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Volume 204, No. 47
COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
The Freeman’s Journal
CLIMATE CHANGE ‘GOVERNOR’S WWII’
Will Sandy, Fracking Send Cuomo Into White House? it’s beginning to look... Controversial Drill Method Will Never Happen In NY, Mountainkeeper Predicting
Cooperstown’s Peg Odell examines offerings at the Cooperstown Art Association’s annual Holiday Show & Sale, which continues until Sunday, Dec. 23, at 22 Main.
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Cooperstown Houses 33 In Otsego Manor
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tsego Manor advocate Maureen Culbert released figures a few days ago showing 33 Manor residents are from Cooperstown. Only Oneonta (36) provided more. They were followed by Milford (10), Cherry Valley (9), Otego (7), Hartwick and Unadilla (6), Worcester (5), Edmeston and Schenevus (4), Maryland and Morris (3) and Mount Vision, New Berlin and Portlandville (2). One each came from , Burlington Flats, Fly Creek, Franklin, Laurens, New Lisbon, Roseboom, Schuyler Lake and Springfield Center. From out of county, 23. THIS JUST IN: Bill and Janet Rigby, 73 Elm St., have dusted off antique ornament molds and are casting “Sparkling Brilliants” this season. Check them out at open houses 10-4 Saturdays until Christmas. PLAN GARDENS: Home-gardeners are invited to Growing Community’s next meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27, in 22 Main. Attend and get help on planning your 2013 garden. ONLY WALMART: Only one national retailer with a local outlet is open Thanksgiving Day.
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Barbara Cannon, Cooperstown Christmas Committee chair, and Mary Margaret Kuhn sport “Team Santa” vests, new this year, at the downtown decoration event Sunday, Nov. 18, in anticipation of Santa’s arrival 5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 23, at Pioneer Park.
orget the Nov. 29 deadline on fracking regs. Catskill from truenewsfromchangenyc.blogspot.com Mountainkeeper’s This image appeared with an Ramsay Adams article saying Andrew Cuomo is taking a lonwon’t run for president in 2016. ger view, where future,” said the Mountainfracking never keeper executive director in happens in New York State an interview. “If he wants and Governor Cuomo uses to be the leader of the free a futuristic clean-energy world, he has to deal with agenda to power his way climate change directly.” into the White House. It’s a perfect issue for an “My belief is that Govaspiring president. ernor Cuomo really does “It gives him the mantle understand climate is the Please See CUOMO, A9 issue of the present and
Annalise Kjolhede, 1988-2012
Skiing Accident Claims ‘Sparkling’ Local Lass By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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An elf of Christmas past, above, retired Cooperstown Chamber executive director Polly Renckens, couldn’t resist the happening. In right photo, son Jesse Fink helps dad Mike decorate the light pole in front of the Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum.
Crowell Budget Saves Manor For Year But Treasurer Urges Caution: As Is, Nursing Home Not Sustainable By JIM KEVLIN
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espite his worries about Otsego Manor’s financial viability, county Treasurer Dan Crowell’s proposed 2013 county budget keeps the tax rate
hike to 1.97 percent, under the state-mandated 2 percent cap. Nonetheless, Crowell said, his budget – it eliminates eight vacant county positions, about $500,000, and delays maintenance and vehicle replacements Please See CROWELL, A7
nnalise Kjolhede was remembered for adding “sparkle” to every event she attended. “She loved to make fun of formal circumstances,” said her father, Dr. Chris Kjolhede. “At her graduation from Emma Willard in 2006, everyone had to wear a white gown. Afterwards, she danced across the lawn in this long white ballgown.” She wore a sparkly pink dress and tiara to the high school Christmas pageant, and annually donned a toosmall Christmas sweater – festooned with red, green and gold baubles – at her family’s formal Christmas dinner. “That’s the wonder-
Annalise in her dad’s favorite photo.
ful spirit she symbolized,” he said. Annalise suffered head and neck injuries Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012, when she Please See ANNALISE, A9
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2012
LOCALS ‘SPINNERS’ RAISE $540 FOR FOOD BANK
Scout Works On Brookwood Trail
As part of his Eagle Scout project, CCS 10th-grader Max Ofer of Boy Scout Troop 1254, Cooperstown, spent Veterans Day building a onemile loop trail at Brookwood Point that features the brook through woods and the historic garden, now a wetland habitat. Max’s is Troop 1254’s fourth Eagle Scout project since July.
