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By JIM KEVLIN
CHERRY VALLEY
 It wasn’t a pretty picture in downtown Cherry Valley as last summer ended.
The Rose & Kettle was closed; restaurateur/novelist Dana Spiotta had won a year’s fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, and husband Clem Coleman and daughter Agnes went along with her.
Dana’s mother and stepfather closed the liquor store and moved away. Clayworks, an intriguing pottery studio, had closed. Ferrante’s, the pizza parlor, had just changed hands.
Walking around downtown the other day, however, you would have gotten the sense a turn-around is under way.
A crew from Tim Horvath’s Red Point Builders was cleaning out that long-abandoned commercial building south of the Limestone Mansion, 33 Main St., dumping all manner of refuse into a dumpster out back.
Tim – when he sets his mind to something, he does it, including scaling Mount Everest in 2004 – was directing activities on behalf of Nefertiti and Wesley Wagner of Brooklyn, who bought the building at the sheriff’s auction in 2007.
Since, everyone’s been waiting to see what they would do.
The building was actually condemned, Horvath said, and his crew required a waiver from Sean McManus of the county’s Code Enforcement Office before the renovations could begin.
Further to the south, a full-service bakery, The Upper Crust, has opened in the former liquor store, and Rebecca Nicoletta was minding the shop amid a wide range of baked goodies.
“I make the muffins. I make the pies. I make the cookies,” she said, casting an eye across the offerings.
Husband Ron – the couple has started 10 restaurants over the years, beginning with Nicoletta’s Italian Cafe in Corolla, N.C., and including Cooperstown’s Nicoletta’s – is handling sales: In addition to the retail component, the Nicolettas are providing baked goods to a number of restaurants in the area.
As word’s gotten out, customers have been driving in from Cooperstown, Richfield Springs and Sharon Springs to try it out, Rebecca said.
Next door, Matthew Wolfert and Mike Cornish of Milford were stoking up the oven at Mojo’s, the successor to Ferrante’s, getting ready for the lunch crowd.
“It just kind of came along,” said Mike, and the two jumped at the opportunity.
Across the street, Jackie Huff’s Rose Is A Rose continues as a mainstay. Sonya Sola’s Nectar Hill Farm was open and active (she sells beef, lamb and pork naturally raised at her Schenevus farm, as well as natural-fabric fashions).
The Coyote Cafe was busy as always. And the Murphy family, proprietors of It’s All Good, have nearly completed renovations of the building in front of their store that used to be Alex & Ika’s.
Back at the Wagners’ building, Tim Horvath, who is also chairman of the village Planning Board, reported work on a comprehensive master plan for the village is going forward and he anticipates a draft will be ready by late April.
A survey of village residents showed that people are interested in seeing Cherry Valley’s rural character and scenic viewsheds preserved, but are also in agreement that a sewer system is necessary before any permanent progress can be expected.
The problem, said Horvath, is that so many people have spent between $2,500 and $8,000 upgrading their individual septic systems, they are reluctant to foot the bill for a municipal system.
Town Supervisor Tom Garretson, engaged in conversation during his noontime walk in Cooperstown (he works at NYSHA) a couple of days later, agreed that very little permanent improvement can occur in downtown Cherry Valley – particularly with large buildings like the Masonic Lodge at the light – until such a system is put in place.
The good news, he said, is that some governmental programs will reimburse municipalities up to 95 percent of the cost, even though the remaining 5 percent can be substantial for smaller communities.
Reached in Brooklyn, Nefertiti Wagner said she and her husband are enthusiastic work is finally beginning on their Cherry Valley property.
When the renovations are done – by 2010, she hopes – there will be two commercial spaces downstairs and three apartments upstairs, one that she and Wesley plan for their own use.
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Richard Duncan’s ‘Otsego’ Out In Time For Christmas
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By JIM KEVLIN
COOPERSTOWN
Again, it was a nail-biter.
But Monday, Dec. 1, the new presses at Utica’s Brodock Press started slowing turning, then whining and, finally, smoothly whirring, and 5,000 copies of the third volume of Richard Duncan’s photo tribute to the Glimmerglass region began rolling off the presses.
“Otsego County: Its Towns & Treasures” has been long-awaited by fans of Duncan’s “Otsego Lake: Past & Present” (2005), and of “Cooperstown” (2006), the tour-de-force update of Louis B. Jones’ 1949 classic.
