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Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, November 13-14, 2014
PROPOSED 2015 BUDGET DEBATED
County Considers End To Cooperstown DMV Frank Rollins’ Images Available To All
Showdown Likely At Special Meeting By JIM KEVLIN
The Freeman’s Journal
Springfield Center Troop 47 Scouts Jeb Magruder, left, and Larry Korrn flank Scoutmaster Ken Ainslie at Veterans Day ceremonies Tuesday, Nov. 11, in Cooperstown/MORE
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t may not happen, but one option on the table right now as the Otsego County Board of Representatives completes its budget deliberations is closing Sinnott Gardner the Department of Motor Vehicles’ Cooperstown office and consolidating DMV operations in Oneonta. It’s one of a few unresolved issues – in addition to merging Oneonta’s two senior citizen sites into one, at Nader Towers, giving department heads raises, and eliminating six janitorial positions assigned to Otsego Manor. The county board plans to meet at 9:15 a.m. Please See DMV, A7
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ichard Ball, state Agricultural & Markets commissioner, will keynote Saturday, Nov. 15, at “A Celebration of Our Agricultural Community,” a first-time conference planned 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at The Farmers’ Museum. Public welcome. Other speakers include Jason Evans, SUNY Cobleskill agriculture professor, discussing food systems, and G&T Farm’s Doug Thompson, speaking on farming and local economies. MORE DETAILS, A7
2ND HEARING: Responding to public concern, FERC has scheduled a second hearing on the Dominion New Market gas line project at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, at Morrisville-Eaton High School, Morrisville. ADULT TUTORING: Literacy Volunteers of Otsego & Delaware Counties is seeking students for free and confidential tutoring in Basic Adult Education, English as a Second Language, and Computer Literacy. More information at 353-7099.
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John Lambert (now county judge) and Diana Nicols (now president of the Cooperstown Rotary Club) are among the people Frank Rollins captured in a half-century of snapping photos. But hundreds of other images will be available for public perusal and purchase Saturday-Sunday, Nov. 22-23 in the 22 Main ballroom.
Here’s A Chance To Recapture Memories Of Graduation, School Plays, Sports Feats By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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rank Rollins joined Cooperstown High School in 1957 as a vocal teacher. That was his career. But he also spent the next halfcentury with a camera around his
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neck recording village life, sports matches, graduations, school plays, weddings, community life, tens of thousands of images. That is his legacy. He retired in 1974 from teaching, but continued shooting, with negatives piling up in the rooms of his bachelor’s house at Linden Avenue, a few steps away from the high school Please See ROLLINS, A7
Wednesday, Nov. 5, was Sal Grigoli’s birthday, and what present did he find in front of his restaurant? A tree, now planted, part of Cooperstown’s sidewalk rehabilitation project.
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s you stroll along the north side of Main Street, examining the 17 newly planted trees and newly installed knee-high wrought-iron fencing, you’ll also notice some fledgling plantings amid the mulch. They are hosta and sedge, two plants that, with the trees, will comprise the “rain gardens” that were one basis for the village’s $2 million sidewalk replacement, now more than half done. “We were looking for something on this side of Please See SIDEWALKS, A7
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LOCALS CCS THESPIANS READY FOR GERSHWIN’S ‘CRAZY FOR YOU’
Rotary Club Donates $3,000 To Assist School In Uganda COOPERSTOWN
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The CCS Thespian troupe goes through the paces earlier this week, preparing for George Gershwin’s “Crazy for You,” the school’s annual fall musical. Three evening shows are planned: 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 13, 14 and 15, and a Sunday matinee at 2 on the 16th. Tickets are $10 for adults and $6 for students and seniors, and may be purchased 8 a.m.-4 p.m. in the main office of the high school, or at the door.
