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Volume 205, No. 50 Cooperstown, New York, Thursday, December 12, 2013 Newsstand Price $1
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COOPERSTOWNAND AROUND Trustees To Review
Parking, Year OneVillage Owns Street, SoWhat Should We Call It?
SewardEc-DevStrategyAdoptedPlan: ConsultantTo Oversee ShiftTo ‘Pro-Activity’
Seward
Chief Issues WarningAfter 18 Car Break-ins
A Cooperstown ChristmasYULETIDE CHEER PHOTO ALBUM, A3 •SHOP LOCAL GIFTS, A7, B2-3
Ian Austin/The Freeman’s JournalSid Chase, the Worces-ter organ restorer well-known in Cooperstown, has built a 1,500-pipe organ of his own, to be debuted this weekend/SEE B1
Headliners WillBe Honored AtInduction 2014COOPERSTOWN
Two giants of the Na-tional Pastime – Joe Garagiola and Roger
Angell – will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame Saturday, July 27, during 75th anniversary weekend.
Garagiola, MLB catcher and famed sportscaster, will receive the Buck O’Neill Lifetime Achievement Award, and Angell, who documented the game for de-cades in the New Yorker, will receive the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for baseball writing.
Full announcements at:WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
IF YOU GO: Rab-bit Goody will speak on “Luxury Fabrics of the 18th Century” at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14, during Thistle Hill Weavers an-nual open house between Cherry Valley and Sharon Springs.
Ian Austin/The Freeman’s JournalThistle Hill weavers Laura Jackson, left, and Sheila McBryde examine the loom in the Cherry Valley factory where a historic jacquard fabric is being woven.
By LIBBY CUDMORE
CHERRY VALLEY
It’s a textile pattern that may have never been woven – until Rabbit
Goody found it. “We know the watercolor was done by Anna Maria Garthwaite in 1750,” she said. “And we know she sold it to Mr. Phene in London, but we don’t know if he was the weaver or if any pieces still exist.”
The jacquard fabric is the latest on Goody’s loom at Thistle Hill Weavers, which specializes in reproducing historical textiles for movies, museums and historic homes. “There’s always a need for 18th century damask fabrics,”
she said. “They were so much a part of that style.”
She found Garthwaite’s watercolor drawing in a book of textiles from London’s Victoria & Albert Museum. “It was probably intended to be woven in silk rather than worsted weight,” she said. “These patterns were designed and sold to weavers, but we don’t know if it’s ever been
Please See FABRIC, B6
Using Historic Sample, Goody GoesWhere No Weaver Has Gone Before
THISTLE HILL CREATES HISTORIC FABRIC
Colleen Trombecky, Sharon Springs, makes a four-poster with historic fabrics.
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COOPERSTOWN
‘I love it. Finally a rev-enue from tourists for those of us who pay
taxes,” reads one question-naire.
“This is ruining Coopers- town,” reads another.
Wednesday, Dec. 11, May-or Jeff Katz had summoned the Village Board to a work
session to review 30 such questionnaires and determine what changes should be made to on-street paid parking. Pay & Display machines were set up for the first time last summer on Main and Pioneer streets.
Please See PARKING, A6
COOPERSTOWN
Now that a lawsuit has determined the Inn at Cooperstown’s driveway is actually a public street, the Village Board has announced a
contest to name it. To participate, drop off your entry, marked “Street
Naming Contest,” at the Village Clerk’s Office at 22 Main, or e-mail [email protected] by Friday, Jan. 24. Appropriate explanation is welcome. Also, provide your name if you are willing to be recognized.
The winning entry will be announced in early Feb-ruary during the Winter Carnival.
COOPERSTOWN
Police Chief Michael Covert has asked people to lock their cars and homes after 18 cars were
broken into the weekend of Dec. 7-8. All of the cars were unlocked and
only loose change, and one cellphone, were taken, the chief said.
He said it is the first such rash in the village this year.
NEWS OF GRANTS: Mayor Jeff Katz said he ex-pected to hear Wednesday, Dec. 11, if the village was successful in its latest round of state economic-develop-ment funding.
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The economic-devel-opment community is about to go after
and seek to bring home jobs from outside Otsego County’s boundaries.
