home rule from oil and gas operations in exchange for direct local tax revenue. That was the deal – revenues from oil and gas operations went straight to local governments without getting sucked dry in Albany. The deal held for 30 years without complaint. The lawyering included the nifty trick of changing the meaning of the word “all” so it didn’t mean “all” and equating gravel mining to oil and gas drilling. It worked. Towns now have the right to ban oil and gas drilling. However, courtroom observation and a close reading of the decisions indicate that the real credit should be given to the combination of street activism, press bias and money from the interlocking network of environmental organizations, foundations and funded

academics that demonized fracking. That bias bled through. Several judges openly recited the anti narrative in their questions. It was always a subtext in their decisions. Each trial was something like the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland – Verdict first! Trial later! Even before they swept through the doors in their black robes, their minds were made up. OK, the courts have decided. The law is changed and the fracking foes are rejoicing, as reported. The part of the headline that put burrs in my shorts was the implication that the antis are brave Davids against mighty Goliaths. The only Goliath attached to the Middlefield/Dryden case, Anschutz Exploration Corp., took giant steps out of New York three years ago. Money never sleeps. When Anschutz perceived an indefinite moratorium and a questionable legal outcome, it moved its money elsewhere. Any place but New York. All that was left to continue the case were landowners and creditors of a small, bankrupt gas company. Hardly Goliaths. Money never sleeps on the anti side either. The money men who made

huge financial bets on renewable energy are hedged with direct and indirect subsidies, tax breaks, consumer rebates and usage mandates. (That’s YOUR money, by the way, those of you who pay taxes.) These crony capitalists have a lot to lose if they have to compete with abundant, cheap, domestic natural gas. To protect their money they must demonize fracking. They do this through foundations that support their aims (Schmidt family, Packard, Park, Rockefeller family, William Penn Foundation, New York Community Trust) and a serpentine labyrinth of smaller money outlets (Sierra Club, NRDC, Sustainable Markets, Environment America, EarthJustice, et al) who in turn fund other outlets. Trace that original contribution and that’s where you’ll find your Goliath. The anti-fracking crowd as Davids – gimme a break! EarthJustice has a glassed-in, spotlighted billboard in the concourse of Newark Airport. Dairy farmer Jennifer Huntington doesn’t. RICHARD DOWNEY Otego Unatego Area Landowners Association

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tal Conservation to promote his pro-fracking agenda but, until a couple of months ago, he failed to disclose anything about his long career as a gas company executive or that he was forced to resign from the DEC for ethics violations. He has only owned up to this now, after several letters

To the Editor: The puff piece you published about Mr. Zagata, in which you attempt, at great length, to show us what a great guy he really is, omits a crucial FACT. Mr. Zagata has been using his dubious credentials as a former commissioner of the Department of Environmen-

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from myself and others were published in The Daily Star. Worst of all: He has tried to hide the fact that for five years, just prior to his short stint at the DEC, he was vice president of Transco Energy, the interstate gas pipeline company, now owned by Williams, that is trying to get federal approval for the proposed Constitution Pipeline, which would run about a mile from his 40-acre property in Davenport, and which would provide the necessary infrastructure for gas fracking in our rural area. This is a blatant conflict

of interest. And not the first time either. Mr. Zagata has been warned about this kind of behavior before. In 2004, the DEC’s general counsel took the extraordinary step of issuing a public “reminder” to him “of the lifetime ban on lobbying New York on issues an individual was involved in as part of their state job.” Apparently he still hasn’t gotten the message. And neither have you. If you want to pick a poster boy to promote fracking, Mr. Zagata is the wrong choice. BOB ROSEN Meredith

To the Editor: I enjoyed reading Dan Buttermann’s response to my earlier letter in your newspapers, where I expressed serious doubts about the Town of Oneonta’s Southside water idea. His letter was certainly well crafted, but it didn’t specifically address my four questions and concerns, mostly on the allied jobs to be created, the economic

impact surrounding the proposed project and the town’s past experience in being able to handle such a massive, $8.8 million capital project. If it’s not all about good paying jobs, then what is it all about? With the Oneonta area median household income well below state and national averages, with rampant widespread poverty Please See LETTER, A6

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Governor Cuomo was last in Otsego County May 22, when he narrowly missed appearing with President Obama at the Baseball Hall of Fame. At right is his companion, Sandra Lee; Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz is behind him; Utica newspaper reporter Lizzie Cooper, Cooperstown, is at left.

