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Matt Levinson’s Job Corps pals and fans cheer the New Berlin first-time runner over the finish line Sunday, May 10.
Going The Distance By LIBBY CUDMORE
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Preemie baby Bryce Miller’s grandmother Margaret Robinson shows the baby’s photo to SUNY Oneonta President Kleniewski Saturday, May 9, during a pancake breakfast and auction to help parents Patrick and Christine Miller of Mount Vision pay Albany Medical Center bills. Donate at www.gofundme.nijnes
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aryl M. Stern, Class of 1978, the president/CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, will deliver the commencement address at SUNY Oneonta’s 126th commencement Saturday, May 16, and Stern received an honorary doctorate from college President Nancy Kleniewski. Stern also is the author of three books, including the award-winning “Hate Hurts: How Children Learn and Unlearn Prejudice.”/MORE DETAILS, A2
NEW MILLIONAIRE: A city woman was expected at Hannaford’s Wednesday morning, May 13, to collect $1 million for a scratch-off Lottery ticket purchased there. For details, photo check WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
AVOID CHESTNUT: Chestnut Street will be paved Thursday-Friday, May 14-15. Off street parking it prohibited. With one-lane traffic beginning at 7 a.m. each day, drivers are being asked to avoid the area if possible.
ob Corps auto mechanics student Matthew Levinson had never participated in a race before. “I go for walks sometimes,” he said. “So when I saw this, I thought it would be fun.” And when crossed the finish line at the first Oneonta Job Corps 5K
on the Runway race on Sunday, May 10, he may have been last, but he certainly was not least. As the New Berlin native approached the finish line, his classmates and fellow racers gathered around him to and cheer him on as completed the race with a time of one hour, 24 minutes. “It feels good to have people support you,” Please See OJC 5K, A3
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COMPETITION FOR EC-DEV FUNDING
‘HUNGER GAMES’ MAY YIELD $500m
Services, Patrons Rise At Huntington Library
Otsego Joins ‘MV500’ Bid
its digital and media collections, redesigning collection rooms and offering a slew of one are the days of new attractions. the “old-fash“People have reioned” library, discovered libraries with dusty volumes nationwide,” said and a shushing librarWinstead. “When ian. “In talking with the recession hit in college students, I 2008, there was an realized they still had increased use - our this impressions of lientertainment is braries as being quiet, free.” with books only,” And with no said Tina Winstead, video store in town Huntington Memoand many houserial Library director. Director Winholds in the county “But we have so much stead is introunable to get ducing change. more than that!” streaming access, The Huntington their DVDs are Library is undergoing a 21st among their highest circulaIan Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Century makeover, increasing Please See LIBRARY, A6 Children’s room is patchwork of color. By LIBBY CUDMORE
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fter six years of gathering and analyzing data, Albert Colone and Bill Shue, GO-EDC co-founders, distilled their findings into a dire warning.
“Many, many studies show that if the city and the town do not consolidate, we will fail,” said Shue. This week, they are presenting their findings at four informational meetings throughout Oneonta. “Our Please See GO-EDC, A6
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or the past month, four delegates from Otsego County have been part of a sixcounty task force seeking to win $1/2 billion in state funding, and to do so must out-compete at least four other regions of Upstate New York. The four representatives on what’s being called “MV500” are county Rep. Craig Gelbsman, R-Oneonta, who as owner of First Choice Cleaners is also representing small business; Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz, representing municipalities; Otsego Now President Sandy Mathes, representing economic development efforts, and Dan Robinson, president/CEO of New York Central Mutual, representing the county’s larger enterprises. “This is a deal changer if we are selected,” said Mathes. The task force is participating in Governor Cuomo’s version of “The Hunger Games” – as the Wall Street Journal put it – for part of a three-way split of the governor’s $1.5 billion Upstate Please See MV500, A7
