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COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
YOUNG SINGERS TAKE ‘MUSIC MAN’ TO OMAN
H enry Wager. son of Nancy Tarr and Patrick Wager of Cooperstown,
2012 SMALL BUSINESS & BREAKTHROUGH AWARD WINNERS
and other members of a Glimmerglass Festival troupe left Monday, Oct. 1, for Oman, where they will perform “The Music Man.”
40-Year Tradition Alive At Benson
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2 Partners Seek To Extend Legacy Of Oneonta’s Oldest Realty Agency
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Pipeline On I-88 Backed
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Kathy Jones of Oneonta ladles up eggs and sausage for granddaughter Shiloh Jones of Morris at the Fly Creek Historical Society’s 13th annual pancake breakfast Saturday, Sept. 29, at the Grange Hall.
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all-of-Famer Ryne Sandberg will announced the launch of an anti-steroids BASE (Be A Superior Example) on-line registry at 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The registry will allow people to pledge to lead a healthy lifestyle. DICK’S OPENING: The ribbon cutting on Dick’s Sporting Goods, Southside Mall, is 8 a.m. Friday, Oct. 5. Former New York Knick John Stark will be on hand noon-3 p.m. the 7th. YOUNG POLS: A Otsego County Young Democrats Club is forming, Rich Abbate, the new county chair, announced. Leading the effort is Aidan Macaluso, 17, a CCS senior. Those interested, ages 14-21, may call him at (862) 438-0879. AID TO RWANDA: To help build an irrigation system for a Rwandan village, the CCS Music Association is presenting Cooperstown Rocks” at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17, in the school’s Sterling Auditorium, featuring such local talent as The So + So’s Rhythm and Blues Review.
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very so often, Becky Thomas and Betsy Shultis will get someone coming into the Benson Agency with a different idea about the meaning of real estate. “This building was a fraIF YOU GO: To ternity in the early ‘70s,” said register for the banquet, call 432-4500 Becky. “I have a picture of them all in their short shorts on or e-mail shelly@ otsegocountycham- the roof.” “There were 35 guys living ber.com here,” Betsy added. “I once took a guy up to the third floor because he was convinced that his class ring was still on the ledge.” The building used to also be a rectory when St. Mary’s Catholic Church was across the street (where the Hess Station is now) and occasionally, couples who got married there will stop by for a tour. Betsy, who joined the agency in 1986, and Becky, who joined in 1994, bought the Benson Agency from Rosalee Benson in 2001. “We wanted to keep the good reputation Rosalee built – and take it further,” said Please See BENSON, A7
Constitution Potential Bonanza, Ayes Argue By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal
Becky Thomas, left, and Betsy Shultis’ Benson Agency is lodged in one of Oneonta’s landmark mansions, on Grand Avenue.
Green Earth Becomes Horn Of Plenty Under Dean, Emily Roberts, Store Evolves Into Community Center By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA
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hen Dean and Emily Roberts bought the Green Earth in 2008, their now-renown produce section was a little lacking. “It was a hard table with a bunch of bananas,” said Emily. “It was the sorriest looking thing – we have pictures, we laugh about it now.” The progress made since then is now being recognized: The Green Earth will received the 2012 Otsego County Chamber/ Excellus Breakthrough Award Thursday, Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal Oct. 11, at the chamber’s annual Small Dean and Emily Roberts, assisted by their son Business Banquet at The Otesaga. Michael Shaughnessy, have greatly expended the Please See ROBERTS, A7 Green Earth’s offerings since 2008.
PAST CHAMBER/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS HONOREES
Gruver Zweifel & Scott, LLP (2011) • Hometown Oneonta/The Freeman’s Journal (2010) • James Jordan Associates, Architects (2009) • The Shipping Room (2008) • ISD (2007) • Eastman Associates (2006) H.W. Naylor Co. (2005) • Gordon B. Roberts Agency (2004) • Cooperstown Bat Co. (2003) Ultimate Broadcasting (2002) • Sport Tech (2001) • Fly Creek Cider Mill (2000)
PAST CHAMBER/Excellus BREAKTHROUGH AWARD HONOREES
Cleinman Performance Partners (2011) • Green Toad Bookstore (2010) • Ioxus (2009) • Cooperstown Cookie Co. (2008) • GrafiQa Creative Services (now Vibrant Creative) (2007) • T.S. Pink Corp. (2006)
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s this newspaper went to press Tuesday evening, Oct. 2, it appeared a sizeable majority of the Otsego County Board of Representatives would support a TALLY ON resolution endorsing CONSTITUTION “Alternate M,” the PIPELINE Constitution Pipeline ►AYES route along I-88. However, county Clark Frazier Rep. John Kosmer, McCarty D-Otego, said he Koren expected “10 to 600” Lindberg pipeline opponents Powers to attend the county Rowinski Schwerd board’s monthly Stuligross meeting on Oct. 3, when the resolution ►NAYS was due to be acted Kosmer Murphy on. The impact of such input, if it ma- Rosenthal terialized, could not Rothenberger be predicted. ►UNDECIDED Questioned over Koutnik the past few days, DETAILS of the nine of the 14 county Wednesday, reps said they supOct. 3, county port the pro-Alterboard meetnate-M resolution, ing, allotsego. which was drafted at com the request of Linda Rowinski, D-Oneonta, with the support of the board chair, Kathy Clark, R-Otego. However, Pauline Koren, R-Milford, who said she supports the resolution – “economically, we need to do something for the county” – was Please See PIPELINE, A6
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CCS cLASS celebrates 68TH reunion
The CCS Class of 1944 gathered for its 68th Reunion Saturday, Sept. 5, at The Otesaga. Back row, from left, are Olympia (Russo) Burns, John Levante, Margaret (Lake) Higgins, Jeannette (Krisch) Karosec. Front row, from left, are Harlo Beals, Nancy (Carpenter) Dunn, Eileen (Reeves) Littell.