Ending Ethic Probe, Cuomo Attracts Federal Prosecutor ALBANY

he biggest story of the year in state politics is what happened to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Moreland Act Commission, which was supposed to look into corruption in state government. When Cuomo established the commission he said it would be independent and would follow the leads no matter where they led. He said that the commission, made up of outstanding members, including several district attorneys, would be free to investigate anyone including the governor, the lieutenant governor, the attorney general and the comptroller. I have written and said many times that Andrew Cuomo is a strategic genius. He’s obviously much smarter than I am. New York has seldom seen such a hard-driving, toughminded, consumed-by-politics politician. So, when he established the investigating group which was clearly going to go after some of the most corrupt members of the Legislature, I scratched my unworthy head and wondered what the heck he was doing. If, in fact, he was going after the connection between money and politics,

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he had to know that there would be consequences since he had a well-oiled machine that collected tons of money for the man who, most of us believe, has presidential ambitions. Clearly he wanted to win his upcoming gubernatorial election as big as his father Mario had in his second term. To put it mildly, the amount of money that Cuomo has raised for that reelection is obscene. The list of big donors goes on and on. We all know that people give immense amounts of money to politicians because they want something back. It has always been that way. It would be naïve to assume that this isn’t the case with Cuomo, who says he wants to revise the campaign laws to make them fairer. To make sure that his commission was controllable, Cuomo established it with an executive leader who the Cuomo people trusted. The commissioners truly believed that they would not be hampered Please See CUOMO, A6

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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library

200 YEARS AGO

James Graham was executed at Delhi, Delaware County, on Friday last, pursuant to the sentence of the law, for the murder of Hugh Cameron and Alexander McGillivray in July 1813. He ascended the scaffold with a firm and bold step, and before being turned off, declared, and called God to witness, that he was innocent of the crime for which he was to suffer; and that if ever a murder was committed in the State of New York, his executioners were now about to commit one. The evidence on his trial, though presumptive, left no doubt on the minds of the court and jury of his guilt. August 4, 1814

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General Grant opened the siege of Petersburg on Saturday morning by exploding a mine under one of the rebel forts. The fort, mounting sixteen cannon, was blown into the air, and before the enemy had time to rally, our forces made a grand assault upon the rebel lines, carrying three tiers of earthworks. For some time past our sappers and miners have been hard at work undermining the enemy’s entrenchments. On Friday, the engineer in charge reported to Major General Burnside, on whose front the mining operations were perfected, that the work was complete, the magazine being filled up with several tons of powder and everything in readiness for the denouement. At ten minutes to five a cloud of dust was seen rising from the rebel entrenchments. This was followed by a general upheaving of earth which reached probably fifty feet. The whole mass looked like a huge fountain of earth and dust, and formed a most imposing spectacle. Simultaneously with this explosion our batteries along the entire line opened a most murderous and destructive fire upon the rebel breastworks; and the infantry with deafening cheers, rushed into the embankments of the enemy. A constant cannonading lasting one hour and twenty minutes followed. August 5, 1864

