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CCS Nets Top Scores In Physics, Geometry

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Retiring Bassett President/CEO Bill Streck and wife Karen accept good wishes after he spoke to his final Friends of Bassett breakfast Friday, May 2/SEE APPRECIATION, A4

Public Hearing On CCS Budget Scheduled 5/14 COOPERSTOWN

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board had subscribed the School Meter, a tool developed by the Putnam/Northwest Westchester BOCES to help make sense of all the The Freeman’s Journal data. CCS teachers’ PowThe other day, the subers and Gigliotti’s Please See SCORES, A7 students excelled.

com or ashleywalt@hotmail.com) by week’s end.) “It’s a live performance on the stage where the opera was born,” said Kate Roth Knull, referring to CCS’ Sterling Auditorium, where the Please See ODE, A6

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public hearing on CCS’ proposed May 20 Ballot Item Seeking 2014-15 budget is at To Split Costs With 2 Towns 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 14, in the junior/senior high school budget. By JIM KEVLIN The total budget is $17.75 million, a 2.8 percent or COOPERSTOWN $50,000 increase over this year’s budget of $17.25 milhe Village Library of lion. Cooperstown is performing Polls will be open 7 a.m.without a safety net in ask8 p.m. Tuesday, May 20, ing CCS resiwhere the public will vote dents to assume on the document and on four responsibility candidates -- Tim Hayes, for “proportionDavid Petri, Jean Schifano, ate” funding the and Theresa Russo, for two library budget. school board vacancies. At the request To review the proposed of the Vilbudget, visit lage Library’s WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM board, none of the $90,000 INTO HISTORY: The annual allocaFarmers’ Museum is acA two-lition it received cepting applications for this brary colfrom the Village summer’s Young Interpreter laboration Board has been program. Boys and girls, works can included in the work, Waterages 12 to 14 on May 1, are ville Library 2014-15 village invited to apply by May 15. Call Gwen Miner, 547-1457, Director Jeff budget, according to Mayor Reynolds or e-mail 547-1457. reports. Jeff Katz. If voters – all BOOKSIGNING: Homer school district residents are eliOsterhoudt will be augible – approve the new arrangetographing copies of his ment when they go to the polls 7 “Baseball Fantography,” a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday, May 20, the 9:30-11:10 a.m. Saturday, second-half $45,000 needed in the second half will be paid through the school tax levy. Please See LIBRARY, A7

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Kendall Lifgren’s hummingbird won one of 18 awards to students at the 2014 CCS Student Art Show that opened Friday, May 2, and may be view at the CCA through the 25th/DETAILS, A2

t looks like Otsego County may soon be ready to fully participate in Governor Cuomo’s plan to use higher education to attract new business and industry to revive Upstate New York’s long-flagging economy. SUNY Oneonta has identified six sites, and Hartwick College, a seventh – and Lewis the biggest: 24 level acres atop Oyaron Hill – that would qualify for the program. Sites identified in SUNY’s application include “the Susquehanna Regional Business Center for Entrepreneurship” on the fifth floor of 189 Main St., where the county’s “single point of contact” Sandy Mathes moved the county IDA (Industrial Development Agency) as of Monday, May 5. The center for entrepreneurship is envisioned as a collaboration Please See START-UP, A8

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26 Win Awards At Annual CCS Art Show COOPERSTOWN

E The Cooperstown Veterans’ Club is again supporting Our Community Salutes of Central New York, which Saturday, May 21, will recognize 96 new enlistees in the Armed Forces at a ceremony at 1 p.m. at the General Herkimer Homestead. Holding the banner are, from left, Teriann Sammis, VFW Commander Doug Walker and Jim Bridger. Legion Commander Mike Boyson was absent from the photo, but all are supporting the Otsego County enlistees, who will be joined by others from HerkImer, Oneida, Schoharie, Delaware and Chenango counties at the recognition ceremony.

ighteen students received special recognition and eight honorable mention at CCS’ 2014 Art Show, which opened to a capacity crowd Friday, May 2, at a Cooperstown Art Association reception at 22 Main. The 18 elementary and junior and senior high school students were: Katelyn Amsden, Catherine Borgstrom, Amber Brown, Krista Curpier, Emmy Dolan, Emily Greenberg, Christina Grigoli, Elle Kenyon, Max Koffer, Nick Lawson, Kendall Lifgren, Brittany Marino, Maria Miller, Rebecca Morosko, Katlyn Palmatier, Jeremiah Parr, Margaret Risenfeld, Andrew von Tsurikov.

