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Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, August 21, 2014
Gunplay, Homicide Cases End In 2 Pleas
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Landowners: How Can We Fight DOT Lakefront Claims?
Renert Given 15 Years, Buck 20 In Prison Cell By LIBBY CUDMORE
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Lloyd Stilson, a village crew member, removes cones around one of 50 “sharrows” painted on Cooperstown streets in recent days. ORCA, the pro-biking group has been advocating the “share the road’ signs.
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Lee Stockwell, unable to repair her property since the 2006 flood due to state DOT resistance, will abandon her camp (photo at top) at summer’s end.
Meanwhile, 1st Camp Owner Abandons ‘Million-Dollar View’ By LIBBY CUDMORE & JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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t the end of the summer, Lee Stockwell will pack her bags and say goodbye to the camp with a panoramic view of The Sleeping Lion and Hyde Bay that she’s called her summer home since 2002.
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icholas Nicoletta of Richfield Springs is retiring at the end of the year as CFO of Bassett Hospital and also its eight-county healthcare network corporation. He has worked for Bassett for 38 years. The hospital CFO position will be filled by Sue Andrews, President/CEO Vance Brown announced Tuesday, Aug. 19. She has been with Bassett for 34 years. A search will be launched for corporate CFO, Brown said.
It’s not a “see-you-next-summer” farewell. Looking out at her “million dollar view,” she’s preparing to walk away for the last time as the bank forecloses on her lakefront property. “I’m a prisoner of the Department of Transportation,” she said. “It’s a bully system.” Stockwell is the first landowner forced to abandon her property due to the state DOT’s effort at patchwork repairs to Route 80 – West Lake Road Please See CAMPS, A3
istrict Attorney John Muehl was ready. On the first day of jury selection in the Barry Renert trial, Renert’s attorney, Assistant Public Defender James Ferrari, approached Muehl and requested a plea bargain. “He wanted less time than the 15 years I’d initially offered,” said Muehl. “I said no.” Renert, 63, of Richfield Springs and D.A. Muehl Florida, was about to go on trial for the Dec. 23 incident at Seventh Inning Stretch, which he allegedly entered with a 9 mm Glock. But Owner Vincent Carfagno drew his own pistol and shot first, missing his former employee, who, with alleged accomplice Stephen Janiszeski, fled, setting off a statewide manhunt two days before Christmas. He was arrested in Virginia later that evening, and Janiszeski was arrested in Florida this past June. Ferrari consulted with Renert, who then agreed to serve the 15 years after pleading guilty to one charge of Please See PLEAS, A7
Fun Park Land Will Be Wildlife Preserve Son Pursues Project In Father’s Memory
As bulldozers from the Upper Susquehanna Coalition roar by, Bob Hickey Jr., right, shows state Sen. Jim Seward, center, the site of future wildlife preserve.
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olfer Jane Adsit is the Leatherstocking Women’s Golf Association club champion (low gross, 175) and Linda Kehoe won the Ferrebee Cup (low net 138) as the league finished its season Aug. 12-14. Second for club champion and the Ferrebee was Debbie Cembrinski (gross 185 and net 149). Kehoe was third Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal for champion (198) and Adsit Steve Purcell, Fly Creek Valley, left, and Rick Po- third for the Ferrebee (153). korny, Cooperstown, right, prepare to reinstall the repainted and refurbished historical sign on the Pierstown Grange, assisted by Grange member Kathryn Mollach.
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Katie Boardman, music director at Cooperstown Presbyterian Church, wishes Godspeed to the Rev. Douglas Deer, right, 21-year pastor of Cooperstown Baptist Church, after he delivered his last sermon from the Elm Street church’s pulpit Sunday, Aug. 17. Waiting is Dr. Herb Marks. Pastor Deer and his wife Susan were retiring to Cortland. This coming Sunday, the congregation will vote on a prospective successor.
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Jack Adams, Brad Badgley, Chet Gould and Tim Gould are all smiles after hitting an eagle on the 18th hole to tie the 14th annual Mohican Charger Golf Tournament Sunday, Aug. 17, at Leatherstocking Golf Course. Tournament founder John Lambert’s team was up by one stroke going into the 18th, then only birdied.
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As First West Lake Road Camp Owner Departs, Others Dig In CAMPS/From A1 – whose pavement has repeatedly slid into Otsego Lake since being weakened in the 2006 flood. Three others camp properties – owned by the Severs, Petersons and Van Deusens – are more spe-
cifically targeted in the next year, and they say dozens of lakeside property owners could be effected before the DOT is done. Caroline Sever – her husband, John, was called out of town – hosted a meeting Friday, Aug. 15, at
The Otesaga’s Templeton Lounge, where 60 people, including Town Supervisor Anne Geddes Atwell and Otsego 2000 President Nicole Dillingham, gathered to hear Syracuse attorney Gilbert Hoffman, an expert on deeds and disputes titles.
