Freeman's Journal 03-31-16

BRICK BULWARK

ONEONTA LANDMARK MARKS 175TH/B1

Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal Sahasra Seetha, Cooperstown, gives the Easter bunny a big hug Saturday, March 26, after the traditional Easter egg hunt at Hyde Hall, sponsored by Leatherstocking Federal Credit Union. County Loses

1,094 People, Census Finds

Otsego County lost 1,094 population since Census 2010, a 1.76 percent drop, according to updates to the 2010 Census released in recent days. It ranks 34th among the state’s 62 counties in population loss.

In all, Upstate counties lost 65,638 people, or 1.04 percent. Downstate gained 43,330 people, or 0.33 percent. Overall, the state lost 22,308 people, or 0.12 percent.

HELP FOR 22 MAIN:

The Village Board has accepted a $92,000 bid from the Utica painting company to repair the pillars and paint the south end of Village Hall.

TOP RESCUERS: The Coopertown Fire Department has named Paul Bedworth Firefighter of Year; Tayler Madden Rookie of Year, and Alicia Lasher EMS Provider of the Year.

TREE FOR MILO: The village Tree Committee is planning to plant a tree in honor of Milo V. Stewart, the photographer and CGP professor, on Arbor Day, April 29.

By JIM KEVLIN

COOPERSTOWN

Michael Virgil has been interim superintendent of schools before, but this is different.

Virgil Focus: Building Projects, Recruitment

“It’s a terrible situation for everyone in this district,” said Virgil, who served in seven interim positions in local school districts since retiring as Morris Central superintendent of schools in 2009. “It’s tragic.”

But, he said of his role: “You’re not replacing someone. You’re doing a job.” At a Cooperstown Central school board meeting at 7:30 a.m., Tuesday, March 29, Virgil was appointed and im-

mediately got to work.

He is filling the position vacated when C.J. Hebert, sixyear superintendent at CCS, died Sunday, March 20, in an ATV accident near his home outside Cobleskill.

In an interview, CCS board

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By JIM KEVLIN

COOPERSTOWN

When painter Steve Eldred heard the Village Board was considering a law to require contractors to pay to park when working downtown, he tallied up how much extra it would have cost him to paint the Mel’s at 22 building last October at Main and Chestnut. The total – a $25 application fee, plus $15 a day for up to three vehicles – would have been $1,800, which he would have added to his bill.

When he shared that sum with the building’s owners, he told village trustees during a public hearing on the law Monday, March 28: “They said they wouldn’t have done the work if they had to pay that extra.”

When Eldred finished his testimony, and contractor John Phillips added his – “The costs will be borne by the businesses,” he said – the trustees

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Shoveling Policy Stymies Trustees

COOPERSTOWN

hy can’t neighbors tattle on any neighbors who fail to shovel their sidewalks within 24 hours of a snow storm?

That was one suggestion that surfaced at the Village Board’s meeting Monday, March 28, a month after the trustees voted to cancel fines against five homeowners Please See SHOVELS, A3

COOPERSTOWN

ere’s a sneak preview:

IF YOU GO: “Open House” to review proposed village’s draft “Comp Plan,” 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, at Chestnut Street firehall.

• The word “garage” is in the draft Comprehensive Master Plan that you will be able to see for the first time 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, at the fire hall. “But it’s in there with a lot of caveats, like ‘financially feasible’,” said Cindy Falk, co-chair of the committee.

• The word “density” is not in there. “But many of us are concerned about declining population,” said Falk. “EveryPlease See PLAN, A2

A DRAMATIC INVITATION

‘Open

CCS senior Ted Trosset sprung a surprise invitation to the upcoming senior prom with a banner spread across Main Street on Wednesday, March 23. A delighted Jen Flynn gives Ted a hug in left photo on arriving at the scene.

County Board Set

To Honor OCHA

COOPERSTOWN

The Otsego County Historical Association is poised to receive a proclamation from the Otsego County Board of Representatives following a board vote on Wednesday, April 6. On March 22, the Intergovernmental Affairs Committee, chaired by county Rep. Craig Gelbsman, unanimously moved the proclamation to the full board’s vote.

“This is extremely impactful on the work done by all historians and historical groups in our county,” Deb Mackenzie, OCHA president.

House’ On Village’s Future Is April 5

And “business development.” “We need to find ways that Main Street doesn’t become pretty quiet after 5 p.m.,” she continued. And Railroad Avenue – should the village be deciding what should go up there? Or should decisions be made collaboratively with property owners?

These are some of the issues and questions that will be raised as the village’s 1994 comp plan – it doesn’t even mention Bassett; Dreams Park didn’t even exist when it was passed – enters the final phase of what is nearly a two-year revision process, a co-effort of Village Hall and Otsego Now, whose COO Elizabeth Horvath is Falk’s co-chair.

The committee also includes Mayor Jeff Katz and Trustee Ellen Tillapaugh; Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce Executive

Director Matt Hazzard; businesspeople Chris Grady of Stagecoach Coffee and Marc Kingsley of the Inn at Cooperstown, and Ted Spencer, the retired Hall of Fame archivist who lives on upper Main St.

The committee is being assisted by Elan Planning’s Lisa Nagle, a consultant from Saratoga who is also helping similar efforts in Richfield Springs and, soon, Oneonta.

The event on the 5th is being called an “open house,” similar to one organized last June. The plan will be displayed on easels or tables. Attendees – and the daylong hours are intended to enable as many people to attend as possible – will be provided with pens, markers and Post-It notes to make comments.

The Village Board – “ideally,” said Falk – will then reference the plan – the combined wisdom of all the people who participated in creating it – whenever it faces a major decision.

A current comp plan is particularly important in two ways: one, seeking grants for projects that are in line with the plan. And, two, in expediting SEQRA reviews of projects that may have environmental, traffic or other impacts.

Falk said one area of general agreement was the need for environmental awareness, of increasing walkability and bicycling, of promoting alternative fuels, of being “good stewards.

Snowshoveling Policy Stymies Village Board

SHOVELS/From A1 who failed to shovel their walks after a light January snowfall, and give “amnesty” to 21 others.

Two other options reported back by the Village Board’s Streets committee were:

• creating an “opt-in” email program so homeowners can be alerted if their walks are insufficiently shoveled.

• Reviving the requirement that homeowners receive a written notice 24 hours before a fine is levied, so they have a chance to remove the snow.

A third option was to encourage neighbors to report on neighbors who fail to clear sidewalks “to the pavement” within 24 hours of a storm.

Mayor Jeff Katz has voiced concern about the “randomness” of the current system – DPW Superintendent Brian clancy only levies $108 fines against owners of the side-

walks he happens to see unshoveled; given the pressure of DPW business when there is a snowfall, he is unable to inspect all sidewalks in the village.

newly elected Trustee Richard Sternberg said if the current law requires homeowners to shovel sidewalks to within 24 hours, it doesn’t make sense to then give errant non-shovelers another 24 hours notice once they’re caught.

He suggested the $108 penalty be broken into two parts: A “fine” for not shoveling within 24 hours and, if the walk is still not shoveled, a “fee” for the DPW crew to do so.

Katz, in sending the matter back to the Street committee for further study, noted at least there’s plenty of time to work through a solution: There may not be another snowstorm for many months to come.

Perspectives

Town Of Oneonta Approves Plan That Doesn’t Make Sense

t 1:15 p.m. Friday, March 25, traffic was clogged, inching along, from the Route 28 intersection at Main Street to the Southside Mall entrance.

Every traffic light marked a failed intersection – east-west traffic was backed up through the intersection when the lights turned green for north-south traffic: At Home Depot, at Hannaford’s, at BJ’s and at McDonald’s.

Hold on to your patience, drivers, it’s only going to get worse.

On Wednesday, March 22, Oneonta Town Supervisor Bob Wood and his town board approved two water districts for Southside Oneonta that, against all logic, they have been noodling forward for years.

While not inevitable, a disastrous step for Greater Oneonta – traffic is the least of it – is now more likely.

• County Rep. Andrew Stammel, D-Town of Oneonta, who likewise championed the flawed concept when he was a town board member, couldn’t resist showing up one last time to cloud the issue.

He defined it as clean water. No one disagrees homes and businesses need clean water. But that never was the issue. The issue was smart growth vs. dumb growth. The water could have been provided, simply and more cheaply overall, by simply by piping the City of Oneonta’s surplus

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Caught in a traffic jam on Southside Oneonta? Get used to it. But that’s just the beginning of the bad news.

along Lettis Highway.

This would have allowed the town to keep future commercial development – and associated new tax revenues – within the town, the Oneonta City School District and Otsego County. Instead, the town has been insistent about building its own plant near Emmons and bringing municipal water through Delaware County to the outer reaches of Route 23.

This will open up development beyond the Otsego County line, allowing big boxes and commercial development generally to move out of the town, out of the school

district, and out of the county.

New commerce in Delaware County will likely sap the existing Southside commerce. This has happened in virtually every other Upstate city, and now it’s going to happen here.

• While the town is being, at best, shortsighted, the state’s role in this is downright mystifying.

While Albany gives lip service to consolidation and shared services, the state Environmental Facilities Corp. and federal entities have provided $4 million in grants

ISSUE & DEBATE

Life Without Fossil Fuels?

Careful What You Ask For

Editor’s Note: Mike Zagata, Ph.D., who lives in Davenport, is a former commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

There is virtual agreement that we must move away from fossil fuels to energy sources that are renewable, for at least two reasons. First, fossil fuels are non-renewable, i.e. at some point we will run out of them. Second, there are scientists and politicians that believe the burning of fossil fuels contributes to climate change.

nize early on that there is no such thing as a “free lunch” when it comes to energy. Each alternate we seek, be it solar, hydro-power, tidal power, wind power, etc., will have environmental impacts.

No matter which reason one chooses to support, there is a legitimate need to begin now to seek energy sources that are renewable and increasingly more environmentally friendly. It is also important to recog-

For example, with wind power there is an issue with the impact of the vanes on birds. With hydro-power there are fisheries impacts like the declines of Western salmon runs. In the long run, it will become a matter of trade-offs and political will. There are those who argue we should cease producing and burning fossil fuels right now. There are others who favor using them as a bridge to provide our energy until we have feasible alternatives. A mere year ago there

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for the project, plus $4.8 million in no-interest loans.

That $9.8 million flies in the face of the New N.Y. Government Reorganization & Citizen Empowerment Act of 2010, which assists shared services and consolidations, and scoffs at a key point of Governor Cuomo’s 2016 state budget proposals – a $20 million competition to encourage efficiency. It simply doesn’t make sense, and calls for a review by someone like state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli before this disastrous concept, state-funded, moves forward.

• The districts have been approved, but it’s not too late to adjust the plan locally. Town Supervisor Wood and the City of Oneonta’s new mayor, Gary Herzig, should make one last effort to keep future development under the control of Greater Oneonta.

Perhaps some of that $9.8 million – a fraction of it, no doubt – could be used to equalize water rates for the more sensible collaboration.

Pure water is a necessity, and Southside homeowners and businesses need it. Happily, we can have it all – clean water and smart growth.