“There are a lot of people out there who love the county, who are trying to take care of it,” said Duncan, when asked what By JIM KEVLIN
COOPERSTOWN
Again, it was a nail-biter.
But Monday, Dec. 1, the new presses at Utica’s Brodock Press started slowing turning, then whining and, finally, smoothly whirring, and 5,000 copies of the third volume of Richard Duncan’s photo tribute to the Glimmerglass region began rolling off the presses.
“Otsego County: Its Towns & Treasures” has been long-awaited by fans of Duncan’s “Otsego Lake: Past & Present” (2005), and of “Cooperstown” (2006), the tour-de-force update of Louis B. Jones’ 1949 classic.
“There are a lot of people out there who love the county, who are trying to take care of it,” said Duncan, when asked what lessons he learned from his latest volume.
Where the first volume focused on Glimmerglass – Richard managed the life guards at Fairy Spring Park his first few summers in town – and the second on America’s Most Perfect Village®, the latest volume covers 24 towns and, thus, he said, has “a lot more variety.”
Working with local historical societies, he assembled and copied more than 1,000 images, selected 100, and matched those black-and-white scenes with the stunning color his readers have come to expect emerge from his Hasselblad and his peripatetic method.
Again, Richard D’Ambrosio, New York State Historical Association vice president, edited the accompanying captions. The same graphic artist who did the first two books, Richard Nadeau, has done the third, assuring a consistency of style. Village Historian Hugh MacDougall wrote the introduction.
Duncan – he is a native of Catskill and graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design who taught art and photography, and studied Eastern philosophy – was invited to Cooperstown by a friend in the mid-1990s for a weekend.
Entranced, he soon returned for good with a bicycle, a few hundred dollars in his pocket and his first Hasselblad, and earned a living at a variety of jobs while honing his craft.
In 2004, he approached Jane Forbes Clark with the idea of doing a book, and she embraced the idea. The first led to another, then a third, although Duncan expects this volume completes the cycle.
“We’re very fortunate in the county to have someone support an activity like this,” he said of his patron, “to encourage people to preserve and protect the beauty of the county.”
Duncan and Miss Clark will be autographing “Otsego County” during The Farmers’ Museum “Candlelight Evening” Sunday, Dec. 21, at a reception similar to the one that drew an SRO crowd in 2006.
Looking ahead, Duncan’s intrigued by the 1,000 historic images he’s collected through this project.
“My favorite old photo was the one of the tinker outside a farmhouse with the ladies of the house looking through the wagon for what they needed,” he said. “The farmer and the grandfather are looking on from one side.”
Perhaps, he said, the collection of images can be used in some way to generate revenues to help preserve the Otsego County that made “Otesgo County” possible.Labels: 12-05-08, Front Page, Richard Duncan |
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Cooperstown and Around
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FREE PARKING: The Village of Cooperstown is issuing a reminder that the two-hour parking restriction in the business district has been lifted until Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 19.
14 SCOFFLAWS? The Otsego Lake Watershed Supervisory Committee completed the fourth year of a five-year septic-tank inspection program,. It has inspected 320 systems, 90 percent of the total 355. There were 168 failures, 103 of which have been upgraded or replaced. Only 14 homeowner have not responded to citations.
BOOK SIGNING: Hartwick College professor Tom Travisano, whose latest book, “Moments In Air,” has won national acclaim, will read from the book at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5, at the Green Toad Bookstore at 198 Main St. Oneonta. A book signing will follow. Travisano edited the complete correspondence of
poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, which was reviewed on the cover of The New York Times Book Review. The evening is co-sponsored by the Hometown Oneonta newspaper.
GRANT TO MILFORD: On Sunday, Dec. 7, the Preservation League will present a $5,250 grant to the Village of Milford to survey its 19th century commercial and residential buildings.
4TH SUSPECT: A fourth CCS student was cited in the marijuana sweep that began on Friday, Nov. 21: Carl Loewenguth, 16, is facing a count of possession, an infraction. Sheriff Richard Devlin Jr. said he expects no further arrests at this time.
SILENT AUCTION: A silent auction is under way in the lobby of the Leatherstocking Region Federal Credit Union at 24 Glen Ave. Bids may be placed until Monday, Dec. 22, when winners will be drawn.