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arah Mancuso of Cherry Valley was one of 10 honorees in the NYPENN Pathways Council this year to earn the Gold Award, the highest award a Girl Scout can earn. The girls were recogJim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal nized at a CCS art teacher Kristin Karasek, right, discussYoung Womes an entry in CCS’ 2014 Art Show with artist en of DistincAndrea House, Springfield, during the opening tion reception reception Friday, May 2, at the Cooperstown Art and luncheon Mancuso Association. Saturday, May The junior and senior includes masks, photo3, at Onondaga Community high students received $50 graphs, banners, ceramics, College, Syracuse. OCC each and the elementary stu- landscapes, still lifes, home President Casey Crabill was dents $25 from the Friends furnishings, books repurkeynote speaker. of Music & Art, which orga- posed in multiple ways and Sarah is a 2013 graduate nizes the annual show. a Phoenix on the verge of of Cherry Valley-Springfield Receiving honorable flight, is open through May High School and curmention were Ben Carentz, 25 on the upstairs ballroom rently a freshman at SUNY Crystal Castle, Makayla at Village Hall. Potsdam’s Crane School of Denninger, Joseph Longhi, For more information on Music. For her project she Marykate Murphy, Stuart FOMA contact, Nancy Tarr created a music camp, where Nelson, Michelle Zhang and Wager at 301-351-4232 or she taught attendees about Michael Zhou. fomaccs@gmail.com. instruments and music from The art show, which around the world.

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velopment Commission. Both are members. According to DOS’ Mark Pattison, director of local government Scozzafava services and former Troy mayor, local governments are challenged to maintain local identity while still delivering services. Ways of doing this may include consolidation or dissolution of municipalities or of school, fire or library districts. Shared services is another possible route. DOS grants are available to study these options, he said, and cited four received by Otsego County governments so far: • Otsego County government has received two

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Chilling Testimony To Heroin Task Force Brings Crisis Home

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ithin hours of hosting the Joint Senate Task Force on Heroin & Opioid Addiction Monday, April 28, at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, sent in the firefighters. Thursday, May 1, he announced an overdose-prevention training class for a few days later, Wednesday, May 7, at Fox Hospital. Free and open to the public, the session aimed to train people to administer Naxolone or Narcan, which can revive people in the throes of overdosing. • This is not theoretical, as was dramatized in the task force’s local hearing, where Deb France of Oneonta bravely shared the story of her son, Jeremy, who became hooked on heroin after a dentist prescribed a painkiller on pulling the boy’s wisdom teeth. Jeremy was jailed for theft at 18, attempted suicide, was committed to a psychiatric ward and underwent rehab twice. “He’s a heroin addict; cut him loose,” his parents were told, but they could not. Nonetheless, on April 13, 2012, a week after his 23rd birthday, “one month after he got out of jail and one week after his 23rd birthday, my son successfully committed suicide,” Mrs. France reported. The audience at the hearing gasped as one. And who, reading reporter Libby Cudmore’s account, didn’t feel a sharp pang of sympathy for the family’s loss

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As Senator Seward listens intently, Justin Thalheimer, Otsego County Chemical Dependency program manager, voices his concerns at heroin’s local inroads.

and admiration for Mrs. France’s sharing of a story that needs to be told? As with Mrs. France, so with Milea Buffo, a young woman whose Oxycodone prescription led to addiction. These brave citizens deserve everyone’s commendation for sharing their stories, for personalizing a scary problem we want to objectify and file away. • Yet, the arrival of heroin among us, a wolf among the one-time innocents, has been an increasing part of the public consciousness since county Judge Brian Burns raised the alarm to a surprised gathering of well-wishers at his last swearing-in. Heroin, he said on New Year’s Day 2011 in sedate Courtroom #1 of the county courthouse, “is going to be the biggest problem in the next 10 years.” Regrettably, he was right. Barely two or three weeks go

