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SUNY Oneonta Joins Multiple Yik Yak Targets By LIBBY CUDMORE
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UNY Oneonta joins SUNY Canton, the University of Missouri, Syracuse University and dozens more as the site of
a violent threat made on the anonymous Yik Yak chat app. The smartphone app, which allows users to anonymously post and share to fellow “Yaks” in a five-mile radius, was believed to have been used by SUNY student
Brandon Negron, 20, of New Windsor, Orange County, to post “I’m going to shoot up the school. Be prepared, Oneonta.” He was arrested Sunday, Dec. 6, by University Police and charged with “making a terroristic threat.”
On Nov. 11, Syracuse University police arrested student Reynaldo Cortorreal for threats made on the Yik Yak app. On Nov. 30, the University of Chicago shut down campus after Hunter M. Park allegedly Plesae See YIK YAK, A7
$½ BILLION, FOR US? Cuomo Decision Could Transform County Economy
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Barbara Fritz, left, Fran Reed, center, and Margaret Winnie count ballots in the Oneonta Town First District #1 election Tuesday, Dec. 8.
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tate Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, planned to be inside The Egg in Albany Thursday, Dec. 10, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announces which three of seven economic-development regions will share $1.5 billion in funding over the next four years, an unprecedented boon to New York’s struggling Upstate. Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz Please See HALF-BILLION, A6
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onald Lammano and Carol Ann Malz joined the Town of Oneonta’s Fire District #1 Board of Commissioners Tuesday evening, Dec. 8. After years of low – or no – turnout, almost 200 voters turned out to vote in two new commissioners and three incumbents, who will soon be locked in negotiations, trying to ensure the continuance of fire protection from the City of Oneonta next year. Incumbents Fred Volpe (52 votes) won a five-year term, Mike Butler (55) four years, Johna Peachin (51) three years, Lammano (51) two years, and Malz (33) one year. ADJUNCT RAISES: SUNY Oneonta announced it will raise the minum salary of three-credit court adjuncts from $2,500 to $3,000, putting the college well above the average/DETAILS, A7 FINAL MAYOR: Dorothy R. Beams, 89, the last mayor of the former Village of Schenevus, has passed away/DETAILS, B6 ON COLBERT: George Saunders, the National Book Award finalist and Oneonta area resident made his third appearance with host Stephen Colbert on NBC’s “The Late Show” on Tuesday, Dec. 8. Check it out on Youtube.
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Oneonta brothers Billy and Johnny Lattenhauer give Santa Claus a hug as he enters Muller Plaza Thursday, Dec. 3, for the community tree lighting. Santa will be in his cottage 4-6 p.m. Thursdays, Dec. 10 and 17, and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturdays, Dec. 12 and 19.
Originators Vow To Protect City Charter By LIBBY CUDMORE
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purned in the latest review of the Oneonta City Charter, the origin com-
8 Will Insist Changes Go To Citywide Vote mission that created it is about it put its foot down. Commission member Paul Scheele, the retired SUNY Oneonta poly-sci
professor, told Mayor Herzig’s ad hoc Charter Review Committee Tuesday, Dec. 8, that, if the city manager’s duties are
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► $500,000 for Otsego Now to complete plans for a bridge from D&H yards to I-88, and for water, sewer lines to industrial property. ► $300,000 for malt, barley manufacturing for brewing industry at Northern Eagle Beverage’s new Browne Street plant. ► $270,000 for Klugo Enterprises to redevelop Stevens Hardware into stores and apartments, a “second Bresee’s.” Plus, who gets $500 million from the Upstate Development Initiative? FOR DETAILS OF CUOMO’S THURSDAY, DEC. 10, ANNOUNCEMENT, CHECK
Lots Of Local Musicians Have Sinatra Stories By LIBBY CUDMORE
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verybody goes through Steve Fabrizio – even Frank Sinatra. “I was bouncing at the Rainbow Room one Christmas in the early ’80s and he had been performing across the street,” said Fabrizio, himself
a jazz vocalist. “His bodyguards came over and told me to clear the way, but I told them, ‘Everybody goes through me, even Frank’.” Nasty words and shoving broke out, and then, the elevator door opened. “There was this tiny man, and he said, ‘Wait a minute!’ And I said, ‘I’m sorry, Mr. Sinatra’, to which he Please See SINATRA, A6
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SUNY Professor Andrew Gallup’s Schools Treated To Healthy Snacks, Research On Yawning Wins Prize Demonstration By Chef Julia Rissberger
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Julia Rissberger, 11, a sixth-grade student at the Oneonta Middle School, readies for her food demonstration at the OMS auditorium on Tuesday, Dec. 8, while her mother Rachel projects the proceedings on the big screen for the audience. Julia, who was a winner of PBS’ Healthy Lunchtime Challenge this past April, was invited to lunch with First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House in July. She prepared an original, no-bake recipe she calls “Bird Food,” made from peanut butter, dried fruit and seeds. She was joined by Chef Jim Perillo from the Otesaga Resort Hotel who shared his carrot hummus recipe. The two also gave a presentation at Riverside Elementary. School.
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BROADBAND: People Want It, And It Should Be Here In 2017
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ousing is unavailable, unaffordable and of poor quality, the Laberge Group consultants who solicited our opinions a month ago on behalf of Otsego County government found. A second finding – and a newcomer to the community conversations: There is “resounding” support for a local community college, Laberge VP Ben Syden and Planning Services Manager Nicole Allen told county reps at their December meeting on the 2nd. However, lack of broadband was the most common shortfall participants in four simultaneous meetings – Thursday, Nov. 5, at SUNY Oneonta and the Edmeston, Richfield Springs and Unatego central schools – reported to Syden and Allen. A draft report of the complete findings is expected to be in county reps’ hands by the end of December. When MV500 co-chair Alicia Dicks appeared at a Sept. 14 meeting in the Hall of Fame’s Bullpen Theater to discuss what to do if the economic development region
that includes Otsego County gets a half-billion from Governor Cuomo’s Upstate Revitalization Initiative (the announcement was due Thursday, Dec. 10), the issue was also addressed with some force: We need broadband. To hear concerns about the lack of broadband, often expressed vehemently, might cause you to think nothing’s happening. • Quite the opposite, we’re on our way to getting broadband. Two years from today, in fact, we may have it everywhere in Otsego County. As recounted in this newspaper’s Progress 2015 edition last April, Otsego Now, the county’s retooled IDA (industrial development agency), contracted in the summer of 2014 with Farr Technologies of South Dakota – a consultancy expert in laying the groundwork for rural broadband – to explore the feasibility of broadband here. In a presentation at Oneonta’s Hampton Inn in the fall of 2014,
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The Laberge Group’s Nicole Allen and Ben Syden tell the county board Dec. 2 people want better housing, a community college and broadband.
Farr unveiled a $30 million program that would use a combination of fiber-optic cable and towers to bring the high-speed internet to every corner of the county. The feasibility study identified the need and developed the data necessary to prepare authoritative grant applications. A four-member partnership – the IDA (to provide the financing), the County of Otsego (as a pass-through for grants), Otsego Electric Cooperative, based in
Hartwick (providing construction and, longer term, maintenance crews) and MidTel of Middleburgh (experienced in several successful rural broadband projects) – was announced at about that time. MidTel – the Becker Brothers; older sibling Jim, in particular – was involved in ION, the statewide Independent Optical Network, a consortium of independent telephone companies that provided broadband from Plattsburgh to Malone in the North Country, from Houghton to Cuba, Olean and Jamestown in the Southern Tier, from Hancock to Port Jervis, and on both sides of Lake Champlain. When we last spoke to the Beckers, they were preparing applications for $23 million from Cuomo’s $500 million statewide fund for rural broadband and for additional funding from the U.S Farm Bill. State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, and U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-19, were enthusiastically aboard.
