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HOMETOWN ONEONTA, THE LARGEST CIRCULATION NEWSPAPER IN OTSEGO COUNTY,2010 WINNER OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD
COMPLIMENTARYVolume 4, No. 17 Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, January 13, 2012
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FOOTHILLS’ SHOW LAUNCHES WEDDING YEAR
Weddings GaloreSEE B1-5
Buy TicketsFor 6th WardHomecoming
Tickets for the 6th Ward Athletic Club’s fi rst ever “Joe and Mary’s
Banquet” go on sale Mon-day, Jan. 16, at the clubhouse at 22 West Broadway.
In memory of Joe and Mary DeFiore, who owned Joe and Mary’s Restaurant, now the clubhouse, will feature such DeFiore trade-marks at sliced roast beef, ham with gravy, Polish-style pigs in the blanket and other favorites.
Tickets are $30 apiece for the Saturday, April 7, event. Dinner will begin at 7 p.m.
NICOLS RETIRES: Cooperstown Police Chief Diana Nicols, who began her career in 1995 as an OPD offi cer, has been granted disability and will retire Jan. 22. She will keynote at the county Law Enforcement Academy commencement Saturday, Jan. 14 at SUNY Oneonta.
ON THE TRAIL: Led by Assistant Professor of Political Science Gina Keel, 11 SUNY Oneonta students in the Presidential Election Campaigns course spent fi ve days leading up to the Tues-day, Jan. 10, New Hampshire Primary tailing GOP hope-fuls in the Granite State.
LARKIN TAPPED: For-mer Cincinnati Red Barry Larkin will enter the Nation-al Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown next July.
By JIM KEVLIN
COOPERSTOWN
Soft-spoken county Rep. Linda Rowinski, D-Oneonta, spoke,
and the course of the Otsego County Board of Represen-tatives was changed.
Two Republi-can war horses who had been battling to become county board chair – Don Lindberg of Worcester, and Jim Powers of South New Berlin – were suddenly sidelined. And Kathy Clark, entering her third term as Republican county rep for Otego and Laurens, had been given the prize.
“We were stunned. Kathy Clark was stunned,” said county Rep. Kay Stulig-ross, one of Rowinski’s Democratic colleagues from Oneonta. “Nobody knew it was coming.”
In an interview a couple of days later at Oneonta Abstract Corp. – Rowinski is the company’s president – the reluctant revolution-
Please See RULES, A9
ROWINSKI RULES!ONEONTA REP SHAKES UP COUNTY BOARD
Rowinski
TREASURE-TROVE-TO-BE
Mike Naples, An Extraordinary GuyMike Na-ples and his wife Jean at his New Year’s Day swearing-in as city council-man.
HOMETOWN ONEONTA
By JIM KEVLIN
The 6,000 people who have been visiting the Oneonta His-tory Center annually will just
have to wait.At least until April 1, while the
Greater Oneonta Historical Society’s “phase two” of 183 Main St., the society’s headquarters in the 1865 Bissell Block – it’s the oldest brick building in the downtown – is reno-vated for even greater attractions to come.
The Bissell Block, fondly re-
membered as the one-time home of Lascaris candy and ice cream and Galen’s Jewelry, was purchased by the historical society in 2001 and, after extensive renovations, the now-familiar fi rst-fl oor exhibition space opened to the public in 2006.
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COMING UP: A profi le of Otego’s Kathy Clark, new chair of the Otsego County Board of Representatives, will appear in next week’s Hometown Oneonta.
Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTAThe GOHS’ Building Committee chair Mike Murphy, left, President Janet Potter and Executive Director Bob Brzozowski stride across the third-fl oor ballroom of the History Center. Its resto-ration with be the highpoint of a restoration in progress.
GOHS Raises $110,000 Toward ‘Phase 2’ Goal
Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTAKurt Rotzler and Geor-gina McKay exchange a kiss after being declared man and wife in the fi rst wedding at the Plains at Par-ish Homestead Friday, Jan. 6. (Details, B1)
Mike Naples, a man of faith, of love of family, of enthusiasms, is being mourned by many in
his beloved Sixth Ward and beyond.“His love of this ward, even before he
was alderman, surpasses any I’ve ever seen,” said Bill Shue, friend and former alderman himself. “On people’s lawns, you can see their ‘I Like Mike’ signs wrapped with black ribbon.”
Michael F. Naples was stricken Mon-day morning, Jan. 9, just eight days after being sworn onto City Council. He was 58.
You didn’t have to spend much time in Oneonta before running into Mike
Please See NAPLES, B10
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HOMETOWN People
Oneonta Teen Center Puppets won the $100 “Best of Pa-
rade” award from the First Night Committee.
$50 winners were:• Most Creative – YMCA
Zumba Dancers and Orcas• Most Colorful – Tinny
Wilkens Indonesian Folk• Most Musical – Otsego
County Fair• Most Outrageous – Cos-
mic Karma Fire
• Most Humorous – De-railing Darlings
• Most Enterprising – Delaware County Fair
• Liveliest – Catskill Mountain Balloon
• Best Use of Animals – Delaware Valley Humane Society Judges were Dr. Benjamin Friedell, Ben Guenther, Rachel Jessup, Rev. Cynthia Walton-Leavitt and Elaine Downing
Laura Schulte and Ed-ward Hernandez were united in marriage on
Oct. 29 by the Rev. Joseph Benintende at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Oneonta.
The bride is the daughter of Kurt and Julie Schulte of Oneonta.
The groom is the son of Thomas and Hannah Her-nandez of Westford.
Kristin Winn and Sarah Wheeling were the maids of honor. Bridesmaids were Laura (Vescio) Schulte, sis-ter-in-law of the bride; Tedra (Fazendeiro) Clark, cousin of the bride; Julia Hernan-dez, sister of the groom, and Hayley Youngs and Shaylin Graham.
Thomas Rinaldi and Clint Mathewson were the best
men. Groomsmen were Matthew and David Schulte, brothers of the bride, Matt Siudy, Dan Sheehan and Wayne Cohn.