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The Severs hired Hoffman, Caroline said, and other camp owners may do similarly. After the 2006 floods, Lee Stockwell applied for a building permit to upgrade her septic system – a requirement of the Otsego Lake Water Quality Coordinating Committee – and built a retaining wall, but she was turned down, with the DOT saying that the camp she purchased for $250,000 and has occupied every summer for 12 years was an “illegal dwelling� and that there was no record of construction on the property. Though her property is not one of those in the DOT’s right-of-way, without its permission to make repairs, the property is “unlivable and unsalable,� she said. She stopped paying her mortgage and, at the end of the summer, the bank will foreclose. “It’s a horrible story,� she said. “It shouldn’t have been allowed to happen.� While Stockwell’s case is somewhat unique, the DOT,
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Camp owner Caroline Sever introduces Syracuse attorney Gilbert Hoffman, seated at right, at a gathering of 60 camp owners and interested parties Friday, Aug. 15, at The Otesaga.
at a hearing on Route 80 repairs at CCS last summer, claims it owns the land between the road’s center line and the lake shore, although it has been unable to produce deeds, Caroline Sever said. “We have the deed to this property,� she continued. “We bought this property 35 years ago; the deed goes back 100 years, and they don’t have records that show we don’t own our property.� The Severs property is
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n all the rankings of SUNY University Colleges, Geneseo comes out on top, followed by New Paltz, then Oneonta. Not bad, out of 13, but wouldn’t we prefer our local campus to be #1? Longtime SUNY watchers – classes begin Monday, Aug. 25 – will tell you Geneseo’s reputation is the result of three decades of marketing, begun in the 1980s, when there were fewer ways to counter promotional claims. Today, whatever you say about anything – however fact-based – is bound to be challenged in social media and beyond. The bar to moving forward is simply higher. Improving reality and reputation, it seems, has to be done incrementally, tiny step by excruciating tiny step. Reputations are self-fulfilling to a degree. Because of Geneseo’s ranking, it tends to get better-qualified high school grads, who – if they escape the mischief associated with college life – become better alums. And the cycle spirals ever upward. The good news is that, as anyone who’s paying attention can attest, SUNY Oneonta is on that upward spiral, if not quite as far along as it may want to be – and will be. • Those same SUNY Oneonta watchers can observe the incremental improvements and feel the gathering momentum. A decades-long negative was the Black List scandal of 1992 – no need to revisit it beyond that – that for years was discussed only in soft tones, if at all. The college’s current president, Nancy Kleniewski, faced it head on with a 20th anniversary “Beyond the Black List” celebration on Sept. 4, 2012, aimed at exorcising that demon. “What took place today is a profound healing of the painful,” declared academic, author and activist Cornel West, keynoter in the Dewar Arena, after attending discussions and commemorations throughout the day. “Though no way an end, it was an unleashing of progressive possibilities.”
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Two deans, Joao Sedycias, center, Arts & Humanities, and Jan Bowers, front right, Education & Human Ecology, have joined SUNY Oneonta, fulfilling a five-dean reorganization initiated last year. Others, clockwise from front left, are Deans Susan Turell, Social Science; David Yen, Economics & Business, and Venkat Sharma, Natural & Mathematical Sciences; President Nancy Kleniewski and Provost Maria Thompson.
