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Wayne Weir, the retired CCS teacher and wrestling coach, demonstrates his antique corn shucker at the Fly Creek Cider Mill’s 19th annual Antique Engine Show Saturday, Aug. 25.
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ummer’s over. K-12 students in Cooperstown Central and other school districts around Otsego Lake return Thursday, Sept. 6, for the 2012-13 academic year. The Linden Avenue construction, not due for completion until mid-October, means buses will be arriving from the south through the village’s new Gateway. FREE MUSEUMS: The Farmers’ and Fenimore Art museums will offer free admission during Celebrate Cooperstown, a villagesponsored event SaturdaySunday, Oct. 13-14. SCOFFLAWS CURBED: The village Police Department reports that, since installing a license-plate reader on a cruiser, it has collected $3,200 from people who are delinquent on parking tickets and other violations. HONK, HONK! The first V of Canada geese of the season honked its way over the village at 8:03 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 23. RIGHT TURN OK: Eastbound traffic on Main Street may now turn right on red at Chestnut, village trustees decided at their August meeting.
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fter nine years, stops and starts, frequent quarrels and political dustups, Cobleskill Paving Co. crews – including Oneonta’s Maria Neer, foreground, and Kay Moyer of Van Hornesville – began rolling a blacktop surface on the Village of Cooperstown’s 320-parking-space Gateway site Monday, Aug. 27.
Simultaneously, the Binghamton contractor that installed the infrastructure under the Gateway had crews – including Jai Crandall, Mount Upton, right – ripping up Linden Avenue, where water lines and sewerage will be installed before the street is repaved. Meanwhile, another controversy erupted as the Public Works Supt. Brian Clancy clashed with the CCS administration when he announced work on a final piece of the quilt – reconstruction of the Linden-Walnut-Chestnut triangle – would begin Tuesday, Sept. 4, the first week of school. CCS refused to agree to a needed easement, and that project will be delayed until spring 2013.
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ooper Lane neighbors have appealed to village trustees not to end snowplowing and maintenance of the rightof-way that provides the only access of a half-dozen homes to Chestnut Street. In a letter to the Village Board, Kurt Ofer and Teresa Drerup argued that, through
the doctrine of adverse possession – where longterm usage can cause property to change hands – the village may own it anyhow. After the new Village Board took office April 1, the trustees concluded the village doesn’t own Cooper Lane or Old School Court, and told residents it would no longer maintain those streets. The status of
t the direction of federal authorities, the Constitution Pipeline developers are exploring a new route along Interstate 88 that would shift the right-of-way – 32 miles of it – into Otsego County. Study has just begun, but the new option could bring $5 million in property taxes to the county, towns and school districts along the route and create as many as 150 temporary local jobs in 2014, according to Matthew Swift, Constitution project manager. To a degree, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which asked for the alternative, was reacting to
the suggestion of state Rep. Pete Lopez, R-Schoharie, and state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, Swift said. The two Matt Swift legislators held a press conference Monday, July 17, where Lopez reportedly called an I-88 route “the most practical, expeditious and least controversial option.” The assemblyman, whose district includes the towns of Otego, Unadilla, Butternuts and Morris in Otsego County, then wrote letters to Governor Cuomo and Please See FERC, A7
Otsego Court, by Cooley’s, is also up in the air. “My feeling is we don’t want to penalize residents,” said Mayor Jeff Katz, “but we seem to take on more than our share.” Trustee Frank Capozza said perhaps residents of those streets should bring them up to certain standards, then the village may take them over.
home. Friday, Aug. 4, reports arrived that a gunman had killed his 41-year-old former boss outside the Empire State Building. It soon surfaced that the victim, Steve Ercolino, had spent four years in Otsego County in the 1990s as a business and fashion student at SUNY Oneonta, graduating in 1992. “We are saddened to learn that a member of our community was the victim of this tragic and senseless killing. Our thoughts and prayers are with Steve’s family,” said SUNY Oneonta President Nancy
SUNY Oneonta grad Steve Ercolino had feared the worst before he was shot in front of the Empire State building Friday, Aug. 24.
Kleniewski in an official statement. Ercolino went into New York City’s fashion industry soon after graduation. He was hired by Jump Apparel Please See VICTIM, A6
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LOCALS CELEBRATING ZUCCHINI!