Aaron and Elena Clark were the ring bearer and fl ower girl.
The organist was Don Embling and soloist was Donna Schulte, aunt of the bride. Readings were done by Geraldine Goodrich and Betty Schulte, grandmoth-ers of the bride, and Julia Hernandez.
The reception was held at the Holiday Inn/Southside, where the bride and groom were surprised with a special performance by “Too Many Divas.”
Mr. and Mrs. Hernandez reside in Oneonta.
Mayor Miller and SUNY Oneonta Professor Dr. Caridad Souza-Watkins will be honored with the
2012 Thurgood Marshall Unity Award for their contributions to civil rights efforts at the NAACP’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration on Sunday, Jan. 15.
Miller will be honored for his work in facilitating civil rights within the Oneonta Police department, while Souza-Watkins
will receive the award for her continuing work in the fi elds of civil, women’s and hu-man rights.
The program will feature music, birthday cake, readings from King’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech and a keynote address by Kristen Clarke, chief, Civil Rights Bureau, state Attorney General’s Offi ce.
The celebration will be 2-4 p.m. at the First Baptist Church, at 71 Chestnut St.
NAACP To Honor Mayor, Prof. Souza-Watkins
Yun-Jung Choi, SUNY Oneonta fashion and textiles professor,
presented a research paper, “Hierarchical Conceptual-ization of Self-Determined Motivation for Thrift Shop-ping,” at the 2011 Interna-tional Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA) Annual Conference in November in Philadelphia.
The study considers a hierarchical structure of motivation to understand self-determined motivation for purchasing secondhand merchandise at thrift stores.
REAPPOINTED: The state Council for the Human-ities has reappointed SUNY Oneonta history professor William Simons to a three-year term as speaker in the humanities.
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Hernandez
Laura Schulte, Edward HernandezAre Wed At St. Mary’s In October
Fashion ProfessorPresents Paper OnThrift Store Habits
Teen Center Puppets Tops At Parade
Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTAMayor Miller, right, stopped by a celebration of First Night Oneonta’s suc-cess at Jacquie Gibson’s Monday, Jan. 9, to toast the organizing commit-tee’s accomplishment. From left are committee members David Hayes, chair, and Pam Strother, Rich Murphy, Will Lunn, Carol Mandigo, Ian Austin, Janet Potter, Galina Whitman, Jacquie Gibson and Paul Robinson. “Resi-dents and visitors attended some 100 live performances,” Hayes reported, “the board raised enough money to mount a successful festival, and First Night fi nished the year in the black.”
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Thursdays: February 9, 16, 23; March 1: 6:00-8:00 pmFee: $45.00 Max: 10 students
THE JOYS OF WATERCOLOR PAINTING I:Mondays: February 6, 13, 20, 27: 6:00-8:00 pmFee: $45.00 Max: 10 students
THE JOYS OF WATERCOLOR PAINTING II:Mondays: March 5, 12, 26; April 2: 6:00-8:00 pmFee: $45.00 Max: 10 students
THE JOYS OF WATERCOLOR PAINTING III:Mondays: April 9, 16, 23, 30: 6:00-8:00 pmFee: $45.00 Max: 10 students
THE JOYS OF WATERCOLOR PAINTING IV (Sidney Memorial Lib.):Mondays: April 2, 9, 16, 23: 10:00am-12:00 pmFee: $45.00 Max: 10 students
SPRING BOW MAKING:Tuesday: February 21: 6:00-9:00 pmFee: $15.00 Max: 10 students
SPRING WREATH MAKING:Tuesday: March 27: 6:00-9:00 pm Fee: $15.00 Max: 10 students
NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY (Cooperstown Graduate program facility):Saturday: May 5: 2:00-5:00 pmFee: $30.00 Max: 12 students
HOLIDAY CUPCAKE DECORATING:Thursday: February 9: 6:00-8:00 pmFee: $25.00 Max: 20 students
WRITINGMEMOIR II : Writing the Story of You II(Cont. from Fall 2011 Memoir I):
Thursdays: February 2, 9, 16, 23: 6:00-7:30 pmFee: $45.00 Max: 20 students
MEMOIR I: Writing the Story of You IThursdays: March 8, 15, 22, 29; April 5, 12, 19: 6:00-7:30Fee: $70.00 Max: 20 students
WRITING FOR THE INTERNET:Sunday: April 8: 7:00-9:00Fee: $30.00 Max: 20 students
TRADITIONAL EASTERN MEDICINEACUPRESSURE & TUI NA (MASSAGE):
Thursdays: March 1, 8, 15: 6:00-7:00 pmFee: $50.00 Max: 15 students
QI GONG (EXERCISE):Thursdays: March 29; April 5, 12: 6:00-7:00 pmFee: $50.00 Max: 20 students
LIFE-SAVING SKILLSCPR/AED CERTIFICATION COURSE: This is a 4-hour course of-fered on the following dates:
January 30; February 16; March 13; April 17, 30; May 3Each of the above courses are held from 6:00-10:00 pmSaturday: March 3: 10:00-2:00 pmSaturday: April 14: 2:00-6:00 pm
*NOTE* Certification is not guaranteed; must pass exams Fee: SUNY Students: $25.00; NON-SUNY Students: $35.00Max: 8 students
DEFENSIVE DRIVING: This is a 6-hour course offered:February 13&15; March 12&14; April 16&18; May 7&9; June 11&13: 6:00-9:00 pm
*NOTE* Must attend both nightsFee: SUNY Students: $25.00; NON-SUNY Students: $35.00
DANCE/FITNESS
ARGENTINE TANGO II:Wednesdays: February 8, 15, 22, 29: 6:30– 8:00 pmFee: $45.00 Max: 20
SALSA:Wednesdays: March 7, 14, 28; April 4: 6:30– 8:00 pmFee: $45.00 Max: 20
WEST COAST SWING:Wednesdays: April 18, 25; May 2, 9: 6:30-8:00 pmFee: $45.00 Max: 20
ZUMBA I:Tuesdays: February 7, 14, 21, 28; March 6, 13: 5:30-6:30 pmFee: $45.00 Max: 18
ZUMBA II:Tuesdays: March 27; April 3, 10, 17, 24; May 1: 5:30-6:30 pmFee: $45.00 Max: 18
