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City of The Hills

By LIBBY CUDMORE

Novelist Lauren Groff has a lot of bag-gage. “I’m weighed

down with this book,” she said. “Every time I go to the bookstore, I buy like 50 copies!”

The New York Times best-selling author of “Mon-sters of Templeton,” Ot-sego County native Lauren

Groff’s latest novel, “Arca-dia,” was launched Tuesday, March 13, in Miami – (and she is signing books locally, Friday, March 23, in Oneon-ta and Saturday, March 24, in Cooperstown.) “Ron Charles of The Washington Post gave it a very positive

Please See GROFF, A6 Sarah McCune photo

Lauren Groff, now living in Florida, will be back in Otsego County for book-signings shortly.

‘Arcadia’ Brings Best-Seller HomeIF YOU GO: Lauren Groff reads, signs books, 7 p.m. Friday, March 23, Green Toad Bookstore.

ioxus Will Bring 30 Jobsto oneonta From JapanREMEMBERING JOE AND MARY

Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA“Honk to save Cen-ter Street!” students call out during a St. Patrick’s Day protest to raise awareness bud-get cuts may close the school. Front to back are third-graders Kevin Kurkowski and Fadia Moussa; fourth-grader Avery Burnsworth, and seventh-graders Faith Martinez and Emma Ta-varone. (Details, A9)

Photos courtesy Al ColoneA young Joe DeFiore, above, tends bar at Joe & Mary’s Res-taurant, today’s Sixth Ward Athletic Club. At right, Joe spins Mary around the dance floor later in their career.

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U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna, R-Barnevelt, will no longer repre-

sent Otsego County.Final

districts ap-proved by the state Leg-islature put the county completely in what is now the 19th Con-gressional District.

U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-Kinderhook, now repre-senting the eastern part of the county, announced Mon-day, March 19, he will run in the new district.

WET FIELDS: The city Parks & Rec Department an-nounced that all its playing fields remain closed until further notice. For updates, call 432-0680.

CLINIC MOVING: The Oneonta Community Health Center, providing free primary health to low income, uninsured adults, is closing Tuesday, March 27, at Academy Street and will reopen Tuesday evenings at Fox Hospital, beginning April 3. Call 433-0300 for an appointment.

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By LIBBY CUDMORE

Much of Joe and Mary DeFiore’s legacy is almost mythological.

The dates get fuzzy, and some of the faces blur together.

But the one thing that remains crystal clear is the impact the couple had on the Sixth Ward

community. “Mary’s family, the Wolcheks,

were here in the early part of thePlease See BANQUET, A9

Banquet Honors Sixth Ward MainstaysIF YOU GO: Call 436-9136 for tickets to Joe & Mary’s Me-morial Banquet, at 6 p.m. Satur-day, April 7, at the Sixth Ward Athletic Club homecoming.

By JIM KEVLIN

For decades, the Pacific Rim has been extract-ing jobs from the U.S.

Ioxus, the ultracapacitor manufacturer in the former National Soccer Hall of Fame at Oneonta’s west end, is turning that around.

“It’s unique in the busi-ness world that manu-facturing is coming back from Asia,” Ioxus COO Phil Meek remarked the other day as he showed a reporter around the 3,000-square-foot mezzanine – it formerly housed a mini soccer field – that is being renovated to accommodate machinery from Power Systems, Ltd., of Kusatsu, Japan.

Ioxus bought PowerPlease See IOXUS, A6

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Tickets are $15 and are available at www.oneonta-theatre.com, or locally in Oneonta at Maxwells, Music Square, The Eighth Note and The Green Toad.

Part of the proceeds will be donated to the Al Gal-lodoro Music Memorial Fund.

IN HONOR SOCIETY: Chelsea Beckemeyer of Oneonta was inducted into the SUNY Oneonta chapter of Phi Eta Sigma, the nation-al scholastic honor society for college freshmen.

BISHOP QUOTED: Re-search by Dr. Ronald Bish-op, a biochemist at SUNY/Oneonta was referenced in “The Perils of Fracking” by Walter Brasch at Counter-Punch.com.

INTERNSHIP: Cassan-dra M. Lembo, Oneonta, a senior marketing major, is interning with Terra Science and Education Foundation, Syracuse, as part of SUNY Oswego’s Experience-Based Education Program.

NEW TEXTBOOK: SUNY Oneonta Distin-guished Teaching Professor Dr. John H. Relethford is the author of a new textbook, “Human Population Genet-ics.”

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Dan Duggan, John Kirk and Rick Bunting of The Susquehanna String Band play their “Celtic Suite” as part of the Catskill Sympho-ny Orchestra’s annual cabaret performance on Saturday, March 17. The cabaret also featured the annual guest conductor contest, and was sold out for the first time.

Ben Gunther vies for guest conductor by demonstrating his skills at conducting the Catskill Sympho-ny Orchestra.

luisa Montanti delegated part of her bid for guest conductor to Emily Stanley and Mi-randa Carrabba. Montanti garnered the most votes and conducted “Stars and Stripes For-ever” as the show’s finale.

