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East Lake Road ‘Nailed’To Glimmerglass Hillside

Birch, Marietta Join 2 CCS Incumbents

ROUTE 31, CLOSED BY 2011 FLOOD, REOPENS

Gibson ChampionsRural Broad-BandCongressman Aims To Serve All Otsego

The Freeman’s JournalDominic Abbate es-corts Christianna Fisk through The Otesaga’s lobby en route to the 54th annual Cotillion. (More photos, A7)

ResolutionOf 6 HazingCases NearHARTWICK

The six court cases that grew out of CCS haz-ing scandal are about

to be resolved, according to District Attorney John D. Muehl.

Since none of the boys facing hazing-related charges have records, he and the six defense lawyers have agreed to ACD (ad-journments in contemplation of dismissal), Muehl said. If the accused stay out of trouble for six months, their records will be erased.

BRING BOOKS: The Friends of the Village Library’s final book-col-lection day for the summer book sake is 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, May 19, at the library. Audiotapes, CDs, videos welcome; please, no textbooks.

RELAY HERE: The 2012 Relay For Life of Cooper-stown/ Northern Otsego County steps out at 6 p.m. Friday, May 18, at Cooper-stown Dreams Park, and continues overnight.

GARDEN FEST: The Kid Garden at Cooperstown Central School’s annual Spring Festival is 2:30-6 p.m. Wednesday, May 23, including a sale of herb and vegetable plants.

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Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s JournalSikot Mahoxay, general supervisor, Soil Nail Launcher Inc., Denver, Colo., oversees the four-man crew sinking pilings Monday, May 16, as the East Lake Road pavement, washed out by Tropical Storm Lee, was repaired.

John Reeves, neighbor, leans on a stack of blocks used for the retain-ing wall.

The Freeman’s JournalU.S. Rep. Chris Gibson in Cooperstown.

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By JIM KEVLIN& LIBBY CUDMORE

COOPERSTOWN

After three seasons of detours, the breach in East Lake Road’s pavement was being

repaired and traf-fic was expected to be flowing again by Friday, May 18, on the most direct route between Cooperstown, Hyde Hall and Route 20 at East Springfield.

“Thank God they’re here,” said neighbor John Reeves, watching the work proceed Monday, May

14. “It was a killer to drive 10 miles over the mountain to get to Cooper-stown – people were getting lost, traffic was backing up, and it would have been worse if we didn’t have that mild winter.”

Please See REPAIR, A8

By JIM KEVLIN

COOPERSTOWN

When Republican Chris Gibson first ran for Congress

in 2010, he won Tea Party backing, which to some

might connote a tendency toward rigidity.

It didn’t turn out that way. Having to deal with all types of people in a 24-year Army career taught him to “treat everybody with dignity and respect,” he said. “I never make it personal.”

Please See GIBSON, A9

By LIBBY CUDMORE

COOPERSTOWN

Newcomer Marcy Birch of Toddsville led the balloting in the Tuesday, May15, CCS board elections. But incumbents

Tony Scalici, the president, and David Borgstrom received sufficient votes, 346 and 305 respec-tively, to win another term.

The fourth vacant seat – one year, to replace the resigning Paula Greene, went to Andrew Marietta, with 296 votes.

First-time candidates Holly Hren and Jonathan Greenberg rounded out the ballot.

The board planned to meet Wednesday, May 16, to reorganize, which could result in Scalici’s reelection as president or the selection of another.

The $16,772,080 school budget, which in-cluded a 1.89 percent tax increase, passed easily, 401 to 114.

“It got off to a slow start because of the rain,” Please See CCS, A8

By LIBBY CUDMORE

ONEONTA

The pro-business Citizens Voices met Tuesday, May 15, to

assess progress made in its five-month of existence, and acknowledged some satis-faction.

“Pat yourself on the

back,” Bob Harlem Jr., Oneonta Block president and Citizens Voices co-chair, instructed the 50 attendees at the Carriage House. “Home Rule legisla-tion is bottled up in com-mittee – you had a hand in this.”

The state’s Home Rule doctrine – where any pow-ers not claimed by the state

Please See CITIZENS, A2

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CITIZENS/From A1devolve to the towns – has been the basis for bans on hydrofracking in the towns of Middlefield, Cherry Valley and, just last week, Butternuts. Milford is also considering a ban.

State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, had introduced legislation to affirm Home Rule, a move to protect towns that adopt bans from having to fight expensive challenges from natural-gas companies. That’s the legislation Bob Harlem was referring to.

Seward’s spokesman Jeff Bishop acknowledged the Home Rule legislation is still waiting to be put on the agenda. “At this point, with the court cases in Middle-field and Dryden, that’s the rule of the land,” he said. “It’s still in with the Senate.”