The “build cycle” was supposed to happen in 2016, and crews from Syracuse Utilities and Todd Cable Construction of Newport, Herkimer County, were supposed to be visible stringing cable along Otsego County roadways by next spring. • The whole process was slowed by a personnel change: Jeffrey Nordhaus was appointed executive vice president/Innovation & Broadband, at the Empire State Development Corp. last July, and it’s said he wanted to become familiar and comfortable with his predecessor’s initiatives before moving forward with grant awards. That period of kicking the tires is coming to an end, and grants are expected to be announced shortly after the first of the year. It’s typical. Government takes time. But broadband is – or should be – on the way. As to better housing and a community college ... that may take a bit longer.
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‘Historical Formula’ Should Apply In City, Town Firefighting Contract
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y sweet cat, Bootsie, went poor animal on the roadside, so Bonita missing on the evening of offered kindly to take the cat to her Editor’s Note: This is a response to Oneonta Mayor Gary Nov. 2. That night I walked home and bury it. Herzig’s letter last week, outlining City Hall’s position on the local streets calling her name, A few weeks later Bonita saw my the cost of providing professional firefighters to the Town knowing that she always came when poster at Mel’s Restaurant, and called of Oneonta Fire District #1, from Board of Commissioners’ I called her. Every day since, I’ve me. “I recognized the cat to be the chair Fred Volpe and Commissioner Johna Peachin. walked more streets, hung posters, told little one I buried” she said. “I’m sorry, the post office, the vets, and SPCA. I believe it was your Bootsie.” Bootsie Dear Mr. Herzig: serted to us that nothing Many businesses were kind enough almost made it to her home on Glen his is in changed. to post her picture. AllOTSEGO.com Avenue. response to You letter states that posted it on line. I would like to thank Bonita Gibb your letter to we “offered” the city I received many leads over the past and the Cooperstown policeman for us dated Nov. 30 $450,000, again a very few weeks and I was grateful for those. their kindness. I would also like to that appeared in last unfair characterization But still no Bootsie. thank the many people who called week’s Hometown of the discussion. What On Dec. 2, I received a call regardwith tips to find Bootsie. I will alOneonta & The was said is that if the ing Bootsie. On Monday, Nov. 9, one ways be grateful for the concern and Freeman’s Journal, Fred Volpe ratio used to allocate The public was on the lookout week after Bootsie’s disappearance, compassion of all in the Village of which contains departmental costs was for Bootsie, until the sad news Bonita Gibb, a Bassett employee, was Cooperstown, where people genuinely arrived. material inaccuracies. It a weighted average of the driving home from work when she care what happens in your life and concerns us that you would people and property bewitnessed a cat get hit by a car near reach out to help and share your sorShe called the police, and while she knowingly do so and that the ing protected (a common the corner of Chestnut Street and Glen and the police officer who responded row. acting city manager would formula used within the Avenue (Route 28). She stopped to Thank you all. tried to reach a vet to attend the injured acquiesce to it. state) rather than just prophelp. The cat was badly injured but MARJORIE LANDERS feline, the cat died. Bonita and the In your letter, you state erty, the charge would be still alive. Cooperstown policeman did not want to leave the that the charge to the Town about $450,000. Our charge Fire District for 2016 pursu- for 2015 was $946,000 and ant to the historical formula we stated that our “worst is $1,030,731. During our case” scenario for 2016 was To the Editor: whose pre-automobile hous- act of the state Legislature. and they make the village meeting, you indicated that a charge equivalent to the The Village of es have no off-street parking Fortunately, approval a more livable place for its if the old formula were used, historical formula. Cooperstown was built-out whatsoever. The way other of such ordinances is now residents. the city would add substanCall volume is another long before Henry Ford towns and villages have routine – Ithaca, Albany, The opposition to resitial new “administrative” appropriate factor in allomade automobiles comsolved this problem is via Tuckahoe and Mamaroneck dential parking permits typicharges to the calculation. cating costs. Based on the monplace in America. The residential parking permits. have residential permits. cally comes from (surprise!) We did not agree to that. We fire department call record converted stables around The village has been All the village has to do is owners of public parking both know that based upon for 2015 through Novemtown are evidence of that aware of the problem and ask their representatives to garages and parking lots information provided by ber, 76.7 percent of all calls – as is the daily race for the obvious solution – for sponsor a bill. – who stand to benefit from Meg Hungerford, the actual are for EMS services. The street parking among resiyears. To his credit, Mayor Residential parking a lack of parking. Imagine charge using the historical town’s share of those calls Katz is finally doing somepermits are a net winner for that. . . formula is $879,778. You is 36 percent, but the service dents, tourists and Bassett thing about it. As noted in a the village – they generate CHIP NORTHRUP added nearly $430,000 of is to both of its fire districts. employees. The perennial loser in recent article, such residenincome in the form of fees, Cooperstown “administrative” costs never There were a total of 703 this battle are the residents tial parking permits require they enhance the utility and before included by the city fire-related calls for the a vote of the village and an value of village residences, and disingenuously asPlease See VOLPE, A6 – most acutely residents
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n the early 1950s, my family moved to south Florida for the winters, and purchased a modest concrete-block house in the city of Hallandale. The city was laid out with avenues running north to south, and the streets east to west. Our house was in the northwest part of town, about three blocks from the “colored section.” This division of the sections was defined by a row of warehouses between Second and Third streets that extended all the way east to U.S. Route 1, called “Old Dixie” Highway. Our backyard joined the yards of other white families who lived on Fourth Avenue, and we often played sports in these spaces, with touch football the most common. The Amundson family lived immediately behind us in a nice house with
a large, well-kept lawn that became our field of choice, since it was free of sandspurs and palmettos. I have fond memories of this time – long days, blue sky and the great fellowship of casual sport. There was a supermarket on the Beach Boulevard, four blocks south of our neighborhood, and black kids would often walk by on their way to shop for their families. Many times they looked over to us throwing the football, and casually held their hands in a catching position with a nod or two, and a slight smile. I clearly remember my immediate instinct was to throw the ball to them, and it is with great regret that I acknowledge we never did. The racism that existed in our families would have resulted in a violent reaction from our fathers, several of
whom were hitters. I cannot remember even discussing it. When I think about this – the friendships we missed, the games we could have had – I know all of us lost a great opportunity because of the prejudice on our side. The great singer, Sam Cooke, did a show at The Palms, a nightclub in the black section. We were, of course, forbidden to attend by our parents. We snuck over anyway, and from half a block away we heard that sweet voice. If the schools had been integrated, we would have had some games, and made some life-long friends. On our own, we just didn’t have the courage to do it. Michael Whaling, the mason, craftsman and environmentalist, lives in Sharon Springs.
