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Bassett Acts Proactively To Calm Any Ebola Worries Chief Doctor. COO On Preparedness Task Force
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ith fears about the Ebola virus raging nightly across the national news, Bassett Healthcare has formed a task force to prepare for a worst-
case scenario if a stricken patient were ever to appear in Otsego County. “It’s on the top of everyone’s mind,” said Karen Huxtable-Hook-
er, Bassett public relations director. “It’s all a lot of people are talking about.” “There is understandably considerable concern among the general
public about the outbreak,” said Dr. Charles Hyman, chief of medicine, who is leading the task force. In addition to Dr. Hyman, the team includes COO Bertine McKenna; Ruth Blackman, infection Please See EBOLA, A7
County In The Money DAR CHAPTERS HONOR ‘REAL DAUGHTER’
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Audrey Murray, Cooperstown Food Pantry manager, sorts inventory after moving from the basement to renovated quarters in a first floor wing of the Cooperstown Presbyterian Church offices on Church Street. An opening reception is planned next month.
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tsego County government has been spending $5 million a year on Otsego Manor, its nursing home. Now it’s been sold. So that must mean it now has $5 million for something Dan Crowell else. Wait a minute, said county Treasurer Dan Crowell in an interview this week. First, $1.2 million was spent on “impact payments” – a “flat bonus,” $1,000 Please See CROWELL, B8
Inputs Sought On U.S. Grant To Brookwood COOPERSTOWN
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tsego Land Trust will seek public comment at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, at Templeton Hall on a $30,000 federal grant to enhance canoe and kayak access at Brookwood Point. The grant – one of eight received so far for the project – is from the National Park Service Chesapeake Bay Office to design and build the access. TOUR BUS ROUTE: The Village Board is planning a public hearing on diverting tour buses off River Street onto Fair Street at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, during its monthly meeting at 22 Main. COATS 4 KIDS: Bassett Hospital is collecting “gently used winter coats” through Oct. 25. First Choice Cleaners is donating dry cleaning. Drop them off at the Bassett Clinic or First Choice, Main and Beaver. UGLY SWEATERS? The latest great idea/SEE A2
Tax Cut May Be Possible, Crowell Says
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At Anna Morse’s gravesite (inset) Saturday, Oct. 18, in Cherry Valley, DAR Historian Helen Rees tells the “Real Daughter’s” story.
‘Real Daughter’ Recognized
Pump Station New Focus Of Anti-Gas Fight
Cooperstown, Oneonta DARs Celebrate Rare Discovery By LIBBY CUDMORE CHERRY VALLEY
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nna Morse’s grave in the Cherry Valley cemetery is weathered and faded, but her
legacy is not forgotten. Despite the rain Saturday, Oct. 18, Cooperstown and Oneonta’s Daughters of the American Revolution turned out to mark Morse’s grave with a DAR. “Real Daughter” placard. The ceremony included a “Call Please See DAR, A7
Latest Youmans’ Novel Explores ‘Glimmerglass’ By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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grade,” said Youmans. “I was always a voracious reader.” Youmans’ 12th book, “Glimmerglass” was released to critical acclaim in September. The novel, which follows painter Cynthia Sorell to the village of Cooper Patent in search of the Muse, was inspired by the “fantastic spectrum” Please See NOVEL, A3
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t was quite a scene on Wednesday, Oct. 8, in the Georgetown Town Hall, east of Cazenovia. “People were shoving and shouting,” Nicole Dillingham, Otsego 2000 president, said the other day. “It was very uncomfortable for everyone” – 200 in a room rated Please See GAS, B8
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hen you help a child return to his or her family from foster care, that kind of success is so special,” says Eve Bouboulis, Cherry Valley, the new commissioner of the Otsego County Department of Social Services. For a profile, visit WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
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LOCALS Mayor Katz In San Fran For World Series Game 3
NYSHA Honors Siracusa, 5 Others For Service
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ayor Jeff Katz is off to AT&T Park, the San Francisco Giants’ new stadium, later this week for Game 3 of the World Series Friday, Oct. 24, against the Kansas City Royals. While Katz’s book was about Kansas City baseball – “The Kansas City A’s and the Wrong Half of the Yankees: How the Yankees Controlled Two of the Eight American League Franchises During the 1950s” (2007) – he said he plans to cheer for the Giants. There’s a sentimental reason: He and wife
Karen flew out from Chicago in 1989 for the Giants/ Oakland A’s series. That year, the A’s Jeff Katz swept the Giants in four games, and the mayor is hoping that happens again this year, as he’ll still be in San Francisco Saturday night when Game Four is played. He’d stay for more games, but said he’s determined to be back in Cooperstown by Monday, Oct. 27, for the October Village Board meeting.