TheAnnual Sixth Annual The Fourth Greater Oneonta Greater Oneonta historical society Historical Society Not-Just-Antiques benefit auction of goods and services
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Featuring a wide variety of art, sports memorabilia, collectibles, items of unusual interest, cranberry glass, Depression glass, various sets of china and glass, works of art, wine and gift cards.
The items will be auctioned in three different styles—a live auction, ! " # silent auction, and bucket auction. Free admission, refreshments, and $ % # $ &' entertainment, including a Book Signing by Chuck D’Imperio. E-mail info@oneontahistory.org for a list of items up for auction.
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Hats – and crowns – were the order of the day when SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski hosted her annual welcome reception for Graduate Program in Museum Studies’ grad students Wednesday, Sept. 19, at The Fenimore Art Museum. Above, student Megan Evans hands out crowns to her fellow students, picking up on Kleniewski’s reference to CGP as “the crown jewel of SUNY Oneonta.�
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I have lived in Otsego County for the past 24 years. We recently moved into the Village of Cooperstown, after living in the Fly Creek valley for 16 years. I’m a Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Specialist in Bassett Healthcare’s Research Institute. My community involvement includes Cooperstown Lion’s Club, Board of Directors of the Leatherstocking Education on Alcoholism/Addictions, Foundation, Inc. (LEAF), Board of the Cooperstown Youth Recreational Soccer Program, and coaching a variety of youth sports. As your representative on the Otsego Town Board, I will explore opportunities for shared services; provide a voice from the Village of Cooperstown on the Otsego Town Board; protect the quality and safety of our roads and seek a strong road use ordinance; and maintain the town’s beauty, environmental integrity, and rural character. For more information, contact me at trhohensee@gmail.com or (607) 547-5078, or go to ManyVoicesOneVillage.com
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While some wore crowns, other CGP students – Cassie Cavanaugh, left, and Haley Gard, above – donned retro headgear appropriate to museum studies’ students.
BRANIGAN HONOR: Jeffrey Branigan, Cooperstown, was recognized on the President’s List at Mohawk Valley Community College for the Spring 2012 semester. 3 ON VP LIST: Lisa Guardi, Cherry Valley, Joseph Armstrong, Springfield Center, and Dante Thompson, Milford, have been named to the Mohawk Valley Community College Vice President’s List for the spring semester.
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‘Celebrate Cooperstown’ Culminates In ‘One Long Block Party’ By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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ooperstown is expecting a few hundred people for dinner on Sunday, Oct. 14. Luckily for organizers, everyone is responsible for washing their own dishes. Growing Community’s potluck harvest supper – it culminates the Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 13-14 “Cel-
ebrate Cooperstown” weekend – invites the community to dine together on Main Street. “The idea is for locals to come together and share locally produced food to celebrate fall and community,” said Ellen Pope, Otsego 2000 executive director. “Everyone brings a dish, their own cutlery and beverages, but it’s one long block party.” Main Street between Fair and River streets will be closed from 4 to 7 p.m. and 300 feet of tables
laid out. Music will be provided by the Small Town Big Band and Phil Zenir, who will be performing in Pioneer Park. The weekend will dedicated to local stores, which will be participating in a Sidewalk Sale along Main Street 9 a.m.-6 p.m. each day. Music will also be performed in Pioneer Park that Saturday. Local non-profit agencies like Otsego 2000 and the Land Trust will set up informational tables on the lawn of 22 Main St.
