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Augur’s, Century-Plus Staple, Leaving Downtown Becky Davidson, left, Augur’s proprietor since 1998, is moving the landmark bookstore, and Davidson Jewelry, to Grove Street. Renee LaFond, who leases space in Augur’s, is closing Little Bo’tique at month’s end.
Changing Shopping Patterns Threaten ‘Cute’ Main Street By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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ugur’s Books, a Main Street mainstay since 1899, and its associated businesses are vacating the landmark building at the flagpole. Becky Davidson, who has operated
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The retiring Rev. Douglas Deer, pastor of First Baptist Church and dean of the Cooperstown clergy, and his wife Susan will be bidden farewell at a public reception, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 17, in the church hall/SEE PROFILE, B8
Augur’s and Davidson Jewelry there since 1998, said she is moving the shops by the end of September to Jason Tabor’s Sawmill Suites at 55 Grove St., where the jewelry store was located when she founded it in 1984. Little Bo’tique, which has sublet a space in Augur’s for more than three years, is closing the children’s shop at Please See AUGUR’S, A7
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Hops – Pacing Factor For Local Ag Revival LOCAL FOODS, LOCAL SPIRITS – Exhausting!
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est Lake Road camp owners fearful of DOT plans to seize lakeside properties are hosting a presentation by attorney Gilbert Hoffman, Syracuse, 6-8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 15, in The Otesaga’s Templeton Lounge. Doors open at 5. In recent days, Caroline Sever has alerted the county Board of Representatives and the Otsego Lake Association of the property owners’ concerns. WETLANDS PLAN: State Sen. Jim Seward, RMilford, and Cooperstown Fun Park owner Bob Hickey will announce a “major wetlands project” at 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 10, at the Hartwick Seminary site. MANOR SALE OK’D: The state Department of Health Thursday, Aug. 8, approved a “certificate of need,” the final hurdle to completing the sale of Otsego Manor to Focus Ventures of Rockland County.
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s if to underscore the hops revival is not the exclusive purview of established businesses and the well-off, CADE’s 50 would-be hops Morgan growers – a range of folks – gathered Thursday, July 31, at the Muddy River Farm in Unadilla to learn how to grow the once plentiful local crop. This was two days before 110 hops enthusiasts toured from Northern Eagle Beverages to Please See CADE, A2 Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal
The 270 who attended the $35 Cooperstown Farmers’ Market “Local Food, Local Spirits” fundraiser Thursday, Aug. 7, in Pioneer Alley created just too much excitement for 2-month-old Josephine Levine, tended here by dad Dan Levine (visiting from California with wife Audrey and two others daughters, Charlie, 3, and Margaux, 2) and grandmom Ellen Levine, Town of Springfield. Attendees voted Origins Cafe their favorite.
New CEO Outlines Bassett ‘Triple Aim’ By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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reviewed 30 years of challenges to the Cooperstown Rotary Club and concluded, “It’s brought us to the starting line.” Friday, Aug. 8, when his successor, Vance Brown, addressed the Friends of Bassett quarterly breakfast for the first time, it was
as if the two men had coordinated their remarks. Dr. Brown picked up where Dr. Streck left off, outlining a triangleshaped strategy for the future built around (A) a positive patient experience, (B) appropriPlease See BROWN, A7
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two-page ad in Sunday’s New York Times asking Amazon to stop using authors as pawns in negotiations to improve its cut of book and e-book sales, has brought a national controversy home. Among the 900 signators are George “Tenth of December” Saunders of Oneonta and Dana “Eat The Document” Spiotta, formerly of Cherry Valley. See WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