SPRING INTO FITNESS I:Mondays: February 6, 13, 20, 27; March 5, 12: 5:30-6:30 pmFee: $40.00 Max: 20
SPRING INTO FITNESS II:Mondays: March 26; April 2, 9, 16, 23; May 7: 5:30-6:30 pmFee: $40.00 Max: 20
OUTDOOR ACTIVITIESBEE KEEPING:
Tuesday: February 7: 6:00-9:00 pmFee: $25.00 Max: 20 students
KAYAKING:Tuesday/Wednesday: March 6, 7: 6:00-8:00 pmFee: $45.00 Max: 8 students
FLYING STARTS (PRE-FLIGHT COURSE):Thursdays: February 2- May 3 (no class 3/22): 6:00-9:00 pmFee: $150.00 Max: 20 students
COOPERSTOWN COURSES*NOTE* All of the following courses will be held at the SUNY Oneonta Cooperstown Graduate program facility in Cooperstown KNOW YOUR TECHNOLOGY:
Wednesday: February 29: 6:00-8:30 pmFee: $30.00 Max:18 students
INTRODUCTION TO CARTOONING:Thursday: March 29: 6:00-8:00 pmFee: $40.00
INTRODUCTION TO WINE: Appreciation and TastingsThursday: April 19: 6:00-7:30 pmFee: $45.00 Max:24 students
FROM ANCIENT VINES TO MODERN WINES: History of GrapesThursday: April 26: 6:00-7:30 pmFee: $30.00
A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN: Food and Wine PairingsThursday: May 3: 6:00-7:30 pmFee: $45.00 Max:24 students
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ARTS/CRAFTS/BAKINGPAINTING WITH PASTELS:
Thursdays: February 9, 16, 23; March 1: 6:00-8:00 pmFee: $45.00 Max: 10 students
THE JOYS OF WATERCOLOR PAINTING I:Mondays: February 6, 13, 20, 27: 6:00-8:00 pmFee: $45.00 Max: 10 students
THE JOYS OF WATERCOLOR PAINTING II:Mondays: March 5, 12, 26; April 2: 6:00-8:00 pmFee: $45.00 Max: 10 students
THE JOYS OF WATERCOLOR PAINTING III:Mondays: April 9, 16, 23, 30: 6:00-8:00 pmFee: $45.00 Max: 10 students
THE JOYS OF WATERCOLOR PAINTING IV (Sidney Memorial Lib.):Mondays: April 2, 9, 16, 23: 10:00am-12:00 pmFee: $45.00 Max: 10 students
SPRING BOW MAKING:Tuesday: February 21: 6:00-9:00 pmFee: $15.00 Max: 10 students
SPRING WREATH MAKING:Tuesday: March 27: 6:00-9:00 pm Fee: $15.00 Max: 10 students
NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY (Cooperstown Graduate program facility):Saturday: May 5: 2:00-5:00 pmFee: $30.00 Max: 12 students
HOLIDAY CUPCAKE DECORATING:Thursday: February 9: 6:00-8:00 pmFee: $25.00 Max: 20 students
WRITINGMEMOIR II : Writing the Story of You II(Cont. from Fall 2011 Memoir I):
Thursdays: February 2, 9, 16, 23: 6:00-7:30 pmFee: $45.00 Max: 20 students
MEMOIR I: Writing the Story of You IThursdays: March 8, 15, 22, 29; April 5, 12, 19: 6:00-7:30Fee: $70.00 Max: 20 students
WRITING FOR THE INTERNET:Sunday: April 8: 7:00-9:00Fee: $30.00 Max: 20 students
TRADITIONAL EASTERN MEDICINEACUPRESSURE & TUI NA (MASSAGE):
Thursdays: March 1, 8, 15: 6:00-7:00 pmFee: $50.00 Max: 15 students
QI GONG (EXERCISE):Thursdays: March 29; April 5, 12: 6:00-7:00 pmFee: $50.00 Max: 20 students
LIFE-SAVING SKILLSCPR/AED CERTIFICATION COURSE: This is a 4-hour course offered on the following dates:
January 30; February 16; March 13; April 17, 30; May 3Each of the above courses are held from 6:00-10:00 pmSaturday: March 3: 10:00-2:00 pmSaturday: April 14: 2:00-6:00 pm
*NOTE* Certification is not guaranteed; must pass exams Fee: SUNY Students: $25.00; NON-SUNY Students: $35.00Max: 8 students
DEFENSIVE DRIVING: This is a 6-hour course offered:February 13&15; March 12&14; April 16&18; May 7&9; June 11&13: 6:00-9:00 pm
*NOTE* Must attend both nightsFee: SUNY Students: $25.00; NON-SUNY Students: $35.00
DANCE/FITNESSVINYASA FLOW YOGA I WITH VALERIE:
Wednesdays: February 8, 15, 22, 29; March 7, 14, 28: 6:00-7:30 pmFee: $50.00 Max: 20
VINYASA FLOW YOGA II WITH VALERIE:Wednesdays: April 4, 18, 25; May 2, 9, 16, 23: 6:00-7:30 pmFee: $50.00 Max: 20
ARGENTINE TANGO II:Wednesdays: February 8, 15, 22, 29: 6:30– 8:00 pmFee: $45.00 Max: 20
SALSA:Wednesdays: March 7, 14, 28; April 4: 6:30– 8:00 pmFee: $45.00 Max: 20
WEST COAST SWING:Wednesdays: April 18, 25; May 2, 9: 6:30-8:00 pmFee: $45.00 Max: 20
ZUMBA I:Tuesdays: February 7, 14, 21, 28; March 6, 13: 5:30-6:30 pmFee: $45.00 Max: 18
ZUMBA II:Tuesdays: March 27; April 3, 10, 17, 24; May 1: 5:30-6:30 pmFee: $45.00 Max: 18
SPRING INTO FITNESS I:Mondays: February 6, 13, 20, 27; March 5, 12: 5:30-6:30 pmFee: $40.00 Max: 20
SPRING INTO FITNESS II:Mondays: March 26; April 2, 9, 16, 23; May 7: 5:30-6:30 pmFee: $40.00 Max: 20
OUTDOOR ACTIVITIESBEE KEEPING:
Tuesday: February 7: 6:00-9:00 pmFee: $25.00 Max: 20 students
KAYAKING:Tuesday/Wednesday: March 6, 7: 6:00-8:00 pmFee: $45.00 Max: 8 students
FLYING STARTS (PRE-FLIGHT COURSE):Thursdays: February 2- May 3 (no class 3/22): 6:00-9:00 pmFee: $150.00 Max: 20 students
COOPERSTOWN COURSES*NOTE* All of the following courses will be held at the SUNY Oneonta Cooperstown Graduate program facility in Cooperstown
KNOW YOUR TECHNOLOGY:Wednesday: February 29: 6:00-8:30 pmFee: $30.00 Max:18 students
INTRODUCTION TO CARTOONING:Thursday: March 29: 6:00-8:00 pmFee: $40.00
INTRODUCTION TO WINE: Appreciation and TastingsThursday: April 19: 6:00-7:30 pmFee: $45.00 Max:24 students
FROM ANCIENT VINES TO MODERN WINES: History of GrapesThursday: April 26: 6:00-7:30 pmFee: $30.00
A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN: Food and Wine PairingsThursday: May 3: 6:00-7:30 pmFee: $45.00 Max:24 students
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012A-4 HOMETOWN ONEONTA