And the National Baseball Hall of Fame and The Farmers’ and Fenimore Art museums will offer free admission to village residents who present proof of residency (such as delivered mail or a driver’s license). Highlights at the Hall include the 100th anniversary Fenway Park exhibit. Museum highlights include “Tasha Tudor: Around the Year,” organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum, featuring 100 examples of the beloved children
illustrator’s original art. “The weekend after Columbus Day is the unofficial end of the tourist season,” Mayor Jeff Katz explained. “It’s a chance to sit back and recognize the community and relish what we have here.” For more information, contact the village offices at (607) 547-2411 or e-mail growingcommunity@yahoo.com. And keep checking the village website, http://www.cooperstownny.org/, for updates.
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ART TEACHERS SHOW THEIR STUFF AT CAA SHOW Oneonta’s Tom Rowe pauses to ponder the mural, “Garden,” left, by CCS retiree James Hallahan at “Those Who Can! Art of Otsego County Art Teachers Past & Present,” which opened Friday, Sept. 28, at the Cooperstown Art Association. Eileen Murphy, below, and Rebecca “Todd” DeMulder Mietzelfeld, below left, are also exhibiting. The show ends Oct. 26.
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t was a surprise when SUNY Oneonta’s Center for Economic & Community Development suddenly disappeared. “The center will cease operation tomorrow,” Hal Legg, the college’s director of communications, abruptly announced Wednesday, Sept. 26. Thinking it about it, though, there would probably be a benefit in sun-setting every economic-development program every few years, public and/or private, (and probably more than just economic-development programs, too.) Success in economic development – this space has spent a lot of time on the issue in recent months, given how the five-year Great Recession has dramatized the decades-long stagnation of our local commonweal – depends on keeping a fresh outlook. Would anyone have dreamed 10 years ago that Otsego County would be the Greek-yogurt-making capital of the world? Yet it is. Would anyone have guessed even two years ago that Southside Mall would attract four national retailers in the current economic climate? Yet, with Dick’s Sporting Good opening this weekend, it has. Through savvy marketing, The Fenimore and Farmers’ museums and The Otesaga
This image appears on the website of US News & World Report, which this year ranked SUNY Oneonta 47th in its Regional University/North category. Among SUNY campuses, only Geneseo (10) and New Paltz (32) outranked it.
this summer again advanced over past years. There’s success around us. But are our community dreams big enough? • Over its 22 years of existence, The Center for Economic & Community Development, through hard experience, had learned what couldn’t be done, but had it lost sight of what might be done? It could marshal data – on the Oneonta town-city merger, for instance – but couldn’t bring it to a conclusion: Ought we or oughtn’t we? It could make a case on how Foothills wouldn’t succeed, but not how it might (and is). It was time for a fresh start. That leaves the question, how can SUNY Oneonta best contribute to
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needed to support my family and charity work. My family and I will be devastated. In return, we will get a one-time pittance that will never cover the loss. We will not be entitled to a tax abatement. Nor will we be allowed to restore the property to its pre-pipeline natural condition. I equate the pipeline to a cancer. Monies can be made in caring for a cancer patient, including but not limited to doctors’ fees, home health aides, products and medications needed. Those doctors and aides will all need to have places of business. Those places will add to the tax base. Having these offices etc. nearby may also result in a savings Please See LETTER, A6 •F
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Mike Otis, Pierstown, center, a broker with Gordon Roberts Agency, assumed the presidency of the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce board at the annual meeting Monday, Oct. 1, at Brewery Ommegang. From left are Executive Director Pat Szarpa, new board member Danielle Newell, Smithy Pioneer Gallery; Ken Meifert, vice president, Hall of Fame; Elizabeth Schiavone, treasurer, Brookwood School; attorney Will Green, secretary, and Connie Haney, new board member, Cooperstown Bat Co. Otis succeeds Andrew Marietta, who rotated off the board after six years.
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• It goes without saying that SUNY, by definition, is a big bureaucracy, slowmoving, hard to change. So it’s encouraging that a tough decision that didn’t have to be made – eliminating the Center for Economic & Community Development – was made. Kleniewski – her annual community breakfast is Friday, Oct. 5, and she always has something interesting to say – is by all accounts the ultimate in considerate and sensitive bosses. But the wheels of cerebration are turning, constantly turning. She’s focused laser-like on the care of students and student achievement, as she should be, and that means not everything that is will be. • While SUNY Oneonta can do much alone, it can’t escape Oneonta or, to a greater degree, Otsego County, home to the exceptional Biological Field Station and Graduate Program in Museum Studies, both in Cooperstown. Under Kleniewski’s leadership, SUNY Oneonta will get better regardless, but it can only achieve a full flowering if its community fully flowers as well. Yes, it is and has been a good partnership, which gives confidence to believe it will only get better.