That was only one piece of ongoing progressive possibilities aimed at making inclusion part of SUNY Oneonta’s DNA, and there are many, many continuing manifestations of Kleniewski’s resolve, from picking the acerbic Sherman Alexie’s “Flight” as the first “common read,” to a determination to reflect national demographics in campus hirings, to – with the opening of this academic year – the arrival of Terrence Mitchell as the campus’ first chief diversity officer. The goal isn’t to sweep the Black List under the rug, but to replace a culture that allowed it to happen with a culture where it never will again. And it’s happening. • Inclusion is a prelude to academic ac-
complishment for the excluded, but doesn’t necessarily translate into academic accomplishment generally. Yet both are being demonstrated by SUNY Oneonta’s trajectory. The college’s 70 majors had evolved into a jumble, with disciplines scattered mystifyingly under random umbrellas. The first strategic plan developed after Kleniewski’s arrival in 2008 organized those majors into five logical divisions. Three new deans were hired in 2013, and the arrival of Jan Bowers to lead the School of Education & Human Ecology, and Joao Sedycias for the School of Arts & Humanities, completes that process. Given the number of people who now report to new bosses, you can imagine how
difficult this sensible reform was to organize and implement. But now that it’s done, academic goals can be set and tracked, initiatives launched and supported, and accountability achieved. In talking to Kleniewski – and listening to people who work for her – an intense student focus and an appreciation of collaboration are manifest. Those very ideals surfaced repeatedly in an hour-long conversation with principals in the multi-department Big Data initiative now underway. Only at SUNY Oneonta – philosophy professor Achim Koeddermann made it explicit: “You can do that at little Oneonta because we have something here big institutions don’t have: A collaborative spirit” – could the united effort of sociology, political science, philosophy and IT that created the Big Data initiative happen. • Could Big Data be the breakthrough SUNY Oneonta enthusiasts have been waiting and wishing for? Big Data – how to use it and how to protect our republic and its citizens from it – is the central issue of this decade, following the Edward Snowden revelations; perhaps the central issue of American life for decades to come. Only SUNY Oneonta – sociology prof Brian Lowe adds the caveat, “as far as we know” – has such an undergraduate program. And the multi-department approach positions our campus not only to advance a quickly growing discipline, but to pioneer discussion into the ethics of doing so. Just because we can know everything, should we? When the word gets out – and it may be time to start promoting something that’s little known outside the campus community – you can imagine that highly qualified, motivated students engaged in contemporary life will want to enroll here. Yes, this very well may be that anticipated breakthrough. Geneseo, jump back.
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we believe that a single professional point of administrative responsibility in the form of a city manager will, over time, contribute to better serve our taxpayers at a lower cost. In the new charter, the common council’s meetings will continue to be chaired by the mayor. The council will continue to have control over the city’s finances. The common council will have the authority to appoint and hold a city manager accountable for the performance of government and will be able to remove that individual if he or she does not perform the required duties to the council’s satisfaction. The individual appointed will have to be a profesPlease See MAYORS, A6
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aving served as mayors of the City of Oneonta, we write to urge the city’s voters to approve the proposed new city charter on Tuesday, Nov. 8. A commission of city residents has worked for almost two years, with extensive input from all interested parties, to develop the new charter. Experiences of other communities
further clarifies the responsibilities of the council, the mayor, appointed boards and commissions, and department heads. There seems to be only one real area of controversy, the proposal to create the new position of city manager. We strongly support the approval of the charter and the establishment of the city manager’s position. With all the activities of city government added The Freeman’s Journal together, including water Four of the six mayors who endorsed the City and wastewater systems, our Charter pose in front of City Hall with the first elected officials and paid city manager, Mike Long, after his hiring in Sepprofessionals and their staffs tember 2012. From left are John Nader, Kim manage an $18 million Muller, Dick Miller and Dave Brenner. The other budget for a physical plant two were Jim Georgeson and Sam Nader. valued at more than $70 like ours have been sought tise in the field, has written million. out and considered. the new document at the Activities within city The Albany Law School, direction of the commisgovernment’s scope of which has significant exper- sion. It is more concise and responsibility range from
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Editor’s Note: With Oneonta’s city charter and the city manager form of government under duress, here’s a wistful look back at a letter to the editor from the six living mayors published in advance of the November 2011 vote that supported the reforms, 1,128 to 348.