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HOMETOWN ONEONTA& The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch
EDITORIAL
All modern nations recog-nize the responsibility to build and maintain roads,
and the resulting benefit. In Otsego County, we seem to have forgotten ours.
Lately, there have been com-plaints out of Edmeston that truck traffic in and out of the Chobani plant in South Edmeston is caus-ing wear and tear on local roads. Frankly, the 600 jobs that Chobani has created – and more to come – are a benefit to the economy (and tax coffers) that more than outweigh the cost.
Rather than worry about roads being driven on – that’s what they’re there for – local, county and state government should be ensuring Chobani – as with any thriving business – has all the public infrastructure it needs to continue thriving.
So it should go with regulations the Otsego County Board of Rep-resentatives passed Dec. 21, which will allow the county to send the bill to specific businesses whose truck traffic leads to deteriorating of county roads.
The aim is anti-fracking, but the regulations are too broad brush. If communities don’t want fracking, apply Home Rule authority and zone it out.
While the county board’s intent isn’t to burden existing busi-nesses, the regulations could well be applied to the next Chobani, to a new logging operation or milk route, to an expanding beer-brew-ing industry, to traffic in and out of a new resort or tourist attrac-tion, you name it.
The regulations put Otsego County at a competitive disad-vantage vis a vis our neighboring counties – for instance, Chobani is in Chenango County, just across
Unadilla Creek; why would it expand on the Otsego side? The regs should be rescinded.
•One benefit of the controversy
surrounding the regulations – more than 100 businesspeople met twice with state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, in recent weeks to voice concerns about “unintended consequences” of fracking – is the senator’s resulting plan for an economic-development “summit.”
Great idea; details a few so far, but a plan is being developed.
Assuming the summit will be convened, it has to be more than a feel-good exercise – or, worse, a feel-bad exercise, where ev-erybody goes home mad. There should be a deliverable, an out-come, an action plan – the simpler
the better.Some possibilities:• The Cuomo Administration
is committed to funneling eco-nomic-development money to localities through the 10 regional commissions. So it makes sense for Otsego County to develop an economic-development strategy that aligns with that of its Mo-hawk Valley Regional Economic Development Commission.
If SUNY-IT’s nanotechnology and the former Griffiss AFB’s cyber-security initiatives are the crown jewels, what can we do – via training or spinoff manufac-turing, or a technology-focused community college (U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., introduced a Community College Innovation Act in recent days that
would provided millions to estab-lish two-year schools; why not in Hartwick or Milford?) – to plug into that effort?
• SUNY Oneonta President Nancy Kleniewski told the county’s Albany delegation at the Otsego County Chamber’s State of the State luncheon Jan. 2 that the college wants to get an incubator going. Great idea. In music industry or fashion, per-haps. Skills and creativity abound in those majors, but the students have been graduating and going elsewhere.
• Something as simple as identi-fying the Upstate county with the most effective economic-develop-ment office – Seward spokesman Jeff Bishop says Herkimer and Greene are most effective in the 51st District – and modeling our county office after it in funding, outreach, staffing, etc. would be a first step that would continue ac-cruing benefits in the years ahead.
There are professionals out there who do economic-develop-ments summits. Maybe we don’t need to reinvent the wheel.
•One of Seward’s greatest at-
tributes is diplomacy, which can seem a lot like elusiveness. So his bluntness at the second meet-ing with the businesspeople was both unusual and healthy: Otsego County is the economic-develop-ment laggard among Herkimer, Greene and the other six counties in his district, he declared.
And, he said, he doesn’t intend to retreat from the Home Rule doctrine – that as much decision-making as possible should occur at the local level. (That said, despite his seniority, he wouldn’t guaran-tee his S5830 bill affirming Home Rule will become law.)
So fracking may very well be determined town by town. Regardless, as an economic-de-velopment strategy, fracking is a non-starter. It’s a get-rich-quick scheme, where huge gas compa-nies and a few local landowners get wealthy and the rest of us are left to clean up the mess. Frack-ing hasn’t yet been proved safe; until it is, we would risk poison-ing our families for an tempo-rary boon. Do we have so little appreciation for our considerable community strengths and assets?
That said, we CAN benefit from fracking elsewhere.
There are $60,000 jobs for the asking in Bradford County, Pa. Why not duplicate the Bradford County Progress Authority’s two-week training program for would-be drill workers and run a bus, or two, or three daily from Oneonta to the drilling fields? Give local folks a chance to get those pay-checks, which they’ll then spend here.