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Former Gallodoro StudentTo Perform At ‘Gala Alla’

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HOMETOWN People

Youth ages 8-19 are welcome to join a 10-week 4-H dog

obedience class on Saturday mornings, 10-11 a.m. It be-gins Saturday, March 31 at Hinman Hollow Dog Train-ing Center in Hartwick.

Dogs must be at least four months old and have had rabies, distemper, and parvo shots. The cost is $50 for enrolled 4-H members and $100 for non-enrolled.

Deadline for registra-tion is March 23 or until the class is filled. For more information or registration forms, call Cooperative Extension 4-H Office at 547-2536 or email otsego@cornell.edu.

Youth ages 12-16 are invited to a three-part series

to learn about the art, sport, and safety of marksman-ship. Hands-on classes will be held on Saturday April 7, 14, and 21, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Cooperstown Fish and Game Club.

The three-part series will include safety, air rifle, rifle, shotgun, muzzle loading, living history, and outdoor cooking. $30, participants must bring their lunches.

Deadline for obedience class registration is March 23, deadline for the shoot-ing class is March 30 or until the classes are filled. For more information or registration forms, call Cooperative Extension 4-H Office at 547-2536 or email otsego@cornell.edu.

4-H Offers Classes At HartwickIn Dog Training, Marksmanship

ONEONTA THREE ALL-CONFERENCE STARS: The Southern Tier Athletic Conference league coaches selected Mariah Ruff and Kelsey Baker, of Oneonta, as All-Conference All Stars, and Natalie Vanderlaan-Meyering, Oneonta as East Division All-Star.

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Hazel Lippit of Hartwick, Emily O’Dell of Cooperstown, Morgan Kelly of Fly Creek and Tess diLorenzo of Cooperstown perform an Irish step dance routine in Muller Plaza in downtown Oneonta on Friday evening as part of the Shamrockin’ Celebration. The girls are all members of the Kathleen O’Donnell Celtic Dancers of Hartwick.

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Two Oneonta students will compete in the 24th Congressional

District Art Show at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute, Utica:

• Emily Flynn, Oneonta, “Elegance,” Indesign.

• Kim Scofield, Oneonta, “ABC’s of Fashion,” Illus-trator and Indesign.

A Juror Citation was awarded to Meghan Stoner, Oneonta, for her photo-graph, “Empty.”

Otsego 2000 is now accepting nominations for the 2012 Historic Preservation Awards. Nominations for the historic preservation awards will be considered

in the following categories: career achievement, adaptive re-use, stewardship, rehabilitation, restoration, preservation planning, and community education and outreach. Nominat-ed projects must have been completed in the past five years; incomplete projects will not be considered.

Recipients of the 2012 Historic Preservation awards will be honored at a ceremony and reception to be held in Sep-tember.

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Hartwick head women’s basketball coach Missy West

was announced as one of eight finalists for the 2012 Russell Athletic/WBCA Division III National Coach of the Year award.

This season, West piloted the Hawks to 22 wins and an appearance in the NCAA Tournament.

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SUNY Oneonta once again has been named to the President’s

Higher Education Commu-nity Service Honor Roll.

Administered by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the Honor Roll annually acknowledges colleges and universities for exceptional community ser-vice. Since the Honor Roll’s inception in 2006, SUNY Oneonta has been selected for it every year.

The Honor Roll is recog-nition from the highest levels of the federal government of a campus-wide commitment to service and civic engage-ment.

Linda Drake, director of SUNY Oneonta’s Center for Social Responsibility and Community (CSRC), said that the college’s students consistently contribute to the community through organizations like Saturday’s Bread and events such as the American Cancer Society’s annual Relay for Life.

According to CSRC data, SUNY Oneonta students recorded more than 55,000 hours of community service during the 2010-2011 aca-

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EDITORIAL

LETTERS

Do you get wind-power regret once in a while?

Harnessing wind to create power. What a great idea, harnessing a natural phenomenon that’s as ubiquitous as the air we breath. Replace fossils fuels, free us from the Arabs.

What’s not to like?It’s been five years now since

Community Energy/Iberdrola retreated from a 70-turbine project on a ridge north of Otsego Lake, and since Reunion Power aban-doned plans for 24 turbines in Cherry Valley.

Did opponents – this edito-rial page among them – make a mistake?

(Pause.)Short answer: No. Longer

answer: A resounding no.•

Some 150 people left their gardening and delayed their bike riding on the sunny afternoon of Sunday, March 18, and entered the windowless Mount Markham High School auditorium in West Winfield to view Laura Israel’s “Windfall.”

It’s a mistake to call “Windfall” an anti-wind-development film. It’s a documentary, where inter-view upon interview traces how the people of Meredith in northern Delaware County – home of Han-

ford Mills Museum – went from pro-wind to worried to no-way, no-how anti-wind.

It’s also a little bit of a hor-ror story, a modern-day “Young Goodman Brown,” where inno-cent and unsuspecting neighbors slowly realize something awful is about to happen to their rural com-munity. The horror, indeed.

