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In 1st Outing, Home Brewer Claims 6 Medals At NY Fair Dr. Mark Winther, who claimed six medals in the New York State Fair’s homebrewing competition, examines hops he’s growing at his home above Canadarago Lake. With him is wife Marisa, who plans to take up the hobby herself.
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Michael Reeve, visiting from Cazenovia, leads a cavalcade of miniature tractors at the 14th annual Roseboom Antique Power Days SaturdaySunday, Aug. 17-18/ OTHER PHOTO, A8
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he $1 million Chestnut-Walnut reconstruction and repaving should be complete in the next several days, according to Mayor Jeff Katz. Project, which has clogged traffic in and out of the village throughout the summer, replaced deteriorating water and sewer lines, and separate storm sewers from sanitary sewers. The next big project, the reconstruction of Main Street sidewalks, may not begin until spring, Katz said. IN HONEY’S MEMORY:
A gathering in memory of artist Honey Kassoy is 3-6 Sunday, Sept. 1, at her Butternut Hill Studio, 1577 Route 16, north of Garrattsville. Honey’s friends are welcome to share reminiscences.
DAVID, THAT IS: Village
Historian Hugh MacDougall points out it was David Shipman, not Nathaniel, was the forebear of Bruce Shipman who is identified as the original Natty Bumppo of “Last of the Mohicans” fame.
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Chance Viewing Of TV Show Eureka! Moment For Winther By JIM KEVLIN RICHFIELD
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gency services director at Bassett’s Little Falls Hospital – he was fascinated by the interaction of chemistry and biology. At the show’s end, the home brewer took a sip of the cold, clear product. “I want to do that,” Winther said to himself – and that was that. Three years of intense Please See WINTHER, A7
HAWKEYES TEAM COURTED Cooperstown Hawkeyes owner Tom Hickey said he has been approached by “another municipality” about moving his baseball team there, and is considering doing so. Hickey, who brought the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball franchise to Doubleday Field four seasons ago, said the “village administration” has failed to meet him halfway on key issues. DETAILS AT WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
Family Bought Him Kit, Dad Hopped Into Hobby Fair Competition Helps Lansing Hone Skills By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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long with the usual holiday trimmings Cooperstown’s – a turkey, some Roger Lansing sharpened brewing cranberry sauce, a pie and skills at state fair. some potatoes – Roger
Lansing’s family expects homemade beer. “They’re already asking me, ‘What are you making this year?’” he said. “I have to plan ahead as early as February, but it’s OK – I like sharing.” Lansing received high Please See LANSING, A7
On Trail, ‘Blue Moon’ Yearned For Food, Food, Food By LIBBY CUDMORE MIDDLEFIELD
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found himself craving Neopolitan ice cream. That’s not uncommon for anyone picking up a cone or a half-pint on the way home from work, but for Blue Moon, but there aren’t many ice cream stands on the ApPlease See AT, A3
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wo months, 15 states and 4,204 miles later, Evan King of Cooperstown has biked across the United States, raising over $5,000 to support the “4K For Cancer” fund. One of 26 cyclists on the journey, King left Baltimore’s Inner Harbor on June 2. By midJuly they’d crossed into Austin, Texas, then headed over the Rocky Mountains, past the Grand Canyon and through the desert to dip his tires in the Pacific Ocean just after 1 p.m. on Saturday, Aug.10. The money, raised by donations to his ride, will help young people suffering from cancer with transportation to treatment and other needs. King starts his senior year at Towson University in Towson, Md., later this month. Evan King lets out a cheer on arriving at the Pacific Ocean.