Or we will find ourselves a few years hence, watching ruefully as customers inch along a clogged Route 23 en route to spending their money – and taking their tax revenues – somewhere else.

Pipeline Won’t Cure Otsego County’s Poverty

Editor’s Note: Kate O’Donnell, Ph.D., is a professor of sociology at Hartwick College.

Rural poverty is widespread and persistent in the U.S. Rural labor options, mass centralized industrialization, and urbanization cause rural people, usually the young, to migrate to urban areas for better paying jobs in more diverse labor sectors.

These structural forces have produced outmigration from U.S. rural areas since the 1800s. In our area, the existence of the railroad and subsequent educational and healthcare developments diversified our local economy and created more job opportunity than in more solely agriculturedependent areas.

Corporate globalization has led to capital mobility. This process has accelerated since the 1970s and is supported through global institutions like the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization. The impact is international competition and job displacement. Nationally and locally, wave after wave of U.S. businesses and their

workers have lost out.

Rural areas have been hard hit by overseas job displacement. Brown and Schafft (2011) report that in 19972003, 1.5 million rural jobs were lost in non-durable manufacturing like apparel, textiles, shoes, wood and food processing. The decline in manufacturing was more rapid in urban areas but manufacturing is centrally important to rural areas. A decline in farm and mining jobs in rural areas accompanied this trend.

Those workers who have been displaced tended to have less education and were concentrated in lower skill jobs. In the U.S., those remaining in rural areas find service sector jobs that have lower pay than those in urban areas. 40 percent of rural workers have jobs in low-pay personal and consumer services. Rural workers are also more likely to be underemployed. Female-headed households are

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To the Editor:

Very nice article about my Delaware Street neighbor Devin Morgan becoming the new chair of Otsego Now. I like his “grassroots economic development is my thing” approach to the job. His support of local entrepreneurship is an important part of what Otsego County needs, in my view. I hope he is including outreach for bringing in entrepreneurs from outside Otsego County. AllOTSEGO.com tells us that Otsego County lost 1,094 people in the last six years. They were difficult years, but it is still a troubling indicator that I believe can be slowly turned around with a serious commitment to rebuilding the county’s population and economy.

While driving back from New

York City last week I stopped at the large Destinations of New York State information center at the Thruway’s northbound Sloatsburg rest area next to New Jersey. It is the first and largest of three information centers on the Thruway northbound. In the summer, more than 700 visitors a day look for travel information. Many Upstate counties were well represented with colorful, attractive, full-size booklets filled with information on all that is available to see. You could see them on the walls from across the room. I said I was from Cooperstown and asked the representative if they get many inquiries for Cooperstown and she said yes. I asked if they had some information on the Please See DEAN, A7

the poorest. In Otsego County, 27.8 percent of female-headed households live in poverty. The majority of the poor are working but earning poverty wages. By 2005, there was an increase in the urban-rural wage gap. Per the state Community Action Association 2013 Poverty Report, in Otsego County, to be able to afford a two-bedroom apartment at fair market rate, an individual working 40 hours a week, full time, would have to earn $16.17 per hour.

In addition to low wages, lower levels of education and underemployment, rural communities suffer from irregular cell and electric service and a lack of transportation, broadband, affordable childcare, mental health and addiction treatment services, job training programs, and affordable housing. Oneonta is beginning to address the affordable housing situation.

In his March 10-11 op-ed in this newspaper, Mike Zagata claims that the Constitution Pipeline will fix these situations. How? While pipeline jobs pay well, they are largely temporary construction and tree removal jobs for men and employ a significant number Please See O’DONNELL, A6

To the Editor: Thank you, thank you, thank you! … to Cooperstown postal employees who made sure this mail found its proper home. Our friend is getting a little forgetful and could not remember our last names or exact address. But you found us, and I am sincerely grateful. JUDITH BARTOW Cooperstown The Freeman’s

BOUND VOLUMES

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

200 YEARS AGO

Recommendation – By a resolution of the Union Association, passed February 22, 1816, the body appointed Friday, the 12th Day of April next, as a day of HUMILIATION, FASTING, AND PRAYER. The churches in this body are earnestly requested to keep the above-mentioned day, for the purpose assigned by the body. By order: Henry Chapman, Moderator, Hartwick, March 20, 1816. April 4, 1816

175 YEARS AGO

Editorial: It is time for the people of the United States to begin to inquire whether they are any longer consulted in the affairs of Government, or whether they are to be led blindfold from one measure to another, until they know not where they are. We have just had a presidential election, in which no principle was declared, or any system of policy, or any set of measures, was put in issue by the victorious party. We have just had a session of Congress, in which, during three months, the victorious party peremptorily refused to show their hand, or to commit themselves on a single principle, measure, or system, or even to indicate the substitute for the Independent Treasury which they propose to repeal. We have just had an inaugural address from the President-elect (William Henry Harrison), the largest one ever delivered, and not a word in it to give a glimpse of the course of the new administration in relation to a single question, foreign or domestic, which occupies the attention of the country. Truly these are new scenes in the history of our country, and as such, distinctly announce to the people that they are to be governed, and not to govern – that hereafter they are to follow, and not to lead government – that submission and acquiescence, passive obedience, and nonresistance, is to be their part in time to come.

April 5, 1841

150 YEARS AGO

Shooting the Birds – A Letter to the Editor: Mr. Shaw – Is there a heart on this corporation (Cooperstown) that acknowledges a God that was not made glad, after the gloom which had for weeks rested upon us, by the songs of the spring birds? I cannot believe it. These little warblers add a charm and attraction to our beautiful village which has been frequently commented on, and which many persons notice. Yet sir, would you believe it, today as I lay in my sick room my ears have been disturbed by the frequent discharge of guns, fired on or near the corporation, by heartless and cruel boys engaged in the murder of the birds. Shame upon them! I wish they could have witnessed as I did, the distress

10 YEARS AGO

April 7, 2006

of one little robin whose mate they had shot; for hours it was uttering its painful note of distress, so different from its glad, morning song. Now sir, I appeal not to such thoughtless or heartless youths, but I do appeal to our citizens, and to farmers around, to do all in their power to put a stop to this wanton destruction of birds, especially in the spring. There is a law against it; let us try and have it enforced. Sig. B.

April 6, 1866

125 YEARS AGO

School Moneys – The total apportionment of school moneys for the year 1891 was $3,860,500, of which Otsego County received $50,539.70; divided as follows -- $38,800 for district quotas; $10,519.09 for aggregate days’ attendance; $424.61 for library money; and $800 for supervision at Oneonta. There were 471,671 aggregate days’ attendance, making with library money a trifle over 17 cents and one mill each scholar earned the district by each day’s attendance at school. The total apportionments to the towns are as follows: Cherry Valley, $1,761.91; Decatur, $710.05; Exeter, $1,314.31; Maryland, $2,725.10; Middlefield, $2,473.23; Otsego, $4,117.02; Plainfield, $1,330.67; Richfield, $2,436.85; Roseboom, $1,398.,58; Springfield,

AllOTSEGO.opportunities

Doubleday Batting Range

Now Hiring

Tasting Room • Retail • Events and Festival Staff

Able to work holidays and weekends - travel if needed. Contact: Ian Porto at Logistics@coopbrew.com or 607-286-9330

Caretakers and Lifeguards for Village

$1,654.01; Westford, $1,287.90; and Worcester $2,778.76. April 2, 1891

100 YEARS AGO

An expedition headed by Professor Warren K. Moorhead of Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, will leave Boston, May 15, 1916, to examine the shores of Lake Otsego near Cooperstown then gradually work down the Susquehanna River and up its tributaries of which the Unadilla is an important one to study prehistoric objects of the American Indians. Professor Moorhead’s party will consist of Alanson Skinner, formerly of the American Museum of Natural History of New York, and now of the George Hey Museum of the American Indians of New York. His surveyor is Ernest O. Sugden of Orland, Maine, who has surveyed for four or five other expeditions and three or four trained men. David R. Dorn of this village will aid the expedition in various ways.

April 5, 1916

75 YEARS AGO

Among the most unique and interesting of recent acquisitions at the National Baseball Museum and Hall of Fame are two copies of a thick volume entitled “Commemoration of Baseball Centennial – Japanese Baseballdom of Hawaii,” presented by the author, the Rev. C.B. Goto of Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii. The text is entirely in Japanese and runs exactly in reverse of that of English books with the title on the back cover and the title page.

April 2, 1941

50 YEARS AGO

The Cooperstown Central School Board of Education announced tentative plans this week to build a new 800-pupil Junior-Senior High School adjacent to the present Elementary School on Walnut Street. The new structure, estimated to cost between $1.75 and $2 million would replace the present 58-year-old building on Chestnut Street which has been used as a Junior-Senior High School since the Elementary School was opened in the fall of 1954.

April 6, 1966

25 YEARS AGO

The realities of modern farming stand in stark contrast to the romantic myth of the farm. To help people understand the challenges of modern farming and the people who must cope with those challenges the Smithy-Pioneer Gallery and the Cooperstown Graduate Program in History Museum Studies are currently preparing the exhibit titled “Toiling Hands, Troubled Fields – The Otsego County Farm as a Way of Life.”

April 3, 1991

Help Wanted

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Housekeeping Days & Weekends

Part-time Receptionist Approximately 30-35 hrs Nights & Weekends all jobs seasonal Call Lake ‘N Pines Motel Rt. 80 Cooperstown 607-547-2790

607-435-7062 22 Chestnut Street, Cooperstown

Mel’s at 22 is seeking help for all positions in our restaurant and culinary team. Accepting applications for summer and year-round employees. Call 435-7062, or stop in at 22 Chestnut St, Cooperstown, for an application.

Case Manager

Catholic Charities of Delaware, Otsego, and Schoharie Counties is seeking a full-time (35 hours per week) Case Manager for our Oneonta and Delaware County offices to provide emergency assistance for families and individuals who are struggling to meet their basic needs through our Caring Connections Program as well as to provide Dispute Resolution services to the general public. A valid NYS driver’s license is required. Catholic Charities is an equal opportunity employer. If interested please send cover letter with resume by April 15 to: Catholic Charities of Delaware, Otsego, and Schoharie Counties, attention: Lynn Glueckert, 176 Main Street, Oneonta, NY 13820 or via e-mail at lglueckert@charitiesccdo.org.

Personnel Assistant Trainee The Oneonta Municipal Civil Service Commission announces an open competitive exam for Personnel Assistant Trainee (School District) on May 14. Application deadline is April 11. Applications and announcements are available at the Personnel Office, 258 Main Street, or at www.oneonta.ny.us/personnel. EOE

Actors Wanted

MALE ACTORS NEEDED! Glimmer Globe Theatre Company in Cooperstown, NY, is seeking male actors from the ages of 20 to 65 to audition for roles in our summer productions of THE CRUCIBLE and ROMEO & JULIET. Everyone is welcomed to audition! If interested, please contact Andie Alban at 607 547 1453 or a.alban@nysha.org for more information, or to set up an audition time. These acting positions are paid, and the opportunity is not to be missed!

