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ComplimentaryVolume 5, No. 24 Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, March 8, 2013
HOMETOWN ONEONTA HAS LARGEST PRINT CIRCULATION IN OTSEGO COUNTY2010 WINNER OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD
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City of The Hills
Joe & Mary’sBanquet BackFor 2nd Year
Last year’s was such a hit, the Sixth Ward Athletic Club is plan-
ning its second annual Joe & Mary’s Memorial Banquet Friday, April 12, beginning with a cocktail hour at 5:30 p.m.
Jeremy Saunders’ cater-ing service will be preparing individual steaks and such favorites from the former Joe & Mary’s Restaurants as “pigs in a blanket” and apple crisp ala mode.
The $35 tickets, limited to 88, go on sale Sunday, March 10, at the West Broadway clubhouse, first come, first serve.
TUBMAN CENTENNIAL: The U.S. Colored Troops Institute’s annual Harriet Tubman Civil War Dinner, 5-7 p.m. Sunday, March 10, at Hartwick College’s Dewar Union will make the 100th anniversary of the her death.
GOING, GOING! Rusted Root’s concert at 8 p.m. Fri-day, March 8, at Foothills is headed for a sellout. Details on ticketing, B1.
NEW OFFICER: Common Council Tuesday, March 5, was due to appoint David Schulte as an officer in the OPD.
IT’S HERE! At 2 a.m. Sunday, March 10, spring forward!
FOR THE ♥OF CSO
Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTAAfter pretending he can’t play the bagpipes (he can), Deputy Mayor Mike Lynch at the Catskill Symphony Orchestra’s annual Conductor Challenge Sunday, March 3, brought in the reinforcements: The Leatherstocking District Pipe Band marched into the SUNY Oneonta Alumni Fieldhouse to the delight of the 600-person sellout crowd. When the crowd voted (with dollars) during intermission, $17,000 was donated, with Lynch raising the most. The CSO’s annual Cabaret Concert – this year, an all-female Irish group, Cherish the Ladies, was the fea-tured act – is its largest fundraiser.
But Mike Lynch didn’t walk away with the prize: It was a strong field. At left, George Wells, Townsquare Media manager, recounted his days singing in a band; here he performs a Donny Osmond number for Rachel Rissberger and her son Gabriel. Fire Lt. Jim Maloney, right, brought down the house, too: As son Jack (on trombone) and daughter Fiona (on ukulele) performed the James Bond theme (accompanied by the CSO), Maloney emerged from his OFD uniform as 007, then the dapper Bond directed the orchestra with a fire ax.
Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTAAt Not Just Anoth-er Bridal Show, the Oneonta region’s lat-est entry, Patty Bettiol shows off Patty Cakes’ offerings at the two-day event Saturday-Sunday, March 2-3, at the Car-riage House, Southside/MORE PHOTOS, A2
GO! LADY JACKETS!
CCS GIRLS WIN SECTIONALS, GO INTO STATE TOURNEY/SEE A3, B5
City Seeks $3m in GrantsREDO BATHHOUSE, GENERATE ELECTRICITY
By JIM KEVLIN
Repairing the city’s signature WPA-era bathhouse in Wilber Park and bringing it in line with the Americans With Dis-
abilities Act.Funding programs to improve single- and
multi-family hous-ing in the Housing Task Force’s target area, north of the downtown.
Extracting meth-ane produced by the sewage-treat-ment plant on Silas Lane to use for heating, or perhaps to actually produce electricity.
These are among almost a dozen projects, $3 million worth, that City Man-ager Mike Long has fast-tracked, seeking some of $8 million the Mohawk Valley Regional Econom-ic Development Council announced Feb. 19 is available – but only to communi-ties that can complete applications by next Wednesday, March 13.
Divide the total among six counties, that Please See GRANTS, A7
By LIBBY CUDMORE
Patrick Lippincott and Steve Dillon are reviving the Oneonta Theatre Stage Play-
ers and taking it back in time.“Awesome ’80s Prom” is the
first show in the recently reformed Oneonta Theatre Stage Players, which disbanded while Lippincott was in Texas. The company had
a full two seasons in 2010-2011, with “A Don’t Hug Me Christmas Carol,” “Frankenstein,” “The Odd Couple: Female Version,” and a run of “Always, Patsy Cline” that drew such a crowd an extra weekend of
performances was added. “We do different kinds of plays and musi-cals,” said Dillon. “I don’t think an-other company would have touched Patsy Cline.”
Please See PLAYERS, A7
‘Awesome’80s Prom’ To Awake Dormant Oneonta Theatre Players
HOMETOWN ONEONTAMike Long in City Hall’s lobby, now undergoing renova-tions/DETAILS, B2
Springbrook, arc,Pathfinder Facing‘Devastating’ Cuts
Facing a $120 million shortfall in Medicaid funds, Governor Cuomo has cut his proposed 2013-14 state
budget, reducing funding to Springbrook, Arc Otsego and Pathfinder Village by $3.2 million.
In a joint press release, Springbrook’s Partricia Kennedy, Arc’s Joe Judd and Pathfinder’s Paul Lambert termed the cuts “devastating.” The entities would lose $1.2 million, $800,000 and $300,000 respectively.
FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2013A-2 HOMETOWN ONEONTA
Unreserved Two Day Artifact Auction The Late Gene Barbieri Collection,
Big Timber, Montana removed to be sold at
Hesse Galleries, 350 Main St., Otego, New York
Friday, March 15th 4:30 PM Saturday, March 16th 10:00 AM
Over 10,000 pieces to be sold, representing cultures from Paleo, Archaic,
Transitional, Woodland, & Historic Stages. These sales may be viewed at
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For information about events in Otsego County, call 800 843-3394
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Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTAAt “Not Another Bridal Show” at the Carriage House Saturday-Sunday, March 2-3, Maggie Mc-Carthy, Oneonta, feeds friend Katie Sharkey a des-sert from Laura Haney’s Custom Designed Cakes. At left, co-organizer Paula Fassler helps model Michelle Radow down the runway.
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Gargano Takes Top Cheesecake Prize
Amanda Gargano, the dining services director for Traditions Restaurant at the Plains at Parish Home-stead, won the Emmi Roth USA Grand Cru Get-
away contest for her sweet and savory Grand Cru gruyere cheesecake with concord grapes and pistachio tuile.
The prize included a culinary vacation and a two-page recipe spread in Sante Magazine.
Join us in honoring
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The NBT Bank Distinguished Business Award
HugH HeNdersoNThe Eugene A. Bettiol, Jr.
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HOMETOWN PeopleA NEW TRADITION IS BORN
Otsego County’s Robokronos
team members, from left, Dave
DePauw, Griffin Rule and Chris
Lentner react to a winning score
at the FIRST Robotics Compe-
tition Thursday-Saturday, Feb.
28-March 2, at RIT. The local
team – last year’s Rookies of the
Year – made it to the semifinals in
the regional com-petition.
ROBOKRONOS GETS INTO SEMIS
HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-3 FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2013
SIXTH TIME’S THE CHARMNext Stop For ClaSS B ChampS oNeoNta: State tourNey, BegiNNiNg Saturday, marCh 9 iN SyraCuSe
Oneonta’s Minnie Webster prepares to take the first of several foul shots in the last few minutes of the Class B championship game. When she was done, victory was out of reach for Seton Catholic. At right, guard Mariah Ruff shows a driving style evident throughout the game.
Little Kason Miller couldn’t wait. When he ran out on the court to congratulate his dad, Coach Matt Miller hoisted the delighted lad into the air. The Lady Yellowjackets 41-33 Class B championship victory over Seton Catholic sends OHS into the state tournament versus Utica Notre Dame at 4 p.m. Saturday, March 9, at Onondaga CC.
The girls’ cheering section
included, from left,
state champ
baseball players Connor Brown,
Zach King, Alec
Picinich and
Jonathan Vega.
Fan Carter Mackey’s sign said it all.
The littlest fan at this (and many of this season’s games) was Joey Briguglio, 5 months, Coach Matt Miller’s nephew, tended by mom Nicole. With them are Emily Zeh, left, and brother Britten.
Mom Amy Ridgway congratulates her cheerleading daughter Maya.
The Hunter boys, dad Dustin and son Reis, 2, watch the action from the bleach-ers.
The cheerleading squad kept spirits high.
Photos By Jim Kevlin For HOMETOWN ONEONTA
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EDITORIAL
LETTERs
There’s value in simple stability, Otsego County’s new con-
gressman, Chris Gibson, observed in addressing the Cooperstown Rotary at The Otesaga the other week.
Nationally, the business community has $3 trillion sitting on the sidelines, waiting to know what the rules governing taxation and investment will be for the next five years before getting back in the game, Gibson said. What the rules are – Do we cut entitle-ments? Do we raise taxes? Do we do a little of both or none of either? – is not as important as deciding and sticking with it.
Interesting.•
The same goes for gover-nance that, locally, we have some control over: our mu-nicipalities and the County of Otsego.
Take the City of Oneonta, where the level of confi-dence in Mayor Dick Mill-er’s administration enabled voter approval of a new City Charter that created the position of city manager and led to the hiring of a veteran administrator, Mike Long.
When the Mohawk Valley Economic Develop-ment Council announced a couple of weeks ago that a supplementary $8 million is available, Long had the knowledge and experience to quickly assemble a packet of grants – $3 million, give or take – from past applica-tions and newly identified needs in time to meet a tight
deadline, Wednesday, March 13.
It’s an intriguing list, from renovations to the WPA-era stone bathhouse at Wilber
Park, to housing renova-tions in a target area north of the downtown, to captur-ing methane produced at the sewage treatment plant to perhaps start generating electricity.
The Oneonta model: Put the right structure in place, staff it profession-ally, pursue opportunities. And there’s an important human component: Miller has been able to get eight brainy, motivated, some-times headstrong Common Council members to work together sufficiently and to agree, not on everything, but on everything important.
Good things will continue to happen in Otsego Coun-ty’s only City Hall.
•Stability in Cooperstown
Village Hall is allowing similar progress.
