We checked our spelling The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta send a humble apology to Francesca Zambello, who retires as the head of the annual Glimmerglass Festival at the end of its 2022 season. We inadvertently spelled her last name incorrectly in our print edition published November 4. INSIDE ►NEW TROOP C COMMANDEr New State Police Commander focuses on recruiting locally PAGE A2. ►WHY BUFFALO MATTERS: Big local elections in Buffalo, Long Island, shape upcoming race for governor, Congress. PAGE A3 Follow Breaking News On
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Reports abound nationally that we can’t find the products we want or need, the result of a catastrophic break in the world’s supply chain that moves goods from manufacturer to distributor to retailer to consumer. Otsego County merchants who know their customers’ needs are finding ways to plug the gaps wherever possible. From groceries and adult beverages to hardware, appliances, and cars, business owners are rallying to keep merchandise on hand. Shoppers gearing up for Thanksgiving dinner should have no problem finding the food they want to prepare for their traditional feasts. “This is our 90th year of business,” said Mona Golub, vice president, Public Relations, Consumer and Marketing Service for Price Chopper. Price Chopper’s markets in Cooperstown and Oneonta will be well stocked heading into the holiday season. “We know what our customers are coming in to buy year after year,” she said. “We order our turkeys one year out and we have plenty on hand. We ordered staples in the spring. We’ll have everything that people want — sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, turkey, squash.” “The story on the national level doesn’t always translate to the local markets,” she said. “We’ve built fantastic relationships with our suppliers so we can be sure we have what our customers expect.” Local merchants cite pre-planning and hard work as good insulation against empty shelves. “I’ve been doing this for 32 years,” said Sharon Wilsey, owner of Best Wine & Spirits in Oneonta. “We’re not immune from the supply chain problems, it’s happening everywhere. But we’re way ahead of this in so many ways.” While she faces challenges when manufacturers run short on raw materials such as glass and aluminum, she has been able to keep popular
“It’s higher tech with the computer chips that are tough to source,” Mr. Thompson said. “There’s a steel shortage, and the new ‘fridges take longer to manufacture.” He added that pending regulatory changes at the federal government level will change the composition of certain refrigerants, also slowing the process. Knowing the local customer base arises as a common theme when addressing the supply chain crisis. Steve Munson of Munson True Value said his 56 years in the business keeps him ready for market hiccups. “We’re good at knowing Sharon Wilsey, proprietor of Best Wine & Spirits in what we’re going to need,” Oneonta, has some sparce shelves in the store. he said. “Right now, brands in stock. we’re at about 95 percent of our usual inven“For a long time, we’ve been one of the few tory for everyday items. That has been a big places around where you can get popular items improvement.” like Jim Beam flavored products,” she said. “We “Windows, millwork, lumber — those are the have a very good relationship with our distribu- things that seem to be getting worse,” he said. tors. We know what to suggest to our customers He cited challenges for manufactures — finding if we’re short on their favorites.” employees to make the products and sourcing the John Thompson said he and Advantage Maytag raw materials — as the primary culprits in the co-owner John Elderkin pre-ordered more supply chain slowdown. merchandise than their annual sales projection “It’s taking around three-and-a-half months would otherwise have suggested. The Oneonta for windows,” he said. “Don’t come in tomorrow appliance store has stayed busy as a result. and expect the windows the next day!” “The pandemic kept more people at home, And at Country Club Chevrolet, owner Tom so they wanted and needed new appliances,” Armao said his shop remains busy with customers he said. “We’ve been able to fill those orders for new and used cars. through good planning and good relationships “There are things I can’t control a lot of times,” with our suppliers. Our products come from he said. “But that means we change course and Whirlpool, so around 90 percent of what we sell grow so that we can be here for our customers. is made in America and isn’t getting jammed up We’ve got new cars on our lot and our used at the ports.” inventory is up. We can still fill the transportation Advantage nonetheless faces a longer-than- needs that this area has. It takes hard work every usual wait for refrigerators and freezers. day, but we know how to stay afloat.”
Cooperstown holds virtual information session on cannabis By Kevin Limiti Cooperstown Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh and Deputy Mayor Cindy Falk held a virtual meeting on November 8 to present information about marijuana legalization in New York and how it might affect Cooperstown. There was a PowerPoint presentation during the meeting, which was opened up to comments or questions at the end. However, no public comments or questions were made. This meeting was held two days before a vote is to take place on whether to draft an opt-out law, on Wednesday, November 10. Tillapaugh said the passage of the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act was an “enormous shift in public policy.” The law allows people to possess three ounces of marijuana and 20 ounces of concentrated cannabis oil. It is not yet legal to sell, although the newly formed Cannabis Control Board and Office of Cannabis Management are in the process of creating regulations for retail sale. Ms. Falk said there were “still a lot of unknowns” about how cannabis would be regulated including the number of licenses issued statewide.
One of the slides showed some of the revenue made as a result of legalization in Massachusetts including the town Lee, which made $16 million in its first year, Williamstown, which made $3.7 million in the first six months, and Great Barrington, which made $115 million. Ms. Falk said the numbers were “large, but not necessarily predictable.” Other data showed there were traffic accident spikes in States that had legalized marijuana earlier, including Colorado, but Falk said the study “indicates a correlation but not necessarily causation.” Municipalities, including Cooperstown, have until December 31 to decide whether to opt out of retail sales. If they do, a permissive referendum could be held or the village could call for a public referendum for the March election. MacGuire Benton, village trustee, said he would not be voting to draft the law at the November 10 meeting.
“I’m very open about my support for cannabis,” Mr. Benton said. “Who am I and who are my colleagues to say no to an industry that’s highly regulated?” He said it’s possible Cooperstown could make $15,000 off every $1 million worth of sales which he said is “money that will be put to good use, especially since we’re coming out of a recession and a public health crisis we’ve never seen before.” “$15,000 will go a long way,” Mr. Benton said. “I’ve been going door to door talking to constituents about it and I met no aggressive opposition.” He said the benefits will be “very diverse” who said one elderly person told him how edibles were important to them. “It’s all kinds of people who will benefit from the products right here in our community,” Mr. Benton said. He emphasized how the industry was highly regulated. “If there was opposition against it, we would hear it and we would see it.” There need to be four votes against drafting the law. If it doesn’t pass, Cooperstown likely wouldn’t opt out.
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New State Police Commander focused on recruitment By KEVIN LIMITI Jeffrey Van Auken, the new Troop C commander for the New York State Police, has come a long way in his career. He is a Navy veteran who was deployed to Iraq and the Middle East at multiple points, the last time as an intelligence officer. Now he’s focusing on recruiting for the State Police. He especially wants to draw from those whose backgrounds encompass the coverage area that include parts of Otsego County such as Oneonta, Cooperstown, and Richfield Springs. Troop C’s headquarters are in Sidney. “I think it would be a better service to our community to have local troopers,” Major Van Auken said in an interview with The Freeman’s Journal/Hometown Oneonta. “We’re trying to get a more diverse group of candidates that reflect our community. We’re trying to get a nice cross-section of candidates that can take the test to qualify as troopers.” He said of the two best jobs in the State Police, one would be trooper and the other one is troop commander.
Major Jeffrey Van Auken, the new Troop C commander for the NY State Police, is hoping to attract new recruits in the Otsego County area.
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“It’s an honor to become the troop commander,” Major Van Auken said. “I started my career in Troop C and made it to commander. I think I’ve hit both of the best parts of the job that they can offer.” He said there are a lot of misconceptions about being a state trooper, including the scope of their job. “People think state troopers are just ‘highway patrol,’ working the highways, writing tickets, and that sort of thing. The New York State Police is a full-service police department,” Major Van Auken said. “We do criminal work, complaints, county patrol, and highway patrol.” “(The New York State Police) is very similar to any other police department, but in a more rural setting. We handle everything including calls outside of the city, incorporated cities and villages,” he said. “We have specialized units. We have major crimes. We have our Bureau of Criminal Investigation. We have our aviation units,
our unmanned aerial surveillance systems (UAS) our underwater recovery team, which formerly we would call SCUBA. We have every specialty unit that you could think of that any major police department would have as well.” He said the State Police also have a special operations team which responds to search and rescue, barricaded individuals, and armed encounters. “We’re quite diversified,” Major Van Auken said. “We have a lot of different things that people can branch into once they come on the job.” Major Van Auken urges those interested in joining the state police to go to joinstatepolice.ny.gov for more information. “They have a few testing sites. I think they have in the hundreds,” Major Van Auken said. “Even for military personnel overseas. We’ve really opened it up to everybody to have the opportunity.”