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THURSDAY, AUG. 22, 2013
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Status Quo OK – But Fall (Election) Frolics Will Bring Surprises
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hen it comes to Fall Frolics – the theme of this week’s edition – this autumn election season will offer its usual share of surprises. It already has, given that the Otsego County Democratic Party last spring was expressing confidence it would be able to take control of the county Board of Representatives for the first time since the Devil’s Bargain of 2006. Now, at best, that seems debatable. In the spring, the balance hung on District 5 – Hartwick, Milford, New Lisbon. First-term Republican Pauline Koren had declined to seek a second term, and Richard Abbate of Cooperstown, the Democratic county chair, saw moving that seat into his column at the key to control. Abbate recruited veteran New Lisbon Town Board member Ed Lentz, a brainy guy, likeable, a patent lawyer and himself a former county Democratic chair, to run. Jamie Waters of Milford emerged on the Republican side, and while he’s well known as founder and organizer, with wife Brenda, of the Goodyear Lake Polar Bear Jump (and his dad held town office), this is his first election bid. Since District 5 has the largest number of weighted votes on the county board – 626 out of a total 6,167, or 11 percent on that 14-person board; that’s more than double the 285 in county Rep. Gary Koutnik’s City of Oneonta district – as goes the 5th, so goes Otsego Nation. •
The wild card – politics is a game of wild cards – was the surprise decision by three-term District 4 rep Richard Murphy, D-Town of Oneonta, to retire despite the pleadings of his party’s stalwarts. The well-known and approachable Janet Hurley Quackenbush, the veteran Town of Oneonta board member, emerged as the Republican candidate. The Democrats recruited Dan Butterman, a young manager at New York Central Mutual who moved here from Arizona a year ago when his wife joined Hartwick’s faculty. According to Rich Abbate, Murphy is helping introduce Butterman to the community at large, going door to door with the candidate. But a safe Democratic seat is in play, even in doubt. There are 14 county representatives on the board, so some might think any eight would ensure a majority. Not so, due to the weighted voting system that emerged when the Board of Representatives replaced the 24-member Board of Supervisors. It’s all in the arithmetic. While the county board is 7-7, evenly split between Republicans and Democrats, the Republicans hold more of the bigger districts, and thus control 891 more weighted votes. To win control, that means the Democrats need to gain 446 votes – half of 891, plus one. So if Lentz wins, his 626 votes give control to the Democrats. But if Hurley Quackenbush wins, she takes away 499 votes from the
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Another race to follow during the election Fall Frolics is for county treasurer, where Republican-backed Ed Keator of West Oneonta, right, and Democratic-backed Russell Bachman, Edmeston, are vying to succeed Dan Crowell. Keator and Bachman met for the first time Saturday, Aug. 17, while working the hustings at Goodyear Lake Days. Crowell, who left the county in January for special ops training at Fort Bragg, decided not to run again, but the decision came too late to have his name removed from the ballot. Both parties submitted petitions on behalf of their candidates to the county Board of Elections by Tuesday, Aug. 20, the deadline.
Democrats. The difference, 127 votes, is not enough to end Republican control. Four other districts are in play: • In the Butternut Valley (2nd), Democrat Teresa Winchester is again challenging long-time Republican rep Jim Powers. • In Otego (3rd), newcomer Stu Anderson, who shifted from Republican to Democrat over the fracking issue, hopes to unseat the very able board chair, Kathy Clark, a Republican. • In Cherry Valley/Middle-
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wage and often seasonal or parttime. Breweries and distilleries can provide jobs, but they are not “anchor” industries that spin off many other economic opportunities. While we wait for Governor Cuomo’s decision, Pennsylvania forges ahead with new jobs and growth. Gas development has provided economic underpinning for a stronger local economy, lower utility bills, higher tax revenues to support government services, increased real estate values, more charitable giving and stabilized a declining population. That’s what anchor industries do, Larry. They don’t eliminate other businesses; they enhance them through prosperity.
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To the Editor: I read with interest Larry Bennett’s observations of my “snobbish hypocrisy.” He notes that I am a businesswoman, in the tourist business, enjoy a good bottle of wine, and that I have, on at least one occasion, visited a casino. Truth be told, I even enjoy a good beer, including your Ommegang that I keep in my wine cellar. However, Mr. Bennett’s personal attack on me ignores the central point of my original column, “Beer, Booze and Gambling No Formula for the County’s Future.” It’s right up there in the headline, Larry. Hard to miss, but let me make it simple for you: Jobs in the hospitality industry, including casinos, are usually low
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field (7th), Democratic first-term incumbent Beth Rosenthal is being challenged by Bill Glockler, cochair of Congressman Gibson’s local election effort but a first-time candidate himself. • In Otsego/Cooperstown (8th), it’s Republican Rick Hulse Jr., a management consultant, vs. firstterm Democratic incumbent John Kosmer. This could change over the campaign, but it’s not clear today how strong a chance any of those challengers have against the
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incumbents. Certainly, there’s no slam dunk. • Yes, Abbate is eager to see a Democratic majority on the county board – and he should be; it’s his job. But for citizens who observed the bone-deep rancor that resulted after county Rep. Don Lindberg, R-Worcester, allied himself with Democrats so he could assume the chairmanship – and they could assume control – in January 2006, the Otsego County Board of Representatives is in pretty good shape today. Kathy Clark, first elected chair in January 2012, is firm-footedly leading a true bi-partisan undertaking, with Oneonta Democrats Linda Rowinski and Kay Stuligross as dependable allies – not slavish, but dependable. Sitting in the visitors’ gallery before any recent county board meeting, you would hear friendly banter and sense a spirit of collaboration in the room. It’s heartening to hear county reps vigorously debate an issue, then see them a few minutes later talking in a friendly fashion about sports, weather or a personal issue. It’s also been reassuring to see them come together in true consensus on such thorny matters as the future of Otsego Manor. If, say, Ed Lentz were to replace Pauline Koren, Janet Hurley Quackenbush were to succeed Rich Murphy, and Kathy Clark were to continue as board chair for another two years, that might very well be the optimum outcome of this fall’s county board election. But then, there will be surprises. With Labor Day, let the political frolics begin.