George Hyde Clarke was so closely identified with the life of this village that his residence at the head of the lake seemed always to be included in the friendly environs of Cooperstown. His death is not more deeply mourned by his nearest neighbors than among his wider acquaintance and many intimates in this community. Had he lived until the end of this month, Mr. Clarke would have been 56 years of age. Born in New York City, his early years were divided between the town residence and the ancestral home on Otsego Lake. At the age of 14 he was sent to England where he was educated at the famous Harrow School. Returning to America, he became a law student at the Law School of Columbia University in New York City and was graduated in 1880. His real tastes, however, inclined to agriculture. Having been trained as a scholar, he added practical farming to his accomplishments, and settled down at Hyde Hall as a son of the soil. For the rest of his life, being at once a gentleman and a farmer, he was the better in both characters for being so much in each. August 5, 1914

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Before a large audience of parents, friends, village residents, and the Otsego Lake summer colony, a talented cast selected July 29, 1839 from the large enrollment at Pathfinders’ Lodge presented Wagner’s opera “The Flying Dutchman,” at the Lodge on the shores of Otsego Lake Saturday night. This is the 22nd season the camp has been conducted under the direction of Miss Five hundred clerks employed in the recently created Valerie Deuscher. The performance Saturday evening was the Pension and Record Division of the War Department have sixth year that the works of Wagner have been offered. Otsego been denied an annual leave of absence. The Secretary Lake played an important part in this year’s opera when the says the old soldiers whose claims have accumulated into Flying Dutchman’s ship appeared bearing the mysterious the thousands have waited long enough and now the clerks wanderer and crew to the scene of action and later when the must wait. Thirty thousand claims are awaiting the action of the War Department, and it is said there are over 100,000 heroine cast herself in the wake of the retreating ship. August 2, 1939 more pending in the pension office, which have not yet been referred to the War Department. They have not been referred there for the reason that it would take months to disThe village has paid the final $3,000 installment on pose of those already awaiting action. Eight hundred cases $33,000 in bonds issued in 1952 to finance construction of are being returned daily to the Commissioner of Pensions. water lines on Irish Hill. It completes payment for a $61,000 August 2, 1889 project carried out in that section of the village in 1951 which provided village water and sewer services to residents of the area for the first time in history. Prior to that, Irish Hill residents depended upon wells and septic tanks. July 29, 1964

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After Cuomo Curtails Ethics Probe U.S. Attorney On Governor’s Case CUOMO/From A4 in their efforts, but then it turned out that Cuomo’s top aide, Larry Schwartz, a takeno-prisoners kind of tough guy, told the commission that they had been issuing subpoenas to some of the most connected and wrong people. So the subpoenas were called back. Naturally someone called Ken Lovett of the New York Daily News, one of the best journalists in Albany, who ran with the story. Then the die was cast. The New York Times started an investigation which ended with specifics as only The New York Times can do it. It was a brilliant piece of journalism and it sent shock waves around the state. When the news broke, Cuomo suggested that since he had established the Moreland Commission, it was his to do with as he wished. His problem, of course, is that is not what he said when he established the commission. The big question is whether the whole thing is a fleeting story that made the headlines for a day or two. After all Cuomo is swamping his Republican opponent, Rob Astorino, in the polls by an over 35-percent margin. Not only that, it is unclear whether any laws were broken. It may be embarrassing for Cuomo, but most people don’t follow state politics other than cynically believing “they’re all a bunch of crooks.” Few people know who Astorino

48,000 Fans Reminder Of ‘Happy Days’ Editor’s Note: The 48,000 fans attending the Hall of Fame’s 75th Induction Sunday, July 27, had commentators referring to “Happy Days Are Here Again,” FDR’s theme song as he sought to revive Depression-battered American’s spirits. Here are the lyrics from the 1929 Ager-Yellen song.

appy days are here again, the skies above are clear again let us sing a song of cheer again Happy days are here again. • Altogether shout it now There’s no one who can doubt it now so let’s tell the world about it now Happy days are here again • Your cares and troubles are gone They’re be no more from now on Happy days are here again, the skies above are clear again let us sing a song of cheer again Happy days are here again. • So long sad time, so long bad time we are rid of you at last Howdy gay times, cloudy gray times you are now a thing of the past Happy days are here again, the skies above are clear again let us sing a song of cheer again Happy days are here again.