“I love Home Rule,” said Oneonta Town Attorney Richard Harlem, Bob’s brother. “But I don’t want anything that pits neigh-bor against neighbor. This Home Rule bill is designed to limit property rights.”

Bob Harlem ticked off several other successes since Citizens Voices’ inception in late 2011, including slowing down the rush to controver-sial road-use agreements, which they see as interfering with business growth. “If Chobani has to get a road-use agreement from Otsego County, they’re going to buy from Chenango,” he said.

Moratoriums are another concern, including a 12-month one against heavy industry passed by the Town of Oneonta. “When a mora-torium outlaws every kind of heavy industry, including pharmaceuticals, it’s kind of scary,” said Harlem. “If you’ve got concerns about gas, voice that concern, but don’t outlaw all industry.”

“The problem is over-reach,” he said. “Each project should rise and fall on it’s own merits.”

Oneonta Town Board member Scott Gravelin countered, “The 12-month

moratorium was put in place to give us time to develop a comprehensive plan – you have to get involved to make sure the plan is done cor-rectly.”

Job creation is still the group’s biggest concern for Otsego County. “We need to be pushing to create new jobs,” he said.

Tom Armao, Bob Har-lem’s co-chair and head of the Public Information working group, said, “In any economic system, scarcity wrecks it. We’ve had a scar-city of opportunity. People are taking their families and moving out of the area. We have to have a reason to stay. We need to build prof-itable companies we can sell to our children – or someone else – so we can retire here.”

“This end of the county hasn’t had much opportunity for growth,” he added. “We need viable businesses for us to survive.”

“Many of our problems will go away if we have more jobs,” said Jamie Reynolds, NBT Bank regional executive. “The more people we have work-ing, the better we’ll be on all fronts.”

Heathcare and education are on the docket for upcom-ing meetings. “It’s impor-tant for us to drive the bus, so to speak,” said Harlem. “We need mandate relief for the schools and health care reform.”

The June 15 meeting, with Seward, Assemblyman Bill McGee, D-Nelson, and Brian Sampson, executive director of Unshackle Up-state, will focus on workers’ compensation concerns. Attendees are encouraged to bring two people with them.

“When we have members of government come and share their time with us, we need to come out en masse,” said Harlem. “Small num-bers don’t impress them – large numbers do.”

“The battle isn’t over,” he said. “It’s an ongoing conversation.”

Citizens Voices Takes CreditFor Bottling Up Home Rule

Retired IBM Exec Janet Perna, ’74. Commencement Speaker At SUNY OneontaBy LIBBY CUDMORE

ONEONTA

If you’ve ever used an ATM, bought anything from amazon.com or

gone to a new doctor and had him or her access your file from your old doctor, you can thank Janet Perna.

Perna, ‘70, commence-ment speaker at the 2012 SUNY Oneon-ta graduation Saturday, May 19, was part of

the IBM team that created that DD2 mainframe, the most widely used database in the world. The SUNY

Oneonta grad worked for IBM for 31 years, the last 10 as the general manager of Information Management. “We grew that business from less than $1 billion to $4 billion worldwide,” she said.

As sneaky graduates update Facebook from their iPhones, Perna will be describing the technology

landscape she went into in 1974. “There is more data storage in my phone than there was in acres of data-bases back then,” she said. “I was lucky to be part of that evolution.”

“When I started,” she continued. “We were pro-gramming with punch cards – you had to hand-write your code and feed it into

a key punch machine. And if you ever dropped those cards, you were never going to get them back in order. When we could enter our program through a terminal screen, it was a huge break-through.”

A math major, Perna spent the first four years out of college teaching in her hometown of Middle-

town. She soon realized that teaching wasn’t her passion. Though women in technol-ogy were rare at the time, Perna was hired by IBM and moved to San Jose, Calif., and from there went on to lead a group building data-bases in Toronto. Next, she was transferred to company headquarters in New York City as general manager.

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Theo Dutcher es-corts Alina Bischof across the lobby of The Otesaga en route to the 54th annual Cooper-stown Cotil-lion Friday, May 11.

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Sadie Michaels, left, and Jenny Aswad mount the steps to The Otesaga’s veranda after a stroll along Otsego Lake’s shoreline.

Mallory Arthur and Scott Segit step into the limelight toward an unfor-gettable evening.

Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s JournalAgainst Otsego Lake’s signature backdrop, The Sleeping Lion, begowned belles pose for that shot of memo-ries. From left are Olivia Leinhart, Alex Russo, Caroline Gozigian, Olivia Baker, Emmy Dolan, Mallory Arthur, Elizabeth Millea, Jennifer Flynn and Demi Card.

