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Richfield Mourns Marine Killed In AfghanistanAlex Domion, 1990-2012

The Freeman’s JournalThe Sciallos – dad Ra-phael, mom Rebecca and Malachi – were one spooky family at Coo-perstown’s Halloween Parade Wednesday, Oct. 31/MORE PHOTOS, A2

SARAH TO VISIT: Olympian Sarah Groff will address CCS students at 1:15 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, in Sterling Auditorium.

GRANT FOR DOCKS: The Village of Cooperstown is expecting a $50,000-$100,000 Community Capi-tal Assistance grant through Assemblyman Bill Magee’s office to replace Lakefront Park’s wooden docks with floating aluminum ones.

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The National Baseball Hall of Fame has an-nounced it will move

its Classic Weekend from Father’s Day to Memorial Day next year.

The 2 p.m. Saturday, May 25, game will feature several Hall of Famers and dozens of former Major Leaguers.

A Hall fundraiser, the Cooperstown Golf Clas-sic, is also planned at Leatherstocking Golf Course.

Memorial DayNew Date ForHall’s Classic

By JIM KEVLIN

RICHFIELD SPRINGS

Flags were at half-staff in front of state build-ings across New York

Tuesday, Nov. 6, for Marine Cpl. Alex F. Domion, 21,

of Richfield Springs, killed Wednesday, Oct. 31, in Helmand Province, Afghani-stan.

When the American Legion Post holds annual Veterans Day commemorations at 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 11, at Richfield Springs Central School, there will be a moment of silence in Alex Domion

honor of the school’s former football player and local post member, according to Com-mander Leo Mackin.

“He was a volunteer,” said Tex Seamon, former county Veteran Affairs director and a cousin of Domion’s. “He was doing what he wanted to do.”

“He wanted to be in the

Marines and serve his country,” said his grandmother, Rose Shipman. She said he received three Purple Hearts in an earlier deployment.

RSCS High School Principal TheriJo Climenhaga said Alex pursued his GED, then took courses at Herkimer County

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Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s JournalEn route to reelection for a 14th term, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, trades intelligence with Tony Casale, Cooperstown, left, the state Republi-can Committee’s chief of staff, at the Cooperstown Rotary Club’s Election Day Pancake Breakfast at the Vets’ Club. Seated, from left, are county GOP Chair Sheila Ross, County Clerk Kathy Sinnott-Gardner and District Attor-ney John Muehl. Standing, from right, are state Rep. Pete Lopez, R-Scho-harie, and Seward’s wife and son, Cindy and Ryan/MORE PHOTOS, A3

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Bells PealTo ReplaceNoon SirenJane Clark Gift AllowsChrist Church DecisionCOOPERSTOWN

Through a gift from Jane Forbes Clark, Christ Episcopal

Church will ring its bells ev-ery day at noon, beginning Monday, Nov. 1, replacing the traditional noon whistle the Village Board silenced on July 1.

The Rev. Mark A. Mi-chael, Christ Church rector, said Miss Clark’s gift allows the church to modernize its tolling system. The bells were installed when the church was built in 1810.

“The noon siren was a mainstay of life in Cooperstown and its ab-sence has been missed by many residents of the Vil-lage,” said the donor. “I am happy that the ringing of the church’s bells will continue this long-standing tradition in an environmentally re-sponsive and pleasing way.”

The noon-whistle tradi-tion ended with controversy after the trustees concluded the sirens were beyond rec-ommended safety levels.

By LIBBY CUDMORE

COOPERSTOWN

After months of training, Cooperstown runners Anne Killian-Russo and Kathleen

Galland-Bennett were heartbroken that

the New York City marathon was can-celled in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.

“And rightly so,” Anne admitted. But just because the marathon was cancelled, the two runners weren’t going to let that stop them from going the whole distance – and helping hur-ricane victims along with it.

“Two other runners in Utica set up a

fundraiser – pay $20, run any distance and all the money goes to the Red Cross,” said Anne. “We didn’t get to go to New York City, but we did get to compete.”

The Sunday afternoon, Nov. 4, run raised $5,000.

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After Sandy, It’s Otsego County To The Rescue

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By LIBBY CUDMORE& JIM KEVLIN

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It was shortly after 10:30 p.m. on Election Night 2012, Tuesday, Nov. 6.

The Au-tumn Cafe was packed with Demo-crats.

A blank TV was moved onto the bar so the crowd could get a better view. The image snapped on, Democratic necks snapped toward the screen in disbelief.

It was Fox News.Boos.The channel was switched

to CNN. Chatter rose, but when projections were

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As if por-tending victory, Obama en-joys laugh earlier the day.

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Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s JournalMarching at the head of the column behind the CCS marching band in Cooperstown’s Halloween Parade, which stepped off from Cooper Park at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 31, are, from left, Emily Ferrari, Vivienne Parker, Emily Odell and Ashley Kieber.

Pirate sisters Riley and Emma Green march to-ward the Chestnut Street firehouse in search of post-parade Halloween booty.

How appropriate that the Episcopal rector’s sons, Philip and Peter, would be St. George and the dragon? They attended with parents, the Revs. Mark and Alli-son Michael.

Be-bowed Jeana Geert-gens wasn’t Athena, but Merida, the feisty red-headed Pixar princess from “Brave.”