by without significant busts and arrests. District Attorney John Muehl and county Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr., have been vigorously attacking the heartless peddling of an enslaving substance. As chilling as Mrs. France and Ms. Buffo’s accounts to the task force was Devlin’s, who said 60 percent of his inmates in the county jail are addicted to something. And he has no money or programs to help them combat it. • This problem is not confined to our Otsego County. The wolf is ranging the nation. The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention has reported 11 year-to-year increases in drug-overdose deaths, from 4,030 in 1999 to 38,329, almost 10 times greater. This is not progress. In March, President Obama, as is his tendency in everything, called for a “balanced approach” to combating the scourge. “By boosting community-based prevention, expanding treatment, strengthening law enforcement and working collaboratively with our global partners, we will reduce drug use and the great damage it causes our communities.” That kind of even-handed language from our no-drama president belies the urgency of the problem. People are dying by the tens of thousands annually, and their families irremediably stricken. With a trillion dollars spent since 1972 on the so-called War on Drugs, we yearn for a Leader-In-

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Chief to rally us to a cause. But, regrettably, it’s not to be. • We’re all adults here. We can’t wait for Washington to come around. We must do what we can. Senator Seward’s prompt scheduling of the Noxolone/Narcan training session shows the right kind of urgency: If a house is on fire, you send the fire truck. As an example to others, he planned to undergo the training himself. It’s emerging that too many people walk out of emergency rooms – and, it seems, dental offices – with an Rx for so-called opioids and an insufficient understanding of their dangers. Doctors, nurses and – judging from the local testimony – dentists should be sure they are taking the necessary time to instruct their patients. And if two or three pills will suffice, don’t prescribe six or eight. The Seward task force, the senator said in an interview, is taking it further. It plans to have a comprehensive proposal ready to be introduced when the state Legislature goes back into session June 1, with the goal of enactment by the end the session, which may wrap up by the month’s end. Hearing Devlin’s testimony,

Seward concluded “we just can’t arrest our way through this problem.” Treatment needs to be available in jail. Drug courts – Judge Burns has pioneered them locally – may have to be expanded. Now, only suspects charged with felonies can participate; perhaps that should be lowered to include misdemeanors, Seward said. As chairman of the Senate Insurance Committee, Seward has been troubled by stories of parents bringing sons and daughters to rehab centers, only to be told their insurance doesn’t cover residential treatment; they are referred back to less-expensive (and less-intense) outpatient counseling. Physicians should be determining the intensity of treatment, not an actuary back at headquarters. • It sounds like the Seward task force intends to take the problem apart and go after the pieces one by one, a very promising approach. Judge Burns is on the job. And Muehl and Devlin are too, seeking to pinch off the suppliers ferrying back and forth from New York City one by one. With both parents working these days, children are often left alone evenings at a time, and mischief can result. Please, parents, hold your children close. Society can solve problems. Everyone wears seatbelts. Smoking is in decline. With focus and determination, we can push the wolf, farther ever farther, back into the woods. Everyone has a role; let’s each of us play ours.

WILLIAM F. STRECK, M.D., ‘Guide On An Amazing Journey’ Editor’s Notes: Bassett Healthcare Vice President/COO Bertine McKenna delivered these remarks in praise of Dr. Bill Streck Friday, May 2, in at the packed Otesaga ballroom, where the retiring 30-year president/CEO of the nine-county system was addressing The Friends of Bassett for the last time. Streck is retiring July 1.

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recently spoke with a reporter developing a story on Dr. Streck. She had already spoken with several people and seemed exhausted from all the accolades she had heard and the amount of work in front of her to sort through his contributions. There’s the health network he’s built over 5,000 square miles, the Columbia-Bassett Medical School Program, a partnership with area colleges to address the nursing shortage, health plans he’s developed, the Bassett Heart Care Institute, a medical staff of over 400, and he has led Bassett to its current position as number 48 among the top 100 integrated health care networks in the country – just to name a few. The list is endless. Then the reporter asked me something very important. She asked for one unique thing I would leave her with about Dr. Streck. I realized the most important point hadn’t been fully explained yet. I said to her, “We all know what he has done for the people and health care in this region. But

