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Sharkey Nagelschmidt, CCS ’63, pitches the first few innings of the first ever alumni baseball game Sunday, Sept. 28, at Doubleday Field At bat is Glen Noto/SEE PHOTO, A3
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he Village Board is considering moving tour bus parking from in front of the Leatherstocking Corp. next summer to in front of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Trustee Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, who is leading the effort to divert tour buses away from River and Lake streets, proposes the plan, which has been scheduled for public hearing at the next Village Board meeting, Monday, Oct. 27. The adjustment would allow the buses to turn left on Fair Street when they leave town, avoiding River and the first block of Lake. BLESSED PETS: A Pet Blessing Service in celebration of the Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi is planned at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5, in the Susquehanna SPCA parking lot, Route 28.
spot. Still, the tainted brownfields in the cen- IF YOU GO: Parin Design ter of the ticipate Charrette 6-8 p.m. Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal former Monday, Oct. 6, After hearing public opposition to a hospital zone for Bassett Hospital, the Village Board – seatjumpand Wednesday, ed around the table from left are Trustee Bruce Maxson, Mayor Jeff Katz, and Trustees Ellen TilOct. 8, at CCS ing off lapaugh Kuch, Cindy Falk and Jim Dean – discuss what to do next. point to cafeteria. the Wild LEARN MORE of well-earned bad karma” as Bassett By JIM KEVLIN West imposed project after project – from an about what’s happening here from had its expansion of the main building in the the Council Bluff’s attracCOOPERSTOWN 1970s to the five-story Bassett Clinic in experience at tions, the 1990s, plus multiple smaller ones WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM notably ecades of neighborhood disaf– on its residential neighborhood. the fection with Bassett Hospital “That’s what happens when an instiRailway Inn, a pub with a bubbled over at the Village tution gets its claws into a residential volleyball court where tens Board’s September meeting on Monday neighborhood,” said Linden Summers, the 29th. By evening’s end, a hospital Elk Street, who owns the last non-Bassett of thousands of people compete every summer. zone, 18 months in the making, approperty in the Atwell-River-Elk-Fair Since this and other “little peared stalled, perhaps for good. rectangle. Mayor Jeff Katz, who said a 4-1 vote Bassett Healthcare’s new presi- The next morning, Trustee Cindy Falk, gems” called Mid-City dent/CEO, Dr. Vance Brown, home, Lisa Nagle reasoned that stymied the hospital zone came who chairs the trustees’ Hospital Zone was present to hear the backPlease See PLAN, A2 as a surprise to him, credited “decades Please See ZONE, A7 and-forth.
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HELPING PANTRIES: United Way of Delaware By JIM KEVLIN & Otsego Counties and the Cooperstown Rotary Club are collecting non-perishable COOPERSTOWN goods for food pantries at Waffles and Puppets, Saturwas light-headed,” day, Oct. 25, at Ommegang. said Mark Rathbun when the phone rang and Clark Sports Center director Val Paige advised
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CGP 50-Year Gift To Community By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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he Cooperstown Graduate Program doesn’t see museums as just mementoes of times gone by, but as part of the living community. “It’s not a musty old place,” said adjunct professor Katie Boardman. “We’re learning how to make a
museum a home.” From the first week of school, “we throw (our students) into the deep end of the pool,” said 1964-2014 CGP Director Gretchen Sorin. “We want them to learn how to listen to a community and find out what they need and what they want.” Sarah DaCorta, a first-year student Please See 50TH, B4
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Bill Waller, spouse of former Mayor Carol Waller, strolls among the 600 revellers at the third annual Community Harvest Fest Sunday, Sept. 28, on Main Street. Wayne and Jane Bunn enjoy outdoor dining among friends. (See more photos at www.allotsego.com)
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Mo’Ne Davis, who in August became the first girl to pitch a winning game in the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa., donated her Taney Little League jersey from that game to the Baseball Hall of Fame Thursday, Sept. 25. Accepting is Hall President Jeff Idelson. She was joined by Mamie “Peanut” Johnson, right, one of only three women to pitch in the Negro Leagues. Mo’Ne’s team played the Stamford’s Catskill Cougars at Doubleday Field
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Sisters Rimma and Anna Bravin of Hartwick fly the crafts they created at the make-your-own-kite workshop in the old Cherry Valley school before the Kite Festival began Saturday, Sept. 27.