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Mrs. David Wilber and her two sons, Geo. I. and D. Forrest Wilber, have contracted with Dauley and Wright for the erection on the family burial plot at Glenwood of a massive monument to the memory of Hon. David Wilber. The contract was let Monday of this week and the monument will be erected in May or June of 1891. The whole is to be of white and blue Westerly granite, to weigh from 26 to 29 tons, and will cost complete $6,000. The design shows four bases, surmounted by a die, cap and plinth, and by a statue of the deceased Congressman, the whole structure being eighteen feet, four inches from bottom to top. The lowest base is eight feet square and 18 inches thick; the next two, also square and slightly smaller, being twelve and fifteen inches thick respectively. The upper base which is round and fourteen inches in thickness supports the die, four feet in diameter and slightly less in height. Above this are the cap and plinth, the latter being draped about with carefully wrought festoons of laurel. Towering over all is the statue, itself about seven feet high. December 1890
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A U.S. Congressional study says that many persons will suffer hardship with the advance of automation which may surpass the limits of imagination. This is the reported finding of a Senate-House Economic Sub-Committee headed by Representative Patman (D-Tex) following a series of hear-
to have construction restricted to an access road from I-88 to existing Route 7 rather than re-locating Route 7, all but two indicated they want to retain existing Route 7. Previously Connors said the cost of rehabilitating Route 7 at the existing location would cost $2.2 million compared to $2 million for re-locating Route 7 from the intersection with Route 28 on the west to a point about 1,000 feet east of the old auction barn on the east. December 1975
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After more than a decade of debate, the United Nations unanimously adopted a landmark resolution condemning all acts of terrorism as criminal. The resolution was a compromise to overcome heated exchanges on the legal definition of terrorism. Israel’s Ambassador Benjamin Netanyahu said his country supported the resolution but doubted that nations like Libya and Syria, which also supported the measure, would fully live up to the resolution. Cuba supported the measure but found fault with the resolution because it did not identify those who engage in “state terrorism,” which the Cubans say includes the United States, Israel and South Africa. The U.N. defines terrorism as “acts which endanger or take innocent lives, jeopardize fundamental freedoms and seriously impair the dignity of human beings.” December 1985
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“The Grange stands four-square against the legalized liquor traffic and will fight to the last ditch this greatest of all destroyers,” Fred J. Freestone, master of the New York State Grange, declared in his address opening the business session of the 63rd annual convention of the organization at the State Armory here in Oneonta yesterday. “We should remember that while the nation has repealed prohibition, the Grange has not done so,” he said. Mr. Freestone further asserted that “the repeal of national prohibition has plunged us into a state of chaos, lawlessness and disaster that was fully expected by all who remembered the liquor regime which preceded the enactment of national prohibition. Mr. Freestone also said, “Almost equally disturbing is the wild craze for gambling which is sweeping the country, resulting in the complete breakdown of anti-gambling laws. The state master criticized fraternities and churches for yielding to “the chance for easy money,” pointing out that they too “apparently hold the prevailing belief that we can gamble ourselves into prosperity. It behooves the Grange to maintain its well-known attitude of stern opposition to every form of dishonesty and make its influence felt at every possible point of contact.” December 1935
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For most college students, borrowing money to finance their educational pursuits is a necessity, and, it’s leaving December 1915 them in debt. The median percentage of income required to repay loans rose from 3.2 percent in 1977 to 4.7 percent in ings on the impact of automation and electrical processing. 1990. The number of student borrowers with excessive debt Witnesses included industrial and organized labor leadamounting to more than ten percent of their income, iners as well as government specialists. The study predicts creased from 6.5 percent in 1986 to 8.3 percent in 1980. “It enormous strides in automation, ranging from computers was scary. I had never taken out loans before,” said Beverly capable of solving complicated mathematical problems to electronic devices that will make assembly lines almost au- Grossman, a 1995 graduate of Hartwick College. Grossman borrowed $14,272.72. “This loan is more than I’ve made in tomatic. But, the report says, the resulting displacement of my lifetime.” workers will be offset in part by the probable development December 1995 of whole new industries and service personnel. It also recommended that all levels of government “take to heart the need for a specific and broad program to promote secondary and higher education” to combat a dangerous shortage Bryan Conroy, the New York City police officer who of scientists, technicians and skilled labor. shot and killed an unarmed African immigrant in a ManhatDecember 1955 tan warehouse, was sentenced Friday to probation for five years and 500 hours of community service. He had faced up to four years in prison. State Supreme Court Justice Robert Straus said no sentence would restore life to the victim, At a meeting with State Department of Transportation Osmane Zongo. Judge Straus said he believed that Conroy officials, residents of the Colliersville-Cooperstown Juncwas a decent man who had been poorly trained by the New tion area “stood” one hundred per cent against having an Interstate 88 access road built to Route 7 in that area. James York City Police Department. December 2005 K. Connors, DOT Regional Director told the group that DOT will “probably conclude that the interchange is necessary.” When residents were asked how many would prefer
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8 Charter Originators: We’re Watching, And Will Force Referendum If We Must VOW/From A1 was signed by seven other members of the original commission: John Dudek, Martha Forgiano, Steve Londner, now-Council member David Rissberger, Sarah Patterson, Kay Stuligross and Laurie Zimniewicz. Scheele was harkening back to the first ad hoc committee meeting, when making the mayor “chief executive officer” and the city manager “chief administrative officer” was discussed; the manager now fulfills both roles. “The mayor directs the City Manager, not the other way around,” said chair John Nader at the time. If that change is made, the original commission will insist
that a public referendum be made, Scheele said. “Our concern is that it would creating a good cop/bad cop scenario,” he said. “We don’t want department heads saying, ‘If I don’t get the answer I want from the mayor, I’ll go to the city manager’.” The statement he read also gave a brief history of the commission, its findings and primary recommendations. “We believe the central ongoing need is for our elected leaders to invest their time and talents to achieve a comprehensive understanding of all the implications of this new system and to thoughtfully design and execute
That Night, Sinatra Was Cool SINATRA/From A1 replied, ‘There’s a man who knows what to say to me’!” Sinatra asked him his name, and when he gave it, he asked if he was related to Johnny Fabs, who played trumpet with the Tommy Dorsey Band. “That’s my uncle!” Fabrizio told him. He took Sinatra’s hat and coat to the coat check, and Sinatra tipped him $100. Then he introduced him to his old bandmate, Cy Oliver, who was playing at the Rainbow Room. “There was me, Cy and Frank, all hanging out like we were friends,” said Fabrizio. “I’ll never forget it.” Frank Sinatra may be gone, but as his 100th birthday approaches on Saturday, Dec. 12, he is not forgotten. “I turned and asked one of my students and asked. ‘What do you think of Frank Sinatra?’ and he said, ‘I love him,” said Dr. Janet Nepkie, SUNY Oneonta music professor. “The younger generation still knows him.” “Frank’s always been there,” said Vincent Mashburn, owner of the Vinyl Vault on Main Street. “He never left!” “Ol Blue Eyes” died in May 1998, age 82, leaving behind a legacy of hits, including “New York, New York,” “Fly Me To The Moon” and “My Way,” as well as starring roles in film versions of hit musicals “On The Town,” “Guys and Dolls” as well as “The
Commissioners Challenge Facts VOLPE/From A4 period, of which 163 were within our fire district (23 percent of such calls). As fire commissioners, we are charged with securing fire protection. The city has a separate agreement with Mr. Wood, the town supervisor for EMS services. We appreciated the opportunity to exchange points of view at our meeting. As “customers” of the city’s fire department, we value the service. The issue is to have affordable fire protection – our district residents are the only ones in the county that pay more fire tax than town tax. We would prefer to remain “customers” and do not want to pursue other options, but mischaracterizing our discussions is not helpful. Sincerely, FRED VOLPE JOHNA M. PEACHIN Commissioners
Manchurian Candidate” and “Ocean’s Eleven.” In the voice classes Nepkie teaches, she emphasizes Sinatra’s imFabrizio peccable talent. “A singer can do a hundred takes just to get three syllables of one word,” she said. “But Sinatra would go in there and get it on the first or second take.” “When he hits the ‘ooo’ when he sings, ‘I’ve Got You Under My Skin’ I get chills,” said Colby Thomas, a SUNY Oneonta lecturer in Voice and American Musical Theater. “From a vocal standpoint, there are singers in every generation who try to emulate him. In my generation, it was Harry Connick Jr. In this generation, it’s Michael Buble. They’re trying to emulate Sinatra. How many other singers do you know where that happens?” And if you don’t know Sinatra, there’s still time. “It’s not too late!” said Mashburn. “Just because it’s old doesn’t mean it’s bad.”
a comprehensive plan of change management to complete a full and successful transition,” he read. “We believe such an effort was never fully engaged and is still needed.” “We feel this is, in some instances, why the city has revolved through city managers,” he said. “And our concern is that the committee is leaning in that direction.” Making the mayor, not the city manager, the “liaison” with other governments, was also discussed at the latest meeting. But the most discussed was the Article III, C-23, Filling Vacancies in Office – specifically, in case there is another tie during an election, as seen in the recent
Fourth Ward race between Jeff Back and Michelle Osterhoudt. “If we hadn’t seen this happen, we wouldn’t be talking about it,” said Nader. City Attorney David Merzig presented a document with two possible amendments: The first, allowing the mayor to appoint someone to a one-year term until the next general election. The second? The Mayor would flip a coin and whoever called “heads” got the position. “That’s how we settled things on the schoolyard!” said Council member Russ Southard, Sixth Ward. “It takes out favoritism,” said former Mayor David Brenner.