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oung performers from the Salvation Army’s Oneonta post took five first places in regional en professors, adminBriggs, Secondary Education Star Search competition last istrators and staff will & Educational Technology. month at the Army’s Long • In Faculty Service, receive Chancellor’s Point Camp on Seneca Lake. Awards for Excellence at Professor Theresa Russo of In addition to winning the Saturday, May 16, as 1,000 the Department of Human brass band and tambourine students receive bachelor’s Ecology. categories, first places were and master’s degrees, and • In Professional Service, won by Kyanne Clark in certificates of advance study College Registrar Maureen Level Four Drama, Emilee in ceremonies at 9:30 a.m., Artale and James Greenberg, Harvey in Solo Dance Level noon and 2:30 p.m. in the director of the Teaching, One, and Emily Marshall in Dewar Arena. Learning & Technology Solo Dance Level Three. Honorees are: Center, will receive the The winners will compete • In Classified Service, Chancellor’s Award for at the Territorial Level SaturBudget Office Agency ProExcellence in Professional day, June 13, in Hershey, Pa. gram Aide Sharon Paoletti. Service. Winning third place prizes • In Teaching, Associate • In Student Excellence, in the Long Point competiProfessor Todd Ellis, Earth John Anthony Barnas, Vertion were Emily Marshall & Atmospheric Sciences; planck, Music; Colton Cox, in Solo Brass Level Three Associate Professor Charles Salisbury Mills, English; and and Solo Vocal Level Three; B. Ragozzine Jr. , MathMarvin Rodriguez, Greenematics, Computer Science port, Computer Science. Nicole Smith, Solo Dance & Statistics; and Associate Ceremonies will be at Level Four, and Emilee HarProfessor Kjersti VanSlyke9:30, noon and 2:30 p.m. vey, Vocal Solo Level One. Also, the singing company placed third. UNRESERVED ESTATE AUCTION
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First-place winners in Salvation Army regional Star Search competition include, from left, Savannah Barrows (tambourine), Emilyn Richard (tambourines, brass band), Kyanne Clark (tambourines, brass band), Emily Marshall (tambourines, brass band), Austin Marshall (brass band), Emilee Harvey (Dance Level One and brass band), Gean Pigford (brass band) and Edith Pigford (brass band).
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Honest and Sincere Certified Public Accountant CFC of Local Corporation Fiscally Responsible Understands Financial Statements and Accounting Standards Believes in Public Education Students Community Parents Teachers Ability to Analyze Data Good Communicator Ability to Collaborate and Build Consensus with Others Possesses Critical Thinking Skills Experienced in Managing Differing Viewpoints and Agendas Member of Cooperstown Rotary Club and Fly Creek Methodist Church
“Tabetha is a strong advocate of public education. Her communication and consensus building skills, coupled with her financial expertise, would allow her to be a valuable Board of Education member.”
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EDITORIAL
A Half-Billion Dollars Still Buys Something – Let’s Get It
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eading about Empire Center for Public Policy President Ed McMahon’s address to Citizen Voices last week at the Carriage House in Southside Oneonta, didn’t the words “old think” pop into your head? McMahon reportedly called Otsego and Delaware counties “orphans,” helpless in the face of economic trends beyond their control. Delaware, maybe. Maybe other Upstate counties. But not Otsego. While there have been some bumps in the road, the county’s IDA – rechristened Otsego Now and underwritten with money generated from project fees, not tax dollars – has put in place a state-of-the-art process to bring economic development here for the first time in a half-century. Mantra One: Shovelready sites, which are being developed in Pony Farm,
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Oneonta’s D&H yards and the proposed commerce park on Richfield Springs’ outer Lake Street. Mantra Two: Singlepoint of contact – Otsego Now, on the fifth floor of Oneonta’s landmark 189 Main, and personified in its president, Sandy Mathes. We’re ready. No orphans here. • How local thinking has evolved since state Sen. Jim Seward’s first “Seward Summit” on March 15, 2011, at The Otesaga was evident the other day in the energy evident around
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the table as Mathes, Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz, and county Rep. Craig Gelbsman, R-Oneonta, laid out details of “MV500,” an effort of Otsego and five other counties to claim a chunk of Governor Cuomo’s $1.5 billion Upstate Development Fund. Governor Cuomo has set up a competition – likened to “The Hunger Games” by fearful detractors – among seven of the state’s 10 Regional Economic Development areas (Long Island, New York City and the Buffalo area have been taken care of otherwise ) for three
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Scalici Impressed By Teachers, Students, Buoyed By Seeing Indicators Of Success To the Editor: I am asking to be elected for another term on the school board. After many years as a board member, my interest is the same – children, parents and community. My wife and I have lived in the village
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To the Editor: SUNY Oneonta’s Ultimate Frisbee Team YOU ROCK!! Trish Riddell Kent and I would like to express our gratitude on behalf of the Town of Oneonta for the totally awesome job you did at Fortin Park during “Into The Streets.” You pulled together as a team to do an incredible job painting the park storage building and cleaning up, not one, but TWO playgrounds so the kids of the town have a beautiful place to enjoy. You worked hard and did so with grace and good humor. We are proud to have such excellent humans as part of the Oneonta community (and Jeeter loves you, too!) PAT JACOB Town Board Member Oneonta
