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ComplimentaryVolume 5, No. 26 Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, March 22, 2013FREE!
HOMETOWN ONEONTA& The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch
City of The Hills
HOMETOWN ONEONTA HAS LARGEST PRINT CIRCULATION IN OTSEGO COUNTY2010 WINNER OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD
many ny Cities Broke; not oneonta, long Says
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Chamber leaders Claim Bully pulpitPresident Hutzley, Executive Heegan Seek To Create Foundation For Success
Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA The Shops at Ford & Main show entrepreneurship is alive and well locally. Cham-ber President Brian Hutzley and Executive Director Barbara Ann Heegan discuss the venue with SUNY students Kasey Lightfoot, Caroline Curtis and Megan Harrington.
By JIM KEVLIN
‘We feel like we’re in Boston or Mon-treal,” said SUNY
Oneonta student Caroline Curtis, a New Paltz native who the other
day was just finishing lunch at The Shops at Ford & Main with two friends.
Caroline’s remark was music to the ears of Brian Hutzley, Otsego County Chamber board chairman, and Barbara Ann Heegan, executive director.
A few minutes earlier in an interview in the Chamber office on the second floor of 189 Main, they were detailing one of their priorities: To get as many SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick College interns in local businesses
Please See CHAMBER, A7
WHAT DO YOU KNOW? The Greater Oneonta His-torical Society is seeking community input on two upcoming exhibits: the Oneonta Fair and Homer Folks Hospital. If you have information, call the History Center at 432-0960.
CHECK THE WEB: New-man Development Corp.’s 325-student housing com-plex was due before the city Planning Board at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 20. For story, photos, check
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Brian Horey/HOMETOWN ONEONTAOHS junior guard Mari-ah Ruff (22) was the high-scorer with 26 points, but not enough to keep top-ranked Irvington from a 55-53 loss in the Class B semi finals Friday, March 15, at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy. The Yellow-jackets trailed by 14 points third quarter, but came within two points of tieing the score in the final seconds and forcing an overtime.
Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
FOTOT President Patrice Macaluso unveiled a two-part plan to save the Oneonta Theatre: One, a full
schedule of event; two, raising $35,000 for eminent theatre consultant Donald Webb to develop a strategic plan/SEE A7
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from the ASHESAFTER FIRE, RETIRED PRoFS BACK IN FRANKLIN moUNTAIN Log HomE/B1
CITY mANAgER’S FIRST STATE oF CITY SPEECH
County OffersTraining ClassAbout FoI Law
Failure to follow the state Freedom of In-formation Act caused
judges to vacate approval of privatization of Otsego Manor.
Now, the county Plan-ning Department is planning a training session for local officials on the FoI and Open Meetings Law 5:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 3, in SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom.
Featured speaker is Robert Freeman, executive director, state Commission on Open Government. To register, call 547-4225.
Hartwick, SUNY Oneonta Jazz TalentTo Join Marsalis Quartet At Foothills
By LIBBY CUDMORE
It was a chance to show off the Hartwick College Jazz Band to “top-notch” Branford Marsalis Quartet,
but Dr. Jason Leo Curley decided he
would be better showcasing ALL of Oneonta’s collegiate talent.
“I’d love to show off Hartwick, but I wanted to involve the greater music com-munity,” said Curley.
With the Marsalis quartet perform-Please See JAZZ, A3
Nick Kirkpatrick, Julia Tooker, Jack Tomlinson and Katie Orrell practice for the joint Hartwick College/SUNY Oneonta jazz orchestra to per-form at Foothills with the Marsa-lis Quartet.
By LIBBY CUDMORE
Out of 61 cities in New York State, only
nine are solvent – and one of the nine is Oneonta, City Man-ager Mike Long told a packed Common Council chambers Tuesday, March 19.
It was his first State of the City speech, and the first by an Oneonta city man-ager: Long, hired in September, is the first person to hold that po-sition in the City of the Hills since a revised charter was approved by voters in November 2011.
Judging from a four-page executive summary he reviewed in his speech – the cover sheet for a 24-page detailed report on all aspects of city government – he has spent his first six months on the job obtaining an understanding of operations and challenges.
Please See SPEECH, A2
But Expenses Up,Revenues Down,Executive Asserts
Mike Long: Costs up; rev-enues down.
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SPEECH/From A1“We need to identify
what the mayor and council should be aware of as we move through these uncer-tain times,” Long said at the outset.
And at the conclusion, he wrapped up: “I hope this will lead to a discussion of ‘level of service’ that the city will continue to pro-vide, balanced by increased consideration of revenues to offset increased expenses.”
That need to balance revenues with expenses was supported by many of the key points in his presenta-tion, among them:
• Looking back a decade, a surplus “fund balance” accumulated in the first few years has allowed the city’s solvency in the bad years that followed.
• The economic dip since 2008 has reduced sales tax revenues, interest earnings, mortgage recording fees, home values and ability of city residents to pay prop-erty taxes and fees.
• Governor Cuomo’s 2 percent tax cap has “severe-
ly reduced the government’s ability to raise additional revenues.”
• Stock market losses caused the state comptroller to increase municipal con-tributions to pension funds, and the city’s contribution has grown from $617,000 in 2008 to $1.5 million today, more than double.
• While the cost of per-sonnel rose $1 million, the number of City Hall em-
ployees dropped from 139 to 129.
• While costs were ris-ing, the city’s share of AIM (state aid to municipalities) dropped from $2.5 million to $2.2 million.
• And sales-tax revenues have been flat.
• Through all this, health-insurance costs rose only slightly. “I have to tip my hat to those responsible for those negotiations,” he said. “It’s kept the city in the good position.”
In more specific terms, Long detailed what Mayor Miller has been saying – generally and in his three State of the City speeches since taking office in 2010.
