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he village’s 201213 budget, which includes a range of new revenues from parkingrelated fees, goes to public hearing at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11, in 22 Main. The budget includes firsttime revenues from on-street paid parking, parking permits and a hand-held computer parking-fine system. It also includes a 2 percent tax increase, and a public law is being considered that would allow that to go higher. View budget at WWW.ALLOTESGO.COM THINK RINK: A “Think Rink” forum for skating enthusiasts to assess their experiences at the Badger Park rink is at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 14, in the upstairs room at 22 Main. Questions, call Debbie LeCates at 547-7151. ...AND HOW! Cooperstown’s Got Talent, featuring K-12 singers, dancers, piano players and acrobats, is 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 12, at the high school, sponsored by the Cooperstown Foundation for Excellence in Education. Questions, call Jan Kerr at 547-9365.

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The regulars are back at the former TJ’s in downtown Cooperstown, which reopened Thursday, April 4, as Batter’s Up. Jim Dow, left, provided proprietor Barbara Melnichenko with the first dollar. At right are Mike Welch and Jimmy Tongue.

18-Year Waitress Reopens Restaurant As Batter’s Up By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN

o Barbara Melnichenko, who has opened Batter’s Up in the former TJ’s Place, a restaurant is like home. “You know all the people,” she said the other day, sitting next to her father and business partner, contractor Vladimir Melnichenko of Fly Creek. “They come into see you

every day.” Case in point: A group of regulars – Jim Dow, Jim Tongue, Bill Murdock, Keith Addison (and recent arrival Mike Welch) among them – had just finished their morning cup of coffee, picking up a ritual that lapsed when Ted Hargrove, who ran TJ’s for 22 years, closed it last fall. “It’s like ‘Cheers.’ This is what it is,” she said. Barb is partnering with her dad, Barb worked for Ted for Vladimir Melnichenko. Son Nickolas Please See BARB, A7 is waiting tables.

Planners Scout Broad-Band Towers By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN

he system that will deliver broadband Internet service to Otsego County’s every

nook and cranny will piggyback on 10-15 existing towers. But CompDirect USA’s signal will also be using some 70-80 church steeples – or perhaps even the tallest building in town, from Decatur to Laurens to Roseboom – to connect localities to the world.

Mike Stagnola, CompDirect’s president, county IT Director Brian Pokorny and county Highway Superintendent Ron Tiderencel began the reconnoiter Wednesday, April 3, examining two towers near Cherry Valley and one each Please See BROADBAND, A3

ou can foil paid parking in the Village of Cooperstown. But it will cost you $25. Per car, that

The $25 permits are now on sale, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays, at the Village Clerk’s Office in the basement of 22 Main. Bring your car’s registration. Village Trustee Cindy Falk bought the first one on the first day, April 1. The Freeman’s Journal Today, if Assistant Village you can find a Clerk Jennifer Truax shows off space downtown, you can the new parking permits. park for two hours. With a permit, you can continue to do so from Memorial Day to Columbus Day weekend, just as you can now. (Paid parking lapses over the winter.) Paid parking downtown will be in force on Main Street between Pine Boulevard and River Street, and Pioneer from Church Street to the vicinPlease See PERMITS, A7

Local Chapter Breaks Planned Parenthood Tie By LIBBY CUDMORE

he local chapter of Planned Parenthood has disaffiliated from the national organization and is now Family Planning of South Central New York. But its Title X fundMarcus ing is assured for at least the next 2½ years – and well past that, Family Planning CEO Debra Marcus anticipates. And it will continue to offer the same services – STD testing, birth control, cancer screenings, HIV testing, as well as pregnancy tests and counseling – that its 10,000 patients a year, many uninsured, in four counties Please See MARCUS, B4

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would be promising turned out not to be; but the maps were from 2008-9, and the team discovered new towers that will serve the new system’s purpose. They planned to end the day in Oneonta, but Stagnola said population centers like the city and Cooperstown are already pretty well served: “Our intention is to light up areas that need it most.” The “last mile” high-speed Internet initiative, announced March 5 by state Sen. Jim