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Hops Hot Button Now, But New Ag Opportunities About To Emerge CADE/From A1 Cooperstown Brewing to Hager Hops 10-acre field in Pierstown, learning how the family of local Anheuser Busch descendants has put together a complete bine to brewery operation. Under the auspices of CADE, the Center for Agricultural Development & Entrepreneurship in Oneonta, the 50 from Muddy River gathered again the following Thursday at the newly opened Roots Brewery in Oneonta, and
were due to finish their training at Roots in a third session Thursday the 14th. This is part of a piece. “Part of the job,” said CADE Executive Director Rebecca Morgan, “is to be creative about the next wave of the Food Movement.” Right now, hops is the hot button. In recent days, CADE has obtained at $49,000 USDA grant that bought six oasts – hops dryers – one each for Muddy River and five other farms that are starting to
grow hops. The grant was enough to buy a newly developed portable hops harvester from Steenland Manufacturing in Roxbury and a pelletizer that the six can share. “We’re trying to help people who are just starting out,” said Morgan. And this is just the beginning in a lot of ways, said the CADE executive, who was raised on a farm near Walton, left for Wesleyan, then spent 20 years traveling the world with the U.N. and Human
Rights Watch. Always interested in food issues, she obtained an advanced degree from Columbia in Food System Development, and joined Heifer International, the organization that, beginning with a single cow, seeks to pull villages out of poverty. Along the way, she met Greg Schnabel, a trader in biomass commodities, and returned to Walton (he commutes to New York City), where four children soon followed: daughter Chella,
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ooperstown native Ted Potrikus has been named president/CEO of the Retail Council of New York State, effective Sept. 1. Potrikus succeeds the retiring James R. Sherin, who held the position since 2004. “Ted’s been with the Retail Council since 1989 and
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wo Cooperstown artists, Cheryl Wright and Celia Clark, were among the five top prize winners at The Fenimore Art Museum’s seventh annual Art by the Lake juried art invitational Saturday, Aug. 9, to record crowds. Cheryl Cheryl Wright Wright won the Fenimore Award for “the one piece of art that can be considered museum quality,� sponsored by Dr. and
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The famed Beekman Boys of Sharon Springs – Josh Kilmer-Purcell, left, and Brent Ridge, right – join NYSHA President Paul D’Ambrosio and artist Susan Jones Kenyon, Cooperstown, in judging “Art By The Lake� entries.
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wo local students were among 200 from SUNY Oswego in summer internships: • Pamela W. Townsend, Cooperstown, a senior communication and social interaction major, interned at Gallery CNY Art & Artists in Cazenovia. • Andrew T. Auriemma, Milford, a senior wellness management major, interned at Serenity Fitness in Cooperstown.
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Casinos? Dicey. Meanwhile, Otsego County Pursues Real Jobs
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he two leading heavy hitters in the proposed Howe Caverns Casino & Resort in Schoharie County were in Cooperstown Wednesday the 6th, breakfasting at The Otesaga with Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz. (Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller was invited, but had to cancel.) Mike Malik of NAG Development, Detroit, which has been building casinos in the U.S. and abroad since the 1990s, and Jim Dacey, vice president/development for Full House Resorts, Miami, are leading the charge for the Cobleskill facility, one of four proposed Upstate by the Cuomo Administration that may be approved this fall. The two men then met with leading local tourism proponents: Deb Taylor, executive director of Destination Otsego, the executives from the Otsego Chamber, Barbara Ann Heegan, and the Cooperstown Chamber, Matt Hazzard, and Vince Casale of The Casale Group, which helped develop Full House’s New York State application (and also chairs of the county Republican Committee). You can see there might be possibilities to collaborate, particularly in the shoulder seasons and even the winter. For instance, might patrons enjoy staying at The Otesaga and being bused back and forth to Howe Caverns? After all, you can’t gamble 24 hours a day. (Or can you?)
