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NO TO DOT: The Otsego Lake Association has issued a statement opposing the state Department of Transportation’s plans to use heavy rip-rap to stabilize the lakeside embankments of Route 80 (West Lake Road) north of Three Mile Point, calling it “a bad idea.” MANOR SOLD: The county was expected to close the sale of Otsego Manor Wednesday, Oct. 8, to a private developer. PLAN CARNIVAL: The Cooperstown Lions Club is seeking volunteers to serve on the planning committee for the 48th annual Cooperstown Winter Carnival, planned Friday-Sunday, Feb. 6-8. Contact Josh McMahon at mcmajp12@ gmail.com or Marissa Davidson at marissademandpeace@gmail.com.
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CGP instructor Brian Alexander, center, discusses museum administration with “second years”, from left, Emily Hoffman, Jeanette Sanchez, Christine Luthy, Fred Gold, Drew Radtke and Rick Kriebel.
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William Morrow Accepts Novel 15 Purple Heart Recipients Visit Cooperstown, Find Comradeship REPORTER/From A1 McCarthy told Libby that her crime novel – its working title is “No Awkward Goodbyes,” but that likely will be changed – had been accepted by the eminent publishing house, William Morrow, now a subsidiary of HarperCollins. Her editor at Morrow will be Chelsey Emmelhainz. Libby, a reporter with Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal since 2010, had been writing long fiction since her teens. She had experimented with fantasy and sci-fi before settling on whodun-its. She has written three earlier novels, placing two with agents, but they were “roundly rejected,” she said, adding with delight: “...and now this.” William Morrow plans to market Libby as “a debut author,” her agent told her. The manuscript will be back to her by December with suggested revisions. The edits are due back in New York City by February. And publication is planned early in 2016. “I made the world a lot more likeable,” the soon-to-bepublished novelist said when asked to explain her latest manuscript’s success. “It was less grim. It was more modern, less of a throwback to retro noire.” Her characters “have cell phones; they have Facebook profiles.” The novel is set in a fictional district of Brooklyn –Barter Street – “just outside hipster Williamsburg.” As Libby describes it, the protagonist, Jett Bennett, “an amateur detective and professional temp,” finds a mixtape in her mailbox addressed to her downstairs neighbor, Kit Kat. When she goes to deliver the mis-delivered package, Jett finds Kit Kat dead, and the tape is the only clue to the murder. A native of Oklahoma,
Libby was raised in Cobleskill, daughter of Dana Cudmore, editor of The Daily Editor and author of “The Remarkable Howe Cavern Story,” and Nancy Feldman. She graduated from Cobleskill-Richmondville Central School in 2001, and in 2005 from Binghamton University, majoring in English creative writing. An indication of things to come, perhaps, she was a recipient of the Andrew Bergman Scholarship in Creative Writing and a finalist for the national Writers of the Future Award. After working in New York City, she enrolled with the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA Program, earning a master’s in 2010 in popular fiction and creative non-fiction. By then, she had met Ian Austin, now this newspaper’s photographer, and the couple – they plan to marry next year – had settled in his hometown of Oneonta. While working at the newspapers, she began working on her latest novel while commuting back and forth to Oneonta on the OPT. – she also wrote a blog for a year, “Geek Girl Goes Glam,” where she tried out tips from vintage beauty guides published between the 1800s and the 1970s, and shared her findings with her online fans. Libby happened on her genre when, while in college, she read Raymond Chandler’s “The Long Goodbye” and “it all clicked ... ‘The Long Goodbye’ has such a beautiful sense of melancholy, or hope, that surrounds the mystery. And I thought that was more interesting than somebody with a sword or a space ship. The act of solving a crime and doing right by people. Doing right by the client. There is honor is that.”
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VETS/From A1 Company, 3/9 Marines, 13 of them Purple Heart recipients, in a gathering organized by Warren Ryther of Garrattsville. “They loved our little town,” Walker said. “It’s safe and easy to get around.” Every two years, these wounded warriors get together for a reunion, coming from as far away as California and Utah to meet at various locations throughout the country. “You get close in these kinds of situations,” he said. This year, Ryther invited them to his farm for the reunion weekend. They toured the Baseball Hall of Fame and downtown Cooperstown, and had afternoon cookouts back in Garrattsville. “We get everybody here, baseball teams, bowling leagues, but having a group of Purple Heart veterans really sets them apart.” For 35 years, Ryther hadn’t heard from anyone else who served with him in Vietnam. “A lot of us didn’t want to recall
those days,” he said. “But as we age and with the advent of the Internet, we get sentimental.” The group started meeting bi-annually eight years ago, and the last reunion was in Minnesota. “We had a couple new members this year, so we spent a lot of time reminiscing and learning their stories.” Walker, Cooperstown VFW commander, and fellow village native Paul Elkin both served in northern Vietnam in 1967, around the same time as many of Ryther’s guests. “I was forward observer on the front lines, calling in fire from the ships,” Walker said. “These guys were all infantry, 2nd Platoon, 1967-68. They saw a lot of hand-to-hand combat, lost a lot of their company in the Tet Offensive. They were all caught up in that.” “Most of us were wounded in May 1968,” said Ryther. “We saw an awful lot of action, and we all had friends who
didn’t come home.” Elkin and Walker enlisted together in 1963, along with 25 other Cooperstown natives. John Winslow, a fellow Marine, and Bobby Atwell, who enlisted in the Army, were both killed in action. Though not Purple Heart recipients themselves, Walker, a retired B&B owner, and Elkin, assistant district attorney, were invited to join the visiting Marines for a cookout and then breakfast at Doubleday Café. “The Doubleday provided the food free of charge,” he said. “They wanted to thank these men for their service.” Over coffee and eggs, veterans swapped stories of their time in Vietnam. Many of them had gone through boot camp at Parris Island in South Carolina, as Walker had. “They talked about a machine gunner they all called John Wayne,” he said. “We told them what we did while we were there – every Marine always has a story to share.”