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Most Of All, We Need Jobs To the Editor: The sparring match in the recent letters from Mr. Colone, Mr. Buttermann and Mr. Stammel has provided interesting and thoughtful reading. I also appreciate the respectful tone of the letters – all parties sharing the common interest in improving our community, but with different opinions about the method. Unlike many of the writers in these pages, these gentlemen have avoided the sardonic comments and personal insults directed at anyone who dares to have a different opinion. While both sides of the Southside water project are well stated, Mr. Colone makes excellent points. It’s axiom-
atic that we need jobs in this area. Good-paying, career-type jobs that will give more of our young people the option to stay or return after completing their education. More retail choices are always nice, but there must be some tipping point in the balance between population and retail. And the “tourism industry” is certainly not the answer. In fact, the term itself is ridiculous. There is no “industry” in tourism. Is there even one good-paying, career-type, family-supporting, year-around job in the tourism “industry?” Perhaps for the owner of a tourism business, but not the seasonal employees. Please See MILAVEC, A6
To the Editor: This is an open letter to the mayor, trustees, police chief and parking enforcement officers of the Village of Cooperstown. The village appears to have adopted a de facto permit system for on-street parking. Those permits are apparently available exclusively to a select group. That group includes village employees, certain elected officials and several other people who meet some unknown permitting criteria. The de facto permit system allows the permitted people to park their personal vehicles in two-hour parking and other restricted parking spaces for indefinite periods of eight hours or more without being ticketed. If this de facto permit system is legal, please consider extending those courtesies and privileges to all village residents and to all village taxpayers. If this de facto permit system is not legal, please consider ending it. STEPHEN MAHLUM Cooperstown
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Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library
200 YEARS AGO
Truth: There is nothing more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they can believe each other. When speech is employed only as the vehicle of falsehood, every man must disunite himself from others, inhabit his own cause and seek prey only for himself. Truth is not only a man’s ornament, but his instrument; it is the great man’s glory, and the poor man’s stock. A man’s truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, and his letters of credit. August 25, 1814
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of humanity, cars and even a horse and wagon. When game time appeared, the stands at the ball park were overflowing with fans who had journeyed from far and wide to watch the Yanks and their country cousins perform on the spot where baseball was originated 100 years ago by Major General Abner Doubleday. Newark won the game 5-4 in the 11th inning. August 23, 1939
50 YEARS AGO
Sixty-four souvenir baseball bats with a golden finish have been distributed to Hall of Fame members and other diamond dignitaries who were in Cooperstown July 27 for the annual National Baseball Hall of Fame ceremonies and game. And, additional bats have been ordered for the teams which played in the Hall of Fame Game that day, the New York Mets and the Washington Senators. The man responsible for the bats is Paul S. Kerr, president of the Hall of Fame. Each is a real bat, the Ken Boyer model Louisville Slugger made by Hillerich & Bradsby. But, each bat has a golden finish and embossing to mark the 25th anniversary of the baseball shrine in Cooperstown. Only 136 bats of this type have been made and distributed. August 19, 1964
175 YEARS AGO
Cooperstown Classical Academy – There has been a public examination during the past week, of the young gentlemen belonging to the Academy of this Village which is under the direction of W.H. Duff, Esq. The students were examined in Latin, Greek, Natural Philosophy, &c. &c., and we believe we utter no more than an opinion common to all who attended, when we say, that while much was expected, the result produced general satisfaction. The examinations in Latin and Greek were particularly rigid, and it is not often that scholars did more credit to their instructor, than on this occasion. August 19, 1839
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A rebel invasion of the State of New York being seriously apprehended, Governor Seymour has directed Brigadier General J.A. Green to take charge of the northern boundary of the State, and to call out what troops may be found necessary to repel any marauders who may attempt to invade the State. It is stated that a large number of rebels have gathered in Canada for the purpose of making a sudden dash on the frontier towns of New York. August 19, 1864
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Hop Picking – This year, above all others, will require clean picked hops. When we consider the vast amount of cleanpicked and well-cured hops which are now grown on the Pacific slope, is it any wonder that brewers are coming to choose that stock rather than buy such rubbish as was offered on the market by many New York State growers last year? – causing a great loss, not only to the grower, but also to the dealer, as poor goods are always damaging to the trade. That hundreds of thousands of dollars have been lost to the growers of this State by dirty picked and badly cured hops, all must admit. Now that we have such strong competition from California, Washington and Oregon, we must have the goods or wait until Western hops are sold. While brewers greatly prefer New York hops, yet they pause at their use, except at a small price, much below the market. Give us clean-picked and well-cured hops, and we can be first and not last. M.R. Stocker. August 23, 1889
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This fair village of ours has once more returned to normal after playing host to over 10,000 persons who turned out to witness the New York Yankee – Newark Bear game at Doubleday Field Monday afternoon in one of the biggest spectacles on the Baseball Centennial summer program. The village streets were literally chock full of swirling masses