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• The great thing about the discussion is that any participation by our non-host county is so low risk, particularly given a front-page article in the New York Times this past Monday concluding that New York State is too late into the casino sweepstakes – 15 years too late, gambling industry analyst Harold Vogel is quoted saying. Casinos in Atlantic City are closing. Foxwoods, located in the sweet spot of Connecticut, half way between Boston and New York City’s big populations, is cutting back. Will our state’s new casinos simply take business from our state’s nine racinos? Casinos mean risk, and not just at the blackjack tables. “The jobs created ... could offer low wages instead of providing a pathway to the middle class,” the newspaper reports. “Localities could face new expenses for public safety
services, not to mention the indirect costs of problem gambling.” Phew! We may benefit marginally from the casino, but we miss all that downside. • Contrast Schoharie County’s gambling with Otsego County’s economic-development strategy. It’s a happy contrast – for us. When the county IDA met last week, instead of dice and slot machines, the discussion surrounded progress on “shovel-ready sites,” which the second “Seward Summit” last November showed are essential to attract real jobs. IDA President Sandy Mathes discovered a “shovel-ready site” is already at hand: Pony Farm Industrial Park has acreage, municipal water, sewer, electricity and gas, plus high-speed broadband access. And it’s right on I-88. Delaware Engineering, under contract with the IDA, has
sketched out a 400,000-squarefoot parcel that can accommodate a 300,000-square-foot building at Pony Farm, and plans are to spruce up and “rebrand” a property that, certainly, is showing its age. Another site south of Richfield Springs is also being studied, with an eye toward attracting suppliers for the $1 billion nanotechology campus under construction at SUNY/IT, north of Utica. IDA board members were also briefed on funding for the Hager Hops/Northern Eagle Beverages’ exciting “dirt to beer” strategy. That alone garners a $95,000 financing fee to IDA, plus $6,500 a year for the life of a 10-year pilot, and more than covers the first-year investment in Mathes. Benefits to the county economy will felt for years. • Further, as CADE’s Rebecca Morgan details on Page A1 of this edition, the county is also on the cusp of seeing great benefits from the “Local Foods, Local Spirits” movement – 270 people paid $35 apiece for a so-named fundraiser for the Cooperstown Farmers’ Market in recent days – that is beginning with hops, but seems certain to expand. When it does, we’re not talking about peanuts, given our proximity to “many, many millions of dollars” in unmet demand – Morgan’s estimate – in New York City. She
sees a mature hops farm netting $45,000 an acre. Plant 10 acres, and we’re talking, not subsistence, but prosperity. Arugula grown here commands $16 a pound in Gotham’s fancy restaurants. Big money, hedge-fund money – have you heard anything about Woodbine’s Marcel Kasumovich buying land in the Hartwick Valley? – is starting to look here, as are growers from California (where water is lacking) and the Midwest (where water is tainted.) • This – nanotechnology, Farm to Table products – is the right stuff. We’re aligning with sectors that are sure to grow, sectors that require brainpower and work ethic, traditional values we are wise to promote in creating a better local world. It’s great that we may be able to gain some benefits from the Howe Caverns casino (the wrong stuff) with little risk. The IDA, for instance, is offering to train casino workers at its prospective Susquehanna Regional Business Center on the fifth floor of Oneonta’s 189 Main. But the IDA – regrettably, and mystifyingly, county government, which still declining to participate – is placing much surer bets, ones that could be transformational, not for five years or 10, but longterm. The happy reality is, they’re hardly bets at all.
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Fans Should Have Been Told Of HoF Concert Cancellation
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advance of the Induction Weekend. Those who were in charge of the Induction Weekend activities should’ve made sure that prominent notices were placed around town, along with notices at the souvenir stands and in the programs. The Jumbotron should’ve been used to announce the cancellation. Instead, it was used to announce the concert thereby misinforming everyone. The HoF induction weekend online site should’ve been updated with this information. We spent 4 days in the area without seeing any notice of the cancellation. While the concert cancellation may be an embarrassment to the planners, not doing their best to inform everyone of the cancellation during induction weekend but misinforming people is an even bigger embarrassment. KEITH MONEY Schenectady
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To the Editor: My family and I came to Cooperstown for the 2014 Induction Weekend. We had a wonderful time. In the Upstate Life Magazine and the HOF Weekend Program that we purchased that Sunday, there were articles about the concert on Saturday, Aug. 2, celebrating the 75th anniversary of the HoF. We live near Albany but decided we’d travel back for the concert. That Saturday, we drove the nearly two hours back to Cooperstown. As we began to approach the Clark Sport Center, we were puzzled by the nearly deserted parking lots. Imagine how disappointed we were to find a hand-written sign stating that the concert had been cancelled. But more disappointing, was that in talking with a number of the townspeople, we found that Jane Forbes Clark, Jeff Idelson and others apparently knew this nearly a full week in
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Vandals Can’t Realize Work That Went Into Buffer Strip To the Editor: It has come to the attention of the Lake & Valley Garden Club that there has been vandalism to the Buffer Strip Garden in Lakefront Park over the last month. One of the serious and disturbing incidents that prompted us to write this letter is the cutting down of a memorial – a miniature pussy willow tree. While LVGC did not plant this tree, it was emotionally distressing for the family and costly to replace. It is unsettling that someone is cutting down the plant material. A new tree has been planted in its place with the old stump left as a reminder. In 2005, The Otsego Lake Association identified a big problem with soil erosion along the shoreline in Lake
Front Park. They asked the Lake & Valley Garden Club to design a buffer garden to help stabilize the soil and reduce the effects of rainwater runoff into the lake. In 2007, The Garden Club of America recognized the importance of this type of water conservation and awarded LVGC the prestigious national Founders’ Fund Award, which included $25,000 to finish the garden. LVGC members invest many hours maintaining this garden with workdays to weed, prune and clean up the garden twice a year. The village helps by keeping the trash cleaned up, pruning and boardwalk maintenance. LVGC and OLA pay for all the maintenance and materials, such as mulch and plants. BOCES students come once a year
and help with weeding, pruning and mulching. Members help the students understand about the garden’s role in lake ecology. In addition to stabilizing the shore, the buffer strip has the added benefits of beautifying the park and providing easy access for wheelchairs, baby carriages and people who want to walk along the boardwalk at the shore’s edge. If you wish to comment to LVGC about this project or the vandalism, we welcome your comments, and letters addressed to The Lake & Valley Garden Club, PO box 164, Cooperstown, NY 13326. SUZANNE KINGSLEY Past President Lake & Valley Garden Club
CATHE ELLSWORTH Where Nature Smiles ... Again
Hannah’s Hill Explained; What About The Cannon Ball?
