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Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTAOneonta’s Sylvia Mon-tanti struts down the walkway at Southside Mall’s first Prom-a-Palooza Sunday, March 25, showcasing gowns from Rainbow’s End and raising funds for local schools. (More photos, A9)

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Where once the Southside Mall was blemished with empty storefronts as Bor-

ders, Fashion Bug and Kmart closed, now it is filled with T.J. Maxx, Maurice’s, Twisted, A&E Collectibles, GameStop, Mount Fuji and a newly renovated JCPenney.

And there’s still more to come. “South-side still has vitality to offer,” said Luisa Montan-ti, manager of the Southside Mall. “There’s more busi-nesses coming in.”

Plans are in place for a new 94-room Marriott Hotel, and the Super 8 motel is just finishing renovations. During the busy summer baseball season and col-lege homecoming weekends, Oneonta hotels have been filled to capacity, forcing some visitors to find lodging elsewhere. Town Supervisor Bob Wood hopes the new Marriott, which should be finished by the end of the year, will help keep visitors close by in the area.

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HONORING BUSINESS STARS

Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTAAt the end of the Otsego County Chamber’s Celebration of Business & Annual Banquet, Mayor Miller, one of the honorees, is congratulated by wife Andi, stepdaughter Fable and, at left, guest Natalie Vanderlaan-Meyering.

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Kennedy. Springbrook’s Chris Hulbert distributes or-ange balloons that celebrated Springbrook’s connections to attendees at the annual Ot-sego Chamber banquet.

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Metro Mattress DueIn Rt. 23 Strip Mall;Super 8 Is Renovated

HOMETOWN ONEONTAA strip mall in going in next to Neptune Diner.

A 21st-Century look has replaced the Super 8’s 1980s original design.

By JIM KEVLIN

At a night of celebration, current issues – some anticipatory, some knotty – kept coming to the fore at the Otsego

County Chamber’s 2012 Celebration of Busi-ness & Annual Banquet Saturday, March 24, at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom.

In short, change was in the air.A chamber staple of a quarter-century dura-

tion, it was the first time in 18 years that the organization’s longtime president, Rob Rob-inson, wasn’t presiding, although he was in attendance and recognized from the podium.

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For 30 Years,SUNY HelpedBy Foundation

The SUNY Oneonta Foundation was planning a Year of

the Dragon Dinner Friday, March 30, to celebrate its 30th anniversary.

The dinner was being pre-pared by Joe Poon, interna-tionally known restaurateur and a 1978 SUNY Oneonta graduate.

Those due to be honored included four Oneontans who have served as presi-dent: Thomas Hughson (1991-97), Karen Elting ’84 (1998-2004), Kenneth Kellerhouse ’57 (2005-2007) and William Pietraface (2009).

PLOTS READY: The city Recreation Office will accept applications for 24 plots its Community Gardens pro-gram beginning Friday, April 6. The fee is $25. Applica-tions are available at the Neahwa Park office or at www.oneonta.ny.us/recre-ation.

90TH BIRTHDAY: The Oneonta Rotary Club cel-ebrated its 90th anniversary Thurday, March 22, with a dinner at the Elks Club. (Photos, details, Page A2)

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Rotarian Paul Patterson, OPT director and incoming club president, samples the Elks Club’s hors d’ouevres.

Oneonta Rotary President George Brown, left, retired presi-dent of the National Soccer Hall of Fame, briefs District Gov. Orville (Orv) Wright, Owego, on the local club’s activities.

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Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTAAt its 90th anniversary celebration Thursday, March 22, the Oneonta Rotary hosted members past and present at the Elks Club, and also its exchange students, Rotarians of the future. Here, Richard Breuninger, the club’s Youth Exchange co-chair, poses with, from left, Niko Westmann, here from Germany; Jocelyn Hyland, who is Denmark-bound; Clara Caan, from Brazil; Johnny Pajerski, who is going to Mexico, and Diego Oros, here from Mexico. During the program, club President George Brown presented tongue-in-cheek awards to his colleagues, including the Methuselah Award to Dave Brenner, former mayor and SUNY Oneonta vice president, who was the oldest Rotarian present.