Cooperstown Farmers’ Market vendor Seth Heller made it official: The winning vegetable at the annual Zany Zucchini Festival weighed 13 pounds.
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Weil Brothers Again Claim Zucchini Prize
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The four new Cooperstown Central School District teachers this year are, from left, Megan Hopkins, Abby Cleveland, Chalya Tait and Monica Wolfe.
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he Weil brothers of Middlefield, Peter and Glenn, again claimed the prize for the biggest zucchini at The Cooperstown ...and, zucchini Farmers’ Market Zany sculpture. Zucchini Fest Saturday, Aug. 25, with a 13-pounder. The Weils won in the junior category, and Kim Jastremski won in the senior category with an entry that weighed 4 pounds, 12 ounces. Kim’s husband, Ray Hovis, entered the smallest zucchini, which didn’t even register on official weighmaster Seth Heller’s scales. Market Manager Lynn Weir estimated it at a half ounce.
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elected in a very competitive market, four teachers will join the Cooperstown Central School District when the 2012-13 year opens Thursday, Sept. 6: • Abby Cleveland, who will teach ninthgrade English and advise the yearbook. A New Hartford resident, she graduated from SUNY Oswego and received her master’s from Utica College. She taught in Syracuse’s Westhill School District and at Notre Dame High School, Utica. • Megan Hopkins, who will conduct academic interventions in the elementary and high schools. A West Oneonta resident,
she received her bachelor’s and master’s from the College of St. Rose. She taught at Schenevus Central School. • Chalya Tait, who will teach seventhand 10th-grade English. A Grand Gorge native, she graduated from Elmira College and received her master’s from SUNY Albany. She taught at Windham-Ashland-Jewett Central School. • Monica Wolfe, the new athletic director, who will also teach seventh- to 12th-grade phys-ed. A Richfield Springs resident, she was an elementary phys-ed teacher at Vernon-Verona-Sherill Central School. She received her bachelor’s and master’s from SUNY Cortland.
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Debbie Bennett, left, was front and center again this year in organizing the Schuyler Lake Fire Department’s annual tractor pull Saturday, Aug. 25, which drew hundreds of fans to the firemen’s field north of the hamlet. Again this year, Mr. Machine of Hillsboro, N.H., provided the drag to test the mettle of local pickups.
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that her heart is healthy. “We’re not asking her to run the Kentucky Derby,” said Carol. “Otherwise, she’s very healthy.” The braces will cost around $2,000 for the first set, which will have to be replaced when Angel reaches her full height and weight. The First United Methodist Church of Milford will be celebrating Angel at noon on Sept. 9 with a raffle, refreshments and a chance to meet the famous little horse. “She’s so pure of heart,” she added. “She’ll do wonders.”
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From ‘Black List,’ SUNY Oneonta Provides Learning Moment Beyond the List
et’s acknowledge it: Racial inequity and, yes, injustice are givens in American society, from Otsego County to Oakland, Calif. This is not an “issue,” Democratic or Republican, conservative or liberal, Catholic, Mormon or Methodist-Episcopal. It is a fact, a simple fact, to be accepted and addressed in a more determined way than American society has to date. Yes, for any of us born and raised when Jim Crow was the law of much of this land, it is a continuing thrill that the United States of America – we Americans, white, black, Latino, Inuit, all of us – came together sufficiently and moved beyond a shameful past to elect a black president. In the past half-century, black Americans have achieved greatly in all sectors of American society, certainly in academe. Dr. Cornell West, keynoter at SUNY Oneonta’s “Beyond the Black List” commemoration, planned Tuesday, Sept. 4, at SUNY Oneonta is
A Teach-in: Remembrance and Reconciliation among the foremost, but accomplishment is widespread. • You may have met the college’s provost, Maria Thompson, brainy, focused, accomplished, tough, and she also happens to be black. In Cooperstown, you may have regretted the recent departure of Dion Wade, the exceptionally able director of the Clark Sports Center, who was lured by career advancement earlier this month to the University of Seattle. Gretchen Sorin, who chaired the committee that organized the 20th anniversary reflection on the Black List, is the accomplished director of SUNY’s Cooperstown Graduate School in Museum Studies, the best program of its kind in the nation. Not only an accomplished scholar, she is one of our county’s most esteemed citizens. But when we ponder a black unemployment rate nationally that’s double the non-black rate, when Time