special fact about their life.” With an amazingly robust sense of humor, quick wit and great humanity, he has brought out the best in each of us. He created an organization whose very name has a beating heart. By deciding “this would be good for Bassett or this would not be good for Bassett,” he inspired people to recalibrate their approach and to work together to make this living, breathing organism called Bassett successful. When things don’t go perfectly, he has always been the first to listen, understand and move forward. When things go perfectly, he praises others. When things are mundane, he creates a lively conversation and inspires us to think differently. When we have had to change dramatically, and didn’t necessarily want to, he created the Petri dish for us to jump in and grow. So the accolades must include recognition of the fact that Dr. Streck has guided over 3,000 people on an amazing journey that was his vision for the network we are today. He has done this as a compassionate, Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal smart and understanding leader who loves Bill Streck acknowledges one of several standing ovations he received to laugh, to work and to make sure the peowhen speaking to the Friends of Bassett for the last time Friday, May 2. ple who come to work every day know that Streck, Bassett president/CEO for 30 years, is retiring July 1. he understands their value. That’s who he is as a leader, as a man and as a visionary. perhaps what people don’t fully appreciate they need to improve. He understands we He loves Bassett and he loves its people, is that he is a unique leader of people. He all have our individual attributes. He knows and that won’t stop when he walks out the knows those who work with him very well. how each person brings value to the work door on the last day of his 30 year tenure. He knows their strengths and the things place, and he often knows their family and a

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In Discharging Patient, Otsego Manor Falls Short To the Editor: I think the public should be made aware of the dangerous inadequacy of The Manor’s discharge practices. Recently, an extremely elderly patient, ambulatory with only a walker, was discharged to the conditions shown in the forwarded pictures. A complaint to the Director of The Manor received no reply. The State Department of Health refused to investigate beyond stating that the “documentation” was in place. Both The Manor and the state Health Department, charged with responsibility, refuse discussion and take refuge behind supposed “privacy” considerations, but to my A patient was discharged to this home certain knowledge no formal assessin disarray, Dr. Whelan says. ment of this patient’s competence was

undertaken, and no assessment of her home was made at the time of discharge. She was simply placed in the lobby at 10 a.m. and a neighbor, who had refused further responsibility, was contacted to come and get her. The neighbor was told that her bed had been given away. The Manor is obliged to discharge patients to a safe environment, whether or not the patient is entirely realistic or unrealistic as to what that constitutes. This was a miserable failure of administrative responsibility, and should be addressed with investigation and oversight. MARY ANNE WHELAN, MD Cooperstown

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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom HeiTz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library

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Married – on Tuesday evening last, by the Rev. John Smith, Samuel Starkweather, Esq., Attorney at Law, to Miss Marcia Averill, daughter of James Averill, Jun. Esq., all of this village. Village Law – Resolved, That no person shall remove any of the fire hooks, ropes or ladders belonging to the Trustees of this village, from the place where they are deposited, without the consent of the President of the village, under the penalty of one dollar for every offence, May 7, 1814

In Our Town – The first cycle car (motorcycle with sidecar), something entirely new in the buzz-cart line, to make its appearance in Cooperstown was a Pioneer, owned by Ralph Flanders, who took advantage of the good roads Sunday to take a trial spin. Mr. Flanders has the agency. The following notice has been placed in front of one of Cooperstown’s business places where sitters are wont to congregate. “These steps are leased for business purposes and not for the use of sitters and spitters.� May 6, 1914

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School District Libraries – This subject is engrossing the attention of the public, and we are glad to find so much interest manifested as is apparent in this county. The selection of books ought to be made with good judgment, embracing mainly History, Travels, and Biography. Care too should be observed in regard to the binding, for light covers will soon fail and the books prove nearly valueless with but comparatively little use. One difficulty with the Common School Library is that the bindings are not sufficiently strong enough to endure any length of time: Besides, we do not think the matter of which it is composed preferable to a selection which may be made at the bookstores. With this impression, a day or two since, we looked over the catalogue of the Mssrs. Phinneys, and examined many of their books, satisfying ourselves that libraries may be selected from their store of as varied and useful a character, and considering the binding and quantity of matter in the volumes, at a cheaper rate, than to purchase of the Harpers in New York. Let those interested examine for themselves. May 6, 1839