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Michelle Catan, Oneonta adviser for the Small Business Center at Binghamton University, is flanked by Shannon Delker, left, and Tammy South-ard.

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Wilber Bank president, now a business consultant, whose remarks hinted at ini-tiatives coming out of Senator Seward’s Economic Development Summit March 8 at The Otesaga.

Gulotty, as president of the Otsego County Development Corp. is leading the charge, but specifics were few.

Springbrook was recognized as the 2012 NBT Bank Distinguished Business, but the main event – unveiling of the former Upstate Home for Children’s $20 million remodeled campus – is upcoming in May.

And Mayor Miller, 2012 Eugene A. Bettiol Jr. Distinguished Citizen, made the sense of unfinished business explicit.

“I love Oneonta,” he told the 120 guests. “But it has to change,” beginning with new attitudes. “I hate negativity. It’s corrosive, non-productive and self-defeating.”

High points of the remarks that followed included:

• Center Street School – Its prospec-tive closing reflects an area in decline; turn around that decline, and the Center Streets of the region will flourish.

• Fracking – “Yes, we are anti-fracking, as we should be.”

• Consolidation – He renewed the call for the start of conversations on making and town and city of Oneonta one.

He summed up with calling elected offi-cials “to lead in the face of opposition. I’m not interested in the status quo – the status quo is not very good,” he said.

If Miller’s speech was a call to accom-plishment, Springbrook Executive Director Patricia Kennedy’s showed achievement can and does happen.

She traced how the facility for challenged children in Milford Center has grown from 200 employees to almost 1,000, and retraced how $15 million in state fund-

ing, combined with $5 million in private fundraising, has reinvented the 80-year-old facility for a new purpose, bringing chil-dren with autism back from out-of-state and treating them in closer proximity to their Upstate families.

To demonstrate Springbrook’s impact and reach, Kennedy ask the audience to raise their hands to indicate their various relation-ships with the facility.

As hands went up, staffers handed them orange balloons and, when Kennedy’s recitation was complete, the room was filled with the orange orbs.

Jim Kevlin /HOMETOWN ONEONTASandy Collins, a member of the Springbrook Board of Directors, chats with Paul Adamo, SUNY Oneonta vice president for college advancement, at the Otsego County Chamber’s 2012 Celebration of Business & Annual Banquet Saturday, March 24, at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom. Behind him is his wife, Ann, and Kathy Davis.

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EDITORIAL

LETTERS

Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller distributed Robert Ward’s recent op-ed piece in the Albany Times Union, excerpted here, to key leaders

in Oneonta and Otsego County, with the following lead-in: “Oneonta is well prepared for the challenges he describes, but dealing with them will require artful backbone by Common Council and the mayor. “We have the current financial strength – high-est per capita reserves, lowest per capita debt – to outperform other Upstate communities and gain competi-tive advantage over them in strengthening our economy and making Oneonta the best place to live and grow a business

north of Yonkers. “The question for those addressed and copied: can we work together effectively to make it hap-pen?”

• Separately, Cooperstown Mayor-elect Jeff Katz has expressed concerns that pension obligations Ward mentions have increased the village’s costs from $37,000 three years ago to $120,000 today, That, in part, prompted a 2 percent tax hike to vil-

lage taxpayers.” What do you think? E-mail your responses to info@allotsego.com

ISSUE & DEBATE

NEW YORK’S ROAD TO FISCAL RUINBy ROBERT C. WARD

In Highland Park, Mich., most of the streetlights in residential neighbor-

hoods have been turned off and taken away. Stockton, Calif., has cut the number of police officers by a quarter, even though violent crime is on the rise. Large mu-nicipalities in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Alabama have entered bankruptcy, with unknown but clearly unwanted results coming for people who depend on local services.

Municipalities in New York mostly have avoided such trauma. But earlier this month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned that cit-ies and counties across New York would face the threat of bankruptcy if the Legislature did not reduce mandated costs by enacting major pension reform.