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we look at poverty figures, when we observe the preponderance of blacks in the poorest neighborhoods in our nation’s cities, when statistics show us how unevenly law enforcement and incarceration are applied, we have to recognize much, much work remains to be done. • It will not be done by ignoring our past, or sugar-coating the present, so SUNY Oneonta’s administration is to be commended for, rather than letting the date of an unpleasant happening slip by, using the Black List’s 20th anniversary as a learning moment – a profound one, it can be hoped. No one disputes the events surrounding Sept. 4, 1992. A 77-year-old Oneonta woman was attacked in the early hours of that day by an individual she believed was a black man wielding a “stiletto-style” knife; her arms and hands were cut trying to fend him off. School officials supplied a list of black male students, and state
IF YOU GO: For reservations for Dr. Cornell West’s “Beyond The List” keynoter at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 4, at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union, visit www.oneonta.edu/west police, the OPD and campus security ranged the campus. “Any black man walking down the street, they would grab his hands,” Edward I. (Bo) Whaley, a then-counselor in the school’s Educational Opportunity Program, told the New York Times at the time. “The only probable cause they had was, ‘You’re black, you’re a suspect’.” Reprehensible. Indefensible. Yet more common than many of us would like to admit. • You might say what happened was a single lapse, but assuredly it was not. It had the salutory effect of exposing a way of thinking, of lumping the bad, the good and the in-between in an undifferentiated category and assuming guilt.
It’s one of the most common sins of xenophobic humanity worldwide but, in a multi-cultural society the U.S. has become, we can’t get away with it – better yet, we don’t want to. Since 1992, the city has supported a vigorous NAACP chapter. City Hall established and continues to support a vigilant Commission on Community Relations and Human Rights. SUNY Oneonta has increased and continues to strive to increase minorities on its faculty and in its student body. Still, as individuals and as a society, we know in our hearts we are not doing enough, that much remains to be done. The 20th anniversary commemoration is an opportunity to reflect on that. SUNY Oneonta’s day-long commemoration is open to the public, as is Dr. West’s 7 p.m. address in the Hunt Union, (although reservations are required for the speech due to space limitations.) If you can attend any or all events, please do, for the benefit of us all.
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There Is No Mystery To Saving Medicare – Ask Any Actuary To the Editor: In this election year you will hear a great deal about Medicare. One side will tell you that Medicare is financially unsound and will soon go bankrupt. The other side will tell you that Medicare is sound, but needs some shoring up. What is the reality? For any insurance plan to be financially sound, there is one fundamental financial equation. That is: Current plan assets plus
all future contributions and investment income to the plan must be sufficient to provide all future benefits and administrative expenses of the plan, plus expected profits if the plan is a profit-making plan. Medicare is a non-profit plan, so we can eliminate those costs. To put this equation into actuarial balance, one may make any combination of adjustments: 1. Increase future contributions; 2. Increase future investment
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income; 3. Reduce future benefits and expenses; 4. Reduce future profits (not applicable to non-profit Medicare). Actuaries evaluate all those possibilities, but it will be up to Medicare’s Board of Trustees to select the best financial alternatives. Politicians do not have the answers to these complex issues, but they must ultimately decide because Medicare requires leg-
islative action. They must rely on actuaries and other technical professionals. I believe Medicare needs financial shoring up, just like any other insurance plan needs from time to time. That’s the nature of insurance, and that’s what actuaries do. However, I also believe our current Medicare is a valuable, appropriate and necessary non-profit insurance program for our seniors. It would be a tragic mistake to
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College and graduating magna cum laude with a degree in history, while earning an ROTC commission. Chris holds a Ph.D. in government from Cornell University. He is the author of “Securing the State,” a book on national security decision-making. Over his 24-year Army career, Chris rose to the of colonel. Chris had Season’s Inspiration rank four combat tours to Iraq, To the Editor: deployments to Kosovo, On my morning walks the Southwestern U.S. for I come across interesting counter-drug operations, things. One of them inand to Haiti, commandspired this Haiku: ing the 82nd Airborne Pity the empty trolleys Division’s Second Brigade Filled with tourist ghosts! Combat Team during the Me and you footing the bill? opening month of that huThank you. manitarian relief operation Maria Tripp in January 2010. This Cooperstown Please See LETTER, A6
Cooperstown’s Homer Osterhoudt, the retired mail carrier who has attended every Hall of Fame Game since 1939 (except his three years serving in World War II), ran across this photo of Otsego Lake he snapped in 1947, 65 years ago. It was taken looking north from Lakefront Park.