“And it settles things quickly.” Ultimately, the committee tilted toward the first option. “If we don’t put it in this year, it will happen again next year,” said Southard. “But if we put it in now, it’ll never happen again.” The proposed changes will be drafted into a final document to be reviewed by the commission before presenting to Common Council. “We want the entire committee to see a version of the charter with these revisions,” said Nader. “We want to make sure we agree with the document before we presented it to the mayor, Common Council and the public.” The next meeting is Dec. 22.
Who Will Get $½ Billion? Upstate Holds Breath
HALF-BILLION/From A1 plans to be there, too. And Caroline Lewis, SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski’s economic developer. Others expect Kathy Clark, R-Otego, chair the Otsego County Board of Representatives, will be there again as well. Regardless, there will be many municipal and economic-development leaders back home holding their breaths: A half-billion dollars over the next half-decade can make many of their fondest dreams for their communities come true. (At the session, winners of CFA grants – the state’s annual allocation of economic-development funding – will also be announced; but this year, that’s of secondary interest.) In an interview, Seward
pointed out that many promising projects – he mentioned redevelopment of Oneonta’s D&H yards for commerce and manufacturing, and the two nanotechnology-associated commerce parks being talked about in Richfield Springs – are “in the pipeline.” This year they may get a CFA allocation, and next year and the year after. “These projects have a way to go,” he said. But if Otsego County’s Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Council is one of the three regions to share the $1.5 billion in what is now being called the Upstate Revitalization Initiative (URI), “$120 million is guaranteed for the next four years,” the senator said. “If you have four years of that commit-
ment of money, that’s going to make sure they (projects) become reality.” Last Jan. 15, Cuomo proposed what he then called the Upstate Development Fund in an address to Upstate political and business leaders in Rochester. The idea was to use $1.5 billion – settlements of Wall-Street wrongdoing obtained from BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse and other institutions responsible for the 2008 financial collapse – to help turn around Upstate’s long economic decline. Seven of the state’s 10 economic-development regions would compete for the money: The three with the best long-term economic-development strategies would
get the money. Over the summer, the MV500 effort formed to ensure the MVREDC application was as good as it might be. It was dominated by Oneida County, the most populous of the six-county region and home to SUNY/ Polytechnic, a nano vehicle. But a number of influential Otsego countians had a seat at the table, including Katz, county Rep. Craig Gelbsman, R-Oneonta, and Ken Meifert, the Hall of Fame VP who is also president of the Cooperstown chamber. Elizabeth Horvath, Otsego Now COO, helped write the plan that was submitted by the Oct. 5 deadline.
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Student Arrested, Expelled After Yik Yak Threat YIK YAK/From A1 threatened violence on the campus quad. And this fall, at Howard, Kean and Michigan Tech universities, threats were made to kill black students, all on the Yik Yak app. The threat on Oneonta’s Yik Yak was made, then deleted, between 6 and 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 5, the day before winter commencement exercises in the Dewar Arena. “We had students contacting us, saying they’d seen comments on the original post, but couldn’t find the post itself,” said SUNY Oneonta’s University Police Chief Daniel Chambers. “It became like a game of Telephone – students were saying that they’d heard he was going to shoot up the SUNY campus on Monday, but we didn’t find those specifics.” Because the threat didn’t specify
SUNY Oneonta, Chambers said that campus police worked with Hartwick campus security, and state and city police to protect all the schools in the area. A notice was sent warning students of the threat. “We had parents asking if they should come get their kids,” said Chambers. “Students and faculty wanted to know if it was safe to have classes. The ripples were far-reaching, so we had to move as quickly as possible.” To post to the site, a user has to provide a phone number. According to Yik Yak’s privacy policy, “information may be made available to government or law enforcement requests.” “We contacted Yik Yak and worked with them,” said Chambers. “They gave us the original post, the phone number and the IP address, and we
found they were associated with the college. The police used the information to locate Negron’s residence, where he was arrested. No weapons or ammunition were found in his possession, and he was charged with making a terroristic threat, a class D felony punishable by up to seven years in prison, as well as second-degree aggravated harassment, a class A misdemeanor punishable by up to a year imprisonment. “I feel like it was a joke,” said classmate Marissa Marinaro. “But it was a really stupid joke.” Negron, a sophomore Communications major, is no longer a student at SUNY. “I always tells students, once it’s out there, it’s out there forever,” said Chambers. “People have seen it, and it takes on a life of its own.”
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UNY Oneonta announced Tuesday, Dec. 8, it is giving $500 raises to adjuncts teaching threecredit courses, moving them “above the average” for higher education. Effective in the fall semester of 2016, the starting pay for a three-credit course will increase from $2,500 to $3,000. Adjunct faculty who currently earn less than $3,000 for a three-credit course will also receive an increase to $3,000. In addition, full-time faculty and professional staff teaching course overloads or courses for Kleniewski extra-service pay will receive $3,000 for a three-credit course. This change will affect more than 100 members of the campus community. SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski said that the increase is an investment in adjunct faculty members. “SUNY Oneonta has excellent adjunct faculty members who contribute a great deal to the campus, bringing expertise from many fields and making strong connections with students,” said Kleniewski. This increase will place SUNY Oneonta’s starting adjunct pay above the average among comparable fouryear comprehensive liberal arts campuses within the SUNY system. It is consistent with the aim of previous salary adjustments that affected full-time, tenure track, teaching faculty. Several years ago, Kleniewski announced a multi-year plan to address salary issues among teaching faculty. In fall 2013, the college implemented minimum salaries for each rank among its full-time, tenure-track faculty. The following year, the college further adjusted salaries to reduce compression among approximately 150 members of the teaching faculty. We’ved! MOve
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MLS#98741 $25,900 South Hill Sacrifice All offers considered on this 6.3 acre parcel. Lovely building site, views, stone walls. Call Edward Greenaker @ 607-287-3519 (cell)
MLS#99707 $279,500 2 houses on 72.7 acres! Main house 3-4 BRs, 3 baths. Other house has 1 BR. Great place for a hunting camp! Call Suzanne Darling @ 607-563-7012 (cell)
MLS#96838 $149,900 3-BR Waterfront Home on 12.76 acres. Priced to sell immediately. Stunning valley views, river frontage and a huge 3+ acre natural pond. Call Matthew Schuler @ 607-437-5533 (cell)
MLS#101759 Sarrah Court,Otego – Secluded vacant land, not in flood zone. Looking to get away from it all? Just a short trip to Oneonta. Call or text Sharon Teator @ 607-276-2681 (cell)
MLS#98862 $199,000 2010 home w/3 BRs, 2 baths on 16.6 acres close to Oneonta but in Delaware County. Pool, security system. Year-round living or recreational getaway. Call Suzanne Darling @ 607-563-7012 (cell)
MLS#102797 117 Kemper Mountain Rd – Stellar property has panoramic views. Expensive work is all done. Stateof-the-art approved septic system, 3 BRs, 2 baths. Call or text Sharon Teator @ 607-267-2681 (cell)
MLS#98204 $220,000 Meredith – 4-BR, 2½ bath home on 10 park-like acres, newer kitchen and baths. REA electric. 2-BR, 2-bath mobile w/attached garage for income! Call Suzanne Darling @ 607-563-7012 (cell)