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fun and funky – and the Bresee’s redo will help – but it is a bit dog-eared. It’s not what it might be if, say, SUNY invested more on Main Street. The 200-bed on-campus townhomes that stirred neighbors’ concern last year have been stymied by the state’s financial situation; bonds simply aren’t being issued. It’s an opportunity to adjust. When things ease up, why not shift that money into renovating once-stately downtown buildings for student housing? Upgrading downtown would upgrade downtown, but it would also make SUNY Oneonta more enticing to the ever-brighter student body it is building here. And while many graduates stay, most go. While 150 music-industry students graduate annually, there isn’t a single music studio in Oneonta to keep them here. While SUNY fashion grad Nichole Bainer has set the standard for entrepreneurship, she’s done it pretty much on her own. The Center for Economic & Community Development had backed away from any idea of an incubator in favor of a “virtual incubator.” But life is analog; brainy musicindustry and fashion grads would energize each other in one physical space – in the block above Key Bank, say. Try it; it’ll work.
IKE OTIS ASSUMES PRESIDENCY OF COOPERSTOWN CHAMBER
Needing Eminent Domain, Pipeline Painful To Many To the Editor: I would like to respond to the editorial printed in the Sept. 28 edition which describes the Constitution Pipeline as “a gift,” citing a short-term infusion of monies and jobs, savings in the use of natural gas for those who want it and have access, and a continuing income from taxes. I live on Prosser Hollow Road in Davenport, the “Alternate M” route for that pipeline, the “gift.” The pipeline will clear cut my property, causing the loss of topsoil, wildlife (some species possibly endangered) and their habitat. Water runoff will overflow to my neighbors below. Lastly, it will take from us our renewable source of income
the general welfare of its host county? First, of course, with its $100 million budget, the college is a tremendous engine of the local economy, rivaled only by Bassett Healthcare. Apply the 2.5 multiplier: That means $250 million – a quarter of a billion dollars – passes from wallet to local wallet annually because of SUNY. Second, SUNY Oneonta’s graduates are a continual source of brainpower and leadership in our communities. Andrew Marietta comes to mind: The Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce president, a CGP graduate, completed six years on the board the other night, five years that saw a retooling and repositioning of that important organization. SUNY grads Tim and
Nancy Johnson’s Autumn Cafe is a 30-year Oneonta mainstay; it’s unique, in the true meaning of the word, proving every day how important individual creativity is in a cookie-cutter world. Of course, there are hundreds of examples. Third, Legg’s press release cites the hiring of Megan Ackley as internship coordinator, aimed at making hundreds of hours of youthful energy, brains and growing expertise available to local businesses. Call her at 436-3500. Fourth, the STEM Leadership Council is seeking to create a growing stream of local science, technology, engineering and math pupils from elementary school through college, critical to the growth of Ioxus and other local high-tech initiatives, current and future. SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski got that ball, and many others, rolling. • Much is being done, and much might be. When you visit places like Bethlehem, Pa., home to Moravian and Lehigh, or Burlington, Vt., home to UVM, you see how thriving downtowns would convince students to enroll there over, say, Temple on Philadelphia’s crime-ridden north Broad Street (although it is improving.) Oneonta’s downtown is
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here is a solid plan afoot with great potential that will have an immediate positive impact on the economy of Otsego County, in particular the city and town of Oneonta. The plan will also put more money into the pockets of the people in the southern portion of Otsego County and provide more sales tax to Otsego County over the long run. What is this plan? The plan essentially takes a page from a highly successful local summer baseball camp model, shapes it to include the widest array of both team and individ-
ual sports events, and then programs them on a year’round basis in the Greater Oneonta Area. All of this appeals to primarily out-of-market active sport enthusiasts, luring them to the Oneonta area to take part in this year ‘round series of high quality sports events and in turn, drive economic activity in
the area; with a particularly high impact on the area’s hospitality industry, and to increase the overall per capita income of Otsego County. The plan – called Oneonta Sports Tourism 2013 – is a product of the Greater Oneonta Economic Development Council (GO-EDC) and has been in the works since last October. It was presented initially as a onepage profile, basically to serve as an example of what local business leaders might do to introduce new and creative economic development ideas to GO-EDC. It did that and it also
produced a high level of interest in its own right among those taking part in GOEDC. The point was made that Oneonta has an incredible inventory of high-quality sport facilities and venues (both outdoor and indoor), many not being fully utilized. And that without new capital investment in facility development, with improved coordination and purpose, the plan could be quickly implemented in a cost-effective way. As we began our research, adding new information to the plan, it became crystal clear, the Greater Oneonta Please See PLAN, A6
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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz from Freeman’s Journal archives, courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library
200 YEARS AGO
Marriage Notice – In the evening of the 15th September last by the Rev. Samuel Martin, the Rev. John Smith, of Cooperstown, Otsego County, and state of New York, to Miss Polly Laird, of Chanceford township, York County, Pennsylvania. (Ed. Note: Rev. Smith served as pastor of the Cooperstown Presbyterian Church from 1812 until 1834; the wedding took place in Pennsylvania) October 3, 1812