It’s a David v. Goliath par-able too. You don’t know at the beginning if the Delaware County

Davids will win. Actually, things don’t look too good. Frank Bachler, the seasoned, level-head-ed and congenial town supervisor, is opting for big wind, as is the town’s power structure.

The antis are pictured as a minority of Young Goodman Browns, out-of-towners lacking an appreciation for how what wind promises might save financially ailing dairy farms. (Cameo ap-pearances include Dan Birnbaum of Oneonta’s Damascene Book Cellar.)

Long story short, as the facts emerge about wind power, the town moves from the pro-wind to the anti-wind column. This is unclear until the end – that’s the drama – when town Planning Board chair Keitha Capouya, after her board’s year of research is re-jected by the Town Board, leads a slate that ousts the Bachler claque in the November 2011.

•Along the way, we’re reminded

of all those issues that were front of mind during the year of Jordan-ville and Reunion debates:

• The hum, hum, hum, 24-7, ala “Tell Tale Heart,” and its impact on folks living in the community.

• The flicker effect – the foot-age from the 170-turbine Tug Hill installations is truly alarming.

• Fires in the turbines, 400 feet above the ground. And occasion-ally, a tower topples.

• The less-than-negligible effect of these small wind projects on our nation’s energy needs – wind power is so erratic that the base providers, coal- and nuclear-pow-ered plants, must still run full tilt.

• The conclusion that these wind farms produce, not power, but tax breaks – the original company de-preciates the $10 million turbines over five years, then sells them to the next utility, which depreciates them for the next five years, etc.

• Finally, 25 years hence, the turbines wear out – so long, Mere-dith, so long, Jordanville – and the utilities depart, leaving hundreds of 400-foot-tall behemoths litter-ing the landscape, to be removed at taxpayer expense.

What a scam, indeed.•

This is more than academic. The Mount Markham screening was organized by Protect Rich-field, a citizens group resisting Ridgeline Energy’s six-turbine Monticello Hills Wind Project. The Town Board has approved a host agreement, but – bravely and wisely – the new town supervi-sor, Fran Enjem, has declined to sign it pending the resolution of an Article 78 proceeding to halt the

project, to be argued March 30 in a Wampsville courtroom.

Audience members included Manlius attorney Doug Zamelis (with mom and stepfather, Maria and Wendell Tripp of Cooper-stown.) Zamelis, lawyer for the suing neighbors, was able to stop the Jordanville project in its tracks. He’s a scrapper, and a brainy one. Let’s hope he suc-ceeds in this situation, too.

Little’s been heard about it, but Ridgeline also is proposing 6-12 turbines in the Town of Maryland, outside Schenevus. Neighbors there need to start paying atten-tion. A great place to start would be for someone to screen “Wind-fall” at Schenevus Central School; the future of the community may depend on it.

It’s said there’s enough wind in North Dakota to power the nation, and that’s great. Nobody lives there. And with ultracapaci-tors like those being developed at Oneonta’s Ioxus, perhaps the national grid can be upgraded so North Dakota power can be dis-tributed nationwide.

But in Upstate New York, no. No wind power. We’re rural, but not deserted; plus, we have so much more to offer the state and nation. In the Great Plains or Death Valley, maybe. Not here.

Hometown OneontaMeredith Town Supervisor Keitha Capouya, right, and Ken Jaffe, who is growing grass-fed beef there, answer questions after the Mount Markhem “Windfall.” Pro-tect Richfield’s Lon Merritt is at podium.

Upstate Too Populated To Accommodate Huge Wind Turbines

IF YOU GO: “A Chemical Reaction,” a 70-minute film on Hudson, Que.’s deci-sion to ban pesticides, 7 p.m. Monday, April 9, Templeton Hall, Pioneer and Church streets, Coo-perstown.

To the Editor:Spring is nearly upon us

– a time to rejoice and do all we can to encourage the growth of our lawns and flowers. In our enthusi-asm we go to stores to buy whatever we think will make them beautiful, including fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides.

Next we may decide to hire companies to spray our lawns to kill pesky weeds and insects that we feel may keep them from being less than beautiful, without con-sidering the fact that what kills some living things can kill other living things: birds, bees, and who knows what else, not to mention what the accumulation of such chemi-cals can mean downstream from us.

The Chesapeake Bay is a national pollution disas-ter. Aquatic life – oysters, shrimp, and fish – has almost entirely died out and the wa-ter is unsafe for swimming. Cooperstown is the first town on the Susquehanna River, the main tributary flowing into Chesapeake Bay. Are we contributing to downriver pollution, not to mention slowly accumulat-ing local contamination from those chemicals that do not break down?

Though we keep our drinking water here in Coo-perstown in what is reported

to be safe condition, the water that flows downriver from here has not been put through the Village’s purifi-cation system.

Though we may have only green thumb intentions when we open a bottle of Roundup or other chemicals to kill pesky weeds and insects, we may be contributing to pollution of our environment here or at some distance from us. Though Monsanto and other companies making these products may declare they are safe, we should keep in mind that Monsanto and Dow Chemical declared Agent Orange safe.