Design Charrette Will Involve Cooperstown Citizens In Charting Village’s Future PLAN/From A1 there were opportunities for other vibrant businesses, and in a three-day Design Charrette there in July, she and her team coaxed them into the open. By the time Nagle, founding principal in Elan Planning, headed home to Saratoga Springs, departed, she had a list of projects proposed for the site -- a dog park, expanded community gardens, more shops, perhaps a small lake and something, perhaps a playground, to bring children to the neighborhood -- in her briefcase. “We’re coming up with
a vision for the community and a series of recommendations and ideas to help implement that vision,” said Nagle, who plans to do the same for Cooperstown through a similar Design Charrette. The three-day process begins at 6-8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 6. The public is invited to attend a brainstorming session that evening in the CCS cafeteria. “If I came back in 10 years, what would I see?” is the question Nagle asked the Iowans to get the visioning going. Tuesday, Nagle and her planners will digest what they heard, plus the data
they’ve collected from questionnaires filled out by local people over the past month. Then, 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, back at the CCS cafeteria, the planners will lay out what they think they’ve heard, and ask community members to tell them if they got it right. “It’s really fun,” said Nagle. “People feel like they make a difference. That happens in every community we’ve done.” The final Community Plan is due to be delivered next spring. In Council Bluffs, the impetus for the Design Charrette was a $166,000
grant, part of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency program to clean up the brownfields in the center of that city of 60,000. It’s becoming common for grants to include a publicinput requirement, to ensure outcomes have community support, Nagle said. In Cooperstown, the process is a collaboration of the Village Board and the county Industrial Development Agency, which has contributed $25,000 to get things started and is hoping for a state CFA grant to pay for the rest. As IDA President Sandy Mathes has explained, the
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northern tip of Lake Champlain, the initial Charrette meeting happened on a snowy Saturday. Several of the folks who arrived that morning said, due to the bad weather, they couldn’t stay. In the end, none left. Everyone was hooked. The prime project that came out of the day was clean-up and restoration of the old pier, where for decades oil tankers had offloaded fuel oil for nearby tank farms. Elan’s plan included a renovated pier with a pavilion at the end. Last time Nagle went through town, preparations were under way for a wedding there.
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he student rowdiness that provoked that stormy Oneonta Common Council meeting of Tuesday, Sept. 16, is troubling. Dig a little deeper, however, and there are indications that – with two dramatic exceptions – what happened when SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College students returned this year was little worse than usual. The first dramatic exception involves Tyler Giancola, a transfer student who, in the wee hours of Sunday, Sept. 14, fell during an apparent altercation, striking his head on the pavement. He is still in serious condition in Albany Medical Center. The second emerged from statistics obtained through a FOIL request to the Oneonta Fire Department: While most of the data fell within parameters, OFD ambulances’ “transfers to Fox” more than tripled, to 50 for the first 29 days that students were back in town, compared to 16 last year. Much of that, it turns out, is due to a new policy: All seriously intoxicated subjects under 18 – college and high school students alike – are now being brought to the hospital, said Dr. Kelly Robinson, who is in charge of Fox’s Emergency Department. The impetus was caution: “We wanted to make
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sure there are no alcohol overdose deaths,” he said. • SUNY Oneonta’s Steven Perry, vice president/student development, has been involved in the question of student drinking – first as a researcher, then as an administrator – since the 1980s when the drinking age was raised to 21 and the decision was made to be a “dry campus.” In his experience, the problem of student drinking and rowdiness was worst in the early 1990s, culminating in 300 students being “dismissed” – sent home – in 1996. At the time, Perry’s research showed that fresh-