Glimmerglass Festival releasing opera film for free on website The Glimmerglass Festival is releasing ‘The Knock’, a 50-minute opera, as a film on its website on Veteran’s Day, Thursday, November 11. The film may be seen for free on glimmerglass.org. ‘The Knock,’ composed by Aleksandra Vrebalov, was originally slated for a 2020 stage production, but after the pandemic hit, they decided to create the work as a film. The one-act opera is about the wives of military men waiting for news of their husbands. The libretto, created by Deborah Brevoort, is based on interviews of soldiers’ spouses. “When the creators first suggested this topic, I was immediately captivated
by the idea,” Francesca Zambello, artistic and general director of The Glimmerglass Festival, said. “So often we see works that take place on the battlefield, but when someone serves in the armed forces, the entire family — and the community, for that matter — is serving together. It is truly inspirational to see and try to understand the world from the perspective of the spouses who are serving in their own ways. We are proud to present this opera.”
Help us bring Christmas back to Cooperstown!! SANTA ARRIVES Friday, Nov 26 at 5 pm
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Bringing Christmas to Cooperstown involves volunteers and community donations. Through the efforts of local businesses, The Chamber of Commerce, The Lake and Valley Garden Club, as well as family and friends throughout the community, our traditions make Cooperstown a magical village during the holidays. Each lamppost is decorated by family and friends in a true community effort by donations. Children will have lifelong memories of helping decorate a pole to welcome the holiday season. Join the whole community to greet Santa as he parades down Main Street to arrive at his cottage in Pioneer Park. Throughout the season, Santa is visited by hundreds of children. Stop by and say hi, but wear a mask! Our entire budget is provided by your generous donations - thank you for your financial support! Please send checks to: C.C.C.C., P.O. Box 428, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Sunday Nov. 21: Decorating Day Gather at 2 pm to help decorate Santa’s cottage and village lamposts. All decorations will be provided. Please bring gloves andladders if available. Pioneer Park. To reserve a pole, email Santa at cooptownchristmas@gmail.com
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Why Buffalo Matters in Otsego County By Ted Potrikus After he lost the primary in June to Democratic Socialist India Walton, fourterm incumbent Democrat Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown looked like a goner, relegated to the same political “oops” that befell Congressman Joe Crowley when he lost his can’t-lose primary to the completely unknown Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirstin Gillibrand endorsed Ms. Walton right away, as did the city’s state legislators and a bevy of heavyweight union leaders; Mayor Brown launched a longshot write-in campaign for the November election and hit the trail hard all summer and fall. As Election Day approached, some of the state’s leading left-flank lawmakers — including Ms. Ocasio-Cortez — flew Ted Potrikus to Buffalo for India Walton That’s World Series MVP Jorge Soler’s game-used rallies. They saw the batting helmet in the hands of Hall of Fame chance for a Western New VP Shestakofsky as young Albany-area York outpost to carry the baseball fans admire the Hall’s new collection hard liberal messages of 2021 World Series artifacts on their way stemming from AOC’s to Cooperstown for display. Queens home base. Governor Kathy Hochul — a proud lifelong Buffalonian
— stayed out, and by doing so, spoke volumes. AOC got the message and warned Democrats seeking office in 2022 that if they didn’t support the party’s candidate in the Buffalo mayoral race, they’d have trouble getting the party’s backing for their own contests in the year ahead. And then Mayor Brown pretty much trounced Ms. Walton on Election Day, sending a big message to the party’s left. Maybe Photo credit: Times Union stridence isn’t a winning New York State strategy outside a few Governor Kathy Hochul neighborhoods in Queens, even if it generates a lot coveted town supervisor of national attention. All post after a 14-year politics is local. Democrat incumbent chose Races on Long Island to not seek reelection. sent up the same warning These are the races that flags. Republicans clawed build the local structures in back county executive and heavily populated parts of district attorney posts lost a the state that get voters to few years ago to Democrats, the polls in gubernatorial or with voters and analysts presidential contests. They blaming New York’s new affect us here in Otsego bail reform laws — pushed County. hard by the state LegisThat Governor Hochul lature’s majority Democrats stayed out of the Buffalo and then-Governor Andrew fray puts her at odds with Cuomo — for the crushing her party’s aforementioned losses. The same happened and powerful left; she’ll in the big Capital District have to hedge her own town of Colonie, long a centrist tendencies against Democrat bastion, where the occasional shouty voices the Republicans took the that pull her otherwise. She’ll be able to push back using Buffalo, Long Island, and Colonie as illustration. Perhaps she can keep to a relative middle in a primary that finds her already facing popular leftleaning Attorney General Tish James. And fartherleft New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, who’s geared up for strong primary challenge. Soon we’ll see term-limited New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio entering from stage-even-more-left, running a campaign for governor in which he’ll promise to do for the entire state what he’s done for New York City in the last eight years. Interestingly, Long Island Democratic Congressman Tom Suozzi
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seems to have had it up to the proverbial ‘here’ with the leftward trend and is mulling a gubernatorial run that he likely would lead from Governor Hochul’s right. With General James now out of the Attorney General race, expect a similarly crowded Democratic claw to succeed her in a position that, with every election, takes on more political clout throughout New York and the nation. There will be plenty who run from the far left and, perhaps, some who try to stick closer to the center. Primary elections tend to bring out only the stalwart party faithful or, in their absence, the cleverlyorganized blocs that render party-designated nominees like Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and India Walton. Candidates facing primaries in 2022 have a lot of work ahead to craft a message that appeals to more than just the few who might turn out in June 2022. They need to attract a wide swath of voters committed to securing a party identity that can win the general election. Those messages will drill into Otsego County as voters mull elections still a year away. Consider the Congressional contest in our swing district that looks to find incumbent Antonio Delgado (D) taking on Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro (R). Albany TimesUnion columnist Chris Churchill wrote a few weeks ago that it would be a “choice between decent, thoughtful and talented candidates who disagree on policy but are rarely disagreeable … few districts are so fortunate.” It will be interesting to watch how the expected Delgado v. Molinaro race is affected by the fireworks to come in the gubernatorial and AG primaries. We’ll be watching and reporting carefully throughout.
LWV students inside Albany conference The League of Women Voters of New York State Education Foundation invites nominations of students from Cherry Valley, Cooperstown, Edmeston, Laurens, Milford, Richfield Springs, Schenevus, and Worcester high schools for its 22nd annual Students Inside Albany conference, slated for May 22-25, 2022, in Albany, New York. The conference is designed to increase students’ awareness of their responsibility in a representative government and provide the tools necessary for meeting that responsibility. The interactive conference brings together high school students from across the state to learn about the New York State government and the processes by which citizens participate in the public policy-making arena. As part of the program,
students tour the Capitol and observe both the Senate and Assembly in action by spending an afternoon shadowing their local legislators. Students selected are sponsored by one of the 46 local League of Women Voters chapters throughout New York State, with expenses (including travel and three nights lodging in a hotel in downtown Albany) included. Participants receive a student membership in the Cooperstown League of Women Voters, which includes an e-mail newsletter and invitations to meetings on government-related topics. For more information, please contact Maria Kaltenbachat via e-mail at margirlic@yahoo.com. Deadline for nominations is December 3, 2021.