FINCHES’ GRANDDAUGHTER BAT MITZVAH
Joe Siracusa, vice president/operations (25 years), front row, center, was among six staffers honored for service to NYSHA and The Farmers’ Museum Thursday, Sept. 18, at a breakfast at The Otesaga, hosted by Jane Forbes Clark, Farmers’ Museum board chairman, and Paul S. D’Ambrosio, president/ CEO of both institutions. Others seated are honorees Michelle Murdock, left, director of exhibitions (15 years); and Jaci Mortensen, carousel interpreter (15 years). Standing, from left, are Danielle Henrici, director of education; Barbara Fischer, senior director for human resources; James Murphy II, security/safety officer (10 years); William O’Thuse, museum teacher (10 years); D’Ambrosio and Miss Clark. Absent from photo: Jeanne Westcott, museum interpreter (15 years).
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t may have been hidden away in the back of your closet, but now, that ugly Christmas sweater could be a prize-winning piece of fashion. The inaugural “Rockin’ Around Cooperstown” event will kick off in Pioneer Park at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 6 with a two and four mile Ugly Sweater run/walk, complete
with Santa hats and jingle bells for every runner. Following the race, Cooperstown’s Main Street will be transformed into a winter wonderland, with live music, an Elf on the Shelf scavenger hunt, carriage rides and a chance to sit down with Santa Claus. But don’t take off those ugly sweaters at the end of the race – prizes will be given for the Ugliest
Team Sweaters, Ugliest Sweater and race participation. Registration for the race is $25, reduced to $20 with a Toys for Tots donation on the day of the race. “We hope to see this become a staple in the region,” said Matt Hazzard, Interim Executive Director of the Cooperstown Chamber. “During the holiday season, Cooperstown is a magical place.”
Genevieve Isabella Kessler, daughter of Richard and Jeryl Anne Bellantoni Kessler (CCS, 1982), recently made her Bat Mitzvah on her 13th birthday at Temple Solel near the family’s home in Encinitas, Calif. Jeryl Anne is the daughter of John and Jean Finch, Toddsville.
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Family from the U.S. and abroad joined well-wishers from the Cooperstown area in celebrating the 70th birthday of Rick Gibbons, longtime proprietor of the Riverwood gift and toy store on Main Street and, for several years, Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce president. Sitting on Rick’s lap is granddaughter Aoife Kane, and clockwise are wife Barbara, grandson Cairan Kane, son-in-law Michael Kane, grandson Tristan Kane, daughters Shannon Bellum and Karoline Kane, son Todd Gibbons, (who is operating Riverwood for the time being), brother David Gibbons, visiting from Ireland, and Amber, Rick’s ever-present store dog. The Gibbonses’ daughters and their families live in New Jersey. In the background, the Stoddard Hollow String Band sets up to serenade the honoree. (There was dancing too.)
Latest Youmans’ Novel Remains Close To Home
NOVEL/From A1 of life in Cooperstown, where she has lived for 15 years. “I’ve never lived anyplace where people were so convinced of their ghosts,” she said. “Because of James Fenimore Cooper, the village has this strange mingling of fantasy and reality.” Her mother, a librarian, raised her on Dickens and Faulkner, and she won prizes for her writing in middle school. In high school and college, Youmans thought of herself primarily as a poet, until a colleague said “What does the world need with another poet?” After that, Youmans said she could no longer write. “I didn’t write another poem for a year,” she said. “But I couldn’t not write, so I started writing short stories on the weekends, with my son Benjamin in my lap. I wrote in the middle of the night, on scraps of paper while I was waiting to pick up my kids.” Her first publication was a novella, “Little Jordan,” published by Tempest in 1995, but her first novel, “Catherwood” was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1996 and received rave reviews. “I still get comments about that book,” she said. “Even back in March, Entertainment Weekly called it ‘Criminally Underrated’.” The novel also was nominated for a National Book Award. From there, she published six more books, and in 2012, her novel “A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage,” was nominated for another National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. “I’ve served on the National Book Award committee, so I know how these things work,” she said. Her next novel, “Maze of Blood,” a fictional account of the life of “Conan the Barbarian” creator Robert E. Howard, will be released in Sept. 2015, and then she hopes to spend some time catching up on writing projects that fell by the wayside.