Elizabeth and Emily Tooley flounce down Main Street with other Halloween notables.

The CCS band led off the parade, including, front row from left, Nico Knull, Molly Mooney, Katlyn Palmatier, Colin Wilcox (wolfman); first row of instruments, from left, Abby Brown, Eden Griger, Liz Russo, Caroline Leonard and Steffaney Wilcox.

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Chet Gould won first prize, a Remington M/700 rifle, at the

Cooperstown Sportsmen’s Association annual fall raffle drawing on Oct. 23:

Other winners are:• Second, Ben Knox, Rem-

ington M/887 12CA shotgun• Third, Kevin Grady,

Henry 22-caliber rifle• Fourth, Dick Hingula,

dinner at The Otesaga• Fifth, Art Blessin, rod,

reel combo• Sixth, Mark Kubis, hand-

tied flies• Seventh, Denise Page,

oil, filter• Eighth, Garret Thayer,

cleaning kit, two boxes of shot-shell ammo

• Ninth, Jerry Selan, hand-made birch bird house

• 10th, J. Patrick, two boxes of shot shells

• 11th, Anne Wells, Birch 22LR ammo

• 12th, John McGlynn, one-year membership

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Scott Waller, son of former Mayor Carol Waller and husband

Bill, had quite a fall.First, the Notre Dame

Club of D.C. named him winner of its annual Excel-lence in Teaching Award. As a result, Waller, teacher and math department chair at Gonzaga College High School in Washington D.C., attended three-day work-

shop on Excellence in Teaching Oct. 26-28 at his alma mater’s cam-pus in South Bend, Ind.

Then Sun-day, Nov. 4, Scott’s Gon-

zaga soccer held the nation’s Number-2 ranked team to a tie, then went on to beat DeMatha at the Maryland

Soccer Complex in penalty kicks to grab the coveted Washington Catholic Ath-letic Conference (WCAC) Championship Cup.

Waller, Gonzaga’s head coach since 2005, is a 1993 grad of CCS, where he was outstanding soccer player. He helped lead his Castleton College team to champion-ships and winning seasons as senior captain.

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DOMION/From A1Community College so he could qualify to enter the Marines. “It was something he wanted to do; he worked very hard to get there.”

First reports were that Domion had been killed by an Afghan soldier he was training – that has become commonplace in recent weeks – but Lt. Adam Flores of the Public Information Office in Camp LeJeune, N.C., said a “green on blue” shooting had been ruled out.

Although the investigation was

proceeding, the likely cause was an accident, said Flores. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office said the death resulted from a “non-combat related incident.”

The Marine’s remains arrived at Dover (Del.) Air Force base Sun-day afternoon, and plans were un-derway for his burial at Arlington National Cemetery. Alex’s father, Kenneth, and sister Candice had left for camp LeJeune on hearing the news to be with the soldier’s widow, the former Amber Grant, a 2010 RSCS graduate.

Assigned to the 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expedition-ary Force, Domion is the third Otsego County soldier killed in the wars that followed 9/11. The first two died in Iraq: Army Cpl. Michael Mayne, Burlington Flats, on Feb. 22, 2009, and Spec. Isaac M. Nieves, 20, Unadilla, April 8, 2004.

According to Mrs. Shipman, Alex was the son of Kenneth Domion of Richfield Springs and the former Rhonda Domion. In

addition to sister Candice, he also had two step-brothers and twin step-sisters, none of whom are still in the area.

In addition to Mrs. Shipman, survivors include his step-grand-mother, Bonnie Domion, the Rich-field Town Board member, and his maternal grandfather, Earl Tanner, now living in California.

Alex and Amber had no chil-dren.

Domion attended RSCS, Class of 2008, but received a GED diploma, then attended Herkimer

County Community College be-fore entering the Marines.

Four days later, the Pentagon announced the deaths of three ad-ditional Upstate soldiers in Paktia Province, Afghanistan: Staff Sgt. Dain T. Venne, 29, of Port Henry: Spc. Ryan P. Jayne, 22, of Camp-bell, and Spc. Brett E. Gornewicz, 27, of Alden.

They were assigned to the 178th Engineer Battalion, 412th Theater Engineer Command, Oswego.

Richfield Mourns Corporal Domion, Killed In Afghanistan

Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s JournalRepublican Chris Gibson and his wife, Mary Jo, greet Jim and Susan Straub, Fly Creek, during a noontime stop at Cooperstown Rotary’s Pancake Break-fast.

Ian Austin/The Freeman’s JournalAt Oneonta’s Autumn Cafe, Kath-leen Avery lets out a whoop as CNN announces Barack Obama has been reelected.

VOTE/From A1announced – New Mexico for Barack Obama. Iowa – there was a hush.

Then Ohio and then, at 11:15, the announcement came: “CNN predicts Barack Obama will be reelected president of the United States.”

There was a quiet down-beat, as if the gathered party faithful, after weeks of nailbiting, couldn’t believe their ears.

Then wild cheering. Then quiet again, as if they still couldn’t believe it. And

then the crowd began to disperse. By 11:25, it was over.

Meanwhile, at the county Board of Elections in The Meadows, the county offices in the Town of Middlefield, results were in, showing Obama had again carried Otsego County.

