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When otsego county’s state sena-tor for the past 27 years, Jim Seward, R-Milford, is in the room, he’s First citi-zen. here, he is flanked by the county’s three as-semblymen, from left, Bill Magee, D-nelson, cliff crouch, R-Bainbridge, and Pete Lopez, R-Schoharie, at a meeting of onc Bo-cES super-intendents Wednesday, Dec. 18, at the otsego area occupa-tional center, Milford/iDS on SUPERintEn-DEntS, SEE a2
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to Jim Seward, floods are the most wrench-ing.
“You arrive and people are taking their belongings and putting them at curbside,” he re-called. “Sometimes, all you can do is give them
a hug – and tell them they won’t be forgotten.”Listen for a while to Otsego County’s state
senator since 1986, and you conclude: It’s not about ideology. It’s not even about winning, al-though he has won every race since, age 20 and a student at Hartwick College, he lost a Republican primary for assemblyman against Harold Luther of Herkimer. It’s all about people.
And Seward’s people skills – courting them, convincing them and, lately in particular, leading them – have been very much in evidence since that morning in December 2011 when, meet-ing with the newly formed pro-business Citizen Voices, he was challenged on “unintended conse-quences” of the bill he’d sponsored affirming
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Who needs a cham-pagne toast when you’ve got giant
puppets and fire-spinners? “First Night is a wonderful,
fun, lively, exuberant party,”
said David Hayes, who is on the board of the organizing committee. “It’s a great way to ring in the New Year with-out worrying about traffic or bad drivers.”
The Oneonta tradition, now in its 17th year, kicks off with a 5 p.m. parade down
Main Street and ends with 10 p.m. fireworks in Neahwa Park, with all sorts of music, dance and entertainment in between.
“We try to do something fresh and new every year,” said Hayes. “We want to bring new experiences to
First Night every year.”New this year is a babysit-
ting service, sponsored by OHS. “We heard from a lot of parents that they had to go home early because the kids were tired,” said Hayes. “This way, parents can drop
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Police LookFor Suspectin Shootout
HOMETOWN ONEONTASheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. deploys officers after a shootout in front of cooperstown’s Sev-enth inning Stretch. Behind him, with shotgun on shoulder, is Village Police chief Mike covert.
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at presstime Monday evening, Dec. 23, a would-be assailant
who sparked a shootout in Seventh Inning Stretch, a downtown baseball store, was still eluding police.
The incident, reported at 8:53 a.m. that morning, caused a deluge of village police, deputy sheriffs and state troopers to descend on the village.
The shot was fired by store owner Vinnie Carf-agno, who alleged a disgrun-tled former employee, Barry Renert, had entered the store, dressed in black, his face covered with a ski mask, and threatened him with a gun.
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StatE oF StatE: This year’s State of the State breakfast, featuring a briefing of the county’s Albany delegation, is 8-10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7, at the Foothills. $25 per person; register at 547-4500.
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Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTATerrie Beers, of the Oneonta harmonica Band, plays “Away in a Manger” alongside Irmabelle Sheldon and Tom Bliss at the 1st Baptist Church on Saturday afternoon. The church put on a holiday concert to raise money for Baptist Churches affected by the recent typhoon in the philippians.
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SChOOl SupERINTENDENTS: The school superintendents in the page A1 photo with Senator Seward are, from left, Tony Albanese, Margaretville; Joe Yelich, Oneonta; Katy Graves, Stamford; Bob Chakar, Andes; C.J. hebert, Cooperstown; Mark Dupra, Char-lotte Valley; Tom O’Brien, Roxbury; ONC BOCES Superintendent Nick Savin; Ruth Reeve, Gilboa; John Wiktorko, Windham-Ashland- Jewett; Brian hunt, Edmeston, and Tom Jennings, Schenevus.
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Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTAAva Mayer and Nisha Labroo, Oneonta, perform as the wind-up sol-dier dolls in The Decker Ballet’s annual performance of “The Nut-cracker” on Saturday, Dec. 21 at SUNY Oneonta’s Goodrich Theater.