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Seventeen “spinners” on stationary bikes raised $540, plus cans, boxes and bags of food for the Cooperstown Food Bank during a 90-minute fundraiser Sunday, Nov. 18, at the Clark Sports Center. First row, from left, are instructor Donald Raddatz, Kathleen Kissinger, instructor Alison Kubis, Kathleen Galland-Bennett and Jamey Minich; second row, from left, Garet Livermore, Wendy Kiuber, Colleen Donnelly, Bernadette Ryan, Taylor Brose, Pat Donnelly, Sally Trosset, Greg Noonan, Sherri Kingsley, Mike Stein, Beth Bergfjord and Deb Taylor.
llstate Insurance has appointed Steve Bieritz, president of Bieritz Insurance, 209 Main St., to its state Agents Advisory Council. This council is made up of 10 independent agency owners in New York State and is designed to provide ideas on changes and im-
provements in how Allstate does business. Allstate system of independent agencies in the largest in the country. Bieritz and its affiliated Morris Insurance Agency have represented Allstate for 18 years and in 2011 was among the top Allstate independent agencies in the country. Bieritz 20 companies in all.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2012
LOCALS GARDEN CLUB PREPARES FOR HOLIDAY SALE
Trustee Dean Acts To Aid Daughter In Helping Victims Of Storm Sandy Trucks Loaded In Cooperstown Area Driven South To Rockaway By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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he worst of Hurricane Sandy is over, but there’s still a lot of work to be done before hard-hit areas like Rockaway Beach will be livable again. “They have some very big challenges down there,” says James Dean, who joined his daughter Janice Dean at St. Francis de Sales Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal to help distribute supplies to over 4,000 a day. “They’re The Lake & Valley Garden Club’s organizing committee prepares for the having a very difficult Holiday Boutique & Greens Sale 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, at The Farmers’ Museum. From left are Joan Leventhal, Dottie Philips, program time.” chair Pat Hanft, Mickie Richtsmeier, Melissa Barry and Liz Parsons. The sale “I try to imagine this features fresh and preserved holiday arrangements, handmade ornaments happening to my beloved and decorations, wreaths and bows, homemade chocolate holiday bark, hometown and it is nearly amaryllis bulbs and more. Cider and cookies served. unimaginable,” Janice, an state attorney genLions’ Tabor Announces Latest Round Of Community Grants assistant eral, wrote in an e-mail to COOPERSTOWN Counties, Cooperstown Community Christ- her father. Jim Dean joined Kurt mas Committee, Girls on the Run, Jail Seitz, Cherry Valley, on a ions Club of Cooperstown President Ministry of Otsego County, Kid Garden at two-day supply run a few Jason Tabor has announced the club’s Cooperstown Elementary School, Lions days after the storm subsidlatest round of community grants: Club International Foundation (LCIF) Died, bringing bags of clothes, The Cooperstown Angel Network, saster Relief and Charity Water, the funda generator, a kerosene Friends of Bassett, Boy Scout Troop 1254, raising initiative of the Leo Club. heater, gas and kerosene and Catholic Charities of Delaware and Otsego
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Janice Dean, an assistant state attorney general and daughter of Cooperstown Village Trustee Jim Dean, helps sort relief supplies at the communication center at St Francis DeSales Church in Rockaway, where she volunteered after Super Storm Sandy struck Long Island.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2012
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This Thanksgiving Day And Beyond, Savor Every Moment
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s a community, we come to Thanksgiving 2012 with particularly heavy hearts. Since Aug. 12, when Dr. Jim Elting, the Oneonta orthopedist who was physician, friend and community leader countywide for almost four decades, passed away, it’s been one hammer blow after another. In the past few days alone, Oneonta has mourned the death of Guiseppa Avanzato, 90, matriarch of the well-known Oneonta clan, who was killed when the Jeep driven by an off-duty Peekskill police officer jumped the Route 17 median and ran head-on into the car she was riding in. And that same Sunday, Nov. 19, while friends were at Mrs. Avanzato’s calling hours at Grummons Funeral
Home, friends of Dr. Chris Kjolhede, director of Bassett Healthcare’s in-school clinics, gathered at Cooperstown’s Templeton Hall to reflect on the life of his daughter, Annalise, 24, who died the Wednesday before after a back-country skiing accident near Lake Tahoe. • In September, word was received that Cooperstown’s Constance Laymon, 46, in a wheelchair since age 14, when she fell off a cliff at an under-age keg party in the hills around Cherry Valley and damaged her spinal cord, had died on the 21st in Albany. Her physical challenge had spurred her to become one of the Capitol Region’s foremost advocates for the disabled. The next month, the community learned that Robert
This image is from Blacklight Film’s Louie Schwartzberg’s “Gratitude,” which Laurie Zimniewicz, the Oneonta consultant, shared with her many friends over the pre-Thanksgiving weekend. Go to www.youtube.com and type “gratitude” in the search line, or follow the link from www.allotsego.com
Tirrell, 25, son of another Bassett physician, Dr. Paul Tirrell, and a promising Stanford graduate in biochemistry and computational biology, had died on Oct. 10 in Los Altos Hills, Calif. Perhaps the most shock-
‘CITIZEN VOICES’ SPEAK
Without Economic Growth, There Is No Sustainability Editor’s Note: Citizen Voices, the business group headed by Oneonta businessmen Bob Harlem and Tom Armao, is preparing a series of articles to be published over the next several weeks addressing challenges to the local economy. The first appears below. We welcome these articles, and welcome any ensuing debate. To participate, e-mail Letters to the Editor to jimk@allotsego.com