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ttorney Doug Zamelis, it’s become evident around here over recent years, is a guy you want on your side of any legal fight. That first inkling came when, representing opponents of Community Energy’s 70-75 Jordanville Wind Farm (later Iberdrola’s), he identified violations of the state’s Open Meetings Law to take things back to zero. The project – the towers would have been visible from Otsego Lake – has been dead in the water (rather, on the hillside) since. Likewise, representing Protect Richfield, he’s tied up the six-turbine Monticello Hills Wind Farm in knots. The other day, representing opponents in Duanesburg, he blocked Clean Energy’s proposed natural-gas compression station on Route 7 there. That legal lightning is striking from the same source should be no surprise was affirmed last month when Thomson-Reuters placed Zamelis on its 2014 list of Super Lawyers in the category of environmental law. While raising a family, Zamelis – he was raised in Cooperstown, son of Maria Tripp and stepson of Wendell Tripp – practiced in Manlius. But as the kids got out of college, he’s relocated to Springfield Center, converting Ted Hargrove’s one-time restaurant there to a law office. So take note: He’s here. • When Zamelis appeared before Cooperstown village trustees at their September meeting, he was very funny – humor, of course, be-
ing the best weapon. He called the proposed tourist-accommodation regulations – he also held forth on the proposed “hospital zone” – “a Rube Goldberg law, a legislative Leaning Tower of Pisa,” ready to topple at the slightest legal nudge. Zamelis, and attorney Les Sittler, Fly Creek, indicated that, if the law were to pass, a lawsuit would probably be forthcoming. In response, Mayor Jeff Katz and Deputy Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch expressed the view that, if action were deferred every time a lawyer raised the prospect of a suit, nothing would ever happen. Happily, the rest of the trustees sidelined the law for further review. Which brought a couple of recent Village Board trends into focus. One, in response to perceived problems, a number of complex pieces of legislation, time consuming to prepare and often – critics have pointed out – internally contradictory, have been coming to public hearing at Village Board meetings, only to be sidelined. Extensive revisions to the sign law, proposed vending and tourist-accommodation laws, and now the “hospital zone,” are multi-page documents prepared by non-lawyers that, at public hearing, have been convincingly picked apart and put on hold for further study. • Two, are narrow-interest issues are being tackled with villagewide solutions? Take the tourist-accommodation law. The locus of complaint is that big white house at Susquehanna
The proposed solution would shift tour-bus parking from in front of The Leatherstocking Corp. to in front of the Hall itself. That diverts buses down Fair Street instead of River/Lake. (And would also block the view for all those tourists you see photographing the Hall from in front of the post office.) Why simply shift the problems from River and Lake to Fair? Isn’t there a solution for everyone, one that doesn’t create winners and losers? Is there a more holistic answer? (And, yes, the change requires a law, which is going to public hearJim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal ing at the Village Board’s October meeting on the 27th.) Attorney Zamelis said it • with humor, but is Village of Last week, one patron picked up Cooperstown over-lawmaka copy of The Freeman’s Journal, ing? and Elm, big enough to accommo- saw the headline, “As Neighbors date a passel of Dreams Parkers all Rebel, Hospital Zone Stalls,” and remarked: “At least, if someone summer long, who – young parents and all pals – tend to whoop it has a heart attack, the emergency room is four minutes away.” up into the wee hours. If you live in the village a while, The proposed solution, howyou discover that, yes, Bassett ever, covers the village’s dozen Hospital’s neighbors are upset B&Bs and innumerable Dreams with the impact of its growth on Park rental properties. If any of the neighborhood. It’s been a them is subject to three complaints while, though since that animus – three; count ’em – then the perbubbled over. And the vast majormit to operate may be pulled the ity of residents who don’t feel the following year. One sorehead can impact may have simply forgotten put a business in doubt. That’s a about the ill will. pretty thin reed on which to build For, outside perhaps 15 remainan enterprise. ing private homes in Bassett’s viThe same treatment with a cinity, the problems – noise, lights, broad brush was evident in comtraffic – don’t exist. The benefits plaints on one block of River – proximity to good care, jobs, the Street and one block of Lake, used buoying of village businesses and by big fan-carrying tour buses to the real-estate market – are a boon carry Baseball Hall of Fame fans to everyone. out of town.