That newly “pro-ac-tive” stance came out of a Thursday, Dec. 5, morning-long meeting in Oneonta between state
Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, and key economic-development players.
They included the boards of the county IDA (industrial development agency) and OCDC (Otsego County Development Corp.), as well as Kathy Clark, R-Otsego,
Please See EC-DEV, B6
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COOPERSTOWN
Bill Haase, the Na-tional Baseball Hall of Fame’s senior vice
president, will retire at the end of the year, concluding a career that has featured more than 30 years in baseball, 13 locally.
Haase was hired in Sep-tember 2000 by then-presi-dent Dale Petroskey as vice president of business and administration, responsible then and now for account-ing, finance, human resourc-es and plant. He became
senior VP in January 2001.Haase previously spent 18
years – 1975-92 – with the Detroit Tigers, the final nine as executive vice president and chief operating offi-cer. “To cap it off here in Cooperstown is as sweet as it gets,” said Haase.
A veteran, Haase has been active in the Cooperstown Vets’ Club.
Bill and his wife, Sandy, will split time between his native Michigan and Cooperstown following his retirement.
Haase Retires At Year’s EndAs Hall Of Fame Senior VP
COOPERSTOWN
Barbara Pe-tersen, R.N., a 21-year
Bassett Hospital employee who has been in the Intensive Care Unit since 2002, is the 2013 recipient of the Henry Allen Moe Prize in honor of Pearl F. Day.
The award seeks to recog-nize nurses who exemplify concern for patients and their families and demon-strate enthusiasm and integ-rity in their duties.
Petersen, who lives in Cooperstown, recently won the Renee Slade Henson ICU Award of Nursing Ex-cellence as well.
She joined Bassett in 1986 as a float secretary and
obtained her nurs-ing degree in 1995 at Utica College of Syracuse Univer-sity, taking classes during the day and working at night as a nurse’s aide. Her senior year she took the LPN test, and
working nights at Bassett while completing her bachelor’s.
After graduation she worked as a registered nurse on the medicine floor for a year, then became a travel-ing nurse (working from Maine to Florida) between 1996 and 2002, when she joined the ICU. Pearl Day was a nurse at the Brooklyn Naval Hospital during World War I, where she cared for Dr. Moe, a former chair of the Bassett trustees.
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Sophie McManus Selected As Rotary Global ScholarCOOPERSTOWN
Sophie McManus, a former Cooperstown resident and the grand-
daughter of Mrs. Sarah Tarr, has been chosen as the re-cipient of the Fairfax Rotary Club’s Global Grant Scholar-ship in Fairfax, Va., where she currently resides.
In January 2014, she’ll travel on a one-year trip to Durban, South Africa, where she’ll study towards a master’s degree in Conflict
Transformation & Peace Studies at the University of Kwazulu-Natal.
“I want to study reconstruction through peace-building as a means of building a stable economy and encouraging development,” she said.
She’ll serve as an ambassador to the Rotary Club of Durban North, and upon her return, will present her experiences to the Fairfax Rotary club.
McManus is also the step-grand-daughter of Bob and Helen Mulligan and the niece of Nancy Tarr-Wager, also of Cooperstown.
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Ian Austin & Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s JournalRetired music teachers Becky Gretton, Richfield Springs, and Diane Groff, Cherry Valley, lend their musical talents to the ambiance of the afternoon Saturday, Dec. 7, at The Festival of Trees, sponsored by the Friends of Glimmerglass State Park in the pavilion there.
Santa Claus accepts the prototype of Bill Rigby’s “Tin Brilliant” ornament, several of which adorn the Jolly Old Elf’s Pioneer Park cottage. Rigby customizes the big ornaments from 17 individual ones from an antique mold he discovered years ago in Staten Island.
Viewing offerings at the Cooperstown Art Association’s Adorn A Door event Saturday, Nov. 30, are Fly Creek’s Mi-chael and Carol LaChance and daugh-ter Michaela, left, and Joelle.
Dr. Shelby Cooper, left, reviews scores with sons Gil and Trent at the Cooperstown PTO Pancake Breakfast & Holiday Marketplace Saturday, Dec. 7, where the boys performed. Above, Leah Phillips, 4, and sister Tara, 6, exercise their creativ-ity with dad Matt at the crafts table.