is and the bombshell story may turn out to be no more than the couple of days of attention that the story got. However, and it is a big however, there is an elephant in the room named Preet Bharara, the principled United States Attorney, who made no secret of his unhappiness at the way the Moreland Act Commission was disbanded in the middle of its work. He grabbed all the commission’s files and a lot of people are waiting to see where his investigation leads. If Bharara, who made his political bones working for Chuck Schumer, starts to indict people, or finds wrongdoing, it will make this a whole lot more than a two-day story. Alan Chartock, president of Northeast Public Radio, WAMC Albany, may be reached at alan@wamc.org

Measure Governments’ Investment In Good Jobs Created LETTER/From A4 in the area, with population declines and school student enrollment dropping to class “C” levels (114 senior graduates this year at OHS) and likely 90 percent of those graduates will go off to college never to return to our area to find a career, then there’s the slew of empty storefronts all over the place, which already exist and extensive neighborhood deterioration; then sir, if it isn’t about jobs, then what is it? Is the Southside water project the “silver bullet” which is going to address these immediate and striking deficiencies? I hardly think so. Also, I believe every capital project that involves public funding should be tied to the number and payroll level of jobs to be created. That’s what the state believes, which has become the foundational position of the state’s 10 economic

development councils and the “Start-Up NY” program; and that’s what’s happening all around the state and needs to happen here, too. Jobs; good paying jobs. Additionally, I believe that every capital project, whether public or private, should be endorsed and integrated into the master plans of two or more adjoining municipalities. It would encourage continuity of vision and strengthen inter-municipal collaboration, promoting more effective use of taxpayer support. Right now, I’d rather see a community-wide effort to secure $8.8 million to assign to the IDA specifically to advance Oneonta-based, job-intensive capital projects! Jobs!! Good paying jobs!

Specifically, what was that last multi-million dollar capital project the town led on? Mr. Buttermann stated the town “has previously undertaken similar sized projects;” but didn’t mention any. I’m not talking about planning and zoning approvals, rather I’m talking about where the town actually initiated a project, put-up some Town taxpayer funding behind it and then drove that project to a successful conclusion. I still can’t remember anything close to $8.8 million level. If the town had truly been the visionary force for the public good, championing projects to have positively impacted the Southside and the town, public water, sewer, utilities services and

a four-lane Route 23 would already be in place. We thrive on being reactionary. It’s not too late for Supervisor Wood and the Town Board to be begin talks with city officials about jointly creating a comprehensive regional water system that would bring top quality water and perhaps sewer to all businesses and residences within a 15-mile radius of the community. And if it were driven by the creation and sustainability of good paying jobs, all kinds of capital funds would follow. I plan to call Mr. Buttermann to try and arrange a meeting with him to discuss our respective beliefs towards making Oneonta a better place to live! ALBERT COLONE Oneonta

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48,000 Fans Join Local Folks In Townwide Party INDUCTION/From A1 every year.â&#x20AC;? With the street closed, visitors could mingle with other fans and locals, shop for souvenirs, get autographs and eat. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every minute people can spend here is a good minute,â&#x20AC;? said Katz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone found memorabilia to buy and a restaurant to eat at.â&#x20AC;? Merchants loved the idea, too. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I sold out of hot dogs,â&#x20AC;? said Young Wilkens, owner of the Depot Deli on Pioneer Street. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My husband makes a roast pork loin that we use for barbecue pork sandwiches, and we sold out of those too. It was crazy â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in a good way!â&#x20AC;? Stagecoach Coffee had all hands on deck, with lines out the door. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had as many employees as we could fit behind the counter,â&#x20AC;? said co-owner Matt Grady. At the Cooperstown Bat Company, fans lined up for autographs from Fergie Jenkins and Andre Dawson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We could see everyone out our window,â&#x20AC;? said propri-