Say what you will, but the paid-parking plan trustees adopted in December mini-mizes local impact – buy a $25 pass, and drivers can continue to do what they are doing now when they park downtown – yet will capture $¼ million a year in new revenues from tour-ists who, frankly, expect to pay for parking when they
visit Independence Hall, Colonial Williamsburg or our Hall of Fame. (As to re-gional shoppers, they avoid Cooperstown in the summer anyhow.)
Mayor Jeff Katz has convened a task force to review ordinances that has been ruminating over issues that may seem miniscule to some. Lot-setback adjust-ments may warm the cock-les of bureaucratic hearts, but they aren’t the stuff of community salvation. That said, consistency – as a general concept, not a fetish – has some merit.
The concern expressed here before – that one-party rule (the Village Board is all-Democratic) inevitably stultifies and doesn’t serve the electorate – will be partially ameliorated in the Tuesday, March 19, elec-tion: David Maxson has
the endorsement of both the Democrats and Republicans; Lou Allstadt has the Demo-cratic and an independent line. Neither has lock-step loyalty to the status quo, (effective as it has been shortterm.)
•All that said, a multi-lay-
ered political battle is brew-ing more effervescently at the county level. The canny new county chair, Richard Abbate, who engineered Cooperstown’s Democratic sweep, is itching – you can tell – to do the same at the county Board of Represen-tatives.
That would only take one seat. Patent attorney Ed Lentz of Garrattsville, former Democratic county chair, has been nominated to run against first-term Republican Pauline Koren, the Milford businesswoman.
Democrat Teresa Winchester of Butternuts is again chal-lenging Republican stalwart Jim Powers, R-Butternuts. Either could make that shift happen.
But there are other vari-ables. Cathy Rothenberger, D-Oneonta, only ran last time because another can-didate didn’t surface. And who knows if the Demo-cratic first-time reps, John Kosmer of Fly Creek, Gary Koutnik of Oneonta or Beth Rosenthal of Roseboom, will be challenged. Elected officials are most vulnerable when running for a second term.
So, prudently, Captain Abbate appears to be steer-ing the county-committee ship away from rough wa-ters. The executive com-mittee issued a statement the other day calling on Governor Cuomo to create a blue-ribbon panel to adjust the SAFE Act, the state’s new gun-control law and a potential hot-potato locally. And both Democrats on Powers’ Public Safety & Legal Affairs Committee – Rosenthal and Rothen-berger – voted to send an anti-SAFE resolution to the full board, if just for discus-sion.
Abbate’s invisible hand was also implied in the way the county committee, meeting Tuesday, Feb. 26, in Cooperstown, backped-aled from denying Mayor Miller, an independent, the Democratic line on the November ballot. Sustain-able Otsego adherents such
as Winchester and Otsego Town Board member Julie Huntsman took pains to dif-ferentiate between fracking (which Miller opposes) and the Constitution Pipeline (which he supported), in contrast with Sustainable’s éminence grise Adrian Kuzminski, who had staked out opposing both as articles of anti-fracking faith. Kos-mer, committee vice chair, remained mum.
With all key Oneonta Democrats, including im-mediate past mayors John Nader and Kim Muller championing Miller, that was a wise step for Demo-cratic unity, an essential one, really, if the party has any chance for achieving a county board majority this fall. Republicans, don’t underestimate Abbate’s determination.
•As Gibson argues, stable
government is essential. As Abbate demonstrates, politics can’t and won’t be discounted. The two are linked, and a healthy combination of each – not like the D.C. standoff, but solutions-focused – seems to be developing locally.
The specific issues – The Manor, jobs, tourism pro-motion, professionalizing and streamlining govern-ment among them – can be more fully discussed here later. For now, a happy combination of the two fac-tors that make for successful democratic government are evident here. Let’s deter-mine to continue similarly.
Abbate
Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTAOneonta ex-mayor Kim Muller makes the case to
allow current Mayor Miller to run on the Demo-cratic line when the party’s county committee
met Tuesday, Feb. 26. seated from left are candi-date Lentz and mayors Miller, Nader and Katz.
To the Editor:Otsego Manor is the latest
“hot” issue. It seems that anyone who dares discuss the topic will be vilified by the other side rather than trying to address the real issues.
Lets outline the facts:1) The Manor is a first-
class facility that serves the needs of 174 people and is one of the best of its kind in New York State.
2) The County is subsi-dizing The Manor in the range of $5.5 million this fiscal year, an increase from $3 million last year and the projections are that this will increase annually.
3) The entire county bud-get is approximately $124.5 million, including Medicaid and welfare.
4) The Manor is not clos-ing but it may be privatized.
5) The reimbursement rates from the state have been declining and will continue to do so, with the county making up the dif-ference.
6) The projections from the county treasurer indi-cate that The Manor’s fiscal requirements will place the county in a financial jeop-ardy.
7) New York State is the highest tax state in the U.S.
8) The entire area is under financial stress, including schools, towns, villages and cities.