Laurie Glockler, Town of Middle-field, fills Gary Becker’s cup at the Christmas Tea & Bazaar Saturday, Dec. 7, at the Cooperstown Meth-odist Church. At the front table,
Bernie Key and Gail McShane had sold three-quarters of the offering
in the first 20 minutes.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2013A-4 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL
EDITORIAL
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Perspectives
Gretchen Sorin, Springfield Cen-ter, director of SUNY Oneonta’s Cooperstown Graduate Program in Museum Studies, led the procession.
Two of SUNY Oneonta’s five deans appointed during a reorganization announced in August lead the recessional: Susan Turell, left, head the School of Social Science; Venkat Sharma, right, heads the School of Natural and Mathematical Sciences. Behind them are, respectively, President Nancy Kleniewski and Provost Maria Thompson.
Graduate Hannah Bergene, Phoenix Mills, poses with her two grandmoms: Erna Rich-ards, Coop- erstown, left, and Joyce Jones, Hartwick Seminary. Hannah was one of 335 Decem-ber grads honored at SUNY Oneonta’s Candidate Recognition Ceremony Sunday, Dec. 8, in Dewar Arena.
As ONC BOCES Superintendent Nick Savin, Spring-field Center, and his wife, Judy, listen, SUNY Oneonta Music Prof Carleton Clay performs with his Catskill Brass Quartet in foreground.
The Savins’ nephew, Jake, Town of Queensbury, was among the honor-ees, who have completed their re-quirements but can’t officially gradu-ate until May.
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‘You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide
where to go.”JAMES JOHnSTOn, SUNY Oneonta Student Association president,quoting Dr. Seuss in during Dec. 8 address to December grads
POMP&ACCOMPLISHMENT
IsittruethatSamuelB.Morsenoodledthroughhisepoch-alteringcodeinanupstairs
roomatCherryValley’sMasonicLodge?
Thatcametomindtheotherweek,enroutehomefromPhila-delphiaandstoppingattheI-81VisitorsCenterjustnorthofthestateline,wheretherewasabro-chure,“Auburn’sHistoricHome-town,”intherack.
“TheMarkofMikeLong”im-mediatelycametomind.
TheOneontacitymanager,beforehewasPoughkeepsiecitymanager,hadspent26yearsintheCityofAuburn,wherehisinterestinhistoricpreservationeventuallyflowered into history tourism.
Yes,heacknowledgedlater,manyoftheattractionsin“Au-burn’sHistoricHometown”grewoutofhistenurethere.
•The flowering of history-related
tourisminTheCityonTheOwas-
cobeganwiththen-FirstLadyHillaryClinton’s1998visit,partofher“SaveAmerica’sTreasures”campaign,Longsaid.
Some4,000peoplewereonhandwhensheappearedatAuburn’sHarrietTubmanhome,where,pre-CivilWar,the“MosesofHerPeople”plottedthefree-ingofthousandsfromslaveryandtransportingthemtoCanadaviatheUndergroundRailroad.
Auburnbuiltonthat,promotingattractionsthatcametoincludetheWillardMemorialChapel(closetoLong’sheart,itincludestheonlyintactLouisComfortTiffanyinterior),afancySchineTheater,andtheSewardHouse.(Thelat-tergotabigboostlastyearfrom
Spielberg’s“Lincoln,”featuringaknockoutperformancebyDavidStrathairnasAbe’ssecretaryofstate.)
’Nuffsaid:Ifyoupickedup“Auburn’sHistoricHometown,”you’dlikelywanttovisit.
•WhatdoesthatmeanforOtsego
County?Longpointedouttheother
daythatBinghamtontakescreditasIBM’snatalplacewhen,infact,BigBlue’soriginswereinOneonta,wherein1900Post-masterHarlowBundyraisedthemoneyfromhisneighborsforwhatbecametheInternationalTimeClockCo.
Wheniteventuallygrewinto
IBM,formercongressmanGeorgeW. Fairchild of Oneonta was first chairmanoftheboard.