It’s a ferocious battle under the Christmas tree between the Mouse King, played by Oneon-ta’s Winfield Maben and the Nutcracker, danced by Sabrina Blacklock,
Clara, right, played by Aolani McCarthy, receives a kiss from the Sugarplum Fairy, played by Gisele Bethia, as she is welcomed into The Land of Sweets.
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FIRST/From A1off their kids with CPR cer-tified sitters.”
Though not included in the First Night button price, the cost of the childcare ser-vice will help raise money for class trips. The buttons are available at many down-town stores and organiza-tions.
And for the little ones who aren’t so tired, First Night has once again part-nered with OWL for family activities, as well as hosting BJ the clown, Story Laurie and mime Abby Koutnik at the Foothills atrium through-out the night. “Foothills is really becoming First Night central,” said Hayes. “We’re using the main stage, the
atrium and the production room.”
As always, First Night will have plenty of music, ranging from ukulele to folk to doo-wop and more. “I saw Stuart Fuchs at the Smithy and the place was just packed,” said First Night chair Carol Mandigo. “He’s one of my favorite musicians in the whole world.”
There’s really something for everyone, Mandigo said. Wendy Slicer and Steve Fab-rizio will be singing jazz at the Unitarian Church, while 5 Pounds Of Potatoes will play ’80s rock at the former Theresa’s Emporium space.
Continuing a tradition from last year, the Catskill
Chamber Singers will tour area nursing homes to bring First Night to those who would otherwise miss the festivities. “It’s taking mu-sic to our grandfathers and grandmothers,” said Hayes. “We want to share the first night experience with every-body.”
Though much of the entertainment will require a First Night button to get in, the main stage at Muller Plaza will have free music all night. “No one is ex-cluded,” said Hayes. “Just sit down and enjoy.”
Volunteers can also “earn” a free button by offering to check buttons at a venue or walking a puppet in the parade.
“It’s an all-around com-munity effort,” said Hayes. “If you’re not there, you’re going to miss out.”
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EDITORIAL
Cherry Valley Super-visor Tom Garret-son. Sustainable
Otsego’s Adrian Kuzminski. The Oneonta City Charter Commission. That slate of Young Turks that sought to apply business principles to Cooperstown village government. Kathy Clark, Linda Rowinski and Kay Stuligross, who seized con-trol of the county board and changed it for the better.
Distinct, they all have a lot in common.
First, they were focused on improving our little world of Otsego County, to make it a happier place.
They were confronted with new ideas, and were able to rethink the challeng-es – to change their minds – and go forward in a new way. That’s not easy to do.
And, they have all been designated Citizens of the Year by the county’s sister
newspapers, Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal.
•In some cases – for in-
stance, the masterful prepa-ration for the huge 2007 Cal Ripken Jr./Tony Gwynn Induction, overseen by Cooperstown Mayor Carol B. Waller – was recognition of accomplishment.
In most cases, however, the battle was still underway when the designations were made. The outcome was uncertain.
Yes, windmills were successfully regulated and, it turned out, kept out of Cherry Valley, but Garret-son didn’t know that when, observing the town’s natural beauty compared to other windmill venues, he broke with his political allies and entered the fray.
Fracking, it now seems, can’t happen here, but
no one knew that when Kuzminski energized the county’s opposition – and much of the state’s – to what would certainly be an environmental scourge if it ever happened.
The Charter Commis-
sion strived to streamline Oneonta City Hall, but it didn’t know City Man-ager Mike Long – the new charter enabled his hiring – would be so successful. The Young Turks were even beaten at the polls, but their
ideas are taking hold in Vil-lage Hall.
•State Sen. Jim Seward’s
foray into economic de-velopment fits the same pattern.
We’ve learned so much in the past two years, we hardly remember how his mild criticism, diplomatical-ly expressed – that Otsego County didn’t seem to be as far ahead as some of the other counties in his district – evoked such tut-tutting at his boldness.