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Excerpts from a letter penned by President Abraham Lincoln to A.G. Hodges of Frankfort, Kentucky dated April 4, 1864: “I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling. It was in the oath I took that I would to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was it my view that I might take an oath to get power and break the oath in using the power. I understood too, that in ordinary civil administration, this oath, even forbade me to practically indulge my primary, abstract judgment on the moral question of slavery. I had publicly declared this many

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The old Phinney pasture on which Abner Doubleday marked out the first baseball diamond a hundred years ago on Saturday afternoon was visited by a gathering of over 3,500 people to participate in and witness the initial ceremonies of Cooperstown’s season-long celebration of the event which has proven such an important factor in American life – the invention of the national game. They saw the plot which a century ago was on the western outskirts of Cooperstown, now miraculously transformed into a perfect baseball diamond with a modern grandstand completely equipped with all appurtenances for the comfort and conveniences of players and spectators and augmented by encircling bleachers with a seating capacity of 10,000. They saw a surface as smooth and green as a new billiard table, and the May 10, 1989 setting, amidst gardens, lawns and shade trees. May 10, 1939 times and in many ways. And I aver that, to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery.� May 6, 1864 Work will commence this week on development of the vacant lot at the corner of Main and Pioneer Streets into a village park. The Board of Trustees and the Scriven Foundation have approved plans for the project, which will be Church and State – What shall be taught? We take the carried out with funds to be raised by public subscription. ground that the education which leaves out all reference to No tax monies are involved. The work will be done by Neil man’s relation to the Unseen world must of necessity be R. Neilson, Inc., Oneonta contractor. one-sided and incomplete, and that our common schools, May 13, 1964 from the emasculation of a majority of the text books of all reference to the Supreme Being, and from the increasing deference paid in the course of study to the clamor against everything of a religious character, are to a great extent Bassett Healthcare’s Junior Volunteer Program is acceptgodless and are not in any sense nurseries of the young. If it ing volunteers age 14 and older to donate time to perform be true that high and holy living is not natural to the human important services at the hospital’s Cooperstown facilities heart, and that all which leads the child toward the ideal during the summer months. The program begins on Tuesof a true manhood is the result of careful culture, then the day, July 6. Students are asked to donate a total of 50 hours attempt to train the young in a school where all religious during the seven-week program which concludes on August teaching is forbidden must be a lamentable failure. 20. Parental permission, immunization shots are required. May 10, 1889 May 7, 2004

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Polite Crews Help Smooth Construction To the Editor: As an employee at Mickey’s Place, situated on the north side of Main Street, Cooperstown, I have been witnessing first hand the sidewalk renovation project. I have been extremely impressed with the courtesy, professionalism and cooperation shown by the construction crew. They have kept the owner and manager of our store informed of their progress and have gone out of their way to make sure customers can access our store. Visitors to our store during the busy two week spring break period were quick to make positive comments on the progress they were seeing on Main Street. In this day and age when people are quick to criticize and slow to praise, I wanted to take a moment to thank the construction crew and acknowledge the hard work and vision of our mayor and Village Board. I’m looking forward to the beautiful results! VICKI GATES Cooperstown

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Start-Up NY Changes Conversation To the Editor: LETTERS Tuesday, April 29, I attended a presentation and against our established discussion at Hartwick Colbusinesses. Considering the lege about the new Start-Up 10-year expiration on the NY program. This program “tax free zones,” and that is advertised as an energizer the land Hartwick College to Upstate economies by may use in this program is encouraging partnerships not currently generating any between SUNY campuses taxes, this program ultimateor private colleges and new ly creates new tax-generatbusinesses with “tax free ing space. zones.” Furthermore, a condition The institution essentially for approval is the partnerprovides the land space, ship must deliver new jobs the company brings a new within the first year, and enterprise not currently in may not directly compete the area, and the company with already established operates mostly state taxlocal businesses. This free for 10 years. Success protects the existing workof a partnership could stimuplaces, and the job growth late local economies while is not net creation, or even simultaneously enhancing relocated from another academic experience. region, but jobs that did not No matter our orientation exist anywhere before the on the issue, we seem to partnership. unanimously agree that ecoThis means that within nomic development needs one year of launching a creative ideas. We have two partnership we will have colleges that graduate nearly more jobs and more money 2,000 students each year, yet spent locally than without we can only employ a fracthis program. tion of them. No single idea It is also worth noting the or action will keep the mainteresting condition that jority of those graduates, but prospective partners must small bites of retention are align in some way with the within reach, and Hartwick host institution’s academic College’s eagerness to be mission. This is not about a part of Startup New York planting businesses Upstate, deserves notice. but building sustainable One may feel that this relationships that produce program, with its no-tax New York goods and highly incentive to new ventures, sought-after New York colcreates an unfair advantage