Long characterizes it as being between a “rock and a hard place: revenues are down; costs are up and there’s no place to go.”
The speech took about 20 minutes and was accepted in silence. The only applause was for the crew at the city’s Waste-Water Treatment Plant when the city man-ager detailed improvements there.
Asked for a reaction, Miller repeated goals he has expressed in the past. For instance, “I’m committed to keeping people whole” – there have been no layoffs – “and that means that you have to sacrifice. So far, we’ve been able to do that without impacting services.”
In 2010, Miller rolled out a five-year planning process, and he has been updating it annually. “If we had a crys-tal ball, we could accurately see what the budget was go-ing to be,” said Long. “But now, it’s just a prediction.”
“Bottom line, we have trends,” said the mayor. “Expenses going up faster than revenue – that put us out of business. We have no control over pensions, sales tax or our ability to raise taxes. But if anybody’s going to get this right,” he added. “It’s us.”
Long summed it up this way: “I think we’re in a pretty good position. The five-year forecast has us anticipating expenses, trying to control as much as we can.”
Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTACity Manager Mike Long passes out copies of his State of the City speech and supporting documentation to council members, including Maureen Hennessy. In the background is city Finance Director Meg Hungerford.
Mayor Miller contem-plates Long’s remarks.
Long: Economy Tightened, And So Did City’s Prospects
Editor’s Note: This is the text of City Manager Mike Long’s executive sum-mary to his State of the City speech delivered to a packed Common Council chambers Tuesday, March 19.
To Mayor Miller and Members of the City Council:
As per the City of Oneonta Charter, the City Manager is required to com-plete a “State of the City Report” as soon as practical in the beginning of the New Year. Although the Finance Department is closing the 2012 financial statements, the attached report will identify many of the finan-cial issues that the city must be aware of.
While there is not a standard formula for the in-formation contained in this report, I have tried to give historical data and informa-tion of the city over the last three (3) or so years. This data varies depending upon the information available. Much of this is actual data,
while more current years are utilizing budgeted figures. Depending upon the infor-mation available, if actual numbers are not available, then adopted budget data is used. This may be confus-ing when going through the various slides. My intent is to identify trends that the Mayor and Council should be aware as the city moves through uncertain times ahead. I plan to verbally discuss the various financial slides contained within the first 13 pages of the docu-ment that were prepared by our Director of Finance Meg Hungerford which played a valuable role in the develop-ment and presentation of this overall report.
I can make the following observations that summa-rize the findings contained within:
• The NYCOM indicates that there are only nine cit-ies out of the 61 cities in the State of New York that are financially solvent at this time and that the City of Oneonta is one of these few.
• Over the last 10 years, the city has during the early years collected more rev-enue than its expenditures which has led to an accu-mulation of “fund balance’’ that the city has available.
• Since 2008, the national and statewide economic downturn has had a serious impact on all of the cities across the State of New York, which has affected sales tax revenues, interest earnings, mortgage record-ing fees, the values of home and the ability of residents to continue to pay increased property taxes and fees.
• Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed and had the legislation adopted that has significantly limited all municipal and governmental organizations from raising additional revenues by the “Adoption of the 2% Tax Levy Cap’’. This has severe-ly reduced the government’s ability to raise additional revenues unless there is a public hearing and super majority vote to exceed the tax levy cap.
• The property tax rev-enue for Oneonta is approxi-mately 29.4% of our total revenues in 2012 which equates to a Tax Cap limited increase of $85,454 or about 0.058% of our entire budget (much less than 2%) as the tax levy is only a small por-tion of our revenues.
• The New York State Comptroller has signifi-cantly raised the municipal retirement and contribution rates to compensate for the 2008 stock market losses. This has added undue stress on local governments across the entire state. As the only
individual responsible, he can set the rate annually at will. Since 2008, the city’s retirement contributions alone have grown from $616,892 to $1,478,465 in 2012 or an increase of $861,573.
• The “Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010”’ (HR 4872) and the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” has been put into effect. The true cost of implement-ing Health Care legislation for the City of Oneonta in future years is uncertain.
• Over the last three years, the total budgeted cost of operations for the city has grown nearly $3 million; this includes Capital Proj-ects of $739,000 added to the budget in 2012. His-torically, funding for Capital Projects has not been part of the adopted budget.
• During this same time, the General Fund cost of personnel (salaries and ben-efits) has increased nearly $1 million, which is about one third of the increased overall costs. The Gen-eral Fund Revenue grew by $1,075,997.
• The number of city staff has decreased from 139 to the current level of 129 or a reduction of 7.2% of the workforce over this same three-year period.
• For the entire organiza-tion, the cost of Retirement and Health Insurance costs
of $2,842,375 in 2008 have risen to $4,144,629 in 2012 or $1,302,254 increase in four years or a 45.8% increase.
• The New York State Aid for Municipal Government (AIM) has been reduced in recent years. Governor Cuomo has vowed that governments in general need to cut costs and/or merge with others. In 2008, the city received $2,349,730 in AIM revenue which over the last three years was reduced $1 17,873 to the 2011 amount of $2,231,857.
• Sales Tax revenues dropped since the 2008 downturn in the economy and have recently returned to about the same level. Otsego County Sales Tax collection is trailing the State of New York numbers. We collected $4,014,045 in 2008 and $4,049,177 in 2011, an increase of only $35,132.
• The General Fund for 2012 is $14,781,558 or 74.2% of the overall adopt-ed budget of $19,921,485.
• The city budget includes the use of “Fund Balance” over the last several years due to increased overall op-erating expenses. While the city still maintains a strong Fund Balance, long-term operating deficits will erode this position.
• The Five-Year Budget Forecast that the city has been using is a good tool to anticipate long-term effects of short-term budgeting decisions.