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MLS#100361 $369,900 Goodyear Lake House 100’ lake frontage! 4-BR, 3bath home w/3-car garage, home gym, w/beautiful landscaping and terraced gardens to lake! Call Lynn Lesperence @ 607-434-1061 (cell)
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MLS#101572 $80,000 Country Living Close to Oneonta and Cooperstown, Milford schools! Additional acreage available for riverfront access! Newer roof, septic, windows, barn. Call Robin Jorgensen @ 646-510-4943 (cell)
MLS#101899 $214,900 Nearly $100K in Improvements 4-BR, 2-bath upscale farmhouse w/beautiful country views, in Cooperstown Village home. Seller pays closing costs (up close to universities and downtown. to w/acceptable Call$3,000 Leanne McCormackoffer). @ 607-287-8965 (cell)
Beautiful renovated home w/major upgrades. New roof 2011, and new furnace, energy-efficient windows, plumbing and electric. This home was completely gutted and insulated. Wood floors w/some original wide plank flooring. 3 BRs, 1½ baths w/high ceilings, some original woodwork and fixtures. Kitchen w/original French doors leading to breakfast room open to formal DR. LR is spacious and bright w/high ceilings. Close to Gilbert Lake State Park. Super nice home! MLS#102661 $119,000
Comfortable Living! Sweet Oneonta Cape is nicely located within walking distance to SUNY, Hartwick College, Main Street and parks. Spacious LR w/bamboo floors, eat-in DR, nice kitchen w/custom cabinets. Laundry and ½ bath on first floor as well. Second floor features large master BR, full bath and another BR. Nice deep lot w/shed in back for extra storage or workshop. If you are looking for that affordable place to call home, come take a look today! MLS#102111 $119,900
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Friday, December 11, 2015
IN MEMORIAM
SCHENEVUS – Dorothy retirement in Christopher Lifgren, Michael R. Beams, 89, the last mayor 1988. Lifgren, Matthew (Kelly) of the former Village of SchenShe was a Risler, Patrick Risler, and evus, passed away peacefully member of Anne Risler; two great-grandDec. 4, 2015, at Kingsway the Schenevus children, Brady and Kylie Manor in Schenectady. Fire DepartCarr; five sisters-in-law, Grace In addition to serving as ment Auxiliary, VanCuren, Eleanor VanCuren, mayor in 1991-94, when the served on the Marjorie Scale, Sharon Campvillage was dissolved into bell, Jane Beams; and several Sanctuary choir. Dorothy Schenevus the Town of Maryland, she nieces and nephews. R. Beams school board He was an active local and was the A graveside service at the historian in each of his com- was a trustee and village treasurer. Program Director for the Town Schenevus Cemetery will be munities and, as a resident She was born May 10, of Maryland Young at Heart announced at a later time. of Unadilla, he created a 1926, in Cooperstown, the Senior Citizen’s Club. In lieu of flowers, donamonthly radio review of Survivors include four tions may be made to the restaurants within a 30 min- daughter of Charles and Mabel (Skillen) VanCuren. children, Linda (Jim) Hurley Young at Heart Senior Citiute drive which featured a of Oneonta, David (Wendy) zens Club, 272 Valder Road, food review, a history of the She married Frederick E. Beams on Oct. 10, 1948, in Beams of Sarasota, Fla., SanSchenevus, NY 12155. restaurant building and an dra (Jim) Lifgren of Santee, Online condolences may interview with the chef. He Oneonta. He predeceased Calif., and Susan (John) Risler be made at, www.lhpfunerwas also a charter member her on Sept. 3, 1987. Dorothy was the secretary of Albany; nine grandchilalhome.com of the Unadilla Historical for the Andrew S. Draper dren, Tiffany (Mark) Carr, Arrangements are entrustAssociation. Central School in Schenevus David Hurley, Kali (Angelo) ed to the Lewis, Hurley & He leaves behind his for over 25 years until her Lopipero, Lindsey Beams, Pietrobono Funeral Home. devoted wife of 50 years, their two sons, James and William; James’ wife Brenda Hall and their children Emma and Nathaniel; William’s sons Finnegan and Cian and leWiS, HurleY & Heller & their mother Julie F. Hall. In lieu of flowers, a pietrobono Skinner memorial donation may be Funeral Home Funeral Home made to the following: First United Methodist Church, 66 51 Dietz Street 155 Main Street Chestnut St., Oneonta, NY oneonta, nY Worcester, nY 13820 and The Unadilla His607-432-1511 607-397-9711 torical Association, 131 Main St., Unadilla, NY 13849. www.lhpfuneralhome.com www.hellerskinnerfh.com A memorial service was planned 2-4 p.m. WednesProud to be family-owned day, Dec. 9, in the Plains. John & Kathleen (Heller) Pietrobono Arrangements were entrusted to Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home.
Alvin Hall, 75; SUNY Dean Among Cooperstown Symposium Founders ONEONTA – Alvin Hall, 75, who while a SUNY Oneonta dean helped establish the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture in collaboration with the Baseball Hall of Fame, died in his sleep Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015, at home at the Plains at Parish Homestead after a lengthy illness with congestive heart and kidney failure. He was born in Atlanta, Ga., on Oct. 3, 1940, to Icealius and Mary Frances Hall and raised in Petersburg, Va., Visalia, Calif., and Falls Church and Roanoke, Va. He married Mary Council Hall on June 12, 1965, in Roanoke. He graduated from Randolph Macon College in Ashland, Va., and earned a Ph.D. in American history at The University of Virginia. He began his academic career at Stratford College in Danville, Va., he continued at Wytheville (Va.) Community College, Bluefield (W.Va.) State College, Virginia State in Petersburg, The School for Lifelong Learning of the University of New Hampshire
in Durham, and SUNY Oneonta. At SUNY Oneonta, he was dean of Continuing Alvin Hall Education and Summer Sessions when he established the Cooperstown Symposium, which marked its 28th year last June. After Oneonta, Alvin served as dean of Arts and Sciences at Troy State University in Dothan, Ala., dean of Graduate Arts and Sciences at The Union Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio, and finally director of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions at East Stroudsburg (Pa.) University, where he retired in 2006. Alvin had an irrepressible enthusiasm for life and learning and shared that enthusiasm and learning with others through his research, talks and writing. He was an active member of a church and choir in each community where he worked. He joined First United Methodist Church and sang in the
Erica Wickham, 31; Dietitian Dies After Long Fight ONEONTA – Erica L. Wickham, 31, an Oneonta native and accredited dietitian, passed away peacefully on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015, at the Bassett Hospital ICU after a courageous fight with a long illness. She was born on May 16, 1984, in Oneonta, a daughter of James and Merry Lou (Fuller) Wickham of Oneonta. Erica graduated from Myrtle Beach (S.C.) High School, and Erica L. Wickham went on to earn a degree in dietetics from SUNY Oneonta. She received a masters from D’Youville College in Buffalo, earning the distinction of certified registered dietician. She worked at St. Mercy Hospital in Hornell in the dialysis unit, the day-care program and the nursing home and hospital. She recently relocated to work at the Susquehanna Nursing Home & Rehabilitation Center in Johnson City. Erica also enjoyed doing research and writing and had published several online nutrition articles. In Hornell, she joined the Fresh Start Church, and joined the women’s prayer group. Locally, she grew up attending the First United Presbyterian (Red Door) Church. In addition to her parents, she is survived by her brothers, Jay (Stacy) Conklin, Steve (Barbara) Wickham, and Scott (Michelle) Wickham; her sister, Stacie (Joey) Shepp; and her paternal grandmother, Catherine Wickham; also aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins. She was predeceased by
her maternal grandparents, James and Eva Fuller, and her paternal grandfather, Ted Wickham. A memorial service was planned at 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 10, at the Red DoorChurch at Walling Avenue and Main Street, with the Rev. Dr. Cynthia Walton-
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Leavitt and Rev. Matthew Sassano, pastor of the Fresh Start Church in Hornell, officiating. Donations in her memory may be made to the American Cancer Society, Box 22478, Oklahoma City, OK 73123.