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THURSDAY, November 11, 2021
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The other side of autumn
Ah, the autumn colors. Beautiful to view, harbingers of cozy nights indoors, and, let’s face it, quite good for our local economy. And then they start to fall. We could debate all day long about whether it’s right to pick them up or let them be over the winter months, but let’s face it: come next spring, we’ll want our lawns to look good again for the summer to come. We also could debate all day long about exactly how we’ll pick them up. The state of California last month became the first state to ban gas-powered lawn equipment as early as 2024, including lawn mowers and leaf blowers. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) reports that a gas-powered leaf blower running for one hour emits as much smogforming pollution as does a 2016 Toyota Camry driving for 1,100 miles. If one considers the number of gaspowered leaf-blowers screaming around California, that’s a lot of smog-forming pollution. New York’s state legislature, generally speaking, has long exhibited a severe case of California envy. When something happens there, it’s going to happen here. Only a few days after California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the leaf-blower ban into law, New York State Senator Pete Harkham dropped his own bill that would require all lawn care devices sold in the state be zeroemission (i.e., battery-powered) by 2027. The Senator’s statement in support of his bill cites an Audubon Society report that “gas-powered lawn care of all kinds spews pollutants linked to cancers, heart disease, and asthma, and blowers blast air of up to 280 miles per hour, eroding topsoil and sending pollen, fertilizers, and herbicides adrift.” He goes on to mention “more than 100 decibels of low-frequency, wall-penetrating sound, as much noise as a plane taking off at levels that can result … in hearing loss.” If you’ve ever been woken by your otherwise courteous neighbor getting a jump on his or her Saturday morning autumn chores, perhaps you’ll agree with the wall-penetrating sound argument. You might recognize, too, that that gas-powered leaf blower in your hand later that same morning might make your lawn look completely ace but you also know that you’re churning up a nature-altering eddy and interrupting someone’s quiet time. Every generational upgrade makes battery-powered gizmos more powerful and reliable; we have little doubt that by the time a zero-emission mandate were in place, we’ll have enough power in our hand to mow the largest residential lawns and blow away even the most massive backyard leaf piles that vex us so. That begs the question, though: how will we generate the electricity we need to operate our lawn tools, our cars, our phones, our televisions, and our computers. It will have to come from somewhere. The irony here is that there’s a call to ban certain leaf blowers so that we can save the trees that drop the leaves that we feel the need to pick up every autumn. We suspect there will be plenty of blowback on this bill once the state Legislature returns to Albany in 2022. Some will argue that consumers deserve the right to choose from a wide variety of products and that market demand is a route better than government mandate. Others will argue that the Doomsday Clock is ticking and jumps ahead a second or two every time a New Yorker yanks the cord on a twostroke engine to make his or her lawn look pretty. In the end, Sen. Harkham’s bill deserves a careful study and debate on its merits rather than bumper-sticker slogans. If there’s a middle ground to be found between emission-spewing, neighborhood-jarring, but highly effective gas-powered devices and whisper-quiet, zeroemission, and potentially effective products, let’s find it.
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COVID: Good News/ Bad News Six weeks ago, I wrote about a new drug called malnupiravir from Merck that was a game changer in the treatment of COVID-19. When taken in the first few days of infection it was 50% effective in the prevention of hospitalization and death. While not as good as monoclonal antibodies this was considered an amazing result and the study was terminated early in order to immediately ask for emergency approval. It was recently approved in Great Britain and large supplies were purchased by Britain, the United States, and other wealthy countries. Last week this was all moot. Pfizer announced a new COVID-19 drug named ritonavir, brand-name Paxlovid, that was 89% effective in reducing the risk of hospitalization and death compared to placebo in non-hospitalized high-risk adults with COVID-19. Based on a randomized, double-blind study of non-hospitalized adult patients with COVID-19 who were at high risk of progressing to severe illness or death the interim results showed an 89% reduction in in progression of the disease, hospitalization, and death when compared to placebo when they were treated within three days of the onset of symptoms. Only 0.8% of the patients who received ritonavir were hospitalized within the first month, compared to 7.0% of those who did not receive it. There were no deaths in the treated group compared to 1.8% of deaths in the untreated group. The statistical significance of this is high. In a parallel study the results were similar when treatment was begun within five days with 1.0% hospitalized. Again, no deaths were reported within the first 28 days of treatment which was chosen as the endpoint. The results were monitored by an independent committee and reviewed by the U.S. FDA and the decision was made to terminate the study and immediately ask for emergency use authorization as soon as possible. So, what’s the bad news?
It appears that despite, or paradoxically partially because of improving treatments we will never get rid of COVID and just like the flu it will become endemic, that is, permanently in the population. Just like the flu, elderly will die from it every year. The treatments for COVID may potentially have even better results than those of the flu. We are probably looking at booster vaccine shots at some interval, whether a year plus or minus, possibly protective against different strains of COVID just like the flu vaccine to protect against different strains but ultimately unless everyone everywhere is vaccinated with an effective formulation for all possible strains it doesn’t look like we will wipe it out. The fight to wipe out polio has been going on for 70 years. It still exists in small pockets in several countries including Afghanistan. Aid workers have not been welcome in those communities and have even been kidnapped and killed. The disease stubbornly hangs on and has spread, though the number of new cases is only in the double digits out of a global population of 7.8 billion. If we can’t defeat a virus with only a handful of active cases worldwide it is very unlikely we will wipe out COVID (though not impossible, we seem to have wiped out polio after over 200 years of vaccinations). We can’t just declare the pandemic over and walk away and go back to life as we knew it. It demands vigilance and some action going forward. Like the flu, transmission can be decreased by masking, distancing, avoiding crowded indoor areas, and not subjecting others to ourselves when we are sick. Worldwide cooperation is necessary. I hope we can get it but I am not holding my breath Dr. Richard Sternberg, retired Bassett Hospital orthopedic surgeon, is providing his professional perspective during the COVID-19 threat. Also a village trustee, he lives in Cooperstown. Photo credit: Linda Tracz
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Thoughts While Raking First Published October 16, 1985 As I was raking leaves the other day the sun warmed one side of me, but the shadows chilled the other. There was a gentle breeze which soon grew stronger and began to blow leaves away as fast as I could pile them up. I stopped and leaned on the rake and watched the leaves chase each other across the yard. And I inhaled a lot. What great air we have! And I fell to musing. A milkweed puff blew by my face, swirled, rose and disappeared behind a nearby fir tree. And then I remembered being told that milkweed pods were gathered around Cooperstown during both World Wars. They were used for the stuffing in life jackets, I was told. Silly thing to be thinking about, but that’s what I thought about. My eyes then noticed that the lower leaves of a larch tree had already turned yellow and I thought, again, “Larch, a deciduous conifer whose little leaves are often mistaken for needles. Larch, also tailed tamarack. Also, called hackmatack. Larch, often found growing over bedrock which causes its roots to grow in right angles, which made the roots valuable in the days of wooden ships.” Ah, what a memory! What useful information! My mind sometimes seems to be the human equivalent of a pile of junk mail. Speaking of which. I’m getting six or seven catalogues a day this fall, and yesterday I got three from the same outfit. They must have a retarded computer. Well, then I looked at the crushed stone on my driveway, and I thought of the Jordanville quarry from whence it came. You drive up a steep hill just before you get to the quarry and when
you come down the other side everything has a patina of white rock dust. It looks like another world. There are rambly wooden buildings, part barn, part bus garage and part who knows. There is a puddle of water from wetting down the stones. There are huge front-end loaders, huger dump trucks, and there is the ever-present clanketyclank-clank-clank of the stone crushing machines. You get to weigh your truck on one of those outside scales that looks like a wooden garage floor. In the office next to the scale they tell you where to go to get whatever size stone it is that you want. Then you drive up some narrow tracks, past some piles of rubble, and past the garage fronted by a semi-circle of earth moving vehicles looking for all the world like so many piglets going at a sow. Next you wind through some huge piles of gravel and crushed stone, but finally come out into about a 15-acre flat area which is bordered all around by 40-foot cliffs of layered limestone. On your right are cone shaped mountains of the various sizes and grades of stone. Above their peaks, on top of the cliff, you’re apt to see a dump truck spilling a wet and dark-colored load of freshly crushed stone which slides and cascades down the cone almost to the floor of the quarry. Far away on your left you can see huge dump trucks apparently racing each other across the quarry floor, some of them filled, some of them empty but all in a hurry. And all throwing up clouds of white rock dust. There are steam shovels, front end loaders, cranes… the whole thing is like being in F.A.O. Schwarz’s window at Christmas time. I also remembered back a dozen or so years to the first time that I got stone
there. Little Japanese trucks were still a novelty then and were generally disdained by real truck drivers. I remember parking my little Toy beside the huge pile that I had been directed toward and very soon seeing an important yellow loader heading my way. As it approached it lowered its scoop and drove it firmly into the base of the pile of little stones. It backed out, raised the scoop over its head, swiveled and moved toward me stopping with its full load poised high above the back of my truck. The driver looked at me, and I looked at the driver. He released his load and my little truck crunched, quivered, squatted and groaned under about twice its load limit. The loader backed off and moved hurriedly to the other side of the quarry. And I was left to lurch and sway the 20 miles home. Meanwhile, back at the leaf pile, most of my leaves had blown away and as I came out of the quarry reverie, a red truck filled with dirt went by my drive and I thought of all the earth-moving that was going on nearby at Five Mile Point. And I thought how nice it is of them to be providing such pretty little units for not much more than $100,000 apiece so that the underprivileged can have access to the lake. But then I was interrupted by a butterfly who swooped by and my thoughts shifted to my new puppy, because my new puppy is a pointer, but the only thing she points at is butterflies. And then I thought of how the butterflies fly south for the winter along with the geese and the ducks. And the docks come in, and the summer cottages close up, and tourists tour the South, and how nice it will be when the place is once again ours.