The Supreme Court of Canada, using what they referred to as “the precau-tionary principle,” decreed that Hudson, Que., a town of 5,000, was within its rights to ban the residential use of pesticides and herbicides.

Their ban was based on concern for people and other living creatures. But soon af-ter this ban was validated in

Please See LETTER, A7

County Pesticides May BePolluting Chesapeake Bay

Editor’s Note: Here are remarks delivered by Com-mon Councilmember David Rissberger at a Oneonta school board hearing Wednesday, March 14, on the closing of Center Street School.

Mayor Miller ap-proached me in December about

some serious city housing issues, including a decrease in owner-occupied hous-ing and the lack of rental properties for families, both a direct result in the sharp rise in lucrative student and summer rental properties in the center city neighbor-hoods.

These issues were dis-cussed during the develop-ment of the Comprehensive Plan, which referred to the perception of the Third and Fourth Wards as “student ghettos.”

In order to solve these issues, we hosted a housing forum at the Center Street School in February, invit-ing the general public and receiving approximately 40 RSVPs. We had over 150 people in attendance; bankers, landlords, present and past city employees,

for profit and not-for-profit agencies, real estate brokers and government official from nearby cities who feel invested in our community.

What has developed from this forum is a six-member Housing Steering Commit-tee, of which I am the liai-son to the rest of the Com-mon Council. Each member of the Steering Committee chairs a sub-committee whose job it is to focus on one particular aspect of our housing difficulties.

The goal of the Housing Steering Committee is to develop of Comprehensive Housing Plan, complete with objectives, measur-able goals and a timeline for implementation, by the end of October of this year.

The ultimate goal of this massive undertaking is to restore owner-occupied housing and family afford-able rental properties to the center city and give options to our seniors who want to be able to afford to stay in their homes here in down-town.

This will ultimately serve to restore quality to our downtown homes as well as increase the number of chil-dren in our neighborhoods.

I, along with my col-leagues on the Common Council, strongly believe that the recent recommen-dation to close the Center Street School will only serve to add an insurmount-able hurdle to the Compre-hensive Housing Plan cur-rently under development. Amongst a sea of student rental properties, how can we possibly restore families to our downtown homes when the largest incentive to do so, the walkable-neigh-borhood historic school is removed?

In recent days I’ve heard numerous reasons why the school must be closed:

• “It has the small-est square footage and is the least efficient” – both untrue, according to the school’s own records.

• “The playground is sub-standard” – if the pavement is an issue, there are options available.

• “There are parking is-sues and issues with getting buses in and out” – In New York City, traffic patterns are altered twice a day for some schools to accommo-date drop off and pick up; why not here?

Center Street School,

built on the former grounds of the Huntington family property, opened its doors in 1897 and I feel that closing those doors in 2012 would be a very shortsighted deci-sion.

The comprehensive plan, written by the citizens of the city, stated as one of its objectives, “The need for protection and recognition of all the historic structures throughout the City.” In re-cent years we have allowed Oneonta to lose many of its hallmark institutions:

The remains of what was at one time the largest roundhouse in the world; Old Main, which was sold and subsequently demol-ished; the River Street and Chestnut street schools; the National Soccer Hall of Fame, Bresee’s.

At what point do we say “enough is enough” to throwing away our city’s history for trivial things like “better parking?” If we want families to come back to Oneonta and their kids to attend our schools, we need to give them reasons to. Closing Center Street School will only serve to drive families away from downtown

DAVID RISSBERGEROTHER VIEWS

Closing Center Street School Contradicts All ElseCity Council-member David Rissberger argues against the closing of Center Street School at a city school board meeting Wednesday, March 14.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2012 HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-5

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

30 Years ago125 Years agoWhile among Christian people generally there may be an

honest difference of opinion as to the efficacy of prayer in curing the ills to which the human flesh is heir – many per-sons being willing to concede that certain nervous maladies respond readily where so-called faith healing is resorted to, but seriously questioning that any organic disease not of nervous origin can be cured. We did not suppose there was a person familiar with the circumstances surrounding the death of Miss Mattie smith, at West Laurens, recently, who would for a moment endorse the farcical performance of Mrs. Mather, the faith healer. Yet we note in the gilberts-ville Journal that one r.g. Fenton (a minister of the gospel we believe) comes to her defence as against the account of the death of the young lady and the outspoken denunciation of the part played by the farcical Mrs. Mather. The young woman was very ill of peritonitis. This religious wonder worker, after praying with the young lady for an hour or more and playing upon her emotions, Mrs. Mather aroused her to the extent that she was led, not only to get up and walk, but to take food into her stomach! and then, as if to bid open defiance to all physical law, was induced to go out into the wintry air and ride in a cutter. she soon died as a matter of course. Mrs. Mather should no more be allowed to play with human life. In saying this we do not censure “faith in god,” but we believe the age of miracles to have long since passed.