Rosemarie Abbatte for The Freeman’s JournalScott Curtis and Molly Mooney receive the Hillman Award for best dancers from Dr. Joseph and Karen Dutkowsky, who instruct Cotillion-goers in advance of the ball.

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EDITORIAL

Worcester School Renovations Beautiful, But Let’s Look To Future

To the Editor:The Chronicle Of Higher

Education recently tabulated that, between 2007 and 2010, the number of Ameri-cans with masters’ degrees who received Food Stamps and other welfare benefits increased from 102,000 to more than 290,000. The number of Ph.D.s on some kind of public assistance jumped from about 10,000 to nearly 34,000.

Similarly many younger college graduates are either living home and mow-ing their parents lawn or toiling away at fast-food restaurants. Unfortunately many of these have pursued college educational creden-tials that have no real world

marketable values.The recent Cooperstown

Central School’s newsletter slated that both technology and business courses are to be curtailed in light of severe financial difficulties. This seems very short-sighted, as such curricu-lums can lead to immediate employment, especially if augmented by some ad-ditional community college attendance.

The lock-step guidance

mantra leading each and every single high school student to college enroll-ment has proven to be in many cases a waste of time and money for both students and parents.

Another recent study has determined that, on aver-age, about 10 percent of a district’s yearly budget is spent on athletic programs than benefit less than 3 per-cent of the students.

A switch to intra-mural sports programs, as has been done in many Western states, could help alleviate many budgetary problems in Cooperstown and in other schools as well.

BOB O’CONCooperstown

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ADRIAN KUZMINSKIOTHER VIEWS

Your readers might be interested to know that over 100 people attended “Meeting the Energy

Challenge for Otsego County: Local Solutions, Local Control, Local Jobs,” a conference put on by Sustainable Ot-sego Saturday, May 5, in Cooperstown.

A dozen speakers did a great job in six hours covering many aspects of conservation and renewable energy. They examined everything from the big picture to nuts and bolts, from economics and money to insulation, heating, and renewable installations. A lot of new information was brought together in one place and shared with our local community perhaps for the first time in a systematic way.

Powerpoints and other materials presented at the conference are avail-able at the Sustainable Otsego website: sustainableotsego.org

One of the initiatives announced at the conference is a conservation

program, “Tighten Up Cooperstown,” which is part of the sustainability initiative of the village. In an outreach effort to be coordinated by Sustainable Otsego Executive Director Antoi-nette Kuzminski and members of the Village’s environmental committee, in conjunction with NYSERDA, vil-lage residents will be contacted with information for financing retrofits and homes and small businesses. More details to be announced.

The conference also highlighted the potential of local renewable resources, including biomass, solar, and wind. The potential of local biomass – utiliz-ing wood processing, forest manage-ment, and agricultural biomass – is significant in our area. Local produc-tion of wood and grass pellets for heat-ing is already underway in our area by Enviro Energy of Wells Bridge.

We have plenty of sunshine to sup-port photovoltaics and solar thermal

installations and we have a number of local businesses who install them. The Mohawk Valley Biofuels Cooperative is developing biodiesel for local use.

Wind power is also available in our area. As with the other renewables, it turns out that scale is important. Mod-erately sized local projects strike the best balance between the production of energy we need and the protection of our other local assets. In the case of wind, properly scaled community-owned or municipalized projects seem to provide the best option for meeting this goal.

Whether we like it or not, liv-ing sustainably is not going to be a choice; it is going to be something we will increasingly be forced to do as we deplete non-renewable resources. Whether that’s a messy or orderly transition depends on what policies we adopt now.

Please See OP-ED, A6

Act Now, Before Trends Force Sustainability On Us

Schools Must Consider Pupils’ Future Employability

It’s another one of those pesky unintended conse-quences, a whole passel

of them, actually.Who didn’t support the

Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), which, noting New York State’s wide range of per-pupil costs, sued, seek-ing to establish a uniform baseline?

In 2006, the Court of Appeals, our state’s equiva-lent of the U.S. Supreme Court, agreed with the CFE, ordering that equal funding be done. That affirmed the rich-district, poor-district system the state Education Department uses to allocate aid.

One way the state di-rected aid to what it defined as poor districts – a faulty definition in say, lake com-munities like Cooperstown, where the summer homes of the wealthy from else-where skew the numbers for everyone else – was through building projects, which led to construction of educa-tional Taj Mahals through-out Otsego County, from Edmeston Central School to Gilbertsville-Mount Upton to Morris to Laurens to Schenevus to Worcester, where Saturday, May 12, the ribbon was cut on a $32.6 million expansion/renova-tion.

We equalized spending, but did we really improve education? Still, the letter of the court decision was met and the state Education

Department could check off a box.