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stormy meeting of the 16th. Promisingly, many wise steps have been taken since the state Liquor Authority – not City Hall, per se, Miller pointed out – closed three downtown bars in 2012 for serving underage patrons and pushed revelers into house parties in the neighborhoods. (At least bars charged by the drink; students pay a flat fee at the house parties, then determine to get their money’s worth.) At both SUNY and Hartwick, incoming freshmen are required to take an online alcohol-education course; at SUNY, records are frozen if incoming students don’t. Further on-campus lectures are
required. Ranking officers from OPD, University Police and Hartwick security meet EVERY Monday morning to review the weekend’s events. Both campuses pay Oneonta Public Transport to run buses back from downtown late into the evening. Hartwick, its challenges with its 1,500 students somewhat less than SUNY with its 6,000, requires students to live on campus until their senior year. You can imagine how that might reduce rowdiness if SUNY could require the same. • Perhaps that’s the answer over time: To move students onto campus. Given last year’s rancor over the
impact of Newman Development Corp.’s high-rise on Blodgett Drive, you know that would be controversial. But perhaps there’s a win-win. Perhaps, with Newman or some other development firm in the lead, landlords who now offer students housing downtown would be able to invest and profit from such an initiative. With a shortage of family housing in the city, and promising initiatives – Housing Visions is lining up properties to renovate; Oneonta-specific legislation that provides tax breaks to families seeking to turn apartment houses back into single-family homes was signed by Governor Cuomo last week – the City of Oneonta has been moving in the right direction on the blight continuum. People who live in Oneonta generally love it. The worst of student rowdiness is mostly in neighborhoods between downtown and the campuses. While, as noted in this space before, student rowdiness can’t be eliminated with the wave of a magic wand, it can be confronted firmly, thoughtfully and consistently with the expectation that things can get better over time. There’s a strong constituency for making things better.
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To the Editor: The Village of Cooperstown is Thousands of alumni currently undertaking an update of its around the country have had 1994 Comprehensive Plan. To gather positive experiences with input from the public for this update, a fraternities and sororities, survey is currently being taken. This but there are also risks that we want you to know about. survey, which has but five questions, will be available at the Cooperstown If you want information Field Day this Saturday, Oct. 4, as well about the benefits of membership in a Greek letter so- as at the village offices during regular cial organization, please call business hours. As I was filling it out my survey, the our Greek adviser, Angie one question that struck me as being Eichler... the most thought provoking was the ►WHAT TO EXPECT fourth one, which asked, “What is Recognized sororities your favorite aspect of the Village of and fraternities at SUNY Cooperstown?” Of course, to me at Oneonta are not allowed least, the answer seemed quite obvito rush, pledge, or initious. I wrote: ate freshmen during the “This question can be answered in student’s first semester on two words, namely, its people. campus. The reason for this “While there may be those who rule is that students who think Cooperstown is defined by its are pledging are at risk for historic buildings, its lovely rural performing poorly in their classes. We want students to setting, its access to health care, its have at least one semester in nationally known museums, its cultural Please See PERRY, A6 undertakings, its tree-lined streets, or even its constant state of change, it
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ublic urination. There it is. Icky subject. Anyone caught performing same in downtown Oneonta faces a charge of public lewdness, which sounds an awful lot worse then simply performing a required bodily function. Why would anybody indulge in such if an alternative were available? Aha. Perhaps that the problem. Even in the daytime, there are few available public restrooms in the downtown. At night, after the bars close, there are perhaps none, and the walk back to Hartwick College or SUNY Oneonta is a mile or more. Instead of sending who knows how many freshly minted graduates into the big wide world with public lewdness charges on their record, wouldn’t it make more sense to build public restrooms, perhaps tucked away in the big lot between Dietz and Ford? No doubt that might create a whole different set of problems, but it’s something worth thinking about.