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As for me being a snobbish hypocrite, I am 30+ year Upstate transplant from Yonkers. We don’t grow snobs in Yonkers or take cheap shots, for that matter. That’s my pedigree. Who are you? ANNA MARIE LUSINS Oneonta
When Alerted To Dart Board, Fair Officials Reacted Well To the Editor: I must agree with Mr. Abbate regarding the lack of respect shown to the office of the President that occurred at the Otsego County Fair. While I do not support most of President Obama’s policies, it is still disturbing to me to have someone throwing darts at his picture. The fair is, and always has been, a wonderful representation of the quality of life and people who live here in our county. The many volunteers that spend countless hours over the course of a year preparing for the fair do so because they love the fair and the county. They truly deserve a lot more than just our “Thank Yous”. This unfortunate incident was a heated topic of our most recent county board meeting. It was stated that as soon as members of the fair board were informed that the game existed, they Please See LETTER, A7
A stereopticon slide of Otsego Lake, with the Sleeping Lion.
A Mild October Morning, When Sun Is Like Ball Of Silvery Fire Editor’s Note: This description of fall in Otsego County is from James Fenimore Cooper’s “The Pioneers” (1823), his fictional depiction of early local life.
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ith this brief explanation, we must return to our narrative. Let the American reader imagine one of our mildest October mornings, when the sun seems a ball of silvery fire, and the elasticity of the air is felt while it is inhaled, imparting vigor and life to the whole system; the weather, neither too warm nor too cold, but of that happy temperature which stirs the blood, without bringing the lassitude of spring. It was on such a morning, about the middle of the month, that Oliver entered the hall where Elizabeth was issuing her usual orders for the day, and requesting her to join him in a short excursion to the lakeside. The tender melancholy in the manner of her husband caught the attention
of Elizabeth, who instantly abandoned her concerns, threw a light shawl across her shoulders, and, concealing her raven hair under a gypsy hat, and took his arm, and submitted herself, without a question, to his guidance. They crossed the bridge, and had turned from the highway, along the margin of the lake, before a word was exchanged. Elizabeth well knew, by the direction, the object of the walk, and respected the feelings of her companion too much to indulge in untimely conversation. But when they gained the open fields, and her eye roamed over the placid lake, covered with wild fowl already journeying from the great northern waters to seek a warmer sun, but lingering to play in the limpid sheet of the Otsego, and to the sides of the mountain, which were gay with the thousand dyes of autumn, as if to grace their bridal, the swelling heart of the young wife burst out in speech.