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s was our wont, when we were first writing this column in the 1980s, we would offer from time to time various questions about the history of Cooperstown in hopes that our readers would supply us with not only the answers but also with some other interesting tidbit about which we might write. • When we asked once about Hannah’s Hill, Howard P. Michaels, Fly Creek, called our attention to “The Story of Cooperstown,” by Ralph Birdsall, rector of Christ Church from 1903 to 1918. In that marvelous volume, Father Birdsall states, “...the pine clad summit which overlooks ... the village from the west is still called in her honor, Hannah’s Hill.” The “her” referred to Hannah Cooper, Judge William Cooper’s eldest daughter. She was only 23 years old when, on
What happened to the cannon ball that appears in some older photos of the Council Rock Monument, left, but not in others?
Sept. 10, 1800, she fell from her horse while on a ride with her brother, Richard, and died. The Cooper brother and sister were on their way to visit Gen. Jacob Morris at his home at what was then called Butternuts and what is now called Morris. When Hannah fell from her horse she struck her head on a tree root and was killed immediately, according to Birdsall’s account. We must confess that as we grew up here we rarely heard of “the pine clad summit” referred to as Hannah’s Hill. Indeed, after
we mentioned Hannah’s Hill in the column, a native and lifelong village resident asked us quietly on Main Street where Hannah’s Hill was located. Hannah Cooper is buried in the Cooper family plot in the Christ Church yard. • This mention of “The Story of Cooperstown” was followed by a call from Andrew Gilchriest, Nelson Avenue, who was kind enough to point out to us a paragraph from the book which concerned the 1901 unveiling of the marker placed by the Otsego Chapter DAR
to commemorate Clinton’s Dam. It read: “Directly across the river, on the eastern point of the outlet, the newly erected marker was concealed beneath the folds of an American flag ... from beneath the green foliage down the river a canoe paddled by a young man who wore the dress and war paint of a Mohawk brave approached. Seated with him in the canoe were two little girls attired in patriotic colors “... The young girls were Jennie Ordelia and Fannie May Converse, both descendants of James Parshall, an orderly sergeant who was present at the building of the dam in 1779. The Indian was impersonated by F. Hamilton McGown, a descendant of John Parshall, private, a brother of James Parshall.” The DAR memorial can still be seen from Council Please See NATURE, A6
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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library
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Advertisement – For Sale, Twenty-six and three fourths of an acre of Land, lying about equally divided on both sides of the Great Western Turnpike Road, seven miles west of Cooperstown, in the Town of Otsego, being part of Lot No. 33, in Croghan’s Patent, formerly occupied by Samuel S. Munro, deceased. On the premises are a Log House, and a new Barn, 26 by 36 feet, with a thriving Orchard of 75 Apple Trees, and a number of Plumb Trees – 15 acres are cleared and under good improvement. It would be an excellent stand for a Mechanic. For further particulars, apply to the Subscriber on the premises. Betsey Munro. August 18, 1814
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henceforth with his family and assume active management of the business. John W. Brown, partner in the firm, is retiring for health reasons, but will retain an active interest in the business while moving with his wife to 63 Elm Street where he has purchased the residence of Mrs. George V. Conklin. George Tillapaugh has been associated with the business for the past seven years and has been located in Cooperstown during the illness of Mr. Brown for the past twelve months. He is a graduate of Hartwick College and of the Simmons School of Embalming at Syracuse. He has also taken advanced work in the National Funeral Service Institute in Chicago. He is a member of the Cooperstown Rotary Club and a young man of sterling character and pleasing personality. August 16, 1939
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The Independent Federal Treasury – What it is: It is a measure strictly constitutional and democratic. It contemplates a reduction of the revenue to the actual wants of government. Its tendency will be to prevent an accumulation of a surplus in the Treasury; for if the moneys are not permitted to be used, it will be the interest of all to prevent an accumulation. This is a cardinal principle in the measure. It will separate the moneyed from the political power of the country. It will disconnect the moneys of the National Treasury from the business of individuals, and preserve them for the public use. It will prevent the public moneys being used in such a manner as to stimulate to “over action” in trade; thereby tending to prevent panics and revulsions, which affect all classes of citizens. It will place the revenue of the country under the control of the agents and representatives of the people. It will diminish Executive power and patronage, by dissolving all connection between the President and the banks – rendering it impossible for him to be controlled by them, or exercise control over them by offering, as a bribe, the use of public money. It will benefit the banks by destroying every motive of partisan hostility against them. August 12, 1839