Seward, R-Milford, is made possible with a $560,000 Connect NY Broadband Grant. According to Seward, the initiative will serve 24 towns and nine villages, some 28,000 households, 4,500 businesses and 300 “anchor” institutions. The project became a priority when Seward’s Economic Development Summit in March 2012, attended by 200 elected and business leaders, identified broadband as a top priority in an

effort to attract new businesses and jobs to the county. “Some people think the Internet is a luxury,” said Spagnola, whose Cassville-based company has completed similar projects in the Mohawk Valley and North Country (including Star and Cranberry lakes). “But more and more, it’s a necessity.” The planners hope county residents will see CompDirect crews on their local church steeples within 90 days.

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neonta needs to get serious, for the benefit of all who depend on that regional center, for jobs, for shopping, for entertainment. It’s time for City Hall to reclaim neighborhoods lost to blighted student housing and prevent that blight’s spread. Spend a couple of hours walking the blocks between Clinton (the south end of the Hartwick campus) and Church, and Center and Chestnut. You will see condemned house after condemned house. You will see some blocks that are rotting – they have tipped. You will see others that are headed that way – they are nearing the tipping point. The good news is that most city neighborhoods are merely pockmarked. A blighted house here, a condemned house there among homes that are still generally well-

tended and pleasing. And, granted, some of the student housing is maintained, although never as well as the bestmaintained properties. You will conclude all the city’s downtown neighborhoods are at risk, but you will also see it’s not too late to turn things around in a positive way – not immediately, it takes time, but over time. • In this context, Newman Development Corp.’s proposed 325student Hilltop Commons, tucked away at the north end of Wood Ridge Apartments at the north end of SUNY Oneonta’s campus, presents an opportunity for the city at large. There are fewer than a handful of homes on Blodgett Drive itself, although there are substantially more to the northeast. The goal isn’t to save one neighborhood

by sacrificing another, but if the highrise is well managed – Newman’s record suggests it will be – it would ease pressure in center city and perhaps redefine the way we think about appropriate student housing that is also communityfriendly. But sleepwalking through a growing mess – as an inspection of the Clinton/lower West/Church section dramatically emphasizes – is no answer at all. • Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller’s Tuesday, April 2, memo to Common Council on the project was a wake-up call in other ways. It was shocking to learn Newman’s prospective $15 million investment would be the largest private development in the city in a quarter century. It was distressing to learn total valuation has been stagnant for a decade.

These trends have to worry anyone concerned about the City of the Hills’ future – and its necessary role as Otsego County’s center in the nine months we are not a tourist mecca. Sustainability, sustainability, sustainability is all we hear about these days. The city’s dilemma, friends – stagnant revenues and dropping population as costs inevitably rise – is indeed unsustainable. If the truth be divined, Oneonta’s dilemma is probably worse in all of our county communities, even Cooperstown. Housing appears stable, but the village has been striving to identify new revenues to address deteriorating infrastructure. Happily, City Hall with a Syracuse consulting group, Housing Visions, is planning to buy blighted properties, renovate them, and return them to the tax rolls. But

a never-ending game of catchup isn’t plausible. There are other reasons to support Hilltop Commons – SUNY Oneonta’s need to compete with other SUNY campuses for top students is large among them. A more competitive SUNY Oneonta is better for all of us. But it’s time to shift the city’s discussion. From no, no, never, to putting the controls and provisions in place to minimize any negative impacts from Hilltop Commons and maximize the benefits, from new and needed infrastructure to new tax revenues (and, heavens, perhaps even tax cuts.) Countywide, we should follow City Hall’s proposed solutions. Can Housing Visions be recruited to fighting housing blight in all our localities? Problems we know. Let’s all look to embrace new solutions.