The governor was right about the likelihood of fis-cal emergencies confronting local governments. And al-though the pension changes enacted by the Legislature will restrain benefit costs, truly significant savings will only come a decade or more in the future as new em-ployees gradually replace current workers.

For now and the next few years, the threat remains: Cities and counties across New York face large budget gaps, increasing chance of fiscal failure and potentially severe disruption of essen-tial services.

...Some of this is a pre-dictable result of the linger-ing impact from the Great Recession. Counties’ sales tax revenues fell nearly 6

percent in 2009; the state’s general purpose aid to localities has been reduced; property tax revenues are constrained both by eco-nomic conditions and the state’s new tax cap.

But even before the re-cession’s full impact, many localities ran into trouble by repeatedly adopting annual budgets in which recurring costs outpaced continuing revenues ... When the reces-sion depressed tax receipts, the structural imbalances that had been hidden with temporary solutions burst into the open.

Local officials may be able to postpone tough deci-sions for yet another year or two by drawing down fund balances, borrowing against pension obligations and otherwise shifting today’s problems to the future. At some point, the checkbook is empty and the emergency slashing of spending and services begins. Unless, that is, realistic actions to ad-dress structural budget gaps start first.

The lack of compre-hensive state policies in this area contributes to the problem. Unlike some other states, New York has no law requiring local governments

to plan ahead so they can avert fiscal emergencies, or to deal in a predictable way with crises when they arise. The state constitution rules out only the most egre-gious budgetary behavior, prohibiting localities from taking out long-term debt to pay for current operating deficits unless explicitly authorized by statute.

Although state law per-mits municipal bankruptcy, such has not happened in recent decades – and is not likely – because of policymakers’ widespread agreement that allowing one locality to go bankrupt would hurt the state’s credit rating and those of other municipalities.

So when local officials run out of short-term bor-rowing capacity, they ask the Legislature for special permission to use longer-term bonds. The Legislature tends to say yes to such requests, creating control boards and other extraor-dinary forms of oversight to impose new discipline along with temporary bud-get relief.

State oversight of lo-cal budgets is not a happy prospect. City workers in Buffalo went for more than

three years with no raises, and seven years without contracts, as its control board wrestled the budget into balance. The City of Newburgh has slashed funding for street repaving and other essentials to meet its responsibilities under a fiscal recovery act adopted in 2010.

Local government leaders and their constituents have two broad options to deal with approaching fiscal crises. One is to await state oversight and expect to give up significant control over local budget decisions. The second option is to identify looming crises early by, for instance, using multiyear planning tools provided by the Office of the State Comptroller – and then taking to avert emergencies before they arrive.

New York voters have heard warnings of fiscal cri-sis before. The threat now is real and widespread. It’s not simply a matter for political leaders and budget experts to think about. Where vot-ers pay attention, elected officials may act more deci-sively and effectively.

Public employee unions do not want to embrace con-cessions, but may prefer ac-tion sooner rather than later if it means limiting harm to workers and services. Property owners who face their own financial chal-lenges have a vested interest in their local government’s financial stability ...

The opportunity to avert real crises is still here. But time is running out.

Ward is deputy director of SUNY Albany’s Rockefeller

Institute of Government.

SUNY’s Rockefeller Institute of Government.

Robert Ward

The elimination of property taxes.

Mayor Miller has come up with a game changer in the debate over city-town merger.

He obtained a decision from the state Attorney General’s Office that a consolidated City of Greater Oneonta could be divided into two taxing districts.

One district would pay property taxes at a rate to support city ser-vices received – water, fire protec-tion and so on. Rural areas around West Oneonta and Wilber Lake, which receive few services, would pay less.

Less – or nothing.That’s the game changer. No

property taxes in the town’s rural areas.

•Right now, some town residents

– some; most people, we believe, are neutral or supportive of con-solidation of what is already one community – believe the city is looking to grab Southside sales-tax revenues.

The reality is, the town is receiving a pittance from South-side’s Big Boxes. Southside gen-erates something like 25 percent of the county’s sales tax revenues, but the town receives only 1.36 percent of the total. A pittance. How is that fair?