Former Mayor Howard C. Talbot, Jr. was appointed administrator of the village zoning code at a meeting of the Village Trustees. He fills the vacancy caused by the death of Ross J. Young, also a former Mayor. It carries no salary. Mr. Talbot was Mayor of Cooperstown until last March and was in office during the final stages of the development of the Cooperstown Area Master Plan from which the new zoning code grew. Prior to that Talbot served for seven years as a member of the Board of Trustees. August 12, 1964
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It is not generally known that the best Havana segars are made from tobacco dipped into a solution of opium. Natural leaf tobacco never has that peculiar effect as will be noticed upon smoking the best clean leaf in a pipe. It is the opium in a first rate segar and not the tobacco which smokers get enslaved with and cannot do without. In some of the Havana establishments, $20 thousand worth of opium per year is used. August 12, 1864
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In Our Town: A cablegram received by Mrs. Chas. P. Thompson Thursday morning from her son, Professor Kennington L. Thompson sets at rest all fears for the safety of the Professor and his wife who had been held in Munich Germany for spying. They are now sailing for home from
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August 16, 1889 Liverpool for New York on The Baltic, one of the ocean liners in the White Star line. Their friends are greatly relieved by the news of their departure from Europe for a land where a man with a camera is not arrested as a spy. The post office of Cooperstown has received notice from the department that the postal authorities of Austria have ceased to issue money orders payable in the United States. Money orders drawn in this country and payable in Austria are canceled by the Washington authorities. August 19, 1914
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The Cooperstown planning board granted conceptual and final site approval for a proposed addition and renovation work at Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital. A public hearing will be scheduled. Joseph Middleton, vice-president of facilities at Bassett, presented plans for the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) unit. The one-story addition will include renovation of 1,500 square feet in the old stone hospital building, with 2,300 square feet of new construction which will house a 16,000-pound magnet. Entry to the facility will be from Beaver and Fair streets. August 16, 1989
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Local officials estimated that 15,000 visitors came to the village for a sold-out concert on Doubleday Field featuring Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan. About 3,000 never made it inside the field for the show. Some sat in their cars nearby to enjoy the music. Cooperstown police officers reported making only two arrests. Trustee Stuart Taugher, who had expressed reservations about the conduct of the event beforehand, sat outside Doubleday Field Friday afternoon to greet the crowd. “Everything’s been great,” Taugher said then. “Everybody’s been very nice. JAM Productions has been such a great organization to work with.” August 13, 2004
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Morgan: Investors With Long Views Looking At County’s Agricultural Future CADE/From A2 concern that has been raising grass-fed beef in the Midwest, where water quality is becoming a concern. In Upstate New York generally and Otsego County in particular, water is pure and plentiful, there’s plenty of vacant land for pasture and there’s proximity to New York City’s huge market for natural foods. That market, worth “many,
many, many, many millions,” Morgan said, has also created a demand for vegetables and the start of the systems needed to deliver it to market. As with the Argentines and beef, a group of vegetable growers from droughtstricken California recently came calling. Until recently, local vegetable farmers had to drive their own produce to Union Square, Park Slope, Green Point or other
big farmers market downstate. “You’re exhausted,” Morgan said. “It takes three days to recover.” Now, Lucky Dog Farm in Hamden is trucking others’ produce to New York. And the next round of CFAs grants, expected to be announced in September, may include $11 million for a food hub in Oneonta that would connect with other food hubs in the Hudson Valley. Meanwhile, the Green Earth’s
Dean Roberts has launched Otsego Fresh, based on Schoharie Fresh in Cobleskill, seeking to connect local consumers with local producers. Talk to Rebecca Morgan for a while, and the pieces start coming together. There’s much more. She’s got it all in her head. Two things are missing from the promising picture she paints. One, there aren’t yet enough young farmers, “very competent, passion-
‘Terrific Evening Of Music’ At Pierstown Grange To the Editor: The Pierstown Grange presented members (and guests) of the Glimmerglass Festival Orchestra in concert last night (Monday, Aug. 11) at the Grange LETTER Hall on Wedderspoon Hollow Road. Over 100 members of the audience rose in unison at the completion of Bohuslav Martinu’s 1927 ballet “La Revue de Cuisine,” the last piece on the eclectic evening of music. It was the 12th year in a row that the group has performed for the Grange, its members and friends, under the watchful eye and ear of Ubaldo Valli, violinist with the Glimmerglass Festival, and organizer of this Florence High Chamber Music Concert each year.