DAR HONORS TEACHER AMY PARR WITH CONSERVATION MEDAL Amy Parr, Hartwick, CCS seventh-grade science teacher for 17 years, was honored with the DAR Conservation Medal Saturday, Nov. 8, at a luncheon at The Otesaga. Those at the luncheon included, from left, Diane Koffer, first vice regent, Otsego Chapter DAR; Nancy Goodnough, regent, Otsego Chapter DAR; Mrs. Parr; Martha Morris Crasper, DAR state regent, and Karen Stewart, DAR state conservation chairman.
and currently serves as its principal and as a faculty member. Kiyimba, now 41, was educated in Uganda, in South Africa, and at the
he Cooperstown Rotaryi Club has donated $3,000 to Mark Kiyimba, a Rotarian and teacher from Kampala, Uganda, to help provide clean water to a school in his homeland. The check was presented by club President Tom Heitz/The Freeman’s Journal Diana Nicols Cooperstown Rotary President Diana after Kiyim- Nicols presents a $3,000 check to ba addressed Mark Kiyimba to help provide clean an audience water to the his school in Uganda. of 6th, 7th and 8th grade students in University of Amsterdam CCS’ Sterling Auditorium. in the Netherlands. He has The Rotary’s funds will go been a classroom teacher for toward the purchase and the past 21 years. Kiyimba installation of water storage also serves as an instructor and purification units at the at a private tuition school in New Life School in Masaka, Kampala. Uganda, East Africa. The Masaka New Life Kiyimba is a member School provides a primary of the Kampala, Uganda education to more than 700 Rotary Club. The contribuchildren, boys and girls, tions to the New Life School ages 5 and 6 up to 14 and followed Kiyimba’s talk to 15 years of age. The chilthe club at The Otesaga on dren come from families Tuesday, Oct. 21. who cannot afford tuition at Kiyimba founded the Uganda’s private and public New Life School in 2006 schools.
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heri Albrecht has stepped in as executive director of the United Way of Delaware & Otsego Counties, and will be working closely with the board to complete the current campaign. She succeeds Sue Dapkins, who stepped in on a temporary basis after the resignation of longtime Executive Director Terry Capuano in April.
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WEEKEND FOR FUN, FILMS VETERANS
Grandma Loraine Collar, 80, of Hartwick, is holding her own at this hour at the Hold ‘Em Benefit Poker Tournament held Saturday, Nov. 8 Mrs. Collar has 40 grandchildren, also great-grandchildren. Proceeds from the unusual benefit goes to the Susquehanna SPCA.
Sen. Jim Seward and Assemblyman Claudia Tenney, above, join Tony Moore and Herman Riese in unveiling the new sign proclaiming a portion of Route 23 at the Otsego-Delaware County line as “Davenport VFW Memorial Highway” on Monday, Nov. 10. Observing are veterans Ken Kennedy, Dwayne Hill, John McCulley, Jerry Rifenbarf, John Herron, Len Carson, Ray Smith, Bob Miller, Tony Moore, Patti Valente, Dennis Valente, Tony Cece, Suzanne O’Donnell, Tim O’Donnell, Wayne Gregory and Paul Schneeloch.
Ellen Pope, right, enjoys the wrap party of the Glimmerglass Film Days with Cathy Raddatz, Maryann Dietz and Charlie Kieler. This year’s theme was “Water” and featured 14 films from around the world.
Isabella Pelligra and her friend Marly Morrison, Oneonta, use teamwork to blow bubbles for bubble prints at OWL’s Paintfest Saturday, Nov. 10,in Oneonta.
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Happy 60th Anniversary Kim ‘n Jim!
May you have many, many, many more in Cooperstown!