Under state law, a town is at the mercy of the county. However, cities can “preempt” half the sales tax generated within its borders.

A City of Greater Oneonta could garner millions that are now going to Roseboom and Edmeston and Decatur.

•The existing city would gain

needed help through preemption, but it already receives 12 percent of the total. It needs the increase, but its increase would be relatively smaller than the town’s in the new combined entity.

In other words, the City of Greater Oneonta is the logical way to go for both town and city.

Mayor Miller happened upon the game changer as he prepares to address the Oneonta Town Board in April, asking it to appoint three members – Supervisor Bob Wood and two others – to a seven-mem-ber blue-ribbon panel to explore consolidation. The seventh mem-ber would be an eminent citizen

acceptable to both municipalities.It might makes sense to appoint

no-way, no-how merger oppo-nents like a Bob Harlem or Maria Lusins to the panel. If they can be convinced by the facts – and they will be convinced by the fact – then everyone will be convinced. Think about it.

•Because, friends, in reality

there is simply no downside to a town-city merger and much to be gained. And, absolutely, there’s NO reason not to explore the issue. Town residents, please encourage your Town Board mem-bers to participate in the Blue-Rib-bon panel.

This is important, not just to the city and the town, but to the Greater Otsego-Delaware Region. A more vibrant retail, manufactur-ing, higher-education and cultural hub is good for everyone.

By talking, by collecting data, by reasoning together, there’s nothing to lose and much, much to gain.

Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTAMayor Miller presides at March Common Council retreat. From left are Council Mem-bers Southard, Rissberger, Hennessy, Hol-mes, Brzozowski, Lynch and Palmer.

Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTASupervisor Wood presides at February Oneonta Town Board meeting. From left are Councilman Gravelin, Town Clerk Shackel-ton, Town Attorney Harlem, and board mem-bers Mirabito and Hurley-Quackenbush.

If Merger Eliminates Town Taxes, That’s A Game Changer

To the Editor:I just read the “Other Views” in Hometown Oneonta

last week regarding not closing Center Street School and I wholeheartedly agree with you.

We moved here from Virginia Beach after looking at the pictures of Main Street online. The small town charm and historical buildings were a big draw for us. It is important to retain that charm for years to come.

One of the other things I really like about small towns is the smaller classrooms. In the city the teacher/student ratios are terrible. I grew up in the North but finished my senior year in Virginia Beach and we were learning stuff there that I learned in seventh and eighth grades in P-A.

I hope, for the kids’ sake, they don’t close the school. There are always other answers if you just look hard enough.

KELLY BARTLETTOneonta

Schools Like Center StreetMake Small Towns Special

To the Editor:Under Obamacare, 15

million Americans are still with no health-care cover-age. So what kind of care is there for all those Ameri-cans?

Then there is the cry of “Socialism.” In all Euro-pean countries, Great Britain and Canada, every baby born is assured heath cover-age through life. Over here, the cry of Socialism goes up.

If one stops to think, all three great religions stress fundamentally the care of the poor and the sick. Putting a label on that to frighten people who don’t bother to think is so destruc-tive.

Telling people to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps is just fine for

some, but for a child born into a family of three gen-erations with no boots is a sad cop-out.

I hope people will think clearly when being bom-barded by the hysterical adds on the television placed by the Insurance and phar-maceutical companies, and forget party labels.

Our car broke down in northern Canada and the garage man, as I recall, said that because he had health care for life, he didn’t resent paying 7 percent higher tax-es. Of course, the plan isn’t perfect, but it certainly is more humane. Why can’t we think carefully and caringly and vote for “Health Care for All” without a label?

NANCY WALLERRoseboom

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FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2012 HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-5

HOMETOWN HistoryCompiled by Tom HeiTz with resources courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library

125 Years ago100 Years agoLocal News – The First Church of Christ, scientist, of

oneonta announces a lecture at the Woman’s Club rooms on Chestnut street on Thursday evening, april 4, by Virgil o. strickler of New York. Mr. strickler is one of the ablest lecturers connected with the Christian science Church, and is a member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church in Boston. admission is free. The public is cordially invited.