Since, we’ve learned that environmentally friendly economic development – nanotechnology, and craft beer and food, to name two niches – isn’t only desir-able, it is happening and can flourish in Upstate New York, and we can be part of it.
The Citizen Voices group challenged Seward to do
more about our communi-ties’ decline. But, at every step, he faced entrenched attitudes and – that killer of all enthusiasm – it’ll-never-happen negativity.
Even now, with a new consensus a half-step or two away from a new real-ity – the county Industrial Development Agency (IDA) may clinched the deal on Thursday, Jan. 9 – the forces of reaction are work-ing in the shadows.
Through it all, Seward has been a happy warrior, heading back, every back, into the breach.
Garretson, Kuzminski, the Charter Commission, the Young Turks and all the others didn’t know what the future held, but it held vic-tory, as it should have.
And so it must in this case, too. And so, with Seward’s consensus-build-ing determination, it will.
Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTAState Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, uses the state Senate’s Christmas break to catch up on his con-stituents business in his Oneonta District Office.
Seward Joins ‘Citizens’ Who, Facing Challenges, Find Success
CITIZEN/From A1the Home Rule rights of New York State towns. “But, truly,” he continued, “there were some economic stresses here. We needed to step up, to create economic activities and job creation.”
In the two years since, he has convened two “Eco-nomic Development Sum-mits” – on Thursday, March 15, 2012, at The Otesaga in Cooperstown, and Thurs-day, Nov. 14, at Foothills in Oneonta – introducing local movers and shakers to each other – an essential first step – and helping business, government and the local colleges learn how gain ac-cess to Cuomo Administra-tion economic-development funding.
As the new year dawns, Seward’s effort are on the brink of bearing fruit in a “proactive” economic-de-velopment structure: The county Industrial Devel-opment Agency (IDA) is working out the final details with a consultant
who helped plan the second summit, Sandy Mathes, the uniquely successful former Green County economic developer, to restructure the IDA and begin competing for jobs in nanotechnology, craft food and beverages, and other high growth sec-tors.
For 27 years of contribu-tions as state senator, but particularly for the past two years, and for what his efforts promised in the next few days, months and, then, years, James L. Seward is The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta’s Citi-zen of 2013.
“He’s done what needs to be done to get us out of a 20-year – a 30-year – dol-drums,” said Bob Harlem, a founder of Citizen Voices who operates Otsego Ready Mix and related companies, and was recently elected president of the Otsego County Development Corp. “It started with Home Rule, but it morphed into this, be-cause this is what it’s really
all about. This is what we need to do if we want our communities to survive.”
Tony Casale, the former Herkimer assemblyman who retired to Cooperstown, called the designation “well deserved. I may be a bit biased, because Jim has been my friend and political ally for more than 40 years. But he does work very hard, he takes his work seriously, and he always has the best interests of his constituents in mind.”
If it sometimes seems like Seward’s been part of the county’s political picture forever, it must seem even moreso for him. “Even as a youngster,” he said in an interview at his district office in Oneonta, “I was always interested in current events.” Foreshadowing the bi-partisan support he’s often received, he remem-bers admiring a full range of politicians, from Barry Goldwater to John F. Ken-nedy.
Raised in the Cliff sec-tion of Goodyear Lake, Jim Seward was the youngest of four. Even though he’s one of the state’s senior legislators, he’s still gets the younger-brother treatment at family gatherings from brother John and sisters Marjorie Hill and Leona Hoag, he’ll tell you with a laugh.
His dad, Wes, retired from the Milford Town Highway Department, and
also ran the Seward Poultry Farm. But public service was in the family, as the el-der Seward was town asses-sor, and his wife, the former Vivian Odell, tax collector.
The senator’s father was also Sunday school superin-tendent at the Cooperstown Junction United Methodist Church, and the son be-came active in the Youth Methodist Fellowship, the MYF, testing his organizing skills by starting chapters in nearby churches.