March 1887

100 Years agoBeginning Monday regular medical inspection will be

given to pupils of the oneonta city schools. Drs. Cutler, smith, Latcher, Marsh, Brinkman and Luce have volun-teered for the work, and a schedule will be arranged for their convenience. Dr. Brownell also offers to give attention to the eyes of pupils without charge when parents are un-able to pay. at present, the physicians attend at stated hours daily, and examine such pupils as may be sent to them by the teachers. The city nurse will also visit the schools, dividing her time between the schools and her city work. among the objects to be attained are to safeguard the health of the school children, to improve their environment, to effect good hygienic surroundings, and to instill confidence in the parents that the physical well-being of the children is to be cared for as well as the mental. There are many pupils in the schools whose parents cannot afford proper medical care and treatment.

March 1912

80 Years agoa combination of the snow storm and numerous colds

and cases of grip brought attendance at oneonta schools to a low mark Tuesday. With few buses running, a number of commuting pupils were unable to get to school. Many Nor-mal school students were absent, some because of illness, and others, who live outside the city, because of impassable highways. at the Chestnut street school, about 35 pupils were unable to attend classes. oneonta high school and the academy street school were the hardest hit. at the high school about 200 students were absent. slightly less than half of these students live outside oneonta and were unable to get in. The academy street school reported the highest absence record in five years, with 140 out of 600 pupils not in attendance. among all of the city schools, nine teachers were out as well.

March 1932

60 Years agoThe James Cole Indoor Circus will present three perfor-

mances at 1 p.m., 2:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. in oneonta’s Junior High school auditorium on Monday, March 10. The James Cole Circus is the first circus ever presented on tele-vision. among the acts featured are the great Bedell Troupe with a tester board routine; television comedian Don adams with a bicycle act; the Heerdinks, horizontal bar perform-

ers; trained ponies; alaskan huskies; and clowns galore. Be-cause the Cole Indoor Circus is playing primarily in schools where elephants cannot be presented, there are none of the animals with the unit coming here.

March 1952

40 Years agoPlans for a bird sanctuary near the Wilber Park apart-

ments have been outlined by Joseph Homburger, environ-mental Control Technician for otsego County. a 55-acre tract of land presently owned by the county would be developed into a refuge for the indigenous wildlife species of the area. Homburger said most of the land in the sanctu-ary would remain untouched and stringent regulations for the use of the park would be established. The land would be posted to restrict everything except foot travel, ruling out snowmobiles and trail bikes specifically. There is also the possibility of developing a pond in the area to help hold wildlife in the park. “There is a definite need for a bird sanctuary in oneonta,” Homburger said.

March 1972 20 Years ago

a $4,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who set fire to the Dark Horse saloon on February 29 has been posted. otto rothermel, owner of the Dark Horse saloon building where his law office was located offered $2,000. That amount was matched by an anonymous donor and ray Canner, owner of Central auto salvage on West Davenport road, has com-mitted an additional $500. Contributions are also being collected by local charities to aid residents whose belong-ings were destroyed by the fire. Donors should contact the southern otsego County Chapter of the american red Cross or the oneonta salvation army.

March 1992

10 Years agootsego express offers bus service from Cooperstown to

oneonta via Hartwick and West oneonta with a transit time of 45 minutes. The bus service has stops at all the major shopping venues surrounding oneonta, and makes stops in downtown oneonta at the otsego Public Transit station on Main street. otsego express also services the more distant points of otsego County, including Morris and gilberts-ville. For those who have difficulty reading a bus schedule, otsego express offers a telephone service that provides riders with schedule information and pick-up points.

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The new line, expected to be functioning by the end of the summer, means 30 new jobs will be added locally to the 60-job company, ac-cording to Ioxus President/CEO Mark McGough. Most will be manufacturing jobs, but Ioxus will also be hiring another electro-chem-ist, an administrator, a finan-cial clerk and a receptionist due to the expansion.

Ultracapacitors are de-vices that efficiently connect power sources with uses – say, a battery to a bulb in a flashlight. Because the de-vice is light and 95 percent efficient, it great extends the life of the power source. In other words, things run longer.

To date, Ioxus ultracapac-itators, in mint-green shells, look something like batter-ies people are familiar with. Power Systems manufac-tures ultracapacitors in sleek

shoebox-like casings, black with silver ports at each end.

The boxes – called EDLCs, for electric double-layer capacitors – will be used to power auto-making robots, harbor cranes and MRIs. The EDLCs will eliminate brown-outs that hospi-tals experience when the power-hungry MRIs are switched on.

McGough said Ioxus had concluded it would have to develop such a product, and was about to begin development when he learned Power Systems might be available. “It was a well-established, blue-chip company,” he said. “We had to pinch ourselves.”

The deal closed Feb. 8.“We are going to relocate

100 percent of the cell man-ufacturing from Japan to Oneonta,” said McGough, who was interviewed via

cellphone en route to an airport for another trip to the Far East. Twenty jobs – sales reps and administra-

tors – will remain in Kusat-su to serve the Japanese and Pacific Rim markets.

For now, said the execu-

tive, the former Soccer Hall is well up to Ioxus’ space needs, although a ware-house will be built behind

the futurist building. In the future, who knows?

“The sky’s the limit,” Mc-Gough said of his business.