What’smore,theFairchildmansion,(er,IBMTouristCen-ter),nowtheMasonicTempleatGrandAvenueandMain,isatimecapsule:Fairchild’sbooksareun-touchedinthesittingroom,whichalsocontainstheoriginalfurniture.
Oneonta,“TheBirthplaceofIBM!”
•Anotherneglectedopportunity
isJamesFenimoreCooperTour-ism,whichusedtobeabigdrawuntilMarkTwainsharpenedhisliteraryshiv.“LastoftheMohi-cans”canbeaheavyread–how
Please See EDITORIAL, A6
Don’tWeAllLoveToVisit‘BirthplacesOf’?LookAround
IanAustin/TheFreeman’sJournalCity Manager Long takes trip to “Auburn’s Historic Hometown.”
ISSUE &DEBATE
Editor’s Note: This is a sequence of posts from the Sus-tainable Otsego listserve that followed the announcement of a repeat presentation of Lou Allstadt, Chip Northrup and others’ findings that there is insufficient natural gas in Otsego County for fracking to happen profitably.
From:DarlaM.Youngs<[email protected]>Date:Sat,Dec7,2013at4:46PM
SavetheDate:January17,2014Presentation:“NewYorkShaleGasPotential”TimeandLocation:7p.m.atTheFoothillsPer-
formingArtsCenter,24MarketStreet,Oneonta(doorsopenat6p.m.)
Moderator:Prof.AnthonyIngraffea,CornellUniversitySpeakers:•“GeographicExtentofNewYorkShaleGasPotential,”
James“Chip”Northrup,privateinvestor•“GeologicVariablesinShaleGasProductivity,”Brian
Brock,geologist•“ForecastingMarcellusProductivityinNewYork,”
JerryActon,retiredaerospacesystemsengineer•“NewYorkShaleGasPotential,”LouAllstadt,retired
executivevicepresident,MobilOil•
From:AnneMarieGartiSent:Sunday,December08,20139:58AMTo:[email protected]:Re:[UnconstitutionalPipeline]Fwd:SavetheDate:“NewYorkShaleGasPotential”
Peopleshouldconsiderboycottingorpicketingthisevent,notpromotingit.
Thepresentationisveryone-sided,andneverPlease See DEBATE, A6
ListenToFrackFindingsOrBoycottPresentation?
Cooperstown’s Lou Allstadt, left, and Chip Northrup at Cornell Oct. 30, where they present-ed findings that, except for a strip west of Bing-hamton, there is too little natural gas in Upstate New York to be profitably fracked.
THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL A-5THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2013
Compiled by Tom HeiTz from Freeman’s Journal archives, Courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library
BOUND VOLUMES200 YEARS AGO
Advertisement: Dancing School – Mr. Shepherd, respectfully informs the Gentlemen and Ladies of Cooperstown and Cherry Valley, that, not having met with the success in Johnstown which he expected, he has returned and intends to teach one Quarter more in each of the above places. During this quarter, Mr. S. will introduce several handsome sets of Cotillions, and if any of the Ladies who were taught the last quarter should at-tend again, he will teach them some elegant fancy danc-es, of which he has a variety, adapted for young ladies. Mr. S. embraces this opportunity of returning his sincere thanks for the encouragement he has already received, and hopes by strict attention to his business still to merit and receive the liberal patronage of the people of both places. The school will commence in Cooperstown on Monday, December 20, at Mr. Munn’s, and Wednesday, the 23rd inst., at Mr. Wright’s. Cooperstown, Dec. 11, 1813.
December 11, 1813
175 YEARS AGO(Ed. Note: The following passage is a pre-Darwin
meditation on the origins of mankind. Lord Monboddo b. 1714, d. 1799 was a Scottish Judge, scholar and philosopher, and an early proponent of evolution as a theory explaining the origins of mankind) Did man spring full-formed in all his bodily and mental energies from the hand of his Creator; or, are the dreams of Lord Monboddo true, that he was originally of the monkey tribe – becoming gradually and in the long lapse of ages what he now is, by the aids of experience and the faculty of speech? Was he originally from one pair or of one race, and has he become as various as we find him, from the influence of climate, food and other physical and fortuitous circumstances; or were the different and marked varieties we now behold – with perhaps many others that have become extinct – inherent and existent in his original formation?