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THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-5 News from the noteworthy
Pathfinder village
Community Matters Compiled by Tom Heitz/SHARON STUART with resources courtesy of The Fenimore Art Museum Research Library
210 YEARS AGO
Theodore Pomeroy, having opened an Office two doors east of the Druggist Shop of George Pomeroy, offers himself to the inhabitants of the village of Cooperstown and its vicinity, as a Practitioner in Physic and Surgery. Having furnished himself with Trepanning Instruments and all others necessary in common operations, he holds himself in readiness to attend to calls with the most rigid punctuality. November 9, 1811
160 YEARS AGO
Cost of Keeping a Horse — During the past winter, as well as on previous occasions, I have calculated the cost of keeping horses; and my experience has led me to believe that a horse weighing 1,000 lbs., and being worked more or less, several times a week, can be well kept on 15 lbs. of hay, (five lbs. at each meal) with three quarts of corn, or six quarts of oats per day. The cost will, of course, vary according to the price of hay or grain; when hay is worth as it now is, $20 per ton at the barn, and oats 50 cents per bushel, the cost would be about $1.75 per week. November 15, 1861
135 YEARS AGO
Local — The first snow that covered the ground here fell on the night of Saturday last and during a portion of Sunday; to a depth of about six inches. The weather was cold and rough. Mr. W.H. Michaels has shown enterprise and good taste in building one of the finest markets in the interior of the State. He moved into it on Wednesday, and is now “at home” to those who will favor him with a call — and if they wish something to eat, they will not call in vain. The Oliver Wren Company will appear in Bowne Opera House, under the auspices of Neptune Fire Engine Co. No. 3, next Wednesday and Thursday evenings. This company has played here before to large and well-pleased audiences. Bear in mind that these entertainments are for the benefit of the faithful firemen, and give them full houses. Reserved seats are for sale at Reynolds’ Bookstore. November 13, 1886
110 YEARS AGO
The first prize awarded for the best sample of hops at the American Land and Irrigation Exposition in Madison Square Garden, New York City, last week, was won by D.W. Mitchell of Schuyler Lake, Otsego County. The trophy is a silver cup valued at $1,000, given by Adolphus Busch, the well-known brewer of St. Louis and Cooperstown. The supremacy of Otsego County hops is thus firmly established for there were exhibitions of hops from every hop state in the Union, and the award was made after a most careful examination at Washington, whither samples were sent for analysis. November 15, 1911
60 YEARS AGO
Four Cooperstown-area youths allegedly grabbed a 70pound pig from the Grasslands Farm pig pen south of the village Wednesday night of last week and let it loose in front of the Cooperstown post office. Village police officer Gerald E. Smith, summoned to the scene, captured the pig — and, a short time later, collared the culprits. No charges have yet been preferred. The incident, apparently a holdover from Halloween the night before, occurred about 9 p.m. The pig was taken to the office of veterinarian Dr. T.H. Hughes, where Harold Caulkins, superintendent of the Grasslands Farm came and picked it up. November 8, 1961
35 YEARS AGO
Matt Hoskins, a Cooperstown elementary school student, was a semi-finalist in the Scenic America Art Competition sponsored by the Marcal Paper Mills, Inc., Elmwood, N.J. and under the auspices of the National Arbor Day Foundation. Using art as a medium, students were asked to demonstrate their feelings regarding the importance of trees and their function and value to man. Hoskins, along with other semi-finalists has been awarded a $500 savings bond. The bond was presented to Hoskins by Mr. N.R. Marcalus, president of the Marcal Company at the school on November 6. November 12, 1986
20 YEARS AGO
November 9, 2001
the Edmeston Community Trick or Treat event here at Pathfinder. Residents and staff decorate our Village, design and decorate the haunted hall in the Commons Building, and most importantly, hand out Halloween candy from our many homes and community buildings. Over 200 children and their Residents greet Trick-or-Treat families during families enjoy this Pathfinder Village’s recent community event. annual event. The significance of As we transition through fall, I’m this event is that 42 years ago when reminded of the spirit of community that is such a vibrant part of our Pathfinder Village was founded, lives in Otsego County. This sense there was very little community of connection and shared values that engagement for people living sustains us through good times and with intellectual disabilities in our challenging times is why “commu- communities. Today, we are living, working, and contributing together nity matters”. Each October, Pathfinder Village to our communities. Pathfinder Village is a unique observes National Down Syndrome setting here in the western part of Awareness Month. This year, like Otsego County, attracting families, many prior, we celebrated with many on and off-campus activities. One educators, researchers, and other of our favorite traditions is hosting interested individuals from over 23
countries and 20 different states. This attraction is primarily because we have created a place where individuals and families touched by Down syndrome can find their community, no different than you and me…we all search for community in our lives. Yes, we provide state of art education, employment and residential supports for children and adults, but our sustaining mission is to facilitate community so, as our tagline states, “…that each life may find meaning.” Part of the magic of Pathfinder is this region, this county and its openness and compassion for one another. As we approach the holiday season and continue to battle COVID-19, on behalf of Pathfinder Village, I want to say Thank You Otsego County for helping people with intellectual disabilities find community in their lives. Over the coming months, I will share stories and events of Pathfinder Village that illustrate how we are all part of the same community and why “community matters.” To find out more about Pathfinder Village visit our website: www.pathfindervillage.org. Paul C. Landers President & CEO, Pathfinder Village
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The road not taken. You might have heard or read the poem which Robert Frost wrote more than a hundred years ago, “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled and that has made all the difference. “ Has someone ever asked you for advice? Should they move from this company to that one? From one career to another? From one city to another? A dear friend of mine has these questions looming large. Thinking about her choices at 3 a.m., suddenly I remembered several forks in the road I had taken. I had not known what they would mean. But they made all the difference. I thought about the decisions I made that I did know would change everything. Emigrating to New Zealand would make all the difference, I just didn’t know how. I knew leaving the morning paper in Wellington to be a TV/radio reporter was a turning in the road. I didn’t know what difference it would make. After two years working in London, lucky enough to be working for a wire service on Fleet Street, the job of my dreams came up. In that era, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the governmentrun broadcasting network, controlled radio and TV news. Like New Zealand, the journalists worked as civil servants. Formal, absolutely government-controlled — even demanding announcers wear evening dress to read the news. But the 1970s, Parliament changed British broadcasting forever and passed an act that allowed commercial radio broadcasting. That allowed an all-news and current affairs radio station and a commercial radio news network. London Broadcasing and Independent Radio News were broadcast across Fleet Street and down a little alley from where I worked. With my “God’s gift to journalism” self-image and my New Zealand broadcasting experience I thought they needed me. By then I had already done some
work for the BBC World services, which tied the old Empire to the Mother Country. I figured the World Services could tolerate my American accent. Scary? Imagine cold-calling Etonand Oxford-educated producers who were barely out of the era when their news readers wore evening wear! How to do that? After listening for hours, I picked out a show that I thought might want a creative feature. I got a story idea, wrote a “pitch.” No email. No cell phones. No landline in our cupboard of a flat. So I got a small sack of giant two-pence coins and picked a nearby phone box. I called the BBC until finally someone took my phone call. I still remember — his first name was Adam. He agreed to risk one piece. I bought a used reel-to-reel tape recorder and microphone. I lugged it. Finally the BBC bought two features. Not enough to buy fish and chips for dinner but definitely on my way to fame. But I knew about that commercial all-news radio station and news network. Since my cold-calling technique had worked with the BBC, I tried it with the upstart station ait did work. One night a reporter called in sick. They needed someone who could rush out to cover a story. And even better knew how to edit the tape so it was ready for the popular AM morning show. I dropped everything, grabbed my 10-pound recording machine and headed off to interview one of the most famous actors of all times — Richard Attenborough — later Sir Richard. Shouldn’t he have scared me? Not sure why he didn’t, but maybe it was because I was so embarrassed about my dress. Long but definitely not evening attire. More like a maxi with sensible shoes. After more of these calls when I would rush out and come back with a ready-to-go story about people like Keith Richards and Jethro Tull, a producer told me to apply for the reporting job that was going to
be advertised. And I got the job. At least I thought I had. My first day of work I showed up in the newsroom with my tape recorder, sensible shoes, and notepad, ready for my first assignment. Another woman with the same equipment, same height, even same hair color arrived too. Ready for her first day as a reporter too. Suddenly our dreams were shattered. We stood pencils poised for our first assignments. The news director who hired us today told to put our tape recorders down. Someone made a mistake. “You two are producers — not reporters,” said the news director. Not the same job at all. Rather than rushing around interviewing Prime Ministers, voice-broadcast to the nation, we would be sitting in a windowless, airless studio, behind the scenes. Telling reporters where to go, what to do. Forced to make a decision on the spot — without Frost’s time to think about which fork to take — I just did it. Years later I realized what I had done. That on the spot decision did make all of the difference. I had already quit my other job. I couldn’t afford to lose this job. My counterpart dug in her heels. Said ‘I am a reporter or else.’ The news director looked at me and said ‘you are a producer or else.’ I didn’t know that once I took that fork I would never be a reporter again. Not what I had planned for my life. But I was scared. I couldn’t lose this job. I still had my dream ahead of me. I wasn’t going to give up a job at London broadcasting. I could still be famous. I didn’t understand that this fork would change my whole life and that it would be the right turn. A long story with more turnings. But my friend whose dilemma wakes me in the night — what fork will she take? It will make all of the difference. Will it be the right turning in the road for her?