The question that every-one should be asking is, “Can the county continue to run The Manor without jeopardizing the residents of The Manor and the other 61,000 county taxpayers.” Currently the budget al-
locates about 4.4 percent of the total budget to The Manor, with the rest of the budget providing such basic services roads, social services, sheriff department, parks, IDA, etc. The tough question is: To what extent will these services be sacri-ficed to maintain the current status of The Manor, or do we seek other solutions.
Based on the current state of the local community, I would expect that the idea of raising taxes would not be a option, especially when the tax increase will only meet the current needs and not provide a long term solution.
What can be done to insure the services which The Manor provides will be available in the future? While privatization is a con-cern, I submit it is the most viable option to the pres-ervation of The Manor and here’s why: If the county continues to run The Manor, there is a very good chance The Manor will “shrink” under the financial burden placed on the county.
Even if taxes are in-creased, the result will be an increased financial burden on the rest of the taxpayers and businesses, resulting in a further decline in the county, a county where the overall age of the populace is increasing.
What guarantees do we have that this won’t happen if The Manor is privatized? There are no guarantees, but the future certainly would hold more options. First, when soliciting a “provid-er,” the county should
Please See LETTER< A6
Privatization Will CreateOptions For The Manor
To the Editor:Congratulations to your
newspaper (“Staff Flex-ibility,” Feb. 28 edition) for shedding more light than heat on the emotional subject of the problems that face Otsego Manor. The problems are not only the obvious financial hole that The Manor has been dug into, but also the apparent impasse with the CSEA.
No one wants to see The Manor continue without disruption to the compas-sionate service given to the residents there (my wife is one). An increase of a quarter of one per cent to
the sales tax rate seems like an easy solution, but that would cover less than half of the projected deficit for 2013. Would the sales tax have to be increased each succeeding year as costs escalate?
Manor Director Ed Marchi seems to have given painful alternatives thought-ful consideration. The county Board of Represen-tative and the CSEA should consider adopting these alternatives before they are forced upon The Manor by a new management.
WILLIAM DORNBURGHCooperstown
To the Editor: In an attempt to be bi-partisan on
debt-reduction, President Obama has made an offer to the Republican Congressional leadership to cut Social Security spending by simply reducing the annual cost-of-living adjustments to retiree benefits.
These annual adjustments, (COLAs) are currently determined by using a Consumer Price Index (CPI) published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) which measures the annual inflation in the cost of all goods and services for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers. The current CPI is referred to as the CPI-W.
This proposal was originally the idea of the Republicans and long advocated by them. It involves the substitution of a different CPI in-dex, introduced by the BLS in 2002, called the “chain-weighed” CPI or the C-CPI-U. This new CPI would reduce future annual COLAs by about 0.3 percent. So if the average annual COLA increase is 3.0 percent, the new CPI index would reduce the average annual COLA to 2.7 percent.
Now one may say that seems to
be a relatively small reduction for an individual retiree, but over the next 10 years alone it could save the federal government roughly $300 billion due to the effect of compounding.
The supporters of this proposal contend that it is simply a technical adjustment designed to more accu-rately measure the effect of inflation on retiree benefits, and not simply a cost-reduction method. Is that really true, and therefore, a good idea? I don’t think so, and neither do many other actuaries, economists and benefit consultants.
The fact is that it is very uncertain whether this new CPI truly provides a more accurate inflationary adjustment for Social Security and other retire-ment benefits.
Opponents believe this proposal to be only a political strategy to cut So-cial Security spending simply because such spending is a huge component of the entire federal budget. That’s true, but it is not a valid reason, because Social Security spending has not yet contributed $1 to the federal deficit. It is, however, an easy target for deficit reduction-advocates, who believe
retirees receive too much entitlement benefits.
Many professional benefit experts believe that the current CPI may actu-ally understate the true cost of inflation on retiree benefits, due to the spend-ing habits and needs of our seniors on fixed incomes. The escalating cost of medical care for seniors is one reason for such an opinion that the current CPI-W doesn’t properly reflect the full magnitude of that effect.
We need a more comprehensive study of the effects of inflation on the spending patterns of our seniors before we make any changes in the method of calculating COLAs.
With this in mind, I would ask all seniors on Social Security and other fixed incomes to ask their Congress members and the President to be more cautious about reducing our benefit entitlements. There are other, more sensible solutions to fixing the long-term financial distress of our entitle-ment programs.
MARTIN J. WEISSMANF.S.A., retired
Oneonta
Medical Costs Rising, Magnifying Any Cuts To COLAs
Consider Options While There’s Time
Don’t Mess Too Much With Happy Balance Of Governance, Politics
HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-5
HOMETOWN HistoryCompiled by Tom HeiTz with resources courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library
FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2013
100 Years ago
March 1913
125 Years agoThe season 1888 opens with the biggest real estate deal
yet recorded for oneonta in the purchase by geo. I. Wilber, from a.C. Lewis, of all remaining to the latter of the old Ford place, 156.75 feet on Main street, at about $30,000. This includes the east half of the Union Block, 22.5 feet, a fine four-story brick building, store on the street and three flats above – as well as a large barn and tenement in the rear, and the well-known old stone dwelling now used as a boarding house. The lot has an irregular rear, 180 feet in length, and varies in depth from 223 feet on the west line to 169 on the east line.