etor Connie Haney, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but when you walk out the front door, you could see all these people out in the streets, having fun and celebrating baseball. There was a lot of excitement in the air, and it energizes everyone.â&#x20AC;? And even residents off Main Street were getting in on the action. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There were little lemonade stands throughout the village,â&#x20AC;? said Deb Taylor, Destination Otsego executive director. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We really pulled together as a community.â&#x20AC;? A community that people came from far and wide to be part of, said Matt Hazzard, Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce interim director. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had visitors staying in hotels as far away as Binghamton, Albany and Utica,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If there was a cancellation, within minutes, we had it filled.â&#x20AC;? So too, he said, were all local hotels and bed-andbreakfasts similarly filled to capacity. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only going to get better, or at least stay as good. Next year, Randy Johnson will be on the bal-

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York Times, as well as the Chicago Tribune. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These give us forums to tell more Cooperstown stories,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In very real ways, any exposure I get is great for Cooperstown. I always advocate for this village. Always.â&#x20AC;? As the weekend winds down, the compliments keep coming in. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone who comes in here says that this is such a beautiful place,â&#x20AC;? said Wilkens. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cooperstown is a loved word in so many peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s minds,â&#x20AC;? said Taylor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We lived up to their high expectations.â&#x20AC;?

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MLS#93140 $219,000 James Vrooman 603-247-0506 (cell) MLS#95428 $249,000 Goodyear Lake! 3 BR, 2 bath, year-round home with panoramic views. Close to Cooperstown Dreams Park. Cooperstown Village home. Seller pays closing costs (up Tastefully redone interior. to offer). Call$3,000 Carolw/acceptable A. Olsen @ 607-434-7436 (cell)

MLS#95763 $220,000 4-BR, 2-1/2 bath home on 2.2 park-like acres. Newer kitchen and baths. Also: 2-BR, 2-bath mobile w/ attached garage for income! 8 more acres available. Call Suzanne Darling @ 607-563-7012 (cell)

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MLS#94147 $225,000 58’ of frontage on Canadarago Lake. Furnished, year-round home plus cozy lakeside bungalow. Call George (ROD) Sluyter @ 315-520-6512 Virtual Tour: www.canadaragohomes5.com MLS#93225 $86,000 Adam Karns 607-244-9633 (cell) MLS#93460 $200,000 Furnished home w/lakeside patio, porch, Spacious 4 BR, 2 bath house is close tocovered I-88. Large open LR/DR/kitchen, fireplace, 4 BRs, 1½Make baths. backyard, workshop/garage, small shed. your Call George (ROD) appointment today.Sluyter Priced@to315-520-6512 go this week! Virtual Tour: www.canadaragohomes3.com Virtual Tour: www.RealEstateShows.com/708598

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MLS#95721 $169,000 Low taxes and Panoramic views of otsego Lake! Ranch offers nice flow from kitchen to DR, LR. 3 goodsized BRs, 2 baths. Full walk-out basement, garage. Call Pamela V. Andela @ 315-717-1907 (cell)

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MLS#94077 $150,000 Immaculate Ranch home in the Village of Otego. 3 BRs, hardwood floors, pool, Timbertech deck, newer appliances, pristine condition. Do not miss this one! Call Carol A Olsen @ 607-434-7436 (cell)

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MLS#95771 $399,000 112-acre estate is a nice mix of woods and fields w/views and pond! 2-3 BR house, large garage has radiant heat, water, electric, workbench, workshop. Call Suzanne Darling @ 607-563-7012 (cell)

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MLS#94594 $259,900 tranquility awaits! Secluded 3-BR, 2-bath home w/cathedral ceiling, hardwood floors, stone fireplace on 30.98acres . Large barn/garage. Nature at it’s best. Call Pamela V. Andela @ 315-717-1907 (cell)