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since 1977 with two children, both schooled and graduated from CCS. My background is a bachelor’s in secondary school English and a master’s in technology education with a work history of 30-plus years as executive director of a nonprofit housing development and services corporation. School board responsibilities are taxation, adherence to laws and regulations, and enactment of policies and a program of education that represent community expectations. For me, the last means equal attention to individual students as well as to the entire school body and upholding learning opportunity to best prepare young people for life. Cooperstown’s program of education, despite evergreater financial constraints, and excessive bureaucracy, has held to a caring and exceptional program of elementary teaching, sound intervention and specialneeds learning for a full curriculum of core classes, arts and music, a selection of advanced high school classes, and diverse athletics and after-school activities. New offerings in robotics and engineering have been added, as are college credit
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$500 million chunks of the total, money obtained from a settlement of Wall Street wrongdoing. The three regions that come up with the most “impressive economic visions” – the governor’s words – and most convincing strategies to achieve them, will get the money, paid out $100 million a year over the next half decade. If Otsego claimed one-tenth of a Mohawk Valley region share, it would pay for a $3 million bridge to connect the D&H yards, a state-ofthe-art Richfield park and much more. In most regions, the Economic Development Commission staffs are preparing the applications. Here, a task force with representation and staffing from the six counties in the Mohawk Valley region is seeking to make our application exciting, first-rate, fully regional.
As Gelbsman, Katz and Mathes testified – the fourth local task force member is Dan Robinson, New York Central Mutual president – after a half-dozen Monday evening task force meetings, they are already getting a better understanding of how the six counties can work as an entity, combining the strengths of our universities, our farm-to-table pioneers, our breweries, our tourist attractions to create a self-accelerating critical mass. Clearly, the nanotechnology hub on the Utica-Marcy-Rome axis will win the lion’s share of any award – the state has already invested $2 billion there, and will want to enhance that investment. But our colleges, the tech-focus Richfield commerce park and our increasingly techfocus high schools can help that futuristic initiative and benefit from it. Win-win.
• As reported, McMahon did deliver news worth knowing, most compelling: The state’s unemployment rate is dropping, not because more jobs are being created, but because the labor force is shrinking as people leave the state. Will the last Upstater turn off the lights on the way out the door? That’s a problem for every one of us, except those of us who plan to pass away in the next decade. The impetus set in motion by the “Seward Summits” is not to despoil our water, woods, farms and scenic vistas, but to fill our vacant houses and classrooms, and to bulk up our sagging social fabric, to return to a multi-generational society. When collapsing houses and barns no longer dot the landscape, we know we’re heading in the right direction.
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chool board elections and budget votes are Tuesday, May 19, in Oneonta and Cooperstown school districts. In Oneonta, polls are open from noon to 9 p.m. In Cooperstown, polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
courses at no cost to parents. Taxation is far more difficult decision because it burdens residents with with costs of regulation and control that have no value inside the classroom. To date Cooperstown has managed to hold taxes at or under the annual 2 percent limit. A public exchange of truth and consequence is the most important part of finalizing a spending plan that in the end must keep the responsibility of education as central. My views on common core and testing are that that are excessive and mistakenly designed. They pointlessly look for fault in teachers and local districts. If they would be redesigned to target learner deficiencies and connecting teachers to helpful resources, we would have something good. I am encouraged by parental activism over this issue, but offer that school boards are not your adversary. Washington and New York’s punishment-minded administration own all that is wrong. For all my years on the board, each one has impressed me with teacher and student achievement and with the admirable behavior of students both in school and when away. These are the indicators of success I hope to see continue. ANTHONY SCALICI Cooperstown
As Tin Top frames the Hyde Hall National Historic Landmark, Ruth Pierpont, deputy commissioner of the state Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation speaks of the benefits cultural tourism.