Now takiNg applicatioNs for poteNtial summer help

• Lifeguards & Swim Lesson Instructors

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were people who argued that the problem would take care of itself as fossil fuels would price themselves out of the market. As we now know, just the opposite has happened and gas is now less than $2 at the pump.

Let’s take an honest look at what life in the US would be like if the government banned the use of fossil fuels tomorrow.

Those fortunate enough to be able to afford to install solar panels on their roof or in their yard would appear to have an advantage over the rest of us. Is that really the case? They might well have enough electricity to heat or cool their home during the daylight hours. However, solar panels don’t generate electricity at night. What would happen then? They would be like the rest of us and freeze during winter and swelter during summer.

If they drove their electric car to work expecting to recharge it overnight guess what – they’re out of luck. You see that wall outlet or fancy

O’DONNELL/From A4 of out of state workers. By the industry’s own estimate, the pipeline will create seven permanent jobs.

In terms of community impact, states like Pennsylvania and North Dakota report that the gas industry labor situation raised competition for housing and increased housing costs – exactly what we do not need. In Pennsylvania in 2007-2013, during the gas-fracking boom, the poverty rate increased from 11.6 to 13.8 percent (Census Bureau, American Community Survey) with rural communities with gas development like Green experiencing rates as high as 18 percent.

Jobs in services, retail, transportation, and construction can be obtained from infrastructural investments and sustainable energy – not only through gas. The upside of sustainable development is that such jobs would be permanent, open to men and women, and not be associated

recharging station formerly got its electricity from a coalfired plant. Coal is a fossil fuel and thus can no longer be burned to generate electricity. If they’re going to recharge their electric vehicles, it will have to be done at work if they have enough of a charge to get there.

Those of us who awaken to the aroma of bacon and eggs would need to awaken much earlier to stoke up the wood stove (wood consists of the same ingredients as coal, but it’s not yet “fossilized” so it might be legal to burn). Our gas stove or electric stove that gets its electricity from generating plants that burn coal or gas (God forbid we use nuclear energy!) would no longer have a fuel source as fossil fuels are banned. Wood stoves emit particulates that, when conditions are right, may cause inversions where polluted air is trapped near the ground and people are forced to breathe it. That’s not good for people with emphysema or other lung issues. Air quality in Denver, Colo., got so bad as a result of wood-burn-

effects including increases in cancer, childhood leukemia, lung disease, and heart ailments seen in areas that have fracking, pipelines, and the associated compressor stations?

Like Flint, our children would also be particularly affected by daily environmental contamination. The discussion of negative health and environmental impacts is missing from every discussion of political pipeline cheerleading, on industry and area gas “development” websites, and even in the Otsego County Community Needs Assessment Report of April 2014.

The Renaissance of Upstate New York will not come through gas. As a matter of fact, such a move will thwart the emergent agritourism of our region, which includes small- and medium-size farming, organic products, specialty dairy product development like cheese and yogurt, farm to table enterprises, and craft beverages.

ing stoves, that the city banned their use during certain weather patterns. Having to cut our own wood might provide an unexpected health benefit as we would likely become more fit. Cutting more trees might even benefit certain songbirds that rely on openings in the forest for food.

For those of us who like to drive to meetings so we can plan our strategy for protesting something, we would be in for a shock. As previously discussed, electric vehicles would likely be home-bound. Our cars and trucks definitely would be. Gasoline is a fossil fuel; burning it would be banned. Not only would our freedom to travel via the car

be restricted – so would our ability to travel via the airplane as jet-fuel is also derived from fossil fuel. There went those mid-winter breaks to Florida. What about overnight mail via FedEx or UPS? The Post Office would need to revert back to the pony express. Even if we could burn the gas, diesel or jet fuel, we wouldn’t have a car, truck or plane to burn it in. Cars and trucks are mostly steel and plastic and, you guessed it, natural gas is used in the manufacture of steel and petroleum products are used to make plastic. Airplanes are mostly aluminum and manufacturing aluminum is very energy intensive. Even more surpris-

ing is that petroleum is used to make synthetic rubber and 70 percent of our rubber today is synthetic. It takes about seven gallons of petroleum to make one typical tire. What happens when we run out of the existing stock of tires if fossil fuels are banned?

Our clothing would also undergo a dramatic change. Synthetic fibers are petroleum based. Cotton fields and sheep would again dot the countryside as we would be forced to use “natural” fibers like cotton and wool. Packaging, as we know it today, would be a thing of the past. Instead of bacon and eggs we could eat cereal – or could we? Petroleum is a key ingredient in fertilizer and pesticides/herbicides. Instead of going to the local grocery store, we would be maintaining our own

them our lifestyle would undergo a dramatic change for the worse. With them we have a window of opportunity to find alternatives that will both enable us to maintain our lifestyle and protect the quality of our environment.

Trustees Retreat On Parking Fees For Contractors

FEES/From A1

voted unanimously, 7-0, not to proceed with Local Law #3 of 2016, “Regulations for Temporary Parking Permit for Construction Vehicles,” which they’d been debating for months.

From past discussion, some of it repeated Monday night, the trustees had been concerned that some projects – one in particular – had been inconsiderately using paid-parking spaces for weeks on end that otherwise would have been generating revenues for the village.

It had also been observed that one or more individuals were putting out orange cones, as contractors do to reserve parking spaces, not because they had a job to do, but simply to circumvent paid parking.

Those concerns prompted the trustees’ Police Committee, chaired by Deputy Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh, to propose the regulations. “We tried to figure out ways to make it beneficial to everyone,” she said.

Mayor Jeff Katz characterized the proposal as “a pro-business move,” as it ensured traffic turns over in the downtown,

but also as protecting the village’s parking revenue stream which, if blocked, “then Eagle Street doesn’t get paved next year.”

“So these issues are interconnected,” he said. Matt Hazzard, Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce executive, asked how much money is lost annually by allowing contractors to park at their jobs: “Is it $10,000; is it $15,000?” Those numbers haven’t been collected, he was told.

To prevent any cheating, why not have legitimate contractors apply annually for a medallion to put on their dashboards? Phillips suggested.

As is his custom when public input is complete, Mayor Katz asked the trustees to express their views, one by one, with these results:

• Richard Sternberg pointed out “someone is paying for the parking” – either the contractors, or the public by forfeiting the fees.

• Lou Allstadt observed that, while having work done on his house, some of the spaces aren’t being used for work vehicles, but for employees’ “commuter vehicles.”

Still, he called the proposed regulations “trying to shoot a mouse with an elephant gun.”

• Bruce Maxson noted that, despite the cost, the regulations could be helpful to contractors by guaranteeing them parking next to their jobs.

• Echoing Sternberg, Jim Dean noted, “Somebody’s got to pay for the parking; we can’t just give it away.”

• Cindy Falk, whose contractor husband, Glenn, was in the audience, said it was contradictory that the other law being considered at the public hearing – it passed – gave businesses tax abatements on building improvements, whereas these regulations took money away.

• Ellen Tillapaugh returned to the cone issue: “I don’t think you can have a carte blanche just because you have a pickup truck.”

Katz then called the question, and all voted nay. He referred the matter back to Tillapaugh’s Police Committee for any further consideration.

Retired Morris Superintendent Filling In At CCS

VIRGIL/From A1

President Theresa Russo said Virgil was one of a number of candidates on a list developed by ONC BOCES, and his experience in recruiting and in overseeing building projects made him the best choice to stabilize the district quickly. Stability is important, she said: “There’s a lot of healing that needs to be done.” Plus, there’s a lot that needs to be kept moving forward, including the hiring of an elementary principal, middlehigh school principal and, by year’s end, a permanent superintendent. “We felt it would take that long to conduct a quality search,” Russo said. As it happened, the elementary-principal finalists had been invited back to campus last week, but those interviews

were cancelled after the news of Hebert’s accident, she continued.

The goal is to fill the elementary job “within the month.” The current middlehigh school principal, Mike Cring, has taken on a new assignment, K-12 director of comprehensive student services, programs and athletics, and the goal is to fill that job by July 1, so students will arrive back to a stable situation in September.

Last summer, the parking lots were rebuilt at both schools. This summer, extensive interior renovations are planned, and Virgil will be working closely with George Hula, director of facilities, to ensure all goes smoothly, Russo said.

Raised in Munnsville,

Madison County, Virgil attended SUNY Cortland, at first majoring in psychology. But when he started assisting in phys-ed programs, he found he “liked working with the kids. It was just fun.”

Graduating in 1974, he taught for 15 years at Sherburne-Earlville Central School, then was a principal at New Berlin for two years and Whitesboro for three, then accepting the superintendency of Morris in 1997, where he served for 12 years.

Along the way, he and wife Barbara raised two daughters: Betsy, who lives in Endicott, where she and her husband are raising four children. And Hilary, who is director at the Hamilton Public Library and is getting married this summer.

DEAN/From A4 Cooperstown area. She said they had very little and showed me a Quench brochure and a card from ThisIsCooperstown. com, (that did not contain the words “Otsego County NY”). She said she was waiting to receive new, larger booklets from the same organization. I asked if she needed more information on the Cooperstown area to give out and she said yes. I asked if she gets inquiries for Otsego County and she said no. I asked if she thought people knew that Cooperstown was in Otsego County and she said no. She said, “No one knows about Otsego County”.

In an interview, Virgil said he never planned to be a superintendent, but always enjoyed challenges. “I’ve always had a feeling of, ‘What’s next?’”

How many people, not familiar with our area, know that Cooperstown, Ommegang, other craft breweries, Fenimore Art Museum, Otsego Lake, SUNY Oneonta, Hartwick College, Farmers’ Museum, Bassett Healthcare, Cooperstown Dreams Park, Glimmerglass Festival, the City of Oneonta, Glimmerglass State Park, The Otesaga, National Baseball Hall of Fame, Fly Creek Cider Mill, Cooperstown Distillery, Hyde Hall, Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum, Clark Sports Center, Foothills Performing Arts Center, Doubleday Field,

Leatherstocking Golf Course, etc., etc., are all very close to each other in Otsego County, New York? My guess would be zero! To me, this is a major advertising missed opportunity of the highest order. How many people would go out of their way to visit Otsego County if they knew they could visit all or most of the attractions listed above with one visit to a small area in New York State? Many more than are coming now, I am sure. Otsego County needs a major and sustained, shared branding initiative to continually reduce its customer acquisition costs and increase its customer retention base as it moves toward its long-term goals of building out a larger, integrated, sustainable, economy. Not including “Otsego County, New York” in all tourist and business outreach, advertising, and website information is a very expensive way to get very little return on investment, in my view.

“Build it and they will come” only works if people have heard about Otsego County, New York and they know where to find it.

It’s A Dog’s (And Cat’s) Life For Thanksgiving Home Pair

By LIBBY CUDMORE

COOPERSTOWN

For Cooper, life at the Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home is the cat’s meow. He wakes up when he wants to, visits some friends, dines when

he’s hungry and then settles down for a nap in the common room.

Or a resident’s bed.

Or even in the middle of the hallway.

Cooper is the Thanksgiving Home’s resident feline, and he makes it known he’s in charge.