The margin was slightly less than four years ago – 10,975 to Republican Mitt Romney’s 10,527. In 2008, the president had tallied 12,072 to Republican John McCain’s 11,059.

“In Otsego County, it should be better for Romney,” said Cooper-stown’s Tony Casale, the state

Republican Committee’s chief of staff, speaking by phone from GOP headquar-ters in Albany. “But again, who knows?” And, he pointed out, absentee ballots are still to be counted, and the margin is small enough

it could still shift.However, except for

the top of the ticket – and Democrat Tom Hohensee, who defeated Republican Paul Russo for a seat on the Otsego Town Board – it was a Republican evening in Otsego County.

In local balloting, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Mil-ford, ran 1,000 votes ahead of his wide 2010 victory, and Republican Chris Gib-son ran 1,000 votes ahead of Democrat Julian Schrieb-man in the 19th District.

Shortly after 10:30, Seward spoke to the gather-ing in his campaign office on Deitz Street. “With 51 districts reporting,” he said, “I’m pretty sure I’m winning.” He thanked his wife, Cindy. He thanked his supporters. There was ap-plause, then all turned back to Fox news on TV to watch progress of the presidential race.

Also in local balloting, Assemblyman Bill Magee, a Democrat, but Repub-lican Seward’s close ally in Albany’s lower house, spanked a GOP challenger in the 121st, and Republi-cans Claudia Tenney in the 101st and Pete Lopez in the

102nd, and unopposed Clif-ford Crouch in the 122nd all swept.

The county recently elected Democratic chair, Cooperstown’s Richie Ab-bate, was watching the re-turns at The Meadows, and had accepted that Gibson’s

victory over Schreibman was inevitable. “I think we had the momentum,” he said. “But we didn’t have time to pull it off.”

For his part, Casale cited two factors in Gibson’s victory. One, before last year’s redistricting, the

retired Army colonel from Kinderhook had represented half the county in his first term. And, two, “he ran a very good campaign. It was a combination of being known and running a very effective campaign.”

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If there’s merit in never letting a good crisis go to waste, what about

two good anniversaries?The National Baseball

Hall of Fame’s 75th an-niversary is coming up in 2014 – it will be here in no time – and Doubleday Field’s 100th is coming up in 2020.

Already, the Hall of Fame will be capitalizing on its 75th through a Commemo-rative Coin Act approved by Congress last summer. The act authorizes the issuing of 50,000 gold $5 coins, 400,000 silver dollars and 750,000 half-dollars.

When sold, a $35 sur-charge for the gold, $10 for the silver and $5 for the half-dollars will help support the Hall in Cooperstown. A sell-out would generate $14 mil-lion, but Hall President Jeff Idelson anticipates the effort maxing out at about $9.5 million.

Why settle for a triple when a home run is in reach?

That’s where the second anniversary comes in.

•The Hall, of course, is

The Hall, baseball’s mecca. But Doubleday Field paved

the way for The Hall and, since 1939, has been an inseparable part of The Hall experience. Listen to Tom Heitz, Friends of Doubleday general manager:

By 1908, when the Mills Commission designated Cooperstown as “The Birth-place of Baseball,” James Fenimore Cooper’s literary aura was in eclipse. Why not replace Cooper tourism with baseball tourism?

In 1916, National League President John Tener, in the village to keynote the dedication of the passenger station (now a private home

behind Bruce Hall), was given a tour and agreed the empty space behind Main Street – former stables, torn down with the automobile’s arrival – must have been – yes, indeed – the very place where Abner must have invented baseball back in 1839. Let’s put a ball-park – Doubleday Field! – there.

In the years that fol-lowed, Heitz relates, the Doubleday Field idea had several false starts. Vot-ers rejected a bond issue in 1920, but an exhibition game by The Cuban Gi-

ants, the most popular of the barnstorming Negro League teams, raised enough for the Chamber of Commerce to buy the property anyway. But, discouraged by 1924, it sold the property for $1 to the village.

A “crude wooden grand-stand” was built there, said Heitz. In the early 1930s, however, the village lever-aged some federal money to improve the facility. Alexander Cleland, Stephen C. Clark Sr.’s right-hand man, stumbled on the work in progress on a business trip from New York and, inspired by a workman’s enthusiasm, wrote his boss a memo proposing what, in 1939, became the Hall of Fame.

Meanwhile, Doubleday Field had been completed as WPA project, and much of what you see today was dedicated in 1934.

So the Mills Commission led to Doubleday Field led to the Hall of Fame led to Cooperstown’s elevation to the National Pastime’s Vati-can. Doubleday’s Hall of Fame Game was a baseball staple for 70 years.

The point is, Doubleday Field may not be the Birth-place of Baseball, but it is

as much a part of baseball’s modern history and the Cooperstown experience as The Hall, central to baseball tourism, which is central to the economies of Cooperstown and “The Gateway to Cooperstown,” Oneonta.

•Today, after five years of

recession, Doubleday Field, like a lot of public facilities, has fallen on hard times. The third-base bleachers are set on eroding cement, and 2,000 of the field’s 10,000 seats are cordoned off with yellow police tape.

The grandstand roof needs replacing. And, with a recent village ban on pesticides there, we’ll see how the turf holds up next summer.