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Source Of Tribe’s Largesse Is Ruined Lives To the Editor: The CCS Board of Education has stumbled through the process of changing the school’s nickname. It really sounded more like a personal agenda item, than something that needed to be done. But that’s another item for discussion. What I would like to ad-

dress is the Oneida Indian Nation’s (OIN) offer to purchase new uniforms for the sports teams. First, think about where the OIN gets its money: from the manufacture and sale of cigarettes, other tobacco products, and gambling. These ventures play on the addictions of people FOU

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To the Editor: Just curious, they (not sure who they are) have taken away our noon whistle, taken away the Little League field, and now the Redskins. I think it is pretty sad, but maybe it is a sign, since the Cooperstown Little League (which my brother and I played in, and there might have been a few times, my mom advised us to get home once noon whistle blows) now have to play in Hartwick (which in not a bad thing, they understand). I was told that Hartwick’s teams were the Huskies, so maybe the Cooperstown Huskies would work. GARY S. JENNINGS Former CCS Redskin

Numbers May Seem To Work, But Wind, Solar Power Erratic To the Editor; After reading Ron Jordan’s article that appeared in this newspaper’s March 21 edition, I am convinced that many segments of the environmental movement in this country are totally out of touch with the real world and the people who live in it. The article claims that we can get all of our energy from renewables and that they can supply all the energy needed to power our infrastructure, including all forms of transportation. The gaping hole in this argument is that 78 percent of this mix comes from wind and solar, two of the most unreliable and heavily subsidized forms of power on the planet. Geothermal, tidal and wave energy along with hydroelectricity round out the equation. The big question here is what do we do when the wind stops blowing? Wind turbines produce their rated capacity intermittently only about 30 percent of the time, less in summer

and on cloudy days and at night when there is no sun, well, you get the picture. The cost of subsidizing these two perpetual wards of the state is a drain on taxpayers and diverts money away from developing new forms of energy that are clean, reliable and economically feasible as well as safe. That cannot be said of wind energy. If you don’t believe me you can ask 60 Fairfield residents who have filed a lawsuit in state Supreme Court against the developers of a wind farm there for making their lives miserable. The sound from these monstrosities are driving them out of their homes. Some are as close as 2000 feet away and that is much too close. Imagine the legal ramifi-

cations if the 4,020 fivemegawatt turbines recommended in Jordan’s article start cropping up all over Central New York with no meaningful state or federal regulations in place. The only people who would be happy would be the lawyers. Another problem I have with this plan is that it implies that it’s up to the political sphere to institute these drastic changes. The truth is it is up to the people to decide whether they want these changes. Do they want to be told that they must buy an electric vehicle? Will they be able to afford one? Do they have the money to invest in residential solar rooftop systems or ground-source heat pumps? And what about the loss of natural beauty that brings tourist dollars to this area? Will anyone come here to vacation in a turbine littered industrial junk yard? I don’t think so. JACK PALMINTERI Cherry Valley

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Rechristened Family Planning, Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Clinic Pledges Same Services, Quality MARCUS/From A1 have received in the past. But national Planned Parenthood isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t accepting secession without a fight: March 29, it authorized its Ithaca-based chapter, Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes, to add South Central New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s counties to its fran-

chise area. Marcus is concerned that supporters of the local entity â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Oneontaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Karen Elting is the local co-chair, and it continues to be supported by Bassett Healthcare and Fox Hospital â&#x20AC;&#x201C; will be misled by fundraising and other efforts by the new competitor from Ithaca.

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According to Marcus, in 2010 Planned Parenthoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national organization advised all its 88 chapters they must perform abortions in at least one clinic, a sticking point locally. For years, the Otsego/Delaware/Chenango/Broome chapter referred termination procedures to Southern Tier Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Services in Binghamton, and wished to continue to do so. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never had one of our patients say they had trouble getting a termination,â&#x20AC;? Marcus said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why should we duplicate services that are well provided and take the risk that if we performed a few hundred abortions in our clinic, we would force that clinic to close, decreasing services in our area?â&#x20AC;? Efforts to understand the national organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