The 18-month development of the complex “hospital zone” failed to answer the central question: What does Bassett need to do to flourish, and what can the village do to assist it, while minimizing negative impacts or, even better, maximizing neighbors’ quality of life? That’s a pressing question, since Bassett has moved services out of Cooperstown – dermatology to Hartwick Seminary, for instance – and is studying moving pediatrics to Fox Hospital and eye surgery to Oneonta Specialty Services on outer River Street. In the end, Bassett needs to do what’s best for Bassett to be a healthy healthcare system, and communities that want to benefit from any future expansion need to understand its needs and respond, not slavishly, but collaboratively. • To cut to the chase, not every issue is a legal one. Not every solution is a complicated one. Let us reason together. Maybe we can figure things out without any new laws and a judge in the wings. Given the many hours of regulation development that have proved unfruitful despite the best intentions – and, yes, the intentions are the best – the mayor and village trustees should stop themselves next time they’re attempted to embark on such undertaking. (Sensibly, the county Board of Representatives recently rejected a proposed anti-invasive-species law as, despite its merits, too costly to enforce.) Maybe, just maybe, there’s a better way.
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Supervisor Bob Wood: Southside Water Users Won’t Have This Chance Again To the Editor, I understand that everyone has a right to an opinion, but have always felt that newspapers have an obligation to report with facts. Your editorial of Sept. 2526, concerning the proposed Southside Water District, was filled with inaccuracies that require correction as they are not factual. The proposed district includes the geographic area
from Main Street on the west side to Lowe’s on the east. This area is already the retail center for our area. Providing water will encourage expansion of the retail area within the existing boundaries and would not encourage pods of housing and business in a “crazy quilt” as suggested by the editor. Development where like uses already exist is the definition of Smart Growth.
Dumb Growth is when if you build it they will come. Perhaps the most false statement is that Supervisor the project Bob Wood cannot succeed without selling water to Davenport. None of our es-
timates include sale of water to Davenport. If Davenport is interested in purchasing water from us for their businesses or residents, we will consider it. But it will be up to the residents and property owners in Davenport to determine if and where they want water. I fail to understand how the provision of safe drinking water to residents and businesses will lead to
reduced property values on Southside. I fail to understand the logic that Delaware County shoppers will stop before crossing the line to Oneonta whether to shop or have dinner. Water will bring more shoppers to Oneonta. This will improve all of the businesses in the city and town that offer products and/or services that are in demand. In the 1980s, downtown
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support. It was not a blanket statement against Bassett or the possibility of a wider campus. I also then said aloud, as those in attendance were leaving, “this is a missed opportunity.” Yes, I realize that we had to finish the board meeting, but this was a very important and divisive issue and I felt that it was deserving of more discussion at that time since I have rarely seen so many residents in attendance on an issue. Nothing was gained by the way it ended. I would have stayed all night if it would have opened communications and started a dialog for the greater good. Bassett is undeniably a
major asset to this community, and our region, and we are extremely fortunate to have Bassett here. I do not think many people are against Bassett. I do think that the possibility of unknown major changes (like major buildings and/or multi-level parking garages), in unknown locations, is an issue of major concern for many of the residents bordering Bassett properties. I do not live in that area so I am not speaking from first-hand experience. Hospitals, like other businesses and institutions, are often changing. Life is change. Working through change in a non adversarial way can bring a satisfactory
outcome acceptable to all sides. I believe the ongoing relationship between Bassett and the neighborhood (and the Village) can be worked out with open, upfront communications, an inclusive sharing of ideas, a consideration for community concerns, and a creative flexibility of locations for possible projects. Fortunately, Bassett has the ability to do all four. The Village has the ability to be a constructive partner for our mutual benefit. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost JAMES R. DEAN Trustee Village of Cooperstown
Friendly Elephant Means No Harm, But Is What It Is To the Editor: I want to make it clear that at the public hearing on Monday, Sept. 29, I was not speaking against Bassett Healthcare; I was speaking against the strange and needless effort of village officials to create an Institutional District in place of a Residential District. I did note Bassett’s construction of a massive addition to the original hospital and its construction of two massive new buildings, and its acquisition of a large building that had been a museum and of a number of residential structures.