But there are ideas to make things better. Why not replace the third-base bleachers with modern aluminum ones, with locker rooms, restrooms and offices beneath? That would open up the space under the grandstand – the signs, “Men” and “Women” greet tourists there now – and use it for, say, a mini-Hall of Fame focused on the Doubleday – and Doubleday Field – story?

The Hall of Fame – it does everything else so well – should assume ownership of Doubleday Field and guide its redevelopment to enrich the Cooperstown ex-perience which, of course, is synonymous with the Hall of Fame experience.

•Right now, here’s the

goal of the Commemora-tive Coin drive: “Collected funds would be paid to the nonprofit National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ... to help finance its opera-tions.”

A little flat. That hardly makes you reach for your wallet.

Buy a coin! Save Doubleday Field! Wouldn’t fans be more likely to open their checkbooks to save a baseball shrine?

Forget the $9.5 mil-lion. Raise the $14 mil-lion. Use $1.5 million to make Doubleday first class. Put another $1.5 million into a Doubleday endow-ment. And the Hall still has another $1.5 million for its own purposes.

Two anniversaries. A double opportunity for Doubleday – and The Hall. Let’s aim for the maximum.

To the Editor:As part of Fall for

Cooperstown 2012, we were pleased to arrange musical groups to play in Pioneer Park from noon to 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13.

We had a great day. People sat, danced, clapped and swayed to the music. We were approached many times during the day asking if this could be something that happens on a regular basis through the summer months – i.e., maybe a Pio-neer Park Concert Series.

We had a lot of help set-

ting up, helping the musi-cians when needed, and taking things down at the end of the night. We would especially like to thank the Village of Cooperstown and the Chamber of Commerce; Lamb Realty and Ashley-Connor Realty for their sponsorships; Stagecoach Coffee, The Cooperstown Veterans Club and The Tun-nicliff Inn.

Also, Tom and Kathy Chase for the use and construction of their great tent; Angus Mackie, who not only set up the sound system, but stayed until the end of the evening monitor-ing it; Beth Allison with her ever-ready welcoming smile; Walter Ashley and Chris Patterson, both of whom helped throughout the day, and, of course, the great musicians, who played on into the bitter cold of the evening.

We were also pleased to be able to collect food and money for the Cooperstown Food Bank. Thank you.

MATT GRADYPATTI ASHLEY

Committee Members

Editor’s Note: The City of Oneonta Redistricting Commission’s proposal, to be voted on by Common Council in the next few weeks, gives one ward – the fifth – a college-student majority. These remarks, by resident Patricia J. Crowe, were delivered Monday, Oct. 5, at a hearing on the proposal.

Thank you for your efforts and generosity of time to work on the task of redistricting the City

of OneontaAlthough I am not in the Fifth

Ward, I see what is about to happen in that ward as an eventual whole-city problem. Therefore, I would feel remiss if I don’t state my concerns and suggestions.

In Oneonta, where two colleges make up about half of the city’s popu-lation, students should have some kind of voice in our city’s government in the future. I also feel that students’ concerns have been considered and addressed adequately in the past.

I think that it would be far better for Oneonta to follow the Ithaca model than to do things the way they are now being proposed, with the Fifth Ward majority of constituents being college students.

It seems highly likely that it won’t be too long before we have the same situation in Wards 2, 3, 4 and 7, whose percentage of college students is 46.5 percent, 46.3 percent, 38 percent and 47.6 percent respectively.

I believe that the college population will continue to grow faster than any other population in the city, and then college students will have the majority in five of the eight wards on Common Council.

This, I believe, would be too much power the in the hands of a population that is young, has little if any actual

experience in many aspects of city business and who for the most part are temporary residents of the city.

It seems unfair to the mostly perma-nent, year ‘round citizens of various older age groups to set things up this way. We have been in their shoes and can have empathy for their situations and concerns. However, they have not yet been in our shoes and therefore can not always have the same regard for the complexities and nuances of situa-tions that we do.

So I ask that you reconsider: Give students their own ward, like Ithaca, and allow for the learning opportuni-ties and responsibilities that such a

ward has to offer them.I read that some things weren’t

considered because it would mean changes to the newly voted on char-ter – maybe creating a situation like Ithaca was one of them

As one who served on the Charter Commission and was involved in all decisions up to the completion of the last draft, I do not see that as a prob-lem. It is might understanding that small sections of the charter can be amended and are expected to happen at time without it having to go to a city vote. This is a mechanism to make changes easier.

From fenimoreartmuseum.blogspot.comDoubleday Field under construction in the early 1930s. The grandstand was from the village fair-grounds near the current Cooperstown Elemen-tary School.

Double Anniversary Can Benefit Hall, Rebuild Doubleday, Too

Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s JournalOneonta resident Pat Crowe, at the Monday, Nov. 5, public hearing on the city’s redistricting, suggests one ward dominated by col-lege students, as is done in Ithaca, would be preferable to giving the students a chance to win Common Council seats in up to five of eight wards. In the background are Redistricting Commission members, from left, Leif Van Cott, Paul Scheele and Barry Warren.

To the Editor:What a totally insensitive

headline about our recent storm! While we, by the grace of God or the fickle finger of fate, escaped seri-ous harm, or even inconve-nience, I’m sure millions of our fellow New Yorkers and countrymen consider Sandy the monster of their worst nightmares.