Perspectives
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Alas, Dear Citizens, Perhaps Some Of The Fault Is In Ourselves
t’s such a cliche we won’t even say it directly: all-ay, oliticspay is-ay ocal-lay. Yes, such was certainly the case in the race for Congress in the 19th, the district that stretches along the Hudson River, then hooks over to, eventually, Otsego County. The incumbent running for his third term, U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-Kinderhook, was everywhere. And even after he soundly defeated Democratic challenger Sean Eldridge on Election Day, he kept going, the energizer candidate. Take a look at his schedule since he was reelected on Nov. 4. He took the 5th off, but on the 6th he had events in South Kortright, Hudson and Kingston. On the 7th, West Sand Lake. Over the weekend, Catskill, Woodbourne, Poughkeepsie, Troy, Rock Hill, Eagles Nest. Look at the map: These places are all over the place. On the 10th, Webutuck, back to West Sand Lake, then Hyde Park. And on
might have been over-enticed by the relative ease of a virtual campaign. If so, it just didn’t work. Plus there was the carpetbagger stigma – Eldridge went district shopping, and moved to Shokan, on the southern edge of the 19th, just in time to run for Congress. The stigma was is hard to shake, as proved by his winning just four of the county’s 48 precincts, only four of Democratic Oneonta’s six. “The old days of having to be a native and lifelong Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal resident don’t hold anyU.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-Kinderhook, presents an more,” said Tony Casale, autographed tribute to an elated Mildred Levine, Cooperstown, the retired who spent her career with the Navy, during a assemblyman from Long Veterans Day stop at the Focus Rehabilitation & Lake. “But you have to Nursing Center (formerly Otsego Manor). move in and settle down before you run for office.” the 11th, Veterans Day, he and it characterized GibEven a couple of years dashed from a parade in son’s whole campaign, and Kingston to the Focus Reha- the previous two years since would have helped, Casale bilitation & Nursing Center redistricting brought Otsego said. Perhaps he could have (the former Otsego Manor) County into his district in made up that deficit by for Catskill Area Hospice’s 2012. shaking hands, but he was annual “Salute the VeterEldridge was an engagtoo-little present, at least ans” ceremony, handing out ing candidate, too. He in these hinterlands. Gibcertificates to 18 residents just didn’t engage enough. son proved what Eldridge there. Given his connections to couldn’t do can be done. That’s a lot of handshakFacebook and its reach, it’s • ing and constituent-meeting, probably no surprise that he
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ing casinos. Oh, my. Still, he was whipsawed. The Frackivistas, sore he hadn’t banned the debated gas-extraction method, vowed “no pasaran,” and threw their votes, first to Zephyr, then to the less-enticing Howie. So there went the center-to-left. The SAFE Act, pushed through in Cuomo style in the wee hours a few days after Sandy Hook, infuriated the center-to-right, while failing to win back the single-focus anti-frackivists, many of whom would normally have warmed to his gun-control plunge. Upstate, vigorous, acrossthe-board policymaking turned out to be a lose-lose. Downstate, New York City predictably went with the Democrat, and that carried the day. The election didn’t matter to the governor’s New York State career, but it certainly dimmed his prospects beyond. Perhaps that’s the lesson, dear Brutus: New York elections can be won, but the state is ungovernable.
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The rifle squad consisted of David Sanford, Richard Balcom and Jim Bridger.
As Susquehanna’s Source, Pure Water Matters Here Most
Alas, poor Andrew, where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Our governor certainly looked pretty peckish as, accompanied by his partner, always-on Sandra Lee, he cast his ballot in Westchester County. His victory was never in doubt and, embattled from all sides, he nonetheless won 53.9 percent of the vote to Republican Rob Astorino’s 40.6 percent. Why all the crepe? Here’s why: According to an analysis by the Syracuse Post-Standard, Governor Cuomo lost 43 Upstate counties, including Otsego, and won only eight this year. In 2010, he won 37 Upstate counties, including Otsego, and lost only 13. This, despite three balanced budgets in a row, tax reductions we all say we want, the realization of the long-promised Nanotechnology Revolution, Start-Up NY, the economic development councils, the tourism promotions, the four pend-
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Bearing the Stars & Stripes, Cooperstown American Legion Commander Mike Boyson wheels his Veterans Day honor guard back to the Cooperstown Vets Club after the annual commemoration, including the burning of discarded flags, at the Doughboy Monument at Pine Boulevard and Lake Street.