During the week which ended March 10, the local mail carriers in oneonta distributed 28,860 letters and 40,944 pieces of mail of all kinds, the total weight being 3, 537 pounds. seven hundred and thirty miles were covered by the carriers in distribution and 17,000 stops were made.

There was a Temperance service at the Plains Church last sunday afternoon, under the auspices of the otsego County W.C.T.U. Mrs. georgia Wheaton presided and Mrs. Lulu Walker gave an interesting address. Following the meeting a local union was formed with the following officers – President, Mrs. Dell Ceperley; vice-president, Mrs. Harry Shepherd; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Robert Thayer; recording secretary, Mrs. Lillian McCall; treasure, Miss edith strait.

March 1912

80 Years agooneonta went to bed sunday night, happy in the memory

of a pleasant, balmy, easter Day, and hopeful that jolly spring had settled down for her annual sojourn. oneonta awoke Monday morning, and blinked its eyes in incredu-lous amazement to find the air filled with swirling clouds of snow. Winter was back on the job in all his howling bleak-ness and frigid beauty. It was the severest storm of the win-ter. all day long and through the early part of the evening the wind roared and the snow came down, until a total of 21 inches had fallen in less than 24 hours. Drifts piled high in city streets and on country roads, cars stalled, buses were unable to stay on schedule, and pedestrians sloshed and scuffed through drifts that swept over sidewalks almost as fast as they could be shoveled away.

March 1932

60 Years agoC. roy Jones of schenevus, secretary of the otsego

County Federation of sportsmen’s Clubs says “There are too many deer in otsego County. We’ve reached the time when something’s got to be done.” state Conservation Department figures for the 12-month period from October 1, 1950 through september 30, 1951 show that 1,250 deer were killed by means other than guns in New York state, and of this number about 750 were killed by automobiles. This does not include a large number of deer that crashed

into cars but escaped, many with injuries. should the state, having assumed control and ownership of deer, become liable for the damage done by deer? Jones answers the question this way: “Personally, I’d like to see a doe season in otsego County, but not an isolated one. It should be in conjunction with Delaware, Chenango and adjacent coun-ties, perhaps all the Catskill and southern Tier areas, if not the entire state.”

March 1952

40 Years agoLandscape architect Walter F. Bruning of syracuse has

begun planning a wide variety of items for a new ten-acre addition to Neawha Park. Last week the Common Council agreed to hire Bruning for about $7,500 to prepare plans and drawings for the area across from Damaschke Field. oneonta Parks & streets supervisor James Catella and Parks & recreation Commission Chairman e.C. “Dutch” Damaschke have drawn up a list of uses they would like to see incorporated in the new park area. among the pro-posed uses is a golf putting green. other ideas include new softball diamonds with lights for use at night for at least one of the three proposed new diamonds. a separate building for restrooms and storage. a play area for tiny tots and a blacktopped basketball court are also on the list. Develop-

ment costs are estimated around $90,000, not including a building.

March 1972 30 Years ago

Why is President reagan stonewalling senate republi-can leaders on the need to reduce the federal budget deficit? He calls his critics “sob sisters.” He does not seem to want to face reality. a year ago, his “Program for economic Recovery” projected a deficit of $42 billion for fiscal 1982, $23 billion for 1983 and a surplus in 1984 of $500 mil-lion. But the Congressional Budget Office forecasts a $129 billion deficit this year, going up to $270 billion by 1987. Tax loopholes for large corporations are largely responsible for the revenue shortfalls and budget deficits. The Congres-sional Budget Office has shown that three changes in the laws aimed at making oil companies pay a fairer share of taxes could raise $50 billion over the next five years. But oil companies are big contributors to Congressional cam-paigns through their Political action Committees (PaCs). That money speaks much more loudly than the voters back home. The number of PaCs has doubled since 1977 to 2,901 as have contributions to Congressional candidates ($55.3 million in 1979-1980).