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EDITORIAL ENDORSEMENTS
Reelect Governor Cuomo In 2nd Term, Please Take Us Beyond Fracking Debate
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he 52 miles from Albany to Cherry Valley are part of what was the first leg of four Great Western Turnpikes that, beginning in 1799, “dominated much of east-west transport” for 50 years, Cooperstown Village Historian Hugh MacDougall chronicles in the “History of Lake Otsego Roads,” just completed for Otsego 2000. Drive to Albany these days, and you’ll count dozens of abandoned houses – their owners simply walked away – along that once thriving stretch. It’s Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal a symbol for much of Governor Cuomo at the Baseball Hall of Fame Upstate, almost everywhere when President Obama visited there last spring. in decline. That’s in the process is the Mohawk Valley one a second term Tuesday, Nov. of being turned around, – and challenged localities 4, and he deserves Otsego as Governor Cuomo has to plan their futures, devise County’s support. aggressively extended his their own initiatives to get • predecessor’s nanotechnolthere, and compete within Certainly, there have been ogy initiative west to Utica, the regions and between the shadows in his first term, where a $1 billion campus is regions for funding. May notably the meddlings in rising at Marcy, and on the best ideas win. Troopergate and, lately, in to Buffalo. Governor Cuomo gets the Moreland Commission. Add Start-Up NY, creatit. Upstate needs help. His While indefensible, they ing tax-free business zones administration is providing are negative parts of a more around the 60-some SUNY it. With Real Clear Polipositive picture. facilities; aggressive tourism tics’ latest poll aggregation The largest cloud over promotion exemplified loshowing the governor with the Cuomo reelection is the cally by that great Joe Torre a 23.8 percent lead, absent lack of a decision one way ad last spring that helped a miracle for GOP nomior the other on fracking, a raise the gate 17 percent at nee Bob Astorino, Andrew lapse that no doubt resulted the Baseball Hall of Fame Cuomo will be swept in for in Zephyr Teachout’s victhis year; four prospective Upstate casinos, and creative promotions and Who Are You Supporting And Why? tax cuts for yogurt and home breweries. Editor’s Note: We are making our endorsements In another innovation, this week to give you, our readers, the opportunity to the governor decentralized agree, disagree, or simply express your views on your economic development, preferred candidate in the following week’s editions of dividing the state into 10 Oct. 30-31. Send letters to jimk@allotsego.com. The regional economic developdeadline is noon on Tuesday, Oct. 28. ment commissions – ours
tory in Otsego and 20 other Upstate counties in the Sept. 9 Democratic primary. That said, it’s a no-win issue, although public sentiment seems to have shifted away from a tie – a Quinnipiac Poll in August found 48 percent of New Yorkers oppose fracking, vs. 43 percent in favor. A clear majority favors the continuing moratorium. Nationally, NPR reported the other day, 70 percent of Americans favor pursuing renewable energy, more than believe that human activity created global warming. Renewable energy – even our the county Board of Representatives is considering SolarCity’s plan to build a solar farm in Laurens – makes sense. It’s time to get the conversation off fracking, (which, locally, Allstadt, Northrup, Brock and Acton have convincingly argued can’t happen anyhow: There’s too little gas around here.) Reelected, Governor Cuomo should institutionalize the fracking moratorium for 10 years – end the debate for a decade. By then, the whole question may be moot. Instead, focus on making New York State the national – even, international – leader in sustainable-energy technology and application. A huge public-private investment is making that happen in nanotechnology. A huge public-private investment can make it happen in sustainability.