“He rules this place,” said Please See PAIR, B2

Cooper, who turned 1 on Tuesday, March 29, pays a mid-morning visit to Thanksgiving Home resident Martha Quinn.

BRICK BULWARK

Bob Brzozowski, at right, executive director, Greater Oneonta Historical Society, reviews a Laskaris menu that includes such affordable delicacies as sirloin steak, 75 cents, and banana splits, 30 cents.

Below, Alex Osterhoudt, left, and Isaac Medina stroll past the 150-yearold landmark.

Be the first to see “Yosemite Valley, High Clouds, from Tunnel Esplanade” at The Fenimore Art Museum’s “Ansel Adams: Early Works” opening Friday, April 1.

A New Season Starts At Fenimore, Farmers

t’s opening day Friday, April 1 (no fooling!) at The Farmers’ and Fenimore Art museums in Cooperstown. From 5:30-7 p.m., The Fenimore hosts a spring members’ reception. On Saturday, April 2, Pre-K-12 teachers get free entry both museums. Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www.fenimoreartmuseum.org or www. farmersmuseum.org.

MONSTER PRESS: See who can press the most, at the Clark Sports Center’s Monster Bench Press Competition 10:30 a.m., Saturday, April 2. Lifters, pre-teen to age 70-plus, may weigh-in anytime Friday, April 1, at the fitness center desk. Registration day of competition at 9 a.m.; rules review at 10 am. 124 Co. Hwy. 52, Cooperstown, Info, www.clarksportscenter.com

LBy JIM KEVLIN

ooking around us, we sometimes think that what is had to be. That’s not so, as the 150th anniversary of the Bissell Block, downtown Oneonta’s oldest brick commercial building, demonstrates.

At the time of the groundbreaking in the spring of 1866, Oneonta, built on “two Indian trails that crossed at Main and Chestnut,” was in a period of intense competition for economic dominance with Worcester, Schenevus and Emmons, according to Tom Heitz, the Town of Otsego co-historian who staffs the Oneonta History Center, current Bissell Block occupant. Since the Albany & Susquehanna Railroad had ar-

Please See 175TH, B3

1872/After three owners, Walter Brown, future assemblyman and senator, buys hardware store, which he operates as Brown’s Hardware, then Corner Hardware, with various partners until retiring in 1920.

1873/Milford-based “David Wilber’s Bank,” Please See SENTINEL, B3

SPAGHETTI SQUAD: Come support the Cooperstown Fire Department’s Emergency Squad’s spaghetti dinner fundraiser, 4-8 p.m. Saturday, April 2. Cooperstown Fire House, 24 Chestnut St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 544-4393.

TASTY TREATS: Over 40 local chefs will contribute culinary delights for a good cause, at Cooperstown’s 17th annual Epicurean Food & Wine Tasting, 3-6 p.m. Sunday, April 3 Live music and a silent auction, all to benefit Catskill Area Hospice. The Otesaga, 60 Lake St., Cooperstown. Info, Bob Escher, (607) 432-6773.

DIVA NIGHT: The female quintet Too Many Divas offers “hot musical stylings of the ‘40s, ‘50s and ‘60s” at 6 p.m., Sunday, April 3 $25. B Side Ballroom, 1 Clinton Plaza, Oneonta. Info, res, (607) 432-2053.

COMING UP: Former New York City Public Advocate and author Mark Green delivers the Leslie G. Rude Memorial Lecture. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 5 at the Anderson Center for the Arts Theater, Hartwick College, Oneonta. Info, Alisha Fish at (607) 431-4021.

Cooper And Lucky Make Thanksgiving Home Even Happier Place

COOPER/From B1

Laura Black, personal care supervisor. “I’ve never seen such a friendly cat.”

The Thanksgiving Home has had cats since it opened in 1928. “It gives the residents a sense of purpose when they can care for a pet,” said Laurie Blatt, administrator. “They feel like they’re part of the family.”

“We’d have a horse if we could!” said Black. “We’re big animal people.”

Cooper came to the Thanksgiving Home a year ago, after the passing of Ginger. “A stray got

pregnant and came to our house,” said Sheila Jones, who works in the home’s dining services. “We kept her through the winter, and she gave birth to a litter, so I kept the sister and brought Cooper in here!” Cooper shares the limelight with Lucky, a labradoodle who serves as the home’s therapy dog. “We had a resident who had to go to the hospital, and he waited right by her side until the ambulance came,” said Blatt. “She said that having him there helped her stay calm.”

Jack, now 3, came to the Thanksgiving Home from a trainer in Indiana. “One of his brothers was sent to a Boston Bombing victim,” said Blatt. “Another was sent to a home for children with neurological disorders. They’re good dogs, and their breeding makes them hypo-allergenic.”

Residents who want Cooper or Jack to come visit can leave their doors open, and Cooper has been known to make a little mischief now and again. “He’ll get on someone’s bed and when she gets off, it sets off the

bed alarm,” said Black. “And he loves sports – he’ll sit on people’s laps to watch the game.”

And he’s even popular with the staff. “I picked him up and he snuggled against my shoulder,” said Kathy Lindberg, the dining services manager.

“The staff always takes Lucky outside to play with him,” said Blatt. Because the staff takes care of the feeding and toilet needs, residents are free to enjoy the animals without having to worry about cleaning up after them. “It’s

an extension of our caring, compassionate staff,” said Blatt. “It adds so much to their life here.”

And for those who aren’t cat or dog people, the home also has birds and fish. “We even brought in Angel, a therapy horse,” said Blatt.

Residents can join the Cat or Dog Committee, where they discuss what the animals needs are, including planning a birthday party for them, held Tuesday, March 29.

“We gave them each a toy,” said Blatt. “And they both had ice cream!”

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5-Course Beer-Pairing Dinner, Thursday, April 14 at 6 pm

Reservations required. See website for more details.

Open for lunch, dinner, Sunday brunch and private events 518-234-1802 · 105 Park Place, Cobleskill · www.BullsHeadInnCobleskill.com

Tuesday, April 5 | 7:30 pm

Anderson Center for the Arts Theatre

Reception to follow the lecture

For additional information, contact Senior Director of Engagement Alicia Fish at 607-431-4021 or at fisha@hartwick.edu.

Presented by Mark Green

Green will speak about his new book Bright, Infinite Future, A Generational Memoir on the Progressive Rise. Speaking from his unusual role as both an outsider/advocate and an insider/ politician, he will address how the values of the ‘60s are creating a new progressive majority in ‘16. A bestselling author, Green is a former public official, public interest lawyer, and a Democratic politician who lives in New York City. He worked with Ralph Nader from 1970 to 1980 and later was elected twice as the New York City Public Advocate. He is the former president of Air America Radio and now the host of the nationally syndicated radio show, Both Sides Now

Bissell Block Strong On 150th

175TH/From B1

rived on Aug. 29, 1865, Oneonta was becoming the natural – and burgeoning – depot for Otsego County crops, where “the building of streets and roads” had begun immediately with the railroad’s arrival, said Heitz.

Two or three wholesale warehouses were opened, and for the first time that fall, carloads of apples were shipped to Albany and metropolitan markets beyond; before rail, local folks either ate or canned their own fruit, or sold in within a few miles. Farmers were suddenly getting $1 or $1.25 more per basket of apples. But what about rich Delaware County, more easily accessed by natural passes to the east of the future “City of the Hills”?

Undeterred, Oneonta’s forward-looking business people – Collis Huntington, now living in California and en route to becoming one of that state’s Big Four who built the Union Pacific Railroad, was still visiting his hometown twice a year – created the Oneonta & Ouleout Turnpike Company in January 1866, and drove the road over Franklin Mountain, opening up an easy way for Delaware County farmers to bring crops here. Thus, Oneonta would grow and Worcester, Schenevus

Help Build GOHS Endowment

oin the GOHS 150. To mark the 150th anniversary of the Bissell Block, home of the Greater Oneonta Historical Society’s home at 189 Main St., the GOHS is asking 150 local history fans to donate $150 each over 150 days. The 150-day drive begins Monday, April 4, and extends to Aug. 31.

Members of the GOHS 150 will receive a limited edition commemorative item and be recognized in the society’s quarterly news letter. The $22,500 raised will be used to bolster the society’s permanent endowment and help extend its service to Oneonta’s history for another 150 years.

Donations can be made by cash, credit card, or check payable to GOHS and dropped off at the Oneonta History Center or mailed to GOHS, PO Box 814, Oneonta, NY 13820. Credit card payments may be made via PayPal at http://www. oneontahistory.org/donate.htm. Designate GOHS 150 on the Purpose line.

and Emmons would become Worcester, Schenevus and Emmons, not Oneonta, the county’s commercial hub for the past century and a half. Into this vibrant commercial mix came George Saunders and William Bissell, and Heitz, who delivered an anniversary lecture on the Bissell Block’s 150th earlier this year, reported their plans were immediately noticed by Leman P. Carpenter, editor of the Oneonta Herald.

“We notice that Messrs. Saunders and Bissell or digging the cellar for their new brick building on the corner of Main and Dietz street,” Carpenter wrote on May 16, 1866. It would be three stories tall, 70-feet long and 48-feet wide, “suitable for two stores” – today, the History Center and, next to it, the Cutting Edge Salon – “each fronting Main Street.”

You might think Saunders and Bissell were inspired to build a monument to Oneonta’s newfound enterprise, but Bob Brzozowski, GOHS executive director, believes the inspiration was more practical.

“They realized a growing, stable community couldn’t afford to have wooden buildings on Main Street – fires were just too devastating,” he said. And, despite Saunders and Bissell’s forward thinking, massive fires “would continue for four

“The city as we know it today was starting to evolve,” observed Heitz, whose detailed observations were culled from close reading of the Herald for the past eight years, as he’s been writing the weekly Hometown History column in Hometown Oneonta, sister newspaper with The Freeman’s Journal.

Leman Carpenter both reported the happenings around him, and sought to channel the new money into positive investments, ranging from paved streets, to a boarding house, to a plaster mill, to cheese factories, to a bakery shop. “I think he wanted a doughnut with his morning coffee,’ Heitz surmised.

In the Herald’s pages, Carpenter editorialized, “We would suggest to these gentlemen the idea of putting the third floor into a public hall … A hall for public lectures, concerts, etc., is much needed in this village.”

The only public meeting spaces in the future city were churches, whose use was limited to spiritual topics, Heitz said. Saunders and Bissell acted on the editor’s advice, and the third floor – used in decades to follow by the Masons and K of C, and for D&H Christmas parties – is today being renovated by the GOHS for future public use.

By Sept. 6, 1866, the Herald reported the foundation was nearly complete, and “the men will begin laying brick next week.” In those days, Heitz said, the bricks themselves provided the structural support. (One of the first steps in the Historical Society’s ongoing renovations was the addition of structural supports from the basement to the third floor.)

By this time, ads in the Herald showed a general store had been opened by the Mendel family – one of “our Hebrew brethren,” Carpenter called the Mendels in reporting why the store had closed on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. A boot and shoe shop had moved up from Binghamton. Hoop

skirts were all the rage with the local ladies.

1866 controversies included the first mention of breaking Oneonta out into a separate county: As it stood, all legal cases – criminal and civil – required a 22-mile trip to Cooperstown, a great inconvenience to busy community members.