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George Lundin carries in a fir from his 10-acre Christmas tree farm in the Town of Otsego.
Growing Christmas Trees Part Of Lundin Family Tradition With 12 acres to plant on, he tried first with sweet corn, but that didn’t work out. “Then I remembered that we used to always cut down our own Christmas tree, and there wasn’t any place around here to do that,” he said. “So we planted 12 acres of trees.” And although sons Tim, Eric and Jeff have all graduated college and started families, they still come back every winter to help Dad on Please See LUNDINS, B3
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eorge Lundin watched his kids’ college fund grow. And grow, and grow, and grow. Trees, too. “We started Lundin’s Tree Farm in 1984 so that we could start putting aside some money for the boys’ college fund,” he said. “My parents own the land, and I like to grow things.”
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! George poses with sons Eric, Tim and Jeff at the family’s tree farm.
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box of glass jars, a quarter-sized door, a stack of pie plates and a train whistle are all the Hartwick 4H Radio-Theater Guild need to bring Frank Capra’s Christmas classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” to life. “I’ve been wanting to do a radio drama for years,” said director T. Joseph Murphy. “I used to listen to old
radio dramas on cassette and I was mesmerized by the way they did all those sound effects!” Two Halloweens ago, Murphy and his wife, Kathleen, saw “Dracula” performed as a radio drama at the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Conn., and he was inspired. “I founded the guild and started looking around for radio plays to perform.” He found “It’s a Wonderful Life” and made it his first selection Please See RADIO, B4
ow in their 28th year, the Fokine Ballet performs ‘The Nutcracker’ 7 p.m. Friday, Dec 11 and 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 12. And on Saturday morning at 10 a.m., the company is offering “Nutcracker Sweets & Treats,” where kids can take a dance lesson, meet the cast and make a craft. $15 for 1 child & 1 adult ($5 each additional guest). Goodrich Theater, SUNY Oneonta. Reservations, tickets, info, (607) 432-6290 or email deckerschool@ hotmail.com. VALLEYVIEW VENDOR FAIR: Shop local crafts to support Valleyview School and win door prizes from local businesses. 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 12, Valleyview School, 40-46 Valleyview St., Oneonta. CHRISTMAS PARTY: Santa and Elsa (from Disney’s “Frozen”) visit the Oneonta Boys & Girls Club for games, activities, a Hoop Shoot and more. 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 12. Oneonta Boys & Girls Club, 70 River Street, Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-1133.
CANDLELIGHT EVENING: Experience 19th century holiday traditions at The Farmers’ Museum, amid the glow of candlelight: jingle-bell wagon rides, bonfire, caroling, games, St. Nick, wassail, carousel, more. 3-7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 12, The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www.farmersmuseum.org HOLIDAY DANCE: Swing dance lesson with Linda Leverock; 8-11 p.m. open Holiday Dance (swing, hustle, two-step, latin, ballroom). $10 per person; all welcome. 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 12, Body by Stacy, 5514 State Hwy. 7, Oneonta. Info, Linda at (607) 434-5829 or lleverock@stny.rr.com GIVING GIFTS: Make donations to Habitat For Humanity, Heifer International, Living Waters and other charities at the First Presbyterian Church Alternative Market. 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 13 (also, Dec. 20) First Presbyterian Church, 25 Church St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-8401
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NUTCRACKER BALLET -- 7 p.m. (also 1 p.m. & 7 p.m. Dec. 12). Fokine Ballet Company stages 28th annual production of “The Nutcracker.” Goodrich Theater, Fine Arts Bldg., SUNY Oneonta. Tickets, info, Decker School of Ballet (140 Main St., Oneonta), (607) 432-6290, deckerschool@hotmail.com.
Saturday, December 12
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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO from January-April.) Bounty of seasonal fruits and veggies, local meats, more. Handmade goods. Pioneer Alley (behind Key Bank). Info, (607) 547-6195, www.otsego2000.org ONEONTA FARMERS MARKET -- 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Locally-grown food, flowers, crafts, more. Indoors during winter at Garage Walkway on Main St, at Dietz. Info, www.oneontafarmersmarket.com
VALLEYVIEW HOLIDAY VENDOR FAIR -- 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Shop local crafts to support Valleyview School and win door prizes from local businesses. Valleyview School, 40-46 Valleyview St., Oneonta. SANTA BREAKFAST -- 10-11 a.m. Pancakes with REAL NYS Maple Syrup, Juice, and elf favors! Registration required. $12.50, pay in advance, save $1 with donation of canned food
item. Autumn Cafe, 244 Main St., Oneonta. Info, registration 432-6845. NUTCRACKER TREATS -- 1011:30 a.m. Fokine Ballet hosts “Nutcracker Sweets & Treats.” Children are invited to take photos on the “Nutcracker” stage, meet characters from the ballet, enjoy a dance lesson & story, and make a keepsake ornament. $15 for 1 child & 1 adult ($5 each additional guest). Goodrich Theater, SUNY Oneonta. Tickets, info, (607) 432-6290, deckerschool@hotmail.com. MORE CALENDAR, B3
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The Story of a Promise and the Birth of a Child
3 pm: Join Mayor Doug & Garth in Chalybeate Park
2 to 3 pm: Meet Nancy Pfau –
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Lessons & Carols Sunday, December 20 at 5 pm
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Trees Are Renewable, And The Aroma! Ask The Lundins LUNDINS/From B1 the farm. “Jeff brings the family up from Virginia on weekends,” said George. “They all bring my little granddaughters, and they like to run around in the trees.” And with 900 trees per acre, there are a lot of trees to play in. “We sell about 500 trees per year,” he said. “For every one we cut down, we plant two more.” Lundin’s – coming into the village on Route 7 from Oneonta, take a right on Otsdawa Road; its just beyond the village line – primarily sells Fraser and Canaan firs. “Firs are what you think of when you think of a Christmas tree,” he said. “They’re aromatic; they hold their needles. It’s a higher quality tree. That’s what our family always puts up.”
you can pick your tree. “We’ll cut it down, carry it up, shake off the loose needles, wrap it and put it on your car,” said George. “We’re full service!” But if you want to cut your own tree, that’s fine too. “We’ll let you use the saw!” he said. “We think it’s a pretty reasonable cost for a centerpiece for your home that’ll be up for a month.” And they recently branched into pre-cut trees, brought over from land leased in the Town of Otsego. They also started making wreaths, kissing balls and garlands as well. “Kids who came here with their parents are now bringing their kids here to get a tree,” said George. “It’s a family experience; it’s something you always remember.”