And why shouldn’t our truck and tractor dealers, our contrac-tors, our construction companies and our gravel pits serve north-eastern Pennsylvania’s drilling enterprises? There’s money to be made only 90 minutes away. Can that market be developed for us? Our nation sends economic-de-velopment missions to China and Cuba. Let’s send a county mis-sion to Towanda.
Bad ideas can sometimes spur better ones, and that could be what’s happening in Otsego County. If the road regulations are a mistake, they have led to a conversation that’s needed and promising.
What’s been lacking is leader-ship, and it looks like Senator Seward is about to provide it.
HOMETOWN ONEONTAState Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, signs in Jan. 2 at the second of two meetings with more than 100 businesspeo-ple at the Carriage House on Southside Oneonta in the past month. Behind him is Duncan Davie, his chief of staff. At right, Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller chats with businessman Tom Armao, one of the organizers.
Seward Has Stature To Provide Economic-Development Leadership
PRO & CON
During “privilege of the floor” at my first county Board
of Representatives meeting Wednesday, Jan. 4, open to anyone wishing to speak, I witnessed a food fight over considering a resolution supporting Senator Seward’s Home Rule clarification bill.
The pro-gassers offered up red herring and baloney. The anti frackers offered up organic home grown food, yogurt and beer.
The red herring was the claim of “unintended conse-quences” in other commerce areas, when the bill actually applies solely to mineral extraction. The baloney was that passing it would send the message New York State is “closed to business.”
Chip Northrup, a Texas oil man who summers here emailed me countering, “All of the major O&G produc-ing states, notably Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Colorado, are Home Rule states.” Clearly those states are “open for busi-ness.”
Anti-frackers offered organic food as a growth industry dependent on clean water. They also offered the job expansions of Chobani and Ommegang, dependent on clean water for beer and uncontaminated grazing fields to provide milk for yogurt.
Pro-gassers do not under-
stand that the gas industry is like the T-Rex in Jurassic Park. It eats everything. It eats the good guys. It eats the bad guys. Pro-gassers will not be spared. The gas industry won’t deal with them. Gas companies want leases for next to nothing and simply want enough leased acreage to compul-sory integrate the adjoining acreage without paying any sign-on bonuses.
Simply put, the gas indus-try lies, cheats and steals.
It lies like it did in the Traverse City, Mich., area, where it promised sign-on bonuses per acre to those willing to lease, then walked away after drilling a dry hole without paying a cent.
It cheats as a successful class action lawsuit in Vir-ginia demonstrated, where they shorted lease holders the full amount of gas royal-ties they were due.
It steals as it does in five-year leases signed with landholders that actually have clauses that allow it to keep the mineral rights forever.
Clarification of Home Rule will help communities preserve our state constitu-tional rights of municipal self government. Without protections, the gas industry just keeps coming at us with their annual 100+ million dollar PR and lobbying budgets.
They Lie, Cheat, Steal
At a meeting in Hart-ford last year, a lady stood up and told us
she was shocked – shocked – that 19 wells in Quebec were leaking methane. One leaked as much as two and a half cubic feet of gas per day. Quebec, she said, is-sued a moratorium.
A back-of-the-envelope calculation put total emis-sions at about $7 worth of gas a day. Pretty shabby reason to shut down an in-dustry, considering … Cows belch and otherwise emit an average of 300 liters of gas a day. With about 11,000 cows on farms in Otsego County, Otsego‘s dairy herd emits over 75 times the gas
leaking from those Quebec wells. And we’re not even talking the manure pile. What do we do? Cull the herd?
Methane vents from our bathrooms and methane seeps from our tap water. Stephen Penningroth of the Community Science Institute of Ithaca, speaking at a County Water Quality Coordinating Committee meeting last fall, said his or-ganization found 50 percent of the water wells tested in our area proved positive for methane.
Admittedly only a small sample of wells (87), but Chesapeake Oil and Gas (CHP) has extensively
tested in Pennsylvania. Last year CHP pre-tested more than 2,000 water wells and found over 25 percent had methane in the water, all venting to the atmosphere. More recent testing, with 16,000 samples taken, finds that one in three samples fail one or more of the EPA standards for clean water.
However, all this is chump change when you consider the methane bub-bling up from decayed material at the bottoms of lakes and wetlands or seep-ing from forest beds. One side effect of climate change is the permafrost melt in the vast tundra areas sur-rounding the Arctic Circle. Just south of the tundra is a ring of taiga, a swath of swampy coniferous forest. As the permafrost melts, methane is released. The combined release of meth-ane by these two sources is galactic, an estimated 50 gigatons. That’s 50 fol-lowed by nine zeros, folks – 50,000,000,000 tons
When it comes to energy, there’s no free lunch.
Coal provides 45 percent of our electricity – but you have to lop off mountaintops in West Virginia or plow 50-foot trenches in Wyoming to extract the stuff. Nuclear, the source of 20 percent of our supply, has huge up-front costs and, well, think Fukushima.
Likewise hydro (7 per-cent). It’s costly to construct and not without human and ecological damages. Oil powers only 1 percent of our electricity, but almost all of our transportation. Until shale, we’ve searched for oil in ever-more difficult environments and politically unstable areas of the world with obvious environmental consequences.
Wind provides 2 percent of our electricity but it isn’t problem free. The 400-foot wind turbines need to be built, maintained and rebuilt at the end of their useful lives. It would take 600 of these turbines, one every half mile from New York City to Albany on both sides of the Hudson, to power one third of New York City when (that’s WHEN!) the wind blows. A nice addi-tion to the energy mix but not THE ANSWER. Solar generates less than 1 percent of our electrical output. The problem: large scale storage technologies. The solution: generations away.
Which leaves us gas, the source of 25 percent of our electrical output. Not with-out problems but 30 percent cleaner than oil and 50 per-cent cleaner than coal.