The Ford property had originally a frontage of about 259 feet. It was purchased in July, 1881, by a.C. Lewis and C.B. Pepper at $11,500. Subsequently, Mr. Lewis gave his partner $1,000 bonus for his half interest. In 1882, D.F. Wilber purchased 80 feet, corner of Ford Avenue, with space in the rear for a barn, at $3,500. The next sale off the property was to M.s. roberts, of east Meredith, who joined with Mr. Lewis in the building of the Union Block, secur-ing 22.5 feet frontage with good rear, at $2,500. Now, Mr. Lewis closes out his interest at $30,000. allowing $8,500 for his half of the Union Block and some other improve-ments, Mr. Lewis has put into the property $21,000. He takes out at least $30,000 plus $6,000 previous sales, mak-ing a clean profit of $15,000, which, considering the time involved, less than seven years, may be considered a pretty fair speculation.
March 1888
80 Years agoWord of the national banking holiday came as a surprise
to oneonta’s three banking institutions, the Wilber National Bank, the Citizen’s National Bank & Trust Co., and the oneonta Building & Loan association, and to other banks throughout this vicinity. Bank employees were at their places of business saturday morning ready to open as usual when telegrams were received announcing the holidays and ordering all banks to close. The text of the telegram read: “You are hereby advised that Governor Lehman has declared a banking holiday effective today, March 4, and Monday, March 6, during which all banking institutions will be closed. J.a. Broderick, superintendent of Banks.” Officials of the three Oneonta banking institutions Sunday reaffirmed their confidence that the banks of this vicin-ity are in exceptionally good condition. They are ready to resume business as soon as they are permitted to do so. As far as Oneonta and vicinity is concerned the banking holiday is simply a temporary cessation of banking activity which will be resumed as soon as possible, perhaps as early as Tuesday.
March 1933
60 Years agooneonta’s Board of Public safety last night granted
19 licenses to master plumbers in oneonta, the only men authorized to supervise plumbing installations in the city. The qualified master plumbers are Walter W. Eldred, Wilbur Newell, Fred r. Whitney, Milton D. Mitchell, stanley olds, A.J. Rorick, Jack Evans, Arthur Evans, Lavern Ginther, robert J. Daley, george s. andrus & sons, Howard ed-munds, s.e. McKean, William H. Ziegler, Jack Thaler, Louis M. Baker, oscar W. Butts and earl D. Wilsey. an electrician’s license was granted to Donald rorick.
March 1953
40 YEARS AGOThe Oneonta Symphony Orchestra voted last night to go
ahead with its planned May 13 concert, hoping that dona-tions from area residents will carry the $1,500 cost of the event. Orchestra committee and trombonist, Donald C. robertson Jr. of sydney said last sunday the orchestra has
only $70 in its treasury. Half of the symphony’s 70 mem-bers who gathered for a meeting at the Oneonta State fine arts building voted to form a board of directors and elected three members to it – Mary Anne Mazarak and William Manly of oneonta and Jeanne Herst of Cooperstown. Robertson said last week that the 20-year-old symphony was in danger of folding due to financial and organizational problems. He said the formation of a board of directors will do a great deal to alleviate the organizational problems. The orchestra’s financial problems have centered on the hiring of paid conductors to replace unpaid conductor Dr. John Mazarak, oneonta state music director.
March 1973
30 Years agoCatskill Airways recently took delivery of a prop-jet air-
liner, which will be put into service between Oneonta and New York City in approximately two weeks. The airplane, a Beechcraft 99 was purchased to accommodate increased demand for passenger seating. It will hold 15 passengers and will be flown with two pilots aboard. Currently the airline operates a Beechcraft “Queenair” which carries ten passengers and one pilot. Costing approximately a half million dollars, the new plane flies at 280 mph, carries more baggage and freight, is more fuel-cost efficient and takes only 35 to 45 minutes to reach New York City.
March 1983
20 Years agoNearly 10 years ago Ray Groves of Otego read an article
about illiteracy. “I couldn’t believe it – that in this country where we have public education that there could be that many people who are functionally illiterate,” he said. “I thought what it must be like for somebody that can’t read the road signs, and can’t read a map. It made me want to get involved.” For nearly a decade, Groves has devoted several hours of each week to teaching people to read as a member of Literacy Volunteers of otsego and Delaware Counties. “This is a gift – if anybody could give this gift to some-body, it would be one of the greatest things you could do.”
March 1993
10 Years agoThe OHS boys’ postseason basketball ended in a 56-
46 loss to the Red Hook Raiders in a first-round Class B regional matchup game at Binghamton University. Red Hook’s senior point guard Dave Jutton, who was averag-ing 16 points a game, spurted for 36 points and proved unstoppable. With Oneonta leading 33-20 with 5:30 left in the third period, Jutton hit three three-pointers and two free throws and the Raiders eventually overtook the Yellowjack-ets for the win.
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Today, nearly 75 percent of SUNY’s operating budgetcomes from tuition and fees, compared to a decadeago when 75 percent came from the state. So moreand more funding for SUNY is coming from tuitionand fees. This amounts to an increasing burden onlower- and middle-income families.