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Compiled by Tom Heitz from Freeman’s Journal archives, courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library
200 YEARS AGO
We are informed that a Floating Battery, in the form of an Octagon, constructed under the superintendence of Mr. William Cooper, formerly of this village, was stove to pieces on its way from Oswego to Sacket’s harbor, the fore part of July. It is said that 15 men were navigating it, one or two of whom were drowned and the remainder considerably injured. It is stated to have been built at the expense and risk of Mr. Cooper, and to have cost about 5,000 dollars – intended to have carried 16 heavy guns. (Ed. Note: The William Cooper referred to was the son of William Cooper, the founder of Cooperstown.) August 21, 1813
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This region has, during the last ten days, been visited by frequent thunder showers, and the earth is literally drenched with water. The lightning has been unusually sharp, and in some cases has produced swift destruction not only to property, but to human life. In the afternoon of Saturday, the dwelling houses of Mrs. Ernst and Mr. Richard Cooper, situate at the eastern extremity of this village, were severally struck by bolts of lightning, but without doing material injury. In the former case, the shock was so severe as to prostrate a young man and fritter to atoms two looking glasses. A barn, belonging to Mr. Warren, situate on the road on the west side of the lake, about three miles northwardly from the village, was also struck, but not much damaged. Asa B. Thompson, aged about 24 years, of the Town of Decatur, was killed instantly by lightning on Saturday last, while at work in the hay field. He was a young man very much respected by all who knew him; his funeral was attended the following day by a very large concourse of people. August 20, 1838
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Miss Minnie Crawford, the celebrated blind vocalist, will give a concert of vocal music at the Court House in this village, on Thursday evening of next week. Miss C. was educated at the New York Institute for the Blind, and comes highly recommended. She will be accompanied by her sister, Miss Emma Crawford. These young ladies deserve, and we hope will have a full house. Tickets are for sale at W.H. Ruggles’ and G.M. Grant & Co. Summer visitors have crowded the hotels and boarding houses of our village to overflowing this season, and scores of families might have been added to our visitors, could suitable accommodations have been furnished. What a pity
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should be sold to the D&H Company, the sale carrying with it the removal of all arbitrary freight rates. August 20, 1913
75 YEARS AGO
Under perfect weather conditions and in a setting of incomparable charm, upwards of 2,500 people of Otsego County and Central New York gathered at the new Lakefront Park in Cooperstown on Sunday afternoon and gave a whole-hearted response to the invitation of Lorenzo Camilieri, leader of the People’s Chorus of New York, to sing. The crowd thrilled to the marvelous interludes of the orchestra made up of twenty pieces from the Philharmonic Symphony orchestra, who came up from the metropolis to assist. No greater or more highly enjoyed gathering has been held in this place for years. Among the songs sung were: “America,” “Old Black Joe,” “Nancy Lee,” “Annie Laurie,” “Santa Lucia,” “My Sunshine,” “Nearer My God to Thee,” and “Onward Christian Soldiers. The event conAugust 21, 1963 cluded with “The Star-Spangled Banner.” August 24, 1938 that Cooperstown is so destitute of capital in these flush times that a large first-class hotel cannot be erected to meet the growing demands of the public. August 21, 1863 Area residents and visitors came out last Saturday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Lake Front Park. A donation from Robert Sterling Clark in 1937 enabled the village to acquire the park from the Otsego Lake Transit Company. Local & Personal: The many friends of Miss Cooper are happy to see her occasionally on the Lake steamers and out The Cooperstown Community Band inaugurated the new park by performing its weekly concert there on August 10, driving this summer. Her health has improved with the im1938. Last Saturday, the Cooperstown Community Band provement in the Orphanage finances, which has lessened performed again along with Skip Parson’s Riverboat Dixieher cares and efforts in at least one direction. land Jazz Band and storyteller Rick Angerami. In the lawn tennis tournament at the Cooper House last August 24, 1988 week the winners were: gentleman’s single, Marion Wright; Gentleman’s double, Mssers. Trevor and Bowers; mixed double, Mr. Trevor and Miss Johnson. Base Ball: At the Phoenix, August 11th – Phoenix Athletic The local area was sporadically affected last Thursday, as Association 18, Cooperstown Athletics 8. a record-setting power outage cut electricity to the NorthAugust 24, 1888 eastern United States. While the villages of Cooperstown and Cherry Valley were cast into darkness shortly after 4 p.m., Richfield Springs, Milford, Hartwick, and other areas experienced only low power, or a very brief interruption in The real estate, buildings and entire equipment of the service. Customers whose power is supplied by the Otsego knitting mills at Phoenix Mills, N.Y. are to be sold to the Rural Electric Co-op weathered the situation mostly intact. highest bidder at public auction of Thursday of this week. Customers of New York Electric & Gas were without power Some of the buildings are now being torn down. For many years these mills, under one ownership or another, furnished for hours in some locations, and all customers of Niagara employment for many expert hands, and added much to the Mohawk lost power for several hours. The villages of Cooperstown and Unadilla were the last in Otsego County business life of Cooperstown and vicinity. One owner after to have power restored. another was compelled to give up because of the handiAugust 22, 2003 cap of the high freight rates. The knitting mills at Phoenix furnish one of the best reasons why the town railroad stock