WE SAY: Gibson, Magee, Rowley
Gibson, Magee, Rowley Show They Can Do Job
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e were looking forward to penning a thundering endorsement of state Sen. Jim Seward’s vision and leadership. He’s had quite a year – such a year, it turns out, that no one surfaced to challenge him. Suffice it to say: Mark his name on the ballot as a vote of confidence and thanks. Also deserving enthusiastic support on the Nov. 4 ballot are: • U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-Kinderhook, who, despite Otsego County’s location at the far and of the 19th District, has been a constant presence locally. Human resources professionals ask two questions: Can he do the job? He’s proven he can represent us, and well. Will he do the job? The intensity of his campaign underscores his determination to do so. Gibson and his challenger, Democrat Sean Eldridge, differ on issues of national and international import. But all politics is local, and Eldridge simply hasn’t spent enough time in Otsego
County for people to get to know him. Plus, his recent mailings have turned ugly. • Assemblyman Bill Magee, D-Nelson, who’s represented Otsego County for decades now. Magee in the Democratic House allied with Seward in the Republican Senate comprises a powerful combination for the local good. John Salka is an excellent and experienced public servant, but it simply doesn’t make sense to trade in a Democrat with seniority for a freshman in a House dominated by the opposite party. • David Rowley, running for Oneonta Town Board. A school superintendent who returned to his hometown on retirement, it would simply be a shame not to take advantage of his experience, knowledge and level-headedness. His opponent, Trish Riddell Kent, is energetic and creative, amd will contribute to community life for decades to come. At this point, Rowley is simply too good an opportunity to miss.
If Andrew Cuomo still aspires to the presidency – we’ll hear more about that after the election, for sure
– here’s an issue to get him there, meanwhile re-earning us the “Empire State” moniker for a new era.
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other highway buses have to stop at the town’s remote lot and passengers go into town center via trolleys. So the precedent for such an approach is in Corning. And it works fine. If Dreams Park goes to trolleys, they are part of the highway bus solution. Bravo. If the HoF does not provide highway bus access on private property on its east side, it’s part of the problem. Boo. CHIP NORTHRUP Cooperstown
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To the Editor: The tour bus situation is shaping up like a “divide and conquer” solution: Solving River Street’s bus problem by putting buses back onto Fair Street. Leaving buses idling on Main Street, when they should drop off on the east side of the Baseball Hall of Fame, then turn around and go back where they came on Main Street. In Corning, the Glass Museum provides its own highway bus access in the back of the building. All
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Invasives Can Harm Water, Property Values, Recreation To the Editor: Non-native plants and animals are entering Otsego Lake. Despite the best practices of the Otsego Lake Association and like-minded organizations who educate boaters and inspect, wash and monitor boats at launch sites, these exotic and often invasive organisms travel from lake to lake in weeds, mud and hull water of unclean boats and trailers. Then, they sneak into our lake at unmonitored sites. New York has passed much needed legislation mandating clean boats traveling between water bodies. Likewise, successful county legislation in the Adirondack area has been put in place with the fear that precious time will be lost
while the DEC fine tunes the regulations for the new state law. Now is the time to press our elected county officials to come together and make drinking water, property values and the recreational attributes of our Otsego Lake a top priority by supporting legislation to prohibit the transportation of living material on boats from one water body to another across our county roads. We have been doing a good job. Lake invasion would be much worse without constant commitment, but now it is time for the next step. SCOTTIE BAKER Otsego Lake Association Board of Directors
Reward Gibson’s Life Of Service To the Editor: In this era of social media a political identity can easily be crafted with instant communication, spin, identity politics, and, most importantly, money. Positions are staked out and sound bites are issued. Poll tested statements from the candidate add to the marketing campaign – and the race is on. In the 19th Congressional District it’s a little different. Chris Gibson has spent a lifetime in service to his country. Over decades he has acquired experience in leadership, built a reputation and demonstrated his character. These attributes take time to acquire and can not be bought. In the past few years I have gotten to know Chris Gibson. While his resume is strong what has struck me is his integrity. I have asked him questions on many issues and have always gotten a clear, direct answer. Often that answer is not what I expected. It was, however, always well thought out and sincere. Chis Gibson is an example of a genuine public servant. He does not just aspire to service – he has lived it. We are fortunate to have him as our Representative. I urge my fellow citizens to vote for him on Nov. 4. JIM HOWARTH Cooperstown