In his readings of the Herald, Heitz also discovered that, while the Bissell building was the first downtown block, the Walling family had already built the first brick house.

Regardless, on Feb. 22, 1867, the Herald reported the Bissell Block was complete, and Saunders opened a hardware store, that must have met some challenges: It changed hands twice in five years.

In 1872, Walter Brown bought the building and brought some stability to the property, operating Brown’s Hardware and Corner Hardware with a number of partners for the next 50 years, as Brown himself was elected to the Assembly and then, state Senate.

In 1873, “David Wilber’s Bank” – ancestor to today’s Community Bank – rented a space in the hardware store, the Milford bank’s first foray into Oneonta; a couple of years later it moved across Dietz Street into the Central Hotel.

Brown lived in the mansion now occupied by Michael Stoltzer Art Gallery, next to today’s police and fire complex, and donated acreage across the street for Brown’s Park, which today is occupied by Clinton Plaza and the parking deck.

All that’s left of the park is that square of grass where the Clinton-Sullivan Expedition marker stands, Brzozowski said.

As downtown changed, so did the Bissell Block’s uses.

In 1919, John Laskaris bought it and put the ice cream shop,

STURDY SENTINEL

Ads from Jo-Ann Dress Shop’s heyday trumpet the Bissell Block as home to high fashion.

SENTINEL/From B1 with son George I. Wilber as cashier and Edgar A. Scramling as teller, rents a portion of Brown’s Hardware, the bank’s first Oneonta location. It moves across Dietz Street to Central Hotel in 1876, and eventually to current site at Main and Ford. 1919/John Laskaris, who operated ice cream shop across street since 1898, buys 189 Main St., adds tile floor, tin ceiling, glass transom windows and new entrance, opens soda shop, candy store and restaurant.

1948/Laskaris moves to corner of Main and Chestnut, where the Metropole and Corfu diners were operated until 2011, when Simply Thai opened there.

1949/Antonia Chrones, Laskaris’ daughter, opens Jo-Ann Dress Shop – “Oneonta’s Newest, Smartest Fashion Center,” according to opening-day ad – in 189 Main St. The name combines Antonia and sister Georgia’s nicknames.

1968/Galinn’s Jewelry, owned by Carl Puylara Sr., who bought operation in 1962 from Jacob and Martha Gallin, moves into 189 Main, adding aluminum front, creating recessed entry, and erecting neon sign. He buys building from Laskaris family around 1978.

2001/Greater Oneonta Historical Society buys building, which had been vacant since Gallin’s close in 1999, and created today’s Oneonta History Center.

candy store and luncheonette there, still fondly remembered by many older Oneontans. (One tragedy dimmed those fond memories: in 1941, Laskaris’ nephew, John Georgeson, got caught between the floor and elevator and was killed. The elevator was removed for 75 years; one was reinstalled this year as part of the renovations.)

Jo-Ann Dress Shop opened in 1949, operated by Laskaris’ daughter Antoinette. In 1968, Carl Puylara leased the building for his Gallin’s Jewelry, adding an aluminum false front then popular; he bought the building in 1978. Gallin’s closed in 1999, and the Greater Oneonta Historical Society, which had been looking for a permanent home for a collection that was being stored in various members homes, bought the building in 2001.

LegaL notice

IN THE MATTER OF THE FORECLOSURE OF TAX LIENS BY PROCEEDING IN REM PURSUANT TO ARTICLE ELEVEN OF THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW BY OTSEGO COUNTY. NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on the 22nd day of February 2016, the Otsego County Treasurer, hereinafter, the “Enforcing Officer”, of Otsego County, hereinafter, the “Tax District”, pursuant to law filed with the Clerk of Otsego County, a petition of foreclosure against various parcels of real property for unpaid taxes. Such petition pertains to the following parcels:

Oneonta City

Friery James M

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Chapman

William J

65.00-1-1.02 Res 0.34A 2170 Co Hwy 19

Bancroft David

67.00-1-11.00 Res 0.87A 1574 Co Hwy 22

Knollwood Associates

67.00-1-16.102 Res 23.88A St Hwy 28

Donnelly William J

67.09-1-28.12 Res 0.75A 7303 St Hwy 28

Duncan Frank Sr

67.09-1-49.00 Res 0.87A 1510 Co Hwy 22

Town of Hartwick

Ray Christopher

Scott

128.00-2-29.32 Res 1.04A

Gulf Rd West

LEGALS

129.00-1-9.00

Res 7.72A 417 Bush Rd

Decker

Lavester R

130.15-1-16.00 Res 0.60A 548 Greenough Rd

West Timothy

144.00-1-2.21 Res 13.96A 126 Manley Rd

Althiser

Lawrence

144.00-1-67.01 Res 2.47A St Hwy 205 Althiser

Lawrence

144.00-1-68.01 Res 0.90A 3528 St Hwy 205 Althiser

Lawrence

144.00-1-68.02 Res 2.18A 3524 St Hwy 205

Monroe Ronald W

144.19-1-40.00 Res 1.35A 3546 St Hwy 205*

Althiser

Lawrence

160.00-1-22.00 Res 8.97A 3487 St Hwy 205*

Konopka Teresa E

161.00-1-22.00 Res 9.80A 1438 Co Hwy 45

Duke Richard

161.00-1-33.00 Res 2.07A 878 Co Hwy 45

Arnot David R

176.00-1-17.01 Res 22.46A 580 Pleasant Valley Rd

Kane Matthew D

176.00-1-38.02 Res 3.00A 2376 Co Hwy 11

Powers Daniel

178.00-1-18.00 Res 79.10A

Goey Pond West Rd

Martinez Zoe

178.00-1-40.00 Res 32.66A 383 Co Hwy 45

Powers Daniel

178.00-1-42.01 Res 75.47A 462 Co Hwy 45

Partridge Richard J

178.00-1-49.00 Res 11.83A St Hwy 28* Martinez Zoe 193.00-1-12.00 Res 2.79A Chlorinator Rd Village of Laurens

7120 Ft Hamilton Pkwy LLC

240.15-2-68.00 Res 13.72A 16 Louden Dr Town of Laurens

Moxley Daniel J

224.00-1-17.02 Res 0.63A 416 Pool Brook Rd

Knarich George A.

238.00-2-9.07 Res 7.23A 183 Peterson Rd

Holmes Raymond

240.11-1-38.00 Res 0.35A 136 Co Hwy 12

Turrell Richard 274.00-1-25.01 Res 235.68A Co Hwy 11 Town of Maryland

Jaquish Glenn

198.00-2-21.03 Res 25.68A 117 Waterman Rd Herr Doreen 230.19-1-3.01 Res 0.32A 15 Main St Scott Allen F 230.19-1-54.00 Res 0.24A 16 West St

Murphy

Patricia A

230.19-2-41.00 Res 0.21A 53 Race St Kaneg Gail A 230.20-1-9.02 Res 2.79A Main* St Kaneg Gail A 230.20-1-68.00 Res 1.02A

Main* St Sisson Brett J

244.00-2-18.02 Res 5.78A 186 Crumhorn Lake Rd

7540 St Hwy 7

Balbuena Jacqueline Kilts 245.10-1-7.00 Res 1.26A 7581 St Hwy 7 Alessi Rosa 246.00-1-40.00 Res 33.49A Co Hwy 56 Kibbe** Teresa 261.00-1-52.00 Res 23.99A 129 Blueberry Ln Rickett Robert M 261.00-1-67.00 Res 1.03A Leonard* Rd DeSantis Michael 262.00-2-22.00 Res 15.20A Bush Hill Rd Moan Patrick 264.00-1-19.01 Res 13.13A Center Rd Town of Middlefield Holbrook James S 86.01-1-22.00 Res 0.60A 3152 Co Hwy 33 Campbell Alan W

Res 0.75A 134 Sunnycrest

Dimick

Charles J 260.13-2-50.00 Res 0.49A 140 Sunnycrest Rd

Dimick Charles J 260.13-2-51.00 Res 0.38A 144 Sunnycrest Rd

Manchester Kathy 260.18-1-53.00 Res 0.05A Cliffside Cir LPD Construction Company LLC 276.00-2-20.00 Res 0.25A 6147 St Hwy 7

Manchester Stephen V 277.00-1-20.01 Res 0.90A 6353 St Hwy 7 Village of Morris

294.00-1-22.04 Res 8.01A 388 Shaw Brook Rd Zapatero Carmen

167.02-1-6.00 Res 0.37A 2285 Co Hwy 39

Mravlja Peter 168.00-1-1.01

Timothy M

128.00-2-56.31 Res 1.58A 3836 St Hwy 205

Sierra Robert

Alvarez Edward W 245.09-1-30.00 Res 1.94A

118.00-1-2.03 Res 1.00A 2672 St Hwy 166 Willis Jane B 133.00-1-12.14 Res 23.73A Rezen Rd Ross J. Samuel A. 133.03-1-7.00 Res 0.33A 3692 Co Hwy Ross J. Samuel A. 133.03-1-64.00 Res 0.12A Co Hwy 35 Holbrook James S 147.00-1-13.00 Res 19.50A Sibley Gulf Rd Gibbons Barbara 147.00-1-40.01 Res 93.56A 420 Sibley Gulf Rd Oliver Robert A 164.00-1-13.07 Res 41.87A Co Hwy 35 Beatty Robin Bryant 180.01-1-6.00 Res 0.48A 2685 Co Hwy 35 Wahl Anthony S 195.00-1-29.02 Res 34.07A 568 St Hwy 166 Wahl Anthony S 195.00-1-30.00 Res 4.90A 533 St Hwy 166 Village of Milford Summers Linden D III 194.20-2-63.00 Res 0.10A 63 S Main St Wahl Anthony S 194.20-2-78.00 Res 0.08A 68 S Main St Wahl Anthony S 194.20-2-79.00 Res 0.11A 70 S Main St Munro David A. 195.17-1-4.00 Res 1.58A 161 E Main St Brown Gerald L 195.17-1-19.00 Res 0.29A 101 River St Town of Milford LPD Construction Company LLC 195.00-3-2.00 Res 0.37A 15 Kilts Rd Roe Kenneth J 209.00-1-40.03 Res 4.16A 621 Lougheed Rd Teixeira Nancy 226.00-1-2.00 Res 4.94A 215 Concrite Rd Spence James A 243.18-2-17.00 Res 0.66A 109 Happy Valley Road Spur Sobey Albert Jr 260.05-3-73.00 Res 0.54A 185 Lee Dr Brower Steven 260.05-3-75.00 Res 0.41A Lee Dr Brower Steven 260.05-3-77.00 Res 0.11A 178 Lee Dr Apple Mansion Estate LLC 260.13-2-6.00 Res 0.25A 149 Sunnycrest Rd Dimick Charles J 260.13-2-49.02

Foster Diane 221.18-1-2.00 Res 0.23A 74 Broad St Town of Morris

Sieck Richard K 204.00-2-17.05 Res 72.72A St Hwy 51 Santelia Edward A 220.00-1-11.00 Res 3.08A 111 Hilsinger Rd