This is not necessarily to criticize. Many of our school buildings were old, even substandard. For in-stance, Worcester Central’s cafeteria was in the base-ment, a code violation that required an annual variance – dangerous, too.

•But the incentives were

wrong, locking in place an increasingly inefficient status quo. One of the expensive renovations was in Jefferson, one of the smallest schools in the ONC BOCES region and a prime candidate for merger with

Stamford.Because while all this

was going on, enrollment was going through a pre-cipitous fall – 30 percent overall in the ONC BOCES schools, and in such individ-ual districts as Cooperstown Central. Oneonta did better, but others did worse.

So, at a time we prob-ably should have been looking at retrenchment, we were pouring more and more money into school districts serving fewer and fewer youngsters. In other words, we were investing in yesterday’s school districts, not tomorrow’s.

Now, with the state’s bud-

get crisis, Albany is cutting school aid at the same time it is imposing a 2-percent ceiling on tax hikes, which created the crisis surround-ing Oneonta’s Center Street School and a pinch every-where else.

Governor Cuomo is right: Localities can’t absorb 7 percent school tax increases year after year when resi-dents’ incomes are rising only 5 percent or 2 percent or not at all. Seven percent would double taxes in 10 years, while someone get-ting a 2 percent annual raise would see an increase of only 20 percent.

(Cuomo is wrong to impose a tax cap without lifting state mandates. New York City is now exempt from the onerous 1948 Wicks Law, requiring multi-ple contracts on a single job; Upstate should be spared as well, although too late, given the orgy of school construction just coming to a end.)

•Still, the obvious is obvi-

ous. Does Otsego County, with 60,000 people, need 12 school districts? Does it need 12 districts to serve 30 percent fewer students? The answer is a ringing “prob-ably not.”

So how many districts do we need? Would two suf-fice? Greater Oneonta at the south end and Glimmerglass Regional at the north, per-haps based around Richfield

Springs Central, (which has an exceptionally fine plant)? Maintain the elementary schools in the population centers.

Perhaps that’s extreme but, with distance learning and the BOCES, perhaps not. There was an exciting discussion about distance-learning initiatives at the CCS candidates’ debate, although as an enhancement to, not a substitute for, hu-man contact – AP Sanskrit for all!

Blue-skying it, it makes sense to put the money where we want the growth, or where the growth is going to happen naturally: Certainly, the New City of Oneonta that’s now under discussion, with two col-leges, commerce parks, Southside as the regional retail magnet and three I-88 exits, is one logical educa-tional hub.

(That’s why closing Center Street School now doesn’t make sense – in a few years, the city district will need more space.)

It’s true that we always have the resources to ac-complish our priorities, but we have to determine those priorities. Granted, it’s a toxic subject, but the educational establishment is letting us down. If a map exists outlining the optimum school district boundaries of the future, nobody’s talking about it.

Yet, it’s an essential con-

versation, otherwise we’re on an ever-more-expensive treadmill, and treadmills lead nowhere.

•At the Worcester Central

ribbon-cutting, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, pledged to fight for a fund-ing formula “to better aid communities like Worces-ter,” to ensure state aid is distributed “in a much fairer way to rural, less wealthy communities.”

That would be like say-ing, 60 years ago, that state aid should be applied to preserving the one-room schoolhouse. While we do look back nostalgically to those days, no one really wants to return to teach-ing the 3Rs – AP Sanskrit, fuggedaboutit – to the tune of a hickory stick.

Our admirable senator, long a member of the Sen-ate Education Committee, knows better. In fact, he’s the logical leader of the con-versation for future-looking change in educational fund-ing, the way he has been in recent months in rethinking economic development in Otsego County and reen-ergizing that conversation. Go for it!

Again, there’s no intent to be churlish on Worcester Central’s accomplishment. It’s a delightful building, user friendly, much needed; district residents should be proud. But what’s the big picture?

Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s JournalState Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, Saturday, May 12, escorts Virginia Basso, who cut the rib-bon that officially recognized the completion of $32.6 million in renovations to Worcester Central School. At left in Supt. of Schools Gary Kuch.

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BOUND VOLUMESCompiled by Tom HeiTz from Freeman’s Journal archives, courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library

75 YEARS AGO

May 19, 1937

200 YEARS AGOCharleston, South Carolina – The Polly, Capt. Daniel,

came in on Saturday from the fishing ground, off the bar. Whilst lying there, she was spoken with by the schooner Nancy, Capt. Holland, 14 days from La Guayra. Capt. H. informed, that the Earthquake, which happened at Carrac-cas, on the 25th of March, was one of the most destructive that has been known since that of Lisbon; he said that more than three thousand houses were destroyed and twelve thousand persons perished.