Where’s That Cannonball? NATURE/From A4 Rock Park. One of what we think is the more interesting, and equally puzzling, things about the memorial is that we are in possession of two different postcards of it. One has a cannon ball in the cannon and the other does not. We assume the cannon ball was in the cannon when the memorial was dedicated and at some point it disappeared. To us that seems a more logical progression but we must admit we do not really know. And the postcards are of no help with this puzzlement as neither one of them are dated. • But we must say we think that “The Story of Cooperstown” is an excellent way to become acquainted with the first century of Cooperstown’s history. Written in 1917, it was updated in 2004 when Village Historian Hugh MacDougall added a most helpful index. Over the years, we have read bits and pieces of the book as they related to historical topics we were discussing. But just recently we undertook reading it from cover to cover. And it is indeed a most pleasant read and, although some of it historical correctness has been challenged over the years, it still paints a most interesting picture of the village’s first century or so. We note, for anyone who is interested, that both hardcover and paperback editions of the 2004 reprinting of the book are available at Willis Monie Books on Main Street here in Cooperstown. We remain, Where Nature Smiles, The Ellsworths
He always claims that he tells the musicians to play what they want to play and it always ends up to be a terrific evening of music. Last night, besides a C.P.E. Bach Sonata by Linda Greene, flute, there were 20th Century jazz pieces (standards by Ellington and Young) performed by Aaron Brask, horn, and Doug Peck (conductor of the Festival’s “Carousel”) on piano, a Debussy bassoon piece (originally written for flute, I understand) by the outstanding Mark Timmerman, a P.D.Q. Bach “Dutch” Suite with David Saltzman, tuba and the other marvelous bassoonist, Spencer Phillips.
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And, finally, the ten episode piece by Martinu with six players. Magnificent. The really unusual piece, though, was at the end of the first half of the concert when three men in black sat up on the stage with just a table and their scores in front of them. They played “Musique de Table” by a contemporary composer,
Thierry de Mey (born in 1956). Sasha Margolis, usually on the violin, and Mark Timmerman of the bassoon, joined percussionist Matthew McClung, thumping and hitting the table (miked beautifully) to the thrill of the audience. It was a great triumph. MARTHA McGOWAN Cooperstown
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ate entrepreneurs, incentivized by profit,” she said. And there isn’t enough money yet. But that’s about to change. Hedge-fund managers, “capital investment money,” is beginning to look at Otsego County. “These are people who are willing to invest with a slow return,” she said. “What should they invest in?” Rebecca Morgan asks the question, but she already knows the answer.
Rte 80 Property Owners & Concerned Citizens Meeting Friday, Aug. 15, The Otesaga, Cooperstown Welcome 5pm, Meeting 6-8pm We own property north of 5-mile point that DOT claims to own. They do not have proof, will not compensate us for it, and will tear it down. DOT actions are already hurting other property owners and the entire community. We’ve asked our attorney, who has over 27 years of title/real property experience, to help us explain. We don’t want you to be hurt because we’ve kept silent. You need to be aware of what’s happening. Please come. Jim & Caroline Sever: jimandcarolinesever@gmail.com
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MLS#95599 Middlefield $220,000 This is the only residence on a little-used dirt road surrounded by farms, fields, woods and streams. It could easily be a small farm or equestrian facility. Move-in condition ranch, pole barn/indoor arena, 2 pole machine sheds and an older, smaller barn. An additional, adjacent 200 acres may be available. Close to Cooperstown, easy access to I-88 or thruway.