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ver the coming weeks there will be a series of articles about subjects that pertain to our community. The articles will be written by local folks who, for the most part, grew up here. They and their children attended our schools and churches, worked to support their families, invested in the community and care deeply about the area. The first article deals with the impending county budget. That budget, in and of itself, speaks to the question of sustainability. When looking at revenue compared to expenses, one must conclude that the situation is not sustainable. To understand how we got where we are, it might be useful to look at some basic information. Of late there seems to be a “movement” afoot to restrict economic growth. At first blush that might be interpreted to mean that we love the area and want to protect it by keeping things as they are. That’s a laudable goal, but do the numbers work? What is meant by that? If we continue to lose
population and business what will it take to keep what we have? Let’s use roads as an example. They require maintenance and that is expensive. In fact, due to annual cost-of-living increases, the cost of just maintaining our current system of roads goes up each year. If we have fewer people and businesses contributing to the tax base, the taxes imposed on those remaining people and businesses must, just to maintain status quo, go up. If we do that year after year, it doesn’t take long for those people and businesses to leave. Those that remain face an even more painful tax burden and reduced services. The alternative, unless new economic growth is encouraged, is to cut services to live within our budget. Doing that is often painful, as evidenced by Otsego Manor’s current $5.5 million operating deficit and the proposals, including privatization, to correct that. The people faced with that decision care and don’t take lightly their responsiPlease See CITIZENS, A7 •F
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ing of all these tragedies – but every one was a jolt – came the morning of a draining Election Night, when Wendy and Willis Brown were found dead in their 41 Main St. home in Franklin in what police
have determined was a murder-suicide. Wendy’s sister and brother-in-law, Erna and Tom Morgan, are well-known for their civic undertakings in Oneonta and Cooperstown – from Hartwick College and the Catskill Symphony Orchestra to The Farmers’ Museum and The Friends of Bassett – and Wendy was her sister’s collaborator in most everything. • And so to Thanksgiving. In her remarks to the Oneonta Rotary Club after the death of the Browns, the Rev. Judith Thistle, Fox Hospital’s director of chaplains, was quoted saying, “We need answers to help us accept what has happened. In this circumstance, you will never get the answers you need.”
Certainly true. But if we knew all, how actionable would much of that information be? There’s much to ponder, but few assurances. We can reflect on Dr. Elting’s life well-lived – and fully enjoyed – and aspire to the same. We can draw our children more closely to us, recognizing how fragile life is in the face of youthful fearlessness. And yet, we must accept our own inevitable mortality and that of our loved ones, abrupt or expected, too soon or beyond the full Biblical span. As we gather with our families, remember that all we can know is the moment – we can’t change the past or predict the future – and this Thanksgiving Day, more than ever, savor the pleasures that are fleetingly ours.
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621, the year the Wampanoags and Puritans signed a peace treaty that led to 50 years of amity, also brought the first bountiful harvest to the Plymouth Colony, celebrated that fall at a banquet where colonists hosted the Native Americans. Here are the two surviving first-hand accounts of the First Thanksgiving, by William Bradford, the first governor, and by Edward Winslow, who would become the third governor.
Massasoit and the Puritans agree to a treaty in 1621 that resulted in 50 years of peace between the Wampanoags and Plymouth Colony.
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William Bradford in ‘Of Plimoth Plantation’
hey begane now to gather in ye small harvest they had, and to fitte up their houses and dwellings against winter, being all well recovered in health & strenght, and had all things in good plenty; for as some were thus imployed in affairs abroad, others were excersised in fishing, aboute codd, & bass, & other fish, of which yey tooke good store, of which every family
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had their portion. All ye somer ther was no want. And now begane to come in store of foule, as winter approached, of which this place did abound when they came first (but afterward de-
creased by degrees). And besids water foule, ther was great store of wild Turkies, of which they tooke many, besids venison, &c. Besids, they had about a peck a meale a weeke to a person, or now since harvest, Indean corn to yt proportion. Which made many afterwards write so largly of their plenty hear to their freinds in England, which were not fained, but true reports.”
Edward Winslow in ‘Mourt’s Relation ‘
ur harvest being gotten in, our governour sent foure men on fowling, that so we might after a speciall manner rejoyce together, after we had gathered the fruits of our labours ; they foure in one day killed as much fowle, as with a little helpe beside, served the Company almost a weeke, at which time amongst other Rec-
reations, we exercised our Armes, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and amongst the rest their greatest king Massasoyt, with some ninetie men,
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whom for three dayes we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five Deere, which they brought to the Plantation and bestowed on our Governour, and upon the Captaine and others. And although it be not always so plentifull, as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so farre from want, that we often wish you partakers of our plentie.”