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he Susquehanna River is the longest river in the East, providing drinking water to millions of people and a place for residents across multiple states to boat, swim and fish. What’s more, Cherry Valley Creek, Moss Pond and other local waterways help support dozens upon dozens of small businesses that help New Yorkers use and explore their waterways. Brewery Ommegang, for example, has worked since 1997 to create quality Belgianstyle beer right here in New York. We hold festivals every summer where thousands of people come to sample beer, taste delicious food, enjoy live music and more. Serving 43 states, and water being perhaps the most important ingredient in our product, Brewery Ommegang’s ongoing success depends upon protecting the health of our watershed, the health of the Susquehanna River, the streams that feed into it, and the other rivers and lakes in the region. We should be doing everything we can to protect our waterways. While the Susquehanna River itself is protected under the Clean Water Act, far too many of the Please See WATER, A6
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s we gear up for the height of the football season and cheer of the holiday season, I want to take this time to remind parents that seemingly insignificant family happenings can have a lasting impact on children. Young people are at a far higher risk for problem gambling than adults, so this is a gentle reminder for all those parents who want absolutely nothing but the very best for their children! The New York Council on Problem Gambling’s “Know the Odds” campaign puts it like this: “It starts innocently enough. Cousins sit around the kitchen table watching their parents play poker after a family [gathering]. They see the excitement
and frustration as bets are won and lost, chips exchanged and new hands dealt. They feel the rush as they root for their parents, cheering them on by saying, ‘It’s okay. You’ll win next time.’ They get excited when their parents allow them to join in playing. “It’s watching the Super Bowl with their father. He’s placed bets with the children’s uncle on who will win and what the score will be, and the atmosphere is tense for every hour of the big game. Waves of excitement and anxiety come as the odds of him winning his bet change with every touchdown. “It’s a trip to the convenience store with their mother. She buys gasoline for the car, two bottles of water and five dollars’ worth of the scratch-off type lottery tickets. She lets her children scratch off the various tickets; one child’s ticket reveals a one-dollar prize.
Months later, the same child receives scratch-off tickets in a gift card.” Once the “thrill” of gambling has sparked an adolescent’s developing brain, they are at much higher risk for problem gambling. We encourage all adults to consider this reality before engaging in friendly wagers in the presence of young people. Also, we always discourage the giving of scratch-off tickets to young people for any occasion. For more information about youth and problem gambling, check out www.knowtheodds.org If you or someone you care about has a problem with gambling you can call the NY HOPELine twenty-four hours a day. 1877-8-HOPENY (1-877-846-6-7369). Additionally, the staff at the LEAF Council on Alcoholism and Addictions is your local source for addiction information, education and referral at 432-0090
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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library
200 YEARS AGO
Public Credit – The measures which are now in a train of execution in relation to our fiscal concerns, are such as are calculated to invigorate public credit, and restore to it that tone which, by a concurrence of circumstances, has been of late somewhat depressed. Into the causes of that depression it is not now necessary to enquire, except to guard against it for the future. This is not the time for reproaches from one party to another; the one for what it has done to injure public credit; the other for what it has omitted to do to sustain it. November 17, 1814
25 YEARS AGO
High School basketball team and Walter L’Homadieu, manager of the Cooperstown Leatherstockings, appeared before the village trustees at the regular monthly meeting Monday evening and asked to have the privilege of renting the Village Hall at $7 per game, and at the same time to have the use of the hall one evening each week for each team for practice work. The request was granted. November 11, 1914
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175 YEARS AGO