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Second, a “provider” with experience will be able to bring economies of scale with respect to buy-ing power, financing and managerial expertise. Third, The Manor is a state-of-the-art facility that can be expanded. The private sector can respond to these needs much more timely and cost effectively compared to the public sector. The fact that
our population base is aging makes this a very likely scenario.
When considering priva-tization, the county could structure the sale in such a fashion that there would be certain criteria that must be met and, if they were not, then the county would be able to void the contract. Once a provider is selected and the price is determined, the county could require the buyer to put up a substan-tial, non-refundable dollar commitment which would
be placed in an escrow ac-count. During this transition period, the buyer would be able to deal with labor issues along with any other issues that may arise. This is very much over simplified, but the fact remains that many things can be accomplished if people are willing to work together.
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ONEONTA – Jean Elizabeth Parish, 95, an artist who served as one of the founding members of UCCCA, died Feb. 9, 2013, at the Carol Woods Retire-ment Community in Chapel Hill, N.C.
She was born in Oneonta on May 24, 1917, to W. Earl Parish and Maude Beck Par-ish of Oneonta.
Jean attended Oneonta High School. She received her BA in Fine Arts from Ohio State University and a MFA from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.
After working as a de-signer in New York City and teaching at Drake Universi-ty, Jean returned to Oneonta and was Professor of Art at the State University Col-
lege of Oneonta. She also helped found the Upper Catskill Council of the Arts, where she served as a board member.
In addition to teaching, Ms. Parish was a practicing artist and exhibited widely, both locally and nationally. Three paintings are part of the permanent collection of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum in Utica.
Other work is exhibited in the Hickory Museum, in Hickory, N.C., as well as with public and private owners.
After retiring from Oneonta State University in 1981, she moved to Win-ston-Salem, N.C., and then to Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1997, where she continued to paint and create three-di-mensional works.
Jean was predeceased by her brother, Robert.
She is survived by her niece, Elizabeth Parish Rat-trie and her husband, Neil of Jacksonville, Fla., and their three sons. In addition she is survived by her second cousins, Mildred Parish of Oneonta and George Shear and his wife, Diana of Troy.
A memorial service will be held at Carol Woods
Retirement Community in Chapel Hill, N.C. Ashes will be buried in the family burial plot in the Oneonta Plains Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, dona-tions may be made to the Ackland Art Museum, Campus Box 3400, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599 or the Carol Woods Charitable Fund, 750 Weaver Dairy Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27514.
Jean Elizabeth Parish, 95; Artist Was a Founding Member of UCCCA
Charles Shader, 89; Aviation Expert Was ‘Master Mechanic’ONEONTA – Charles
Shader, 89, who was known for his ability to fix every-thing from dull knives to airplanes, died at his home on Feb. 27, 2013.
Born in Little Falls, he was the son of Charles
Shader Sr. and Alice (Free-man) Shader. He graduated from the Cooperstown High School, and he and a team of friends played a game of “town ball” before the very first official game at Doubleday Field.
On May 21, 1944, he married his wife of 69 years, Marion Sweet Shader.
He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a flight engineer. Fol-lowing his service in the military he attended Spartan School of Aviation in Tulsa, Okla., which brought him to the Catskill Airport where he instructed, maintained equipment and flew charter flights.
In 1950, Chuck started his career of 33 years at Scin-tilla, now Amphenol, as a field rep. During his tenure at Amphenol he worked up to the position of Manager of Engine Products.
He served as President of the Aviation Distributors Manufacturers Association. He was awarded the Charles Taylor Master Mechanic Award from the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration. After retirement, he con-tinued in the aviation field as an expert witness and consultant.
He was a self-proclaimed “gadget guru” and enjoyed fixing things, from sharp-ing the knives at Pizzaland to repairs around the First United Methodist Church, where he was a trustee and a member of the building committee.
In addition to his wife, He is survived by his son, Mi-chael Shader and wife Deb-bie; daughter, Jo Bordinger and husband Morry. Chuck has five grandchildren, Pat-rick Okelly and wife Jamie, Michael Bordinger-Lutz and husband Michael, Charles Bordinger, Samantha Bal-lard and husband Jason and Maureen Shader; 10 great-grandchildren, Anthony, Clinton, Cali, Anna, Skylah, Meghan, Garrett, Maxton John, Lilian and Clark; and one great-great-grandchild, Oskar.
A funeral was held Sun-day, March 3, at the First United Methodist Church, Oneonta, with the Rev. Teressa Sivers, officiating. Burial will be held at a later date in the Oneonta Plains Cemetery, Oneonta.
In lieu of flowers, dona-tions may be made to the Leatherstocking Honor Flight, SCCSC, P.O. Box 621, Cobleskill, NY 12043.
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TROUPE/From A1“Awesome ’80s Prom” follows
17 “high school types” straight out of a Brat Pack movie the jocks, the nerds, the preps, the ston-ers – only this time, the audience becomes part of the show. “We’re encouraging our guests to wear their best ’80s clothes,” said Dil-lon. “And it’s fun to cast because we’re have to have people who can pull the audience into the show.”