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men who were immediately pledged by fraternities were most likely to run into academic trouble. In response, the campus prohibited fraternities from pledging freshmen until the second semester. In protest, 10 or so fraternities cut their ties with the campus. Some of them – it’s been difficult to get the number or names – continue to operate today in no man’s land, some with loose affiliation to nationals but without any local restraints. That clearly is an invitation to trouble. Generally, City Hall, through code enforcement among other things, has intensified overview of fraternities (and student housing generally) in recent years, which is good. Is there some sort of zoning solution that, sooner rather than later, would ease these mavericks into oblivion? • While student rowdiness may be more or less what it’s been in recent years – OPD arrests of students are referred to the campuses, and Police Chief Dennis Nayor says numbers are almost exactly the same as last year – that doesn’t mean impingements on quality of life don’t matter. “Those are very real concerns on (neighbors’) parts, based on real experiences they’re having,” Mayor Dick Miller said after the
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is its people that make Cooperstown, Cooperstown. “And while change is the one thing that I think is inevitable, the sense of community, which Cooperstown residents bring to the area, is the one thing which should not change. And thus it is most troubling to have watched the divide among locals which seems to have crept into that sense of community in recent years. “If nothing else, any update to planning for the community should include ideas on how to keep Cooperstown
as a place where real people live and work and not let it slip into some sort of a Disney like destination where those of us who live here are just thought to be atmosphere artists who are on duty to make Cooperstown seem like a real community. “It is a real community and everything should be done to keep it so.” In addition to the survey, the Village of Cooperstown will be holding two meetings in which locals will have the opportunity to share ideas about the future of the village. Representatives of the Saratoga planning firm Elan, which the village has hired for this project, will be at the two meetings scheduled 6-8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 6, and Wednesday, Oct. 8, in the cafeteria of the Cooperstown Junior/Senior High School on Linden Avenue. I would encourage everyone who is able to attend these two meetings. Making plans for the future of Cooperstown needs the input of all of those who call Cooperstown home. CATHERINE LAKE ELLSWORTH Cooperstown
2 Town Board Members Firm On Water Plant Approve Project, For Sake Of Public Health To the Editor: along the Southside corridor The state Department of have been required to install Health has reported multiple disinfection due to multiple instances of water contamipositive bacteria results. In nation over the years 1999, chemical conthat threaten the tamination, including health of our Southbenzene, 1,2,4 trimethside residents as well ylbenzene and toluene as the health of the were detected in the consumers utilizing mobile home park local restaurants and water supply after a businesses. Almost kerosene spill. All but all of the current Jacobs two of the 25 public public water systems water systems have fail to provide the required had violations since 2000. chlorine contact time. There have been 16 boilThere have been, as of May water orders for the public 2014, 79 coliform sampling water systems, totaling over violations, 18 chemical 390 days, since 2002. Mulsampling violations and 84 tiple wells were also flooded operational violations, and during the 2006 event. several public water systems Please See JACOB, A6
Fears Of Davenport Strip Are Unfounded To the Editor: facts and assumptions and Thank you for your made illogical conclusions. editorial concerning the It is generous of the editoproposed Southside Oneonta rial to suggest that I should Town Water District. be a spokesperson on Although this paper behalf of the Oneonta came out against Town Board but that the district and has is not my role. My job devoted a disproporis not to advocate for tionate amount of the board, or a party, space to a single city or special interests resident who vocally but to advocate for opposes it, I apprethe people. I support Stammel this project after much ciate its coverage. The project has been research and reflecsupported by the other local tion about the needs of our newspaper and by groups residents and what will do as diverse as Sustainable the greatest good for the Otsego and Citizens Voices. greatest number. Residents Unfortunately, your edito- deserve accurate and thorrial and coverage has been ough information to enable based upon several incorrect Please See STAMMEL, A6
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200 YEARS AGO
Valuable Prize – The valuable ship Stranger, prize to the privateer Fox, of Portsmouth, has just anchored in Salem (Massachusetts) harbor. She is between 300 and 400 tons, and has a cargo of ordnance and military stores – 66 pieces of 32 and 24 pounders, and 300 packages, boxes and bales of military stores. The whole was intended for the Lakes, said to be for Sir James Yeo’s squadron. She sailed from Woolwich, last from Cork, out three months – has two lady passengers with their children. She mounts six guns and was captured on the banks of Newfoundland. October 6, 1814