The annual caravan of Santa Fe Trades has arrived in Missouri. They bring with them about twenty wagons and a large amount of specie – nearly two hundred thousand dollars. The trade with Santa Fe and other Spanish settlements has been conducted thus for some years, and with good success. This mode of traffic must give way however, in course of time, to some more rapid system of conveyance; for in this age of rail roads and steam engines, caravans cannot long maintain the even tenor of their way. The annual caravans that go West and Southwest from St. Louis afford fine opportunities for travelers who may wish for adventure, or who are desirous of exploring the vast countries which expand to an immense extent towards the Pacific. November 11, 1839
150 YEARS AGO
Re-Election of Mr. Lincoln – It is probable that Mr. Lincoln – denounced by leading members of his own party as “a failure,” truly respected by but few of them, re-nominated by a convention made up largely of office-holders and contractors – has been re-elected to the Presidency of our dissevered and unhappy Republic. We esteem this a misfortune, which might have been prevented by wise action on the part of the Chicago Convention. The destinies of the country are to remain in the hands of incompetent men – who have mismanaged the war and the finances, and have shown contempt of constitutional restrictions – for another four years. Looking back upon the past, who would wish to penetrate the future and reveal the events of the next Presidential term? A prompt and radical change of policy can alone save our country from worse evils than those through which we have already passed. Dare we hope for that change – ardently desired by all conservative men? November 11, 1864
November 15, 1989
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Again Disappeared – We regret to find the following, relating to a former Cooperstown pastor (First Presbyterian Church, Cooperstown) in a New York paper. Rev. C. Hudson Smith, pastor of the Pilgrim Church, Dorchester, Massachusetts, whose mysterious disappearance last spring and subsequent discovery in San Francisco and return to his pastorate in the fall, formed a fruitful theme for gossip and wonderment, has again disappeared without giving any intimation of his departure or leaving any clue by which to trace him. A correspondent from Boston on November 11, 1889 writes: “Last Friday afternoon, Rev. C. Hudson Smith, pastor of the Pilgrim Church, Dorchester, was making calls upon his parishioners, since which time he has not been seen by any of his friends in this city. Sunday morning, as the employees of the Fall River Line steamer Puritan were making their rounds, after the boat arrived at Fall River from New York, they found in stateroom 148, a Prince Albert coat, a vest, a pair of pants, an overcoat and a new Derby hat. The stateroom was found open, the bed clothes had been disturbed, as though the bed had been occupied, and a ticket for Boston, a gold watch and 80 cents in money were found in the pockets of the clothes.” November 15, 1889
100 YEARS AGO
In Our Town – Robert Caney, manager of the Cooperstown
The members of Cooperstown High School’s undefeated, untied football team are: Ricks Littell, James Letttis, Dorrence Weir, Captain James Callahan, Richard Deakin, Vito Pugliese, Walter Eggleston, George Gilmore, Robert Peaslee, Glenn Weir, Winsor Simmons, Martin Moakler, Charles Root, Roger Davidson, Francis Thompson, Forrest Cooper, Bruce Clark, Charles Wells, Geary Wilmot, George Turner, Clark Simmons, Charles Schader, Stephen Lynch, Theodore Czech, Douglas Lindsay, Jack Minnick, Robert Lettis, Charles Stewart, Arthur Peevers, and Charles Newell. November 15, 1939
50 YEARS AGO
Mike Weir, 13, of Cooperstown, has been named one of the six District winners in the national Punt, Pass & Kick competition, co-sponsored by Ford Dealers and the National Football League. Michael’s sponsoring dealer, Smith Ford of Cooperstown, reported that a handsome Punt, Pass & Kick trophy will be presented to Mike Weir before this week is up. The coveted honor indicates that young Weir is very much in contention for area and national awards which are to be determined. November 11, 1964
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Since his days performing high school concerts with “Freeze That Yak,” Aaron Stayman has been headed toward a milestone he recently achieved with the release of his first album of original songs. Stayman, the son of Webster and Helen Stayman of Hartwick, graduated from Cooperstown Central School in 1994 and matriculated at Amherst College in Massachusetts. While there, he played his guitar in a number of small jazz ensembles, hearkening back to his days with the Cooperstown-based fusion group “Larry Mondello.” In his junior year at Amherst, Stayman studied classical guitar in St. Petersburg, Russia. After graduation, Stayman enrolled as a Peace Corps volunteer and went to Armenia where he developed a close friendship with singer/ songwriter Gor Mikhitarian, a collaboration that led directly to Stayman’s recent release “Human Condition.” November 12, 2004