DOROTHY M. SMITHCooperstown

Millions Found SandyWas Worst Nightmare

Pioneer Park Concerts Succeed QWhy was the peaceful transfer of power from the federalists to the Jeffersonian Republican-Democrats such an important milestone in American history?

AIt was the first time in American history that there had been a peaceful transfer of power from one political party to another, something that would and will continue on for years up until and past today.

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Give Students Representation, But Not Control

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125 YEARS AGO

November 11, 1887

200 YEARS AGOLieut. Col. Myers, Deputy Quarter-Mas-

ter General, was stationed in charge of Fort Erie, and succeeded in completely silencing the fire of the enemy, drove a detachment from the encampment near the Black Rock, destroyed a barrack, in which was a consid-erable depot of ammunition. Its explosion must have killed many. The Caledonia, lately captured by the enemy, was destroyed at her moorings. Lieut. Col. Myers speaks highly of the discipline of the detachment of the 49th regiment under Major Ormsby, and of the skill and spirit with which the guns were served, under Captain Kirby and Lieut. Brison of the militia.

November 7, 1812

175 YEARS AGOEditor’s. Note: In 1837, members of the

Democratic Party were commonly referred to as republicans. Republicans! To The Polls!! Republicans should vote at all times. I do not know of any occasion which furnishes a valid apol-ogy for a Jeffersonian Democrat to neglect this invaluable franchise. It was bought with blood; secured to each of you by the patriot firmness and enlightened intelligence of the most revered body of sages that ever deliberated upon the destinies of any people since the world was created. Can a man neglect to vote, when by this simple act, he can sustain those institutions, bought at such an immense cost, in their pristine vigor and purity? Oh no, they cannot do this: the yeomanry of Otsego, cannot do this. They are not made of the stuff to look quietly on, and suffer the President of their choice and delight to be ruthlessly assailed by those who practically show themselves the worst enemies of their country’s welfare!

November 6, 1837

150 YEARS AGOThe draft – Over 1,500 cases have been

disposed of by the Commissioner and Examining Surgeon in this County; yet on Tuesday morning there were still about 2,200 still on the list awaiting action. That number will probably not be diminished

during the week – the additions keeping fully up with the number disposed of dur-ing the day. Either the draft will have to be postponed, or examinations continued after it shall have been made. Yesterday morning the Commissioner’s office was full, and at least one hundred waiting on the outside. We are informed that a majority of the cases which have come before the Surgeon during the current week have failed of their ap-plication to be stricken from the roll. The Town of Otsego is paying a bounty of $100 to nine months’ volunteers. If the volunteer is a subscriber to the “town volunteer” fund, he also receives a $100 from that source. Drafted men, if subscribers to the fund to

the amount of $10, will receive $100 – one-half the amount received by the volunteer.

November 7, 1862

100 YEARS AGOEvery automobile wrecked at a

grade crossing in its zigzag way westward through the Mohawk Valley is an argument in favor of reconstruct-ing the great western turnpike – that great artery of travel a century ago which runs as the crow flies between Albany and Buffalo. It remains today unused, to the detriment of Albany, of Schenectady, Schoharie and Otsego counties, all in the Capitol district, and of others beyond. Its scenery is bewitching and its landmarks are of historic and romantic interest. Once, it opened up a wilderness, which grew and thrived and blossomed for a few short years, only to be closed again and almost forgotten, but not forever. All along its course, villages are wait-ing for and expecting the day when a far-sighted highway policy will give it a magician’s touch so that they will spring into life.

November 6, 1912

75 YEARS AGOA rampant band of Redskins,

fighting with inspired valor, tackling, blocking, running and punting with a spirit that asked and gave no quarter,

beat down the attack of the Yellow Jackets of the Oneonta high school on Doubleday Field Saturday afternoon for a 7-6 victory in one of the most thrilling and masterful exhibitions of the game seen here in years. Delirious pandemonium among the crowd was unleashed when Leon “Sonny” Bailey, 16-year-old, 135-pound halfback received the kickoff immediately after Oneonta had scored, and raced 90-yards down the right side of the field for a touchdown to tie the score. Walter Eggleston, also 16, who tips the scales at 130 pounds, then shot a beauti-ful drop kick between the goal posts to make the winning point.

November 10, 1937

50 YEARS AGOWhat is the cost of electricity in Coo-

perstown? Is it higher or lower than in other cities around the country? How much current is consumed locally per year by the average family?

The average monthly bill in Cooper-stown for 100 kilowatt hours of electricity amounts to $4.65 as compared with an aver-age of $4.06 a month for other cities in a study of 5.649 communities throughout the United States.

For families consuming 250 kilowatt hours the typical bill locally was $8.10. Elsewhere, the average cost was $7.48. For households consuming 500 kilowatt hours, the typical bill locally was $11.65 as against $10.66. An average family in Cooperstown was found to consume 2,790 kilowatt hours last year as compared with 2,140 in 1958.

November 7, 1962

25 YEARS AGOThe ACC Gym in Cooperstown presented

awards to five members for “Conspicuous Personal Achievement” during the past year. Receiving honors were Elda Jenkins, age 67, for her efforts in Nautilus training; Steve Walker, 38, for aerobics; Dale Rothenberg-er, 30, for his work as a coach and triathlete; Michael Crampton, 16, who is a badminton player; and Heather Freeman, 10, a swim-mer. “We want these people to know how special they are to us,” said Fitness Director Barbara Faulkner.