Tara Barnwell
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FLY CREEK - Albert John Zigon Jr., 71, of Fly Creek, N.Y., passed away peacefully on October 28, 2021. Al was born in Cooperstown on March 6, 1950. At the age of 19, Al left Cooperstown, and lived in Idaho, Alaska, and California, only to return to Fly Creek, his favorite place on earth, to spend his remaining three years. Al, with his full-of-life, vivacious personality, was known by many nicknames:
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Albee, Ziggy, Alboo, Calhoun. Dad, Grandpa, Papa, Al is survived by and Honey. They all his wife, Carolyn; blend together into children, Ruby a perfect mosaic Fuller (Garth), of an amazingly Jennie Zigon, Jared happy life. Al will Anders (Tessia); most certainly be grandchildren, Olivia, Ian, Ally, remembered by his enormous generosLuke, Hazel and Albert J. ity, selflessness, and Grace; brothers, Zigon, Jr. Ken Zigon, Bob desire to help others. Al was preceded Calhoun, George in death by his father, Calhoun, Bruce Calhoun, Albert John Zigon Sr., and and Mac Calhoun; sisters, his mother, Jennie Gorence Fran Andrews, and Jennifer
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2021 Cooperstown Boys Varsity Soccer Team
In the front row, from left, are: Creighton Williams, Conrad Erway, Ben Agostino, Declan White, Dillon Burns, Riley Diamond, Cooper Bradley and Reisen Sheldon. In the back row, from left, are: Liam Spencer, Max Porto, Gavin Lesko, Wyatt Montana, P.J. Kiuber, Ollie Wasson, Colby Diamond, Finn Holohan, Aidan Spencer, Ethan Kukenberger, Charlie Lambert and Aidan Klein.
Editor’s note: Hot off their exciting state championship win on Sunday, we invited CCS Boys’Varsity Soccer Coach Frank Miosek to reflect on his team’s brilliant 2021 performance. Here’s what he wrote. By Coach Frank Miosek I have been the CCS boys’ soccer coach since 1988. Every summer I start to plan for the coming fall
season. Before this dream job, I had another — I spent thirteen years at Cherry Valley as their first girls’ varsity soccer coach. Starting in 1971, I was a coach of youth soccer in Oneonta. So you can see I have a passion for the sport; as a coach and as a player: high school; college (Oneonta State 68-71), men’s travel Oneonta United, National Soccer Hall of Fame Team and numerous teams in the area until 2014.
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Since we had no team in 2020 at C.C.S., Coach Spencer and I ran an open clinic for 7 weeks at the local field for all boys and girls grade 6-12. With the
start of 2021 school year and the being a very good team. challenge of putting our program A few matches saw us fall back on schedule, we were all behind. Some teams panic when filled with extra energy. The sign this happens, some even exhibit up for boys J.V. and Varsity Soccer finger pointing, not us. We faced totaled forty-two. Coach Matt the deficit and worked harder as a Hazzard (J.V.), Lucas Spencer (my family to be victorious. assistant) and myself Soccer can be a cruel were very hopeful for sport. There are matches Slowly, as the the new season. where the team can do season started, At the varsity level so many things right we started to we had only three and yet be on the end players with varsity form a “family.” of a loss. This team has experience from persevered with every 2019. Ten seniors from the class of challenge, given all it has and been 2021 never got to play their senior a group of young men who have season. each other’s back. Pre-season was promising but I have coached many fine teams, we went easier than the past. The and numerous outstanding young youth for the most part were not ladies and gentlemen on these overall fit. We had a nucleus of boys teams. This team is special like who had played out of Albany on a many I have been blessed to work select team. Luca Gardner-Olsen, with. The family foundation they Liam Spencer, Aiden Spencer and have built, live by, play by will Colby Diamond were that nucleus. hopefully carry over in their lives Slowly, as the season started, we and the communities they live in. started to form a “family.” For a It’s not so much the wins you team to be truly good a bond has collect; it’s how you handle the to evolve. This bond is the foun- challenges your family faces. Have dation of trust, respect and unity. a positive attitude, faith in the Each match brought this “Family family, support for the family, trust closer together, play became more that you will always be family. refined, tactics developed, the The 2021 boy’s varsity soccer success mounted. team is a family of unique and We were challenged by normal extraordinary strong bonds beyond occurrences. First some players soccer proficiency. started the season late because of P.S: This truly is a “family” team: family activities. Then a new fine Three Spencer brothers: Liam, player moved. Games got changed, Aiden, Declan. Two Diamond bad weather formed cancellations. brothers: Colby and Reily. Two These disruptions interfered but Gardner-Olsen brothers: Luca and did not stop our education toward Roland.
Oneonta Boys Varsity Cross Country finish third in Class “C” Section IV championships
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Front L to R: Tara Phillips, Annie Walker. Back L to R: Erica Eggleston, Quinn Lytel, Ariadne Hodgson, Jaina Bischof, Rylie Austin, Emily Kane
CCS Girls’ Varsity Swimmers save their best for last By John Hodgson Cooperstown High School Girls’ Varsity Swimmers closed out a championship 2021 fall season with a stellar weekend competing in state contests in Syracuse, N.Y., on November 5 and 7. Swimmers competed in 11 events during Section 3 sectionals on November 5, with all eight team members posting ‘best times’ for the year. Team captain Ariadne Hodgson hit her goal of 1:10 in the 100-yard butterfly, guaranteeing her a spot in the state qualifiers on November 7. Fellow team captain Rylie Austin was the fastest swimmer of the day with a 28.11-second 50-yard freestyle. And team allstar Jaina Bischof posted her best-ever time with 1:04.49 in the 100-yard freestyle. Emily Kane at age 12, the youngest swimmer in the November 5 meet, dropped a full second off her 200meter freestyle and three seconds off her 500-meter freestyle. She placed fourth and second, respectively, sending her to the November 7 state qualifiers.
The varsity girls’ freestyle relay team won a trip to the qualifiers when members Erica Eggleston, Annie Walker, Rylie Austin, and Tara Phillips marked 4:54.92 in the 4x100 contest. Ariadne Hodgson, Rylie Austin, Emily Kane, and Jaina Bischof’s team also headed to the November 7 qualifier in the 200-meter IM and 200-meter freestyle relays. Varsity swimmer Tara Phillips wowed her team by dropping two seconds off her best-ever time in the 100-yard breaststroke, hitting 1:28.07. Cooperstown Varsity Girls Swim Team moved on to compete at State Qualifiers at Nottingham On Sunday, November 7th. the Cooperstown Varsity Girls Swim Team had a great end of season meet. Eight swimmers moved on to Section 3 State Qualifiers on Sunday, November 7th at Nottingham HS. Coop finished the day placing 23rd out of 28 teams with impressive performances by both relay teams.