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Ag Commissioner, In Cooperstown, Hopes To Connect NY Products, Customers By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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ichard Ball, commissioner of the state Department of Agriculture & Markets, wants to make sure everyone in the state has access to Upstate’s bounty. “We have a great resource here in central New York,” he said. “And we want more farmers to have New York State as a customer.” Ball, who is from neighboring Schoharie County, will be the keynote speaker at the first-time “Celebration of Our Agricultural Com-
munity” conference Saturday, Nov. 15, at The Farmers’ Museum. Since he took office Richard Ball in January, Ball, also the owner of the Carrot Barn in Schoharie, has worked to rally government departments and funding to encourage agencies – including the Office for the Aging, Mental Health Services and SUNY – to use New York produce, dairy and farm products. “I want to connect the dots between
As Susquehanna’s Source, Pure Water Matters Here Most WATER/From A4 tributaries that flow into the river, along with more than 55 percent of the rivers and streams that crisscross our state, don’t have guaranteed protections under the law. That means developers could pave over our wetlands; oil companies, power plants, or meat processing plants could dump into our streams; and federal law couldn’t stop them, thanks to a loophole created by a pair of polluter-driven lawsuits nearly a decade ago. The loophole leaves vulnerable the waterways that feed into the Susquehanna River, like Cherry Valley Creek, and other rivers and lakes that provide drinking water; and that leaves businesses like Brewery Ommegang more vulnerable, too. For instance, the Susquehanna was once named “America’s most endangered river” because of the excessive pollution that flowed into it from nearby agricultural runoff and inadequately treated sewage. Fortunately, in March, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule to close this loophole and restore protections to more than 28,000 miles of rivers and streams across New York, and nearly 2 million across the country. A broad coalition of clean water advocates, farmers, mayors, small businesses, and tens of thousands of New Yorkers have heralded the EPA move. However, agribusinesses, oil and gas companies, and other polluters affected by the rule have waged a bitter campaign against it, and earlier this month, the U.S. House approved a bill, H.R. 5078, to block the new rule. Disappointingly, among those voting in favor of the
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farmers and new markets opening to them.” In addition to Ball, Jason Evans, assistant professor of Agriculture at SUNY Cobleskill will discuss food systems, and Doug Thompson, G&T Farm will lead an address on the impact farming has on local communities. Though The Farmers’ Museum is known for showcasing historical farming techniques, education direc-
tor Danielle Henrici wanted to “shake the dust off the crop.” “We’ve been looking at programs that would connect with today’s audience,” she said. “We usually speak about history, but agriculture is a driving force in our local economy, and this conference will speak to that directly.” Painted Goat, Chobani, Brewery Ommegang, Council Rock Brewery and others will also be on hand to lead discussions on central New York’s premier agricultural products. “Even people who aren’t necessarily interested in farming might want to come,” said Henrici. “We’ll
address concerns about health of communities and sustainability. It’s been a key issue in the last few years, and agriculture is a crucial part of that.” At the conclusion of the talks, participants will then form breakout groups based in their interests for the afternoon. “We’ll have one on cheese making, one on craft brewing and hops production, one on dairy and meat,” she said. “We want people to get down to the nitty-gritty and make connection in the industry.” There will also be a section for information booths and samplings of local farm products.
And the evening before the event, participants can go to The Fenimore Art Museum for a screening of the documentary “The Great American Wheat Harvest” at 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 14. “This conference is a chance to let farmers know of the opportunities available to them,” said Henrici. “Our hope is that everyone – from farmers to lawyers to teachers and doctors – will be able to understand where there food is coming from and support the local economy,” she said. “We want everyone to be able to take something away with them.”