May 16, 1812

175 YEARS AGODr. Channing on Temperance – There is another prey

upon which intemperance seizes, still more to be deplored, and that is woman. I know of no sight on earth more sad than woman’s countenance, which once knew no suffusion but the glow of exquisite feeling or the blush of hallowed modesty, crimsoned and deformed by intemperance. Frail woman is not safe. The delicacy of her physical organiza-tion exposes her to inequalities of feeling, which tempt to the seductive relief given by cordials. Man with his iron nerves little knows what the sensitive frame of woman suffers, how many desponding imaginations throng on her in her solitude, how often she is exhausted by unremitting cares, and how much the power of self-control is impaired by repeated derangements of her frail system. The truth should be told. In all our families, no matter what their condition, there are endangered individuals, and fear and watchfulness in regard to intemperance belong to all.

May 22, 1837

150 YEARS AGORefreshment Rooms – Chas. B. Cooley has opened

rooms of this character in the upper part of the stone build-ing owned by the Cooley estate, south of the post office, where he will keep on hand refreshments of various kinds, fresh and preserved fruits, and in the season, ice cream, &c. The rooms have been fitted up in neat style, and the ladies and gentlemen are invited to visit them. The proprietor is a young man whose deportment and walk in life has been such during his ten years employment in the Office (the Freeman’s Journal), as warrants us in commending him to the patronage and favor of a public whose confidence and respect he has won, and we trust will ever retain.

May 9, 1862

125 YEARS AGOThe Village Building Project was submitted to the free-

holders and taxpayers of Cooperstown on Monday last, the polls being open from 12 noon to 3 p.m., and unusual pains were taken to inform all interested of the fact. Those who pay only a poll tax were not deemed to be voters under the special act providing for this election. There are 355 residents on the corporation (85 of whom are women) who are voters, and of these 176, about 50 percent, availed themselves of the privilege on Monday – 109 voting for and 67 against the project. A special effort was made by the opponents of the project to rally the women voters against it and with so much success that of the 23 votes cast by them, 18 were against. So, 104 men voted for, and 49 voted against the project.

May 20, 1887

100 YEARS AGOBaseball Originated Here – More evidence bearing upon

the claim of Cooperstown as the birthplace of baseball is presented by J. Arthur Eddy of Chattanooga, Tennessee who sends a clipping from the Denver Post of May 9. Mr. Eddy suggests that a monument to the National Game be erected in Cooperstown. The article recounts an interview with Abner Graves, a participant in the first game of base-ball ever played in the United States. “I was a student at

Green College in Cooperstown, New York. Abner Double-day, the man who invented the game, if you call it an invention, came to our school and interested us boys in his idea. We went out on the college campus, and Doubleday drew the diagram of his game in the sand. It was much like the diamond of today, but the distance between bases was longer, and the distance from pitcher to batter was shorter. We played 11 men in those days; two shortstops and four outfielders.”

May 22, 1912

50 YEARS AGOMembers of the Cooperstown Rotary Club were lun-

cheon guests Tuesday of Louis Busch Hager, president and developer of the Woodland Museum north of Cooperstown at the Copper Top Restaurant on the grounds of the village’s newest of five museums. The Woodland Museum will open for its inaugural season on Memorial Day. Rotarians were taken on a guided tour by Mr. Hager of the 12 and a half acre museum complex devoted to nature exhibits, Cooper lore, and history. Starting at the gate house at the entrance to the museum grounds, the guests went along the quar-ter-mile Nature Trail, first to the Cooper building where dioramas and a topographical map of the Otsego Lake countryside depict scenes from James Fenimore Cooper’s “The Deerslayer.” Along the trail there are 100 varieties of wild flowers, unusual root and vine formations, magnificent evergreen and hardwood trees, brooks and waterfalls.

May 16, 1962

25 YEARS AGOGenevieve Smith and Ellen Beebe have each completed

swimming 1,000 miles at the A.C.C. Gym. It takes 36 laps or 72 lengths of the pool to make a mile. Over a number of years at two different facilities, the two ladies have each completed 36,000 laps – no small feat.

May 20, 1987

10 YEARS AGOAn exhibition on Martin Luther King that is touring the

country has strong ties to Cooperstown. Gretchen Sullivan Sorin, the director of the Cooperstown Graduate Program, was the principal curator of the exhibit titled “In The Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” The exhibition featured works of art inspired by the words and the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. Recently, Sorin was honored for her work with the exhibition when she received the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for excellence in scholarship and creative activities.

May 17, 2002

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OP-ED/From A4Absent the easy availabil-

ity of concentrated sources of power from fossil fuels, and from other problem-atic sources such as nuclear power, we will be thrown back increasingly on our own resources. One of the

conclusions which presents itself is that sustainable practices will by and large be local. This means that our communities should have a central role to play in deciding public policy on environmental matters.