To the Editor: Many people have asked me who is Chris Gibson, this candidate for Congress, and whether he’s just another “boilerplate” politician, as described by some sources. Chris Gibson grew up in Kinderhook, Columbia County. Attending Siena
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abandon it for some ill conceived and inappropriate scheme as now promoted by certain ultra-conservative and self-serving politicians. Medicare has been part of our financial security system for seniors for nearly 50 years. We would be well advised to strengthen it and maintain it well into the future. MARTIN J. WEISSMAN F.S.A. (retired) Oneonta
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ore than 140 artists and celebrities, including Lady Gaga and Paul McCartney, have signed on to a coalition to try to persuade Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to ban the use of hydraulic fracturing ... to extract natural gas in parts of New York State. Yoko Ono and her son, Sean Lennon, plan to host an event on Wednesday in New York City to introduce the coalition, called Artists Against Fracking. The Beatles family is well represented: the coalition also includes Ringo Starr and Julian Lennon. Ms. Ono and Mr. Lennon discussed their intention to form the coalition on the NBC program “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” in July. Mr. Fallon is listed as a member on the Web site, as are the author Salman Rushdie, the restaurateur Mario Batali and some big show-business names, like Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Julianne Moore and Gwyneth Paltrow. The group lists an eclectic mix, among them: Fred Armisen, Alec Baldwin, Jackson Browne, David Byrne, Deepak Chopra, Zooey Deschanel, Carrie Fisher, Roberta Flack, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Koons, John CamYoko Ono eron Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt, Todd Rundgren, Amy Ryan, Cindy Sherman, Patti Smith, Uma Thurman, Liv Tyler and Rufus Wainwright. New York Times, Thursday, Aug. 23
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Federal Doctrine in 1792 (20 years earlier): “Revere and cling to the Federal constitution – Be ever vigorous in support of the constituted authorities – Submit proudly to the will of the majority – Keep the union inviolate – Be the Friends of law and order – Oppose all combinations and popular societies, by whatever names they may be called, viz. Democratic or Malevolent – Frown indignantly on all combinations and societies, by whatever popular name they are called who attempt to overawe the proceedings of government. Are these the principles of the modern federalists? Or, are they much worse than those whom they then called Democrats, disorganizers, and Jacobins?” August 29, 1812
ment last week that the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works had granted the district $206,744 toward the expense of its new school building that is to cost about $460,000. This amounts to 45 percent of the total cost. Architect Myron Jordan is already hard at work preparing detailed plans for the contractors to bid upon. September 1, 1937
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The directors of the National Baseball Hall of Fame last week changed a rule for the method of electing retired players in the “old-timers” category. Paul S. Kerr, the president of the Hall of Fame, said that henceforth players retired for 20 or more years will be considered for election by the special Old-Timers Committee, rather than the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. The make-up of the 12member Old-Timers Committee will now include former baseball players. That committee was formerly made up of Hall of Fame officials, leading baseball officials and baseball writers. August 29, 1962 August 29, 1862
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The discharge of public duties which have devolved upon the editor (of The Freeman’s Journal), as the representativeelect of the Congressional district, requiring his attendance at the Seat of the National Government during five or six weeks, and perhaps eight or nine months to come, he has (Editor’s Note: Clarksville is now known as Middlemade an arrangement with Mr. William L. Crandal to super- field Center in the Town of Middlefield) intend the publication of the paper while he is absent. Mr. C. is a native of the county, and is familiar with its general interests. He is a Democrat in principle, and possesses respectable talents, with good common sense to direct a (Editor’s note: The then prevalent practice of spreading right use of them. I have strong confidence that, under his tar and oil on road surfaces to reduce dust resulted in the management, the paper will be judiciously conducted, and following poetic response from