• On a more positive note, the city completed Phase One of the Spruce Street reconstruction, the Dietz
Street Parking Lot and the Methane dome system for the Waste Water Treatment Plant. These are long term investments in the commu-nity that were much needed.
• The Johnson Controls Project was a $2.4 million major initiative, blended roof replacements with en-ergy savings and new $1.5 million water meter system to control energy costs. The energy savings cue projects to cover the additional debt costs.
• The City also imple-mented the KVS accounting software system which all departments utilize and has been a major factor in ef-ficiency measures.
• Mayor Miller has been correct when describing that the City of Oneonta must reconfigure spending or revenues to balance operat-ing budgets.
• In conclusion, I hope that this will lead to a dis-cussion of level of service that the city will continue to provide, balanced by increased consideration of revenues to offset increased expenses.
I am available to discuss this report in much fur-ther detail. This exercise will form the baseline data that will be used over the next several years to chart progress. As soon as actual year-end data is available, we shall prepare a report to the City Council on the final numbers. All the depart-ment heads are working dili-gently to decrease operating costs and at the same time increase revenues.
MICHAEL H. LONGCity Manager
Common Council Must Decide ‘Level of Service’ City Hall Should ProvideFULL REPORT: 24 pages of detail on the City of Oneonta’s financial picture may be view at:
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IF YOU GO: Bran-ford Marsalis Quartet, 8 p.m., Sunday, April 7, Foothills. Hartwick and SUNY jazz bands begin performing in Atrium at 6:30. Tickets at 431-2080, or foothillspac.org
JAZZ/From A3ing Sunday, April 7, at Foothills, Curley decided to resurrect the Inter-Col-legiate Jazz Band that had performed together on the Foothills stage during April – Jazz Appreciation Monday – in distant 2009.
“We had a huge crowd; everyone brought their friends,” said Curley, chair-man of Hartwick’s Music
Department. Although well-received, the bands never played together again.
Until now.Though Foothills support-
ed the idea from the begin-ning, Curley had to make sure it the quartet didn’t mind sharing the limelight. “I called their agent and asked if they’d let us open for them,” he said. “They were very supportive of the idea.”
Curley then contacted Dr. Art Falbush in SUNY Oneonta’s Music Depart-ment. “They have Jazz Fest the following week, but I didn’t want them to not be included,” he said.
Falbush agreed too.And Curley will be play-
ing, but he wanted to be fully inclusive. He turned the director’s baton over to Gary LiCalzi, South Kortright Central School’s music director.
And he reached out to other high school band di-rectors, asking them to help fill out the Hartwick band.
Despite a series of hectic performance schedules, Falbush and LiCalzi man-aged to squeeze in time to rehearse. “They’re so excit-ed,” said Curley. “They’re really working to make this a chart-topping event.”
The students are excited too, and not just at the pros-pect of $10 tickets. Accord-ing to Curley, as soon as the concert was announced, tickets started selling “like crazy.” “The students are pumped,” he said. “They wanted to go already, and knowing that they’ll be part if it – they’re looking for-ward to every single note. It’s an event for them. It’s an evening.”
The Hartwick jazz band will perform in the atrium starting at 6:30, followed by the SUNY jazz band. The two will then combine for a few songs, including a rendition of “Jeep’s Blues,” showcasing soloists from both schools. At 8 p.m., they’ll turn over the stage to the Branford Marsalis Quartet at 8 p.m.
And Curley doesn’t want to see another half decade go by before they play together again. “It’s infrequent, but Foothills is interested in other joint ventures,” he said.
It’s important to get the colleges involved in Foot-hills, Curley noted, “So it’s not just another artist com-ing in to play for an hour and 15 minutes.”
Hartwick, SUNY Bands To Play With Marsalis Quartet
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HOMETOWN ONEONTA& The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch
FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2013
EDITORIAL
LETTERs
County Rep. Pauline Koren, R-Milford, put it this way: “In
my heart, I don’t want to sell it. But in my brain, I know we’re doing the right thing.”
It was telling that five of six county reps – three Republicans, three Demo-crats – at the first of three informational meetings on the future of Otsego Manor Saturday, March 16, at the Worcester American Legion agreed with her.
And they said their con-stituents agreed with them, (particularly those who call, saying any tax increase will force them from their homes.)
The sixth rep, John Kosmer, D-Fly Creek, said he believes a majority of his constituents want to see Otsego Manor saved, which is why he developed the Kosmer Plan, which seeks a combination of union con-cessions and revenue from a .25 percentile increase in sales tax to reduce The Manor’s growing deficit. (It will soon claim 50 percent of the county’s $10 million tax levy.)
But even Kosmer, dis-couraged that only a dozen members of the public showed up in Worcester, said, “I’ve done my job.” For the Kosmer Plan to happen, there has to be an outpouring of public support that wasn’t evident there.
•
Before we go any further, let’s stipulate that the vast majority of people in Otsego County agree with Koren: In our hearts, we want to preserve Otsego Manor as it is; in our heads, it becoming harder and harder see our way clear.
Further, let’s agree that the continuing efforts of Maureen and Fred Culbert of East Springfield to rally support for keeping The Manor in public hands are praiseworthy in the extreme. The Culberts have nothing to gain. Maureen was sim-ply inspired by the quality of care her mother received at The Manor during her last months to embark on her worthy crusade.
The humanity of The Manor – Hilda Wilcox and John Webb fully cap-tures it in their reflections elsewhere on this page – is something everyone in Otsego County should honor. It makes all of us proud.
Still, in listening to the Worcester presentation by county Rep. Kay Stuligross,
D-Oneonta, who chairs The Manor Committee, by Manor director Ed Marchi and by Kosmer, it seems clear The Manor will simply become more and more of a burden on county finances as time goes on.
•First, state and federal re-
imbursements will continue to decline. It costs $366.98 a day to care for a Manor resident; the Medicaid reim-bursement – it applies to 75 percent of the residents – is $190 a day.