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Town Of Richfield’s Winther Uses Computerized System To Duplicate His Recipes Precisely WINTHER/From A1 experimentation followed, reaching a pinnacle in recent days, when Winther’s brews won three first-place medals, a second, a third and an honorable mention in his first foray into the New York State Fair’s home-brewing competition. Winther, a New Jersey native, arrived on Canadarago’s shores by way of SUNY Cobleskill, Siena College – where he met Marisa, a Utica native studying at Albany College of Pharmacy – and the University of Buffalo medical school. After his eureka moment in front of the TV set, he subscribed to a series of podcasts from The Brewery Network, listening to the tapes driving back and forth to Little Falls. He plunged into John Palmer’s “How to Brew,” which he describes as “the bible” of beer making. He started in the kitchen with various pots, vats and “simple kits” – White Lab and Wyeast are the most common. But Marisa, (she’s an executive with AstraZeneca pharmaceuticals; the couple has three young
impurities from his well water. “If you can make your own water, if you can strip it down,” he said, “then you can build it back up.” Beermaking can be lonely work, so Mark and Marisa attended this year’s National Homebrewers Association Convention in June in Philadelphia. There, Winther met many of his beermaking heroes, including the great John Palmer. “When you interact with other brewers, it’s magical,” he said. So far, he has experimented with dozens of beer varieties. His favorite is a Weizenbock, a Germany wheat and rye beer which, as it happens, won a first place at the fair. His bock and a cider won his two other first places. Where is this going? Mark replies, “Right now, it’s a hobby – and I don’t want to turn a hobby into a job.” Still, he and Marisa have talked: At some point, maybe they would invest in a microbrewery. Lakeside Brewery, maybe. Meanwhile, Marisa is getting the bug. At one point, she sampled a pineapple-based beer. She may try an apricot-based brew of her own.
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children) soon nudged him out into the garage. Within a year, he’d moved from his first home-brewing kit – he was concerned about heating his various concoctions on burners while toddlers wandered about – to an automatic, computer-driven Brewmation Inc. system, which allows him to precisely control inputs and outcomes on dozens of beer varieties. “It’s much safer,” he said. Along the way, he planted a varied row of hops on the family’s five-acre property above Canadarago Lake. And in walks around the neighborhood, he identified two long-ignored batches of wild plants that must date back to Otsego County’s hops-growing heyday. He discovered hops thrive in 15 hours of daylight; when the days shorten, hops flowers burst forth. Winther contracted with a local Amish carpenter, who built an oak bar in the family’s basement rec room, where Winther can highlight his latest. In a utility room at the far end is a water softener and a reverse-osmosis device to remove minerals and other
LANSING/From A1 marks at the 2013 State Fair in Syracuse for his latest brew, the “Hops on Pop” IPA. “A friend and his wife had just had a baby, so I
named it for them,” he said. “I gave them a six-pack after the kid was born.” This was his first time entering the contest, inspired by a chance to win a smallbatch brew from Utica’s Saranac Brewing Co. He started his new hobby last summer, after his wife Wendy and their children – Ryan, Jacob and Kristen – bought dad a home-brewing kit. “I had talked about making beer for years,” he said. “Finally, she’d had enough talk.” Coming up with the selfdeprecating name, Bush League Brewing, the Baseball Hall of Fame’s manager of multi-media productions started by making a pale ale. The ingredient kit came with the hops, malts and grains pre-measured to create five gallons – two cases – of beer. The kit was a “clone” of Sierra Nevada’s Pale Ale, but Lansing exper-
imented. “I like to modify,” he said. “I added extra hops to make it my own.” He tried dry-hopping the beer, adding extra hops to the secondary fermentation. “I was so happy, I took it to a family vacation with my brothers, sisters and parents,” he said. “They all loved it.” Hops on Pop was made from a similar kit, except he transformed it into an IPA by adding hops during the first boil, then dry-hopping with Cascade hops during the secondary fermentation. “I like a good, hoppy beer,” he said, “This has a great fruit aroma right off the top. It’s a little like a Saranac IPA, but not as hoppy as their Torpedo. You open a bottle of that and the hops just hit you in the face.” Though “Hops on Pop” didn’t place in the final three or win the Saranac smallbatch prize, Lansing re-
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Olah A. Walton, 90; Buried With Military Honors East Springfield – Olah A. Walton, 90, a private first class in WWII, passed away Aug. 17, 2013, at Bassett Hospital. She was born Jan. 2, 1923, in Phoenix, N.Y., daughter of Howard and Fannie (Rathbun) Prior. She married Edwin F. Walton on July 22, 1944, in New Bern, S.C. while they were both in the Marines. She was a PFC in the Marine Corps during WWII at Cherry Point, N.C. She remained a member of the Women Marine Association. Olah was a cancer survivor, Gold Star Mother, a Telecom Pioneer, and a Cooperstown Native Daughter. Survivors include her daughter Barbara LaDuke, Cooperstown, son Robert S. Walton, Webster, five grandchildren, and six greatgrandchildren. She was pre-deceased by a son Roger, also a Marine, who died in Vietnam in 1967. Her son Robert and her grandaughter Rebecca will ride their bikes with the Patriot Guard to escort her to the Springfield Center Cemetery. A funeral with full military honors by the USMC Honor Guard will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 24. Burial will follow. Contributions in Mrs. Walton’s memory may be made to the Springfield Emergency Squad. Arrangements were entrusted to the Ottman Funeral Home, Cherry Valley.