December 10, 1838
150 YEARS AGOA Flying Ambulance Corps – The Sanitary Commission
have organized a “Flying Relief Department,” under the su-pervision of Dr. H.R. Baalan, similar to the plan so success-fully in the Russian Army in the Crimea, before the battle of Inkermann in 1854, and afterwards in both the English and French armies. This department will consist of two four-horse wagons, each wagon attended by one relief agent, two assistants and one driver. The wagons are loaded with sup-plies needed on the battlefield – refreshments, medicines, bandages, and a hundred little articles that come in use just when they are most badly needed and most difficult to get. The agent and assistants will be mounted on saddle horses. Two of these wagons have been stocked preparatory to go-ing to the Army of the Potomac.
December 11, 1863
125 YEARS AGOLocal: It is suggested that the Literary Society of
Cooperstown take the initiative in organizing the Otsego County Historical Society. The law against coasting on the sidewalks should be en-forced. If those who have icy walks in front of their prem-ises will take the proper means to do away with the danger often resulting therefrom, they will do a good deed. It is suggested that when the Cooperstown railroad orders new locomotives, they may be of the kind that uses crude petroleum instead of coal for fuel. They are pronounced a great success.
December 14, 1888
75 YEARS AGOThe Baseball Centennial celebration in Cooperstown next
year will have an official emblem. The insignia was shown for the first time at a meeting of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues in New Orleans. It is a red, white and blue square with a background of four red stripes, symbolic of the four balls in baseball and three white stripes
to represent the three strikes. A blue diamond is superim-posed on the stripes and a white baseball set in the center of the diamond. On the baseball, a sketch of a player in uniform completing a swing brings in graphically the action of the game. The date of the founding of the game here – 1839 – is balanced with the Centennial Year nu-merals on the opposite side. Across the base appear the words “Baseball Centennial.”
December 14, 1938 50 YEARS AGO
Republicans continue to outnumber Democrats in Otsego County by a little better than two to one ac-cording to enrollment figures released by the Board of Election Commissioners. Enrolled Republicans num-ber 13,191 compared with 13,715 a year ago while Democrats total 5,973 this year, only three fewer than the 5,976 enrolled for 1962. The Liberal Party has 101 enrolled members. The Conservative Party, which be-came a recognized party during the 1962 election, has 23 registered voters in Otsego County.
December 11, 1963
25 YEARS AGOYear-round woes from increased salinity levels in
Otsego Lake have caused village officials to pass a resolution to reduce salinization this winter. The resolu-tion was spearheaded by Cooperstown Trustee Hugh C. MacDougall, who drafted it after he heard the issue dis-cussed at the Otsego 2000 Conference at Cooperstown High School last summer. MacDougall said a number of people expressed concern to him about the runoff from snow which the village takes off its streets and stores in a parking lot above Fairy Springs Park. “That runoff,
including the salt, is possibly going into the lake,” Mac-Dougall said.
December 14, 1988
10 YEARS AGOThe CCS Elementary School Grade 4 Honor Roll: Alex-
andra Bayes, Kayleen Campbell, Harrison Clinton, Jeremy Denmeade, Samantha Devenpeck, Haley Hohensee, Linda Kenison, Matthew Kennedy, Jack Loewenguth, Shannon McManus, William Murphy, Margaret O’Handley, Hamad Sagheer, Patricia VanKampen, Alexis Merritt, William Derouin, Kathryn Evans, Jerimiah Ford, Sarah Millea, Ben-jamin Bauer, Jaina Ghandi, Jarrett Hotaling, Olivia Morris, Benjamin Pierson, Grace Livermore, Amber Rumberger, and Meghan Vann. Grade 4 Honor Roll: Victoria Ana-nia, Jenna Bloss, David Bonderoff, Samantha Borgstrom, Christen Dutkowsky, Erica Freund, Davin Gaviria, Natalie Grigoli, Laura Harmon, Robert Katz, Cynthia Kent, Anna Kramer, Julia Levandowski, Noble Mattson, Shyah Miller, Joshua Olmstead, Molly Pearlman, Samantha Race, Wil-liam Reis, Anna Sams, Emily Senif, Jessica Shelton and Caitlin Soraci.