The Stage Players are now a not-for-profit and will perform on the Oneonta Theatre stage. “We’re really pleased to have (the Oneonta) as our home stage,” said Lippincott. “It was a necessity to fill that space with an in-house theatre company.”
The Gala is back too, but with a new twist – instead of a variety show, the gala will be fashioned after the Oscars, with awards
given out to the season’s various actors and technicians. “You can wear your tuxedo, walk the red carpet and have a chance to be recognized,” said Lippincott. “We want to focus on giving back to the people who make this theatre company possible. You don’t often see that in community theatre.”
The 2014 season will also be announced at that time. “It’s an ambitious season,” he said. “It will
rival our first season.”Also on the horizon is a fu-
ture collaboration with Orpheus. “There’s room for two,” said Lip-pincott. “We want to change the perspective and prove that theatre companies can actually work together.”
And, as always, the Oneonta Theatre Stage Players look to fill a niche in Oneonta’s ever-growing arts community.
GRANTS/From A1comes to $1.5 million apiece, but Long hopes to do better than average. “We’re ready to go,” he said. “The question is, how much are the other commu-nities ready?”
Common Council was due to approve the applica-tions when it met Tuesday, March 5.
First, applications will be submitted for several hous-ing projects – multi-fam-ily efforts are eligible for $400,000, Long said – that help low- and moderate-in-come families, create jobs and improve homes, pri-marily north of Main Street between Chestnut and West streets.
Also covered will be properties identified by Housing Visions, a Syra-cuse non-profit consulting firm that renovates blighted houses, then sells them to private individuals so they go back into the tax base.
A second set of ap-plications will look at the city’s infrastructure needs, including ways to meet a
new regulation requiring removal of ammonia from the sewage-treatment plant outflow.
Long acknowledged the methane idea is on his “wish list,” where the gas would be cleaned and used, for now, to run the plant’s boiler. If sufficient is pro-duce, he said, the idea is to run a generator and create electricity.
The third is economic development, including reviving the city’s micro-en-terprise grant program that helped 30-some businesses get started in recent years.
Also being sought is funding for a facade-im-provement program, to build around the Bresee’s project due for completion later this year.
After March 13, the ap-plications will be reviewed at the MVREDC level; the winners will then be for-warded for HUD review. This money is in addition to the $1.4 million the county received in December through the state’s econom-ic-development program.
FridayMarch 8
PREVIEW -- 10:30 a.m. Chatham Baroque, dance from 17th and 18th century Spain. (7:30 p.m. performance) $3. Oneonta Concert Association at Oneonta Theatre, 47 Chestnut St., Oneonta.
RECEPTION -- 5-7 p.m. Main View Gallery & Studio opens “Forever Ephemera.” 73 Main St, Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-1890.
ART OPENING -- 5-7 p.m. “An Artistic Discovery.” Cooperstown Art Association show of county High School student art. 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-9777.
FLY FISHING -- 5-8 p.m. Friday Night Fly Tying. Craig Buckbee, Fly Casting instructor and NY State fishing guide $4 includes pizza. Pre-registration required. Milford Central School, 42 West Main St., Milford.
MOVIE -- 6:30 & 9:30 p.m. “Les Miserables.” $3; free with SUCO ID. Also Sun., 1, 6:30, & 9:30 p.m. Red Dragon Theatre, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, (607) 436-2550.
MUSICAL -- 7 p.m. “Channel Surfing.” Morris Central School Senior Chorus spring musical, designed and choreographed by students. Also Sun. Adults $6, students $5, 5 and under free. 65 W. Main St., Morris. Info, (607) 263-6100.
CONCERT-- 7:30 p.m. Oneonta Concert Association presents Pittsburgh ensemble Chatham Baroque, with dance from 17th and 18th century Spain and Italy, period instruments and cos-tumes. Admission $20 general, $6 students. Oneonta Theatre, 47 Chestnut St., Oneonta.
RUSTED ROOT -- 8 p.m. Pitts-burgh’s Rusted Root celebrates their 20th anniversary in concert. Gold, $25, Silver, $18. Foot-hills Performing Arts Center 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 431-2080.
THEOLOGY -- 8 p.m. “Theology On Tap.” Wrestle with tough is-sues of faith and life in a “happy hour” type setting. Council Rock Brewery, 4861 Rte. 28, Cooperstown.
YULE BALL -- 8 p.m. SUNY Oneonta’s Harry Potter Club 2nd Annual Yule Ball. Tickets $5 at the door. Dress to impress; this is a formal event. SUNY Oneonta, Hunt Union Ballroom, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, (607) 436-3500.
AS YOU LIKE IT -- 8 p.m. SUNY Oneonta Theatre department and the Mask and Hammer The-atre Club perform Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.” Also Sun., 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tickets $5, free with SUCO ID., $5 for all others. SUNY Oneonta, Fine Arts Building, Hamblin Theater, 108 Ravine Pkwy. Info, (607) 436-3500.