point of view resulted in this statement from Eric Ferrero, vice president of communications: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Planned Parenthood affiliate leaders decided to offer a consistent set of services at all health centers so that patients can receive essential care wherever they live.â&#x20AC;? He declined to take any follow-up questions. Locally, a waiver was sought, but was denied. In November, the South Central chapter sent a letter withdrawing from the federation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will continue to provide family planning and reproductive health and education services,â&#x20AC;? Marcus wrote. Then national decided to take on the former local chapter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In order to ensure the continuity of care in the Affiliateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s service area, PPFA will notify neighbor-

ing affiliates that the service area will be available,â&#x20AC;? wrote Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, in a letter dated Dec. 18. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t departed,â&#x20AC;? said Marcus. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still here.â&#x20AC;? But the Southern Finger Lakes put in an application to expand services into the area, and the application was approved by Juanita Francis, chair of the affiliate development and accreditation committee, announced in the March 29 letter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They claim they know the area so well, but they misspelled Chenango and Delaware,â&#x20AC;? said Marcus. Southern Finger Lakes denied it is poaching. A Monday, April 2, statement issued by Maureen Kelly, its vice president of public affairs, stated: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Planned

Parenthood is not looking to establish a Binghamton office. In fact, the organization has no plans to open new offices anywhere in the region.â&#x20AC;? The next day, Marcus sent a letter asking for an official denial of plans to expand services, but so far has heard no response. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not opposed to competition,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What we oppose is an entity that comes in to drive out two existing businesses. We see this as an attempt to damage our finances for abandoning the brand.â&#x20AC;? Marcus says Family Planning will continue providing the same services and referrals it did as Planned Parenthood. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A month ago, our services were very high quality. Today our services are very high quality. New name, same great service.â&#x20AC;?

Carol Blazina New Foothills Board President By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA

Successfully serving Cooperstown & Oneonta

ithin moments of her election as president of the Foothills Performing Arts Center board of directors, Carol Blazina was brimming with ideas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re working on building our childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s programming,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important that we listen to the needs of the community and give them what they want.â&#x20AC;? Blazina, retired SUNY Oneonta vice president for

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raising and programming committees. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to satisfy a mosaic of needs for this community and region.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m honored to be elected,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dick Miller did a fabulous job in his term as president.â&#x20AC;? Mayor Miller, who assumed the presidency two years ago during a period of challenge, will continue on the board as vice president, a title also held by Arnie Drogen, a long-time board member. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I look forward to the progress of Foothills,â&#x20AC;? said Blazina. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It brings good things to this community.â&#x20AC;?

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Compiled by Tom Heitz from Freeman’s Journal archives, courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library

200 YEARS AGO

Another gratification – His Britannic majesty’s brig Emu, of 12 guns, a prize to the privateer Holkar of New York, arrived on Sunday last at Providence, and saluted the town. She is an uncommonly strong and well found vessel, burthened upward of 200 tons; was fitted with a new patent defence surmounting her bulwarks, composed of spring bayonets, and had a great quantity of ammunition and provisions for Botany Bay, whither she was conveying a number of convicts. She was commanded by an arrogant Lieutenant of the British Navy who could not persuade his crew to fight the Yankees. The ammunition and provisions were taken on board the Holkar; the crew and convicts were landed on one of the Cape Verde Islands. April 10, 1813

A very successful operation for cataract was recently performed on one of Mr. Marcus Field’s eyes, and he expects to be out again as usual in a few days. April 13, 1888

75 YEARS AGO

100 YEARS AGO

The Prayer of Nelson Avenue: “Look down upon me, O Village Fathers, and observe my many faults. I am homely and rough and uncouth, and am no more worthy to be called a thoroughfare in the beautiful village of Cooperstown. I am a useful street. Many visitors travel over me or along beside me and comment upon my neglected appearance. Teamsters swear at me and automobiles sputter. I am called a wart on the fair face of Cooperstown. I am a proud street, proud of the good people who have chosen their habitation beside me. Help me O Village Fathers, to rise out of the mire and create of me a clean and commendable thoroughfare.” April 16, 1913