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But they also have a few blue spruces for those who like the color. “They’re a special tree, they’ve got strong branches,” he said. “But they’re prickly!” Starting with four-year-old trees grown in a Pennsylvania nursery, a tree takes eight years to reach the proper height, usually around six or seven feet. They’re low-maintenance, requiring only mowing and trimming during the summer months. “Christmas trees are a natural product, they’re environmentally friendly, they’re a renewable resource,” he said. “They smell like Christmas, and you can support a local business rather than getting a plastic tree made from oil in a foreign factory somewhere.” When you arrive at Lundin’s, you’ll be escorted down into the field, where
More than just a jeweler, we also provide engraving, and a professional appraisal service for estate and insurance reasons.
HD OPERA BROADCAST -- 12:55 p.m. From the Metropolitan Opera, HD broadcast of Mozart’s opera “The Magic Flute.” Foothills, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, tickets, www. foothillspac.org HOOP SHOOT – 10 a.m.-noon. Oneonta Elks Club Hoop Shoot. Free! Fun, compete, connect, succeed. Oneonta Boys & Girls Club, 70 River St., Oneonta. Winners have opportunity to advance from district through national competitions. Info, Jeff Sloan, (917) 538-3606, Jerry Pondolfino, (607) 435-5402 CHRISTMAS PARTY – Noon-2 p.m. True Colors 2015! Santa and Elsa (from Disney’s “Frozen”) visit the Oneonta Boys & Girls Club for games, activities, food, fun and more. Come early for the Hoop Shoot! Free, all welcome. Oneonta Boys & Girls Club, 70 River St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-1133. DAR -- 1 p.m. December meeting Oneonta Chapter DAR. Christmas tea and cookie exchange. Patricia Spencer, textile artist, speaker. United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Cooperstown. AUTHOR VISIT -- 2 p.m. Worcester town historian Marilyn Dufresne discusses her new book, “Tri Valley Through Time,” about towns along Route 7 between Cobleskill and Oneonta. Book signing follows. Free; all welcome. Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Info, www.oneontahistory.org NUTCRACKER BALLET -- 1 p.m. & 7 p.m. Fokine Ballet Company stages 28th annual production of “The Nutcracker.” Goodrich Theater, Fine Arts Bldg, SUNY Oneonta. Tickets, info at
Decker School of Ballet (140 Main St., Oneonta), or (607) 4326290 or deckerschool@hotmail. com. CANDLELIGHT EVENING -- 3-7 p.m. Experience 19th century holiday traditions at The Farmers’ Museum, amid the glow of candlelight: jingle-bell wagon rides, bonfire, caroling, games, St. Nick, wassail, carousel, more. Free shuttle service from Cooperstown. The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www.farmersmuseum.org AUDUBON WALK -- 3 p.m. Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society leads a bird walk to look for short-eared owls. These owls -one of few active in daylight -- are endangered in New York State. Trip to include other possible owl and raptor sightings. Free. Dress for weather and outdoor walking. Meet for carpooling at Cooperstown docks, end of Fair St., Cooperstown. Info, Bob Donnelly at rsdonn@yahoo.com or (607) 264-8156. STILLMAN FILM SCREENING -- 7 p.m. “Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle,” screening and discussion of a “work in progress” fundraiser feature documentary on human rights activist and former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Introduction by filmmaker and remarks by Ramsey Clark and special guests. Unitarian Church of All Souls, Reidy Friendship Hall, 1157 Lexington Ave. New York. RSVP, Deborah Ziegler, (607) 373-7817, debzieg@yahoo.com HOLIDAY DANCE -- 7 p.m. swing dance lesson with Linda Leverock; 8-11 p.m. open Holiday Dance (swing, hustle, two-step, latin, ballroom). $10 per person; all welcome. Body by Stacy, 5514 State Hwy. 7, Oneonta. Info, Linda at (607) 434-5829 or
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GIVING GIFTS – 11:30 a.m. Make donations to Habitat For Humanity, Heifer International, Living Waters and other charities at the First Presbyterian Church Alternative Market. 11:30 a.m. First Presbyterian Church, 25 Church St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-8401. SOUP! -- 11 a.m.-2 p.m., “Second Sunday Soup,” serving homemade hot soup every 2nd Sunday of month. All welcome, donations appreciated. At the Little White Church, Church St., Schuyler Lake. FREE YOGA -- 1:30 -3:30 p.m. Free introduction to “Yoga for
Stress Release” class series. Preregistration required. Fit to Be Tied Yoga Studio, Key Bank bldg., 3rd floor, Main St., Cooperstown. Info, email andree.baillargeon@ outlook.com CHRISTMAS CONCERT – 3:30 p.m. Catskill Valley Wind Ensemble presents Christmas Holiday Concert, Scott Rabeler Conductor. Seasonal music, carols, “Sleigh Ride” & more. Collecting non-perishable food, hats, mittens and Socks for local charities. Free to the public, all welcome to attend. Refreshments served. St. James’ Retirement community, Inc., 9 St. James Place, Oneonta. Info, (607) 436-9975, www.stjames manor.com MORE CALENDAR, B4
The Voices of Cooperstown with
Dan Foster, conductor Present
George Frederic Handel’s
The Messiah with Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra
Saturday, December 19, 4 pm Doors open at 3:30 pm
Christ Episcopal Church 46 River Street, Cooperstown Tickets: $20 • Students: $10
Tickets Available at: The Cooperstown Art Association - 22 Main St. Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce - 31 Chestnut St.
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Directed by Donna I. Decker, Ballet by Irine Fokine Friday, December 11, 7 pm Saturday, December 12, 1 and 7 pm Goodrich Theater, State University College at Oneonta
$20 general, $15 students/seniors Tickets available: Green Toad Bookstore, Oneonta The Eighth Note Music Store, Oneonta Rachel’s Framing and Fine Art, Delhi Tickets also available through Decker School of Ballet /FBC 607-432-6290 or deckerschool of ballet.org FBC accepts MasterCard and Visa Cameo appearances by members of the Susquehanna SCPA
TiCkeTS: $20 for adults $15 for senior citizens and college students with current ID $8 for students age 13-18 Children age 12 and under free when accompanied by an adult. Call 607-547-1812. Tickets also available at Church & Scott Pharmacy, Ellsworth and Sill, Fly Creek General Store and Riverwood. Remaining tickets will be available at the door. Upcoming Event: Canal Street String Band Saturday January 30, 2016 Otesaga Resort Hotel
Cooperstown Concert Series programs are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Other support provided by Sound Performance.
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MOBILE LIBRARY -- 9:30 a.m.-2:50 p.m. Various locations, Tuesdays & Thursdays monthly. Four-county Cybermobile visits West Oneonta, Oneonta, Fly Creek, Schuyler Lake, Mt. Vision & Wells Bridge Tuesdays. Info, times, (607) 723-8236 or check Twitter (@4clsCybermobile) COOPERSTOWN HIGH CONCERT -- 7:30-9 p.m. Cooperstown Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA High presents it Winter Concert. All welcome. (Snow date Dec. Applause is as much a part of a radio drama as 18.) Tickets at door. Auditorium, all the other sound effects in radio plays, as Cooperstown Sr. High, 39 Linden Murphy’s wife Kathleen demonstrates. Ave., Cooperstown. HOLIDAY BLOOD DRIVE - 11:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Otsego Co. Chamber of Commerce Holiday Blood Drive. Oneonta Elks he said. “People would RADIO/From B1 Club, 84 Chestnut St., Oneonta. come to see these shows tion. “It’s about transforCall 1-800-REDCROSS or visit live to get that ambiance of mation, the metamorphosis redcrossblood.org to make an appointment. seeing how they made these of George Bailey,” he said.