In Schenevus, a lively young woman entered the room. “I can remember it to this day. I said to the guy who was with me, ‘Let’s get her involved.’” It turned out to be teen-aged Cindy Milavec, his future wife. Married 40 years, the couple raised two children, Lau-ren and Ryan. Lauren and husband Felix Thomas have
provided the Sewards with their first grandchild.
The future senator at-tended Oneonta schools, where his fifth-grade teacher at Valley View Elementary helped foster his interest, as did the lively discussion Bud Pirone, OHS teacher and later principal, led in his high school classes.
Soon, Seward was attend-ing the annual Teen Repub-lican School of Politics at Skidmore College, which featured an annual appear-ance of then-Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, who one year brought along Jackie Rob-inson.
By the time he entered Hartwick College in 1969, Seward was already ac-quainted with the leading local politicians of the day, Assemblyman Don Mitch-ell of Herkimer, Oneonta Mayor Jim Lettis and GOP
county chair Scott Green, Cooperstown. In 1972, while still in college, he en-tered politics – the primary race against Luther.
“That was my only politi-cal loss,” said Seward. “So I got that out of the way early.” But it was not for naught: “I learned the value of networking. In this busi-ness, all you have is your network and contacts.”
The loss didn’t dampen his enthusiasm for politics. By the time he graduated the following year, he was already on the Republican County Committee, the youngest member ever. There was a tradition at the time that if the chair was a man, the vice chair would be a woman. And when vice chair Hazel Fields was elevated to chair in 1974, Seward succeeded her.
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In 1986, Jim Seward is sworn in as Otsego County’s state senator, as wife Cindy and children Lauren and Ryan look on.
After 27 years, the Sewards – in this year’s Christmas card photo – are still go-ing strong, with the senator half-way through his 13th term. Ryan is work-ing in Boston and daughter Lauren and her husband, Felix Thomas, have pro-vided the first Seward grandchild.
On the steps of Oneonta City Hall (with then-Mayor David W. Brenner behind him) in 1990, the sena-tor briefs a gathering on state actions that cor-responded with the start of the Gulf War.
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Compiled by Tom HeiTz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2013
HOMETOWN History60 Years ago
December 1953
125 Years agoThe Local News – L.s. McCary, a slater at the Normal
school building, was terribly injured Monday forenoon by the breaking of a joist on which he stepped. He fell 25 feet, breaking his thigh bone and receiving other injuries. At first he was thought to be dead and an undertaker was sent for, but was soon restored to consciousness and may recover, though crippled for life. Detective Joe Moore of the Cincinnati Detective agency, whose headquarters are in oneonta, spotted here on Tues-day night a man whose appearance tallied with that of the murderer of two men out in Idaho Territory, except for the trifling discrepancy of about 40 pounds in weight. He was arrested and lodged in the cooler. a $1,000 reward posted for his capture may be claimed by Moore. The prisoner has a scar on his face answering to that in the description sent out from Idaho of the murderer, and he is of the same height. He gave the name of James McCard and says he came to oneonta looking for work, having worked here at stone cutting two years since. Detective Moore has noti-fied the Idaho authorities of his capture and is confident of securing the $1,000 reward.
December 1888
100 Years agoMelvin H. Couch, former district attorney of sullivan
County, was quietly buried this afternoon, leaving behind him no written word to explain his strange dual existence and associations with his slave-like companion, adelaide Branch, who for three years was a virtual prisoner in his office. Couch died on the lounge in his office early Sunday morning. His companion, shrieking, gave the alarm and summoned a physician. Then, for the first time, it became known that for three years she had for the love of the man existed in a tiny quarter of the office partitioned as a com-bined sleeping, living room, and kitchen. Couch visited his wife and daughter at his home every sunday, but spent most of his time at his office. Miss Branch says she loved him devotedly that he returned her love and that their relations dated back 15 years when she as a book agent chanced to call on him.