November 11, 1987

10 YEARS AGOThough suffering a 39-0 defeat at the

hands of the Onondaga Tigers in a postsea-son game at Liverpool, the Cooperstown Redskins ended the season with a winning 8-2 record. Billy Hribar, Jesse Torruella, Michael Kiser, Sean Field, Brian Dibble, Sean Graham and Jeremy Holmes were selected to the Section III Center State Con-ference Senior All-Star team.

November 8, 2002

Welcome Dr. Sunny SpinosaThe Northern Catskill Dental team is delighted to welcome Dr. Sunny Spinosa to the office as our new owner.Dr. Spinosa completed a one-year residency Advanced Education in General Dentistry, Colorado Springs, CO, after receiving his DDS from the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine in 2007. Prior to that he earned a BS in Environmental and Forest Biology from SUNY ESF in 2003.Dr. Spinosa proudly served his country in Afghanistan as part of a medical team treating service members and training Afghan counterparts. Dr. Spinosa is a member of the ADA and the New York State Dental Association, 6th District Dental Society. He enjoys fishing, boating, running and camping. “Northern Catskill is a great family dental practice, the staff has been very friendly and welcoming. I’m excited to become part of the team and join them in providing the highest quality of care to our patients. My family and I are settling into our new home in Cooperstown, and are looking forward to getting to know the community” stated Dr. Spinosa.Our hours and team will remain the same. New patients are always welcome.

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By JIM KEVLIN

Leatherstocking Gas Corp. has signed a preliminary agreement with the Con-

stitution Pipeline to ensure it can provide low-cost natural gas to communities along the route if the pipeline is built.

Leatherstocking already has “franchise agreements” to provide gas to the towns and villages of

Sidney, Bainbridge and Wind-sor, and is negotiating its first in Otsego County with Unadilla, said Lindsay Meehan, company spokesperson.

The company also has agree-ments with more than a dozen municipalities in Pennsylvania, she said.

While towns and village along “Alternate M,” the route that parallels I-88, plus the City of Oneonta, would be most easily

served, Meehan said her company has a longterm interest in Cooper-stown.

Bassett Hospital, in particular, as well as other Cooperstown-area institutions, make that community particularly attractive, she said.

Mirabito, a partner with Corn-ing in Leatherstocking, has strong ties with Sidney, and through Sidney with Cooperstown-based Bassett, which revived Tri-Town Hospital there in 2008, said

Meehan, who is a member of the Mirabito family.

“This is the first step working with Leatherstocking to bring gas to these rural areas that don’t have it,” said Chris Stockton, Constitu-tion spokesman. The agreement with Leatherstocking would not prevent the Constitution from dealing with municipalities or other companies, he said, noting the pipline is “open access.”

However, he said, the Constitu-

tion has yet to file its application with FERC (the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission), and study of Alternate M has pushed back that filing from the first of the year to a tentative date of March 8.

He said the company expects FERC to issue a decision in a year, which would allow work to begin in the spring of 2014.

Leatherstocking In Accord With Continental To Sell Gas To Communitites On Route

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Bassett and First Choice Cleaners are collecting gently used winter coats during November for the Coats for

Kids program at Bassett locations and at the Cooperstown, Oneonta and Delhi First Choice Cleaners locations.

First Choice Cleaners are donating dry-cleaning services for the garments. The program is especially in need of children’s and infant’s winter coats, snowsuits and snow pants.

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HEAP Applications AvailableThe 2012-2013 HEAP season will open

Monday, Nov. 19. Heads of households un-der 60 years of age seeking assistance must return a fully completed application and all required documentation to Opportunities for Otsego (3 West Broadway, Oneonta, NY 13820).

Applicants may be required to have a phone interview. Interviews will be held

8 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday in Oneonta. Scheduling begins Nov. 12.

CCS Closed For Veterans DayThe Cooperstown Central School Dis-

trict will be closed on Nov. 12 to observe Veteran’s Day.

On Tuesday, Nov. 20, students will be dismissed 15 minutes earlier than normal in order to conduct a required test of the district’s emergency plan. CROP and all af-ter school activities will begin at 2:45 p.m.

The Cooperstown Central School District will also be closed for Thanksgiving Recess

Nov. 21-23, with classes resuming Nov. 26.

Mental Health Alliance Meets The National Mental Health Alliance

(NAMI) support group meets on the second Wednesday of each month to educate and support family members and the public about mental illnesses. Meetings are held at 6:30 p.m. in the Dauley Room of the First Methodist Church on the corner of Church and Chestnut in Oneonta. Enter by the Church Street entrance. Call Allan at (607) 437-5483 for more information.

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RESCUE/From A1Otsego County is respond-ing to Frankenstorm’s damage to the New York Metropolitan Area, where many local people, includ-ing Kaylyn Zipp, Oneonta, had family in harm’s way.

“My best friend’s house has three feet of water in her living room,” said the native of Broad Channel, Queens. “Her whole first floor is gone, and they just redid the foundation.”

She described another friend’s home: washed right off the foundation. The boardwalk at Rockaway Beach is gone, and boats are scattered all over the street.