175 YEARS AGO

A discussion upon the merits of the Anti-Slavery or Abolition movements which at present so deeply agitate the Union, transpired at the Court House in this village, on Friday evening and Saturday, the 30 and 31 of March and on Monday, April 2. On Friday the lecture by Gerrit Smith, Esq. of Peterborough, New York, was presented upon the following propositions: 1. That slavery is a moral and political evil. 2. That we (this community) are bound to exercise our political power, to the extent of its constitutional limit, effect its immediate abolition. On Saturday morning, after a sort of random discussion, during which some reasons were offered by the mover why the resolutions should pass, separate motions were made, under which both resolutions were laid on the table, and the meeting adjourned sine die. Mr. Smith lectured on the same subject in the afternoon, which he did, and likewise in the evening. J. Fenimore Cooper, Esq. submitted a few brief remarks at the afternoon session. On Monday morning, a large auditory was in attendance. Mr. Cooper enchained the attention of the assemblage for two and a half hours, in a speech characterized by great compactness and masculine power of thought, logical accuracy, and a great diversity of valuable information; and so perfect was his amenity of manner, his candor, and so happy the strain of genuine eloquence in which he clothed his arguments, that men of all parties freely expressed their high gratification at the intellectual feast to which the discussion had introduced our citizens. April 9, 1838

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50 YEARS AGO

The Board of Trustees amended and replaced the village’s 21-year-old zoning code by voting in proposals contained in the village section of the Cooperstown Area Plan. The new ordinance takes the place of a code which was originally passed in April 1942, becoming effective on April 22 of that year. April 10, 1963

25 YEARS AGO April 13, 1938 Dwellings, hotels, stores and shops had all been consumed in a night – that grandly awful sight! Who that witnessed it will ever forget it? Property to the amount of $100,000 had been swept away in a few hours and there were those who thought that Cooperstown could scarcely recover from the effects of so severe a blow. A brief year has passed by, and what do we behold! An expenditure of $10,000 has secured the widening and grading of Main Street from the old Eagle Hotel corner to the Court House; twelve new stores, two of iron, six of brick, one of stone, two of brick and wood, and one of wood, have been erected; also a large three-story brick dwelling house, and one large hotel. April 10, 1863

125 YEARS AGO

One year ago today there occurred the Great Fire of Cooperstown. The spectacle which the eye rested upon, on the morning of April 11 was saddening in the extreme.

Local – L.I. Burditt, Esq., has returned home from Florida, where he has spent about three months.

Pittsburgh Pirates star Willie Stargell will be inducted on July 31st as the 200th member of baseball’s Hall of Fame. Born March 6, 1940, at Earlsboro, Oklahoma, the big Bucaneer spent 21 seasons on the Pirate ship raiding National League cities coast to coast and defending Forbes Field, the home port. Willie and the Bucs played for the National League treasure chest six times in that span, but made it to the World Series only twice – in 1971 and 1979. They won the World Series crown both times in seven games. Stargell’s 12 hits, three home runs and seven RBI’s earned him MVP booty in the 1979 fall classic. April 13, 1988

10 YEARS AGO

Mike Staffin rolled a 780 – 290, 269, 221 to lead all other bowlers in the Wednesday night Bowling League on April 2. Reid Nagelschmidt tossed a high series of 674 – 226 277, 171, followed by Jason Tabor, 652, Barry Gray, 646, Gerry Gage, Jr., 642, Jim Jordan, 625, Buddy Lippitt, 605, and Richie Anderson, 600. April 11, 2003

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Lowering Tax Rate = Prosperity To the Editor: The recent letter blaming Bush, Reagan, The Tea Party, and maybe even The Wizard Of Oz for our economic problems exacerbated by under-taxing the rich can be attributed to too much New York Times exposure along with the TV remote locked onto CNN and a copy of the writings of John Maynard Keynes as a bedside reader. Reviewing the history of the marginal tax rates since the end World War II will reveal the error of that writer’s analysis of taxing the rich. Under both Republican and Democratic administrations, lowering the tax rate has always stimulated real economic growth and activity. I am really not sure of what was meant by “national debt bonds,” unless that was an oblique reference to the arcane and nefarious actions of the Fed, Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac under a variety of political pressures. As to the laundry list of remedies provided in the letter, one need only relocate to Spain, Greece or Italy to reap the benefits of such taxation. BOB O’CON Cooperstown