If anything, the reim-bursement will continue dropping due to “regional pricing,” which reimburses counties based on the average regional cost. The Manor’s pay scales are way above the region’s, and the county must pick up the gap. To give just one instance from Stuligross’ presentation: At Otsego Manor, the range of CNA (certified nursing assistant) wages is $14.39-$16.88 per hour; regionally, it is $10.85-$13.06. Locally, CNA benefits are an ad-ditional $7.63 per hour; regionally, $3.41.
That’s more than $7 per hour, per 70 CNAs, 24 hours a week, 52 weeks a year. And that’s just one category. Good wages and benefits are not a nega-tive, but the county is in a situation where it is being punished for being above average.
In an interview a few weeks ago, Marchi pro-posed that unionized Manor employees accept the upper end of the regional scale to help bring county costs down. Even if that were to happen, that would simply drive down the regional average, further eroding the county’s reimbursement. Continued public ownership is a downward spiral.
•In Worcester, Marchi
raised another issue: Obam-acare, which will begin tak-ing hold in 2014, will shift eldercare to a managed-care model. Money will move from supporting institutions like Otsego Manor into homecare, enabling people to stay in their houses.
The Meadows, the county’s former nurs-ing home, was based on a “medical model,” said Mar-
chi. Otsego Manor, with is five “neighborhoods” and pleasant living conditions, is a “social model.” Under the new regimen, nurs-ing homes will revert to the “medical model,” one Marchi likened to an ICU. People will live at home until they are seriously ill, moving to The Manor only in their very final days.
All the trends are moving away from The Manor that we revere, and the money to support this model is moving with it. Even a per-person fee, like MOSA, of $100 or $200 per per-son, would not ensure The Manor’s survival, even if that were affordable, and to many, it isn’t.
•The good news – and
this was repeated again and again at Worcester – is that the county board isn’t run-
ning for the doors, the way it appeared to be a year ago. The RFP seeking private bids emphasizes “quality,” and that must be paramount.
The county has contract-ed with the Rochester-based Center for Governmental Research, a non-profit founded by George Eastman that has 100 years of provid-ing “fact-based, objective research and analysis.” And with Harris Beach, a law firm with offices through Upstate New York with specific expertise.
Save Our Manor adher-ents might be wise to shift the focus from keeping The Manor as it is to ensuring it passes into the best hands.
This conclusion is reached with regret. Otsego Manor is an admirable institution, one that we can be proud of, but one that does not appear sustainable given forces well beyond Otsego County’s boundaries or control.
But, please, don’t take our word for it. The county board is planning two more sessions, at 1:30 p.m. Satur-day, March 22, at the county courthouse in Cooperstown, and 1:30 p.m. Saturday, April 6, at Oneonta High School.
Certainly, people of good will can disagree. And we would welcome being proved wrong. But the privatization of Otsego Manor, regrettably, seems inevitable.
Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s JournalOtsego Manor director Ed Marchi and county Reps. Kay stuligross and John Kosmer, detail The Manor future saturday, March 16, in Worcester.
IF YOU GO: The county board is planing two more informational sessions on The Manor: Saturday, March 23, at the county courthouse, Cooperstown, and Satur-day, April 6, at Oneonta High School. Both are at 1:30 p.m.
The Heart Says ‘Yes’ To Saving Otsego Manor, But The Head...
By HILDA WILCOX
One thing I have learned from life is that, in some ways, we are all alike. Whether we are
rich or poor, handsome or plain, smart or not so smart, the one thing we all want – deep down, never to lose – is our sense of our own identity. We want to be known as the unique per-sons we are and nobody else is.
What we see when we see residents of The Manor are people whose sense of identity has remained intact. They are still pretty much the same people who went there to live, and the staff
sees them as who they are and treats them that way.
There are other nursing homes I’ve visited that aren’t that way – where even if you are called by your first name, you aren’t really you. You’re just that resident who gives them trouble or doesn’t give them trouble, who is sedated or is not sedated. And when you die – well, you die, and the right forms must be filled out and the right relatives notified.
What I’m talking about is the dignity of the human being and how an institu-tion can help us to keep intact that dignity – or lose it. None of us wants to go into that next world as a thing.
I see The Manor, thanks to the qual-ity of the people who work there, as the kind of people we want around us when we can’t do as much for our-selves as we could do before.
When we have a good thing like that, we can’t afford to lose it. We’ve got to use all the ingenuity we can put together from all our citizens – not just the county board alone – to save it. We’ve got to believe we can pool our insights to make the changes we will need to make – to save Otsego Manor.
Hilda Wilcox, an educator long active in community causes, lives in
Cooperstown.
ISSUE & DEBATE
By JOHN B. WEBB
As I write, I am looking at an ar-ticle from the April 18, 1958, issue of the Oneonta Star bear-
ing the headline, “$480,000 County Home Bonds Sold,” clipped by my grandmother and placed prominently in her scrapbook of family memora-bilia.
The picture accompanying the article shows then-county attorney Sterling Harrington; county treasurer Bernice Jones, and my father, Badgley Webb of Roseboom, who was then chairman of the county’s Board of Su-pervisors, at the signing of the bonds that would finance the construction of The Meadows, The Manor’s predeces-sor.
I was a young man at that time, but I vividly remember the significance of this event from the phone calls, the get-togethers of county and town officials at our home, and my father’s dinnertime reports of the deliberations surrounding the decision to move forward with this major project.
I even remember the preparations for the trip that Bernice, Sterling and my dad took to New York City for the official signing of the bonds.
I was present with my parents for
the grand opening of The Meadows with speeches extolling the quality of care that residents would receive in the home and infirmary, the guided tour, the excitement and pride that prevailed, and the jokes with Guy Maddelone, then Board chair, about whether any of the Board members
who had supported The Meadows’ construction would end up there one day. (My father died – at The Manor – in 2007.)