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Health care in the U.S. is in trouble said U.S. Congressman Thomas J. Downey, D-NY, as he spoke about the future of healthcare at a “Grand Round” last week at Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital. The U.S. and South Africa are the only developed countries that do not guarantee health care to their citizens. A recent poll shows that 91 percent of those responding think that every American has a right to quality health care. In the U.S., 37 million people go without any type of health care. The major culprit Downey said is the Graham, Ruddman, August 19, 1914 Hollings Law to reduce the budget deficit to zero by 1993. The law scared Congress into cutting health care support which now amounts to $500 billion annually. August 23, 1989 COB_Central Region Profile Campaign _Freemans Journal _(4 col) 7.434x4” No Bleed BW MEMBER FDIC
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Mayors United Behind New City Charter, City Manager MAYORS/From A4 sional with the appropriate education and experience in his or her background. Some are concerned about the cost of funding this position. We are confident that, over time, this position will not add to the cost of government and will, in fact, reduce it – based on the savings and efficiencies that will result from a city manager’s full-time presence overseeing the day to day affairs of our government. Even if no organization or operational efficiencies were sought, the establishment of this
position will cost the city less than 1 percent of its total budget. We feel strongly that while our current system has served us well to this point, it will serve us even better with the assurance of a full-time professional day to day manager and leader. Improved accountability across the entire government will lead to even better performance of an already well performing set of departments that serve us. The city will be less dependent on the availability and background of a
part-time mayor whose responsibilities under the current charter are, at best, vague. We strongly support the idea of a city manager and the adoption of the new charter. We urge you to vote for it. JIM GEORGESON, 1960-61 SAM NADER, 1962-69 DAVID W. BRENNER, 1986-97 KIM MULLER, 1998-2005 JOHN S. NADER, 2006-2009 RICHARD P. MILLER, JR., 2010Mayors of Oneonta
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Village Can’t Ban Buses On State Roads, Only Streets To the Editor: A recent letter to the editor mischaracterized the heavy vehicle petition as “banning highway buses entirely from Cooperstown.” That’s not how the petition reads. As stated in the wording, highway buses can use state
and county roads - which include Main Street, Chestnut and West Lake - by right. They cannot be “banned” from Cooperstown. They use village residential streets – River, Lake, etc. – entirely at the discretion of the village. This means that highway
Most Of All, We Need Jobs MILAVEC/From A4 Ironically, validation of Mr. Colone’s position is in the same issue that contains his most recent letter. Employment ads seek a restaurant manager, seasonal cook, dishwasher, housekeeper, Walmart worker, bank teller, healthcare aide, teacher aide, substitute teacher, etc. Hardly the kind of jobs he advocates for. I don’t pretend to know the answer to the jobs crisis in this area. But what we have been doing is not the answer. To consider it another way - the way to end poverty is to nurture an environment where jobs are created, not discouraged. Then, wages rise as the need for workers rises. A final thought: We cel-
buses could still drop passengers off at The Otesaga – on private hotel property, and at the Hall of Fame, on the private property to the east of HoF – without impacting residential streets. Other towns that have faced this problem have opted for highway bus remote parking – like Cooperstown’s north and south lots – and shuttle buses – like the village trolleys. There is no indication that tourism has suffered in Edgartown, Willamsburg or Corning – where such
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PONDS/From A1 gineers stepped in and, in effect, banned him from doing pretty much anything there. But not everything. Look around the Fun Park, and there’s a pond there. “My father and I always liked building ponds,” the son explained, and last year they had an idea: Why not build a pond on those back acres to make them a friendlier habitat for wildlife? Last fall, father and son – they had founded the Fun Park together in 1992 – dug the first. This spring, they were working on the second, when, on June 26, Bob Sr., 75, passed away on his native Martha’s Vineyard. Thursday, Aug. 14, the 20 acres were beehive of activity, as a coalition of the Fun Park, the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the Upper Susquehanna Coalition and Ducks Unlimited dug away at what will be 20 ponds. “This is what my father wanted me to do,” said the younger Hickey, as he and state Sen.
Jim Seward, R-Milford, hosted a briefing to raise the visibility of what will soon be a nature preserve. When complete, all manner of aquatic wildlife is expected to congregate here, from migrating geese and ducks to bullfrogs and salamanders. As if to Robert dramatize that, a blue heron Hickey Sr. took flight behind Seward, Hickey, USDA technician Jeanine Harter and others as they detailed and expected outcome. Directed by Wetlands Biologist Jeremy Waddell of the Upper Susquehanna Coalition, bulldozers began work Monday, Aug. 4, on the ponds, and are expected to complete the work by next Wednesday. Seward’s staff will seek funding to build walkways and overlooks on the property, so the public can benefit from the project.
Long Jail Terms For Renert, Buck PLEAS/From A1 second-degree burglary, for knowingly entering unlawfully with intent to commit a crime while armed with a deadly weapon. “We have him on tape,” said Muehl. “There was no doubt he was Renert going in there to do no good with a gun.” Muehl had planned to charge Renert with attempted murder and attempted assault in addition to the burglary charge. Janiszeski said the two were planning to rob the store, and is currently being held in the Otsego County jail, awaiting his own jury selection. It wasn’t Muehl’s only victory for the day. Michael Buck, 33, Town of Middlefield, who had pleaded guilty June 4 to first-degree manslaughter, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the killing of his father, Joseph,
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