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2012
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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz from Freeman’s Journal archives, courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library
200 YEARS AGO
Advertisement – Ambrose L. Jordan and Samuel Birdsall, have formed a connection in the practice of law: Their office is one door south of Phinney’s Bookstore, in the village of Cooperstown, where commands relative to the profession will be executed with pleasure. Cooperstown, November 14, 1812. (Ed. Note: Ambrose L. Jordan was the father of Caroline Jordan, who, as a young girl, attended school in Cooperstown. Jordan left the village in 1819 for a law practice in the Hudson Valley, later serving as New York’s Attorney-General. In the early 1830s, Edward Clark became Jordan’s law partner and married his daughter Caroline. In the late 1840s, Edward Clark represented Isaac Singer in patent lawsuits over rights to the workings of sewing machines. By the mid-1850s Edward Clark and Isaac Singer had become business partners in the Singer Sewing Machine Co. In 1856, Caroline Jordan Clark persuaded her husband to purchase the farm then known as Apple Hill as a summer residence. Today, the property located on the east side of River Street is known as Fernleigh, the residence of Jane Forbes Clark, the Great-Great-Great Granddaughter of Ambrose Jordan, and Great-Great Granddaughter of Edward Clark and Caroline Jordan Clark.) November 21, 1812
in the house worked hard and rapidly to save such valuable pictures and furniture on the first floor as could be got out. Mr. J.K. Pierson ascended a ladder to the second story and succeeded in getting Mrs. Constable’s case containing very valuable diamond and other jewelry. The total loss is about $50,000. November 25, 1887
75 YEARS AGO
100 YEARS AGO
Recently-elected Woodrow Wilson writes: “Democratic government has, the world over, had deep and far-reaching results. It has created a new conception of the functions of government. It is not merely that democratic government is based, as the old phrase used to go, on ‘the consent of the governed,’ but that it is based upon the participation in government of all classes and interests; and whenever this conception can be realized, whenever government is disentangled from its connection with special interests and made responsible to genuine public opinion, throughout the length and breadth of the great country, it at once gets new ideals and responds to new impulses. It then becomes an instrument of civilization and of humanity.” November 20, 1912
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175 YEARS AGO
Smoking & Snuff – Tobacco belongs to the class of drugs called narcotics, and is possessed of the most noxious qualities. The excessive use of tobacco, in whatever shape it is taken, heats the blood, hurts digestion, wastes the fluids, and relaxes the nerves. Smoking is particularly injurious to lean, hectic, and hypochondriacal persons; it creates an unusual thirst, leading to the use of spirituous liquors; it increases indolence and confirms the lazy in the habits they have acquired; above all it is pernicious to the young, laying the foundation of future misery. November 20, 1837
150 YEARS AGO
The double iron building erected by Mr. Geo. L. Bowne, formerly of Key West, is one of the most elegant structures of the kind in the state. The cast iron front is the work of Mr. James Bogardus of New York, who claims to be the original inventor of buildings of this kind. It is of the Corinthian style of architecture, beautiful in all its proportions. The plate glass for the front, in panes three and one-half by ten and one-half feet and cost about $700. The sides and end of the building are stone, very heavy. The stores are 22 x 70 feet, with a hall in the center of the building five feet wide. This leads to the Public Hall in the third story, which is 49 x 70 feet, 16 feet, 7 inches to the ceiling, and is calculated to accommodate about 700 people. The floor of this fine hall is double; it is well-ventilated; will be warmed
November 24, 1937 from registers, and lit with gas from splendid chandeliers. The cost of this building, with the lots on which it is built, was about $13,000. November 21, 1862
125 YEARS AGO
One of the finest country residences in this part of the state was that owned by Mr. William Constable, erected by him on the western shore of Otsego Lake at a cost of about $30,000. The Glimmerglen mansion was an object of attraction to summer tourists as they sailed by it. We regret to record the fact that it no longer exists. It was lighted by gas made on the premises from gasoline, and a leak occurred in the pipe in the cellar where there was a furnace, and an explosion was the result. This was about 1 p.m. on November 17. In a moment the cellar was filled with flames. Mr. Constable ordered the cellar door to be kept closed, while those
The children of the village of Hartwick will have a new recreation area in the form of a playground in the center of the village on South Street, thanks to the generosity of the Oneonta Oil and Fuel Company, which made the village a gift of the property there. The Oneonta concern, which has owned the property since February 1945, deeded the property to the Hartwick Village. The Hartwick Union School building, built in 1878 at a cost of $1,300 will be razed to make way for the playground. November 21, 1962
25 YEARS AGO
Bassett Hospital employees will be receiving a $500 bonus and salary grade increase as a result of careful planning and hard work. This is the first time in two years that revenues have exceeded expenses. All employees will be eligible for merit-based salary increases at the time of their annual performance review. November 25, 1987
10 YEARS AGO
Otesaga Hotel general manager Frank Maloney will step down from the position he has held for the past 10 years on December 1st to begin duties as managing director until October 2003. The transition will allow the Maloney’s replacement, John Irvin, to become better acquainted with the hotel and the community. November 22, 2002
Winter Concert Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 7:30 pm—First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut Street, Oneonta. Reception afterwards. Sunday, December 2, 2012 at 4:00 pm—St. Mary’s Church, 39 Walnut Street, Oneonta