But I listed these significant actions as preliminary to my basic question: If Bassett could take such notable actions while in a Residential District, why did the village board want to create an Institutional District? I do sympathize with Bassett’s neighbors (I am one of them) but I have never said that Bassett’s intentions were evil. I have compared it to a friendly elephant: It intends you no harm, but its natural functions and ambulations can cause you great misery. WENDELL TRIPP Cooperstown
was assumed to be doomed when the Southside Mall opened. Downtown has transitioned to a boutique area with many strong stores and restaurants that provide the items people want that they cannot get at the big box stores. The vacancy rate at the mall is similar to the vacancy rate on Main Street. Destination Oneonta (the new business Please See WOOD, A6
Left Alone, Yanks, Ukrainians Friends To the Editor, With all that is going on in the Ukraine, this may be of interest to World War II buffs. My husband Jerry Waller was, for two and a half years, in the Eighth Air Force in England. Suddenly, a group from his squadron was sent by ship down the coast of France to Gibraltar and across the Mediterranean to Cairo. From there they went by truck and train across the Middle East. They eventually got to the Ukraine. They were to teach our Allies about the bombers. However, The second night they were there the Germans bombed them. 200 planes were destroyed – but life went on. The Ukrainians and Americans got along beautifully. Suddenly one day the Ukrainians were ordered out and Russians came in with instructions not to be friendly with the Americans. Sound familiar? As the French say, “Le plus ca change, c’est toujours la meme chose.” (The more things change, the more it’s the same!) NANCY WALLER Roseboom
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200 YEARS AGO
An express has this day (September 29) arrived from Mobile with the information that a treaty has been made with the Creek Indians, by which the United States are to receive about 23 millions of acres of land from the heart of their country. They bind themselves to have no connection with any other nation than the Americans – to raise the tomahawk when requested; and to bring over or extirpate the refractory Indians now at Pensacola. October 13, 1814
150 YEARS AGO
SEPTEMBER 2014 Highest Temperature.....................................85°F (Sept. 2 and 5) Lowest Temperature...................................37°F (Aug. 19 and 23) Average Maximum Temperature..........................................70.2°F Average Minimum Temperature...........................................47.3°F Monthly Mean Temperature.................................................58.8°F Precipitation Total.....................................................................6.62″ Most Precipitation in One Day...................................0.75� (Aug. 3) Thunderstorms.........................................................0 (17 for 2014) Snow....................................................................0 (50.9� for 2014) Most Snow in One Day....................................................................0 YTD Precipitation....................................................................33.33� Number of Days at or below 0°F...........................0 (20 for 2014 ) Number of Days at or below 32°F.......................0 (113 for 2014)
175 YEARS AGO
Mr. Irving (Washington Irving) has come out strongly in the Knickerbocker against many of the names bestowed upon our towns, and states, and cities, and in favor of restoring the Indian appellations. New York, he would have changed to Ontario for the State, and to Manhattan for the city; and for the Union itself he would have it called Alleghania, or something equally Indian and musical. What? Change the name of the United States of North America? We would as soon think of destroying our household goods or making war upon our “little ones.� October 14, 1839
100 YEARS AGO
The village of Cooperstown is to be honored next Tuesday by a visit from Theodore Roosevelt, ex-president of the United States. Colonel Roosevelt will arrive during the mid-afternoon and will address a meeting in the Village Hall at 4 o’clock, coming here from Cobleskill and going thence to Oneonta, where he speaks in the evening. He is accompanied on the trip by ex-Senator Frederick M. Davenport, the Bull Moose candidate for Governor who will also speak. These warriors are after the scalps of the Democratic and Republican parties. Deer have never been so plentiful in the Adirondack woods, according to guides who were in Herkimer during the week buying supplies for the fall hunting season. Charles Brown and John Conklin, both guides living in the Town of Wilmurt, assert that they have never seen the woods so full of deer. October 7, 1914
75 YEARS AGO
Cooperstown High School entered the win column in the gridiron war for the second time this year by turning back Oxford High at that place Saturday afternoon 14 to 0. Two breaks gave the Redskins both touchdowns. The first came in the opening two minutes of the game when Cooperstown recovered an Oxford fumble on the Oxford thirty yard line. Several running plays later, Walter Eggleston took the ball in from the two yard line. The other touchdown came when Jim Lettis crashed through the Oxford line and intercepted a lateral pass and carried it to the Oxford 28-yard marker. Six plays later it was Eggleston again smashing through a big hole off tackle from the one-foot line. October 11, 1939
50 YEARS AGO
Dr. Robert W. Mackie, neurosurgeon at the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, called for continued support for a strong Navy in a talk before the Cooperstown Rotary Club
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September 30, 1864 at the Otesaga Hotel on Tuesday. Dr. Mackie, who retired last year after 21 years of service with the Medical Corps of the Navy, said that quite apart from its maintaining freedom of the seas, the Navy is a unique force in deterring armed aggression by a foreign power. “It doesn’t have to violate the integrity of foreign soil to make its influence felt,� the speaker said. October 7, 1964
25 YEARS AGO
About 200 friends and colleagues of Glimmerglass Opera Board Chairman Tom Goodyear gathered at the Otesaga Hotel Friday evening, September 29, to pay tribute to a founding father and devoted supporter of the 15-year-old organization. The black-tie sit-down dinner marked Goodyear’s retirement as chairman, effective December 31. October 11, 1989
Comments: Please don’t shoot at this aging ol’ weather guy, I have a wife, children and grandchildren who love me! It is my civic duty to report to you that September was cooler than normal, just like every other month in 2014 except May. “That’s the way it was,� to quote the legendary Walter Cronkite. Now for the positive stuff ... the mean temperature was only 0.9 below the norm and compared to the rest of 2014, that’s not bad. In fact, we really had a gorgeous month! The area enjoyed lots of sunny days, some cool nights and dry DAVID air masses, and not much frost was reported MATTICE throughout the Cooperstown/Oneonta area. The region is very dry right now and we desperately need a couple of good old rainy days. We were 0.63 inches short of the monthly average of 3.25 inches of rainfall, but the second half of the month was abnormally dry. Our year to date precipitation is 3.59 inches above normal, but please do a rain dance and hope it falls at night. The dry conditions are enhancing the magnificent color changes in the leaves around us, but they are dropping quickly from the trees! This is the fifth year in a row that we have not had a frost at my home during September and we’re still enjoying sweet corn, fresh tomatoes and other produce that can be long gone at this time of the year! The Atlantic Ocean is extremely quiet for the second year in a row and the lack of tropical storms and hurricane activity is good news for all. The subtropical convergence zone off the central African coast, where tropical depressions and storms develop, is still quite inactive and that, hopefully, will continue as we march on through October. The National Weather Service has just released the October through December forecast, and it calls for temperatures to be above average with near normal precipitation for the eastern United States. I’ll tell you how they did in January! So dust yourself off, get outside and enjoy the magnificent color show that this incredible, but short, season gives us each year. It doesn’t last long enough! There are tons of fun outdoor activities in and around the Oneonta/ Cooperstown area that you must take in, I hope to see you at some. Winter will soon be with us but October is a beautiful month, so enjoy and as always, Keep Your Eye On The Weather!