No matter. No matter that the DEC will have spent four years of study on the safety of shale produce-
Please See PRO, A6
RICHARD DOWNEY • President, Unatego Area Landowners Association JOHN KOSMER • County Rep, District 8
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012 HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-5
HOMETOWN HistoryCompiled by TOM HEITZ with resources courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library
30 YEARS AGO
January 1982
125 YEARS AGOThe gentleman who is to start the chair factory in Oneon-
ta was in town this week, and submitted for examination the ground plans for the buildings of the factory, fi ve in number as follows: main building, boiler and engine room, paint shop, drying building and offi ce. These buildings are to be of brick, and the plans provide a more extensive establish-ment than was expected. A meeting of the committee was held on Monday evening when a contract was made to deed to the chair manufacturer, as soon as the foundations for the buildings are laid, about ten acres of land lying near the railroad track, on Fonda Avenue. The land is donated by Mr. Fonda, Reynolds & Wilcox, Mrs. Whitney and A.C. Lewis, from property owned by them in the locality. Work upon the foundation for the factory will begin as soon as the frost is out of the ground. The chair factory promises to be of benefi t to Oneonta in various ways. Aside from the employment of a large force of men, it will provide work in their homes for scores of women and girls at caning the bot-toms of chairs, and in addition to this, will furnish a good market for the maple and other hard wood timber growing hereabout.
January 1887
100 YEARS AGOCharles G. French, the landscape gardener of New Hart-
ford, on Thursday last completed a contract with the city offi cials of Oneonta, whereby he is to prepare a park design for Neahwa Park for the sum of $150, and further take charge of and control the execution of the design for the fi rst three years of park work. For this service, Mr. French is to receive $30 a visit and is to make at least 42 visits dur-ing the development of the park. The expenses of the plan and of Mr. French’s oversight of the work will be defrayed by the Civic League; and this city has appropriated $1,000 for the park work during the present year.
The cold weather of the present week emphasizes the suggestion, made by W.W. Hazelton, that bed blankets should be sent to the Salvation Army for distribution among the poor. Mr. Hazelton set the example by donating two fi ne comfortables and others should not be slow to follow his example.
January 1912
80 YEARS AGOEntering the fi nal period with a 7-point lead the Delhi
All-Stars defense went to pieces and the visiting House of David quintet piled up 25 points to beat them by a 49-40 score. It looked like a Delhi victory until the last 10 minutes
when Wilson, giant House of David center, tossed in six fi eld goals from under the basket, almost as fast as the rest of the team could feed the ball to him. In the last period, the visitors scored ten times out of 11 attempts. (Editor’s note: The House of David was a barnstorming team sponsored by a religious community based in Michi-gan. The House of David athletic repertoire also included a football squad although they were best known for their leg-endary baseball team. House of David players stood apart with shoulder-length hair and full beards, but competed at the best amateur levels in every sport. Their winnings went to support the expenses of their religious commune.)
January 1932
60 YEARS AGOD&H workers and Oneonta businessmen troubled by
recurrent rumors that the railroad plans to move out of Oneonta were given blunt reassurance to the contrary yesterday by Susquehanna Division offi cials. “There is nothing in sight which will affect Oneonta men in the short range picture. By that, we mean a year or two – which appears to be what people worry about,” a railroad spokes-man declared fl atly. Eventually, he said, the D&H, like all railroads in the nation, probably will “dieselize” because of the operating economies possible. On the other hand, such
alternatives as steam turbines are now in the experimental stage, and more effi cient means of locomotion than even the Diesel may be developed. Steam turbines do not appear to be the answer for such lines as this railroad, the D&H spokesman declared, because they are suited for long runs of 500-600 miles. “We have an awful lot of steam locomo-tives we certainly are not going to throw away,” he ob-served drily. “Oneonta still has no reason to fear the loss of its major industry, the railroad shops.”
January 1952
40 YEARS AGOA special three-judge federal court Tuesday upset a
New York State grant of $33 million in annual state aid to parochial and other non-public schools as a violation of the concept of a separate church and state. The law was mod-eled on one previously ruled unconstitutional. A spokes-man for Brooklyn’s Roman Catholic schools immediately called for new legislative exploration of some constitutional means to aid parochial schools – “particularly the concept of aid to parents rather than direct aid.” The Catholic hier-archy maintains that continued maintenance of its schools depends on some outside fi nancial aid. Church schools now teach 800,000 students, one out of every fi ve pupils in the state.
January 1972
20 YEARS AGOAfter fi fteen years, fl ea market vendors hauled their
antiques, collectibles, and estate items to the Holiday Inn on Oneonta’s Southside for the last time Sunday. The hotel’s management decided last November that it was not cost effective. “We turned away some business because every second Sunday was locked into the Flea Market,” Penny Filkin, the Inn’s assistant manager said. “We have to keep costs in line and make our schedule less constraining.” The fl ea market vendors have signed a new deal with the Pyra-mid Mall Merchants Association.
January 1992
10 YEARS AGOProponents of designating part of Oneonta’s Main Street
as a historic district are asking downtown building own-ers and community residents what they think about it. The Greater Oneonta Historical Society is sending out surveys to building owners asking whether they are in favor of the proposal. If Main Street were to be designated as an historic district, building owners would be eligible for various tax credits as well as state and federal grants.
January 2002
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During a three-month (or more) hiatus, which began Jan. 1, five 5-inch diameter steel poles will be run from the basement’s solid foun-dation, up through the first floor – to the degree you see them, they will be about 5 feet in from the western wall – to the second floor.
This is “phase two,” and a $280,000 fund drive, an-nounced at the historical society’s annual meeting in November at The Farm-house, is now well under way to ensure its completion – in three months, $110,000 has been raised.
These poles will suffi-ciently reinforce the second floor so that the GOHS’ extensive collections – now 6,000 items, they have cir-culated over the years from the Wilber Mansion carriage house to Hartwick College’s Arnold Hall to various other points – will finally have a permanent home.
A second-floor partition will become a load-bearing wall, supporting the third-floor ballroom, home to the Masons in the 1870s and the Knights of Columbus in the 1920s and ‘30s. That’s “phase three.”