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ov. Andrew Cuomo has a new autobiography out and it is getting a fair amount of newspaper ink. One of the best stories in the book is about how Daily News columnist Ken Lovett called one of Cuomo’s guys on the phone. Cuomo aide Josh Vlasto took the call and thought he was forwarding it to voice mail. He wasn’t. This, of course, was a reporter’s dream. There sat Cuomo and his crew discussing intimate political matters and
there was Lovett, listening in and taking notes. Then the columnist did the right thing – he called the Cuomo people to confirm the juicy stuff that he had heard, only to be met with a denial that there had even been such a meeting. Lovett was subjected to a series of what could only be called threatening phone calls from the “second floor,” telling him that he had broken the law by illegally eavesdropping. That was nonsense and since a good part of the autobiography maintains that Cuomo was reformed and is no longer the old arrogant Andrew (what the New York Times referred to as “the Prince of Darkness”), Please See BOOK, A6
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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library
200 YEARS AGO
About 300 Negroes from the Chesapeake, arrived at Halifax on the 2nd ult. In an emaciated condition – 30 had died on the passage, and four expired on the quay, at landing them. Among them were many women and children, one man 70 years old and blind. Nine hundred more were expected. Those able to work had been sent to the work house. The people (of Halifax) were dissatisfied with the encumbrance. October 27, 1814
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100 YEARS AGO
Nearly 150 boys, ages 8 to 13, took part in Cooperstown’s annual Punt, Pass and Kick contest Saturday at Doubleday Field. The contest was sponsored by Smith Ford of Cooperstown under the direction of Lester G. Bursey, director of athletics at Cooperstown Central School. Mike Weir put together a whopping total of 380 feet on a 119foot punt, a 138-foot pass, and a 123-foot place-kick, to win the event for boys in the 13-year-old bracket, his second win in the competition. Frank Hill became a three-time winner in the nine-year-old bracket with a total of 211 feet. John Hendricks, competing for the first time won the eightyear-old bracket with total of 200 feet. Other participants included Andrew Armstrong (222 feet – 12-year-olds) and Bruce Buffett (223 feet – 11-year-olds); and Danforth DeSena (192 feet – 10-year-olds). October 21, 1964
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Obituaries – Died of consumption on the 11th, returning home from New York, Mrs. Catherine, widow of the late Harvey W. Babcock, Esq. of this village, in the 51st year of her age. She bore her long and wasting disease with much patience and Christian resignation. She had been for many years a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church. “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.” In Warren, Herkimer County, on the 5th, inst., Earl A. Marble, who, on returning home at night from a heavy day’s labor, fell down in a fit and died instantly, (supposed to be apoplexy), aged 27 years and 4 months. In Otsego, on the 12th inst., of scarlet fever, Hannah Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Peabody Tanner, aged 5 years and seven months. At Prairie du Chien, of bilious fever, William W. Campbell, Esq., aged 27, son of Robert Campbell, Esq. of this village. October 21, 1839
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10,000 People to Hear Governor Seymour – The Democratic Mass Meeting held at this place on Friday last was a grand demonstration, both as to numbers and enthusiasm. The attendance, variously estimated at from eight to fifteen thousand, considering the unfavorable weather, far exceeded the anticipations of the most sanguine. It was the remark of a number of persons present: “This is the largest gathering of people we ever saw in Cooperstown, with perhaps the single exception of the mass gathering of 1844.” Early on Friday morning the people from all parts of the county – and not a few from some of the border counties – began to pour into the village – first in single teams, and then in long processions with banners and bands of music. The first procession from the south numbered 412 teams carrying perhaps 2,000 persons. Some 275 wagons, containing 1,372 persons crossed the bridge spanning the Susquehanna. October 21, 1864
October 21, 2014
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Local: Mr. Alfred C. Clark is having the old wooden dwelling house formerly owned by the late Richard Cooper, on River Street near Main, taken down – another little improvement in that locality. The street leading from Woodside Hall to the Cemetery has been greatly improved, and is now one of the prettiest drives about here. The money was well expended by the village trustees. We wish the improvement might continue for several miles along that side of the lake. October 25, 1889