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the concrete construction and to give us a particularly good road. The road is seven and three-fourths miles long. September 30, 1914
75 YEARS AGO
Fines of $25 each, imposed by Justice Harold D. Carpenter Wednesday afternoon are being paid under protest by Tony Yakos and Ezra Bolton of Fly Creek Valley. Found guilty of disorderly conduct by a Justice Court jury in connection with their activities during the recent milk strike, Yakos paid his fine, and Bolton planned to pay his on Thursday of last week. The trial was held at the Court House. The jury of one woman and five men deliberated over an hour before reaching a verdict and making a report recommending leniency for the defendants. Members of the jury were Mrs. Emma Ballard, Alton G. Dunn, Alvin W. Meyer, and Harry Cougear of this village. Yakos and Bolton were arrested August 15th after they intercepted a milk transport truck en route from Watertown to Delhi, threatened the driver, and dumped part of the load on the highway. October 4, 1939
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Excerpts from an address by A.A. Brown to a meeting of the Cooperstown McClellan for President Club: “We have entered upon a campaign, the results of which are perhaps to decide our national existence; and it behooves each one of us to use all the means in our power to bring it to a successful issue; but at the same time that we carry on the contest with the most determined energy, let us avoid all appeals to passion, and all indecorous personalities – let us “rally from the hillside and gather from the plain,” and with one grand charge at the ballot box, elect as President, our candidate, the Hero, Patriot and Statesman, Gen. Geo. B. McClellan.” This sentiment was received with prolonged applause by the meeting. The McClellan Glee Club sang a campaign song with good effect. September 30, 1864
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Mr. Willard A. Cockett, a native of Cooperstown, died at Binghamton on the 30th of typhoid fever, after an illness of about two weeks, during which he was tenderly cared for at the home of Mr. Frank Page, whose wife is the daughter of John C. Smith of this village. Mr. Cockett was in the 38th year of his age. He was for some years the bookseller here, and soon after he came into possession of the handsome little fortune left him by his parents, he spent a large portion of it in enlarging and improving the Bowerstown Mills, which did not prove a fortunate investment. October 4, 1889
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Local News: Mr. and Mrs. Theodore J. Kantorowski have purchased the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Olin at 24 Delaware Street. Mr. Kantorowski is physical education instructor at Cooperstown Central School. Miss Margaret McGown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. McGown, Jr., has returned to her studies at the Northfield School for Girls at Northfield, Massachusetts. Drs. Alfred Jaretski III and Edward Carey of the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital will be in Chicago this weekend attending the annual meeting of the American Association for Surgical Trauma at the Drake Hotel. About 400 persons were served at the public turkey supper sponsored by the First Baptist Church of Cooperstown last September 1916 Thursday evening for the benefit of the student exchange fund. The sum of $439.50 was realized. Commission of Highways in Albany up to October 15th, September 30, 1964 and on that date, the contract will be awarded. The highway is to have a concrete base instead of water bound macadam. The concrete costs $1,700 per mile more than the usual water bound type. Commissioner Carlisle is anxious to try out
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PERRY/From A4 which to adjust to the academic demands of college before becoming involved in fraternities and sororities, so we require the Greek organizations to defer rush until students’ second semester. ►UNRECOGNIZED ORGANIZATIONS As on other SUNY campuses, there are groups in Oneonta that use Greek letters and are not recognized by the college. That means that these organizations have no affiliation with or supervision by the college, do not follow the rules that are set for Greek social organizations (including the deferred rush policy), and do not give the College the names of their members. They are loosely organized social clubs that often use the Greek letters of legitimate organizations. Their use of these names is illegal because they are not formally affiliated with the national organizations. A student who joins an unrecognized group and pays dues to that group will not be a recognized member on any other campus nor have any of the alumni privileges that go with national membership. The dues that are paid are used solely for the social activities of the local group. Some of these groups were at one time recognized by the College and were affiliated with national organizations but chose to end their affiliation with the College. There are Oneonta alumni who were members of these groups when they were recognized and are not aware that the status has changed. Members of unrecognized groups sometimes lie to new students about the group’s status.