Best Kenneth J 221.00-1-46.00 Res 2.79A Co Hwy 49* Imbrosciano Frederick 221.00-1-53.00 Res 0.26A 133 Co Hwy 49

Schacht Robert 221.00-1-57.00 Res 0.90A 2009 St Hwy 23

Owner Unknown 221.00-1-74.00 Res 1.82A St Hwy 23*

Williams Theodore F Jr 222.00-1-21.00 Res 46.02A 2277 St Hwy 23 Town of New Lisbon DeVries Thomas 141.00-4-3.00 Res 9.57A 4703 St Hwy 51 Srdepot And Co Inc

141.00-4-10.00 Res 4.42A St Hwy 51 Dorothea 189.00-1-37.00 Res 140.06A 3527 St Hwy 51 Martin George 189.00-1-39.00 Res 0.37A 1700 Co Hwy 12 Heins John 189.00-1-76.00 Res 3.97A 774 Pegg Rd Sanchez David 190.00-1-15.00 Res 11.16A 113 Wheat Rd Scollard John S 191.00-1-27.00 Res 4.75A 148 Falls Bridge Rd Barker William A 191.00-1-39.02 Res 6.97A 128 Jacobson Rd Wulff David 191.00-1-56.02 Res 18.50A 350 Gardner Town Rd Harris Winston Jr 205.00-1-2.00 Res 1.53A St Hwy 51 Harris Winston Jr 205.00-1-5.00 Res 55.67A 3312 St Hwy 51 Town of Oneonta

Goodrich Rita S 274.00-2-21.00 Res 0.99A 984 St Hwy 205

Goodrich Rita S 274.00-2-22.00 Res 3.47A 980 St Hwy 205 Goodrich Rita S 274.00-2-24.00 Res 0.99A 976 St Hwy 205 Davis Mark W 274.00-2-27.00 Res 7.26A 954 St Hwy 205 Carpenter Roger 274.00-2-46.00 Res 8.84A 461 Winney Hill

Rd Turrell Richard L 286.00-2-20.00 Res 29.48A Co Hwy 8 Cyzeski David 287.09-1-85.01 Res 7.84A 3996 St Hwy 23 Golinski William 287.15-1-16.00 Res 0.22A Winney Hill Rd Chen Bang Hua 287.19-1-54.00 Res 0.39A 61 Richards Ave RCBR Properties LLC 287.19-2-21.00 Res 0.39A 38 Richards Ave Welch Elwyn D 288.00-2-22.00 Res 0.07A Cemetery Hill Rd Szerwinski Michael 289.001-25.00 Res 1.64A St Hwy 7* Browne Christopher 289.00-1-79.00 Res 0.21A 204 Riverstone Rd Polley Robert 289.00-1-89.01 Res 37.49A 130 Riverstone Rd

Warner Brenda L 299.07-4-72.00 Res 0.35A 1A Orchard St Galasso

Martin A., Jr.

300.00-3-67.21 Res 9.50A St Hwy 23 Randazzo Giuseppe 309.001-47.00 Res 43.32A St Hwy 28* Village of Otego

Wessells John S Jr 317.16-1-26.00 Res 0.95A 390 Main St Adkins Virginia 317.19-1-23.00 Res 0.53A 301 Main St Spataro Barbara A 317.19-1-24.01 Res 2.40A 307 Main St Town of Otego Giannini Donna 272.00-1-60.01 Res 0.29A 2150 Co Hwy 8 Dugan Michael J 272.00-2-31.00 Res 5.00A Co Hwy 6 Welch John W 273.00-2-22.01 Res 42.89A 110 Welch Ter Schwed Karl R 285.00-1-17.00 Res 1.30A 1866 Co Hwy 8 Hunsucker Fred 285.00-1-24.01 Res 124.87A 1261 Co Hwy 7 Hunsucker Fred 285.00-1-24.02 Res 5.90A Co Hwy 7* Hunsucker Harry L 285.00-1-26.00 Res 6.13A Co Hwy 7* Perry Samuel H Jr 285.00-1-34.04 Res 5.44A 347 Upper Green St Packard Amy 285.00-1-38.00 Res 0.77A 970 Co Hwy 7 Conklin Charles R 286.00-1-10.02 Res 1.38A 107 W Oneonta Rd Turrell Richard L 286.00-1-26.00 Res 65.52A West Oneonta Rd Turrell Richard L 286.00-1-27.00 Res 4.23A West Oneonta Rd Strickland Wayne R 286.001-35.81 Res 1.90A 136 Forest Way Grabo Randy J 297.00-1-34.04 Res 5.48A 308 Upper Green St Turrell Richard L 298.00-1-10.00

114.00-1-4.00 Res 0.41A

6144 St Hwy 28

Curran Gifford

130.00-2-16.02

Res 0.11A Co Hwy 26

Town of Pittsfield

Whitehill Arnold G

139.00-2-15.02

Res 1.52A 885 St Hwy 80 Adamo Joseph

140.00-2-23.12 Res 3.33A Longview Dr

Hughes Russell D Jr

155.00-1-4.00 Res 78.43A 120 Card Rd

Bice Judy

155.00-1-12.221 Res 23.79A 791 St Hwy 80

Bice Judy L.

155.00-1-16.00 Res 10.42A St Hwy 80

Bice Judy L.

155.00-1-6.00 Res 13.71A 709 St Hwy 80*

Bice Judy L.

155.00-1-9.32 Res 34.70A St Hwy 80* McAdams Helen B

155.00-1-30.00 Res 0.82A 297 St Hwy 80 Markham Barbara L

155.00-1-52.02 Res 0.87A 138 Pecktown Store Rd Leech Richard F

F

171.00-1-1.03 Res 33.38A St Hwy 80 Kellogg Richard

171.00-1-26.00 Res 2.72A 1244 Co Hwy 13 Carney Mark Shannon

188.00-1-32.03 Res 1.80A 712 Co Hwy 49 Barnett Bonnie

204.00-1-1.06 Res 102.40A Co Hwy 13 Town of Plainfield Ross Michael L

2.00-1-13.00 Res 4.70A 9949 US Hwy 20 Chapman Keith A 19.00-1-9.32 Res 3.00A 6843 Co Hwy 18 Martin Patricia M

21.00-1-11.02 Res 5.07A St Hwy 51 Martin Patricia M

21.00-1-12.00 Res 2.09A 7550 St Hwy 51 Cadwell Maxine

33.00-1-13.00 Res 2.04A 157 Co Hwy 19 Lan’Did Corporation

34.00-1-12.23 Res 31.10A Talbot Rd Heller Glen

47.00-1-6.24 Res 14.75A 198 Pine Ln Village of Richfield Springs

Schwab Audrey L

13.20-2-6.00 Res 0.49A Main St Murphy James A

24.08-1-30.00 Res 0.18A 45 River St Londono Zenaida

25.05-2-54.00 Res 0.36A 20 Lake St Villavicencio Silvio

25.05-3-44.00 Res 0.17A Canadarago St Garner Robert E 25.05-3-53.00 Res 0.22A 10 Canadarago St Delaire Michael P 25.05-4-22.00 Res 0.23A 39 E James St Town of Richfield

Gil Jorge 12.001-9.03 Res

101.42A Us Hwy 20 Watterson Nancy 12.00-1-10.03 Res 2.03A 2678 Us Hwy 20 Seamon Tex Louis 12.00-1-46.00 Res 1.51A 1071 Co Hwy 25

Davis Nancy M 24.08-2-16.01 Res 6.07A 86 Elm St Ext

Davis Nancy M 24.08-2-16.02 Res 0.32A Linden* Ave

Davis Nancy M 24.08-2-17.00 Res 3.35A Linden Ave Saalfelder Stephen C 25.00-119.02 Res 3.79A 380 Butternut Rd

Unlimited Upside Properties 38.00-1-12.00 Res 0.30A 561 Wing Hill Rd Pugliese Carmel J 38.12-1-33.00 Res 0.11A 104 Jackies Rd Davenport Thomas 38.25-17.01 Res 0.33A 8162 St Hwy 28

Town of Roseboom

Geer Robert M 118.00-2-2.31 Res 8.90A Middlefield Rd Geer

Robert 118.00-22.32 Res 5.01A Middlefield Rd Geer Robert 118.00-2-2.33 Res 5.01A Middlefield Rd Geer Robert

118.00-2-2.34 Res 5.01A Middlefield Rd Geer Robert 118.00-2-2.35 Res 6.31A 906 Middlefield Rd

Sheldon Henry L Sr 119.00-148.00 Res 4.04A 224 Honey Hill Rd Arno John Michael 120.03-135.00 Res 0.66A St Hwy 165 Mabie Linda

135.00-1-20.02 Res 1.93A 2989 Co Hwy 39

Town of Springfield Guardian Preservation, LLC

27.00-1-15.01 Res 2.29A 4917 Us Hwy 20

Carson Kenneth A Jr 42.00-12.03 Res 14.68A Continental Rd

Stocking Billy 42.00-1-2.04 Res 7.71A 217 Continental Rd Tracy Martin A 42.00-1-35.02 Res 2.60A 2034 Co Hwy 31 Village of Unadilla

Batson David B 334.14-1-13.00 Res 0.50A 53 Clifton St Rudolph Richard 334.15-138.00 Res 0.34A Maple Ave Mertz Wendelin 334.18-2-18.00 Res 0.39A 6 Sanly St Gagliardo James 334.18-2-48.00 Res 0.17A 22 Bridge St Kadchinski Rodney

334.19-1-19.00 Res 0.15A 16 Clifton St Decker Timothy C

334.19-3-46.00 Res 0.08A Main St Ragonese Amy L 334.19-3-53.00 Res 0.54A 288 Main St

Stevens

Sondra J

334.19-3-55.00 Res 0.90A 280 Main St

Colby Mellissa L

334.19-3-57.00 Res 0.25A 272 Main St Caratelli Caspere L

334.19-3-61.00 Res 0.26A 262 Main St Town of Unadilla

Jones Jerry P

Washburn David

314.00-1-61.01 Res 67.15A 690 Co Hwy 3A Short Jared

315.00-1-32.05 Res 5.74A 372 Sisson Hill Rd Scott Gordon A

324.03-1-35.00 Res 0.21A 2381 St Hwy 7 Dana Daniel R

324.03-1-38.02 Res 0.12A 2387 St Hwy 7 Black ** Charles

324.13-1-5.00 Res 5.51A 193 Dentwood Dr Niles Craig

328.00-1-6.01 Res 21.50A 161 Lockwood Hill Rd Youngs Phillip M

329.00-1-1.03 Res 4.63A 830 Co Hwy 2 Martin Dennis R

329.00-1-17.03 Res 4.46A 514 Kilkenny Youngs Philip M

329.00-1-3.00 Res 0.73A 854 Co Hwy 2 Martini Ryan J

329.00-1-37.22 Res 3.00A 420 Co Hwy 3 Mattice Janice

329.00-1-43.00 Res 1.92A Co Hwy 3 Schusteritsch Edward A

330.00-1-4.07 Res 1.32A 130 Ledgewood Acres Dr Roldan Judith A

330.00-1-4.135 Res 1.39A 154 Overlook Ln Unadilla ShamRock Village LLC

330.03-1-86.00 Res 0.80A St Hwy 7* Patrylo Garry S

332.00-1-61.01 Res 6.29A 235 Co Hwy 1 Kipps Hill Road Corp.