Seymour Barnard): “It is prove satisfactory to the generality of its numerous readers. not raining rain to me – It’s raining oil around! The road is At any event, he now takes my place, occupying a highly sprayed, the dust is laid, the modern method found. They responsible position, and I commend him to the favor smear the way afresh each day, they smudge the hedges of those with whom it has been my good fortune to hold too; It is not raining rain to me, It’s raining gum and glue. weekly converse for 29 years past. It is not raining rain to me – It’s raining pitch and tar – That August 28, 1837 stick to the boot of either foot; and speeds the touring car. The dusty street is obsolete; and all the way to town, the road is wet and black as jet – It’s raining greases down.” August 28, 1912 Local – W.H. Bunn, Jr., was not a little elated on Saturday evening last, when he assisted in landing safely in the boat a 14 pound trout from the waters of Otsego Lake. W.E. Eldred of New York and his brother John M., of this The work of demolishing the building on Main Street advillage, were the lucky fishermen who took a handsome joining the Alfred Corning Clark gymnasium is approachseven-pound trout from Otsego Lake a few days since. This ing completion, and construction of the new home of the catch, with the other fascinating sports attending camping National Baseball Museum on the site will be in progress on the shores of the lake, prompted them to lease of A.T. in the near future. The Bedford Construction Company of Van Horne, for a term of 15 years, the point and house Utica will have the general contract and the heating and thereon just south of the Bundy Brothers’ lake resort. The lighting contracts will be let locally. The building is to be boys contemplate making attractive improvements on the completed by January 1. building in the early springtime. There was great rejoicing among the inhabitants of the September 2, 1887 Richfield Springs Central School District at the announce-
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Figures released last week by the NYS Department of Labor show Otsego County has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the State of New York. Otsego showed a workforce of 28,600 in June, up from 27,700 in May of this year and even more of an improvement over the June 1986 figures of 27,200. The unemployment rate for June 1987 was 3.5 percent, a nice drop from figures a month earlier and a lot better than June 1986 numbers of 5.4 percent. The state’s unemployment rate has now been below 5.0 percent for three consecutive months and has declined 1.4 percentage points from June 1986. September 2, 1987
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The make-over of Main Street Cooperstown is set to commence on September 4. The project entails digging up and removal of old sewer lines and replacing them along with lateral connections. The work also involves the removal of surface paving and underlying trolley track rails from the turn of the 20th century and eventual repaving of the street with curbing and sidewalk repair and replacement as well. Meanwhile, a revamping of the Main Street bridge over the Susquehanna River is set to go out for bids, but work on that project will not proceed for another four to six weeks. August 30, 2002
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January-March 2014, “to avoid impacting the nesting habitat,” the company would clear trees in a 110-foot corridor along the route, reimbursing landowners for the wood. (The corridor widens to 125 feet through farmland, so topsoil can be stacked separately from the subsoil, thus allowing farmland to be restored when the work is done.) Construction would begin in April 2014, with the corridor broken in to three 200-
300 worker “spreads,” one probably based in Oneonta. Some jobs – welder, for instance – would be high-paying, with contractors committed to hiring 50 percent of the workforce locally, if possible. Salaries would be spent locally during construction, and the company would be buying gravel – “a lot of gravel” – locally, as well as “a lot of silt fences” to stabilize excavations. One of Please See FERC, A9