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Crowell Budget Saves Manor For Year CROWELL/From A1 – shouldn’t set anyone’s mind at ease about the county nursing home’s future. In an interview, he said he’s afraid taxpayers will look at the budget and say, “We’ve still got The Manor. Taxes are only going up 1.97 percent. I don’t need anything from the county. Everything’s OK.� That would be a mistake, Crowell said: The sense of urgency about The Manor’s future must kept alive, because the increase in county support – from $3.3 million
this year to $5.5 million next – can’t be maintained. In July, when Crowell made his first budget presentation to the board, “we were looking at some positive factors. We’d more or less emerged from the hardest aspects of the downturn.� He still expects sales-tax revenues to be at 2007, pre-Great Recession levels by year’s end. He knew pension costs would increase 20 percent, about $1 million, but didn’t expect “a significant restructuring of Medicaid
reimbursements� until 2014. “The bad news is that it’s happening in 2013.� When department heads submitted budgets in September, however, “we had a $6 million budget gap.� Working with the county board’s Administration Committee, three positions were eliminated in the highway department, one in the Office for Aging and a health department position. The Manor restructured duties to eliminate the equivalent of one position. A half-time assistant public
Economic Sustainability Important, Too CITIZENS/From A4 bility. However, due to the area’s stagnant economy, they are faced with choices and unfortunately they’re not choices about how to grow services. It is not our elected officials alone who are responsible for this unfortunate situation. Those of us who have discouraged new business share the responsibility. It’s not a matter of taking sides. Rather, it’s a matter of being willing to look beyond one’s own needs or views and encourage what will be good for the entire community. The area stopped growing when its main private enterprise, the railroad, stopped growing. The colleges and hospitals have kept the area from economic collapse, but they don’t add to the property tax base or pay sales tax.
If our area is going to go beyond just struggling to maintain status quo, we must encourage economic growth – and it must be real. Tourism can be a component of that growth as can organic farming, but they cannot and will not be able to carry the full weight of what is needed to reverse our downward spiral. Think about the magnitude of new revenue needed to get the quality of education back to its former glory where we graduated 95 percent of our students and dominated in extracurricular activities – including, but not limited to sports. Declining enrollment often results in an increase in the cost per student, a curtailment in things like advanced placement courses and extra-curricular activities. Count on your fingers the number of families whose
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defender and half-time 911 Center position went. And a janitorial position went. That, and delaying building projects and vehicle purchases, help close the gap. The Ÿ percent increase in the sale tax that county Rep. Keith McCarty, R-East Springfield, proposed to help cover The Manor’s deficit would raise $1.6 million, said Crowell, and if approved by the end of the state Legislative term in April, would generate $1.2 million in 2013. The Constitution Pipeline, if built, would generate $3-5 million in new taxes, but only $500,000 of that
children have been able to remain in the area and use a calculator to keep track of those who had to leave to find work. Is that what we want for our community? Some topics for future articles might include Constitution Pipeline and the potential economic benefits from lower energy costs, home rule and the potential for unintended consequences, road use regulations, tourism, organic farming and finding leaders who don’t look for a parade to get in front of but rather have a vision that causes the parade to form behind them. In those articles we will talk about specific examples of how to bring about change and/or what that change might mean. We hope you will find them of value and invite suggestions for topics.
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buyer for The Manor. In the end, he sees no alternative to sale, he said. Private enterprise can “agilely� adjust to changing market conditions, where the county, governed by CSEA contracts, must negotiate any adjustments, a time-consuming process. He sees no help from Albany or D.C. “New York State’s Medicaid expenditure per person is almost double the national average. Everyone else was clustered around the average. They’re going to reform it, but they aren’t going to reform it in a direction that’s going to help The Manor,� he said
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2-3: Author Jack Singer (“Justice at 40 Below�) tells tales, slide-show of dog mushing in Alaska. Studio North, South Main. Free 2-3:30: Christmas carols around fire at American Hotel, plus recital of “enhanced� version of The Sharon Springs Christmas Chicken Story 3:30-4:30: Learn Victorian-era group dances. Period finery welcome. Free 4-6: Classical guitarist Harry George Pelligrin performs, New York House. Wine, cheese, $10 at door. (Encore at 7)