‘Ode To Joy’ Celebrated In Film, Live And In Q&A ODE/From A1 Glimmerglass Opera, which turns 40 next year, performed in its early seasons. And this evening of activity, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, May 16, will benefit the Cooperstown Food Pantry renovations, where Knull and many of the other organizers are volunteers. “It” is the regional premiere of “Following the Ninth: In The Footsteps of Beethoven’s Final Symphony,” a new film by Kerry Candaele that documents the impact of “Ode To Joy” performances worldwide, from Tiananmen Square to the Berlin Wall. Bill Moyers called it “beautiful and powerful.” The co-producer who will be taking questions is Greg Mitchell, a journalist who co-wrote the script with Candaele. “Even without its political message (all men will become brothers) the Ninth would still be an

incredible piece of music,” he said. For the live performance, which will follow the film (and precede the Q&A), Knull and Sydney Waller, a co-chair of the organizing committee along with Cathy Raddatz, have recruited Fideliz Chavez of Hartwick College as music director. The voices, so far, include members of the Catskill Choral Society, Ah! Coopella, Voices of Cooperstown, church choirs and students from local school choruses. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors, $5 for teens and college students. Patron tickets ($40 for one, $75 for two) include a post-event reception with Mitchell at Coopertown Distillery. Tickets available at Ellsworth & Sill, Augur’s and the Distillery in Cooperstown, the Fly Creek General Store, and the Green Earth in Oneonta. Also, at the door.

lege graduates. Hartwick College’s President Margaret Drugovich has not just identified areas of potential alignment (from agriculture to healthcare records management), but she has already submitted an application to designate space for future partnerships. This is important, because there is limited space available for private institutions, therefore limited time to get going. Essentially, Hartwick College is telling prospective partners, “We’re ready!” President Drugovich’s leadership means Hartwick College is ahead of its peers and poised to raise the caliber of its institution and our community. Start-Up NY has changed the discussion on economic development in rural New York and Hartwick College’s vision and leadership is giving us much to look forward to. Hartwick College and SUNY Oneonta have long been significant wheels in the machine of our local economy, but with Start-Up NY they can accelerate and drive our economy to new speeds – let’s make sure the other wheels are ready to turn with them. DANIEL BUTTERMAN Oneonta

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Nay Public Vote Would Put Library Funding At Risk LIBRARY/From A1 If not, the Village Library will be short $45,000, without funding for the second half of the year. If that were to occur, “what’s going to happen,” Katz said, “by nature, people will come to the village government. If they are Town of Otsego or Town of Middlefield residents, I will direct them to their town boards. “Non-village residents should not come to the Village Board to ask them to keep paying disproportionate costs,” the mayor said. Katz was referring to figures detailed Sunday afternoon, May 4, at a League of Women Voters’ forum on the library question in the Village Hall meeting room. Only 34 percent of Village Library cardholders live in the village, but the village pays 76 percent of the library budget, Kim Jastremski, Village Library Board chair, pointed out. Eighteen percent are from the Town of Otsego, which