Last Thursday, November 4, Senior Korbin Jones and Junior Brandon Gardner led the Oneonta Boys Varsity Cross Country team to a third-place team finish among 15 Class “C” teams at the Section IV Championships and State Qualifying meet held at the Chenango Valley State Park. Jones placed third with a time of 17:45.1 while Gardner placed 6th in a time of 18:04.2. Other members of the Oneonta team are Fr. Jackson Forbes (24th 19:02.7), Jr. Nicholas Kahl (27th 19:12.7), Fr.
Donovan Lema (40th 19:47.5), Fr, Gabriel Rissberger (41st 19:52.0) and So. Jacob Forester-Rothbart (43rd 19:56.4). Both Jones and Gardner earned a spot and will compete at the State Class “C” Championship meet on Saturday Nov. 13th back at the Chenango Valley State Park. Start time for the race will be 11:30am. Senior Johnny Sherwood of Newark Valley won the Class “C” Section Four individual title with a time of 17:12.8.
Cooperstown Boys Ride Golden Goal to State Final
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Cooperstown’s Luca Gardner-Olsen plays the ball forward with Greene defender Ben Kehl. Olsen scored the game-winning goal in OT sending the Hawkeyes to the Class C state final 4.
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Korbin Jones, left, and Brandon Gardner, right
Leatherstocking Golf Course Turkey Shoot Cross-Country Scramble results LADIES GROSS Laura Coleman – Erin Quirk-Lin Vincent – Shirley Winkler NET Maureen Kuhn – Kathy Faber – Pat Grillo – Carrie Carney MEN GROSS Jack Drumm – Zach Bowerman – Kris Schneeberg – Andrew Davis Kyle Liner – Dan Schallert – Brett Armstrong – Mike Swatling NET Alan Basile – Tim Haney – Tim Parsons – Walter Haner Derek Walbridge – Joe Membrino – Ciaran McHugh – Thomas Rossi John Purcell – Doug Lifgren – Joe Wilkens – Ian Perry Steve Gunther – Derek Wedderspoon – Taylor Woodworth – Jake Hanlon
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By Cheryl Clough The Section 3 champ Cooperstown Hawkeyes boys soccer team traveled to Oneonta Saturday to take on Section 4 champion Greene in a Class C regional game. The undefeated Hawkeyes got into the scoring column first. Regulation ended with the teams tied at 1-1. In sudden death OT Colby Diamond sent a pass to Luca GardnerOlsen who got in behind the Trojan defense and slid a shot past charging Greene goalie Jesse Ledford giving the Hawkeyes a spot in the Class C state final 4 next weekend in Middletown.
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during the surge. “My primary job was what was called route clearance,” Lieutenant-Colonel Hill said, which entailed trying to find IEDs and clearing them “so they don’t blow up on other people.” He said there was a lot of fighting during that time and they were losing between 100 and 200 soldiers a day. He worked seven to 12 hours a day to “basically drive around and get blown up.” He said he felt responsible for some of the decisions he made and struggled with it. “I didn’t have anybody killed under me but I had a lot of guys who got injuries that manifested later,” said Hill. He was deployed to Iraq again between 2009 and 2010 but afterward decided to go into a program for his master’s degree at Georgetown. He served in the Pentagon for three years, part of the time as a member of the joint staff and the other as a member of
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Lieutenant Colonel Sean Hill is a Cooperstown High School graduate who bore the responsibility of being in charge of young men in combat as a member of the Army for 20 years. He is now stationed in Canada but has been all over the world, going wherever his responsibilities as a member of the United States Army took him. “I had no idea what I wanted to do,” Lieutenant Colonel Hill said upon graduating from college. “I was more interested in sports and other activities that aren’t conducive to earning a degree. I decided I would join the army.” Lieutenant Colonel Hill moved from Hauppauge, Long Island, to Cooperstown and considered himself “kind of this oddball kid who moved from downstate” and used to get made fun of in gym class for his accent.
“I lost my accent really quick,” he said. He had it “pretty good in Cooperstown” and he considered it a place that had a pretty high value in education, noting some of the students who moved on and went to Ivy League schools. In 1998, Lieutenant Colonel Hill was in Bosnia after the breakup of Yugoslavia, providing security for U.N. forces that were on a peace-keeping mission. Part of his job was exhuming mass graves as a result of a genocide taking place at the time. “There were a lot of mass graves all over the countryside,” Lieutenant Colonel Hill said. No gunfire was exchanged, but there was “the smell of rotting bodies.” “It was eye-opening, to say the least,” Hill said of the experience. He became an officer after going to school at Grand Canyon University. He became an engineer officer at the end of 2004. He was deployed to Iraq between 2006 and 2007
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the Army staff. He was sent to Colorado for three years, and then went to Germany. He said he basically was “driving around Eastern Europe with a tape measure” making sure tanks and other vehicles could get across bridges and other infrastructure. He lived in Germany for three years where he acted as an OCT (observer, coach, trainer) helping soldiers bound for deployment become trained and become ready. After he was deployed to Canada, he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel just this year. He has been married for 16 years and has 5 children. In his free time, he enjoys cycling, biking, hiking, and other outdoor activities. He said he was always cautious about young guys who wanted to get in the middle of the fighting during his deployment in Iraq. “It’s not as sexy as it sounds,” LieutenantColonel Hill said. “I had a bad time when I got back.”
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months Jean’s condition improved but he was always in pain and what was left of his amputated leg never healed properly, requiring periodic operations. They eventually got married, had another child, “Benito,” and later left Mexico for France. That’s where I first met Jean back in 1970. Francine was on a walking tour of Ireland and had left him in the care of friends. We shared some wine-bathed meals together. The next visit to Savigny was in 1973 when Alice and I were on our honeymoon. Francine and Jean were there and so was their son Ben who was then 15. I think Francine’s first son, Jonathan, was in the American military at the time. It was a very warm and welcoming visit where many of their friends came to their house to meet the cousins from America. 15 Ben seemed very pleased to be in the company of relatives he had never met before. The next day he ran all the way home from school to try and catch us before we left. He burst in the door all out of breath. I was impressed because at fifteen, boys usually try to act cool and not impressed with mere relatives. I never forgot his sincere open display of connection and warmth. So later, this kid who ran all the way home, had recently walked his woman, Isabelle, down the aisle. I would think she had made a good catch. Unfortunately, his father, Jean, died long before the wedding. Though I haven’t seen Ben for over 40 years, I know that he turned out okay. After all, the boy is the father of the man. It seems fitting with his having such a caring mother and a daring father, who needed so much medical attention, that Ben would eventually work with his wife for an organization like Doctors Without Borders.