75 YEARS AGO
It is four straight this year without a loss for the Cooperstown High School football team with two games to go. The Redskins kept their record unblemished Saturday afternoon by downing the West Winfield eleven, 13 to 7, after having defeated New Hartford, Oxford, and Walton. Saturday’s contest was no breather. West Winfield put one of its best teams on the field this year. Cooperstown took a 7 to 0 lead in the second period on a long pass and four line bucks from the two-yard line. The visitors countered with a 93-yard run back of the opening kickoff of the second half for the tying touchdown and extra point. Then, with the ball on the Winfield 45-yard line, Walt Eggleston tossed a 20-yard pass to Jim Callahan and Callahan made it to the two-yard stripe. It took four tries to get the final two yards. October 25, 1939
25 YEARS AGO
The Cooperstown Girls Varsity Soccer team members are: Daphne Monie, Jennifer Arquin, Courtney Slater, Teresa Jennings, Carolyn Murphy, Yael Levy, Carrie Allison, Christy Horner, Rebecca Utter, Katy Dietz (Coach), Kristina Ives, Tasha Rathbone, Megan Donnelly, Beth Sywetz, Wendy Mitteager, Elizabeth Tedesco, Lisa Brunner, Kristen Murphy, Brian Horner and Tim DeRosa (Managers). The Cooperstown Boys Varsity Soccer Team members are: Matt Spencer, Mike Crampton, Ken Fetterman, Dan McCormack, Aaron Corso, Ben Savoie, Jeff Stevens, Matt Washburn, Tim Osterhoudt, Patrick Streck, Marty Smith, Patrick Donnelly, Brendan Miosek, Matt Kelly, John Selover, Ian Porto, Ilan Levy, Alan Lewis, Scott Waller and Jeff Ainslie. October 18, 1989
10 YEARS AGO
Carl D. Stearns of Crawford & Stearns, an architecture and preservation planning firm based in Syracuse, visited Cooperstown last April. Stearns came to assess the condition of the Village Library at 22 Main Street. Stearns is now back in Cooperstown with a 56-page report detailing $282,000 worth of restoration and repairs needed at the building. The single biggest ticket items are the six historic skylight windows in the upper story. Stearns recommends rehabilitation for five of the six windows at a cost of $85,000. The sixth skylight, which lies above the main stairwell in the building’s northeast corner, has been covered and Stearns recommends that it be removed. October 22, 2004
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014
By Serving Tourists AND Residents, Village Hall Will Regain Respect Editor’s Note: This is the text of a letter Fair Street resident Mike Manno sent to the Village Board prior to its October meeting at 6:30 p.m. on the 27th at 22 Main.
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liminating tour buses from our quaint historic neighborhood and streets is my purpose in this letter and my ultimate goal. Tourism is a good thing as long as it stays within acceptable boundaries and everyone is served! If Cooperstown is going to live up to this notion of being “America’s Most Perfect Village,” it will have to roll up its sleeves and get to work on serving the whole community equally through consistent, practical and forward-looking policy changes. I speak from experience and have seen first-hand the biased, discriminating laws that clearly favor tourists at the detriment of others and for no justifiable rea-
son. The tourist buses are a case in point! The village should lead by example, fulfill its obligation for the “Common Good” and reassert the commitment to the preservation of the Historic District. In the future, when we view our street through those historically correct windows (forced on us) they will be void of intrusive tour buses no one ever wanted (also imposed on us). This is a contradiction of standards. If you would think about the village as a house that has rooms of attractions and districts, all different and yet special in their own way – the lake, Doubleday Field, Hall of Fame, Historic District, Bassett, commercial districts, Main Street merchants, residential neighborhoods, etc. – then all the rooms are deserving of equal consideration, appreciation, protection and support. No one entity should rise above and be given special privileges,
rights or laws over the rest. All should help fund the cost and live by the same rules, especially in such a small town! No free rides mean an easier pull for everyone else! My suggestion is simple! The cost is low! The return is huge! 1. Buses drop tourists off at the Doubleday lot. The recent discussion about a green apron from Main Street to Doubleday Field can be part of a bigger plan whereby the Doubleday Lot becomes “Tourist Central,” a great place to show off all the beauty the area has to offer, where buses load and unload. Tourists can walk or catch a trolley to any of the wonderful attractions. With the information center already close, the convenience factor could not be better. Where tickets for all the attractions in the area can be purchased. With some imagination and