If that is the case, we

will have to close the gap between the energy we need and the non-polluting energy that is actually avail-able largely by conserv-ing energy in running our homes and businesses and vehicles, and by developing renewables from the sun,

wind, earth, and biomass in our own backyards.

Sustainability, it should be added, is not about undermining property rights, but about protecting them. That’s also the best way to protect the environ-ment and our resources. If

corporations and govern-ments can come in and do as they please, we will be the victims not the beneficiaries, and our resources will be lost, not protected.

If you didn’t make the conference, you missed a great experience. My

thanks again to the par-ticipants, supporters , and to our co-sponsors: OCCA, Brewery Ommegang, and Otsego 2000.

Adrian Kuzminski, Fly Creek, is Sustainable Otsego

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KATZ GRADUATE: Nate Katz, son of Mayor Jeff and Karen Katz, Cooperstown, graduated Saturday, May 12, from SUNY Cobleskill.

NEW ROTARIAN: Bri-gitte Priem, proprietor, Di-astole Lakeview B&B, was inducted into the Cooper-stown Rotary Club Tuesday, May 15.

ADAMS AHOY: Coo-perstown’s Sam Goodyear, touring Washington State with his one-man John Adams performance, was grand marshal at the May 1 Loyalty Day parade in Long Beach, Wash., on the Pacific. He recently participated in a naturalization ceremony at Washington’s headquarter’s in Morristown, N.J., an event reported in the Newark Star-Ledger.

WINS PRIZE: Kristin Pullyblank of Fly Creek has received SUNY Oneonta’s Corning Microbiology Award for excellent performance. She is daughter of the Rev. Thomas and Kristin Pully-blank.

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REPAIR/From A1The washout occurred last

September, during Tropi-cal Storm Lee, nine months or three seasons ago. “The side of the hill just had jets of water shooting through it,” said Reeves. “The water overflowed the ditch and it looked like a raging river. The guard rail was suspend-

ed in the air.”Using a novel technology,

it was only expected to take eight days for a crew from Soil Nail Launcher Inc., Denver, Colo., to literally nail the road back up against the sandstone wall on the east side of the road. The nails, 58 of them, were 20-feet long, said Sikot Mahox-

ay, the company’s general supervisor.

The four men supervised by Mahoxay then shot fast-drying Shotcrete against the bank, and held it in place with a steel mesh while they drove 75 “micro-piles” ver-tically along a 75-foot path on the lake side of the road.

A concrete-block wall

was then built atop those piles to the road grade, more Shotcrete filled the gap between the wall and embankment, and the road was repaved.

At a cost of $250,000 – Otsego County pays 20 percent – the work began Wednesday, May 9, and was to be completed in a week and a half, according to Ron Tiderencel, the county high-way superintendent.

Because of the steep drop from East Lake Road to Otsego Lake, Tiderencel said that at first, he wasn’t sure how to proceed. “It was like, ‘Oh boy,’” he said. One idea was to rebuild the hillside. Another, said Reeves, was to span the hole with a bridge.

Then, over the winter, Tiderencel and his deputy, Kevin Flint, attended the County Highway Superin-tendent Association’s winter conference in Albany and saw a program on the nail-launcher technology.

They said to each other, “This may be the answer’,” Tiderencel said.

Two other cracks on East Lake Road need repairing, but that will be done by the county crew.

Soil Nail Launcher’s crew had just come from repair-ing I-75 in Tennessee, one section of which had been extensively washed out by

recent rains. “There’s been a lot of

rain,” said Mahoxay, who is headquartered in Denver. “That’s our job security.” Added his assistant, Patrick Ross, a Tennessean, “We used to hate rain.” And everyone smiled.

Once East Lake Road (County Route 31) was complete, the crew planned to cross the lake and firm up sections of West Lake Road

(State Highway 80) dam-aged last summer’s storms.

Tiderencel said the most significant projects still remaining from the flood are the repairing the washed-out County Route 50 bridge near the Roseboom Town Barn, replacing a wing wall on a bridge in the Town of Otsego, and stabilizing roads undermined in the Town of Oneonta.

Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s JournalSoil Nail Launcher crew members Pat Navasack, William Yaden and Toui Thammassene drive 75 “mini-piles” on a 75-foot path alongside East Lake Road. At the bottom of the steep slope is Otsego Lake. The west side of the lake is in the distance.

In Just 8 Days, Novel Technique Repairs Breach In East Lake Road

CCS/From A1said Wendy Lansing. “But it was pretty steady all night. And most people came out – of the 525 votes, only 24 of them were absentee bal-lots.” It appeared to be a

slightly higher turnout than last year, she said.

Scalici, who has served on the school board for 18 years, said, “This is not a game for an individual,” and predicted “the board, as a group, will come up with goals this summer.”