10 YEARS AGO
For more than 50 years, the Lions Club of Cooperstown has dedicated its time and resources to the motto “We Serve.� The club’s newest challenge is the formation of a Leo Club at Cooperstown school. By forming a Leo Club students can begin to understand the power of community service and the experience of volunteering time for the less fortunate. A Leo Club is also a mentoring program as well. October 8, 2004
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THURSDAY-FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9-10, 2014
Mutual Trust Necessary To Work Cooperatively To the Editor: I couldn’t agree more with the salient points expressed in the recent letters submitted by Town Board Members Patricia Jacob and Andrew Stammel. Their leadership in the quest to garner support for the Southside Water District is welcome and critically important. There are several facts about the Southside Water District that are indisputable. First, and foremost, an independent water district – using water from the Fortin Park well – will result in a lower cost to both the commercial and residential customers. Secondly, a fully operational Southside Water District will substantially enhance economic development and provide public health benefits. Thirdly, physically connecting the town and city water systems – at a later date – would provide the significant benefit of improved reliability of service to all areas, but it is a long term goal that would face both political and financial hurdlers. Lastly, failure to approve the Southside Water District would have a very detrimental impact on any future considerations for a connected or combined system that could serve the greater Oneonta community. Any debate with regard to the South-
side Water District is part of a larger discussion about the various approaches that should be taken to sustain the economic future of the Oneonta area. Nothing less than our quality of life is at stake as we contemplate the collaborative actions that must be taken to support and promote business enterprises that will provide jobs and career opportunities that are so vitally important. Public/private initiatives will be of great value, but we should fully understand that an expansion of private sector jobs cannot happen without substantial capital investment. As a community, we must welcome and actively encourage the growth of small business enterprises and realize that success will not come overnight. The new IDA structure is a giant step in the right direction, but the IDA’s efforts must be bolstered by a populace that is receptive to creative solutions. Economic development can be accomplished in an environmentally responsible manner and to proceed in a contrary fashion would and should guarantee the loss of community support. What is clear is that hydraulic fracturing is not in our economic future and both parties to the debate need to move on so we can expend our energies in a
more productive dialogue. I support the ban, the community is overwhelmingly against hydraulic fracturing and the NYS Court of Appeals has affirmed that the supersession clause (of the OGSML) does not preempt the home rule authority vested in municipalities to regulate land use. We need to build a mutual trust that will allow us to collectively embrace economic initiatives that will sustain our future and provide opportunities for successive generations. One-dimensional thinking is simply counter-productive. Let’s talk about what we can do to work cooperatively to reduce the property tax burden that is so detrimental to homeowners, businesses and our school systems. Let’s open a dialogue about how our local municipalities and Otsego County can work cohesively to promote job growth and increase governmental efficiency. Let’s stop accusing each other and start recognizing the fact that, in the end, we all agree that we have a civic duty to protect what we have and to take steps that will secure a future for our children and grandchildren. DAVID P. ROWLEY West Oneonta
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Lastly, this editorial seems to say that without the town purchasing water from the city we will fail. The city and the town cooperate on many levels when it is beneficial to both parties. It simply does not always work out for the best. The town thoroughly investigated partnering with the city for the purchase of water. With anticipated cost of water not being slightly higher, as quoted by the editor, but rather four times the cost, we made the only valid decision we could. While extension of water and/or sewer to more remote areas seems to like a good
idea (Laurens, Oneonta airport, West Oneonta) the fact is that the cost of those systems could be an enormous burden on the residents and businesses. Population density, soil conditions, water supply availability and quality, topography and safety are the factors that should be used to do a cost/ benefit analysis to determine where these services should be extended. We need to study each potential area and treat them as the unique situations that they are. Sometimes it will work to partner with the city, sometimes it will not. Lastly, I want to comment
that we have worked very hard to secure funding for this project so that it can be built at the most reasonable cost to our taxpayers. I hope that our residents and businesses will recognize this as an opportunity to ensure safe drinking water proactively rather than wait until there is an issue. Putting in 190 treatment systems is not cost effective when the town can provide safe water for all. That is the role of good government. BOB WOOD Oneonta Town Supervisor