ingenuity the parking solution and money to support the village can come from this Tourist Central concept. 2. Merchants will gain traffic and exposure (better sales to pay rent/taxes, fund growth, increase inventory). 3. Historic District gains ambience and quaintness while reducing noise, pollution and congestion. “Quiet Enjoyment is Our Entitlement” for our financial support of the village. 4. The Village saves on wear and tear of the roads, improving budget pressure. 5. More tourists will have an expanded Cooperstown Experience (a really good thing) and more variety of Items to buy. 6. The millions of tax dollars spent on the Main Street are to the greater benefit of all, including the locals. Everyone will be saying, “Now I understand why we did it; it all ties together.” 7. The Tourist/Local relation-
Andrew Cuomo, Machiavellian In Albany’s Corridors BOOK/From A4 it wasn’t comforting to see the Cuomo guys going after Lovett. The book does not deal with the Moreland Act scandal that has the Cuomo office under federal investigation for disbanding the corruption-fighting group he had appointed with instructions to ferret out corruption in the Capitol. He included himself among those who could be reviewed by the “independent” commission but reporters began to find out that the investigating group was getting too close to some of Cuomo’s major donors. Cuomo announced that it was his own commission and he could disband it whenever he wanted to. Needless to say, this was not comforting to those of us who were looking for the proof that this was the new non-arrogant Andrew. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has been investigating the Cuomo move. Obviously, this was not something the Governor was going to talk about in his book. I am sure that the Cuomo camp felt the less
said about the scandal, the better. Perhaps the most interesting story behind the book involves a reporter/columnist for the New York Post (whose name I never utter). This guy was one of the reasons why Mario Cuomo lost his election against George Pataki, so virulent was his invective. But when Andrew was elected, he made a convenient alliance with the Post guy. He appeared with great frequency on the man’s radio show. Reporters had to listen, in case the Governor made news. It was great for both the Governor and the reporter until the absolutely inevitable falling out came. That happened when Cuomo did the single most courageous thing of his governorship – his sponsorship of the New York SAFE Act that offered some semblance of sanity when it came to regulation of guns in the state. Apparently, the reporter didn’t like that at all and things became quite acrimonious. The reporter had an arrangement with a Murdoch-owned publishing company for a book about the Governor and the Governor was cooperating. But now things had
Gas Compressor Latest Worry GAS/From A1 for 132 – “who was there. It should not have been allowed to proceed. It was basically out of control.” The occasion was a FERC hearing, not on the proposed Constitution Pipeline to the south of Otsego County, the scene of mass turnouts locally in the past two years, but on an upgrade to an existing natural-gas line that Dominion Transmission Inc. is attempting. “It’s moving more gas up into New York,” said Keith Schue, an anti-fracking advocate in Cherry Valley. “Part of the concern is they’re rushing the job. They’re rushing through public hearings, denying people the right to be heard.” The hearing earlier this month concerned a compression station Dominion is planning at Georgetown. But of more concern locally are plans to double the capacity of an existing pump station at Brookman Corners, Montgomery County, in the vicinity of Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville. Compression, Dillingham said, allows more fracked gas from Pennsylvania to move through existing lines, but also adds more pressure to the 50-year-old pipes. The Brookman Corners station would emit 96 tons of greenhouse gases annu-
ally, not including “blowdowns,” a cleaning process. “Our people are going to breathing that air,” said Dillingham. “When it rains, emissions are going to be falling in our lake.” Dominion presented a fairly aggressive timeline on the $159 million undertaking, predicting its completion by 2016, and Dillingham sent a letter on behalf of Otsego 2000 urging FERC to slow it down and schedule additional hearings. In recent days, the Otsego, Cherry Valley and Springfield town boards each passed resolutions raising concerns and urging more hearing. Friday, Oct. 17, Schue received word from FERC that the comment period will be extended and another hearing planned, but also in Georgetown. “It’s infuriating to people who are demanding to have hearings in the other places,” Schue said.
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changed. Cuomo approached the same company and offered his own book to them. From that moment on, the reporter’s book was off the boards. It was one of the most Machiavellian, brilliant things I have ever seen a politician do. The poor reporter must not have known what hit him. Look, every person who is considering a run for the presidency has to have a book. Thousands attended when Hillary Clinton gave her Barnes and Noble book signing speech. There were far, far fewer people there when Cuomo gave his. He has ticked off reporters who want to talk to him, saying that he won’t talk to them about anything BUT the book. Cuomo, who says he wants transparency, has a long way to go before he achieves that goal. Chartock is president of WAMC/Northeast Public Radio, aired at 90.1 FM in Oneonta, and 97.3 FM, Cooperstown.