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sounds, like walking on “Whenever we tell someone snow – they would crunch we’re doing this play, they up cornflakes with a rolling tell us how much they love pin or crinkle a plastic bag.” it.” But a few of the The radio play IF YOU GO: sound effects were can be performed 7 p.m. Friday, found online. “It with only five acDec, 28; 2 p.m. called for a teletors, but when he Saturday, Dec. phone ring, and put out the call, 22 19; 6:30 p.m. one of the girls kids, ages 6-18, Tuesday, Dec. responded. 22, 29. Hartwick played it right from her phone!” said The “Golden Community CenMurphy. “We’re Age” of radio was ter, Hartwick. mixing technology from the 1930s to with old school the 1950s, when effects.” audiences would gather And sometimes the actors around the radio and listen have to get down and dirty. to dramas being broadcast live. “It’s A Wonderful Life” For the scene where Clarence jumps into the water, – the movie was released in 1946 – was adapted for radio well, actor Tom Fallon will jump into a small pool in 1947. to make the splash sound In Murphy’s production, effects himself. “They’re all actors will sit in a Ulearning,” said Murphy, who shape on stage, in costume, is retired assistant dean at and get up speak into three Milford Academy in New microphones. Head Angel Berlin, that prep school for Joseph (Alexi Fisk) gets her would-be pro football playown cloud, off to the side of ers (like Shady McCoy and the stage. others.) In addition to hearing The show opens Friday, parts being read, Murphy Dec. 18, but already, the wants people to see how the producer’s looking for his sound effects were made, next show. “The kids are with the sound-effects table right at the front of the stage. really enjoying it,” he said. “The sound effects people “And they’re watching the movie every day.” are called ‘Foley Artists’,”
Thursday, December 17
MOBILE LIBRARY -- 9:30 a.m.-2:50 p.m. Various locations, Tuesdays & Thursdays monthly. Four-county Cybermobile visits Oneonta, Schenevus, Westford, South Valley & Middlefield, on Thursdays. Info, times, (607) 723-8236 or check Twitter (@4clsCybermobile) FILM SCREENING -- 6 p.m. The Hungry Heart, a compelling documentary about the human face of addiction. Q&A with the director, Bess O’Brien after the screening. Foothills Performing Art Center, 24 market St., Oneonta. Info, Julie Dostal, (607) 432-0090, X-101, julie@ leafinc.org or foothilspac.org, 431-2080. ONEONTA HIGH CONCERT -- 6 p.m. Oneonta High School hosts its Winter Concert, featuring OHS bands and choruses. All welcome. Tickets at door, OHS Belden Auditorium, 130 East St, Oneonta. COOPERSTOWN JR HIGH CONCERT -- 7:30-9 p.m. Cooperstown Junior High Winter Concert and Art Show. All welcome. (Snow date Dec. 18.) Tickets at door. Auditorium, Cooperstown Sr. High, 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown.
Friday, December 18
IRISH HOLIDAY DANCE -- 7 p.m. Iona Troupe’s annual Christmas Ceili, a full show of Irish dance and traditional Ceili dancing. Audience participation encouraged. Wine and light fare served. $10 adults;
$5 ages 8-17; ages 7 & under free. Upstairs ballroom gallery, Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-9777. RADIO PLAY – 7 p.m. Hartwick 4H Radio-Theater Guild presents “It’s A Wonderful Life,” adapted for the stage by Joe Landry. Also, 2 p.m., Sat., Dec. 19, and 6:30 p.m. Tuesday evenings, Dec. 22 & 29. Free Theatre, donations accepted. Hartwick Community Center, 450 Co. Rd. 11, Hartwick. THEATER – 7 p.m. (Also 2 p.m. & 5 p.m. Dec. 19 and 2 p.m. Dec. 20.) Third annual full production of Charles Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol.” $15 ages 13-64; $12.50 ages 65+ and members; $10 ages 7-12; ages 6 and under free. Louis C. Jones Center, The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www. farmersmuseum.org THEATER -- 7:30 p.m. (also 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Dec. 19 & 2 p.m. Dec. 20). Orpheus Theatre presents “Disney’s The Little
Mermaid.” Goodrich Theater, Fine Arts Bldg, SUNY Oneonta. Info, tickets at (607) 432-9392 or www.orpheustheatre.org.
Saturday, December 19
COOP FARMERS MARKET -- 9 a.m.-2 p.m. (10 a.m.-2 p.m. from January-April.) Bounty of seasonal fruits and veggies, local meats, more. Handmade goods. Pioneer Alley (behind Key Bank). Info, (607) 547-6195, www.otsego2000.org ONEONTA FARMERS MARKET -- 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Locally-grown food, flowers, crafts, more. Indoors during winter at Garage Walkway on Main St, at Dietz. Info, www.oneontafarmersmarket.com KIDS PARTY -- 10:30 a.m. Santa’s Holiday Party for children and their families. Santa will read and visit. Craft and refreshments. Village Library of Cooperstown, “ballroom,.” 22 Main st., Cooperstown. Info, Martha Sharer, (607) 5478344, www.villagelibraryof
cooperstown.org THEATER -- 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. (also 2 p.m. Dec. 20). Orpheus Theatre presents “Disney’s The Little Mermaid.” Goodrich Theater, Fine Arts Bldg, SUNY Oneonta. Info, tickets at (607) 432-9392 or www. orpheustheatre.org. AUTHOR VISIT -- 2 p.m. Hops expert Al Bullard talks about his new book, “The Hop Farmer’s Year: The Seasons, Tools & Methods of Hop Growers in New York State’s Golden Age of Hops.” Book signing follows. Free; all welcome. Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Info, www.oneontahistory.org THEATER -- 2 p.m. & 5 p.m. (also 2 p.m. Dec. 20.) Third annual full production of Charles Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol.” $15 ages 13-64; $12.50 ages 65+ and members; $10 ages 7-12; ages 6 and under free. Louis C. Jones Center, The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown.
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Bruce Shipman II, 55; Leatherstocking’s Ancestor Dorothy R. Beams, 89; Last Schenevus Mayor ILION – Bruce Andrew Shipman II, 55, of Ilion, passed away Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015, after a brief illness. He was born Aug. 23, 1960, in Ilion, the son of Bruce Shipman and the former Carole Watson, and was a graduate of Mohawk High School. On Oct. 1, 1988, he was united in marriage with Dawn Allen in Conklinville. His family is descended from David Shipman (17291813), the woodsman in the Otsego Lake region who was the model for James Fenimore Cooper’s Natty
Bumppo – also known as Hawkeye and The Leatherstocking – one of the most famous characters Bruce A. Shipman II in American literature. Bruce was employed as an assembler with Remington Arms and previously at Mowers farm, Hanson Stone, Harbor Point Fuel and Brown’s Feed.
Survivors include his wife Dawn, his daughter and sonin-law Heather and Samuel Baker of Panama City, Fla., and their children Averie, Ella and Lauretta; his son Andrew and his children, Willow and Ayson, of Ilion. Also, his parents, Carole and Frank Luppino of Ilion and Bruce and Janice Shipman of Richfield Springs. Bruce’s memorial service will be at 4 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 10, at the WhiterHendrix Funeral Home, 100 Otsego St., Ilion. Calling hours are from 1 p.m.
SCHENEVUS – Dorothy R. Beams, 89, the last mayor of the former Village of Schenevus, passed away peacefully Dec. 4, 2015, at Kingsway Manor in Schenectady. In addition to serving as mayor in 1991-94, when the Dorothy village was R. Beams dissolved into the Town of Maryland, she was a trustee and village treasurer.
She was born May 10, 1926, in Cooperstown, the daughter of Charles and Mabel (Skillen) VanCuren. She married Frederick E. Beams on Oct. 10, 1948, in Oneonta. He predeceased her on Sept. 3, 1987.
Dorothy was the secretary for the Andrew S. Draper Central School in Schenevus for over 25 years until her retirement in 1988. Four surviving children include Linda (Jim) Hurley of Oneonta.
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