There was a recognition shared among all involved that this was a costly undertaking and that it repre-
Please See WEBB, A6
John B. Webb retrieved this April 18, 1958, newspaper clipping from his grandmother’s scrapbook, showing his father, Badgley Webb (standing), then chairman of the county Board of supervi-sors, and others signing the bond issue for The Meadows, The Manor’s predecessor.
Manor Preserves Uniqueness Of Each Resident
Never Forget: We Are Our Brothers’ KeepersTo the Editor:
Whereas I appreciate the effort of Hometown Oneonta to give more in-depth coverage of local poli-tics, I was uncomfortable with several miscues printed in the March 8 editorial on Page A4. You loosely described me as a “Sustain-able Otsego adherent” rather than as an independent leader who galvanized the Butternuts area to speak out against fracking.
What’s worse, you egre-giously stated that at the county Democratic Commit-tee meeting, I “took pains to differentiate between frack-ing and the Constitution pipeline.” Nothing could be further from the truth! In the meeting, I stated very clearly that I strongly dis-agreed with Mayor Miller on the issue of pipeline, but that I believed he was “educable.”
I suggest that the mayor entertain a private meeting with representatives from “Stop the Pipeline” for a re-spectful exchange of views on this issue.
It is puzzling to me
how “snake oil salesmen,” such as those who shill for oil and gas interests, are welcomed into communi-ties with opened arms and instantly trusted by decision makers with virtually no scrutiny, by merely waving dollar signs in the air.
On the other hand, those who live in, contribute to, and care about the commu-nity, rather than exploit it, are dismissed out of hand. Since the pipeline develop-ers have explicitly stated, “Leatherstocking intends to connect to existing and new gas production ... to the Constitution Pipeline,” I hardly see how Mayor Miller can deny the obvious.
In another false step, your editorial characterized the committee’s vote to allow Miller to appear on the Democratic line in Novem-ber as “backpedaling.” Why this choice of words? There was a simple up and down vote on the matter, and that was that. Where’s the “backpedaling” there?
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HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-5
HOMETOWN HistoryCompiled by Tom HeiTz with resources courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library
FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2013
60 Years ago
March 1953
125 Years agoa Big Fire in oneonta early This Morning -- $50,000
More Gone to Blazes – At about five o’clock this morning people were roused from slumber by a din of whistles and clang of bells that made it tolerably evident a considerable fire was underway. Those who hurried into Main Street were speedily aware that the “wooden row” was again in for it. The fire appears to have been first discovered by men in the railroad yard, who represent it as bursting from the rear windows of the basement under the store occupied by A. & M. Krohn, in the Geo. Reynolds block at the foot of Chestnut Street. It spread, we need hardly say, with great rapidity. The firemen were quickly on the scene, and notwithstanding some difficulty with the hydrants, two or three of which were frozen, or refused to work, had four streams playing within a brief period. But, the flames being mainly in the basements at the rear of the buildings, and the blocks unbroken for a long distance, it was impossible to get in any very effective work. The flames made rapid progress, the dry and in the main light-built structures of-fering small resistance. Within 50 minutes from the first alarm, the Reynolds building had fallen in; the Huntington and strong buildings speedily followed, and soon after the Fritts building, this last fortunately crashing toward the fire’s center and leaving the Vosburgh and Miller building tolerably clear. The list of losses runs heavy, but those los-ing are pretty well protected. Jeweler Adams appears to be the heaviest loser. Talk now is that Chestnut Street must be extended to meet Mechanic to eliminate the dangerous and inconvenient continuity of buildings on the south side of Main street
March 1888
100 Years agoWhen someone hands you a nice new shiny “Buffalo-
Indian” nickel in change, be sure to examine it closely; for in the few weeks that the new coins have been in circula-tion have given the counterfeiters more than enough time to duplicate the five-cent coin exactly – but in lead. So well has the work been done that the only difference the ordi-nary person will notice is the absence of any “ring” when the counterfeit is dropped. In every detail it is apparently like the new coin; yet experts say that one of the feathers in the noble Red Man’s headdress is a bit shorter than it ought to be. A few of these coins have been found in Oneonta the present week.
March 1913
80 Years agoDemountable lips, demountable eyelashes, demountable
noses, demountable fingernails, ear tacks, muscle oil, arti-
ficial eye sparkle and tiny pictures and letters for fingernail decoration were the talk of the four-day convention and exhibition of the International Beauty Shop Owners As-sociation which opened Monday at the Hotel Pennsylvania. The detachable fingernails were invented by Maxine Burke. They are of a flexible composition, can be shaped and filed like real fingernails and come in all colors with perfect half-moons. They are for the typist whose nails are worn down by her work or for the debutante who wants long, perfect nails to match her gown. Miss Burke also invented the demountable eyelashes and the demountable lips and noses. “Many women with straight noses, who want that saucy look, sigh for a ‘retrousse’ nose. “We get a wax impres-sion of the inside of her nose – she can breathe through her mouth while it is being done – and then make a gold-plated frame that will give the desired shape. The gold-plated nose shapers sell for around $35 and are made to order.
March 1933
40 Years agoTuition would be abolished for undergraduate students at
community colleges and State University campuses across the state, under terms of a proposal advanced Wednesday in the legislature. Assembly Minority Leader Stanley Steingut, D-Brooklyn, and Assemblyman Charles Henderson, R-
Hornell, said their proposal would cost the state about $157 million a year. “The state would lose $191.2 million in tuition revenues,” they said in a joint statement, “but would gain $34 million used to fund Regents scholarship and Scholar Incentive grants above the statutory minimum.” Henderson voted against tuition at the State University when it was established about 10 years ago. Free tuition will obviate the need for the present complex student aid system based on family circumstances and the substantial administrative costs which it requires, the two men said.