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pays only 10 percent; 15 percent are from the Town of Middlefield, which pays only 3 percent. “This is an unsustainable situation,” Jastremski said. The solution proposed by the library board and the Friends of the Village Library, outlined at the forum, is to shift funding so that everyone in the Cooperstown Central School District pays a share based on their property assessment. The question on the ballot will ask CCS District residents to approve a $180,000 allocation, of which $115,000 will go to the Village Library and $65,000 will go the other library in the district, the Kinney Memorial in Hartwick hamlet. That will come to 16 cents per $1,000 on the school tax bills. As Jastremski explained it, the two libraries, which are both chartered as municipal libraries, have prepared

budgets independently, then combined them in the ballot question. If approved, the $115,000 for the Village Library and $65,000 for the Kinney will be the floor: Funding for each library will not drop below that level. The libraries have agreed not to ask for more money in 2015. The Village of Cooperstown, which charges the library no rent, has agreed not to do so for three or four years, the chair said. Accounting services are also free through Village Treasurer Ed Keator, but the village would also start charging for that at some point. The Village Board is also planning major renovations to 22 Main, which houses the library, village offices and the Cooperstown Art Association. Jastremski said discussion of the library’s role in that will be at a longrange planning committee

meeting June 8, after the budget vote. Jeff Reynolds, director of the Waterville Library, south of Utica, appeared on the panel with Jastremski, Village Librarian David Kent and Donna Sell, a member of the Kinney Library board. He pointed out that the state Dormitory Authority bonds for $14 million a year for capital improvements to libraries, available through the Regents, and some of that would be available for Cooperstown’s plans. Waterville’s is a school district library, but there is a second facility – the Clark Memorial Library in Oriskany Falls – in the school district, and the annual school budget vote funds both. In Reynolds’ experience, the collaboration has been uneventful. Attendees at the forum were very supportive of the Village Library. “I love this library,” said Pamela Good.

CCS Test Scores Tops In Physics, Geometry SCORES/From A1 scription led to a nice surprise. In a phrase, “we’re number one” – in physics and geometry, Superintendent of Schools C.J. Hebert and his leadership team learned. Teachers got the news at a faculty meeting Monday evening, May 5, and they were delighted, Hebert said. Singled out for praise were science teacher Joe Powers and math teacher Therese Gigliotti. As Executive Principal Lynn Strang explained it, 12 CCS students took the physics Regents. Their combined scores tied for first place with 66 of the other 650 public school districts in New York State. In geometry, 58 CCS students took the Regents, and their combined scores tied

for first place with 23 other schools statewide. Strang has looked back at the data and could find only one instance in the past, in a foreign language, where CCS tied for first. She sees it as an affirmation of the approach that Hebert’s administration has embraced. “Teachers are utilizing the data on an annual basis,” she said. “They see what concepts and skills students are struggling on, and make modifications” in the way subjects are taught. Hebert’s team had selected 10 other schools with equivalent demographics to Cooperstown’s, and School Meter found CCS’ physics and geometry Regents scores were also the best of that group. The others were ranked in this descending order: Geneseo, Lake George, Tully, Fabius-Pompey, Delhi, Avon, Whitesboro,

Cambridge and Chatham. To compare CCS to all districts, Hebert said, didn’t seem as helpful as comparing it to districts with similar “socio-economic” characteristics. Nine of the 10 districts were of similar size; the 10th – Whitesboro – was larger, but similar in other ways, Hebert said. This year, the School Meter results are a “snapshot,” Hebert said, but as the years pass, the tool will allow the administrators to see trends and adjust the instruction plans accordingly, and not just with Regents. For instance, he said, the annual Grade 3-8 testing, mainstay of the Common Core Curriculum, are being similarly analyzed. Hebert and Cring didn’t release Regents scores in all areas, but the principal said, “overall, all our scores were pretty good.”

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From Oyaron Hill To Entrepreneurship Center START-UP/From A1 between the IDA, SUNY and Hartwick, according to Carolyn Lewis, SUNY Oneonta’s economic developer in President Nancy Kleniewski’s office. But even if those discussions were to fall through, the tax breaks would still apply to the fifth floor and the IDA could use them for other ecdev ventures, she said. SUNY’s other five sites include 152 Corporate Drive in the Pony Farm Industrial Park, where ultracapicatormaker Ioxus announced it is adding a 30-job production line. Depending on the timing, Ioxus may be able to take advantage of Start-Up NY enticements, or it may use other ec-dev benefits instead, Lewis said.