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Suicide – We learn from the Ithaca Journal that a Mr. Elizur W. Shepard, of that village, committed suicide on September 22, by taking laudanum. He deliberately informed his wife of his intention, but after a severe conflict, she was obliged to desist from her efforts to defeat his design, and while absent seeking assistance, he took the fatal dose. The contents of his stomach were evacuated by means of the stomach pump, but the poison had already taken effect. He left three small children with his wife, without any adequate means of support. He was a victim of intemperance. October 2, 1837
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Released – Mr. Herkimer was released from Fort Lafayette last week by giving bonds for the appearance of his son, or a substitute, in case he should be drafted into the army. He was not called upon to surrender the opinion he holds, that there are some very great scamps holding office under this Republican Administration, and that the people would be benefitted by a speedy return to Democratic rule. The 152nd Regiment (the 2nd Otsego and Herkimer) is now fully organized. L. Boyer, Colonel; Ferguson, Lieut. Colonel; Spaulding, Major; Campbell, Adjutant. Nine of the companies have been organized. Capt. Bingham’s is the ninth, Co. “I” with 83
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satisfied from inquiry that there are a thousand persons within a reasonable radius (say ten miles) of Cooperstown, that do not, nor ever will, attend the Fairs while the Society tolerates beer-selling. October 7, 1887
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Thomas McDonough was burned to death in a dwelling house fire on Lake Street, Cooperstown, on Saturday night. When the fire was discovered shortly after 11 o’clock the flames surrounded the room occupied by Mr. McDonough and it was not known whether or not he had escaped until his body was found after the flames had been extinguished. Firemen who attempted to reach the room earlier were driven back by the flames and smoke. The origin of the fire is not known. It may have started in McDonough’s sleeping room or in a room adjacent thereto. The house is owned by Mrs. D’Aren and is occupied by the family of Torrance Olendorf, who keep boardOctober 7, 1987 ers. The fire occurred in the upper part of a story-and-a-half addition on the rear of the men rank and file. There are about 825 men house. The roof and upper portion of this addition were destroyed. The fire furnished now mustered in. Otsego has furnished five the first opportunity for the sounding of companies. Two regiments in three months the auxiliary fire alarm – the whistle of the from Herkimer and Otsego! Who says the Hop District is not loyal, patriotic and wide International Milk Products Company – and it certainly aroused the natives. awake! October 2,1912 October 3, 1862
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Beer-Selling on the Fair Grounds – As suggestions are in order relating to the future of the Fairs by the County Agricultural Society, cannot those who refrain from being partners or participators in an association that sell dram-selling privileges, justly ask that in the future, so far as the Society as a body is concerned, they will keep the grounds clean and pure from all complicity with selling intoxicating or poisonous beverages? Counting the women and children, as well as the men who cannot consistently endorse or countenance such a custom, I am
75 YEARS AGO
Chesterfield, the “High School Horse” of Troop C, Sidney, has graduated into retirement. His days of jumping over automobiles are over. Captain Daniel E. Fox, Troop C commandant announced retirement of the 25-year-old horse whose performances have thrilled crowds in Canada, Madison Square Garden, the State Fair in Syracuse and at county fairs and outings from one end of this section to the other. Chesterfield has performed several times in Cooperstown. For more than 11 years Chesterfield has been doing his stuff with the Troop ‘C’ Roughriders. He stands sixteen hands high
and weighs 1,100 pounds. Chesterfield was acquired by Troop ‘C’ in March, 1926 from T.J. Shanahan of Buffalo. At the time Chesterfield had already exhibited at the State Fair and was the winner of several blue ribbons. Captain Fox and Trooper William M. Mossman are grooming Omaha to take Chesterfield’s place. Omaha, two years with the troop, is about the same build as Chesterfield and is eighteen years his junior. October 6, 1937
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Frederick L. Rath, Jr., chairman of the Cooperstown Planning Commission, has called for public support in selling and implementing the Cooperstown Area Master Plan. Presiding at a public meeting at the elementary school on Thursday night of last week, at which the new plan was outlined, Mr. Rath pointed out that the Planning Commission did not expect everyone to accept everything proposed in the Master Plan down to the finest detail. But, he did tell the assembly that the Master Plan was a flexible guide to future development of the area. Theodore P. Feury, a Commission member, discussed a proposed Otsego Lake Control Board to protect the rights of property owners, fishermen and boaters who live along the lake and use it. October 3, 1962
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This weekend, firemen from New York City will return to Cooperstown for rest, relaxation and a friendly baseball game with their Cooperstown colleagues. Last fall, village residents Eric and Noelle Hage organized a special ceremony and reception at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in Cooperstown for firemen at Ladder 165, Engine 317, Battalion 54 in St. Alban’s, Queens, where Noelle’s brother-in-law serves. This year the firemen will return with their families to play golf and a benefit baseball game at Doubleday Field. October 4, 2002