March 1982

20 Years agoBent V. Christensen, a dentist in oneonta practicing at

Modern Family Dental Care, 389 Chestnut, since 1983, has surrendered his license to the state Board of regents. Chris-tensen was charged with gross negligence and failing to keep adequate medical records for patients. His name will now be stricken from the state’s roster of dentists. The gross negligence charge states that Christensen maintained his office in a “grossly unsanitary condition.” Christensen did not contest the charges and turned in his license voluntarily saying he had been planning to retire anyway, adding that he “didn’t want to spend the rest of my life in court.”

March 1992

10 Years agoDr. sugwon Kang, a specialist in political philosophy

and a lay student of the Jewish and Christian Bibles and the Koran, will deliver a lecture titled “The Battle of the Books: The Koran’s Challenge to the Jewish and Christian scrip-tures” at the otsego County Courthouse in Cooperstown on Tuesday, april 2, at 7:30 p.m. Dr. Kang will describe the structure of the Koran as a sacred text and examine its many references to the Christian and Jewish Bibles.

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Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTAEstefan Bonilla, David Marvel, Amanda Blake and Dan Decker practice n a musical number from Sandy Wilson’s “The Boy Friend,” the Oneonta High School Drama Club’s performance upcoming at 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, March 30-31, and a matinee at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 1. $5 for students, $10 for the general public.

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HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-7FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2012

Owner: Springfield Tractor (315) 858-2578Auctioneers: MacFadden & Sons, Inc.

Rt. 20 Sharon Springs, NY(518) 284-2090

Pictures at www.macfaddens.com

TERMS: Cash or good check only! All items sold “as is.” List is subject to change.

NOTE: The best selection of clean Cub Cadets anywhere! Auction under big tent, rain or shine. This auction features top quality equipment and you set the price!! These tractors are all reconditioned

and ready to mow. Many have snowblowers, tillers, cabs, etc. Iver says business has been good and it is again time to clean house for a big spring season. Plan to attend, a great opportunity!!!

Selling 10AM SHARP!!!Antique Cub Cadets - Pedal Tractors & ToysIver is reducing his collection: (2) 1961 Original Cub Cadet tractors, one electric start, one recoil both restored. 1976 Cub Cadet Spirit of ’76 restored. (7) Pedal

Tractors: Original open grille Farmall H; IH 400 w/ cart, original, 1986 Kubota 8950, new, (2) JD 4020 w/wide front; (2) IH 1066; plus approximately 50 farm toys all NIB

Come early & have some fun!!!

21 COMPACT TRACTORS & UTILITY VEHICLES:

Kubota L5030 4WD w/ldr & backhoe, 500hrs; (2) Cub Ca-det 8404 4WD w/ldr; (3) Cub Cadet – Yanmar EX 3200 4WD w/ldr; (2) Cub Cadet EX 2900 4WD w/ldr; (3) Cub Cadet EX 2400 4WD w/ldr; Cub Cadet 7254 4WD w/ldr; Cub Ca-det 7265 4WD w/ldr; Cub Cadet 5234 4WD w/ldr; Kubota B2400; (3) Cub Cadet Big Country 4X4 utility vehicles, all low hours; Kawasaki 2510 Mule 4X4 low hours; Case 1150 B dozer, very good cond; JD 450C crawler loader, very good cond; IH 656 tractor; Oliver 1550 w/ldr; Farmall M; More

traded by auction!

50+ CUB CADETS:(10) Cub Cadet 3000 series 16-25 hp w/mowers, power steer-ing & some w/snowblowers; (4) Cub Cadet Super garden tractors; (27) Cub Cadet 2000 series 16-25 hp-many like new; (15) Cub Cadet 1000 series 10-18hp; Several older Cub Ca-

dets including a 100;107 & more traded in by auction day.

COMMERCIAL MOWERS: (8) Late model Cub Cadet Zero-Turn mowers 44-48-54-60 inch; Toro

4500D commercial mower; JD 525; NH LS45 & more coming in!