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Dad, Daughter Collaborate To Help Sandy’s Rockaway Victims from as far away as five RELIEF/From A3 blocks from the shore. The gear be donated. heating system of St. Fran“We donated them to cis is destroyed, and cold the Bassett jacket drive volunteers as well as victims instead,” she said. “They flocked to the warming didn’t go to waste.” tent set up across the street On Saturday morning, from the church. A block Nov. 10, Dean, Palmer and up, only charred Seitz packed up beams remain of donations from several houses Sharon Springs, guttered by postCherry Valley hurricane fires, and Franklin possibly caused and drove them by explosions to Brooklyn, from the natural where OcCooperstown Village Trustee Jim Dean St. Francis de Sales Parish in Rockaway became a disgas heating. cupy Wall Street unloads supplies from Otsego County at St. tribution point for supplies to people who found them“The church – now Occupy Francis de Sales. selves in Super Storm Sandy’s route. just got a genSandy – volJanice Dean with unteers helped Msgr. John Brown erator,” he said. “But the neighunload them. at St. Francis de borhood won’t They stayed Sales, Rockaway. have electricity overnight, and for a long time.” Sunday morning, Dean Though back at work, drove out to Rockaway to deliver his truckful of dona- Janice continues to be active in the relief effort, assisting tions. “The night before, I in coordinating Thanksgivhad asked the 70th police ing dinner for the commuprecinct in Brooklyn where nity, delivering and serving a safe place to park would at least 500 dinners over be,” he said. “They let me park in front of the station!” three days. She also helped relocate Janice was in charge of displaced pets to a warethe St. Francis relief efhouse in Ocean Hill, Brookfort until Tuesday, Nov. 13, lyn, where they can stay when she had to return to her “day job” as an assistant until their owners can find attorney general in Manhat- shelter where they can keep them. tan. “She brought me into And in Otsego County, this,” Dean said. “She told Photos Courtesy of Jim Dean me how desperate they were relief efforts continue. “I Above, relief supplies were piled high in St. Francis de Sales’ just wanted to be down there gym, awaiting the needy. The 100-home fire in Queens’ Breezy down there.” In Rockaway, sand dunes helping,” said Angela. “But Point neighborhood was much publicized, but the Deans enputting together donations is countered swaths of destroyed homes in Rockaway as well, as stand waist-high on streets
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This charming 1845 Village Colonial is across from Otsego Lake and about a block from Main Street. Offering some 2,400+- square feet of living space, this very inviting home has double parlors, one with a fireplace and built-ins, formal dining room currently being used as a family room, original Butler’s pantry with glass fronted doors, half-bath with laundry, a galley kitchen and a breakfast room. Upstairs are four bedrooms and three baths. Built-in linen closet in the hallway. Walk-up attic. Systems are in good condition. There is a front porch, a cozy side porch and a back enclosed entryway. A two car garage with overhead storage sits at the rear of the large lot. A stone patio is just off the kitchen entrance. Plenty of room here to bump out for a kitchen/keeping room is so desired. In the past, this traditional home was run as a bed and breakfast but for the past six years has been a single family home with good space for entertaining and overnight guests. Offered Exclusively by Ashley-Connor Realty $439,000. Visit us on the Web at www.ashleyconnorrealty.com • Contact us at info@ashleyconnorrealty.com
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Skiing Accident Claims ‘Sparkling’ Local Lass ANNALISE/From A1 struck a rock hidden under the snow while backcountry skiing with friends at Alpine Meadows, a ski resort near Lake Tahoe, where she was an instructor at the Kids Ski School. She died Wednesday, Nov. 14, at Renown Regional Medical Center, Reno. “She was remarkable,” said Ann Grogan, who worked with Annalise at the Sierra Business Counsel. “You liked her the minute you met her.” Born in Cooperstown, on June 17, 1988, Annalise spent her first years in Baltimore. She attended Cooperstown Elementary and Middle schools, and graduated from Emma Willard School in 2006. She received her B.S. in environmental sciences at the University of Rochester in 2011, graduating cum laude. She was awarded the faculty prize for academic excellence and was granted a Kaufmann Entrepreneurial Year at the U of R, where she developed a campus microfarm project. In addition to teaching skiiing, Annalise was an intern with the Sierra Business Counsel, where she helped put together the business plan for the Sierra Nevada Geotourism project. According to Grogan, the project “encourages tourism that maintains, strengthens and builds the historical and cultural aspects of the community through sustainable tourism.” Grogan, who was originally from Albany and had visited Cooperstown several times, had an immediate connection with the Fly Creek native. “We had that hometown connection,” she said. “It’s really nice when you’re 3,000 miles from home.” The project manager, Nicole DeJonghe, wrote a tribute, “Annalise, In Lieu of Flowers” – “I remember Annalise’s smile one day when she said to me, ‘Nicole, I have the best picture of an apple cider donut! We should get people excited to find a good apple cider donut and have other fun adventures around the Si-
erra!’” The Sierra project was important to her. “She was a big believer in the importance of maintainAnnalise ing our enviKjolhede ronment and decreasing our carbon footprint,” her father said. Nearly 11,000 visitors went to the www.caringbridge.com tribute site. The memorial service Sunday, Nov. 18, at Fly Creek United Methodist Church was so packed many mourners had to stand outside. Annalise had recently renewed her organ donor card, and donated her heart, both kidneys, parts of her liver and tissue. “In that way, she lives on,” said Dr. Kjolhede. Annalise is survived by her parents, Chris Larson Kjolhede and Anne Marie Gadomski, her sister, Caitlyn Gadomski Kjolhede and Caitlyn’s husband, Thomas Jefferson Hamilton IV; and by her brother, Hans Christian Kjolhede. In addition, she was also survived by stepmoms Barbara Peterson and Celeste Johns, as well as her paternal grandmother, Ginger Larson Kjolhede, maternal grandmother, Therese Szlenkier Gadomski; and many loving aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. Her family wrote her obituary together and chose five places where donations can be sent in her name in lieu of flowers: “They speak to her formative years” – Emma Willard School scholarship funds at the University of Rochester — “and where she was going with her life” – the Zion National Park Foundation, Girls on the Run, which she’d recently pledged to volunteer, the Sierra Nevada Geotourism Project. Even with the tragedy weighing heavy on their mind, the family is trying to remain joyful for the holidays. “We’re looking forward to Thanksgiving,” said Dr. Kjolhede. “We’re thankful for the time we had with her.”