Murphy, an Oneonta-based engineer with Gilbane Construction’s Albany of-fice, is the point of contact with Randy Crawford of Crawford & Stearns, the Syracuse-based preservation architects that has also done work locally on the Unitar-ian-Universalist Society on Ford Avenue, the Wilber Mansion and the Armory.
Murphy is reviewing
Crawford’s second-phase plans with the idea of going out to bid in the next few days, aiming for completion around April 1.
The GOHS has its roots in the Upper Susquehanna Historical Society, founded in 1939, but had lost mo-mentum in the 1990s. Under the leadership of the late Norma Hutman, Grace Smith and late Sally Mullen, the society revived and in 2001 bought 183 Main for $110,000.
By the time Brzozowski, retired from Hartwick College and just elected to Common Council, and Murphy joined in the middle of the past decade – retired SUNY Oneonta librarian Potter’s affiliation goes back to the Upper Susquehanna group – the first floor was 60 percent complete.
The first phase cost an-other $115,000. The GOHS is reaching out to five con-stituencies for the $280,000 second phase. Major donors and the annual appeal raised 40 percent, with corpora-tions, foundations and professionals still to go.
“We’ve had incredible support,” said Potter.
“It’s because they love us,” added Brzozowski. “It’s because Oneonta has a monumental history.”
A final phase, redoing the ballroom, will be the most fun and least expensive – $70,000-80,000, Brzo-zowski estimates.
So this phase is the big-gie.
Originally, the idea was to open the second floor into one big space. The thinking now is to convert the three front rooms – one used to be the local office of the Binghamton Press – into a research library, named in Sally Mullen’s honor.
The smaller rooms will be permanent exhibitions, each
room for an aspect of the city’s history – the railroads, the colleges, IBM’s found-ing, and so on.
There are enough arti-facts to recreate a one-room school house.
A big challenge has been bringing the three-story, century-and-a-half old struc-ture into line with modern building codes, and Craw-ford has designed a second staircase, which will lead from the third floor to the alley in the back. Firewalls will span the building in the front and in the back.
Sprinkler systems are problematic for museums, since water can ruin collec-tions. Technological ad-vances, however, have led to sprinkler systems that detect heat and are only triggered in that area.
Recently, said Murphy, he happened across a foam system in a Chicago airport, another way of limiting damage.
The highlight of any tour is the ballroom, bright, high-ceilinged. You can tell the pine floors will come back easily. Some plaster hangs from the ceiling, but a new roof is in place, so the ex-pensive part of the solution has been done.
In the back, right-hand corner, an elevator is planned, making the room ADA compliant. A balcony – you can almost visualize William Jennings Bryan declaiming there – occupies another corner.
There’s a coal stove dat-ing to the 1930s, and holes along the Deitz Street wall for at least two others.
And there, against the west wall, is a Claradyne, a wooden console from radio’s hey-day, manufac-tured by Crouch-Wilson & Co. at 28 Broad St., kitty-corner from Stella Luna.
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Natural Gas Found EverywherePRO/From A4tion before the first well is drilled. The nightmare sce-nario promoted by a coali-tion of renewable purists, solar speculators, anti-cor-porate automatons, and a Land’s End gentry, enabled by a press adverse unwill-ing to do anything more than armchair research, has thoroughly scared a lot of people. If you had to pitch the movie, it’s Mad Max meets the “The Road.” And like a movie, it’s not real.
Real is doing honest risk/reward analysis, meet-ing the challenges, and preparing for opportunity, something long missing for our young in Otsego County. Our school population has dropped 18 percent in the last decade. Why? The bread
winners of young families can‘t make a decent liv-ing here. B&Bs and hobby farms are not a formula for growth. Gas development, done safely, is.
Gas development is coming to New York, folks. Our nation isn’t going to be walking around in the dark, freezing. Our state and nation needs energy. We need it from ALL sources, preferably local. So when we’re warm and toasty in our brightly lit homes, some may worry about $7 worth of gas leaking from those wells in Quebec. If that worry comes to mind, perish the thought.
Think cows. Think lakes and forests. Think tundra. And get real.
HOMETOWN ONEONTAMike Murphy shows where five 5-inch-di-ameter steel support pillars will be lined.
Brzozowski and Potter examine one of Ste-ven’s Hardware’s origi-nal storage cases in the second floor’s front room, which will be dedicated to the laste Sally Mullen, GOHS benefactor.
Look forward to danc-ing to tunes from an Oneonta-made Clara-dyne.
To the Editor:On behalf of the residents
and Activities Department at the Otsego Manor, I would like to thank all those who made the pre-Christmas sale possible with your donations of hand-crafted items and baked goods.
I would also like to thank so many people who shopped at the sale, keep-ing their purchases “lo-cal.” We far exceeded our expectations for the Life Enrichment Activities, and am looking forward to next year, so that I can see so many folks and speak with them again.
I would especially like to acknowledge the staff of the Manor, who make the atmosphere so festive for
the holidays, decorating and planning parties for family and residents. The Manor was humming with activity with the bell choir practice and Blue Ribbon Cloggers being amongst the activities.
Many of the staff I spoke with will be working Christmas with their “other” family, I had the opportunity to hear such great reports of loved ones who were at the Meadows or now at the Manor. Time and time again I heard how the Rehab department is “excellent,” which should be a reminder of how much an asset the Otsego Manor is to the county.
MAUREEN CULBERTSpringfield
Editor’s Note: Dr. Mo Micek, a former pediatri-cian with Bassett Healthcare Network, Oneonta, passed away Dec. 18.
To the Editor:It is extremely difficult
to write about the person of Dr. Maureen Micek Siegel. Indeed, it’s impossible to adequately express what a loss her death projects.
Mo, as she was affectionately known to her friends, was one of the most generous, caring and considerate human beings I have ever known. Her sense of humor, self-ef-facing, humble demeanor and uncompromised concern for others framed her per-sona every day of her life.