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Several years ago I received a wedding announcement from my cousin Francine who lived in the town of Savigny Sur Orge, which is a 20-minute train ride from Paris, France. She said that her son Ben had finally married his girlfriend whom he had been living with for ten years. The girl, Isabelle, is a doctor and comes from a small French village where there hadn’t been a wedding for 17 years, so theirs was a grand occasion where almost the entire village population attended. Ben and Isabelle worked for Doctors Without Borders and had made friends in many countries from which about 130 people came to attend. Francine wrote that the wedding party walked along cobblestone paths accompanied by musicians who played instruments dating from the middle ages. The reception was held at an old castle and because a majority of the guests were from Latin America, much of the music was from Mexico Cousin Ben, age and Brazil. News of this wedding had brought on a whole constellation of memories. While in the army I sent a letter to my Aunt Ruta from Richfield Springs who was staying with Francine when she lived in Mexico. As an afterthought I wrote on the outside of the envelope, Francine: please read. She did — and later answered and we continued to write to each other for more than 40 years. When I was a kid she gave me a book which I treasured and still have. As a young woman, Francine had been traveling in Mexico with her parents and her small son Jonathan. She met Jean, a Frenchman, who was a flying aficionado and would do anything to be in the air. When I later met him he told me of his adventures piloting for different governments in South America. “One day I’d be flying a high official around. The next day there’d be a coup and I’d find myself in jail!” The day Francine met him, Jean had been flying a crop duster and later stopped to have a drink in an outdoor cafe. She was taken by his Walter Pigeon looks and cavalier attitude. The planes he flew weren’t exactly cream puffs. They were tired birds subject to shoddy maintenance and cobbled repairs. “I flew by the seat of my pants,” Jean said. “We whittled down wooden splints to make needles for the carburetor.” Not surprisingly, Jean crashed his crop duster the day after Francine met him. One of the wings of the plane had twisted, leaving it to tumble toward the ground. He survived the crash but was dragged from the wreckage with almost every bone in his body broken. Doctors didn’t expect him to live. A leg was amputated and one side of his face was grossly distorted. When Francine heard of the crash she went to the hospital and stayed with him from that time on. After many
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Oregon-to-NYC via canoe, with a hike to Cooperstown By Tara Barnwell Talk about huge goals and going after them … meet Neal Moore. He’s an explorer. He’s an adventurer. He’s an athlete. He’s a journalist and a teacher. He wants to get the story right. Dubbed “a modern-day Huck Finn” by CNN, Moore is on an adventure of a lifetime. “I started canoeing from Astoria, Oregon on the Pacific Coast, across our country, down south to Louisiana,” Moore said. “My final destination is Lady Liberty in New York City.” “My big idea is not only to explore how the rivers and waterways connect but how we, as Americans, connect,” he said. “I’m looking for the ingredients of the American experience.” That’s a lot of water miles; 7,500 to be exact. Twenty-two rivers and 22 states, all in 22 months. Quite a goal. “I’ve always been interested in historical communities,
those that are rich in history. Plus, I’m a big baseball fan. Cooperstown fit nicely into my schedule,” he said. “I actually hiked here from Little Falls; I left my canoe there and will return for it to continue my journey. I could have gotten a ride here, but I felt like walking here honors this community. I had the chance to step into the rhyme and reason of the village.” Born and raised in Los Angeles, Moore spent his summers in Hawaii and England. “My only brother died when I was young, and my parents didn’t want me to grow up without other children around,” Moore said. “We had relatives in Hawaii and England, and I would spend my summers there. I think that’s where my taste for travel and adventure started”. “I’m an explorer at heart, but my profession is journalism and I teach English in Taiwan,” he said. “I saved money for a year and a half for this trip. I also deal in old photos and old books that sell at auction. That helps pay the bills.” Although Moore was an Eagle Scout, he only completed half of his canoe badge at 12 years old and didn’t get back into a canoe until he was 38. “I really wasn’t thinking about canoeing at all, but my friend had a dream to canoe down the Amazon River,” he said. “We made a plan to do it together. He ended up backing out but I decided to make the journey by myself. I paddled and journaled all the way down the Amazon.” His current cross-country canoe journey is a tough trip. “It’s physically demanding — and mentally demanding as well,” he said. He’s had some interesting encounters with wild animals. The most memorable was an encounter in the middle of Montana with a grizzly bear. “I didn’t see the grizzly at first,” he recalled. “When I did, I froze, then I started clapping my hands. He didn’t budge, but ended up walking away. He had no interest in me.” A bull shark in Biloxi, Mississippi, did a “bump and bite” on his canoe. “The shark hit my canoe hard three times, thankfully he wasn’t interested in me either!” he said.
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Moore appears accustomed to taking care of things on his own terms. “My folks cut me off financially after college,” he said. “The good part about that was that every success was mine, but then every failure was mine as well. It gave me confidence in life, I have very few fears. This trip has taught me a lot.” Moore’s end game is paddling down the Hudson and ending up at the Statue of Liberty on Tuesday, December 14. “The final hurrah and paddle around Lady Liberty will be great. A number of paddlers I’ve met along the way and various NYC-based canoe and kayak clubs will greet me and paddle with me. Then we’ll celebrate in Midtown Manhattan.” “The Beacon Hand of the Statue of Liberty is extended to all of us. I will earn and have an understanding of what liberty means, not only for this country but for the world at large,” Moore said. “This journey isn’t about me, its about a perfect blend between nature, wilderness and community.” Follow Moore’s journey on https:// 22rivers.com.
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Neal Moore, adventurer, enjoyed Otsego Lake (top left) and The National Baseball Hall of Fame (bottom left).
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A Local Polio Pioneer In 1954, Ellen Feury Levine, of Cooperstown, became a pioneer. Ellen and the rest of her second grade class at Cooperstown Central School received shots in the first national tests of a trial polio vaccine. Levine had joined the decades-long, national effort to defeat a virus that ravaged thousands and worried millions of Americans for decades.
something to be afraid of and that somehow we were helping eradicate it. It wasn’t that big a deal.” What was a big deal? Like many second graders, it was the needle. “All I remember about getting the shot itself was being lined up with all my classmates and feeling very anxious,” says Levine, chuckling. “I did not like getting shots when I was young…” But as she matured, she grew to understand the part she played in the broader history. “Being part of a medical experiment was something special — especially for a young child. Polio is now eradicated in our country and nearly eradicated around the world. I feel proud to have played a part in that.”
A Dreaded Disease
Polio’s rates of severe and fatal cases are significantly lower than COVID-19; nevertheless, polio stirred fear in the United States. It is very hard to trace polio infections. Its victims often include otherwise healthy young people. Survivors suffering from polio’s distinctive paralysis, stunted growth, and breathing problems made the disease especially visible. But most alarming of all: American polio rates rose steeply for several decades in a row. The result: polio felt unpredictable, cruel, close and threatening. Levine remembers it well. “Everybody knew someone who had it,” she says. “There were many stories of people in iron lungs, or people left permanently disabled. A girl a few grades ahead of me here in Cooperstown had it, and parents were frightened. If any child went home and complained of a headache and a stiff neck, their parents just about went off the deep end.” Thankfully, a national determination to conquer polio grew up alongside all this anxiety. In 1954, Bassett’s pediatrician-inchief T. Campbell Goodwin brought those
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Levine came very close to not being one of the first children vaccinated against polio. As a participant in a clinical trial, she had a 50% chance of receiving a placebo followed by a letter at the end of the study telling her parents she was still unvaccinated. Anecdotally, Levine knew from her parents that her shot had been the real deal. But it took a different pandemic almost seventy years later for her to get the proof in hand. “In April of 2020, one of my classmates in the class of 1964 died of COVID-19,” she explains. “So someone started a group email chain that lasted two or three months. At first we were reminiscing about the person who died,
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Levine was just eight. She did not have much of an understanding of medical science or public health. “At the time, I didn’t really have an awareness of what we were involved in,” she admits. “We all knew polio was