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Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTAIoxus COO Phil Meek and HR Manager Vicki Salamon examine ground-up Astroturf on the plant’s mezzanine that used to be an indoor mini soccer playing field in the former National Soccer Hall of Fame. The 3,000-square-foot space is being prepared for the quality-control lab, now on the main floor. A production line being shipped from Kusatsu, Japan, will fill the space where the lab is now..

This black box is the sleeker prod-uct Ioxus plans to be manufacturing in Oneonta by the end of the sum-mer.

GROFF/From A1review,” she said. “Having his seal of approval makes me really, really happy.”

Groff also recently returned from presenting a panel at the Associa-tion of Writers and Writ-ing Programs’ conference in Chicago. “You get so overwhelmed by the sheer number of people who do what you do,” she said.

She started writing “Arca-dia” five years ago – “the natural lifespan of writing a book,” as she describes it – while she was pregnant with her son. “I got incred-ibly anxious,” she said. “It was that strange historic moment where everyone was so cynical. It felt like the world was going to end.”

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myself out of sadness is to get passionate about a proj-ect,” she continued.

She began researching happiness, which included reading the biographies of people who tried to create the utopian experience in the early 19th century and in the 1960’s. Her research led her to stay at the Man-sion House, a remnant of the 19th-century Utopian

Oneida Community near Utica that managed to hold together for an unprecedent-ed 40 years. “I just started thinking about idealism – how people strive to cre-ate a better world.”

Inspired by her newborn son, she chose to write from the point of view of a little boy. “I tried to perceive the world through his eyes,” she said.

Raised in Cooperstown, the daughter of Dr. Gerald and Jeannine Groff, she has been living in Florida in recent years.

Now a full-time writer, Groff admits that it wasn’t always easy. “I decided I wanted to write full time after graduation” from Am-herst, she said. “That lasted about a week.” She tended bar and worked in telecom-

munications before deciding to return the University of Wisconsin at Madison to get her MFA.

She sits down at her desk every morning at 9 a.m. “I’m a big believer in just showing up,” she said. “Whether or not your story is there waiting is another thing.” When the words don’t come, she researches or revises.

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To the Editor:A big congratulations

and thank you to the people who fought so diligently to preserve the Town of Middlefield’s right to protect its resources from being exploited in the name of profits for industrial gas drillers.

In Richfield Springs, we are fighting a differ-ent yet similar battle. An out-of-town developer has proposed an 18-megawatt industrial wind project with nearly 500-foot turbines, complete with power lines and substation. The project is currently in limbo await-ing, the court’s decision on the validity of the special permit that was issued in November 2011.

The aesthetic resources of our area should not be marginalized in order to jus-tify profits for large, mostly foreign corporations and a handful of landowners.

Our quiet tranquility, gor-geous vistas and dark night skies are a few of the rea-sons that people decide to make our area home. If we allow this industrial devel-opment using 492-foot tall, 300-ton turbines to be con-structed in our area, these same aesthetic resources will be destroyed.

These wind turbines create noise levels that far exceed what even the DEC states will annoy nearby res-idents, their bright flashing

red strobe lights infect the darkness of the night sky. As someone who enjoys gazing at the stars, this would be a travesty.

The developers tout that this is all done in the name of green energy. When you research this form of energy it does not take long to conclude that it is really about green money for these large foreign corporations. Industrial wind turbine proj-ects are heavily subsidized by our tax dollars and it they provide very little energy for this massive investment.

If you do the research, you will conclude this is not a reliable, economic form of energy. We cannot afford waste our limited tax dol-lars on this failed technol-ogy. We absolutely need a

sustainable energy policy but this needs to be deter-mined by science, NOT by Washington lobbyists for the benefit of the corporations that pursue tax dollars.

The resources of our area and our rural way of life are under assault all in the name of corporate profits. It is imperative that we preserve these assets and it is up to us to fight for their preser-vation for the present and future generations to enjoy.

Common sense dictates that we should not bankrupt our country by subsidizing an environmentally destruc-tive, inefficient, failed tech-nology that provides power not when you need it, but only when the wind blows.

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LETTER/From A4Canada, the companies that create and sell these products lobbied many state legislators in the U.S. to deny that right to their constituents.

This now means that 41 states, including New York, have preemptive laws about that control of pesticides and herbicides; that is, local legislative bodies cannot

enact laws that are stricter than those already enacted by the state.

However, there have been inroads on the state’s laws, particularly where children might be exposed in con-fined areas to herbicides and pesticides such as school playgrounds.

I believe it’s up to us as individuals to question what potential harm to life we are

doing when we use chemi-cals to spray and fertilize our lawns and gardens. Shouldn’t we in the U.S. also adopt the precaution-ary principle about the use of chemicals whose conse-quences we do not really know?

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BANQUET/From A1century, and the building that would become Joe and Mary’s was originally her family’s grocery store. “There was a grocery store about every 100 feet,” recalled Al Colone, the Sixth Ward Athletic Club mainstay. “They all made a decent living.”

Joe DeFiore came to Oneonta sometime around 1930s, most likely from downstate. “He used to talk about working for a printer in Hunter – the legend states that he worked his way up the Hudson. Then he met Mary and, well, what happened happened – they fell in

love and changed the grocery store into Joe and Mary’s.”