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Eminent Domain An Issue LETTER/From A4 OTHER LETTER, B5 to those who may use them. But ask the person who and the tax money the local has the cancer what kind of government will receive gift it is. Cancer destroys really going to make that lives and the lives of entire much of a difference in your families. It drains their pockets. It takes away from life? Will it make enough of a difference so that you and them the ability to continue to participate in the commu- generations after you can look up at the scar that will nity as they had before. cross your beautiful mounThe pipeline like a tumor can never be guaranteed 100 tains of which you were percent safe. The destruction once so proud? You will have to look is far worse in the case of at that open wound which an accident then the original veers off of I-88 and up into damage. The communities’ your precious hills knowpeople and resources will ing that if restoration would be called upon to respond be allowed, that you would to any accident. Are you never live long enough to prepared for that? see it happen. Each and every one of CHRISTINE ECKERSON you needs to think hard. Is Davenport the one year or so of activity
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Enough Ayes Appear Ready To Back Pipeline PIPELINE/From A1 away on vacation. Her absence at Wednesday’s meeting means her vote would be counted as a nay. Four of the 13 representatives interviewed opposed the resolution. Only one, Gary Koutnik, D-Oneonta, said he had not made up his mind. Under the county board’s weighted voting system, the eight ayes would amount to 3,621 votes of a total 6,167 in favor of the resolution. The four nays would amount to 1,635 against, but Koren’s absence would bring that to 2,261. If Koutnik votes nay, his 285 would bring the total to 2,546, still to few to carry the day if the
eight ayes hold firm. Meanwhile, the Otsego County Chamber’s Business Action Committee Thursday, Sept. 27, voted to support “Alternate M,” chamber Executive Director Barbara Ann Heegan reports. Tuesday, Oct. 2, the day before the county board meeting, Citizens Voices, the pro-business group that has been meeting monthly at the Carriage House on Southside, endorse “Alternate M.” And later that day, Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller sent a memo to Clark and the city’s county board delegation: “Given the lack of legitimate risks and separation of pipeline approval
from the hydrofracking issue, I see no basis for the county not approving this project.” Rowinski’s Solid Waste & Environmental Committee approved the resolution, 3-1, when it met Wednesday, Sept. 26, with Kosmer voting nay. However, she said the committee, receiving input from the county Natural Gas Advisory Committee (it voted 5-4 against the resolution) on the 25th, had recast the resolution in more general language. The nayes on NGAC said the specific numbers in the original resolution had been provided by Williams, the Houston-based pipeline company. Rowinski said
numbers had resulted from research by the county Planning Department, but bowed to the NGAC advice nonetheless. In interviews, the ayes all said that, whatever their views on fracking, the Constitution Pipeline, which would carry natural gas from the source in northeastern Pennsylvania to connect with the Tennessee and Iroquois pipelines in Schoharie County, is a separate issue. “I can understand objections to the hydrofracking; I’m not sure those are the same objections to the pipeline,” said Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla, whose view was Please See PIPELINE, A9
Sports Offers One Avenue To Economic Development PLAN/From A4 Oneonta was seen as the only community that could immediately be called upon to grow travel and tourism to Otsego County, resulting in increased attraction sales countywide, as well more sales and lodging tax receipts. We have always had the deep belief that “as goes Oneonta economically and culturally, so goes the entire area.” Oneonta Sports’ Tourism seizes on that fact! Several locally based sport organizers have already signed on to be part of this new initiative and have welcomed the addition of an Oneonta based sports’ commission to facilitate the plan and to assist them in expanding their existing
sports events. The new commission, which we’re now calling the Greater Oneonta Sports Boosters, would work with these local groups and out of area sport promoters providing supportive services to include the recruitment of regionally significant events, along with out of market team and individual participants; central event marketing; publishing and promoting an annual Oneonta sports calendar of events, and more. So, how do we get this important new economic development initiative off the ground? Well, we calculated that year one operations, seen primarily as a year of organization, would
cost $84,000. We also realized that there is only one viable source for financially seeding the program and for sustaining it for a 3-5-year period: Otsego County’s lodging tax receipts. The new sports commission, according to the Sports’ Tourism plan, is being proposed as a division of Otsego County Tourism to maximize program effectiveness, to guarantee an expanded program inventory within county tourism’s existing schedules and promotional themes. It makes perfect sense! This commission blends the private sector with the public sector, with true emphasis on private enterprise. It’s a balanced plan that
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promotes inter-municipal collaboration and inter-business cooperation where it uses public sector monies via bed tax to strengthen the ability of private businesses to make money, well beyond what they are currently making. We’ve asked city and town of Oneonta governments to endorse the plan through formal resolution to encourage Otsego County government to approve 2013 bed tax funding for the program. The ball, as they say, is in their court. Al Colone is former president of the National Soccer Hall of Fame; Bill Shue is a former Oneonta alderman. They founded GO-EDC.