Town Board Members Disagree With Editorial JACOBS/From A4 Because of these issues, the Town began its consideration of this project in 2008,when the Courtyard Marriott sent an application for a new well to the DOH, which requested that the Town conduct a study regarding the provision of municipal water to the Southside area. Fortin Park was chosen for the well site because the Town already owns the land, it is not floodable, and the perimeter around the well can be controlled to prevent contamination. Oneonta Town Supervisor Bob Wood has worked tirelessly over the last several years to secure funding to a total of $3.25 million in grants, as well as $150,000 in pending grant money. The commercial district will receive $2.4 million in loans with an interest rate of 3.5 percent over 30 years and the resi-
dents’ portion will consist of $2.4 million at 0 percent (interest free) over 30 years, all of which will considerably reduce the overall cost of the project, saving millions of dollars for both businesses and residents. The proposal for providing municipal water services to Davenport is not a contingency upon which the success of this project depends. The cost of water for our town residents, if supplied by the proposed city project, would be markedly higher; 2.43/1000 gallons (500,000 gal/day x 365 days/yr), the cost of which would be $443,475. The exact same volume over the course of 365 days would be $109,012 if supplied by the Town via the Fortin Park well. The financial advantage to the Town residents of hundreds of thousands of dollars each year is very clear. It is illogical to suggest
that the Town proposal will “assuredly increase dependency on fossil fuels” while city support of the exact same model would not, given that the end result would be the same, just with higher costs to the town residents. The purpose of this project is to preserve the trend of positive growth in the region while ensuring the safety of the existing residential population, hardly a “crazy quilt approach.” The value of properties within the district will likely be increased with a safe and predictable water supply, a major health benefit to residents and those who visit our area. To allow politically driven misinformation to distort these facts is a gross disservice to the residents of the Town of Oneonta. PATRICIA JACOB Member, Oneonta Town Board
STAMMEL/From A4 them now to decide. The primary points of opposition made in this paper appear to be as follows: the project doesn’t create enough of the right kinds of jobs; it threatens the City of Oneonta; and it encourages irresponsible sprawl or “dumb growth.” First, I approach this project primarily as a necessary investment in infrastructure to assist our current residents and businesses on Southside and protect them from poor water quality and irregular quantity. It is not necessary to prove how many jobs this infrastructure project produces; the improvement is designed to provide a service and meet the needs of the people and will be paid for by those
receiving the service. Incidentally though there will be jobs created and increased property values and tax base, as I’ve mentioned in a previous letter. Next comes that always tricky issue of town/city relations. It’s not a coincidence that much of the opposition comes from individuals with firmly held beliefs on this issue. Unfortunately, some still look at the city and town as competitors for resources instead of partners in Greater Oneonta. We town residents try to be good neighbors but object when some repeatedly insist that the town cannot manage its own affairs and must be controlled by the city, whether it’s managing our water supplies or forcing unwelcome merger with the
town. If too few property owners sign petitions, I will take that to be the will of the people and will not vote to approve the district. My goal over the past several months has been to educate residents to better equip them for this decision. You are always welcome to personally contact me at 607222-1591 with questions or concerns. Although I believe it would be a historic missed opportunity if the residents’ petitions fail, as their elected advocate I will stand by their decision and look forward to continuing to serve them. ANDREW STAMMEL Member, Oneonta Town Board