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Vandals Identified: Beavers! To the Editor: During a routine cleanup of Lake Front Park, Lake & Valley Garden Club members discovered the newly replaced memorial tree cut down! Immediately a thorough search began for evidence and clues, which led to an interesting discovery. TEETH MARKS! A beaver had been seen visiting the buffer strip garden and long shrubbery limbs were found floating in the water. As more of the plants were examined, lots of chew marks and uneven animal pruning were discovered. This story ends well. We are so relieved that there was not a human vandal and only an industrious beaver trying to get ready for the winter. As an aside, we would like to explain to the village residents that the LVGC is trying to prune and thin the garden back. The soil and growing conditions are so good that the plants are growing above and beyond their typical size
and are seeding themselves freely. Other wild flowers and tree seeds have blown in and are growing. These will all be removed in our next clean up this fall. In an effort to open up the view to the lake, we will be removing some of the plants that have grown too big, tall or thick. This will begin in the fall and repeat in early spring, depending on the plant species and their pruning requirements. The Buffer Strip Garden is one of our favorite projects and we enjoy all the great comments we receive from everyone. Visitors to the area are especially kind and curious about the garden. It was developed as a teaching/ exhibition garden for water front buffer plantings and it is satisfying to see it doing it’s job. Thanks for the support! SUZANNE KINGSLEY Past President Lake & Valley Garden Club
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MLS#89813 Middlefield $269,000 Enjoy country living w/outstanding views in this well maintained raised ranch. Plenty of room for the whole family w/4 BRs, 2 baths, bright sunny kitchen w/access to large deck. Dining area has hardwood floor and brick fireplace w/wood-burning stove. This home rests nicely on 17 acres of park-like countryside, w/perennial gardens and pond. Detached newer garage has room for workshop and storage. Privacy plus on this quiet country road located minutes from Cooperstown, and Bassett Hospital. Additional 2.82-acre separate deeded parcel is available for sale. If included with home sale it brings asking price to $279,000.
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THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-7
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2014 Bob Sutherland reports out his the conclusions of his discussion group, including, clockwise around the table from front right, Village DPW Superintendent Brian Clancy, Joan Badgley, Patti Ashley, Ed Landers, Trustee Cindy Falk, Margie Landers and Maureen Murray.
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Cooperstown In Both Lights And Darks FUTURE/From A1 ten on flip charts): vibrant but quaint, progressive in its energy use, affordable, thriving, expanded waterfront, year-’round energy. Asked what issues need to be addressed, they said: expanded tax base, strong downtown group, housing price/quality, more parking, fewer prohibitive ordinances, population growth, worker housing. Asked what actions will take us there, they declared: improved access to waterfront, a multi-purpose theater, more involvement of museums/HoF in the community, active night life, attracting young people, rapid transit from parking lots. Of necessity, this is just a fraction of all the inputs delivered in the two-hour session in the Cooperstown Central Middle/High School cafeteria. The lists complete, the 10 consultants from Elan Planning, Saratoga Springs, which is conducting a community visioning effort on behalf of the Village of Cooperstown and the county Industrial Development Agency, provided participants with a list of symbols denoting great views, community icons, destinations. The 90 then marked up the maps. At evening’s end, Elan’s founding principal Lisa Nagle, energized by what she’d heard, declared, “A lot of community happened around this room.” Tuesday the 7th and Wednesday the 8th, her
Emcee Lisa Nagle calls for group leaders to give their reports. Seated behind her are Tim Feury, Ellen Pope and Larry Bennett.
teamwas collating the inputs, seeking common trends in the responses, and analyzed the maps to identify key community resources. If you see this in time,
head back to the CCS cafeteria at 6 p.m., the evening of Wednesday 8th to hear Nagle’s team present preliminary conclusions (or read a news report about it later in the evening on www. allotsego.com) In addition to the analyzing, the day after the Design Charrette the team conducted “stakeholder interviews,” at 2 p.m. with the arts community, including representation from The Fenimore Art Museum; at 3, with environmental groups and, at 4, with hospitality and tourism people. Going forward, further conversations are planned with Bassett Hospital, Village Hall and other interests. “The idea is to really cast a broad net,” said Nagle. The goal is that, by next spring, the village will have been able to update its 1994 Comprehensive Master Plan, and to have in hand market data that will allow invest-
ment and development supported by the master plan to be pursued. Key to how thorough the effort can be will depend on the next round of CFA grants. CFA refers to the “common funding application” required to access state economic development funds. Governor Cuomo is expected to announce those grants Oct. 15 or 16. If all goes as hoped, Nagle said the planning effort will feature a number of community meetings between now and the plan’s completion to ensure it reflects local residents’ consensus views to the degree possible. Monday’s meeting came to order shortly after 6 p.m. Nagle outlined the many benefits of consensus, concluding with the most practical one: If a community can agree on what it wants, its state and federal grant applications are moved to “the top of the pile.”