332.00-1-83.21 Res 79.44A 342 Co Hwy 1

Lopez Gary J

333.03-2-42.00 Res 0.30A Sanly Rd Unadilla Shamrock

Village LLC

334.00-1-47.00 Res 3.09A 1676 St Hwy 7 GR Enterprises of the Northeas

336.00-1-46.01 Res 1.82A St Hwy 7 Button Karel

336.02-1-32.00 Res 0.81A 117 Co Hwy 1 Yale Susan

336.02-1-39.01 Res 2.33A 187 Old Hill Rd

Roldun Judith A

336.02-1-39.05 Res 1.92A 185 Old Hill Rd Hunt WIlliam A Jr

336.02-1-45.00 Res 0.21A 459 St Hwy 7* Savino Hildegard

336.02-1-63.02 Res 0.66A 430 St Hwy 7 Town of Westford

Gaskin Brian

149.00-1-10.00 Res 12.16A 361 Tabor Rd Rifenbark Matthew

150.00-1-36.03 Res 3.91A 2082 Co Hwy 34

Marullo Joseph

166.00-1-43.03 Res 1.56A 908 Co Hwy 36

Regg Frances A

166.00-1-46.00 Res 0.85A 674 Co Hwy 36

Parsons

William H

166.01-1-20.00 Res 3.24A Middlefield Rd

Parsons

1131 Co Hwy 42

Jones Danny M

196.00-2-2.05 Res 5.20A 251 Hickory Hill Rd

Hoag

Douglas B 196.00-2-2.12 Res 13.81A 196 Hickory Hill Rd

Hoag

Douglas B

196.00-2-2.13 Res 5.87A Hickory Hill Rd Town of Worcester

Schrom Sarah

185.00-1-48.01 Res 1.79A 284 Co Hwy 38

Nigro Kathleen 185.09-1-41.01 Res 0.81A 141 Main St

Martinez Archie 185.13-1-1.00 Res 0.14A 15 Main St

Suydam Brian T 185.13-1-33.00 Res 0.74A 86 Main St

Kersmanc Susan 199.17-1-86.00 Res 0.19A 19 Church St

McCabe Thomas J 199.17-1-93.00 Res 0.29A

Church St

McCabe Thomas 199.17-1-94.00 Res 0.35A 3 Church St

Barbera Anthony A 199.18-1-52.00 Res 0.27A 14 Maple St VanWormer

Thomas 199.18-3-49.00 Res 0.25A 5 Chase St

Warf Dale V

201.00-1-3.07 Res 11.17A 1099 Smith Rd

Flemm James K

216.00-1-22.02 Res 0.60A 652 Smith Rd Aboueid

Georges J 217.00-1-11.00 Res 65.59A 168 Roe Rd

Shaw Melinda 233.00-1-16.04 Res 5.11A 792 Center Valley Rd

Sang Miguel A 233.00-1-16.12 Res 5.55A Burnside Rd

Effect of filing:

All persons having or claiming to have an interest in the real property described in such petition are hereby notified that the filing of such petition constitutes the commencement by the Tax District of a proceeding in the court specified in the caption above to foreclose each of the tax liens therein described by a foreclosure proceeding in rem.

Nature of proceeding: Such proceeding is brought against the real property only and is to foreclose the tax liens described in such petition. No personal judgment will be entered herein for such taxes or other legal charges or any part thereof.

redemption.

Right of redemption: Any person having or claiming to have an interest in any such real property and the legal right thereto may on or before said date redeem the same by paying the amount of all such unpaid tax liens thereon, including all interest and penalties and other legal charges which are included in the lien against such real property, computed to and including the date of redemption. Such payments shall be made to Dan Crowell, Otsego County Treasurer, 197 Main Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326. In the event that such taxes are paid by a person other than the record owner of such real property, the person so paying shall be entitled to have the tax liens affected thereby satisfied of record.

Last day for redemption: The last day for redemption is hereby fixed as the 30th day of May 2016.

Service of answer: Every person having any right, title or interest in or lien upon any parcel of real property described in such petition may serve a duly verified answer upon the attorney for the Tax District setting forth in detail the nature and amount of his or her interest and any defense or objection to the foreclosure. Such answer must be filed in the office of the County Clerk and served upon the attorney for the Tax District on or before the above date mentioned as the last day for redemption.

Failure to redeem or answer: In the event of failure to redeem or answer by any person having the right to redeem or answer, such person shall be forever barred and foreclosed of his or her right, title and interest and equity of redemption in and to the parcel described in such petition and a judgment in foreclosure may be taken by default.

Enforcing Officer Dan Crowell Otsego County Treasurer

Attorney for Tax District Ellen Coccoma Otsego County Attorney 197 Main Street Cooperstown, NY 13326

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17 Spencer Dr., Oneonta, NY 13820. Purpose: any legal purpose.

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LegaL notice

Notice of formation of MELODY PINES FARM, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on February 17, 2016. The office of the LLC is to be located in Otsego County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to: The LLC, 608 County Highway 51, Morris, New York, 13808. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.

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LegaL notice

Visions of Home, LLC

The name of the limited liability company is “Visions of Home, LLC” The date the Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York was February 23, 2016. The County within the State in which the office of the limited liability company is to be located is Otsego County. The Secretary of the State of New York has been designated as agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address within or without the State of New York to which the Secretary of the State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company served upon him is: Visions of Home, LLC, 101 Spruce Street, Oneonta, NY 13820. The purpose of the business of the limited liability company is any lawful business purpose.

Counsel for the Company: The Dalton Law Firm, LLC 112 Spring Street-Suite 307 Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 518-587-9600 6LegalApril7

LegaL notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF New Hyde Park Construction, LLC

MP Test Equipment, LLC. Articles of Organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 12 February 2016. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 2121 County Hwy 22, Richfield Springs, NY 13439. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws. 6LegalApril7

LegaL notice WILLSUE, LLC

ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION OF WILLSUE, LLC Under Section 203 of the Limited Liability Company Law

The name of the limited liability company is: WILLSUE, LLC

The county, within this state, in which the office of the limited liability company is to be located in OTSEGO.

The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. The address within or without this state to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company served upon him or her is:

THE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY 50 Main Street Cooperstown, NY 13326

The limited liability company is to be managed by: ONE OR MORE MEMBERS.

I certify that I have read the above statements, I am authorized to sign these Articles of Organization, that the above statements are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief and that my signature typed below constitutes my signature.

WILLIAM C. GREEN, ESQ., ORGANIZER (signature) WILLIAM C. GREEN, ESQ., ORGANIZER

Filed by: GREEN & GREEN 50 MAIN STREET PO BOX 148 Cooperstown, New York 13326

The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC, 54 Lancaster Street, Cherry Valley, New York 13320. Purposes: are to acquire, own, hold, improve, manage and operate the real property, including the property located at 157 First Street, in Troy, New York (the “Property”); to incur indebtedness, secured and unsecured; to mortgage, finance, refinance, encumber, lease, sell, exchange, convey, transfer or otherwise deal with or dispose of the Property; to enter into and perform contracts and agreements of any kind necessary to, in connection with or incidental to the business of the Limited Liability Company.

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LegaL notice

NOTICE BY PUBLICATION OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY

Bassett PPS, LLC filed articles of organization with the Department of State on February 23, 2016. Its principal office is in Otsego County, New York. The Secretary of State of the State of New York has been designated as agent upon whom service of process against the LLC may be served, and the address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of process in any action or proceeding against the Company is One Atwell Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326. The purpose of the Company is to serve as a lead entity for the Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Program and any lawful activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under §203 of the Limited Liability Company Act.

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314.00-1-54.00 Res 1.43A 674 Co Hwy 3A

William H

166.01-1-31.00 Res 0.15A 1759 Co Hwy 34

Scott Nancy

166.01-1-43.00 Res 0.14A 1753 Co Hwy 34

Traweek Adrienne

180.01-2-4.00 Res 0.72A 2702 Co Hwy 35 Pagillo Richard

196.00-1-16.02 Res 1.28A

Persons affected: This notice is directed to all persons owning or having or claiming to have an interest in the real property described in such petition. Such persons are hereby notified further that a duplicate of such petition has been filed in the office of the Enforcing Officer of the Tax District and the Otsego County Courthouse and will remain open for public inspection up to and including the date specified below as the last day for

LegaL notice

Notice of Formation of Brower Property Management, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 01/25/2016. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to: The LLC,

Arts. Of Org. filed with Sec’y. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on February 16, 2016. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to : The LLC, PO Box 404, Cooperstown, New York 13326. Purpose: Any lawful activity. 6LegalApril7

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Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name:

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LegaL notice TROIX REALTY GROUP, LLC

Notice of formation of Troix Realty Group, LLC, a limited liability company (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (the “SSNY”) on 2/26/16. Office location: Otsego County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC, upon whom process against it may be served.

LUNDIN CHRISTMAS TREES LLC, Articles of Org. filed N.Y. Sec. of State (SSNY) 18th day of February, 2016. Office in Otsego Co. at 12 Forster Street, Otego, New York 13825. SSNY desig. agt. upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 12 Forster Street, Otego, New York 13825. Reg. Agt. upon whom process may be served: Spiegel & Utrera, P.A., P.C. 1 Maiden Lane, NYC 10038 1 800 576-1100 Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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LegaL notice

BLUEBIRD HOMES, LLC

Notice of formation of Bluebird Homes, LLC, a limited liability company (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (the “SSNY”) on 3/11/16. Office location: Otsego County. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC, upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC, 54 Lancaster Street, Cherry Valley, New York 13320. Purposes: are to acquire, own, hold, improve, manage and operate real property, including the property located at 59 Elm Street, in the Village of Cooperstown, New York. 6LegalApril28

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SEELEYS ALL SEASON SERVICES LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/03/2016. Office loc: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Mark Seeley, 129 Skyline Drive, Bainbridge, NY 13733. Reg Agent: Mark Seeley, 129 Skyline Drive, Bainbridge, NY 13733. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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LegaL notice Notice of Formation of Brown Associates Prince George LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/10/16. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Brown Associates LLC, c/o Barbara Utter, 859 County Hwy. 5, Otego, NY 13825. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of formation of Chicory Creek Farm LLC (“LLC”), a limited liability company. On 3/28/16 Articles of Organization were filed with NYS Sec’y of State. Office location: Otsego County. Sec’y of State designated as agent upon whom process against LLC may be served. Sec’y of State shall mail a copy of such process to Chicory Creek Farm LLC, 2722 State Highway 205, Mt. Vision, NY 13810. Purpose: to engage in any lawful act or activity

Notice of Formation of ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY MONETARY SERVICES, , LLC. Arts. Of Org. Filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/9/15. Office Location: Otsego Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process: Robert A. Gouldin, Esq., 93 Main Street, Oneonta, New York 13820. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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DINNER -- 4:30-7 p.m. Dinner with trimmings, homemade desserts; takeouts available. $10 adults; $5 kids. Benefits Jamaica mission to Pringle Home Orphanage. First Presbyterian Church, 296 Main St., Oneonta. Info (607) 432-4286. CANO RECEPTION -- 5-8 p.m. Opening reception for exhibit “Pinholes, Pixels & Paint,” running through April 17, featuring works by current and former Hartwick College staff members Katharine Kreisher, Annie Gohde, and Vern Burnett. Free. CANO at Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, www.canoneonta. org

FENIMORE RECEPTION -- 5:307 p.m. Spring members’ reception to celebrate opening day of spring exhibitions, including “Ansel Adams: Early Works.” Kindly RSVP to Kate Morgan at (607) 547-1536 or k.morgan@nysha. org. Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. CONTRADANCE – 8-11 p.m. Otsego Dance Society hosts. Music by Crooked Sixpence, of Ithaca. Ed Bugel calls. No partner or experience needed. Suggested donation $8 adults; $4 students and 18 & under;

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services, jewelry, antiques, art, baseball memorabilia, a violin, wine, meals, yard work, home repair, concert tickets, tour guide & more. Unitarian Universalist Society, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-3491. SUPPER CLUB -- 9 p.m. American roots recording artist Marc Berger. B Side Ballroom, 1 Clinton Plaza, Oneonta. Info, res, (607) 432-2053.