The D&H railyards, behind 22 West Broadway, employed 1,500 men, and one of that paths con-necting the neighborhood to the yards ran right past the bar. “It was very convenient to stop in for a beer on the way home.”

During World War II, troop trains stopped in Oneonta to refuel, and GIs would hop off to get a beer or a sandwich. “Joe and Mary were very gracious, outgo-ing people. It wasn’t uncommon to go in there on a random occa-sion and be sitting at the bar, and

Joe would come out with a big platter of finger foods.”

But their real specialty was ban-quets. Weddings, anniversaries, bowling parties, Joe and Mary were always in demand.

Their specialties were family-style platters of sliced ham, sliced beef and Polish-style pigs-in-a-blanket – meat and rice wrapped up in cabbage with red sauce. Joe went to Stamford and Grand Gorge to buy his cabbage and stored it under the banquet hall floor wrapped in cheesecloth.

“The sheer amount of food made them famous,” said Colone.

“Big eaters loved the place.”The Sith Ward Athletic Club,

which had been meeting unof-ficially in the banquet room, took ownership of the bar after Joe and Mary passed away in the 1970s. “It was our home away from home,” Colone said. “Whether you were coming from a meeting or a sporting event, that was where you went before you went home.”

He fondly recalled how Joe would stay late into the night with only one or two customers talking at the bar. Those two would grow into three and four, and before Colone or anyone else knew what

had happened, it was 2 a.m. and the place was packed.

On April 7, the Sixth Ward Ath-letic Club will honor Joe and Mary with their own banquet. Dick Morey, a friend of Joe and Mary’s, will be in charge of the menu. “We’re going to try and replicate one of those famous banquets – ham, beef, Foti’s bread, pigs in blanket, beer, wine, dessert, all family style.”

“We want to do this event in memory of them,” Colone said. “These two people were friends of the Sixth Ward.”

Sixth Ward Athletic Club To Remember The DeFiores’ Banquets

By LIBBY CUDMORE

Despite a recommen-dation from the state Legislature to put

$200 million back into state school aid, Oneonta Supt. of Schools Mike Shea and the parents, teachers and chil-dren at Center Street school are is still waiting for word on whether or not the school will be forced to close to make up for a possible $1.4 million gap.

“We don’t want to cut one single program,” said Shea. “We’ve already done that, and now we’re looking for what we can restore.”

Should the Gap Elimina-tion Act remain intact when the legislature votes on April 1, Shea proposed two options. The first includes a 10 percent tax hike that would keep all programs in-tact, all buildings open and only a few staff reductions. That, he said, would have to pass by a “supermajority” of sixty percent.

The second option, with a 1.8 tax hike, would close one elementary school

building, cut staff and keep the programs intact. Under Shea’s proposal, the Center Street building, however, would stay in the school district, serving as the school’s offices, with pos-sible rentals to BOCES and SUNY Oneonta, allowing the offices to save money on renting office space and generate revenue.

Despite his own reluc-tance to close Center Street, Shea did point out the advantages of consolidated schools: consistency across elementary teachers, im-provement through collabo-rations, more exposure to technology and a doubling of remedial teachers, who could also focus on Gifted and Talented education.

“We can maintain our en-tire curriculum and expand arts and music,” Shea said. “This is not the case with many schools in New York State.”

A third option includes keeping Center Street school open, but librarians, music, art, New Visions, AP, sports, kindergarten and nurses would all be on the chop-

ping block. “That is not an option for me,” Shea said. “Our chief responsibility is to the students of Oneonta.”

Center Street School was chosen for closure because of the physical layout, the need for repairs and little potential for expansion, and should the school close, Shea reminded parents that there would be no extra cost for busing students to River-side, Valley View or Greater Plains.

Tensions were high at the Wednesday, March 14, school board meeting, rang-ing from parental pleas to accusations of corruption. “The information we’ve been getting is sketchy,” said Nicole Gelbsman. “Our kids are crying, they don’t know where they’re going to school next Sep-tember.”

When the comments turned personal, school board member Grace Larkin called for an executive session, a motion that was denied by Andy Puritz, the chair.

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not using is dead wrong,” Shea said. “Why would I try to close Center Street in the last five months of my career when I’ve spent all of it fighting to keep it open? Why would I subject my family to nasty letters mailed anonymously to my house? If I had the money, I’d keep it open . . . but it’s just not there.”

One of the biggest con-cerns is that closing Center Street school will cause property values to further plummet and deter families from buying houses in the area, furthering it as a “stu-dent ghetto,” populated by out-of-town landlords and poorly-maintained proper-ties. “This school anchors Center City,” said former Center Street principal John Cook. “People will buy houses if their kids can walk to school.”

On Saturday, March 17, students and parents ral-lied to protest the closing of the school, holding signs and coloring with sidewalk chalk to express how much their school meant to them.

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IN MEMORIAM

ONEONTA -- Benjamin Lewis Eldred, Sr., 76, of Oneonta, passed away Tues-day, March 13, 2012.