CONTRADANCE – 8-11 p.m. Otsego Dance Society continues. Bob Nicholson calls; music by Ithaca’s Miss Marty & SGB. $8 adults; $4 students, teens; free 12 and under. Presbyterian
Church, Pioneer and Church streets., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 965-8232, www.otsego-dancesociety.blogspot.com
CONCERT -- 8 p.m. Rusted Root celebrates their 20th an-niversary. Gold, $25, Silver, $18. Foothills Performing Arts Center 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 431-2080.
Saturday,March 9
PANCAKES -- 8 a.m.-noon The Kiwanis Club of Oneonta annual Pancake & Sausage Breakfast Buffet. Adults $5, 5-12 $3, 5 and under free. Elks Club, 84 Chest-nut St., Oneonta.
FREE SCREENING -- 9 a.m. Free Leg Pain Screening from New York Skin and Vein Center, 41-45 Dietz St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 431-2525.
FLEA MARKET -- 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Elm Park Church annual Flea Market. 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, Nancy Garrison, (607) 432-6552.
MUSICAL -- 10 a.m.-noon. 4th annual March Musical Madness. Children interact with instru-ments, construct their own, and interact with music technology. Concert begins at 10. Suggested donation $5 per child. Hartwick College, Anderson Hall, 1 Hartwick Dr., Oneonta. Info, (607) 431-8543, oneontaworldoflearn-ing.org.
GREEN WORKSHOP -- 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Green Jobs Green NY Workshop shows homes energy efficient. Registration requested. SUNY Oneonta, Hunt Union, But-ternut Valley Room, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, (607) 723-0110, www.energywiseotsego.eventbrite.com.
LAND TRUST -- 11 a.m. Otsego Land Trust meets for a status report for Brookwood Point. Templeton Hall, 63 Pioneer St., Cooperstown. Info Marcie Foster, (607) 547-2366.
MARCH MADNESS -- 1 p.m. Milford Booster Club/Ed. Foundation’s 4th Annual March Madness Three-on-Three Compe-tition. Milford Central School, 42 W. Main St., Milford. Info, (607) 286-7721, X-408, www.milforde-ducationfoundation.org
CHILI DINNER -- 4:30-6:30 p.m. Meat and veggie chilis, sal-ads and breads. $8 adults, $4 kids. St. John’s Church, 98 Main St., Richfield Springs. Info, (315) 858-1121.
CORNED BEEF -- 4:30-7 p.m. All-you-can-eat dinner. Adults $12, 5-12 $4.00, 5 and under, free. Takeouts available. Dav-enport United Methodist Men, 15696 St. Hwy. 23. Info, Lee Fisher, (607) 432-5850.
ELVIS TRIBUTE -- 7-10 p.m. Drew Polsun tribute to “The King.” Oneonta American Legion Post 259, 279 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-4799.
CONCERT SERIES -- 7:30 p.m. The Steel Wheels. Adults $20, Seniors & College $15, Students $8, 12 and under free. The Ote-saga, 60 Lake St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-1812, [email protected].
Sunday, March 10Daylight Savings
SUGAR SUNDAYS -- 8:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. Sugaring Off Sundays pancake breakfast, demonstra-tions and Empire State Carousel. $9 adults, $5 under 13, under 6 free. The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 St. Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-1472
SOUP! -- 11 a.m.-2 p.m., “Sec-ond Sunday Soup.” All welcome, donations appreciated. Schuyler Lake United Methodist Church, Church St., Schuyler Lake.
OPEN HOUSE -- 1-5 p.m. Clark Sports Center open house, free admission for all. Open swim, open gym floor, open bowling, racquetball/squash, free Zumba class, and membership specials. 124 Co. Rte. 52, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-2800.
VILLAGE LIBRARY -- 2 p.m. The Friends of the Village Library of Cooperstown Sunday lecture series. Dr. Don Raddatz dis-cusses “Music, Muscles, and the Mind,” how one or both in com-bination can ‘strengthen’ your brain.” 22 Main St, Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-8199.
AS YOU LIKE IT -- 2 p.m. SUNY Oneonta Theatre department and the Mask and Hammer The-atre Club perform Shakespeare’s “As You Like It.” Tickets free with SUCO ID, $5 for all others. SUNY Oneonta, Fine Arts Building, Hamblin Theater, 108 Ravine Pkwy, Oneonta. Info, (607) 436-3500.
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This charming 1886 Victorian 3-story home is centrally located in Cooperstown village. The home features wood floors throughout, breakfast room, double parlor w/built-in bookcases and pocket doors, and large wrap-around porch. Kitchen was completely renovated in the 90s w/cherry cabinets and ceramic tile floor. Second floor has 4 BRs with 3 full baths; third floor has 2 BRs. Large detached barn, large front and rear yards on a tree-lined street. All mechanics have been updated and the property has been well maintained. Since 1993, the
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FEATURED PROPERTYBeautiful well maintained home with 3 bedrooms and two full baths. Master bedroom has a large master bath with jet tub. Open floorplan with kitchen island, new skylights and a large living room. This home also features a solar-heated pool with decking all around. Large yard with stream. Roof and skylights NEW in 2011. $129,900 MLS #88007
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