Why Make Money If It’s Taxed Away? To the Editor: As to Bob Joyce’s Letter to the Editor, I’m sure the tax code must be changed in places, but rates over 40 percent? What would be the incentive to start or run a business and create jobs. I think reading Adam Smith’s “The Wealth of Nations” and maybe taking Economics 101 should be required for everyone, especially our government leaders. DOMINICK MONTESANA Burlington Flats

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Susan Peterson, 49, of Oakland, Cooperstown; Interior Decorator, Chef For Steve Jobs COOPERSTOWN – Susan Peterson, 49, passed away surrounded by loving friends and family on March 16, 2013, at her home in Oakland, Calif., following a near year-long battle with cancer. She was born May 10, 1963, and spent her childhood in Metuchen, N.J., and Cooperstown. Susan entered Cornell University as an interior design major and later transferred into the School of Hotel Administration, graduating with a bachelor of science. She later gained a culinary certificate from Tante Marie’s Cooking School in San Francisco. Her love of cooking and interest in natural foods led her to gain a horticultural certificate from the UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology. While at Cornell, she was a member and vice president of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, where she made caring and enduring lifelong friendships. Susan was blessed with many talents and wove them into a diverse life rich in purpose and successes. She had been a senior

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buyer at Saks Fifth Avenue, New York City, where her success led her to be headhunted for the position of buyer/merchandiser at Banana Republic, headquartered in San Francisco. She next moved to Williams Sonoma and later ended her purchasing career continuing to travel globally in search of high-end collectibles of indigenous crafts for Cost Plus World Market in San Francisco.

Along the way she dabbled in interior design and saw one of her residential projects gain acclaim from Architectural Digest and it still serves as a foil for many of Banana Republic’s catalog items. In recent years, she had consulted with Oaklandbased Lowney Architecture on interior design of retail space. Seeking a career change, she became a baker in a San Francisco French pastry shop and shortly thereafter moved on to become a vegetarian cook at Green’s famous vegetarian restaurant in the Presidio, where she was discovered and chosen by Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs to be his family’s personal chef. While in his employ, she prepared such tasty vegan meals that thenPresident Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton had leftovers wrapped to go home on Air Force One. Susan

put the final touch on her career as a pastry cook at Alice Water’s world renowned Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley. Susan was a co-founder of the Greenwoods Conservancy, a 1,200-acre nature preserve and SUNY research site near Cooperstown, and chaired its annual gifting committee. She currently served on, and previously chaired, the board of directors of the Pie Ranch, an Alameda-based Land Trust. Susan also volunteered and taught at Edible Schoolyard, a program established and supported by the Chez Panisse Foundation to teach urban middle-school children the values of organic farming, sound diet, land stewardship and community. Susan ran cross-country in high school, rowed her freshman year at Cornell and was a lifelong endurance athlete and lover of

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lesson is love.” Susan is survived by her partner, Kenneth Lowney, an Oakland-based architect; her parents, Cynthia and Earle Peterson of Cooperstown and Metuchen, N.J., and brother James Peterson, sister-in-law Myrna Peterson and nephew Joseph Peterson, all of Fly Creek. Also, an uncle and aunt, Robert and Edith Tschorn of Newtown, Conn., and cousins David, John, Daniel, Donald Peterson, Melanie Ruff, Julie Seabury and Jennifer Stevens. Her ashes will be interred at a celebration of her life at Greenwoods, the family ancestral home, where she will rejoin her much loved golden retriever, Waverly.