March 1973
30 Years agoFashion – The key words from Paris are “narrow, fitted,
simple, slinky, lean and dressy.” Hair is short and simple, close to the head to follow the fitted fashion feeling. Styles are cropped at the nape and spill over the forehead to cover brows with ears exposed to reveal chunky earrings. There are two major fashion shapes – the fitted, form-defining ‘waisted’ look, especially popular in daywear suits; and the long, lean lines of dropped-waist casual and evening fashions. Suits are dressier than ever, with structured, fitted forms, and glove and hat accessories. Hemlines range from ankle to mid-thigh. Flat heels are right with short, casual skirts, but high heels are required to complement dressier day and evening wear. Colors are earthy – copper, bronze, khaki, sage, milky peach, deep sand and sweet pea. Two-toned looks are popular.
March 1983
20 Years agoWhether in a horse show ring or on stage at a beauty
pageant, the toughest part of competing is measuring up to yourself, said Nicole Barnhart, 17, of Mt. Upton, the newly crowned Miss Otsego Teenager who was chosen by judges from among sixteen girls and five finalists in competition in Slade Theatre, Yager Hall, at Hartwick College. “Winning is just the extra something that really is the icing on the cake.”
March 1993
10 Years agoGrant applications are available from the Catskill Wa-
tershed Corp. for non-profit organizations and businesses planning economic development projects. A total of $800,000 has been allocated for 2003 for grants that create and retain jobs, revitalize hamlets and Main Streets, de-velop cultural programs and nonprofit projects, and enhance natural resource-based industry in the region. Proposed projects must have a positive economic impact.
March 2003
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A-6 HOMETOWN ONEONTA FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2013
To the Editor: The March county board
meeting, refreshingly open to the public, provided a forum with regard to gun laws as well as the question concerning the disposition of The Manor. Most speakers about gun laws urged the board to send a reso-lution to the governor and the Assembly demanding repeal of Cuomo’s recent gun-con-trol legislation. Two speakers urged moderated discussion and one, the writer, urged repeal of the Second Amend-ment.
The Second Amendment should be repealed, not because it provides unlimited permis-sion for individuals to possess and carry any type of weapon – it does not. The problem is that people who want to think so think that it does, and then they stop thinking. In fact, the Supreme Court has held that, “Like most rights, the Second Amendment is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.”
Writing for the majority in District of Columbia v. Heller (2010), Scalia wrote: “Nothing ... should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying
of firearms in sensitive places ... or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the com-mercial sale of firearms.”
But the Second Amendment should be repealed anyway, because it is an anachronistic document, with roots in 17th century English law pertaining to the authority of the King and the suppression of Protestants by Catholics, and American roots in the support of support of State militias to suppress slave revolts.
As stunningly tragic as the events such as Newtown are, they are the tip of the iceberg. In 2010, over 31,000 Ameri-cans were killed in homicides, suicides and unintentional shootings. Nearly 74,000 were treated in Emergency Rooms for non-fatal gunshot wounds.
Firearms-related deaths are one of the top three causes of death in American Youth. The American Academy of Pe-diatrics says it “continues to support a number of specific measures to reduce the destruc-tive effects of guns in the lives of children and adolescents, including the regulation of the manufacture, sale, purchase, ownership, and use of firearms; a ban on semiautomatic assault weapons; and the strongest possible regulations of hand-guns for civilian use.”
The American Academy of
Pediatrics has also found that “Adolescent suicide risk is strongly associated with fire-arm availability. Safe gun stor-age (guns unloaded and locked, ammunition locked separately) reduces children’s risk of injury. Physician counseling of parents about firearm safety appears to be effective…”
Under pressure from the NRA, the Florida State Legis-lature passed a law making it a criminal offense for physi-cians to discuss gun safety with patients (the Florida Supreme Court subsequently overturned it). Let’s argue about that.
A recently released study by Boston Children’s Hospital found that states with more gun control laws have less gun vio-lence. Let’s argue about that.
An argument advanced at the county board meeting cited the supposed loss of revenue from fishing and hunting licenses and associated commercial revenues, should the current legislation be maintained. Do people really angle with AK-47s? Let’s argue about that.
But let’s argue, and advance thoughtful arguments, with the Second Amendment out of the way. All it does at this point is provide false justification for a culture of fantasy and its at-tendant violence.
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WEBB/From A4sented a seriously challenging com-mitment of county resources and taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars. This was a group of fiscal conservatives who would make even today’s advo-cates of budgetary caution stand at attention, so they did not take any of this lightly.
What left a lasting impression on me was that, in spite of all the concerns over the magnitude of the investment, not one of them ques-tioned, not for one moment, the im-portance of the county’s having and overseeing a first-rate facility where its citizens would have a guarantee of growing old and infirm with dignity, personal, psychological and financial.
They believed that it was not only a politically desirable action, but it was the human thing to do. The presence of such a facility, run by the people and not by some outside corporation, made Otsego County a safer and more humane place in which to live. THAT was the spirit behind what was happening in the picture in the Star that day.
Everywhere we turn these days, we find ourselves facing increased disassociation from the ideal that we are our brothers’ keepers. The excuse is, more often than not, a lack of money, and our current County legislators offer that as the excuse for selling The Manor.
They should realize that back in 1958, the burden on the county’s budget for the construction and then the future maintenance of The Mead-ows was very heavy, but that did not overshadow their sense of commit-ment to and responsibility for the well-being of their constituents.
Over the years, countless people,
many of whom we have known per-sonally, and our own family members have relied on these county-owned and county-run facilities in the most critical times of life, among them illness, disability, old age and death. And indeed, it has made Otsego County a safer and more humane place in which to live.