As a pediatrician her pa-tients occupied a prime fo-cus in her life. But it was her family, her husband Tim, her son Jack, her daughter Sarah and her mother Maureen that were first and foremost. She could never do enough for each.
If she wasn’t attending one of Jack’s track meets, she was there at Sarah’s game. If she wasn’t picking up her Mom at the Thanks-giving Home, she was wit-nessing another orchestral performance of her kids. Her
life was non-stop from pil-lar to post, if you will, and never for herself.
Her community involve-ment from the Grange to Bassett to oh so many other things she deemed worthy of her time and efforts was a thing to behold and admire.
Often I could not believe her stamina. Be it a family trip to Maine or back again to Ireland, she would always return with the same verve with which she left, always hitting the ground running and never looking back.
I will never forget Mo and all that she personified: character, hon-esty, sincerity and most of all love. If one was blessed with the good fortune to have known her, one was blessed. You always felt that you knew Mo all your life.
A famous writer once said that only in winter can one tell the real evergreens. Suf-fice to say Mo Siegel was a true evergreen. To say she will be missed is an un-derstatement. Life is never easy, but Mo’s loss makes it so much tougher. But as Mo would always say, “At least we have each other.”
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Centrally located in the heart of the village. Wonderful family home, built around 1812, has great charm and a warm atmosphere. Large fenced backyard perfect for outdoor fun; large deck overlooking the yard. Well done family mudroom ad-dition with woodstove; lots of windows overlooking the private backyard. Full walk up attic. Studio to rear of detached one car garage was originally attached to the house and was moved when the family room addition was added. Side porch leading to the new mudroom entry was rebuilt. All new energy efficient windows. Beautiful wood floors throughout. Two bedrooms have private baths; two bedrooms share an updated bath with soaking tub. Laundry room is located
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RULES/From A1ary said Democrats on the county board and Lindberg had reprised the Faustian bargain from six years ago.
Even though the GOP won a majority in the Nov. 7 elections, the Democrats, as a bloc, planned to vote for and with Lindberg at the county board’s reorganiza-tional meeting Wednesday, Jan 4. That would have elevated him to chairman, with Democrats garner-ing choice appointments to board committees.
With misgivings, Ro-winski had planned to go along with her caucus, but Tuesday evening, 12 hours before the reorganization, she changed her mind.
“I just didn’t think it was being done for the right rea-sons,” she said. “I thought there was too much antago-nism. I just didn’t like what was happening.”
Wednesday morning, she called county Rep. Rich Murphy, D-Oneonta, leader of the caucus, and “told him I wouldn’t be support-ing Don or Jim. That’s all I said, because I didn’t know anything more at that point.”
The board convened at 10 a.m. in the bright, north-facing board room on the second fl oor of the county Offi ce Building on upper Main Street, Cooperstown. (The visitors’ gallery was jammed with county of-fi cials and with members of the public seeking to express their views on hydrofrack-ing.) Stuligross was named temporary chair, and she called for nominations from the fl oor.
Keith McCarty, R- Springfi eld, nominated Pow-ers. Ed Frazier, the new Republican from Unadilla, seconded. The vote pro-ceeded along party lines, but Lindberg voted nay, block-ing a majority for Powers.
Cathy Rothenberger, D-Oneonta, then nominated Murphy. Gary Koutnik, the new Democrat from Oneon-ta, seconded. Again matters proceeded along party lines, with Democrats lacking enough votes to have their will. Lindberg voted nay.
Then, Murphy nominated Lindberg. John Kosmer, the new Democrat from Fly Creek, seconded, but Row-inski voted with the Repub-licans, denying the Worces-ter Republican the chair.
Such a deadlock was un-precedented in recent county board history.
At that point, Rothen-berger stood and, decrying the backroom maneuvering she said had surrounded the chairman’s selection in her 17 years on the board, sug-gested that if each candidate explained why he wanted the job, that might allow matters to proceed.
The three spoke spoke, calling for collaboration to various degrees. The vote was retaken, and it was exactly the same.
“When they each gave their speech and nothing happened,” said Rowinski, “it occurred to me that noth-ing was going to happen.”
At that point, Murphy
– he had already tried to take the board into execu-tive session to iron out the matter – called for a recess. But before his motion was seconded, Rowinski spoke, asking if she could make a nomination.
“I gave Kathy a question-ing look,” Rowinski said later. Clark responded with a slight, surprised nod that the nominator took for as-sent.
“I nominate Kathy Clark,” Rowinski declared. Pow-ers seconded. Clark spoke a few words, saying she would seek to see issues resolved on the merits work-ing across the aisle.
The vote followed, again along party lines, but Rowinski, who represents District 13 and thus is at the end of the roll, voted yes. And Stuligross, District 14, also assented, saying “I knew it was going to pass. I wasn’t going to vote against her just for the sake of vot-ing against her. We have to work together.”
Kathy Clark was elected the fi rst woman to lead the county board – also, the fi rst with a master’s in public administration. She plans to use the title “chair.”
What happened was a surprise to her, Clark said; she and Rowinski had no prior conversation. “I didn’t know how many votes I was going to get. I just thought” – harkening back to some-thing her mother would tell her when she was growing up – “offer it up.”
Rowinski, a 40-something mother of three who bought Oneonta Abstract, where she’s worked for 27 years, when Dave Boggs retired a year ago, was still shaking her head a few days later about what had transpired.
“I believe Kathy will be fair. She has leadership ability, intelligence, car-ing,” Rowinski said, adding that she had served on the board’s Human Resources Committee when Clark chaired it. “I don’t always agree with her, but I believe she can be fair.”
Interviewed later, Jim Powers praised Rowinski’s “backbone.” “I give Linda Rowinski all the credit in the world” in blocking a repeat of Lindberg last deal with the Democrats.
Oneontan RowinskiDerails DemocraticDeal With Lindberg
HOMETOWN ONEONTAKathy Clark, R-2, Otego, the fi rst woman chair of the Otsego County Board of Representatives, retired in 2000 as SUNY Oneonta direc-tor of dining services.
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