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Hilltop Towers Will Siphon $3 Million Annually From Local Economy To the Editor: For the past 27 years, I have visited Oneonta three to four times per year, often with my family, to spend time with old and dear friends. Over that period I have come to consider Oneonta my second home. I have always loved the unique and quirky mix of businesses your downtown area offers, like the Autumn Café and (in recent years) the Green Toad Bookstore, as well as established icons like Brooks and the Center Street Deli. Moreover, I have always ad-

mired the Center City residential area because of the mix between student rental properties and established middle and high-income homeowners, creating unique and eclectic neighborhoods. Clearly, the charm of your city for both college students and residents lies in the vibrant diversity of businesses and people living and working in your downtown and Center City areas. What makes Oneonta a great place to visit and live seems to be threatened, however, by the Newman Group, which proposes

a 325-bed student housing project on Blodgett Drive. If you have listened to your neighbors involved in Save Oneonta, you already know many of the facts, probably better than I do. The most important of these facts, however, is that Newman will not be paying property taxes for the first 10 years if they are approved for a PILOT program. Instead, you the citizens of Oneonta and Otsego County will be paying their taxes for them during that time. Consider this: Just the one

Representative Rosenthal Impressed At Meeting To the Editor: On Wednesday, March 20, I had the opportunity to attend a Town Hall meeting hosted by county Rep. Beth Rosenthal, D-7, at the Old School Café in Cherry Valley. Many of the refreshments were products made in the district, highlighting the economic engine of small businesses within the district. Representative Rosenthal provided an understandable presentation as to the current major issues facing Otsego County. The presentation included an overview and

how the county representatives are approaching these issues. Representative Rosenthal took questions from members of her district (District 7 includes the Towns of Cherry Valley, Roseboom and Middlefield) on a wide range of issues, including several about the status of the Otsego Manor and different options available to the county in addressing the millions of dollars subsidy county tax payers are spending to keep The Manor afloat. While the issues were heated, the discussion

Source Of Oneida Tribe’s LETTER/From A4 however, give the school districts “grants.” If the school district has a particular teacher, course of curriculum, or textbook they disagree with, the grants are withheld until the local district comes into compliance. Look up the actions that the Vernon-Ve-

building currently in the works (and there are more to come if this one takes off) is projected to take about $3 million in student rental revenues and shift them to Newman. Perhaps, if you are not in the student rental business, you don’t particularly care. But most of that $3 million is spent right in Oneonta, on things like building maintenance, marketing, staff pay and building renovations. And at the end of the day, where do these landlords and their employees shop and eat? If they

own or rent property themselves, who are they paying for their own housing? What banks hold their mortgages? Where do they buy their business and personal vehicles? Who does their snowplowing? Cuts their hair? Where do they go to the doctor? What schools do their kids attend? Now if that money goes to Newman, Oneonta will see much less of that $3 million spent locally. Two years ago, they couldn’t have found Oneonta on a map. JAY KEITH Fairport

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To the Editor: This is the text of a recent letter to Governor Cuomo: A number of months ago (Oct. 17, 2011) I sent you a coffee table book of Otsego County. You have made no response to that gift nor the letter I sent with it. My senator sent me a letter saying he had given it to you. I assume you got it? The question about fracking in Upstate New York is not just a question of safety. Fracking is a symptom of far greater problems... Do I have any control over my environment? I moved into a rural setting because that’s the way I Largesse Is Ruined Lives want to live. And now I am being told that this rural rona-Sherill school district had to take to get area can be changed into an their grant. industrial area. When did Members of the CCS Board of Education people lose their rights? should not stumble into the OIN trap. The How is it that a corpomoney should, and can, be raised locally. ration can take away my DAVID BURCH Sr. lifestyle of living in a rural Hartwick area? Who gave the right

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For Sale At 22 Main 18-Year Waitress At TJ’s Reopens It As Batter’s Up Permits household will buy at least PERMITS/From A1 BARB/From A1 18 years, as a waitress who evolved into a waitress/ manager, and the Melnichenko dad and daughter leased the restaurant space after the property was acquired by Tom Lagan’s BTP Cooperstown LLC on March 31. She opened Batter’s Up on Thursday, April 4; Lagan will continue to operate the souvenir shop part of the space as Vintage Collectibles. When Barb was growing up in Richfield Springs, she would accompany her dad when he had a job in Cooperstown, and she fell in love with the place. The

two would pick up doughnuts at Schneider’s and share them while sitting on the rocks at Lakefront Park. When her dad’s crew shooed away the teenager, she would wander the streets – she particularly enjoyed Newberry’s (now the Cooperstown General Store) and Smalley’s, which was still operating. “The town is beautiful. It’s gorgeous,” she said with an enthusiasm that still waxes all these years later. On graduating from Richfield Springs Central, she walked the whole downtown until she got her first job, waitressing at the