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EDITORIAL/From A4about a “translation” into the ver-nacular? – but that Daniel Day-Lewis’ 1992 movie is an enduring hit demon-strates its modern-day power.
Bruce Shipman of Columbia’s emergence as senior spokesman for the many Natty Bumppo (David Ship-man) descendants underscores how “The Birthplace of Natty Bumppo” lives, paradoxically, even in his Todds-ville burial site.
There’s eternal Glimmerglass; there’s Natty Bumppo’s celebrated cave somewhere on its eastern shore; there’s Sunken Island of “Deerslayer” fame; there’s The Freeman’s Journal,
founded by Cooper’s father. (Admis-sion free; copies $1.)
•The Morse thing is almost com-
pletely ignored, (even though he, along with James Fenimore, was featured in David McCullough’s “The Greater Journey: Americans In Paris,” published just two years ago.)
Also a noted painter in his day, Morse’s most famous work, “Gallery of the Louvre,” hung first in Hyde Hall. And “The Birthplace of The Morse Code” is just a few miles up the road.
With the new year, Otsego County’s tourism effort will be privatized under
the mantra, “Heads in Beds.” The ef-fort, no doubt, will look to the Internet to fulfill its mission, but there’s work – content, it’s called these days – to be done at home.
Otsego County – with the Hall of Fame, Glimmerglass Opera, the NYSHA museums, Hyde Hall, Ommegang, etc., etc. – is already “sticky.” But our historic “birthplace of” headlines – of IBM, of Natty Bumppo, of the Morse Code – would make it even moreso.
Dare we mention “The Birthplace of the Fountain Pen”? Decatur, here we come!
PARKING/From A1“I don’t get the impres-
sion the board will end paid parking, but that’s always a possibility,” said the mayor the day before the meeting. “What I get is tweaking, to make it work better.”
The idea is to decide what revisions, if any, may be necessary going into the second season.
Then, at the trustees’ regular meeting – this month on Thursday the 19th – a public hearing can be set for the following month’s meeting – Monday, Jan. 27 – after changes for the 2014 season can be approved.
Since Wednesday’s meet-ing came after this edition went to press, those inter-ested in the outcome may
find it at this newspaper’s website, www.allotsego.com
Because the launch was highly debated, Katz said he expected “500 or 1,000 pieces of feedback” from the questionnaire posted on the village website and available at the Village Clerk’s Office.
That only 30 question-naires were filled out at first surprised him, Katz said, but it occurred to him that people are constantly giving him feedback at meetings or “on the street.” Thus, “since it’s started we’ve heard feedback from hundreds of people,” he said.
In the questionnaires, one respondent suggested expanding paid parking to other village streets, near
Bassett Hospital in particu-lar.
Others asked that obtain-ing a $20 parking permit, which allows drivers to avoid the P&D machines, be simplified, he said.
While the question-naires didn’t ask specifi-cally whether on-street paid parking should simply be abolished, the mayor said respondents figured out a way to make that point.
Still, only three called for outright abolition, one from the village, one from Gil-bertsville and a third from outside the area.
During the initial outcry about the P&D machines, merchants brought a suit seeking their abolition. State Supreme Court Judge Kevin Dowd heard the case, but has not yet issued a decision, Katz said.
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DEBATE/From A4there’s no gas in NY, then let us drill.
I was at a regional oil and gas summit a few weeks ago, filled with lawyers and fractivist leaders. It was almost unanimous that this road-show is a terrible idea.
If I had some free time I’d write a critique, but we have a pipeline to stop. That’s the pipeline that Cooperstown was ready to oppose until Lou Allstadt spoke, saying that the connection between pipelines and fracking is nonsense...
•From: rnied@ruralcom-
munities.orgDate: Sun, 8 Dec 2013
11:42:32 -0500
I agree with Anne Ma-rie. This presentation is highly flawed and
ignores historical evidence that geo-political instabil-ity can dramatically alter oil and gas markets, spike prices and make marginal fossil fuel sources attractive to those wishing to lever-age that instability for the sake of short-term profits. It wasn’t that long ago that the idea of shale gas extrac-tion was not considered feasible. I am not comforted or should you by claims that NY State is not a viable tar-get for fracking. It may not be this week but it certainly may be next year or the year after. Fracking is a reckless practice that is a real global threat...