50+ TRACTORS OTHER BRANDS:(26) John Deeres 8 – 25hp including 425; 345; 312; 314; 316; 317; & many others; Plus at least 25 more tractors various

brands!

200+ PCS MISC NEW & USED EQ.:

tillers; dump carts, push mowers, chippers, baggers, gen-erators; log splitter; 3pt hitch implements including mow-ers, blades, york rakes, snowblowers; (10) pallet lots of misc. parts, owners manuals, parts equipment row & much more!!!

15th Annual Lawn & Garden AuctionSaturday, April 7th – 10AM

Springfield Tractor Rts. 20 & 80, Springfield Ctr. NY

200+ pcs Like New garden tractors, compact tractors, toy collection & more! The nicest tractors for sale anywhere, all will sell w/no

minimums or reserves. Nothing like it anywhere else!

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SOUTHSIDE/From A1In addition, a strip mall is

underway in the old Midas Muffler building, just west of the Neptune Diner, and a Metro Mattress and a strip mall are due for completion by mid-May.

The mall has also re-ceived a permit to put in an outbuilding, though no specific plans are in place as to what will occupy the space. “It’s a new thing with malls,” said Wood. “Some retailers prefer to be in a freestanding building.”

With these new develop-ments, Wood anticipates significant new retail along Southside. “We are the ma-jor retail center for Otsego and Delaware counties,” he said. “And it’s been grow-ing consistently for the last 20 years. We draw consis-tently for a 30-mile radius.”

That sentiment was echoed by George Banta, owner of the Super 8 fran-chise, which his family built

in 1987: “Oneonta’s always been a good location.”

Banta Management, said the owner, has been system-atically redoing its proper-ties over the past few years to bring them into line with current styles.

Locally, for instance, the pine lobby is being replaced with granite counters and a “sleek and modern” look created. A flat-screen TV is being added in the breakfast nook.

All the windows were replaced, all the bathrooms redone and all the rooms modernized. A new portico is all that remains to be done, with completion due by June 1.

The Southside Mall is also courting stores to fill the space behind T.J. Maxx. “We’d love a bookstore,” said Montanti. “We look for a good balance of stores, not just geared towards men or towards women, but to everyone. We get good

traffic.”Southside Mall has begun

using the former Borders store as an event space, recently showcasing the RoboKronos team and the Prom-a-Palooza fashion show. The mall also hosts Holiday events, including a trick-or-treating at Hal-loween, Santa at Christmas and an upcoming Easter Egg Hunt.

Montanti attributes the business boom at the Southside Mall to strong communication. “It’s about making it personable,” she said. “It’s important to give people opportunities and to work with them.”

For Wood, it’s a chance for more jobs to come to the area. “We hope it will con-tinue to provide an increased demand for housing and an expanding tax base to lower taxes for town residents,” he said.

“This expansion is going to be huge,” Montanti said.

Strip Mall Opening Next To Neptune;Metro Mattress Is Among Its Tenants

FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2012A-8 HOMETOWN ONEONTA

ASHLEY CONNORREALTY

29 Pioneer St., Cooperstown, NY 607-547-4045

Patricia Ashley – Licensed Real Estate Broker/Owner

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Nancy Angerer, Sales Agent, 435-3387 Donna Skinner, Associate Broker, 547-8288 • Amy Stack, Licensed Sales Agent, 435-0125

This 1863 building with character and retail

history sits at the four corners of Main Street

and Chestnut Street at the only light in the

village of Cooperstown. Once Sherry’s Famous Restaurant, the retail space now houses a gallery and vintage

chocolate shop. There are also four spacious

apartments, two on the second floor and two

on the third floor, all with excellent rental histories. The main floor was completely redone a few years ago which included bamboo floors, tiled floors, and a mounted propane fireplace.

Entrances on both Main and Chestnut Streets as well as wonderful picture windows. Offered by Ashley Connor Realty $675,000.00

HiSTORiC DOwNTOwN BuiLDiNg

A great location close to Cooperstown. This 3

bedroom, 2 full bath home is ready to move into. Direct TV/ Internet is Clarity Connect. Quiet

neighborhood with similar well kept homes. One floor living, easy to live in, low

maintenance home. The back and side yards are perfect for children and pets to safely enjoy. Room outside for 4 seasons of fun! Full basement could be finished into more space if desired. Large garage

provides ease of entry plus additional storage. Kitchen/dining area has sliders to

a private rear deck overlooking the backyard. All within minutes of the village.