Lakefront. She later moved to the Peppermill before joining Hargrove’s undertaking. For now, she plans to shorten the menu, but will maintain such favorites as the hot turkey sandwich and the “signature steak burger.” She’ll be using Heidelberg bread and Stagecoach Coffee. “Everything is going to be fresh,” she said. “Fresh hamburger, not frozen. Fresh french fries, handcut.” This is something of a family undertaking, as Nickolas Melnichenko will be waiting tables for his mother and grandfather. Vicky Stringer, a Bassett

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RN, has been helping her sister during the startup. Whereas you occasionally hear complaints about tourists around here (and in any tourist town), you won’t hear them from Barb. She loves the smiling faces and happy people experiencing a life’s dream of coming to Cooperstown. She had considered renaming TJ’s “The Main Street Cafe,” but a friend told her, “You know, Barb, everyplace in town has a baseball name.” She reasoned to herself, “Kids don’t say, ‘I want to go to ‘Main Street.’” And so, a new tradition was born. Batter’s Up.

ity of Stagecoach Lane. (Check for signs.) The permits allow all-day parking in the Chestnut Street lot, space available, but are not valid in the Doubleday Field lot. No permit, and you will be required to use Pay & Display machines now on order, which will sell parking passes, $2 an hour, but in 15-minute increments. While the $25 permit is a convenience for local drivers, it could also make a sizeable contribution to village coffers, according to Mayor Jeff Katz. He points out there are 900 houses in the village, and you might expect every

one. The Katz family has three cars, and the mayor plans to buy three permits. There are another 3,500 households in the neighboring towns of Hartwick, Middlefield and Otsego. “There are thousands and thousands of possibilities,” said Katz. State law requires the permits be available to anyone from anywhere who wants to spend the $25. However, the village trustees put a provision in place so that permits purchased will be mailed to the purchaser’s home, so someone who may be visiting for a week won’t recognize the bargain and buy one.

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LOCALS 5 Take Prizes in First Cooperstown Concerto Competition

PUTNAM TAKES ‘MONSTER BENCH’ TITLE WITH 900 LBS Richard Putnam, left, lets out a roar of celebration right after he bench pressed 900 pounds at the Clark Sports Monster Bench Press Competition on Saturday, April 6. Last year, Putnam lifted 850, and took this year’s prize for “raw” lifting and the “most reps” prize for 40 reps at 225 pounds. Over 75 men and women competed in team, shirted and “raw” categories.

Award-winning musicians are (from left): Erik Mebust, Tommy Knight, Jasmine Martinez, Christianna Fisk and Caley SkyShrewsberry. All took prizes in the first Cooperstown Concerto Competition in March.

lutist Caley SkyShrewsberry took a $150 prize for her performance of “Siciliana and Giga from Sonata V” by Georges Friederich Handel at the CSH Concerto Competition. Erik Mebust, tenor, tooks second place and the $100 prize with “Finishing the Hat” from Stephen Sondheim’s “Sunday in the

Park with George.” In third place, playing the bass clarinet was Jasmine Martinez performed “Andante from Concerto in B-flat Major” by A. Beon. In the middle school division, the competition ended in a tie between Christianna Fisk, flute, playing “2nd Menuet de l’Arlesienne” by Georges Bizet. Tommy Knight, trumpet, playing

“Frolic” from Modern suite by Bernard Fitzgerald. Both were awarded $100. All five of this year’s winners can be heard at upcoming concerts: the younger students will reprise their award-winning piece at the Middle School concert in May and the older students at the High School concert in June.

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