Any presentation that claims fracking will never happen in Upstate NY while people are losing land to pipeline companies through eminent domain, or facing late night evacuation orders because of compressor station accidents can only be viewed as myopic and ignorant of any holistic un-derstanding of the gas/land exploitation scheme.
BOB NIED•
On Dec 8, 2013, at 9:37 PM, Ron Bishop wrote:
Friends, I have known Lou
Allstadt and Chip Northrup for a while now, and I have yet to see either of them ignore evidence (historical or otherwise) in any discussions or presen-tations. I haven’t known Jerry Acton as long, but his research approach is solid and his conclusions are ap-propriately conservative. I have never seen or heard
any of them suggest that we should relax our vigilance regarding the petroleum industry in any way, and I don’t share that part of your concern about their collec-tive message.
They have attempted to describe current realities to the best of their considerable abilities, now to face criti-cism from you and others who are inclined toward speculation about what could happen if... maybe....
I don’t find fault with anyone who is convinced of petroleum industry opera-tors’ nefarious intent (there is plenty of evidence for that), or those who are trou-bled by the many unsolved problems with petroleum transportation infrastructure – which, as I recall, Lou mentioned in his presenta-tion as an ongoing threat.
I find fault with the idea of boycotting an event dedi-cated to presenting current facts on the ground because they may be inconvenient truths for your cause.
RON BIshOP •
On Sunday, December 8, 2013, Carole Marner wrote:
Thank you. This divisive episode has been very troubling
and I deeply appreciate your thoughtful and constructive comments.
CAROLE MARNER
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The jacquard was wo-ven on a 1930s loom with a 1960s head in a damask weave structure, which has the grounding threads going in one direction and the filling threads going in the opposite direction. “You think of a fancy white table-cloth with a flower print, your eye catches the design, but it’s all one color,” she said. “The light reflects the
threads differently. That’s what makes damask.”
Because modern wool is “too soft” to give the fabric the proper weight and feel, the weaver is using a special yarn spun with 20 percent mohair. The fabric would be used for drapery, bed hangings and upholstery.
Currently, only 22 yards are available and will be for sale at Thistle Hill Weav-ers open house on Saturday, Dec. 14, where Goody will deliver the lecture, “Luxury Fabrics of the 18th Cen-tury.”
“After Saturday, we have a carpet to run on the same loom,” she said. “This warp was just a proof pattern.”
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other color variations of the jacquard in the future. “I did this because I wanted to do it,” she said. “I figured it was time.”
EC-DEV/From A1chair of the county Board of Representatives, and Oneonta’s city Mayor Dick Miller and town Supervisor Bob Wood.
The plan is, first, to hire a con-sultant with expertise and a track record to restructure the IDA with the new mission in mind, accord-ing to a press release from the senator’s office.
The consultant will also ad-vise the IDA on the hiring of an economic-development director, and help train that new individual in what’s necessary to attract jobs, both from such in-state efforts as the nanotechnology initiatives in Albany, Utica and Binghamton, and elsewhere.
While that new director is being recruited and trained, the consul-tant will begin identifying future employers to pursue, according to
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“The IDA, with some new per-sonnel, will take that lead role and I am confident we will excel,” the senator said.
The announcement resolves a debate that has been underway since Carolyn Lewis, the county’s economic developer, announced in April that she would be resigning the job in August.
In a role that was described as “reactive,” the IDA, through its bonding authority, has enabled such projects as Springbrook’s
$15 million expansion and the $15 million, 350-student Hillside Commons housing complex near SUNY Oneonta.
While appreciating that role, county Rep. Betty Anne Schwerd, R-Edmeston, the county board’s rep on the IDA, Miller and mem-bers of Citizen Voices, a pro-growth businesspeople’s group, argued for a more “pro-active” role in bringing jobs here.
“Now,” said Seward, “a definite course is established and we are prepared to embark on a new path toward future economic growth and prosperity in Otsego County.”