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FERC/From A7 three project offices would probably be sited in Oneonta, with space to unload pipe from railroad cars. Once work begins, the crews would first clear the right-of-way, then dig and grade the trench. The pipe, in 40- and 80-foot lengths or “joints,” would be laid along the trench. The joints would be welded together, and the welds X-rayed. Faulty welds would be repaired or cut out, replaced and rewelded. “The ditch would then be backfilled,” Swift said. The pipe would be covered by 3 feet of soil, except through farmland, where 4 feet would allow crops to grow overhead. Trees could not be replanted along the route. The company is aiming for an “in-service date” of March 31, 2015. Swift, a 1991 Georgia Tech grad who then joined Transco Pipeline (Williams bought it in 1995) and worked in Houston and on pipeline expansions along the East Coast, has been based in the Schenectady office. Staffel, a Texan and graduate of the Chicago Conservatory of Music (she had attended “Armide” at Glimmerglass the night before the interview), is based in Scranton for now. So far, Swift has been supervising 40 land agents who are advising and negotiating with landowners. Once complete, the Constitution will be an “open access” line, and communities along the route will be able to tap in and gain access to natural gas, which has been selling at 75 percent of oil for equivalent heat. The entity that would provide the gas could be NYSEG, the traditional supplier, or Leatherstocking
Gas Co., a recent alliance of Mirabito and Corning Corp., or a municipal utility. Big energy users – Bassett and Fox hospitals, the colleges, and the Hall of Fame and the NYSHA museums – would be among institutions that could see large dollar savings, although individuals homeowners would benefit proportionately. For the past five years, FERC has discouraged “risk” – speculative pipeline development – so the capacity of the 30-inch line has been spoken for by Cabot and Southwestern. The 650,000 dekatherms carried daily along the pipeline would heat the equivalent of 3 million homes. Once every seven years, a “smart pig” would be run through the pipeline from the compression station near Binghamton to another at the junction with Iroquois and Tennessee. It would identify any potential leakages or other issues that may have developed. The Constitution will conduct “24-7 monitoring” along the route, since the greatest threat comes from backhoe operators digging where they shouldn’t. Weekly, a pilot would fly the route. Despite public concern, Swift said, accidents associated with such projects are very rare. For instance, he said, the Tennessee pipeline gas run since 1961 along Route 20 through northern Otsego without incident. An accident 30 years ago associated with the Tennessee, a natural-gas pipeline, actually occurred on the Texas Eastern propane pipeline, he said. Propane is heavier than air, and thus can pool; natural gas is lighter, and thus dissipates.
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4914 St. Hwy 28, CooperStown (607) 547-5933 75 Market Street, oneonta (607) 433-1020
new LIStInG - MLS#85750 - Center hall colonial featuring 3200 sq.ft. of living space w/4-5 bedrms 3 full baths on over 10 private acres in the Cooperstown school district. Lrg unfinished 3rd flr bonus rm. Insulated walk out basement w/radiant heat. 2-sided fireplace, eat-in kitchen w/cooking island, & pantry. Wood flrs, high ceilings, & insulated windows. 3 nice size bedrms, hallway bath, & lrg master suite w/lrg walk-in closet & bath. On demand hot water heater, back-up generator, & new John Deere all-terrain lawn tractor w/bagger is included in the sale. $349,000 Call Chris @ (607) 376-1201
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new LIStInG - MLS#85999 - Clean & bright, & CLOSE TO COOPERSTOWN! This well maintained home offers 2 bedrms, 1 bath, plenty of storage, 2-car garage w/concrete flr & new overhead doors. Secluded back yard. Possible Dreams Park rental. Seller motivated! $85,000 Call Lynn Bass @ (607) 437-2174 or Donna Anderson @ (607) 267-3232
MLS#83687 - CANADARAGO LAKE RIGHTS, VIEWS & 2+ acres of peace and tranquility. 2,000sq ft modular home with fireplaces, party barn and lg detached garage. $245,000 Call Rod & Barb @ (315) 520-6512
MLS#83518 - Directly on Canadarago Lake, 100 ft. of lakefront & 400 ft. of depth. Nearly 1 acre! 12 x 65 furnished mobile home w/3 additional camper set-ups. All are in excellent condition. 10x38 covered deck/seating area. Lrg stone barbecue/firepit & (4) 12-ft sections of dock included. Located next to State land. $199,900 Call Rod & Barb @ (315) 520-6512
MLS#84360 - 1467 St Hwy 165, Cherry Valley Professionally landscaped country home on 5 acres includes a 1-acre pond. 3-4 bedrms & 2 ½ baths. New addition includes 600-ft master or family rm + 2 car garage. $310,000 Call Michelle Curran @ (518) 469-5603
MLS#85209 - Meticulously kept 2 bedrm, 2 bath home on over 2 acres w/a single car garage & a 24’x36’ 2-car garage w/attached 12’x36’ wood shed that houses an oil/coal/wood-fired furnace to heat home. Additional furnace & Otsego Rural Electric. Front porch, paved driveway & located between Cooperstown & Oneonta. $129,900 Call Kathy @ (607) 267-2683
new LIStInG - MLS#85820 - Very nice country home with 3 bedrms, new LIStInG - MLS #86057 - 4664 Cnty Hwy 14, Treadwell, NY - Delhi schools!