“We knew it was go-ing to be bad, but not that bad,” she said. “We’ve had storms before, but never with such force. We used to take kayaks and swim in the streets. It wasn’t out of the ordinary to sit on the side-walk and play with fish.”

Because it’s not as fa-mous as Rockaway Beach, Kaylyn said, help was slow to arrive. As of press time Tuesday, Nov. 6, many of her girlhood neighbors were homeless or without power.

James Bredin, Oneonta, who has cousins in Staten Island, picked up the three generators he could find locally – one cost $5,000

– and drove them down to help his cousins in Staten Island, much of which was still without power. “Staten Island was harder hit than any of us realized,” he said. “It caught a lot of people by surprise; they’ve never experienced this kind of devastation, and they can’t find generators down there.”

And he wasn’t the only one bringing power to those in need. “You know what the boxes look like, and driving down the Thruway, I saw how many other people were heading down there with generators.“

“I think it was every generator in the Northeast,”

he added.What amazed him most,

however, were the lines as people waited for gas. “It bothered me,” he said. “They were stretched along the highway between towns 60 miles apart. It was dif-ficult to get through.”

“My dad said it took him six hours just to get gas,” agreed Linda Kosmer, who works in New York City but commutes to Fly Creek on weekends. Her parents were evacuated from their oceanside elder care facil-ity in Atlantic Beach N.J. “It’s a mess. Their building won’t be able to have resi-dents for months ...if at all.”

It’s those long lines, combined with the extent of the damage, that are holding up many eager volunteers. “It seems like we should be moving, but it was just

so huge, it’s not safe to

go down yet,” said Linda Drake of SUNY Oneonta’s Center for Social Respon-sibility. “They’re still in an emergency.”

She is, however, coor-dinating volunteers to go down when conditions are secured, and is seeking do-nations of non-perishables, flashlights and batteries, and items like toothpaste and soap. “So much of our population is from that area,” she said. “Everyone knows someone, and they’re eager to help, whether it’s handing out food or clean-ing up debris.”

Donations can be dropped off at 101C Alumni Hall. SUNY also planned to host a Red Cross blood drive noon-5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, in the Hunt Union Ballroom.

Bredin says he’ll bring down more generators as soon as he can find them. “It’s the least I can do,” he said. “If you need help, people help you. That’s how we are.”

Village Trustee Jim Dean, with the help of Sustainable Otsego, is gathering wheel-barrows, generators, tools and heaters for a weekend trip to visit his daughter, Janice, who was at the St. Francis de Sales School, Rockaway Beach, only recently got a generator to restore electricity. “I’m go-ing to do whatever I can do to help,” he said. “I’m new to this, but I’m scrambling to do my part.”

Andrew Reinbach, Burling-ton Green, e-mailed images of the dam-age from Seaside, N.J.

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COOPERSTOWN – Ruth Mackel Church, 83, mother of Cynthia Church Theodore of Cooperstown and Sugar Loaf, passed away Saturday morning, Nov. 3, 2012, at

Bassett Hospital.She was a native of Tean-

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Ruth M. Church, 83; Daughter Survives

Eleanor Robertson, 89; With Husband, Pilot, Photographer

COOPERSTOWN – Margaret Ann Seaver, 91, who spent her summers in Cooperstown, died Thurs-day, Nov. 1, 2012, at her home in Cohassett, Mass.

She was born on May 30,

1921 in Boston, the daugh-ter of Margaret Steward Brigham, of Boston, and James Daniel Deaver of Brooklyn.

Surviving are her sons, Allen Ashley Crockeet of

Hagerstown, Md., Rufus Herndon Crocket of As-pen, Colo., Stephen Seaver Crockett of Ridgeway, Colo., and her sister, Sally Johnson of Cooperstown.

She was predeceased her

brother, Robert Seaver of Cooperstown.

The memorial service will be announced at a later date.

Arrangements are with McNamara-Sparrel Funeral Home, Cohasset, Mass.

Margaret Ann Seaver, 91; Cooperstown Summer Resident

COOPERSTOWN – El-eanor L. Robertson, 89, who spent happy summers at her cabin on Otsego Lake, passed away Friday, Nov. 2, 2012, at her home in Harpursville.

She was born in Herkimer on March 4, 1923, daughter of the late Adam and Anna (Brendlin) Landfried. She earned her RN from Syra-cuse Memorial Hospital and worked as a nurse for a time.

On Aug. 20, 1943, she married Donald C. Robert-son in Herkimer. He prede-ceased her in 1991.

She worked with her hus-

band for many years at his photography studio, Robel Studio in Herkimer. After their children were raised, she also got her pilot’s license so that she could spend more time with Don, who had been a pilot in the military. They took aerial photos of numerous local businesses for their studio.

They had a cottage on Otsego Lake, where the family spent many sum-mers; after retiring, they also wintered in Florida.

She was a member of St. Agnes Catholic Church in Afton.

She is survived by four

children, Lynne C. Ryan of Suwanee, Ga., Donald C. Robertson Jr. and his wife, Robin, of Bainbridge, Doug-las W. Robertson Sr. and his wife, Lucy, of Hartwick; and Susan M. Robertson of Rome, Ga.; six grand-children, Heather DeLisle, Adam DeLisle, Aaron Rob-ertson, Christopher Rob-ertson, Bonnie Stueber and Douglas Robertson Jr.; and four great-grandchildren.