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Cultural Tourism Help Bolster Upstate Economy Editor’s Note: Deputy State Parks Commissioner Ruth Pierpoint outlined the benefits of cultural tourism at the dedication of a welcome center at Tin Top, the Hyde Hall National Historic Landmark’s gatehouse. This is an excerpt of her remarks. t around the same time that the Friends of Hyde Hall was established, Tin Top, Hyde Hall’s unique gatehouse, was moved from its original location near the park entrance to where it stands now, ... once again fulfilling its role of welcoming people to what is now a National Historic Landmark and State Historic Site. ... The State of New York has for many years placed an ever increasing emphasis on the importance of our heritage in building our future. Over the past 50 years, Hyde Hall has come a long way, but so has the historic preservation movement, which is now widely recognized as a vital component of community revitalization, economic development and job creation. To name a few of the strides we have made over the years towards protection of our irreplaceable historic resources: • Hyde Hall is one of nearly 250 National Historic Landmarks in New York
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out of only 2,500 nationwide; so 10 percent of the most celebrated historic places in our country are located in New York, and this is one of them. • We also now boast over 6,000 listings on the State and National Registers of Historic Places that include many historic districts and encompass about 150,000 individual buildings, structures and sites. • Listing on the Registers makes properties eligible for grant and tax-credit programs as well as recognizing and celebrating their historic and cultural significance. • Our agency has a long-standing grant program for the rehabilitation of historic properties under the Environmental Protection Fund and Hyde Hall is one of many hundreds of municipal and nonprofit owned properties that have benefitted from EPF dollars • For privately owned properties, thanks to our legislature and Governor Cuomo, we have a homeowner tax credit program that has resulted in the rehabilitation of approximately 1,500 homes since its inception and a commercial program that complements a federal rehabilitation tax credit program and has resulted in approximately $2.5 billion worth of investment in historic buiidings over the past three years, much of it Upstate.
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HOMETOWN 125 Years Ago
Contracts for stone walks on the Normal School grounds were let Tuesday. There will be about 200 running feet of ten-foot walk, 200 of six-foot, and a less quantity of sevenfoot. The flagging is to be the best quality of sawed Berea sandstone, not less than five feet wide, and from three to four inches thick, according to the width of the walk. The stones, which are obtained through Ingalls and Son of Oneonta, local agents of the Ohio firm, will be laid by John Cauthers. The total expense of the flagging will be about $1,500. Already so much progress has been made in the work on the Normal grounds as to warrant the statement that, though the entire job will not be completed before August, commencement week will see the walks laid and the front part of the grounds graded and in good order. May 1890
100 Years Ago
Mayor Joseph Lunn and 46 former Oneonta boys gathered last Friday evening in New York City and sat down to a tempting dinner, smoked some fine Doyle & Smith cigars from the old home town and then proceeded to have a rousingly good time talking over the old days spent on their native heath. Four hours of chumship and friendship reigned as of old and everybody had a real enjoyable time. The occasion was the second annual reunion of native Oneonta boys who are now engaged in pursuits business and professional walks of life in Greater New York and vicinity. There are known to be upwards of a hundred former Oneonta men now doing business and living in the great Metropolis. The fact that 46 of them could assemble for a reunion speaks volumes of the spirit of mutual interest in which these former Oneontans hold each other. The event was chaired by T.D. Tallmadge. May 1915
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The attack on proposals for the socialization of medicine including compulsory health insurance was LETTER
Aid To Nepal Means Local People Care To the Editor:
I have found that one of the hallmarks of small town life is the willingness of residents to help others. Whether it’s events like the Polar Bear Jump or Relay for Life or a fundraiser at the fire hall to help a sick neighbor, it seems that everyone wants to help in some way. It’s even more astonishing when people gather together to support those who live half a world away. Wednesday night, April 29, Origins Cafe hosted a dinner to raise money for relief efforts in Nepal. On short notice, 70 people came and donated $2,168 to the CGLF Earthquake Relief Fund organized by Phakchok Rinpoche of Nepal and Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Meditation Center in Cooperstown. My thanks to all who attended that evening and especially to Kristen and Dana Leonard of Origins Cafe for organizing it all. I feel fortunate to live in such a caring community. DORIA MOTTA Chair Chokgyur Lingpa Foundation Cooperstown
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expressed fears, however, that the ERA would mean an end to separate restrooms, a loss of financial support for married women and a downgrading of job safety for women. John Calandra, Bronx Republican, described the ERA as a “ballyhoo type of proposition,” and said it was not needed. Calandra cast the only “no” vote in the Senate Committee. He accused some of the other members of the committee of not having enough courage to vote the way they felt. “We don’t know what the impact of this legislation will be – but we’re passing the buck because we don’t want to stand up and be counted.” Another member of the committee, Joseph Pisani, Republican, Westchester, said he voted “yes” simply to get it out of the committee. “If it was kept in committee, it would have been branded a Republican move.” May 1975
Editor’s Note: David Mattice, National Weather Service observer in the Oneonta area for the past 30 years, is providing monthly and annual summaries of local weather as a public service.