December 1913
80 Years agoThe sayings of great men will remind the children
in oneonta’s schools of the generosity of the oneonta W.C.T.U. at a meeting of that organization yesterday at the home of Mrs. Carl McConnell, 3 Pine street, it was voted to purchase 3,000 blotters to be given to the schools. Printed on the blotters will be quotations from the speeches, books or remarks of noted men. Members of the W.C.T.U. believe these blotters will be one way of furthering their educa-tional campaign against intemperance. They maintain that a
boy or girl cannot help absorbing the reading matter on the blotters since a youngster would probably use a blotter at least two or three times a day.
December 1933
40 YeArS AgoPrivately owned planes that make their home in the
hangars of the oneonta airport are doing more sitting around than flying these days. But Catskill Airways, the oneonta-based airline that makes scheduled flights to New York City and charter flights to other points, has witnessed a 10 percent upswing in ticket sales in the past few months. How can the airline thrive while the private planes lie idle? The answer, says stephen C. Low, owner of the airline, is a combination of the gasoline shortage and an increased interest in public transportation. The gasoline scarcity has
forced many airlines to curtail the number of flights, while at the same time renewing an interest in commercial air travel. Long-distance car travelers, uncertain about gasoline shortages, are turning to the railroads and airlines. Catskill airways currently makes two round trips daily between oneonta and New York City and the seats are generally full. Charter flights have increased as well.
December 1973
30 Years ago“You’re not treating a patient anymore. You’re treating
an adversary.” That’s how one physician sums up doctors’ fears of the professional and financial consequences of being sued for malpractice – even if they win their case. Those fears have triggered massive spending on defen-sive medicine, on malpractice insurance, and on the red tape these involve. Malpractice costs will only increase. The american Medical association puts the total bill now at nearly $19 billion annually, or six cents for every dol-lar americans spend for health care. The situation is most acute in New York state. New York’s physicians altogether will pay approximately $200 million in malpractice insur-ance premiums in 1984. Less than half of that will be paid for claims. The rest will be invested to build a war chest to cope with soaring judgment awards.
December 1983
20 Years agoWhen the invitation reads “black tie” most men reach
for a tuxedo, white formal shirt and black cummerbund and tie. In recent seasons though, designers have been trying to steer men from dreary conformity to dashing creativity. The transformation can begin with a single item – a beaded vest, a tartan jacket, a printed silk smoking jacket. Creative black tie can also mean all black and no tie according to fashion designer Donna Karan’s DKNY. a band collar shirt is one of the simplest and most fashionable looks, says rick Pallack, who caters to the likes of Tom Cruise, sylvester stallone, Michael J. Fox and Tom selleck. “Menswear is so classic, that it’s not often real trends come along,” he says, “but this is the hottest thing.”
December 1993
10 Years agoany good gift-wrapper knows that a satin or velvet
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CITIZEN/From A4When she stepped aside the follow-
ing year he, at 24, became the young-est county chair in history. He held the position for 12 years, and in that role was delegate to three Republican Na-tional Conventions, including 1976 in Kansas City, where incumbent Presi-dent Gerald Ford turned back a chal-lenge from former California governor Ronald Reagan.
“Every delegate was important,” and the young man from Goodyear Lake found himself sipping cocktails in the East Wing of the White House, a guest of the president.
One night, the phone rang at the Sewards’ Milford home. Cindy an-swered and told the soon-to-be-univer-sally recognized voice at the other end her husband wouldn’t be home until 9:30.
“Let me see,” came the deep-tone response, “that’s 6:30 my time.”
Said the young wife in her forthright manner, “That depends who you are and where you’re calling from.”
It was Ronald Reagan, calling from the West Coast. The couple still laughs about the episode today.
Soon after becoming county chair, Seward joined the staff of Assembly-man Peter Dukovitz of Oneonta, the Custom Electronics’ founder, then that of state Sen. Charles Cook of Delaware County. He was on Steve Riford’s staff when the Auburn-based senator retired in 1986, and Seward stepped in.