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HOMES FOR RENT ½ House located in a quiet area near Oneonta’s Wilber Park. Completely remodeled inside and out. 3 bedroom, 1 ½ baths, DR, LR, private patio, garage space. Wood floors and basement laundry. Perfect for professionals or small family. No smoking, No pets. Available immediately. $1,150 per month plus
utilities. For Information call Patricia at 431-1001. 3ClassOct17 Oneonta 2 Bdrm, 1 1/2 bath townhouse for rent. Furnished or unfurnished. No Pets. References and credit check required. $950 month + security. Call Benson Agency Real Estate, LLC at 607-432-4391. TFN Two bedroom, two bath, LR, DR, one car garage, W&D hook-up, Rt.31, furnished, $850. per mo plus utilities, plowing, lawn care & garbage removal. No pets. References required. Call Patti at (607) 547-4045. TFN House. 3 bed, 1.5 bath, lease. Close to village. Call for details. Dave LaDuke, John Mitchell Real Estate, (607) 547-8551. TFN
APARTMENTS FOR RENT CENTRAL COOPERSTOWN VILLAGE STUDIO. Revovated,
furnished, off street parking, complete kitchen, suitable for one or two, short term or long term, includes all utilities, no smoking or pets, internet available. walk to Bassett. $700/month. Contact Robert K. Lee, Benson Agency Real Estate, (607) 434 5177. 3ClassOct10 Studio apt. Cooperstown schools, parking, 1 month security, lease required, no smoking or pets, $500/month including heat and electric, internet. Robert K. Lee, (607) 434 5177, Benson Agency Real Estate 3ClassOct10 Cooperstown 2 bedroom, first floor, edge of village $950.00 with heat and electric included. Lease. No pets. Dave LaDuke, John Mitchell Real Estate, (607) 547-8551. TFN Cooperstown Village! One Bedroom apartment, offstreet parking and garage. $690.00 per month, one block from Main Street, three blocks from Bassett Hospital.
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MLS#95966 $199,900 Beautiful 4+ BR, 3-bath Tudor in Oneonta. Cathedral ceilings, hardwood floors. Family room overlooks deck, goldfish pond. New large shed. Call Lynn Lesperence @ 607-434-1061 (cell)
MLS#96798 $175,000 4 BRs, 2 baths, large LR, DR, office/den, sunporch, bonus room, kitchen w/island! Patio w/hot tub, 5+ car garage w/ 3 overhead doors! Call Suzanne Darling @ 607-563-7012 (cell)
MLS#95360 $134,900 3-BR, 2-bath ranch w/additional lot on 5+ acres just outside Oneonta. Quiet and spacious yard. Oneonta School District! Invest or bring the family! Call Bill Vagliardo @ 607-287-8568 (cell)
MLS#96570 $239,900 Pristine Lakefront Home! Furnished home has 4 BRs, 2 baths. Completely renovated! Great rental! Call Lynn Lesperence @ 607-434-1061 (cell)
MLS#96514 $369,000 43 Walnut Street, Cooperstown 4 BRs, 3 baths, 3 floors, garage. Move-in ready. Call James Vrooman @ 603-247-0506 (cell)
MLS#93726 $117,900 Absolutely Perfect Family Home in Otego. Come see this 4 BR, 2½ bath, renovated home. Call Kim Thornton @ 607-222-8571 (cell)
MLS#90557 $239,000 Excellent Find! 3-BR renovated farmhouse on 26+/- acres, Cooperstown Schools. 2 streams, split rail fencing, original wood floors, walk-up 3rd floor. Call Katherine L. Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683 (cell)
MLS#93225 $79,500 Spacious 4 BR, 2 bath house near I-88 w/large backyard, workshop/garage for your projects and Cooperstown home. out Sellerofpays closing costs (up small shed toVillage keep things the weather. to offer). Call$3,000 Adamw/acceptable Karns @ 607-244-9633 (cell)
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MLS#95402 $119,000 10 Minutes from Cooperstown! This solid Victorian has antique charm w/modern upgrades. Single-family w/apartment or 2 separate units. Priced to sell. Call Adam Karns@ 607-244-9633 (cell)
MLS#95192 $135,900 Sensational Price! Bright Oneonta home on a quiet, tree-lined street! Large lot, 3 BRs, 2 full baths, new upto-date kitchen, large DR, and a forest-like setting. Call Kim Thornton @ 607-222-8571 (cell)
MLS#94278 $575,000 Cooperstown/Pierstown Custom-built 4 BR, 3 bath country home on 22 acres. Call James Vrooman @ 603-247-0506 (cell)
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MLS#95480 $269,000 3 BR, 2 bath contemporary post-and-beam home on 11.60 acres. Glassed LR and family room w/gas FP, DR, stone patio. Additional 25+/- acres, cabin available. Call Katherine L. Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683 (cell)
MLS#96861 $569,000 Cooperstown Riverfront Contemporary 4 BR, 5 bath home on 6.20 acres. Cathedral ceilings, cherry floors, spacious kitchen, DR, LR w/fireplace, 2-car garage. Call Katherine L. Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683 (cell)
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MLS#95638 $173,500 Otego 3-family Home on 2.17 acre village lot. Has a country feel, nice views! Live in one as the current owners do, or rent all 3 units. Off-street parking. Call Suzanne Darling 607-563-7012 (cell)