$2 Million Sidewalk Project Almost Complete On North Side
SIDEWALKS/From A1 the street that tolerates sunlight,” said Trustee Cindy Falk, who chairs the Village Board’s Street Committee. “And something on the measure and against clean other side of the street that water safeguards were several New York State Repre- tolerates shade.” That would be hosta and, sentatives, including Rep. instead of sedge, ferns, and Chris Gibson, whose district they will be planted on the encompasses Cooperstown, southside of Main Street where Brewery Ommegang when trees are planted there resides, as well as a large next fall. portion of the Susquehanna So as not to clash with River. the flowers of many colors There’s still time, and so the Clark Foundation uses there’s still opportunity to to decorate the downtown get these restored protections through the year, the idea is across the finish line. EPA is follow a “green and white taking public comments on theme” for the permanent their proposal now, but that trees and shrubs in the rain comment period will close gardens, Falk said. in less than two weeks. In The 17 trees in place are the face of all the opposition varied – maples, locusts, from the big polluters, it’s elms, lilacs and lindens critical that all New Yorkers – and the only flowering who value clean water make ones are Japanese lilacs will their voices heard. And it’s bloom, and those blooms critical that Senator Kirsten Gillibrand stand up for these are expected to be white. The 17 trees were planted rules if they come before her Wednesday, Nov. 5, as exin the Senate. pected. And welders from New Yorkers depend on Central Paving, Ilion, the clean water to enjoy and to drink. Businesses like Brewery Ommegang depend on clean water to make a living. Let’s do everything we can to foster a good economy and a high quality of life for generations to come.
Chestnut Street to Pioneer Alley. Next spring, Falk said, pavers, sidewalks and rain gardens will be installed as far as the Cooperstown General Store. Because of the narrowness in front of the Baseball Hall of Fame, only replacing the concrete sidewalks and adding granite curbs are planned there. The final step will be to install a porous asphalt mix on the street side of the granite curbs, Falk said. Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal That requires the Utica asVillage Trustee Cindy Falk, who chairs the Streets phalt plant used by Central Committee, examines the hosta and sedge in one Paving to make a special of the new “rain gardens” installed in Main Street run, and she believes that sidewalks. will happen when both contractor, arrived Tuesday, Paving crews would comsides of Main can be done Nov. 11, to install the fencplete the southside this at once. ing. fall, but they only got from On the southside sidewalks, work is done except for the entrance to the Doubleday Field parking lot. Larger pavers will be installed there instead of blacktop, and Falk expects that to happen in the next few days. The hope was Central
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014
Cache Of Frank Rollins Photos Promise Many Surprises For Cooperstown PHOTOS/From A1 driveway. By the time he passed on, last Dec. 2, at age 96, he had collaborated with NYSHA to ensure the images its historians consider the most significant would be preserved for posterity. But thousands of photos, portraits, street scenes and just life on the shores of Otsego Lake, remain, certainly of value to individuals depicted and their loved ones, as well as citizens with affection for the cavalcade of life around here. That was the conclusion of attorney Will Green, who’s handling the estate for the executor, Frank’s sister-in-law Kathleen Rollins in Longview, Wash., and county Treasurer Dan Crowell, the estate’s administrator. “There are a lot of things of very low financial value, but high sentimental and communal value,� Crowell said the other day. “In some ways, it would have been very convenient and good if these things could have been archived. But archived sometimes means stored away; we can deliver them to the hands of people who value them most.�
Here’s a Frank Rollins portrait of an early CGP class. Say, isn’t that Alice Smith Duncan in the second row? Thousands of Rollins’ print promise many such surprises when they’re put up for display and sale Saturday-Sunday, Nov. 22-23, in the second-floor ballroom at 22 Main.