Charming 3 bedrm farmhouse. Countless updates. Detached oversized 1 car garage. Located just a short drive from everything! $99,900 Call David for more information @ (607) 435-4800
2 baths and a 2-car garage, just minutes to the village and a few miles from both Otsego and Canadarago Lake. $139,000 Call Kathy @ (607) 267-2683
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MLS#85317 - Custom built Amish home on almost 8 acres, w/4 lrg bedrms, 2 baths, lrg kitchen & dining area w/lrg walk in pantry. Lrg living rm, office, & master bedrm w/walk in closet & full bath on 1st flr. Upstairs, 3 lrg bedrms a full bath & den. Fenced in paddocks, lrg barn, & 40x80 workshop w/overhead doors, running water, bathrm & heat. Owner is motivated & will entertain all reasonable offers. $299,000 Call Chris @ (607) 376-1201
MLS#84218 - LOCATION LOCATION. Ranch home with over 1/2 acre of beautiful lawn on a corner on quiet residential street in Richfield Springs. This 6-yr-old home with 3 bdr, 2 baths and open kitchen/living room floor plan is in mint condition and ready to move into. $159,900 Call Rod & Barb @ (315) 520-6512
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new LIStInG -MLS#86044 - Middlefield renovated home
MLS#85182 – Village Victorian Beauty totally renovated 2 BR, 2 BA home with off street parking. Would make a GREAT investment property! $159,000 Call Lynn Lesperence @ (607) 434-1061
MLS#84363 - 123 Pavilion Avenue - One-of-a-kind historic 8000 sq. ft Victorian Italianate limestone mansion w/11 acres. 7 bedrms, formal dining rm, lrg living rm, family rm, library, & servants’ wing (Could be 4 more bedrms) 9 fireplaces. Panoramic views. $869,000 Call Michelle Curran @ (518) 469-5603
MLS#84169 – JUST REDUCED! Over 100 acres of land for LESS THAN $1200 PER ACRE! Two streams, teeming with wildlife and gorgeous stone walls! HUNTER’S PARADISE with marketable timber!! $119,000 Call Lynn Lesperence @ (607) 434-1061
MLS#86051 - 100 Summit Lane, Cherry Valley - Panoramic views and privacy with this custom 3 bedroom/3 bath new home. Energy-efficient. Offered w/10 acres but more acreage available. $295,000 Call Michelle Curran @ (518) 469-5603
MLS#85154 - Village Greek Revival, 4 bedrm, 1 ½ bath, 2+ car garage on almost 1/3 acre. Spacious rms, eat-in kitchen, dining, living rm, office/den, storage/workshop, original wood flring, newer carpeting, lrg back deck w/yard. Newer septic, hot water htr & furnace! Cooperstown Schools. $139,000 Call Kathy @ (607) 267-2683
MLS#84304 - COZY 1880 FARMHOUSE ON 2.8 ACRES w/beautiful views. Minutes to the center of Richfield. 2 bd, 1 ½ baths, living rm w/fireplace, formal dining rm, eat-in country kitchen, & an 8x18 enclosed front porch. 2 car attached garage, 33x11 workshop w/electricity, storage building & a 20x20 woodshed. $168,500 Call Rod & Barb @ 315-520-6512
2 bedrms, 2 baths. New oversized garage, 3+ acres. Cherry Valley Schools. $169,000 Call Jim Vrooman @ (603) 247-0506
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MLS#84735 - Cooperstown - A completely renovated home w/2 bedrms, 2 baths. Open floor plan, sunrm with gas stove, 2-car garage, manicured landscaping with .6 acres. Cooperstown Schools. Only $239,000 Call Jim Vrooman @ (603) 247-0506
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Living in this great 3 bedroom, 2 bath ranch home. It is the perfect house inside and out for spending time with family and friends. Interior features include large living room with built ins, formal dining area with slider to back deck and nice kitchen with newer countertops and laminate flooring. Three bedrooms and a full bath are also on the 1st floor. Lower level features a huge family room complete with bar area plus a woodstove to take the chill off. There is also a full bath, laundry area and loads of closet and storage space off the family room. Home is set on a huge corner tree lined lot. Walk out the slider and be on your deck. To the left of the deck is the fenced 16 X 32 inground pool area complete with a small covered camper that serves as a pool house and another storage shed. On the right side of the house is a large park like yard, perfect for lawn games and relaxation. An oversized attached, heated, 2 car garage and blacktop drive complete the package. All of this for $169,500. MLS#85448