MLS#93225 $86,000 Adam Karns 607-244-9633 (cell) MLS#94222 $153,000 Lower Taxes! Irish Hill overlooking Cooperstown. BR, 2 bath is closeand to I-88. Large 2Spacious BRs, 1½4baths, den,house large kitchen dining area backyard,glass workshop/garage, small shed. w/sliding door to patio/garden. NewMake roof your in 2012. appointment today. Priced to go this week! Call Donna A. Anderson @ 607-267-3232 (cell) Virtual Tour: www.RealEstateShows.com/708598
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MLS#96821 $125,000 19.54 Acres Private, level, mostly wooded, w/panoramic views. 3/4-acre pond w/island, dock, pavilion. Hunt, hike, swim, fish or ride the ATVs. Call Suzanne Darling @ 607-563-7012 (cell)
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MLS#96830 $79,900 Charming 3-BR home in Oneonta’s west end. Zoned commercial, could be a business. Move-in ready home w/stained glass window, hardwood floors. Call Suzanne Darling @ 607-563-7012 (cell)
MLS#96000 $119,000 3-BR, 2-bath home in Oneonta School District on over 1 acre. Large sunroom, sunken Jacuzzi. Full dry walk-out basement. Call Bill Vagliardo @ 607-287-8568 (cell)
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MLS#94889 $309,500 One-of-a-Kind, architect designed home on 43 acres! Over $100k in upgrades at no cost to the buyer! Trails, creek, 2 ponds make this home the buy of the year! Call Kim Thornton @ 607-222-8571 (cell)
MLS#92256 $199,000 Equestrian Farm Renovated 3-BR, 2-bath farmhouse on 26 acres w/2 barns, 12 stalls, plenty of open land, electric and wooden fences. Near Cooperstown. Call James Vrooman @ 603-247-0506 (cell)
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MLS#91997 $64,900 Make This Property Your Own! This 4-BR, 1-bath home features wide-plank hardwood floors, new on-demand water heater and high-efficiency furnace. Call Adam Karns at 607-244-9633 (cell)
Move right in!! Beautiful Victorian home in center city Oneonta. Hardwood floors, natural woodwork, crown molding, high ceilings, pocket door, formal LR/DR & family room. 4-5 BRs w/2 full baths. Master has spacious walk-in closet & hardwood floors under the carpet. 2nd floor laundry room. First floor BRs w/ bath or use as office. Enclosed second floor porch w/ 2-story, 1 car detached garage & paved driveway. Security system, newer roof & furnace. Dry basement. Walking distance to downtown, parks & bus route. Easy access to I-88 as well. $239,000 MLS# 95259
$139,900 MLS#96737 New Listing! Don’t miss an opportunity to own this impeccably maintained west end Oneonta home! A spacious 3-season porch leads into the home. Features include a very large LR and formal DR w/immaculate hardwood floors. A well-lit kitchen leads to a mudroom in the back and ½ bath/laundry room. Upstairs you will find 3 large BRs and a huge full bath. Venture outside and enjoy the cared for, nicely manicured backyard! There is a 1-car garage and even a covered back deck.
MLS#94842 $149,000 Best Buy Near Cooperstown! Location, seclusion and beautiful views! 3-BR, 2-bath home on 26+ acres. Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633 (cell) Virtual tour: www.realestateshows.com/710440
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Cooperstown Colonial
(7960) Welcoming 4-BR home features eat-in kitchen w/newer appliances, LR w/bay window, replacement windows, formal DR, hardwood floors, laundry. Updated electric, garage, deck, enclosed porch. Private home zoned commercial. Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive—$225,000
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New Purchases and refinances • Debt Consolidation Free Pre-Qualification • Fast Approvals • Low Rates Registered Mortgage Broker Matt Schuermann NYS Banking Dept. Loans arranged by a 3rd party lender. 31 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown (directly next door to Stagecoach Coffee)
IOOF – Rebekah Lodge, Cherry Valley—This property in recent time served as the IOOF-Rebekah Lodge, and formerly was a fine family home owned by the Seeleys and Livingstones, among others. Post-and-beam construction with stone foundation. Large entry hall, library with period arches and fireplace mantle, sewing room with fireplace, banquet room, sitting room, galley kitchen, period cooking hearth with beehive oven, period moldings, six-panel doors, 12/12 windows, and attached carriage house. The upstairs features dressing room, large meeting hall, and two large attic spaces. A great opportunity for an historical restoration. Offered Exclusively by Ashley-Connor Realty $115,000
Visit us on the Web at www.ashleyconnorrealty.com Contact us at info@ashleyconnorrealty.com For APPoiNtmeNt: Patti Ashley, Broker, 607-437-1149 • Jack Foster, Sales
Agent, 607-547-5304 Donna Skinner, Associate Broker, 607-547-8288 Amy Stack, Sales Agent, 607-435-0125 • Chris Patterson, Sales Agent, 518-774-8175
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