The county representatives insist that they will not let The Manor go without appropriate safeguards and oversight, but we all know that to believe their rhetoric is naivete in its most acute form. Turning it over to private operators condemns the in-stitution, its residents and the people who care for them to the bottom-line of corporate profit margins without any substantial local control over the quality of care given or received.
I keep hoping, optimistically, that the legislators will have a change of heart and realize, just as their predecessors did back in 1958, that keeping The Manor is the right and humane thing to do, that it is our God-given responsibility to be our brothers’ keepers, that the people who go to the manor are worthy of the collective cost to the community, and that the county will continue to fund it.
The darker pessimistic side of me fears that The Manor’s sale is a done deal. Sadly, if it is, today’s county representatives will be turning their backs on an admirable and respect-able legacy left to them by those who were motivated to govern humanely (and conservatively), and Otsego County will be seriously diminished by their thoughtless actions.
John B. Webb resides in the Town of Otsego.
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IN MEMORIAMTHURSDAY-FRIDAY, MARCH 21-22, 2013
ONEONTA – James C. Vagliardo, 89, a decorated World War II veteran who was one of the last living repositories of the D&H railroad’s glory days here, passed away Sunday at his home after a long and coura-geous battle with cancer.
He was born on March 14, 1924, in Oneonta’s Sixth Ward, one of four sons of Giuseppe and Concetta (Sa-rano) Vagliardo.
He married Dominica “Mimi” Vaccaro on June 1, 1946; she predeceased him on May 16, 2005.
Jim served in the Army during World War II as a machine gunner in Central Europe, Northern France and the Rhineland, receiv-ing a commendation from Lt. Gen. George S. Patton
for his fortitude and con-spicuous bravery defending the field against a German attack of multiple aircraft.
Jim retired in 1985 after 43 years of service in on the crane of the D&H.
He lived on West Broad-way, abutting the D&H yards, and so had witnessed many of the significant de-velopments in the railroad’s history during the 20th cen-tury, which he recorded in notebooks and with photos. He was featured in the docu-mentary “All The Livelong
Day” and the crane he operated is now owned by the Cooperstown/Charlotte Valley Railroad.
He was a member of St. Mary’s Church, American Legion Post 259, and a for-mer member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 1260.
He is survived by his children, Joseph Vagliardo of Oneonta, John Vagliardo and his wife, Sherry, of Oneonta, Concetta Vagliar-do of Latham, and Louis Va-gliardo and his wife, Karen, of Oneonta; four grandsons, William, Vincent and Jared Vagliardo of Oneonta and Shane Vagliardo of Fla; a brother, Carmen Vagliardo, Sr. of Winter Haven, Fla., and a sister, Rosalie Sim-mons, of Oneonta, and many nieces and nephews.
Besides his wife, he was predeceased by a grandson, Jason; his brothers, Charles, Louis, Paul, and Joseph Vagliardo; a niece, and also his goddaughter, Charlene Vagliardo, and daughter-in-law, Debra Vagliardo.
A funeral mass was held Wednesday, March 20, at St. Mary’s Church, with the Rev. Bernard Ampong, officiating. Burial will be in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Emmons.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Catskill Area Hospice, 1 Birchwood Drive, Oneonta, NY 13820.
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Born May 23, 1967 in Stamford, the daughter of Stanley and Beverly (Whit-beck) Drake, Susan received her Associates Degree in Nursing from SUNY Mor-risville. Nursing was her passion and she spent many years pursuing her dream of caring for others. Through-out her nursing career, she traveled to many homes with At Home Care, Inc.
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She is survived by her mother Beverly Drake of Hartwick, NY; her husband, Edward Skillen, Jr. of Mil-ford; her daughters, Gabri-ella and Natasha Skillen of Milford; her brother, Doug-las Sargeant (Natalie) of Laurens; her sisters, Melody (Keith) Fritts of West Lau-rens, and Heather Drake of Raleigh, NC; as well as by several nieces and nephews.
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ONEONTA – Enid S. Vila, 73, described as a “good mother and good friend” passed away March 3, 2013 at the Fox Nursing Home, Oneonta.
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She is survived by a sister, Elaine Andrews of Oneonta; children, Laura & Earl Fessenden of Walton, Jill and James Carmody of Treadwell, Tracy & Debra Vila of Las Vegas, NV; several grandchildren and
great grandchildren; a loving niece and caregiver, Cheryl Amo; and several nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by a brother, Eugene Miller and a sister, Earlene Illenberg.
A memorial service will be held 1 p.m., Sunday, March 24 at the West Dav-enport Free Baptist Church in West Davenport, with the pastor Stephen Estes, of-ficiating.
Interment at the West Oneonta Cemetery will be at a later date.
Donations may be made to the West Davenport Free Baptist Church, PO Box 31, West Davenport, NY 13860.
Arrangements are entrust-ed to the Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home, 51 Dietz St., Oneonta.
Enid S. Vila, 73; Children Survive
Marilyn S. Ryall, 66; Moderated Worcester Evening Book Club
WORCESTER – Mari-lyn S. Ryall, 66, a former Fox Hospital technician, passed away following a brief illness, Thursday, March 14, 2013, at Fox Hospital.
She was born June 18, 1946, in Cortland, the daughter of Howard and Helen (Taylor) Miller.
Marilyn grew up in Wa-tertown and graduated from Watertown High School. She then went on to earn a Medical Technician degree at SUNY Cobleskill and a degree in English at SUNY Oneonta.
She married William “Bill” R. Ryall on March 26, 1967, in Ithaca.
Prior to retirement, she worked at A.O. Fox Memo-rial Hospital in Oneonta, as a medical technician.
Marilyn was an avid reader and a quilter. She volunteered at the Worces-ter Free Library where she was a moderator for the evening reading group.
She and her husband, Bill loved traveling both domestically and abroad, especially enjoying their time in France.