oneontarealty.com FOR RENT - Nice 2-bedroom ranch with fireplace, good floor plan, everything in great condition. Great location, large front yard and wonderful park-like setting. $1,100/month
AFFORDABLE!! Cute 2-BR bungalow close to elementary school, parks and downtown. Fenced yard, outbuilding for storage, more. Needs some TLC. $49,000 #86050
OtsegO Lake PrOPerties Building lots with lake Rights
Lippitt Dev rd. $49,000 Lippitt Dev rd. $139,000 prevost place $149,000 prevost place $99,000
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affordable Village Home Exclusively offered at the new price: $154,900 Centrally located village home. Large corner lot. Living room, dining room, large kitchen and family room. Three bedrooms and 1.5 baths. Nice front porch. House needs some TLC, inside and out. Walk to school and the hospital. Owner anxious.
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(7634) Just count the extras in this winning 3-bedroom Cape Cod. Ideal features include arched doorways, hardwood flooring, country kitchen deck, and dining room. Large yard, 2-car garage, 3-season room, newer furnace, newer hot water heater, replacement windows. A fine choice for comfort! Just 4 miles from C’town, Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $109,000
(7302) Enjoy both easy entertaining and quiet family life in this spectacular 4BR/2+BA home with panoramic lake views on 1.8 acres. This gracious residence highlights 2-story foyer, gracious living room w/fireplace & vaulted ceiling, walnutpanelled den w/fireplace, master suite, eat-in kitchen w/pantry, formal DR, large porch, deck, in-ground pool, hardwood floors, tiled baths. Finished basement. Lake privileges. Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $675,000
(7572) Settle down in quiet elegance, or entertain in this 3BR/3+BA residence with Red Creek valley views. Moravian-tiled fireplace. Custom kitchen with granite countertop & breakfast nook, formal DR, den. Main-level master BR. Radiant-flr heat, additional outdoor wood furnace, thermal glass, cherry flrs. Lg front porch. 2-car garage w/studio apartment. 2 miles from C’town, Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $490,000
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(7590) Budget-smart, 2-bedroom Ranch with a lovely valley view. Well-kept residence boasting an airy & open plan, deck, hardwood flooring, gas fireplace, dining room, sun room, circular drive, garage. Neat retreat for a demanding buyer! 4 miles from Cooperstown, Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Co-Exclusive. $198,500
(6447) Business block on Main St. Four 2 BR apartments. 2 commercial spaces. 2,500 sq ft total commercial space. New windows, new hot water furnace. Storage space in cellar. Well-kept stone and brick building. Good income producer. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $595,000.
cooperStown viLLage commerciaL rentaL
Near the only stop light in the village with plenty of off-street parking for staff and clients. Perfect for retail or office. Newly renovated. Approximately 1,400 sq. ft. of space with 1/2 bath. Successful retail site for the last 10 years.
Right place, Right house, and Right price! Exclusively offered at $139,000 Recently renovated and updated, this 3 bedroom home is ready for immediate occupancy. It is located on a quiet country road, 2 ½ miles from the center of the village. New front deck for sitting and enjoying the sounds of summer! Large side and rear yard. Newly redone full bath; ½ bath on the first floor. Living room, dining room and den on the first floor. New appliances. Buy now and take advantage of low interest rates while they last. Call for an appointment to see this country home.
cooperStown viLLage circa 1850
(7110) Historic 4BR/3+BA Greek Revival home with French doors to gracious living room, family rm with fireplace and built-in bookcases. Hardwood floors, main-level master bedroom, Eat-in kitchen w/cherry cabinets & bay window. 2-car garage, picket fencing. It’s distinctive & delightful! Hubbell’s Exclusive. $289,000
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