New Countryside Listing—Sitting well back from the road on 4.58+/- acres, not too far from the village, this 1988 log home is a great place for a family. Nicely done home offers 1,600 sq ft, mudroom entry, eat-in kitchen, great pantry/laundry room, LR w/beamed vaulted ceiling, woodstove, windows w/valley views, first-floor BR w/double closets, full bath. Second floor has hallway overlooking LR, 3 BRs − 2 w/built-in lofts, bath, lots of closets. Most walls are tongueand-groove pine, beams are exposed, wood and tile floors. Full finished basement w/woodstove, wrap-around porch, in-ground pool surrounded by fenced deck. Detached 4-car garage w/dog kennel. Free-standing cottage w/electric and woodstove. Excellent lawn and gardens. Cooperstown Schools. Offered Exclusively by Ashley Connor Realty $360,000 Visit us on the Web at www.ashleyconnorrealty.com Contact us at info@ashleyconnorrealty.com For APPoiNtmeNt: Patti Ashley, Broker, 607-437-1149
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Augur’s, Longtime Downtown Mainstay, Is Leaving AUGUR’S/From A1
the end of this month, said proprietor Renee LaFond, who previously operated the store on upper Main for five years. The merchants gave several motivations for their decisions, but both also reported the increasingly seasonal nature of Main Street business in recent years prompted their decision. “It’s been going down for the past few years,” said Davidson, not only due to nature of the book business, but to the dip in retail generally since the Great Recession began in 2008. LaFond said Internet shopping and the opening of TJ Maxx in Oneonta, sapped local support. “This community wants this cute downtown,” she said. “They don’t realize they have to support it.” The brass plaque on the door of 73 Main St. bears the Augur’s name and the date, 1899. But the thinking is the bookstore, founded by Monroe Fenton Augur, dates back
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perhaps another 15 years. In the second half of the 20th century, Augur’s became associated with the name of Richard D. Carr, who began working in the store in the 1940s when he was still in high school. In the mid-1960s, Richard became a proprietor of Augur’s Bookstore. “It is widely known that Richard made Augur’s not only a store that provided quality books, stationery and gifts, but one that was a friendly and welcoming gathering place,” his obituary reported when he passed away at age 78 in 2006. Carr operated Augur’s until 1990, when he sold the business to Alice and Gus Pfeiffer, who ran it for eight years before Becky bought it. Carr kept ownership of the three-story brick block, but required that his leaseholders maintain some book-selling presence in the store. When he passed away, the building was bequeathed to his two nieces, Susan Roberts of Clinton and Nancy Orilio of Utica. Attorney John Orilio, Nancy’s husband, said the sisters were surprised by the news, but will seek to find a tenant appropriate to the Augur’s legacy
to fill the space. Davidson said the time was right to move on, since she has become more active in the management of her brother Roger’s business, Council Rock Brewery in Hartwick Seminary, which is about to expand yet again. At 55 Grove, Davidson, a Cooperstown native who lives in the Leatherstocking Street home where her family has resided for a century, plans to focus on estate jewelry, but also silver jewelry, gifts, notecards and some books. “I’m really, really happy to be going up there,” she said. “It’s as if it was meant to be.” LaFond, a Cherry Valley native, said she started her business when her first daughter, Alli, now 9, was a baby; second daughter Faith, 7, soon came along. Her mom, Pat, has helped out. Lately, in addition to running the store, she has been an administrator at Bassett’s school-based health program and, with her girls growing older, wants to have more time to spend with them. “I love being here,” she said, “and talking to people. Coming into a children’s store is a great thing to do.”