ship is less stressed with tour buses gone from our unfit streets. 8. By taking charge, the village will start the process of gaining back control and respect. To pursue the potential of a “different way,” to plot its future, and set a course that the community will embrace, is a essential step for future growth. Above all else, fix the “double standards culture” that’s been a fundamental flaw of the village for years. It not only splits the community into factions that tug in different directions creating so many conflicts, it also discourages new business startups, diversity and risk taking, all of which we need so desperately. Serving the whole gets everyone pulling together to make Cooperstown a better place! It is a community improvement opportunity where everyone wins! MIKE MANNO Cooperstown
Keep Zephyr’s Message Alive To the Editor: If you, like me, voted in the primary for Zephyr Teachout for governor with great hope in your heart and, like me, saw your hope go up in smoke, you can still retrieve something of value out of the flames: You can cast your vote for Cuomo under the Working Families Party. Why? Because that party’s leaership brokered a deal: the the WFP would endorse Cuomo if, in exchange, Cuomo would fight for a minimum wage hike, the DREAM Act and public campaign funding. Since Teachout-Wu took 40 percent of the vote, 20 counties, it deserves this boost: Vote for Cuomo under the Working Families line. HILDA WILCOX Cooperstown
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Before Any Evidence Of Ebola Arises, Bassett Team Puts Procedures In Place EBOLA/From A1 prevention specialist, and Brinton Muller, network manager of Emergency Preparedness. The task force has been meeting daily for the past week to review developments from the CDC and the state Health Department. According to the CDC, Ebola is spread through direct contact with broken skin, mucus membranes or bodily fluid. As with all emergencypreparedness possibilities, Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal like mass casualties and DAR member Marti Jex of Cooperstown places flowers at Ann Morse’s major weather incidents, grave site as Linda Sokolowski, Oneonta, Nancy Goodnough, Cooperstown, Bassett is conducting drills and Jeanne Parker, Westcott, bear witness. in all areas in the hospital. “We have a person the staff does not know come into the emergency room and dedication, with a luncheon and worked in this kitchen,” they give their travel history DAR/From A1 meeting and tours of the said Rees. to Colors” by the American and based on the criteria, Morse House at 11 Mont“I love history and I love we see how the staff reLegion post, a laying of gomery Ave. “To think that a good story,” said Rees. flowers, a benediction and sponds,” said Huxtable. Anna sat in the dining room “And today, we had both.” “Taps.” “Mrs. Morse was a hearty woman, and 134 years later, we honor her contribution to her family and her country,” said Lt. Col. Roberta Comerford, DAR District VI director. A Real Daughter is one whose father fought or supported the Revolutionary War. Morse’s father, Jerome Clark, was 20 when the Revolution broke out. He fought at Bunker Hill and helped pull down the statue of King George III in New York City’s Bowling Green. When the war was over, he left Connecticut for Otsego County. He married Nancy Ripley Waldo, who gave birth to Anna. Anna was 77 when she joined the newly formed DAR in 1890, even traveling to the 1897 convention in D.C., just one year before she died. “And we think we have it rough on the Pom Pom bus!” said DAR Historian Helen Rees, Oneonta, who related Morse’s biography at the gravesite. Jeanne Westcott, of the Oneonta DAR chapter, started the research three years ago when the state regent put out a call for all graves of the Real Daughters in the state. They found the grave of Frances Holbrook, whose grave in the Plains cemetery had been marked in the 1930s, but also discovered Morse’s grave, yet unmarked. “I was just going to go up, put the marker in the grave and go home!” said Westcott. “But Helen wouldn’t let me do that.” Instead, the DAR built a fundraiser for the Cherry Valley Museum into the
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Employees in registration and triage are instructed on how to collect a travel history from a patient, Hyman while doctors and nurses are being trained on the donning and removal of Personal Protective Equipment, transport and isolation of an Ebola patient, and disposal of contaminated needles, linens and clothing. And although the drills are going well, the spokeswoman admits that it is an “enormous undertaking”
and that guidelines are changing every day. “We just got new issues on the PPE yesterday that say no skin can be exposed,” she said. “It’s very fluid, and it’s something we continually need to test. One drill doesn’t hardwire anything.” But while preparedness is key, Dr. Hyman says that it shouldn’t overshadow more prominent health risks in Upstate New York, including influenza and the respiratory virus Enterovirus D68, a mild case of which has been confirmed in Oneonta. “This is a shared responsibility,” he said. “Expect to be asked about your travel history and symptoms.”
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