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BOOK CLUB – Pick up a copy of ‘Writers & Lovers’ by Lilly King, then discuss it with the group on Zoom on 11/30 at 7 p.m. Presented by Huntington Memorial Library, Oneonta. Visit facebook.com/ hmloneonta/ for info. CELEBRATION – 9 a.m. Celebrate Hall of Famers who served in the armed forces. Visitors will also have a chance to write a letter to military personnel and veterans from noon – 2 p.m. which will be sent through Operation Gratitude. Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown. 607-547-7200. FOREST WALK – 9 - 10:30 a.m. Learn about ‘The Forest from the Ground Up’ with Jeff O’Handley. Walk focuses on the forest floor and how it supports everything above. Registration required. Presented with Glimmerglass Film Days. Presented by Otsego County Conservation Association. Meet at gate of Clark Tower Trail, Beaver Meadow Rd., Cooperstown. 607-547-4488. SENIOR DINING – 11:30 a.m. Residents aged 60+ are invited to enjoy lunch of lasagna, salad, more. Cost, $3.50/senior. Reservations required 24 hours in advance. Presented by Otsego County Office for the Aging. Richfield Springs Community Center, 6 Ann St., Richfield Springs. 315-858-3200. ARCHITECTURE WALK – 2:30 p.m. Join Cindy Falk, professor of Material Culture at SUNY Oneonta, for walking tour of Cooperstown’s spires, towers, and turrets. About 2 miles. Dress for the weather. Complimentary hot cocoa and cookies. Meet at Otsego County Courthouse, 193 Main St., Cooperstown. 607-547-8881. OPEN HOUSE – 6 p.m. Learn how the Toastmasters Club could help you to improve public speaking, communication, & leadership skills at their biweekly meetings. Hosted at The Green Earth, 4 Market St., Oneonta. Visit facebook.com/ OneontaToastmasters/ 4-H INFO NIGHT – 6:30 p.m. Learn about the programs and activities offered by the 4H program for children aged 519. Pre-registration required. Cornell Cooperative Extension, 31 Maple St., Oneonta. 607-547-2536 ext. 225. WORD THURSDAY – 7 p.m. Enjoy open mic by local writers with presentation by featured
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beverages, and more. Cost is by donation. Milford Fire Department and Emergency Squad, 64 S. Main St., Milford. 607-286-9492. HOLIDAY BAZAAR – 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Locally sourced holiday gifts at the Major’s Inn. See Friday Listing. CHRISTMAS BAZAAR – 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Delicious food, baked goods, and holiday gifts to support this local church. Suggested donation for lunch, $7/person. Church of the Christ Uniting, 22 Church St., Richfield Springs. 315-8581553. BOOK COLLECTION – 10 a.m. – noon. Donate gently used books, DVDs, audiobooks, and CDs to be sold at the libraries next book sale. Please no old encyclopedias, textbooks, or outdated travel books. Village Library of Cooperstown. 607547-8344. VIRTUAL TOUR – 10:30 11:30 a.m. Explore the exhibit ‘Believe in Yourself: What We Learned From Arthur,’ withoriginal illustrations spanning the career of Marc Brown, the creator of the Arthur book series and popular TV show. Free, registration required. Suggested donation, $10. Presented by The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607547-1400 or visit fenimoreartmuseum.org CCS THESPIANS – 7 p.m. ‘The Wind in the Willows.’ See Friday Listing. DRIVE-THRU DINNER – 3 5:30 p.m. Come out and enjoy a roast pork dinner with all the fixings. Cost, $12/meal. Reservations required by Friday. Sponsored by the Otego Methodist Church, 10 Church St., Otego. 607-988-7107. HARVEST DINNER – 4 p.m. Delicious harvest dinner featuring roast beef, squash, & potatoes to support the fire department. First come, first serve, no pre-orders, takeout only. West Laurens Fire Dept., 2766 NYS 23, West Oneonta. 607-386-4552 or visit faceb o o k . c o m / We s t L a u r e n s FireDepartment LIFESKILLS – 4 - 6 p.m. Teens are invited to learn to cook with Lynn. Menu posted to FB. Seating limited, reservations required. Presented by The Oneonta Teen Center. 50 Dietz St., Oneonta. 607 441 3999. SOCKHOP – 6 p.m. Return to the 50s & 60s for music, food, and dancing. Enter the HUGE silent auction and have
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HOLIDAY BAZAAR – 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Find locally sourced holiday gifts. Proceeds go to restoring this historic Tudorstyle inn. The Major’s Inn, 104 Marion Ave., Gilbertsville. 607783-2967 or visit themajorsinn.com HOLIDAY SHOW – 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Find unique holiday gifts made by local artists and artisans at the annual Holiday Show & Sale on display through December 23. Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. 607-547-9777. ONLINE AUCTION – Noon. Go online to bid for items available from the Oneonta Historical Society and support this local history organization. Auction will continue through 11/21 at 5 p.m. Presented by The Greater Oneonta Historical Society. 607-432-0960 or visit 32auctions.com/GOHSAuction2021 LECTURE – 12:20 p.m. Hartwick professor of Political Science, Laurel Elder, discusses her new book ‘The Partisan Gap: Why Democratic Women Get Elected but Republican Women Don’t.’ Part of the Hartwick College Faculty Lecture series. Free, open to the public. Eaton Lounge, Bresee Hall, Hartwick College, Oneonta. 607-431-4921. CCS THESPIANS – 7 p.m. The CCS Thespians return to the stage for 2021 with a performance of ‘The Wind in the Willows.’ Cost, $12/ adult. Masks required, assigned seating. Auditorium, Cooperstown Central School. 607-547-8181 or visit cooperstowncs.org SQUARE DANCE – 7 - 9:30 p.m. The Doubleday Dancers meet for the annual Harvest Dance/Pie Night with modern Western square dancing. Caller Ray Taylor. $5/person. Masks required, vaccination for COVID-19 requested. Cooperstown Elementary School Auditorium. 607-264-8128.
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CCS Thespians bring live musical back to the stage By Ted Potrikus Kenneth Grahame’s beloved book “The Wind in the Willows” comes to life on stage when the Cooperstown Central School’s CCS Thespians open a weekend’s worth of performances beginning November 12. “This is a huge undertaking, but we’re so excited,” said CCS music teacher and show director Tim Iversen. “We planned on a different show but we wanted to get as many people on stage participating as we could.” “It’s not just the high schoolers this year,” he said. “We have junior high and elementary school students and parents from the community coming in to be a part of the production. We’ve got about 50 people in the cast. It’s a joy!” Opening night for the big cast and crew at Cooperstown High School’s N.J. Sterling Auditorium is Friday, November 12, at 7 p.m. Weekend performances take place on Saturday, November 13 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., then again on Sunday, November 14 at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. Tickets are $12 for adults, $6 for students, $30 for family, and are free-of-charge for senior citizens who live in the school district. Mr. Iversen said the school is following
a couple more shows to accommodate everyone since we can’t physically fill the auditorium. We want to keep everyone safe.” Sophomore Avery Croft plays “Mole” in the production. No stranger to the stage, she has acted in school productions and worked with the Glimmerglass Festival. “It’s a creative outlet that adds so much and makes school life all the better,” she said. “It’s a huge stress reliever. We have such a good time together and it Tim Iversen comes across in our show.” Fellow sophomore Lucy Avery Croft (Mole) and Madison Hayes (Ratty) Hayes takes on two roles — the work it out in the rowboat. jailer’s daughter and a fox — and strict COVID safety restrictions. Audience commented on how auditioning members will be required to wear masks and for the production has enhanced her own sit by family units. And because of COVID high school experience. restrictions, tickets must be reserved in “I’ve played a lot of sports and went out advance. for the musical this year,” she said. “I have “It’s kind of a crazy schedule of perfor- a whole new friend group and met so many mances, but to make sure we follow safety great new people. Every person has been so guidelines, we have to make sure there is welcoming and friendly. I love it!” ample space between audience members and Her mother and sister join her in the groups,” Mr. Iversen said. “We’re putting on production, making it a big family event.
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CCS THESPIANS – 1 p.m. The CCS Thespians return to the stage for 2021 with a performance of ‘The Wind in the Willows.’ See Friday Listing. LIVE CONCERT – 3 p.m. Join the Catskill Valley Wind Ensemble for fun performance of favorites, old and new, in the first live performance since the Pandemic began. Free, open to the public. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 607-432-7085 or visit catskillwinds.com SUNDAY SPEAKER – 3 - 4 p.m. Learn the history of ‘Experimenting with Intentional Living in New York State.’ Covering 400 years, lecture takes the listener inside some of the most interesting communities. Registration required. Presented by The Friends of the Village Library of Cooperstown. Visit fovl.eventbrite.com
BOOK CLUB – 2 p.m. Discuss ‘Post Captain’ by Patrick O’Brian, who was inspired by the works of Jane Austen to write about the adventures of men at sea. Books available at the library. Springfield Library, 129 Co. Rd. 29A, Springfield Center. 315-858-5802 or visit libraries.4cls.org/springfield/
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►Monday, Nov. 15 RABIES CLINIC – 2 - 5 p.m. Free rabies vaccination for cats, dogs, ferrets. Scheduling to follow social distancing. First come, first serve. Susquehanna SPCA, NYS 28, Cooperstown. 607-547-4230 or visit sqspca.org
►Tuesday, Nov. 16 MEDICARE 101 – 2 p.m. Seniors are invited to learn about the program choices in Medicare during current open enrollment period. Taught by Mandy Rogers of OFA. Cooperstown Senior Center, 31 Elm St., Cooperstown. coopseniorcenter@gmail.com WRITERS GROUP – 6:30 p.m. Come by and share your writing with a supportive group. Springfield Library, 129 Co. Rd. 29A, Springfield Center. 315-858-5802 or visit libraries.4cls.org/springfield/
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It’s not the first live production Mr. Iversen undertook in the face of COVID restrictions. As the crisis ebbed slightly at the end of last year’s lockdown school year and students returned to in-person education, Mr. Iversen seized the opportunity to stage a performance of “Little Shop of Horrors.” Cooperstown Central became one of the only schools in the state — if not the northeast — to render a live production on a school stage during the height of COVID lockdowns. “We put that together in only five-and-ahalf weeks at the tail end of the school year,” he said. “COVID had robbed these kids of so much that I felt it our responsibility to them, to the school, and to the community to try to bring a little joy into the last weeks of the school year.” Tickets can be reserved by calling the Cooperstown Central School main office at 607-547-8181. Due to COVID restrictions, purchasers must reserve tickets in advance and then pay for them within five days of making the reservation in order to be guaranteed a seat. With COVID restricting the size of the audience, CCS Thespians will accept “freewill donations” to sponsor an “empty seat” at each performance.
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