By all accounts it was a hard-fought campaign, as three Republicans – Seward, the youngest, vs. veteran pol Bill Craine, a well-off Sherburne insurance man, and Arbon Hatfield, Moravia, chairman of the Cayuga County Legislature – primaried for the nomination. Seward, still in his mid-30s, scored a decisive victory, 7,530 to 4,327 for Craine and 4,450 for Hatfield.
He then dispatched Democrat Matt Morgan that November, and his Senate career was launched.
When Seward arrived in Albany, offices and desks were still being as-signed. Then-Majority Leader Warren Anderson of Binghamton shook the new senator’s hand and walked him into the chamber. Pointing to a desk, he said, “Why don’t you sit where what’s his name used to sit?” It was a lesson in humility, in how transitory elective power can be.
He dove in. Looking back over the years, Seward’s particularly proud that, while chairing the Energy Committee, he shepherded through the “Power for Jobs” program, now “Recharge NY,” which provides low-cost electricity to business and industry.
Negotiating with Assembly Demo-crats, “I tried to iron out the differ-ences. “But it wasn’t going very well. Bruno” – then-majority leader Joe Bruno – “wanted to end it. I convinced him there was a desperate need.” Trying again, Seward was able to craft a compromise, and the bill became law.
Longtime chair of the Senate Insur-ance Committee and a member of Education, he is considered an expert, locally and statewide, on both topics. And under Bruno, he began to move into leadership, as secretary of the Republican conference, then vice chair and, now, under Dean Skelos, assistant majority leader for conference op-erations. “No two days are alike,” he said. “So it keeps every day stimulat-ing.”
Locally, Seward is proud he ob-tained financing for the National Soccer Hall of Fame (which, while it faltered, has been reborn as Ioxus), Foothills Performing Arts Center and, lately, the rehearsal hall on the Glimmerglass Festival campus. When a Senate bill tried to authorize “mi-cro stamping” of individual bullets, Seward, responding to Remington Arms’ message they might “rethink staying in New York,” was able to sidetrack it.
What Seward learned during his years as an Assembly and state Senate aide was the importance of constitu-ent service. He strives to ensure his staff solves people’s problems, and he strives to be accessible. Always having served nine or 10 counties, he travels 50,000 miles a year around his Otsego-centered district.
Seward set his personal record on Labor Day Weekend 2012, when he started the morning at a car show in Moravia, on the shores of Owasco Lake, and ended the evening at a reception in Shandaken, on the far side of the Catskills, with five stops in between.
With all this, the economic-develop-
ment initiative of the past two years has been something new. With two hospitals, two colleges, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and other national attractions, and “a mix of small manufacturers,” you might think Otsego County is exempt from some of the challenges Upstate counties face.
“Truly,” he said, thinking back to that first meeting with Citizen Voices, “there are economic stresses here … I don’t think, as a county, as a commu-nity, we put enough resources into it.”
At the first “Economic Development Summit” at The Otesaga, Seward was surprised to find many of the leaders in attendance were meeting each other for the first time – an important first step in what was to follow.
Three letters – C-F-A, for consoli-dated funding application – were on everybody’s lips in the months that followed, as local businesses and the county’s economic development alpha-bet agencies – the IDA and OCDC, as well as the county Economic Develop-ment Office – sought to understand the Cuomo Administration’s way of distributing grants to localities.
“We needed a second summit to really have an action plan,” said the senator. He was particularly impressed with Dick Sheehy with CH2M Hill, a consulting firm that helps companies looking to expand find sites nationally and beyond. “Senator,” Sheehy told Seward after he spent the day before the summit intensely exploring the county, “I talked to 100 people today. I still don’t know who to call if I want to do business in Otsego County.” The senator observed, “It’s always good to have an outside opinion.”
As he spoke, he looked around the table in the conference room of his Oneonta office on South Main Street, where he’d met just a few days before with the key players: IDA chair Sha-ron Oberriter, IDA board member Bob Hanft, Harlem, county board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller, Oneonta Town Supervisor Bob Wood. “Within 45 minutes,” he said, “we hammered out an approach. I’m very pleased that key people are at the table and moving in the same direction.”