The interim IDA director since Lewis’ departure, Doug Gulotty, had argued for an inclusive eco-nomic-development initiative, and Seward embraced that as well.
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“Otsego County’s stakeholders are committed to working collec-tively for the greater good. There is bona fide energy, excitement and expectations coming together and I feel we are on the cusp of a true breakthrough that will pay long-term dividends,” the senator said.
Key players at the meeting also expressed satisfaction at the outcome.
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EAST SPRINGFIELD – Ronald A. Van Alstine, Sr., who was raised on a farm in East Springfield and became a successful building contractor in Sara-toga County, passed away Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2013, at his home in Mayfield, on Great Sacadanga Lake. He was 72.
The son of Earl and Hazel (Slingerland) Van Alstine, he attended East Springfield School, where he excelled in athletics and attended Boys State. He married his high school sweetheart, Kathy Scott, on July 2, 1960. They celebrated their 53rd anni-versary this year.
He began his career as a linotype operator at the Little Falls Times and Saratoga Printing Co. Later, he owned and operated Park Place Mobile Home Park in Porters Corners, Saratoga County. He built many cus-tom homes in the Saratoga/Wilton/Greenfield market.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by three chil-dren, Connie and Joe Larkin of Denver, Colo., Ronald Van Alstine, Jr. of Saratoga, and Penny and Albert Gid-dings of Kingwood, Texas; seven grandchildren and one step-granddaughter, a brother and sisters.
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Born Sept. 28, 1948 at Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, Carol was the daughter of Victor and Marian (Beauman) Wil-liams. She was raised on the family farm on Christian Hill and attended Hartwick Elementary and Hartwick High School. She married her high school sweetheart Ronald McLean of Ed-meston and they resided on Christian Hill and later Zachow Road property for over 45 years.
Carol enjoyed the out of doors and nature in general. She loved animals of every kind, especially her horses which she rode at every opportunity. She was an extremely hard worker and was always an active par-ticipant in the many chores around the farm.
Carol was also well known for her homemade butter which she sold locally
and far beyond. She was proud that she and her hus-band had personally built, from logs they had harvest-ed, their log cabin home.
She is survived by her husband Ronald, her two sons, Edward of Prattsville and Charles of Hartwick, and her grandchildren. She is also survived by her sister Natalie Hawley of Bing-hamton, her sister Marlene Bryant of Cooperstown, her sister Victoria Kap-pler (Richard) of Texas, her brother James Williams (Marjorie) of Tennessee and many nieces, nephews and friends.
In accordance with Carol’s wishes there will be no services.
Donations may be made in Carol’s memory to either the American Can-cer Society, 8 Oak Avenue, Sidney, NY 13838 or The Susquehanna SPCA, 4841 St. Hwy 28, Cooperstown, NY 13326.
Arrangements are en-trusted to Tillapaugh Funeral Service, Cooperstown.
OBITUARIESMichael A. Swiderski, 45; Represented City On County BoardONEONTA – Michael
A. Swiderski, 45, who represented the City of Oneonta’s Wards 5 and 6 on the Otsego County Board of Representative when he was in his 30s, died suddenly on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013, of a heart attack.
Mike was born in Oneonta on Feb. 9, 1968, to Janis R. Bigwood-Swiderski and Eliguisz Swiderski. He was educated in Oneonta
schools, graduating from Oneonta High School and attending SUNY Oneonta.
He married Michelle Shultis of Schenevus and to-gether they created a family with Andrew Michael and Jameson Edmund.
After running his fam-ily business, Country Club Liquors, Mike joined Opici Wine Co. of New York, East Syracuse, as a wine and liquor consultant.
In addition to Andrew and Jamie of Schenevus and their mother, Michelle Shultis-Swiderski, survi-vors include his mother, Janis Swiderski of Largo, Fla., and two sisters, Emilia Borelli and her husband, Nicholas, and their son, Cooper, and Dr. Marianne Soden and her son, Justin.
Calling hours were Wednesday, Dec. 11, at Grummons Funeral Home. A funeral mass was planned at 10:15 a.m. on Thurs-day, Dec. 12, at St. Mary’s Church in Oneonta.
Arrangements are entrust-ed to the Lester R. Grum-mons Funeral Home.
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