She is survived by her
husband, Bill Ryall of Worcester; her son and daughter-in-law, Will and Allison Ryall of Raymond, Maine; her daughter, Erin Ryall Smith, and Doug Mosher of Westmoreland; her grandchildren, Sydney, Jessica, Joshua, Nick, Han-nah, Matt, Kelsey, Keegan and impending new ar-rival; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Don and Trish Ryall, Sue Ryall and Al Charsky; nieces, neph-ews and many wonderful friends.
Funeral services were held Sunday, March 17 at the Second Baptist Church, 132 Main St., Worcester, with the Rev. Judith A. Thistle, pastor, officiating. Interment in the Maple Grove Cemetery will be held at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, dona-tions may be made to the Worcester Emergency Squad, P.O. Box 191, Worcester, NY 12197 or to the Worcester Free Library, P.O. Box 461, Main Street, Worcester, NY 12197.
Arrangements are en-trusted to the E.J. Skinner Co., Worcester.
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“They’ve never been asked to stay,” said Heegan, who is two-thirds through her first year on the job and has already recruited 61 new members. “They were never aware of the opportu-nities.”
The Chamber itself has 10 interns, provided by SUNY’s Megan Ackley and Hartwick’s Melissa Mari-etta.
“It’s incredible how many interns continue work-ing with their employers,” said Hutzley, who lives in Garrattsville and commutes daily to Albany.
The two were interviewed in advance of the Annual Banquet & Appreciation of Business Friday, March 22, at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom, which is also the culmination of Otsego County Chamber Appreciation Week.
To Hutzley and Heegan, The Shops at Ford & Main – 10 businesses in a mini-mall Peter Clark developed last summer in an long-va-cant mattress store across from City Hall – exempli-fies an entrepreneurism that is making Oneonta a more enticing place for young people. (Hutzley also chairs the “SUNY in the Entrepre-neurial Century” initiative.)
The shops range from Creative Dress Boutique, to Monkey Barrel Toys, to the Spice Company, to the Col-lage Food Boutique, where Caroline was lunching with fellow students Kasey Lightfoot of Holbrook, L.I., and Megan Harrington of Fonda.
As Heegan tells it, and
Hutzley concurs, a large part of the Chamber’s purpose is to rally the business commu-nity, to point out the good things about doing business locally, to help people col-laborate.
Some of the initiatives they pointed out include:
• Networking, encourag-ing Chamber members to do business with each other, to offer discounts to each other. The networking luncheon at St. James Manor last fall attracted 85 businesspeople; one earlier this month in the Foothills Atrium attracted 92. A second “cash mob” was planned Wednesday, March 20, at The Shops at Ford & Main: “Cash mob” members pledge to spend $20 at the targeted establish-ment, then gather at a local watering hole to share a glass of wine and conversa-tion.
• Workforce development. The Small Business Devel-opment Center – Michelle Catan is director – has moved from across the hall into the Chamber offices. The Chamber is also work-ing with Broome Commu-nity College to offer college courses to students and advanced training for adults in local high schools.
• Outreach beyond the county line. Heegan has become active in CANY, the Chamber Alliance of New York, and is develop-ing contacts in Schenectady, Saratoga and even New York City that she hopes will bear fruit later.
• Collaborating with the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce on the “Local First” campaign that aims to dramatize what products and services are available in downtowns throughout the county, and to encourage shoppers to go there first, before turning to the Inter-net.
“People want to see that we’re working together,” said Heegan of the collabo-ration with Cooperstown. “They don’t want to see the silo thing.”
“...And is just doesn’t work,” Hutzley added.
Pat Szarpa, Cooperstown Chamber executive, has four interns through the Otsego Chamber’s program who are exploring the question, “How do you market to col-lege students?”
Through all this, Heegan brings an element of boost-erism – Hutzley believes she should – to her job, talking up the quality of life, the college and universities, the tourism attractions, the envi-ronmental and other factors that people enjoy about liv-ing around here.
She pointed out that such companies as Mamco Precision Molding, the ultracapacitor-maker Ioxus, and Apple Converting, which fabricates the tops for Chobani yogurt containers and Lindt Chocolate have prospered here.
Others can too, Heegan will tell you, and should.
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HOMETOWN ONEONTAChamber President Bri-an Hutzley and Execu-tive Director Barbara Ann Heegan.
FOTOT’S Macaluso Declares:
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FOTOT, the Friends of the Oneonta Theatre, are seeking support for a $35,000 study by the premiere com-
munity-theater planning firm, Webb Man-agement Service, to help guide the develop-ment of the city’s thespian community.
“They don’t just make a plan and give it to you,” Patrice Macaluso, FOTOT president, briefed a gathering of theater enthusiasts Saturday, March 16, at the History Center. “They come to town for four months and sit down with organiza-tions who will use the theater – colleges, students, Orpheus, Glimmerglass, even Goodrich Theatre – and get a sense of the arts community.”
Taking into account seasonal visitors and economic profiles as a “scan” of the audi-ence, Webb develops a budget, a board, a five-year plan, even a profile of who to hire, what order to hire them in, and what to pay.
Macaluso, who also chairs SUNY Oneonta’s Theatre Department, credits Webb with the revitalization of Proctor’s in Schenectady. “It’s astounding what the community has done with that building,” she said. “They leveraged it into economic development – restaurants, hotels, even
upgrades to the train station.”Proctor’s also took over the Palace The-
atre and the Capital Rep, both which were facing closures.
She also cited the Bardavon in Pough-keepsie, which, on Webb’s advice, part-nered with the nearly bankrupt Hudson Valley Philharmonic and the Ulster Per-forming Arts Center in Kingston, saving three historic institutions in the process.
Of the cost, Macaluso said, “As far as I’m concerned, that’s a great bargain. We need to figure out the best mode of moving forward for the health of the arts.”
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