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Neighbors Rebel, Convincing Village Board Majority Against ‘Hospital Zone’ ZONE/From A1 Committee, which has been at work since April 2013, said, “It is what it is. It would have been nice to have come to a more productive solution. We’ll wait for legal advice.” But the night before, with neighbors’ opposition manifest, trustee opposition seemed to be digging in. “I’m going to vote no tonight. I’m going to vote no next month. I’m going to vote no forever,” Trustee Jim Dean told his colleagues. Of particular concern – Trustee Lou Allstadt cited it before his vote against going forward – was a reference in the SEQR ap-
plication to a “permit for campus-style development” and residents’ mention of a possible “dormitory,” perhaps to accommodate students in Bassett’s recently created medical school. “The board and the public ought to know those plans,” said attorney Douglas Zamelis, Springfield Center, representing his stepfather, Wendell Tripp, 88 Fair St. Listening to the back and forth was Bassett’s new president/CEO, Dr. Vance Brown, who said after the session “we do not have a single master plan.” He added, “Obviously, we have to be able to build a plan, in concert with our community, that people are going to
be comfortable with.” The occasion was a public hearing required before adoption of a village law creating a set of zoning regulations that would allow Bassett to plan its future in the village as a unit, rather than piecemeal. Currently, the village’s largest employer is located in an R-1 zone, the most restrictive residential category, and must obtain a special permit from the village trustees for any significant project. In some cases, such turning the tennis courts and green space around Bassett Hall into parking lots, took years and a lawsuit to accomplish. Accommodating Bassett’s
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future is more than academic: An e-mail from Dr. Brown that circulated in the eight-county healthcare system soon after he arrived in July discussed the possibility of shifting pediatrics and eye-surgery to Fox Hospital and Oneonta Specialty Services on outer River Street. The trustees’ meeting room at 22 Main was packed when the hearing opened on the 28th. Also commented on was a tourist-accommodation law – it was later also tabled – but most people were there out of concern about the hospital zone. Former trustee Frank Capozza, who lives at Pioneer and Beaver, across from Bassett Hall, spoke of buses ferrying employees back and forth to the Blue Lot on the village’s south end at all hours. “I have no faith they will keep their issues on (their) side of the street,” he added. Wendell Tripp recounted all the development over the years, including a noisy air-conditioning unit placed atop the former Carriage
& Harness Museum, Fair and Elk, when it became Bassett’s IT center. Upset by “what has happened already,” he voiced fears at “what will happen next.” Retired doctor Roger MacMillan, River and Main, picked up on that theme: “Bassett is an organizational behemoth. It will do whatever it wants to do.” Summers decried the “empty soulless shells of housing” on Fair and Beaver streets today after home after home went on the market and Bassett bought them up. And Elizabeth Lesco, 20 Beaver St., recounted how all surrounding homes have become Bassett property since her family bought it in 2003. “It’s not a neighborhood anymore,” she said. “I’m it.” After public comment ended, a vote on the hospital zone stumbled on a technicality. Before voting on the zone, trustees had to vote on SEQR, the state Environmental Quality Review Act application. Falk proposed a “negative declaration,” meaning the zone would
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have no impact on the environment. Reluctant to do that, the trustees nonetheless approved the SEQR application’s Part A, but could not bring themselves to do so on Part B, so they tabled the matter. Trustees Allstadt, Dean, Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch and Bruce Maxson voted to table, and only Falk voting to move forward. Katz did not vote. Until SEQR is approved, the trustees can’t vote on the main question. Katz and Falk said they will ask Village Attorney Martin Tillapaugh, who was absent, for advice, then will introduce the hospital zone again at the October meeting on the 27th.
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