He was born May 6, 1935 in Oneonta the son of the late Aaron Putnam Eldred and Edna Belle (Raymond) Hammon.

Mr. Eldred proudly served his country in the United States Air Force during the Korean Conflict spending time in Germany, North Africa, Texas and Maine. On July 1, 1978, Ben married Melody Yvonne Eighmey in Oneon-ta NY.

Mr. Eldred worked for IBM in East Fishkill as an executive manager of the tool and die, plastics,

and glass shops for 29

years. He was employed with the United University Professions as a Chapter President’s assistant at SUNY Cobleskill.

He was a Past Command-er for the last three years of the Oneonta American Legion Post #259. He was

also active in the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Oneonta and Walton and a member of the Del-Otsego SER-TOMA service organization. He served on the Board of Directors for Habitat for Humanity and oversaw construction of a home in Walton. During his years in Walton he participated in several activities and com-mittees at the United Pres-byterian Church. He was involved in many aspects of his children’s lives in New-burgh, NY including Boy Scout leader, school festival volunteer, and soccer coach.

Mr. Eldred was an avid outdoorsman. Some of his other joys included bowl-ing, horseshoes, dancing, storytelling, winning games, puttering, and keeping the party going.

He is survived by his wife of 33 years, Melody Eldred of Oneonta; five children, John (Butch) Eldred, Sr., of Newburgh, Donna and Steve Miller of Central Valley, Sharon Mosley of Tampa, FL, Ryan Eldred and Rachele Cucci-arre of Oneonta and Vanessa and Nathan Eldred Banks of Hollywood, FL; 12 grand-

children, Samantha, John, Jr., Bradley, Tyler, Amberae, Nicole, Monique, Yolanda, Anthony, Jr., Darnell, Ray-shan and Mia Lewis Two-shoes; three great grand-children, Corisha, Cory and Jazmyn; two brothers, Donald and Kerry Eldred, Sr. of Oneonta and Kenneth Eldred of Maryland; as well as several nieces and neph-ews and a countless number of friends.

He was predeceased by his son, Benjamin Eldred, Jr.; brother, Harold Ham-mon, Jr.; and sister, Edith Eldred Crandall.

Calling hours were held on Monday, March 19, 2012 in the Bookhout Funeral Home and funeral services were be held on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 in the United Presbyterian Church in Walton. Burial followed with military honors in the Oneonta Plains Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, dona-tions can be sent to the Oneonta Veteran’s Club c/o Emerson Horth, 297 Chest-nut Street, Oneonta, NY.

Funeral arrangements are entrusted to the Bookhout Funeral Home of Oneonta.

Benjamin Lewis Eldred, Sr., 76, Korean Veteran, IBM Retiree, VFW Commander

Eldred

ONEONTA – Ruth M. Hoose, 84, passed away Saturday, March 17, 2012, at Fox Hos-pital.

She was born May 7, 1927, in Oneonta, the daughter of the late Henry and Margaret (Andress) Maben.

On Aug. 27, 1983, she married Frederick Hoose in Mount Vision. She was employed by Astrocom Electronics in Colliersville.

She was a member of the First United Meth-odist Church and active in the Royal Rebekah Lodge No. 161.

Ms. Hoose is survived by her husband, Fred Hoose of Oneonta; four sons, John and Jean-nette Short, Robert and Sharon Short, Ronald and Julie Short, all of Otego, and Evan and Lisa Short of Unadilla; stepchildren, 13 grand-children and one great-grandchild.

Funeral services were held Wednesday, March 21, at the funeral home with the Rev. Teressa Sivers, officiating.

Funeral arrangements are entrusted to the Bookhout Funeral Home.

ONEONTA -- Josephine L. Spi-nola, 95, passed away on Sunday March 11, 2012.She was born on July 27, 1916 in Carbondale, Pa., the daughter of Anthony and Caroline (Puma) Signorino. She married Sebastian J. (Nanny) Spinola on April 14, 1941, and he predeceased her on January 16, 1991.

Ms. Spinola moved to Oneonta in 1934.

For 15 years, she worked as a seamstress for the Oneonta Dress Company, retiring in 1981. Prior to that, she worked for the Fairfield Dress Co.

She was a member of St. Mary’s Church its Rosary Society, and the Young at Hearts. She bowled in the Top Hatters Bowling League, and was treasurer of the league for 25 years.

She is survived by her children; Carlo Spinola and his wife, Eliza-

beth of Greenlawn, and Joanne Kessinger and her husband, Roger of Whitefish, Mont., grandchildren and great-grandchil-dren.In addition to her

husband, she was also predeceased by a brother, Joseph Signorino, and her sisters, Mary Conigliaro, Rose Macaluso, and Antoinette Bartilotti.

A Mass of Christian Burial was offered on Wednesday, March 21, in St. Mary’s Church with the Rev. Bernard Ampong officiating. Burial followed in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Emmons.

Memorial contributions may be made to St. Mary’s Church or Catskill Area Hospice, 1 Birch-wood Dr., Oneonta, NY 13820.

Arrangements were with Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home.

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