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she joked. Dean, meanwhile, worked in his father’s die-casting and silk-screening factory in New York City through the ‘50s and ’60s. In 1974, he brought the business to Schenevus and started making die-cast dollhouse kits as Green Leaf Dollhouses. “We were the largest dollhouse manufacturers in the world,” he said. In 1996, he sold the business to his children, Lisa and Dean Jr., who still run it today. However, he maintained an interest in the field, founding the Dollhouse Hall of Fame near Cooperstown in 2008 and operating it for a few years.
On taking over the Green Earth, the Robertses first rearranged and expanded produce, chips, coffee and bulk selections, and changed the direction of the shelves from horizontal to vertical. “I wanted it to be long,” Emily said. In addition, they expanded their bulk section to utilize gravity-fed bulk bins. “A lot of people don’t like the idea of other people coughing in their bulk bins,” she said of the traditional bins. They also recently added solar panels, cutting their summer electricity bill by half. Organic beer and hard
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agency has grown from eight agents to 20; many remain from the original agency. “Brad Morley worked here back in the 70s,” said Betsy. “He ran his own business for awhile, then came back to us later.” “I feel good that these people come here and work for us,” said Becky. “Our sales people get comfortable and stay.” To get a real estate license, a potential broker must first be sponsored by a broker. “I think these people recognize that we’re an integral part of the community,” said Becky. “They wanted to be part of our reputation.” Becky and Betsy consider themselves “hands-on” agents. “One or both of us are in the office every day,” said Becky. And because they’ve grown to more agents, Becky explained, they’ve become more visible, which allows
them to pledge more community support. In addition to Family Services, they both support and sit on boards of the Catskill Symphony, Hospice and the Boys and Girls Club. “We support the community in a lot of ways,” said Becky. “This was always something we wanted to do.” The award came as a surprise to the pair, who were on their way out the door when Barbara Ann Heegan dropped by. “We had no idea we were getting the award,” said Becky. “We were on our way to a Family Services meeting (they both sit on the board)—” “And they caught us completely off guard!” Betsy finished. Rosealee, who lives in Florida, came by to visit over the summer to see how the agency has thrived. “We want to keep the Benson name going for a long time,” said Betsy. “We’re here to stay.”
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that’s kind of strange” Emily added, referring to the mineral-enhanced bottled water that is, indeed, black. “And I’m surprised how much castor oil we sell. People use it as a moisturizer, as a laxative, for back and stomach aches.” And although they’re receiving the Breakout Award, Emily and Dean feel like they’ve been part of the community for longer than that. “It feels like we’ve been here forever,” Emily said.
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show engagement at the Omani Royal Opera House in Muscat. It is the Glimmerglass Festival’s first traveling show. Locally, it played 13 sold-out shows to contribute to a 12 percent increase in ticket sales over 2011. Henry plays Winthrop, the lisping lad who helps Bruce Watson change Hill’s heart and convince him to stay in The kids of “The Music Man” River City, Iowa. “I was are, front from left, McKenzie Homer, Mount Markham, Tori hoping I’d get into the choMunro, Milford, Sam Solorus,” he said. “But instead I mon, Norwich, Henry Wager, got Winthrop!” Cooperstown, Aria Maholchic, His mother has already Norwich, Molly Bello, Richfield played in the show once Springs, Zeyneb Henderson, before. “Dwayne and I did Milford. Back from left, Oliver Searles, Cherry Valley and Mark ‘The Music Man’ in high school!” she said. “I was in Dunckel, Clinton. sixth grade, the kids chorus. It was fun to be back on stage with him.” While in Oman, the cast 216 Main Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326 • Tel: 607-547-8551/Fax: 607-547-1029 www.johnmitchellrealestate.com • info@johnmitchellrealestate.com will only have one day off, which they’ll use to tour Classic 4 Bedroom Colonial Located on 3 + Acres in Fly Creek the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, which features a Located 4 miles from the Village of Cooperstown, this well 46-foot-tall chandelier and maintained home offers room for the second largest hand-wocarpet in the world. the whole family. The spacious venAnd when he gets back, living room with wide plank hard he’s going to start auditionwood floors has coveted built-in ing for other projects. “I shelves, surrounding the propane just like that feeling that fireplace to enjoy cozy cool nights. everyone enjoys what I’m Or let the kids enjoy the sunny doing, because I enjoy what family room conveniently located I’m doing.” – Libby Cudmore
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MLS#85315 – CENTENNIAL FARM MANOR in Gilbertsville. 12 BR 1900s home on 20 acres would make a great B & B! $975,000 Call Lynn Lesperence @ (607) 434-1061
Very nice home on 2.26 acres offers privacy, huge wrap deck, 1-car garage, more!! All you need to do is move in and start enjoying!! $259,000 #86428