New York Fracking? Never, Mountainkeeper Predicting CUOMO/From A1 of a great leader,” said Adams. “He’s the leader of the greatest state in the union now, and he wants to be leader of the free world. You need bold initiatives. You need to tackle the challenges at hand in order to be a great leader.” FDR had World War II, LBJ had Civil Rights. As a great leader, “you deal with Civil Rights, you deal with World War II. (Great leaders) are people who take bold steps and deal with things,” he continued. The governor’s press office didn’t return a call to discuss Adams’ theory. But Sustainable Otsego Moderator Adrian Kuzminski, who is participating in Cuomo’s Cleaner, Greener NY initiative, found it plausible. “He could inherit the Al Gore mantle here,” said Kuzminski. “Cuomo – he’s got this opportunity on the fracking issue in New York State to seize the climate-change issue.” Adams was called Tuesday, Nov. 20, about DEC’s month-end deadline on fracking regulations: If the state isn’t ready to issue the regs – Adams believe DEC can’t possibly meet the deadline – the public comment period is reopened, extending any final fracking decision for at least an-
other 90 days, perhaps much longer. He praised the quality of the three men state Health Commissioner Nirav Shah named in recent days to review still-confidential public health aspects of the regs – from the Colorado School of Public Health, George Washington University’s School of Public Health, and UCLA’s School of Public Health – but said the process is flawed because it’s insufficiently independent. But all that may be moot, particular after Super Storm Sandy. “What we learned from Sandy is that we need renewable, onsite energy – solar and wind and things that operate at the residential level, so people aren’t without power for weeks and weeks on end,” Adams said. “If you had a solar panel and a battery you would be on line.” “I think it’s a difficult position for any politician to take – that they’re against natural gas,” said Adams. “But this extreme energy extraction” – high-volume hydrofracking in deep shale – “is not part of the solution. “I do believe Governor Cuomo, in practice, will not allow it to move forward ... I think Sandy is a big part of it. We can’t ignore climate change anymore.”
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MLS#86907 - Come take a look at this solid home on 15 acres. It has been updated with wonderful additions. Call or text Sharon @ 607-267-2681
MLS#86474 - Charming 4 BR, 2½ bath, Cooperstown village home w/updated kitchen, granite countertops, newer appliances, large private yard and garage. $234,900 Call Kristi Ough @ 607-434-3026
MLS#84020 - Large Colonial w/4 BR, 3½ baths, master suite w/walk-in closet and large bath w/separate shower and soaking tub. Eat-in kitchen w/double pantry closets, wood floors on 1st floor, and a full finished basement w/full bath and outside entrance to ground level. $270,000 Call Chris @ 607-376-1201
MLS#84136 – Minutes from downtown Oneonta, this 3 BR, 2 bath ranch has full basement and 2-car garage on a quiet dead-end street w/lots of new. Master BR suite is an efficiency apt but could easily be converted back. $129,900 Call Tom @ 607-435-2068 MLS#86980 - 4 BR apt over a 1000 sq ft commercial office space or storefront. This home features hardwood floors, high ceilings, built-in cupboards and shelves, wood window shutters, and more. Walk-up attic, 2-car attached garage, and 4 bay detached garage. $189,900 Call Tom Platt @ 607-435-2068
MLS#84000 - Westford log home on 5 acres with many updates and a large 4-car garage…secluded and close to 801 acres of State land! $186,900 Call Brad @ 607-434-9234
MLS#86186 - Stunning Victorian on a ½ acre w/5-6 BRs, 1 ½ baths, 1st flr laundry, study, attic, htd front porch and sunroom, workshop, family room, LR, DR, and eat-in kitchen. Foyer w/original staircase and stained glass. Newer roof, septic and HWH. Garage, gazebo, and barn. $164,000 Call Kathy @ (607) 267-2683
MLS#86056 - 3 BR, 2 bath ranch w/attached garage, on 11 acres w/apple orchard, and creek. Wood-burning fireplace, master BR suite, spacious rooms, deck, and finishable dry basement w/high ceilings. Close to Oneonta, Cooperstown, and Norwich. $169,900 Call Tom Platt @ 607-435-2068
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Now is the time to purchase this rental property while the interest rates are still at an all time low. House is leased at $1000 per month, with the lease ending June of 2013. Would make an excellent student rental and could easily rent for $2000 per semester per student or more so plan ahead for the 2013-2014 school year.Great location within walking distance to Hartwick or SUNY. Current COC. $69,900.MLS#82899
oneontarealty.com FAMILY HOME - In park like setting w/stream & 2 ponds great for outdoor activity. Newly constructed 2 car garage, ideal for a shop or extra storage. Minutes from Cooperstown. $324,900 MLS #85867 PRIME LOCATION – This Main St historic building currently has retail space on 1st flr w/ 2 other flrs that could be finished into apts. Amazing opportunity for development. Rear access from alley for ease of deliveries. $450,000 MLS #86988