Among the immedi-ate challenges at hand are implementation of more rigorous APPRs, annual professional performance re-views, required by the state Education Department.

“They’re very regu-lated and very demand-ing,” Scalici said, “and it changes the whole dynamic by formulating structures and applying very specific benchmarks so administra-tors have better control over teachers who aren’t meeting expectations.”

With the campaigning done and the school year al-most finished, Scalici knows it’s time to start planning. “We’re going to figure out our priorities – what we did last year, what we’ve got coming down the pike.”

There were no proposals on the ballot.

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EAST SPRINGFIELD – Homer O. Fassett, 91, the oldest family member in the area and author of “Homer’s Book,” a history of the historic farm where Fas-setts lived for generations, passed away at home May 13, 2012, following a long illness.

He was born July 19, 1920, at the family home-stead in East Springfield, son of Owen and Iva (Rich-ards) Fassett. He graduated from the East Springfield Union School in 1939.

Homer worked for his father on the farm and for the Fassett Farm Machinery, purchasing the dealership from his father in 1948. He operated the dealership until he sold it to his son in 1984. He and brothers Kermit and Myron continued repairing Case balers after his retire-ment.

For decades, he was very active in his family’s maple syrup business, and longtime residents remember him retrieving sap buckets in late winter on a horse-drawn sled from his sugarbush on Van Alstine Road. In summers, he could be seen splitting wood in preparation for the next season.

Sugaring ceased in 2000, after 90 years, but this past season, when he remarked he would like to see sugar-ing underway again, family members and volunteers tapped trees and boiled off sap for his enjoyment.

He was a charter mem-ber of the Springfield Fire Department, which merged in 1946 from the Springfield

Center and East Springfield companies, and he remained active as a firefighter, then with the fire police, until recent years.

He was seventh-degree Granger and member of the First Presbyterian Church of Springfield.

He enjoyed hunting deer and turkeys, fishing with his friends in Canada, and traveling with his family. Summer found him weeding his garden or working with his beautiful flowers.

Survivors include his wife Evelyn Huntley Lundholm Fassett, son Loren (Beth), sister Velma Armstrong, brothers Kenneth (Julia), Kermit (Irene), Myron (Madeline), grandchildren Terry (Jodi), Mary, Scott (Andrea), great grandchil-dren, nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his wife Leola Styles Fas-sett, brother Ervin, sisters Erma (Leland) Vunk and Dorothy (Farron) Benjamin, and a step-daughter Ruth Lundholm.

Calling hours are 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, May 16, at the Ottman Funeral Home, with services at 11 a.m. Thursday, also at the funeral home. Burial will follow in the Springfield Center Cemetery.

Memorial donations may be made to Catskill Area Hospice, 1 Birchwood Drive, Oneonta, NY 13820 or Springfield Fire Depart-ment, P O Box 358, Spring-field Center, NY 13468.

Arrangements are entrust-ed to the Ottman Funeral Home, Cherry Valley.

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2012 Dodge Grand CaravanU-Connect, Stow n Go, A/C

MSRP: $24,520 Stk T2534

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2012 Chrysler 200 Touring SedanHeated Seats, Remote Start, U-ConnectMSRP: $22,875 Stk 51

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2012 Jeep Compass 4WDAuto, Power Eqp., CruiseMSRP: $23,025 Stk T2577

2012 Jeep Wrangler Sport 4 WDHardtop, V6, A/C, Auto

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2012 Cadillac CTS All Wheel DriveAll Power, Ultraview Roof

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$30,623Buy For

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CARS720320 2010 Aveo LS Sedan - 5 speed, AC, OnStar, 4 cyl............32k.. .$11,995...$143120581 2011 Aveo LS Sedan - 5 speed, OnStar, 4 cyl....................6k...$13,995...$173112211 2008 Malibu 2LT - V6, loaded, OnStar, AC.......................52k...$15,895...$211720031 2009 Buick Lucerne CXL - leather seats, all power.........46k...$19,395...$256520451 2009 Buick Lucerne CXL - leather seats, all power.........27k...$19,695...$260720390 2012 Impala LT Sedan - V6, all power, sunroof................11k...$19,995...$263420151 2008 Buick Lucerne CXL - V6, leather seats, all power....29k...$19,495...$268720400 2012 Impala LTZ Sedan - V6, sunroof, leather seats........17k...$21,995...$293410631 2011 Buick Regal CXL - leather, sunroof, loaded.............22k...$22,795...$305610151 2009 Cadillac CTS - All wheel drive, sunroof, V6...............53k...$23,495...$316TRUCKS & SUVs512172 2008 Silverado Reg Cab - W/T pkg, 4x4, 8 ft. box...........63k...$16,395...$219512361 2007 Envoy SLE 4x4 - all power, AC, loaded...................66k...$16,395...$219720141 2008 Silverado Reg Cab - W/T pkg, 4x4, short box.........50k...$19,395...$267313221 2008 Envoy SLT - 4x4, leather, 6 cyl, OnStar....................53k...$19,995...$276120041 2009 Equinox Sport AWD - V6, leather, sunroof, loaded. .40k...$20,995...$280711021 2007 Acadia AWD SLE - all power, AC, OnStar...............54k...$21,495...$300313531 2009 Acadia AWD SLE - V6, all power..........................60k...$22,395...$301320191 2008 Silverado Ext Cab - W/T pkg, 4x4, AC...................48k...$21,695...$303711411 2007 Envoy Denali AWD - sunroof, Navigation, leather.....43k...$21,895...$306711391 2007 Silverado 2500 Reg Cab - 4x4, LT power options...35k...$21,995...$308320841 2010 Equinox AWD LT - auto, power options, V6.............34k...$22,895...$309