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This warm, inviting 4 bedroom home isin a great location across from elementary school, with cherry kitchencabinetsand a sunporch. The large backyard isfenced and there isan oversizedonecargarage for added convenience. Callus todayto view this NEWlisting. $149,000.MLS#86481
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(7122) A real tempter w/ 50’ of private lake frontage with sweeping views. You will love the charm of this unusual, 2-bedroom Cottage. Ideal features include bright & open layout, woodstove, and storage shed. Some new windows, knotty pine paneling, gas heat. Large lake view deck. New septic. Parking for 3-4 cars. Well-maintained. Priced lower than assessment. Hubbell’s Co-Exclusive. $195,000
(7032) Refresh your spirit in this nearly-new 3-bedroom Cottage-style with a scenic lake views. Ideal accents include loft, natural woodwork and open floorplan. Deck, balcony. Lake rights with dock. Enjoy the move-up magic of this lovely lake get-a-way. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $269,000
(7185) Lake View vistas! Last of the lake lots in the Village. 100’ of lake privileges directly in front. Beautiful beach and dock area. Village water & sewer hook-ups. Good road access. Once in a lifetime opportunity to build the house of your dreams. Hubbell’s Exclusive $225,000
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Newer, efficient, well maintained 3 bedroom country home located midway between Oneonta and Cooperstown. Newer roof, windows, laminate flooring and partially finished 2+ car attached garage. Full, heated walk-out basement. Level, black topped driveway. Beautiful views of woods and wildlife. Take advantage of low interest rates NOW! $124,500. MLS#86533
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 move-in ready home. With the current low interest rates, qualified buyers can buy this home and pay less rent than on a 1 bedroom apartment!
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(6447) Business block on Main Street. 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 $525,000
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Exclusively offered at $199,500 A great location close to Cooperstown. This 3 bedroom, 2 full bath home is ready to move into. Direct TV/ Internet is Clarity Connect. Quiet neighborhood with similar well kept homes. One floor living, easy to live in, low maintenance home. The back and side yards are perfect for children and pets to safely enjoy. Room outside for 4 seasons of fun! Full basement could be finished into more space if desired. Large garage provides ease of entry plus additional storage. Kitchen/dining area has sliders to a private rear deck overlooking the backyard. All within minutes of the village.
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(7525) Exhilarating 3BR/2BA lakefront Ranch with wide-span views with 200’ of private lake frontage. This gracious residence boasts cathedral beamed ceilings, a large lake-view deck, large family room. 2 fireplaces. Airy and bright floorplan, new carpeting. Kitchen w/Eating bar, Sauna, 2 car garage. Impressive easy access lakefront and beautiful features. Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $699,000
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COOpeRstOwn viLLage COmfORt (7589) Partake of the delights in this superbly-kept 3-bedroom home. The many extras include formal dining room, hardwood flooring, Modern kitchen. Garage, rocking-chair front porch. Near shops, lake, and golf course. Will capture your fancy! Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $299,000
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MLS#84360 – Professionally landscaped home on 5 acres with a 1-acre pond. 3-4 BRs & 2 ½ baths. New addition includes 600-ft master BR or family rm and 2-car garage. $269,000 Call Michelle Curran @ (518) 469-5603
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MLS#84424 – Historic 1835 home in Roseboom w/3 BRs and 3 baths. Great hobby farm includes 2-stall horse barn, 2 paddocks, workshop, hops barn, and summer guest cottage. Pond & stream. $260,000 Call Michelle Curran @ (518) 469-5603
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MLS#86121 – Completely restored farmhouse on 103 acres in Springfield. 3,200 sq ft home w/4 BR, 3 bath, wide-plank flrs, 2 Rumford fireplaces, chef’s kitchen & lrg veranda. 2-story barn w/box stalls. Lake rights to Otsego Lake. $799,500 CALL ROD & BARB 315-520-6512
NEW LISTING -MLS#86547 – Once a schoolhouse this home has had several renovations including a new kitchen. Home has 3 BRs, 2 baths & a lrg great rm. 2 lrg porches, 1 w/a hot tub. Attached 2-car garage. Close to Milford & Cooperstown. $155,000 Call Jim Vrooman @ (603) 247-0506
OtsegO Lake-view COntempO (7302) Enjoy both easy entertaining and quiet family life in this spectacular 4BR/2+BA home with panoramic lake views on 1.80 acres. This gracious residence highlights Two-story foyer, gracious living room w/fireplace & vaulted ceiling, Walnut paneled Den w/fireplace, Master Suite, Eat-in Kitchen w/Pantry, formal dining room. large view porch, deck, in-ground pool, hardwood flooring, tiled baths. Finished basement. Also lake privileges. This elegant home will captivate you. Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $675,000
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