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MLS#89932 $59,900 Country Living! 2 BR, 1 bath quaint cottage! New roof, new kitchen. Call Gabriella Vasta @ 607-267-1792 (cell)

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MLS#95480 $299,000 3 BR, 2 bath, post-and-beam home on 11.60 acres has glassed LR and family room w/gas FP, deck, skylights, high ceilings, wood flrs, DR, stone patio, 2-car garage. Call Katherine L. Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683 (cell)

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MLS#94172 $225,000 super Low Price for this mountain-top retreat in the Catskills. Call Gabriella Vasta for showing @ 607-267-1792 (cell) Virtual tour: www.Realestateshows.com/720421

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MLS#95413 $85,000 best buy on Canadarago Lake! Family affordable cozy 3-season cottage. 2 BRs, 1 bath. Great getaway for all your summer fun! Call Pamela V. Andela @ 315-717-1907 (cell)

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MLS#93096 $239,999 over 60k Renovations! owner willing to take a Loss! 4 BR, 2 bath home on 8.27 acres w/stream. Lots of new: master BR suite, windows, hardwood floors, carpet, well, septic, electric, insulation, hot wtr heater. Call Donna A. Anderson @ 607-267-3232 (cell)

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MLS#95520 $235,000 67 acres, never been logged. Updated farmhouse features 4-5 BRs, 1 ½ baths, original wide plank floors. Call Carol A. Olsen @ 607-434-7436 (cell)

Beautifully constructed in 2008, this 2-family home has magnificent views and a total of 8 BRs and 4½ baths. The main part of the home has 5 BRs and 2½ baths including master BR and full bath. Bright DR and LR w/double-sided gas fireplace, plenty of storage. Sliding glass doors off the back lead to deck. Basement apartment is open w/large rooms, 3 BRs and 2 full baths, radiant heat, laundry room. A gated, paved, private driveway w/2-car attached garage and pavilion make this home complete. $299,900 MLS #94741

$169,900 MLS#93380 Nicely updated and ready for new owners! Spacious split-level located on nearly an acre in the Town of Oneonta. Large light-filled LR w/new paint and carpet is open to kitchen/dining area. Kitchen has new countertops, laminate flooring. BRs and baths are freshly painted and new carpet in BRs as well. Lower level features newly carpeted and painted family room, laundry/utility room. Brand new over-sized deck for your outside relaxation and entertaining. Home sits on a nice lot w/mountain views in a great location. Just a hop, skip and a jump to I-88. Call for your showing today.

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(7732) Superbly kept 3 BR expanded Cape Cod has center-hall layout with hardwood floors, 6-panel doors, gracious LR w/ fireplace, formal DR. Custom kitchen w/eating area, large windows and skylights. Patio, deck, finished basement, garage, large yard. Hubbell’s Exclusive—$385,000

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(7861) Completely remodeled 3 BR, 3+ bath contempo w/ great views on 6+ acres. Spacious LR w/fireplace, formal DR, study/library, rec/game room, home theater, cherry floors, finished attic. Custom kitchen w/eating bar, granite countertops. Master BR suite w/steam shower. New deck, screened porch, new sauna. Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive—$749,000

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(7895) This appealing 3 BR, 3 bath contemporary home sits on a full acre. Features include large LR w/fireplace, formal DR, den, 3-season room, oak flooring, main-level master BR, 2-car garage, large lake-view deck, lake rights. Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive—$374,000

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Centrally located in the heart of the village, this wonderful family home was built around 1812. Large fenced backyard, large deck, mudroom addition w/woodstove, lots of windows overlooking private backyard. Full walk-up attic, studio to rear of detached 1-car garage. Side porch leading to mudroom was rebuilt. All new energy-efficient windows, wood floors throughout. Interior of the home was recently repainted, floors done, tile added. 2BRs w/private baths and 2 BRs share an updated bath w/soaking tub. Laundry room on second floor. Great house in a great location! It is in move-in condition.

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