She was also predeceased by a son, James P. Rob-ertson; a grandson, Ryan DeLisle; son-in-law Richard Ryan, and two brothers, Julius and Paul Landfried.

A memorial mass is at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at St. Agnes Church, with the Rev. Darr Schoenhofen as celebrant. Friends may visit with the family after the service. Burial is at a later date in Lakewood Cemetery, Cooperstown.

In lieu of flowers, memo-rial donations may be direct-ed to St. Agnes Church/St. John The Evangelist Church and the Ladies of Mary, 34 South Main Street Bain-bridge, NY 13733.

Arrangements are en-trusted to the C.H. Landers Funeral Chapel.

OBITUARIES

WHAT’S COOKIN’AT THE OTESAGA?Executive Chef Michael Gregory Shares His Holiday Dinner RecipeThe Holidays are just a few days away so it’s time to plana delicious meal that will thrill your family and friends.

In a large skillet over medium-high heat, place sausage and cook, stirring often, until no trace of pink remains. Use slotted spoon to transfer sausage to drain on paper towels. Pour off all but 1 tablespoon of fat from skillet. Add onions and celery to skillet and cook, stirring often, until softened…about 5 minutes. In large bowl, combinedrained sausage, onions, celery, corn bread, day-old bread, apples, and pecans. Stir in melted butter, parsley, salt, and pepper.

Dry turkey inside and out with paper towels. Season inside of turkey cavity with salt and pepper. Fill breast and neck cavities with dressing. Truss turkey securely with trussing needle and kitchen string.

Preheat oven to 400°F. Rub turkey with butter and season well with salt and pepper. In a large roasting pan, placebird on its side. Cook for 15 minutes, then turn on other side for 15 minutes. Turn, breast side down, in pan andcook until back is golden brown…about 30 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 325°F and turn, breast side up.Continue to roast for 18 minutes per pound, basting every 20 minutes, until meat thermometer inserted into thickest part of thigh registers 180°F. Transfer turkey to warmed platter and let sit, loosely covered with foil, for 10-15 minutes.

Skim fat from surface of roasting pan juices. Pour off clear juices and reserve. Place roasting pan on top of stoveand sprinkle flour over it. Cook over medium-high heat, stirring constantly, until flour is lightly browned…2-3 minutes. Pour in turkey or chicken stock and increase heat to high. Stir with whisk constantly until gravycomes to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 5 minutes. Add reserved clear pan juices and season with saltand pepper. Strain through a sieve and pour into warmed gravy boat. Carve turkey and pass gravy on the side.

Complement your Roast Turkey with Sausage, Apple, and Pecan Dressing plus Collard Greens, Orecchiette Salad with Pears & Bleu Cheese, Raspberry & Feta Salad with Couscous, CornFritters, and a delicious Pumpkin Crème Brulee. Visit Otesaga.com to see all of Chef Gregory’shearty holiday dinner recipes mentioned above.

Roast Turkey with Sausage, Apple

& Pecan DressingDRESSING1 lb. bulk fresh mild or hot sausage2 large onions, finely chopped2 celery ribs, finely chopped3 cups cooked corn bread, cut into 1/2-inch dice2 cups day-old French or Italian bread, crusts removed and cut into ½-inch dice

2 large Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, and cut into 1/2-inch dice1-1/2 cups chopped pecans1-1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted2 tblspn. finely chopped fresh parsley1 tspn. salt1/2 tspn. black pepper (freshly ground)

TURKEY1 trimmed turkey (12-14 pounds)Salt and pepper (freshly ground black ) to taste1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, softened

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Alice B. Molinari, 91; Met Oneonta Husband in Ireland

ONEONTA – Alice Pat Molinari, 91, who moved to Oneonta from Ireland with her husband, Gerald, passed away on Monday, Nov. 5, 2012.

She was born July 4, 1921, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the daughter of Pat-rick Joseph and Jane Chris-tie Bradley. She met and married Gerald R. Molinari of Oneonta in Ireland when they both worked for Lock-heed Overseas Corp. during World War II. He prede-ceased her in June 1968.

Mrs. Molinari enjoyed going to the Notre Dame football games with her husband, an alumnus.

Among treasured memo-ries was meeting Robert Kennedy in Neahwa Park when he was U.S. senator. When she asked him about his mother, Rose, he shook her hand and had his picture taken with her.

She is survived by seven children, Terence (Cean) Molinari of Richmond Hill, Ga., Kevin (Linda) Moli-

nari of Oneonta, Kathleen and husband Vic Williams of Oneonta, Margaret and husband Bob Stineford of Oneonta, Christine Wilsey of Oneonta, Patricia Krom and companion Daniel Boyce of Greenwich, and Maureen and husband Bill Van Deusen of Oneonta; 11 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

In addition to her hus-band, she was predeceased by an infant son, her par-ents, three sisters, Ellen of London, England, Janie of Northern Ireland and Kath-leen of California, and one brother Billy of Belfast.

A funeral mass will be at 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 9, at St. Mary’s Church, with the Rev. Joseph Benintende of-ficiating. Burial will follow in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Emmons.

There will be no calling hours.

Arrangements are entrust-ed to the Lester R. Grum-mons Funeral Home.