Clifford M. Snyder, 84; Called ‘Uncle’ SOUTH VALLEY– Clifford M. Snyder, 84, a Cherry Valley bus driver known as “Uncle,” passed away Sunday, August 18, 2013. He was born Oct. 19, 1928 in South Valley, the son of George and Irene (Gillette) Snyder. Cliff was head custodian and bus driver at the Cherry Valley Central School, where he was known as “Uncle.” Survivors include his sister Ruth & (Richard) Lotridge, sisters-in-law Jennie Snyder, Frieda Snyder, and many nieces and nephews. A memorial will be held 6-8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23 at the First Christian Church of South Valley, 1153 St Hwy 165, Cherry Valley. A funeral will be held at 11.a.m. Saturday, Aug. 24, also at the church. Burial will follow in the Springfield Center Cemetery, Pastor Terry Brant officiating. Arrangements were entrusted to the Ottman Funeral Home, Cherry Valley.
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MLS#89122 - Year-round Canadarago lakefront compound. Two structures each w/2-stall garages. Total of 7 BRs, 4 baths w/over 300’ of shoreline. Live in one and rent the other. Priced below assessed value. $229,900 Call the Sluyter Team @ 315-520-6512 (cell)
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MLS#89246 - Professionally restored post-and-beam 3 BR, 2½ bath home on 16.11 acres w/breathtaking views. Beamed ceilings and pine floors in great room, country kitchen, studio, family room, library/den. Workshop, pole barn w/2 horse stalls, pond, orchard, pasture and woods. $399,000 Call Michelle Curran @ 518-469-5603 (cell) New Listing! MLS#90825 – 3 BR, 2 bath, Fly Creek home is sited for passive solar and features slate entry; hardwood floors; crown moldings; cherry kitchen w/SS appliances, island, quartz countertops; gas fireplace; built-ins and more! Lower level 2-car garage, stone wall, pond. Just 5 minutes to Cooperstown. $329,000 Call Katherine L. Fistrowicz @ 607-267-2683 (cell)
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MLS#77192 - 33 level open acres. Ideal property for animals, home, or building tract. Millstone Road, Richfield Springs. $62,000 Call Pamela V. Andela @ 315-717-1907 (cell)
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MLS#89098 - 107’ of Otsego lakefront on 1.23 acres. Renovated 4400+/- sq ft of living space. Kitchen w/separate pantry, center island, granite counters. Large DR, 2 LRs, stone fireplace, 4 BRs, 3 full baths, 2 walk-in steam rooms, french doors. Porch on 3 sides of home, hand-crafted decorative steel rails and bluestone patios. $850,000 Call Pamela V. Andela @ 315-717-1907 (cell)
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Great opportunity to own a wonderful, original cottage on the east shore of Otsego Lake! A large lot w/130 ft of direct lake frontage. 3 BRs, 1 bath, LR/DR, new roof, new septic being installed, storage building, removable dock. Parking for several cars. Property sold as is, furnishings included. Exclusively offered by Don Olin Realty at $ 379,000 For reliable, honest answers to any of your real estate questions, Don Olin Realty at 607.547.5622 or visit our website www.donolinrealty.com For Appointment Only Call: M. Margaret Savoie, Broker/Owner – 547-5334 Marion King, Associate Broker – 547-5332 Eric Hill, Associate Broker – 547-5557 Don DuBois, Associate Broker – 547-5105 Tim Donahue, Associate Broker – 293-8874 Cathy Raddatz, Sales Associate – 547-8958 Jacqueline Savoie, Sales Associate – 547-4141 Carol Hall, Sales Associate – 544-4144 Michael Welch, Sales Associate – 547-8502
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