APRIL 2015 Highest Temperature..............................................75°F (April 14) Lowest Temperature..................................................19°F (April 2) Average Maximum Temperature.............................................53°F Average Minimum Temperature..............................................30°F Monthly Mean Temperature.................................................41.5°F Precipitation Total.....................................................................3.37″ Most Precipitation in One Day..................................0.86” (April 9) Thunderstorms..........................................................1 (1 for 2015) Snow...........................................................................................0.4” (65.4” for 2015; 90.1“ for 2014-15 winter) Most Snow in One Day.................................................0.3” (April 5) YTD Precipitation......................................................................9.93” Number of Days at or below zero F................................................0 (23 for 2015; 23 for 2014-15 winter ) Number of Days at or below 32°F.....................21 (110 for 2015)
Comments: The good news for April – no records broken. The bad news for April – significantly colder than normal, again! Is this getting old or what? Temperatures for every month in 2015 have been colder than average. Is this trend the new normal? January was 5.2° colder than normal, February was 4.3° under par, March was a brutal 7.9° shy of the norm, and in April we had temperatures that averaged 3.0° below where they should The head of a coalition of New York be! We introduced this column in January May 1955 State gun groups said Tuesday that DAVID 2014 and only three months during that 16Governor Mario Cuomo would likely month period have had monthly mean temrenewed at the 139th annual meeting MATTICE peratures that were normal or above! That’s of the New York State Medical Society be hit with a $30 million libel suit horrible! What a win/loss record – three for uncomplimentary remarks about in Albany. Dr. Arthur J. Bedell, the wins and 13 losses. Our precipitation for April was 3.37” which National Rifle Association members. retiring president of the society, had is only 0.09” above normal. The year-to-date precipitation is this to say on the topic of health insur- “We’re shooting for March of 1986,” 9.93”, which is 1.45” shy of where it should be. Just 0.4” of said Jerry Preiser, Chairman of the snow fell during April, giving us 90.1” for the winter 2014-15, ance: “Compulsory health insurance Coalition of New York State Sportswhich is exactly a foot above average. And for January-April schemes are only political plums to men. What had gun club members so we’ve received 65.4”, just 10” above for 2015. There is some be distilled into more of the brandy of upset is a remark by Cuomo, published good news for the first 10 days of May. Daytime high temperaindolent ease for those already intoxitures are forecast to be 5-15 degrees above normal, and that’s cated with power. The individual when last month by the Los Angeles Times, something we haven’t seen in a long time. We should reach the in which the Democratic Governor said sick is still an individual, and as such 80° mark a couple of times during that stretch! While we enjoy the strongest complaints against New deserves the particular care necessary the late spring and early summer months, we need to pay close York’s new mandatory seat belt law had attention to weather forecasts. For the entire United States, the to cure, if possible – at least to allevihighest likelihood for severe thunderstorm and tornado activity ate his suffering. Neither mass produc- come from “NRA hunters who drink beer, don’t vote, and lie to their wives is during May and June. We can see temperatures on the east tion nor standardism are applicable to side of a cold front in the 80s while on the backside they may about where they were all weekend.” medical practice for our patients may be in the 30s. When the “spread” of temperatures is so great May 1985 be similar but they are not identical and the air masses clash, we can have tremendous uplifting of and never will be automatons molded air, especially when a big dip in the jet stream is also present. Severe weather can hit any given area with little or no warning. in the same form of body or mind.” Former Hartwick College Coach Al Please listen for all watches and warnings, take them seriously May 1915 Miller leads a list of five men selected and know what to do to stay safe should bad weather occur nearby. We do not need to live in fear, just spend a little time by U.S. Soccer for induction into the educating yourself and share what you learn with friends and National Soccer Hall of Fame this The proposed New York State Equal family about the do’s and don’ts of coping with bad weather summer. Miller, along with former issues should they unfold. If you know what to do chances are Rights Amendment cleared an imporU.S. National Team players George very slim that you will be injured during severe weather. Get tant hurdle on Tuesday when the Senoutside, enjoy a round of golf, take a hike, fire up the grill, catch ate Judiciary Committee voted 14-1 to Brown and Willy Schaller, referee a baseball game, throw a Frisbee or work in your garden. It’s a Alfred Kleinaitis and publisher Clay report the measure to the full Senate. beautiful time of year here in the greater Cooperstown/Oneonta Berling will be inducted into the Hall The Equal Rights Amendment would area. Visit or revisit some of the many attractions that we are so of Fame on Sunday, July 2. ban discrimination against women in fortunate to have here in Otsego County. And as always, Keep May 1995 Your Eye On The Weather! New York State laws. Opponents have