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ately controlled costs and (C) an increasingly healthy population at the three points. This “Triple Aim” echoes federal guidelines for ACO’s, Accountable Care Organizations that will be rewarded as the Affordable Care Act – socalled Obamacare – continues to take hold. This Triple Aim must be driven by “enterprising professionals,” said Brown, former MaineHealth chief medical officer who took over Bassett’s top job July 1 after a nationwide search that took more than a year. And he spoke to the three points specifically: • (A) will require not just quality of care, but compassion, safety and access to quick and effective treatment. • (B) cost controls, if not achieved, “will help sink our entire nation. I would argue we have a moral obligation to solve this problem.” • (C) is “not just fixing people up,” but doing so in a way that helps patients recognize the value of service received. “If you don’t create value,” Brown said, “you don’t exist.” “We exist to serve patients,” is how he characterized the
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Dr. Vance Brown, new Bassett president/CEO, addresses the Friends of Bassett quarterly breakfast for the first time Friday, Aug. 8, at The Otesaga. overriding intent to the packed ballroom at The Otesaga. “The business function is a secondary enterprise.” Achieving the Triple Aim will require solving challenges shortterm: some overcrowding, reducing waste, and recruiting talent and retaining it. (Turnover has been much remarked upon in the community in the past two years.) Bassett has to “define what we can and cannot do.” And it must “interface gracefully with the community,” an apparent reference to a four-year study,
inherited from the Streck Era, on shifting specialities away from the Cooperstown hospital to other sites in the eightcounty system. Oneonta’s Fox Hospital, for instance, has been suggested for pediatrics and expanded eye-surgery and dental services. He called health care’s challenges “Biblical – big, overarching.” But he was undeterred. Rethinking premises “is part of our organizational DNA. This is an organization that ‘got it’ before the philosophy was articulated.”
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MLS#91749 $68,000 Super Low Price! Rustic country cabin on 1.25 acres w/stream. Large woodstove in LR. Oversized 2-car garage. In Fly Creek, near Cooperstown and Oneonta. Call James Vrooman @ 603-247-0506 (cell)
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MLS#96000 $122,000 outrageous deal! On 1.1 acres in Oneonta, this 3 BR, 2 bath home features sunroom w/Jacuzzi and a full dry walk-out basement. Call Bill Vagliardo @ 607-287-8568 (cell)
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MLS#95966 $219,000 dream Home for dream Price! Exquisite Tudor near schools in Oneonta. 4 BRs, 3 baths, cathedral ceilings, hardwood flrs, open floorplan. Exposed beams, deck. Call Lynn Lesperence @ 607-434-1061 (cell)
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MLS#95956 $245,000 Stylish and Meticulous! Extra large 5 BR, 5 bath home near Cooperstown. Close to Otsego Lake, Baseball Hall of Fame, Glimmerglass Opera, Oneonta. Call or text Sharon P. Teator @ 607-267-2681 (cell)
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MLS#96011 $395,000 7 Miles to Cooperstown! Built in 2007, home features 4 BRs, 3½ baths, family room, basement, AC. Cooperstown Village home.@Seller pays closing costs (up Call george (ROD) Sluyter 315-520-6512 to $3,000 w/acceptable offer). Virtual tour: www.leatherstockinghomes2.com
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(7895) This appealing 3-BR, 3-bath contemporary home on 1 acre features large LR w/fireplace, formal DR, den, 3-season room, oak flooring, main-level master BR, 2-car garage, lake-view deck, lake rights. Come home to an air of comfort. Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive—$374,000
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artfuL hOme On 3.5 acres
(7395) This exceptional 5 BR, 3+ bath countryside home on a serene street features family room, den, large LR, formal DR, 2 fireplaces, pleasant center entry, oak flooring, ceramic tile baths, granite countertop, breakfast nook. Large view deck, barn. Wonderful Colonial comfort and style! 4 miles from Cooperstown. Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive—$319,000
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(7874) This 3 BR, 2+ bath secluded contemporary Cape sits on 3.50 acres. LR w/vaulted ceiling and gas FP, den/ office, main-level master BR, formal DR, eat-in kitchen. Sun room has passive solar heat. 2-car garage, wraparound deck. Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive—$479,000
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otsego lake Condominium
This well maintained, nicely decorated, one-owner unit has had many updates. It is a year-round place to be, and if you are not in residence there is a monitored, professional security system. LR w/vaulted ceiling and sliding doors to a large, private deck w/lake view. 2 BRs, 2½ baths, DR and fully equipped kitchen. Attached garage w/easy access to first floor. Boat slip is available and included. Condo fees cover common areas and maintenance. Lakefront facilities consist of 6.40 acres of land with approximately 1,500 feet of frontage.
exclusively offered at $389,000
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