610371 2010 Equinox AWD LT - auto, power options, 4 cyl..........20k...$23,395...$316320931 2009 Sierra Ext Cab 1500 SLE - all power, 4x4............47k...$24,895...$339313751 2009 Sierra 1500 Ext Cab SE - all power, 4x4...............46k...$24,895...$339410351 2009 Enclave CX AWD - V6, all power, OnStar...............50k...$24,895...$339312721 2010 Silverado 1500 Ext Cab LT - Z71, 4x4, all power. .32k...$25,995...$356312761 2009 Acadia SLE 4x4 - V6, all power, AC.......................43k...$25,995...$356313011 2010 Silverado 1500 Ext Cab LT - 4x4, power options...29k...$26,295...$360520032 2009 Silverado 1500 Ext Cab LT - 4x4, power options...28k...$26,295...$360320421 2008 Silverado Ext Cab LT - 4x4, Z71 pkg., OnStar........14k...$25,895...$369512261 2009 Envoy Denali AWD - leather, sunroof, Navigation.....24k...$26,995...$371520611 2008 Yukon 4x4 SLE - dual power seats, loaded..............44k...$25,995...$371112341 2010 Sierra 1500 Ext Cab SLE - all power, 4x4.............26k...$27,195...$374520491 2010 Sierra 1500 Ext Cab SLE - 4x4, all power............21k...$27,395...$377320851 2008 Yukon Hybrid - leather, sunroof, MPG!....................80k...$26,395...$377520561 2010 Yukon SLE 4x4 - Tow Pkg., V8, loaded...................55k...$29,595...$410520301 2009 Silverado 2500 Crew Cab - pwr. options, tow pkg. .19k...$29,995...$416313738 2008 Suburban 4x4 CT - 3 rows of seats, loaded............58k...$28,995...$419321091 2009 Sierra 3500 Reg Cab - 4x4, Duramax Diesel..........53k...$30,395...$422320111 2008 Tahoe 4x4 LT Pkg - V8, all power.........................44k...$29,895...$433320101 2010 Silverado 2500 Ext Cab LTX - 4x4, loaded..........40k...$31,095...$433520601 2010 Silverado 1500 Ext Cab LTZ - 4x4, leather..........18k...$31,995...$447111873 2007 Escalade EXT - 4x4, all power, sunroof, Navigation....52k...$32,895...$480520011 2009 Silverado 2500 Crew Cab - 4x4, Duramax Diesel. .37k...$38,995...$553

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Oneonta Native Bill Yates, 84; Civil Rights, Anti-War Activist, Tried With ‘Buffalo 9’ONEONTA – William John

Yates, 84, an anti-war and civil rights activist, passed away on May 9, 2012, in his native Oneonta.

After serving 1943-46 in the Navy, he began his college career, becoming an assistant professor of English at SUNY

Buffalo, then a counselor at SUNY Brooklyn. Aside from his passion for literature, po-etry and the English language, his greatest contributions were in civil rights, labor rights and justice for people.

An early civil rights activist with the original Congress on

Racial Equality, Yates was in the heat of the movement reg-istering voters and spreading literacy in the Deep South and Louisiana. The Ku Klux Klan hung him in effigy, and he was repeatedly beaten for work-ing on behalf of impoverished blacks.

He went back to the SUNY Buffalo campus as a student and became active in the resis-tance against the Vietnam War.

The organizer of the Stu-dents for a Democratic Society, Yates Bill was convicted at what became known as the “Buffalo Nine” trial, where he

was also cited for contempt of court for refusing to stand when the judge entered. He served three years in prison.

After his released, he returned to SUNY Brooklyn, helping inner city youth. He retired and moved back to his hometown of Oneonta.

Bill Yates

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