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GO-EDC Petitions Elected Board: Study, Understand Consolidation’s Benefits GO-EDC/From A1 purpose is not to debate,” said Shue. “Our purpose is to show pertinent facts.” Only a handful of people, including Mayor Russ Southard, city Director of Finance Meg Hungerford, Planning Board chair Ed May and Airport Commission member Dennis Finn showed up at the first meeting on Monday, May 11, but over 20, including Common Council member Madolyn Palmer, Fifth Ward, attended the second the next evening. The remaining two are 7:30-8:40 p.m. Thursday, May 14, at the Valleyview School cafetorium and Monday, May 18, in the Oneonta Middle School cafeteria. A GO-EDC 2014 study of 362 area leaders and businesspeople found that 69 percent checked “I agree” to the statement, “The town and city would be more prosperous if they consolidated.” According to GO-EDC findings, the largest share of county sales tax revenue comes from Oneonta, with $4.2 million being returned
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to the city and $500,000 going to the town. Only a city has the preemptive authority to collect sales tax, GO-EDC pointed out, so the town loses a chunk of money it would receive as a city. And state aid per capita is also significantly higher for a city then a town. Additional savings could come from dissolving the town court into city court, which is paid for by the state judicial system, and
With Expanding Services, Library Actually Growing LIBRARY/From A1 tions every week, with over 4,000 checked out last year. “People love movies, but not everyone has access to Netflix or Amazon Prime,” she said. “If you want a movie, we’re one of the only games in town, and we have a huge collection.” Print media – especially adult fiction – remains the biggest draw. With 148,714 books taken out in 2014, it’s actually down from last year due to the increase in digital downloads and audiobooks. “It’s a symptom of people moving towards digital outlets,” said the librarian. “Audiobooks are super popular, so we’re working to increase that collection as well.” Winstead, formerly of the Newfield Public Library near Ithaca, joined the Huntington library in fall 2013 and quickly set to upgrading the library for modern readers. “I was able to look at the space with fresh eyes,” she said. Prior to her arrived, visitor counts were informal and based mainly on circulation, but she secured funds to purchase a “people counter” on the door to provide more accurate visitation numbers. What she found was that 96,488 people used the library in 2014, a 61 percent increase from the previously calculated 59,800. To make it even more welcoming, she found grants to create a reading room in the reference section, where tall bookcases once created narrow, unfriendly space. “It was dark, dingy and cluttered,” she said. “We moved the reference materials that weren’t getting used and put them into circulation, put in chairs and tables and put on a new coat of paint - it really opened the room up.” And she is just finishing a similar makeover of the children’s reading room,
with a “maker space” craft area, new bookshelves and a periwinkle coat of paint. “It’s been a big, fun project,” she said. “Our focus this year is children.” She’s hoping to complete similar projects with the juvenile and young adult rooms in the future. In addition to making the space more user-friendly, she’s worked with the librarians and Friends of the Library to increase the number and variety of programs, including a monthly Pinterest craft club, lessons in digital literacy, and an adult summer reading program, complete with prizes. “We’re trying to figure out what the public wants,” she said. The most successful has been the Saturday writing club, led by librarian Jen Donohue. “We found that Oneonta has a core group people who want to write,” she said. She also hopes to increase their “home delivery” services, taking books to Nader Towers, Robynwood and The Plains at Parish Homestead. “We have a story time at Robynwood that the residents seem to love,” she said. “It’s a prototype, but we plan to expand.” It’s all part of the fourprong approach to the library’s strategic plan, including an online survey conducted in late 2014, six focus groups and interviews with stakeholders, and is working to complete the environmental scan, studying what resources and demographics the community has. “It’s a snapshot of the community,” she said. “Once we have that packet of information, we can write out five year plan.” And there’s more ideas coming in every day. “There’s so many fun things in the library world,” she added.