Mathes and an IDA committee are meeting, and hope to have a fu-ture shape for economic devel-opment in Otsego County ready to be approved by the next IDA meeting, Thursday, Jan. 9.
The conversation ended where it began, talking about people.
If meeting with flood victims was the most stirring recent experience, it was rivaled by that day in Bainbridge, long ago now, presenting the state’s Conspicuous Service Awards to Vietnam veterans. “Many of them had never been thanked before,” he remembered. “Some of them were shaking. They were so grateful.”
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ONEONTA – Pauline “Polly” D. Coats, 96, who worked as a Clerk at Bresee’s Department Store, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, at Chestnut Park Nursing Home.
She was born Dec. 9, 1917, in Oneonta, the daughter of Charles & Hazel (Gardner) Coats.
Polly graduated from Oneonta High School. She worked at the West End Ice Cream Bar, Karmel Korn Shop, Polar Bear, was a clerk at Bresee’s Depart-ment Store for 33 years, and was a receptionist at the First United Methodist Church from the late ’80s to Dec. 31, 2010. She was a member of the church’s Bell Choir for 25 years.
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A memorial service was held Wednesday, Dec. 18, at the First United Method-ist Church, Oneonta, with the Rev. Theressa Sivers, officiating.
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Pauline D. Coats, 96; Known For Quirky SongsRobert H. Wheeler, 85; SUNY English ProfessorONEONTA – Robert H.
Wheeler, 85, an English Lit-erature professor at SUNY Oneonta for 30 years, died at Bassett Hospital on Tues-day evening, Dec. 17.
Robert was born in 1928 in East Bloomfield, near Canandaiagua, the son of Robert H. and Isabel Thorpe
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master in English from Boston University. While teaching at West Virginia University, he met his wife Blevyn, also a teacher, and they were married in 1959.
In 1963, he received his doctorate in English Litera-ture from the University of Rochester. He joined the faculty at SUNY Oneonta in 1966. He retired in 1996.
He restored the farmhouse in the Butternut Valley where he and Blevyn raised their family.
Robert is survived by his wife and their four children, John Wheeler of Hillsbor-ough, N.J., Kathryn Wheeler of Madison, Wisc., Robert Wheeler Jr. of Powell, Ohio, and Diana Wheeler of Madi-son, Wisc. They have nine grandchildren.
A memorial gathering will be held next summer.
Arrangements are entrust-ed to the Johnston Funeral Home, Morris.
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Colonial has bay window w/great valley view. Fireplace w/woodstove, den, family room, finished walk-out basement, home office, oak and pine
flooring, 2-car garage, large deck. Well maintained home is 3½ miles from
Cooperstown. Cooperstown Schools.Hubbell’s Exclusive—$299,000
(7732) Superbly kept 3 BR expanded Cape Cod has center-hall layout, hardwood flooring, 6-panel doors, gra-cious LR w/ fireplace, formal DR. Custom kitchen with
cherry cabinets, eating area, large windows and skylights. Patio, deck, finished basement, garage, large private yard.
Situated on the only boulevard in town. Hubbell’s Exclusive—$395,000
Cooperstown ClAssiC
Cooperstown sAnCtuAry(7696) Endearing 4 BR countryside
Colonial on 4.7 acres features formal DR, den w/fireplace, newer windows, oak flooring, newer kitchen w/Corian
countertop, 2-car garage, covered front porch. Here is a special home just 2 miles from the hospital and
sports center! Cooperstown Schools. Hubbell’s Exclusive—$275,000
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31 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown(directly next door to Stagecoach Coffee)
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Nice 3 BR, 2 bath double-wide set up in Town of Oneonta park. Spacious light-filled rooms, kitchen island and master BR with bath. Front porch has panels to enclose for cooler months and nice deck off the back. Also has a 2-stall carport with metal roof and blacktop parking pad. Lot rent includes garbage and snow removal.
Priced to sell at $55,000.
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