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INDIAN RUN FARMHistoric Cooperstown Farm. Gracious 1840’s Greek Revival post and beam farm house has been carefully

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half baths. Upstairs laundry. All with re� nished wide pine � oors, original millwork and period style � xtures. The � eldstone patio and demi Lune verandah were recently added for outdoor entertaining. All systems and mechanicals have been engineered to the best possible result. A three bay carriage house was built in 2004

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HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-9FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2012

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BELLES OF THE BALL DAZZLE AT PROM-A-PALOOZA

Rachel Griffing

of Oneon-ta pauses

on the runway to showcase

a blue gown for a packed

house at the

Southside Mall’s

first Prom-A-Palooza Sunday,

March 25.

Michaela Mancini of Oneonta, Brittany Young-Karabinis of Delhi and Brittney Herrick of Oneonta model “trumpet-style” ball gowns at Prom-a-Palooza. The money raised from the event was donated to Laurens and Gilbertsville/Mount Upton central schools for post-prom parties.

HOMETOWN People

Katrina M. Kollgaard and Jason A. Schneider were married on Dec. 21, 2011, in Fredericks-

burg, Va. The bride is the daughter of Rich-

ard and Joan Kollgaard of West Oneonta, and a 2003 graduate of Oneonta High School. She graduated from Cornell University in 2007 and from the Cornell College of Veteri-nary Medicine in 2011 as a doctor of veterinary medicine. Dr. Kollgaard is employed as a small animal veterinar-ian in Locust Grove, Va.

The groom is the son of Judith Sidileau of Francestown, N.H., and Jeffrey Schneider of Oswego. He is a 2004 graduate of Oswego High School and a 2008 graduate of SUNY Oswego. He is employed as a com-puter specialist at Best Buy in Freder-icksburg.

The couple is living in Fredericks-burg and plans a reception for family and friends in New York State this summer.

Katrina Kollgaard Weds Jason Schneider In Virginia

Mr. & Mrs. Jason A. Schneider

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A-10 THURSDAY-FRIDAY, MARCH 29-30, 2012

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MLS#81929 - This well maintained mobile home has 3 bedrms, 2 bathrms, central air, fully applianced, 2 car garage & several

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MLS#82089 - 3 bedrm 1 ½ bath move-in ready home, w/fresh paint, new light fixtures, new replacement windows throughout,

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MLS#82556 - Wonderful views with this 4 bedroom 2 bath home. Take a look at this 1995 home with newer flooring and plenty of

space and larger rooms.There is also a split level deck off the back. $115,000 Call Sharon Teator 607-267-2681

MLS#80949 - Established Equestrian Ranch: This professionally maintained horse business has everything the

horse enthusiast would need for a turn-key business. The main house is spacious w/4 bedrms & 2 ba, w/a finished basement currently a summer rental at $2,000.00 a week. The 3408 sq.ft

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cooperstown ViLLage Victorian(7500) This restored home is located on a quiet

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Custom Colonial on 80+ Acres

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Dave LaDuke Broker 435-2405; Mike Winslow Broker 435-0183; Tony Gambino 516-384-0095; Rob Lee 434-5177; Mike Swatling 435-6454; Joe Valette 437-5745; Laura Coleman 437-4881

Spring priceS Dropping Like rain!

Immaculate 4 bedroom custom built center hall

Colonial, 9+ acres, large barn, golf hole and only 5 minutes to Cooperstown.

Price reduced, offered at at $474,000.

Enjoy country living in this spectacular 3200 sq ft. contemporary custom built home with carriage house on 23+ acres, filled with all the best amenties. One acre swim pond, scenic country views located in a beautiful setting, only minutes to Cooperstown. Price reduced, offered at $495,000.