A particular intriguing site on SUNY’s list is a former fallout shelter behind the Oneonta Job Corps (the former Homer Folks TB hospital on West Street.) Lewis envisions the bunker as ideal for a homeland-security or cyber-security use, given that there’s a communications tower on the property. SUNY’s three other sites are that former apartment house at the top of Clinton Street, a vacant, small SUNY-owned parcel on West Street, and a multi-colored former single-family home the college owns at 5 Normal Ave., next to the Old Main Apartments. Margaret Arthurs, Hartwick’s director of Corporate, Foundation & Government

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Miller: Entrepreneurship Center ‘Exciting’ neonta’s Mayor Dick Miller called the proposed “Susquehanna Regional Business Center for Entrepreneurship� to be “very exciting� and “a very significant new development� when details emerged in SUNY Oneonta’s Start-Up NY application. “It’s a pebble in the pond,� he said, an opportunity for the community at large and the colleges, too. “We’ve been talking with both colleges since I’ve been mayor about having some sort of presence downtown,� said Miller, himself a former Hartwick College president who was elected mayor in 2010. “A presence that would not cost them anything, but would be available to student, faculty and staff to facilitate their work.� The mayor has brought together the Oneonta Alliance, harnessing a range of business leaders to promote economic development, and he said the SUNY and Hartwick College initiatives “are completely consistent with everything we’re doing at the alliance.�

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A-9 152 CORPORATE DRIVE – Ioxus is moving into the site in Pony Farm Industrial Park.

ATOP OYARON HILL – Hartwick College is offering 24 flat acres with municipal water, electrical and views of the Catskills. 108 CLINTON ST. – Former 189 MAIN ST., Fifth Floor apart– IDA offices may house ment the Susquehanna Regioncomal Business Center for plex. Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Incubation.

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SUNY Planners See Arts, Environment, Health As Areas Of Collaboration With Business START-UP/From A8 unprecedented tax breaks: The sites are 100-percent tax free for 10 years. As www.startup.ny.gov puts it, “no income tax, no business or corporate state or local taxes, no sales tax, no property tax, no franchise fees.” “Businesses will have access to resources of worldclass higher education institutions, including industry experts and advanced research laboratories,” it continues. Lewis, and Colleen Brannan, Kleniewski’s chief of staff, agreed that given SUNY Oneonta is “a comprehensive college,” ing brat ar Cele 4th ye4 2 1 our 990-20 1

it should have access to a much broader range of potential businesses. The planning group asked itself, “what could we put out there that would make SUNY Oneonta unique?” Lewis said. In arts and culture, could the fashion, music industry, arts & theater programs, and the Cooperstown Graduate Program in Museum Studies, bring in haute couture, sound studios or set-design enterprises? Could the Biological Field Station, with the only lakes-management masters in the country, bring in concerns interested in

environmental mitigation, water-filtration technologies or halting invasive species? Could the combination of the college’s health-science programs, in connection with Fox and Bassett hospitals, Springbrook and Pathfinder Village, help spawn health-related businesses. SUNY Oneonta graduates 60-70 biology majors annually, Lewis said. Arthurs pointed out that Hartwick has a unique list of contacts: Its alumni, many of whom are in business in other parts of the country,

that might be interested in an investment related to their alma mater. The same would apply to SUNY. Lewis and Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller said they believe the property-tax breaks have been somewhat mitigated on 189 Main’s fifth floor and the Pony Farm site. But the mayor believes that’s a secondary issue regardless. “I don’t care where the new businesses are,” he said. “Property taxes will be given up first by almost any muncipality. If the activity

is in Oneonta, it is going to generate sales tax revenue, hotel and restaurant visits – those are all good things.” SUNY Oneonta – Cuomo had originally envisioned Start-Up NY as state-college focused – has received initial approval of its application, and is in the publiccomment period until May 25, when the plan will be forwarded to SUNY headquarters for final approval. Private colleges like

Hartwick are in the secondary cycle. Arthurs said Hartwick’s “pre-application” has been approved, and she is awaiting word on the next step to move the Oyaron site forward. However, there is a commitment to proceed: President Drugovich hosted a community breakfast Tuesday, April 29, where the college’s plan was detailed to local business leaders.

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