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(7623) Custom, spotless 3 BR/3 BA Dutch Colonial enriched by valley views on 9.58 acres. Light and airy with finished basement and formal LR and DR. 2 Rumford fireplaces, large kitchen w/eating area and keeping room. Gracious 4-season rm w/pellet stove leading to patio, large deck, and hot tub. Hand-hewn beams, period hardware, wide pine floors throughout. Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $479,900
(7497) Well-kept 4-BR residence near hospital, sports center, and schools. One-owner home features 1¾ baths, formal DR, built-in bookcases, cheery brick fireplace, eat-in kitchen, playroom, oak floors, newer furnace. Garage, useful workshop, partially finished basement, enclosed porch. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $299,00
Mini FarM on 14+ acres
(7551) Rewarding 1850s country vintage eyebrow-Colonial with valley views. This 3 BR home features formal DR, back porch, beamed ceilings, hardwood floors. Horse barn w/4 box stalls, riding rink, hi-tensile fence. A fix-up! CV-S Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $134,000
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(7407) Choice building site with excellent lake views and w/ lake access and beach are directly in front of property. Level lot, easy to build on. Hubbell’s Exclusive $295,000
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A lovingly maintained country home with attached guest quarters. The rear of the property borders Red Creek and is only minutes from Cooperstown. Large living room and a formal dining room most of the wide plank original floors have been refinished. Call today for your private showing of this wonderful home. $130,000 Listing #85379 Dave LaDuke Broker 435-2405; Mike Winslow Broker 435-0183; Tony Gambino 516-384-0095; Mike Swatling 435-6454; Joe Valette 437-5745; Laura Coleman 437-4881
Location, Location, Location! ExcLusivELy by Don oLin REaLty at a nEw PRicE: $269,900.
This Cooperstown Village home is in move-in condition. Built in 1965, offering 4 + bedrooms, 2 full baths, formal living room, dining room, updated kitchen with tile floor and stainless front appliances, pantry, library/TV room. There is full basement and an attached two car garage with auto open. Location is perfect! Leave your car at home and walk to the schools, the grocery store, Bassett Hospital and the Clark Sports facility. Hardwood floors throughout. With some updating this property will be perfect for family and easy living in a comfortable atmosphere. Call to make an appointment to visit this immaculate, owner ready, property. Situated a corner lot facing Lake Street overlooking the golf course. The house has had updating with new stainless steel appliances, soapstone counters, newly painted kitchen cupboards and a gas kitchen range; mechanicals have also been updated. Ease of access from the attached large garage. Mudroom entry from garage. The house has good natural light in all rooms. There are two wood-burning fireplaces – one in the living room and one in the dining room. Two baths have been totally redone – full and three quarter. Private backyard with patio. Perfect location within walking distance of the golf course, the Otesaga Hotel and all village locations. Convenient one floor living with a big house feel! Ready for immediate occupancy. Call today to visit this charming village home. For reliable, honest answers to any of your real estate questions, Don Olin Realty at 607.547.5622 or visit our website www.donlinrealty.com
Private 100 acres
(7104) Incredible valley views on a private road. Trails throughout, fantastic hunting, small pond. Adjacent to County forest. Old farmhouse needs work. Solar powered 35x10 getaway, open floorplan,1 BR. Possible owner financing. 8 miles from Cooperstown. Hubbell’s Exclusive $189,000
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(7625) Everything as you like it in this 3 BR/2 bath home, with formal DR, French doors, hardwood floors, 3-car garage, den, office, original millwork. Large front porch, playhouse, barn, and 14x20 studio/guest house was a country store. Edmeston School. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $135,000
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MLS#84581 - Motivated sellers will entertain all offers. This home boasts 5 BRs and 4 baths. Stone fireplace, surround sound, 2 garages . $250,000 Call or text Sharon Teator @ 607-267-2681
MLS#85025 - Motivated sellers will consider all offers! Come take a look at this great Cape Cod set on 2.62 acres. Call or text Sharon @ 607-267-2681
MLS#86251 - Ranch home a mile from town with 4 BRs, open floorplan, garage, nice backyard…many updates! $139,000 Call Brad @ 607-434-9234
MLS#85252 - Private setting for country living. Rustic log cabin features a spacious open floorplan and wrap-around deck, pool, walk-out basement. Additional land available. Priced right at $147,500 Call Adam Karns @ 607-244-9633
enGaGinG FarMhouse on 25 acres (7434) This 6 BR/2 bath residence is set in a quaint hamlet on 25 acres. Spacious layout includes country eat-in kitchen, den, original millwork, woodstove, 2 new furnaces, replacement windows, plank floors, wrap-around front porch, large 2-story barn, pole barn, plus a completely remodeled 1 BR cottage. Richfield Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive. $199,900
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