instituting tiered services would go up substantially.” and tax zones. “If you live After crunching the numin the town, maybe you bers in a study of city and don’t need street sweeping, town valuation, tax levies so you aren’t taxed for those and tax rates, even with high services,” said Shue. sales tax, Wood estimates He ended Monday’s that taxes would increase to meeting by asking the $4.64 per $1,000 of assessed audience to sign a petition valuation of a property. asking Southard and Town But Shue and Cologne Supervisor Bob Wood to feel that the people should hire a consultant to study decide at the polls. “We feel consolidation. “Both this has been talked about the town and the city are since Moses came down eligible for up to $200,000 from the mountain,” said in a non-competitive grant Shue. “Let’s give the voters to study cost saving meaa chance to speak.” Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA sures and consolidation,” he In the next month, GOsaid. “It’s a Share Services GO-EDC’s Bill Shue, standing, answers questions EDC – for Greater Oneonta Municipal Grant with a very from Airport Commission member Dennis Finn, Economic Development modest local commitment.” left, and city Planning Board chair Ed May. Council – also plans to issue Southard was on hand to another survey in hopes of regularly with them, and I tions studies since 1997; consider their proposal. “If rallying people behind a don’t think they’re offering when they were complete, the study costs us next to anything I haven’t heard townspeople still weren’t in- town and city study. “Our nothing, there’s no harm,” before.” terested. “It’s not practical,” first goal is to get this study he said. “It might be good done,” said Shue. “We need Wood said he participated he said. “Our studies came to have an outside party to try everything to move in four different consolidato the conclusion that taxes look at all the figures.” towards cost-saving. Oneonta Town Supervisor Bob Wood, however, said he Ready, Set, Go! has no plans to attend any Exclusively offered at $329,000 of the meetings. “I’ve met This home, built in 1915, was totally remodeled and expanded in 2012. Lovely updated eat-in kitchen. Sliding doors to a large deck across the rear of the house. Private backyard. Extra room in the detached 2-car garage for home office or exercise room. Perfect country location.
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HUBBELL’S REAL ESTATE 607-547-5740•607-547-6000 (fax) 157 Main Street Cooperstown, NY 13326
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29 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown · 607-547-4045 Patricia Bensen-Ashley – Licensed Real Estate Broker/Owner
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Cooperstown split level
(8018) Enjoy the charm of this 3-BR home near the hospital. Home features a brick fireplace, formal DR, private den, newer bath, paneled rec room, hardwood flooring. Attached garage. You will fall for this lovely “must-see” home. Hubbell’s Exclusive—$289,900
(7874) This superbly kept 3 BR, 2+bath contemporary Cape is set amidst rural beauty. It features a LR w/vaulted ceiling and gas fireplace, den/office, main-level master BR, formal DR, eat-in kitchen w/ island. Sun room has passive solar heat. Cherry, pine and tile floors, skylights, radiant-floor heat. 2-car garage, large wrap-around deck commanding valley views. Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive—$479,000
CommerCial ProPerty for rent Warehouse/Shop for rent in Oneonta, close to the Rail Yards. 2400 square feet, plenty of parking, loading dock. Reasonable rent.
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(8013) Superbly kept Village 3-BR cottage-style home. Some of the highlights of this residence are formal DR, remodeled bath, eat-in kitchen and enclosed sun/porch. Mud room, hot water heat. This attractive home is neat as a pin. Hubbell’s Co-exclusive—$149,000
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Cherry Valley Victorian This 3,200+/- sq ft home in the Village of Cherry Valley is an easy walk to the grocery store, shops, bank, and restaurants. Large wrap-around porch, 1.21+/- acre yard, and 3,000+/sq ft 2-story carriage barn. Inside is a formal LR w/fireplace, formal DR, master BR, den/office, laundry room, full bath, and kitchen w/breakfast room. Upstairs are 4-5 BRs, 1 full bath, and ample closets. This is a spacious and comfortable family home. Offered Exclusively by Ashley Connor Realty — $159,900 Visit us on the Web at www.ashleyconnorrealty.com Contact us at info@ashleyconnorrealty.com
For Appointment: Patricia Bensen-Ashley, Broker/Owner, 607-437-1149 Jack Foster, Sales Agent, 607-547-5304 • Robert Schneider, Associate Broker, 607-282-2814 Donna Skinner, Associate Broker, 607-547-8288 • Chris Patterson, Sales Agent, 518-774-8175
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