So the plan is this: Green and Crowell have obtained permission to use the second-floor ballroom at 22 Main St. This weekend, Nov. 15-16, they, with the help of Janet Erway, Cooperstown Art Association executive director, and Cooperstown Graduate Program volunteers, will organize the thousands of images by year and subject. “If you graduated in 1986 and you know Frank took your yearbook photo, there will be a column for yearbook photos and a row for 1986,� Crowell explained, taking a break from sorting the images with Erway in the basement of the Green & Green law firm. The next weekend: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22, and 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 23, the public is invited to examine the images and, if someone finds something he or she likes, to buy it for a nominal sum, 25 cents maybe. Half of the proceeds will go to the sister-in-law, per Frank’s will, and the other half will be split among organizations designated in the will: the Friends of Bassett, the CGP, the Village Library, the fire department, SUNY Potsdam’s
Crane School of Music and the Earlville Free Library in Rollins’ native village. Leaving Earlville, Frank graduated from Potsdam Normal School in 1941, majoring in percussion. He would teach for the next 33 years, first in Oakfield, then Cobleskill before moving here. Among his other claims to fame was conducting the orchestra in “Oklahoma!�, the inaugural performance in the new high school’s Sterling Auditorium. He also painted, tuned pianos and learned to fly. Growing up, his mother had instructed him that, in those days, teachers needed a side income. At age 10, Frank had redeemed a punch-card in Syracuse grocery store for a camera and roll of film, so that got him started. At Cobleskill, he worked for Cliff Van Dervort’s professional photography studio. Locally, he collaborated at various points with other photographers, including Lady Ostapeck and Leila Durkin. He was living in the Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home at the time of his death.
If Budget Cut, County Clerk Says She’ll Close Cooperstown DMV DMV/From A1 Monday, Nov. 17, for a final budget review before the public hearing in early December. County Rep. Don Lindberg, R-Worcester, who chairs the county board’s Budget Committee, is proposing saving $100,000 by reducing the DMV staff by two positions, from seven to five. The committee’s idea
is for the Oneonta DMV office to be open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and the Cooperstown office to be open Tuesdays and Thursdays, he said. However, the DMV is under the jurisdiction of County Clerk Kathy Sinnott-Gardner, who is independently elected countywide. The county board can cut her budget, but she decides how to spend the
lesser amount. If her budget is reduced by two staffers, SinnottGardner said her choice would be to close the Cooperstown office and consolidate in Oneonta, but she objects to the budget cut, arguing that DMV revenues make the operation revenue neutral. “You aren’t going to save any money,� the county clerk said in an interview.
“You are going to lose revenue.� It’s not the layoffs, she continued, “it’s taking a service away from the community in this part of the county.� Cutting the two positions won’t save $100,000; with lost revenues, that will be more like $25,000, she said. In recent years, more drivers are renewing their licenses via the Internet, bypassing the county DMV
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and reducing its revenues. However, many are finding Albany’s bureaucracy responds slowly, she said. Locally, people can walk in and, a few minutes later, walk out with a license or registration. That convenience is particularly important to auto dealers, Sinnott-Gardner said. On making her presentation to Lindberg’s budget committee, she presented letters from a half-dozen dealers objecting to the cuts. Her offices also provide 24 free services – issuing duplicate licenses and changing addresses are two – and Albany isn’t offering to do those over the Internet, she said. The committee’s idea is that people can drive to Oneonta, Sinnott-Gardner continued, but that’s increasingly inconvenient, with tourist traffic in the summer. Plus, residents of Richfield Springs and Cher-
ry Valley will opt for offices in Herkimer and Montgomery counties, further sapping local DMV revenues. County Treasurer Dan Crowell, the county board’s budget officer, said the DMV has been revenue neutral until now, but he anticipates it may run $20,000-40,000 in the red next year because of the Internet. He acknowledged, however, that by cutting the $100,000 in 2015, revenues will drop about $100,000. Lindberg said the matter has yet to be finalized. “We� – the committee – “voted to close it. But we can change that at the next meeting.� If Sinnott-Gardner were to close the Cooperstown office, which is to the left on entering the County Office Building, 197 Main St., Lindberg said he would support moving the District Attorney’s Office into that space, for security reasons and convenience.
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