Sunday, April 3

FOOD & WINE TASTING – 3-6 p.m. 17th annual Epicurean Food & Wine Tasting, to benefit Catskill Area Hospice and Palliative Care. Local culinary delights, wine, silent auction, music. $80 per person. The Otesaga, 60 Lake St., Cooperstown. Info, Bob Escher at (607) 432-6773. OPENING RECEPTION -- 3-5

p.m. Opening for first exhibit of 2016, “Re-Mixes: From Photography to Collage: The Art of Carmile S. Zaino,” by the NYC and DeLancey artist. Artist talk at 4 pm. Free. Refreshments, all welcome. Exhibit through April 22. Bright Hill Word & Image Gallery, 94 Church St., Treadwell. Info, (607) 829-5055. SUPPER CLUB -- 6 p.m. (Doors open 5 p.m.) Female quintet Too Many Divas musical stylings of ‘40s, ‘50s and ‘60s. $25 includes hors d’oeuvres. B Side Ballroom, 1 Clinton Plaza, Oneonta. Info, res, (607) 432-2053. Tuesday, April 5

OCCA HIKE– 10 a.m. Join Otsego County Conservation Association’s Jeff O’Handley and the local Adirondack Mountain Club chapter, for hike in R. Milton Hick State Forest. Free. Meet at trailhead on Perry Hill Rd in Roseboom. To carpool with AMC, meet at Oneonta Price Chopper parking lot, Rte. 7 at 9:15 a.m. Dress for weather, bring water. Pre-register at www.occainfo.org. Info, www. susqadk.org.

OPEN HOUSE -- 11 a.m.-7

p.m. Open house for community feedback on Cooperstown Comprehensive plan. Drop in. Cooperstown Fire Hall, 24 Chestnut St., Cooperstown. Info, visit www.coopplan.wordpress.com

UKRANIAN EGG WORKSHOP

-- 5 p.m (Tues & Thurs until April 21). Learn Ukranian “Pysanky” egg decoration. $10 supply donation. Orthodox Mission Chapel, basement of St. James Church, 305 Main St., Oneonta.

COOPERSTOWN – Linda Graham Smirk, 66, proprietor, with her husband, John, of the Cooperstown B&B on Chestnut Street for 17 years, passed away on Tuesday, March 22, 2016. Born in Brooklyn on Sept. 30, 1949, Linda is the daughter of Robert Wesley and Ruth Waide Graham.

After spending her early years in Brooklyn, Linda moved with her family to Cooperstown and graduated from Cooperstown Central School in 1967. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from SUNY Oneonta in elementary and early secondary education/ English.

Early in her career, she worked at IBM in Chicago. Later, she owned and operated her own daycare center, nurturing and positively impacting the lives of many

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– Leonard L. “Lynn” Northrup, Jr, 98, a pioneer in the solar energy business who held 14 patents, passed away peacefully at his home.

He was born March 18, 1918, in Houston, Texas, he was the son of L. L. Northrup Sr., an inventor in his own right, and the grandson of J.D. Northrup, the inventor of the modern western saddle. His mother was Dolly McKaskle Northrup, a retail entrepreneur.

He was educated at Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas, Texas, and received a BA from Southern Methodist University, a MS from the University

Info, www. fenimoreartmuseum.org or www. farmersmuseum.org FIRE DEPT. DINNER -- 4-8 p.m. (or until food runs out). Spaghetti dinner fundraiser, hosted by Cooperstown Fire Dept.’s Emergency Squad. Takeout available; limited delivery to Bassett facilities in Cooperstown. Cooperstown Fire House, 24 Chestnut St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 5444393. ART OPENING - 5-7 p.m. Cherry Branch Gallery re-opens for season with exhibition of new works by 20 New York State artists. Free. Refreshments, music by Angus Mackie and the SMRT Quartet. Exhibit runs through April 24. Cherry Branch Gallery, 25 Main St., Cherry Valley. Info, (607) 264-9530. GOODS & SERVICES AUCTION -- 5:30 p.m. silent auction; 6:30 p.m. live auction. Annual Goods & Services Auction. Enjoy snacks and beverages while bidding on

Cooperstown children. She also spent time as a grammar school teacher.

Linda devoted her life to caring for and supporting her community. She was a passionate volunteer, a “people person” and a faithful member of the Cooperstown Methodist Church, the United Methodist Women, and the Ladies Auxiliary of the Cooperstown American Legion. She was also a Native Daughter of Cooperstown.

Linda spent many years raising money for the Paul Newman Double H Holein-the-Woods Camp, the Northeast Chapter of the Spina Bifida Association, and the American Cancer Society.

Linda is survived by her husband, John W. Smirk; her son, Bruce Carpenter Dunn, Jr. and his wife, Tanhena, and her grandchildren,

of Denver, and an Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.

Northrup served as a Captain the United States Army Corps of Engineers during and shortly after World War II where he oversaw the construction of military bases and their decommissioning. In 1947, he married Hilda Jane Keliher.

After the arrival of daughter Susan in 1948 and son James Lynn “Chip” in 1949, Lynn and Jane built a modern house, which Lynn designed in its entirety, with

Lucas Wesley, and Marcus Julian; her daughter, Elizabeth Aimee Dunn; and her daughter, Christine Elizabeth Smirk and her husband, Anthony Feliciti.

She is also survived by her siblings, Robert Graham Jr. and wife, Ingrid; Dorothy Ruth Brining and husband, Robert; Kenneth Waide Graham and wife, Lois; Dianne Ellen Feury and husband, Theodore P. Jr; Glenn W. Graham and wife Maryanne; Janet Graham Faure; and James Bradley Graham and wife, Mary Jean. Linda is the adored aunt of 22 nieces and nephews, and 34 great nieces and nephews, numerous cousins and many treasured friends.

A funeral was held Saturday, March 26, at the United Methodist Church of Cooperstown. Burial was in the Lakewood Cemetery,

one of the first residential central air conditioning systems in the United States.

Northrup’s company designed, patented, developed and manufactured some of the first commercial solar water heaters, solar concentrators, solar-powered air conditioning systems, solar power towers and photovoltaic thermal hybrid systems in the United States. He was a prolific inventor with 14 US patents. He is survived by his sister Elaine Loyd of Dallas, daughter Susan Eldredge and husband “Linc” of Dal-

ESTATE SALE

Estate Sale, Saturday, March 28, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. 7 State Street, Townhouse P-4, Oneonta. Full bed, dining table and chair, dresser, kitchenware, linens, garage shelves, assorted decorative items and more.

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HOMES FOR RENT

Available April, Spacious 3 or 4 BR, 2 Bath, Kitchen w/Island, Den, LivRm w/ Fireplace, Dining & FamRm w/ Pellet Stove, Enclosed Porch, Garage, 15 Acres, Located 3 Miles From Cooperstown. $1900. Mo. + utilities. Call Kathy Fistrowicz @ (607) 2672683 (cell)

Pierstown area with spectacular views of Otsego Lake. 3BR/2BA house. $1,800. a month plus utilities, years lease plus security. Call Hubbell’s Real Estate. 607547-5740.

Fly Creek Valley area with country views. Immaculate Early 1800’s 4BR/2+BA house, garage. $2,500. a month plus utilities, plus security. Call Hubbell’s Real Estate. 607547-5740.

Milford House. 2, possible 3

bedroom. Nice lawns. Views. Garage. Milford schools. No pets. No Smoking. $750.00 plus utilities. Dave LaDuke: (607)435-2405

APARTMENTS FOR RENT

Cooperstown apartments. Edge of village. 2 bedroom upstairs. Recently redone. $950 includes heat and elec. Parking. No dogs. No Smoking. Call Dave LaDuke: (607) 435-2405

OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT

Cooperstown multi-use commercial /w Main St. & Doubleday lot access. Optional 1st floor double retail space, outdoor courtyard. 2nd floor: 4 private rooms/ offices. Restrooms/central air/alarm/phone. Call to discuss ideas/options. Kathy Fistrowicz 607-267-2683

Oneonta Retail Space For Lease! Over 8,000 square feet of space featuring loading dock with overhead door and warehouse area, plus a light and bright retail space second to none in the downtown lower hub of the city. $2950 per month. Call Benson Agency Real Estate, LLC for

Cooperstown.

In lieu of flowers, Linda has requested that people contribute to the Shriners Hospitals for Children, the Capital Fund of the United Methodist Church of Cooperstown, 66 Chestnut Street Cooperstown, or to the American Cancer Society Relay for Life, Otsego County, “The Believers Team” at 5 Oak Avenue, Sidney, NY 13838.

One of Linda’s favorite quotes:

“I wish you love and strength and faith and wisdom,

Gold enough to help some needy one, I wish you songs, but also a blessed silence

And God’s sweet peace when every day is done.”

Arrangements are entrusted to Tillapaugh Funeral Services, Cooperstown.

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ton of Dallas, and Nancy Benzmiller of Colorado Springs, 12 grand children and three great-grandchildren. Mr. Northrup was preceded by his second wife, Merlyn Myers Northrup and his first wife, Hilda Jane Keliher Northrup. A memorial service is planned for Saturday, April 2 at First United Methodist Church, Dallas, Texas.

Oneonta Business For Sale! Turn key, established Bar/ Restaurant business in busy center city location. Contact Benson Agency Real Estate, LLC at 607-432-4391 for more details.

LAND FOR SALE 34 Acres - Excellent opportunity to build on property adjoining a golf course. Property lends itself well to hunting. Added bonus: Located within a short distance to two of the areas largest employers. Call now to see this exceptional opportunity while still available. (Sell Broker) Rodney Campbell (315) 868-0148.

Hiring summer care for 9 year old girl. Must be 18, have a car, and an interest in working with special needs child. Call 607-547-7467 for more information.

BUICK ENCORE

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