BIG READ II: “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain has been selected by the National Endowment for the Arts as its “Big Read” selection for 2009. This year, the Foothills Performing Arts Center organized events in Otsego, Delaware and Chenango counties on “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
1,200 ‘I DO’S’: Howe Caverns in Cobleskill passed a milestone Nov. 29, when Karen Rowland and Dennis Dowen of Corinth became the 600th couple married underground there.Labels: 12-05-08, Cooperstown and Around, Front Page |
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BOB LETTIS’ TALES OF COOPERSTOWN: INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE
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Red Bursey Never Mentioned That Cigaret
By BOB LETTIS
 Cooperstown was a wonderful village for a boy to grow up in. Being somewhat handicapped, the village was especially protective of me. It was a great place for all its children, but I seemed to get more attention than most.
Many special people guided me as I grew up. I cannot mention all those that were helpful, but I will try to pick out those that I felt were the most important and influential. All, I think, are dead now, but regardless of their circumstances, all will have a special place in my heart reserved for exceptional friends.
Lester Bursey was my gym teacher, coach and friend. He made sure that my polio affliction never stood in the way of an opportunity to participate in games and sports. From the time I went to the summer playground as a young child until I graduated from high school, having played varsity sports in football and baseball, Lester “Red” Bursey was my mentor.
When I was a 120- pound sophomore, trying to make the varsity football team, he wrote
in the local paper: “Bob Lettis can lick his weight in wildcats.”
I made the varsity that season, and Red encouraged me all the way. I was his varsity catcher on the baseball team, batting fourth in the batting order, which is the spot for the best hitter on the team. His advice and inspiration allowed me the chance to play sports at a very high level. Without his confidence in me, I might never have been given the chance to even try out, let alone play, baseball (and certainly not football).
As wonderful as he was to me, I’m afraid I let him down very badly.
He was always encouraging his athletes to maintain a healthy life style while participating in high school sports. When I was 16, I started smoking. I felt, as most smart-ass teenagers do, that I could smoke and play sports without any adverse effects.
One day I passed him on the street with a cigarette in my hand. He never said a word, either then or later, but I knew that he saw what I had done.
I’m very ashamed of that violation of his trust. I now know that it made a difference. Perhaps not physically, but psychologically it made me ashamed of having let down such a dedicated and warm human being. He had given me the opportunity to become a good athlete, despite my handicap, and I felt that I had been a disappointment.
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While Red was very influential helping me with sports, there were others who had an intereste in my artistic development. I had several wonderful art teachers when I was growing up.
At an early age in elementary school I had Miss Bea Prine. Alongside several other talented students, she saw potential. She proceeded to nourish this talent by giving us special attention and encouragement. Our work was always well displayed and we were continually talked to about going on to art school to develop our skills and talent.
When Miss Prine retired, she was replaced by a beautiful young woman, Marcia Matoon. Miss Matoon had graduated from Syracuse University, where I eventually obtained my undergraduate art training. She continued the encouragement begun by Miss Prine years before. She entered my work in national poster contests, in scholastic art competitions and I won several awards.
She wrote a letter of recommendation that went into my school records, and, when I attended Syracuse University, it became part of my entrance credentials. After graduation from high school, I went into the army and Miss Matoon wrote to me several times while I was in training and serving overseas.
However, the most influential art teacher that I had was Helga Edge. I not only learned a great deal from this wonderful, dedicated woman and professional artist, but was also encouraged by her to pursue art as my life’s work. She was British, though had come to the United States just prior to our country entering World War II and stayed here for the rest of her life.
I took private art lessons from her for several years, paid for by my patron, Grandma Hail. After high school and my stint in the army, I attended Syracuse University because Miss Edge thought that it was the best art college in our area. After graduation, she was instrumental in my getting my first teaching position, at Worcester Central School.
During my years as an art teacher in Worcester and Cooperstown, I maintained close contact with her. We worked together in her studio in Toddsville and my son, Daniel, took art lessons from her at that time. Upon her death in 1980, she willed her entire professional art library and her small etching press to me.
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During the years I attended elementary and high school, many teachers took a special interest in my life. I’ve already mentioned Miss Prine and Miss Matoon. Mabel Wagner, a drama and English teacher was also one of them. She came to our village as a beautiful young woman who immediately gained the attention of all the single men in the community. We as high school boys thought she was pretty terrific as well.
At that time, I had a slight speech impediment that she helped by giving me lessons in oration and allowing me to compete in several speaking contests. She cast me in several plays and encouraged me to enter an essay and speaking contest. Miss Wagner was the kind of a teacher that every one of her students could fall in love with.
Alas, Robert Atwell, a young and upcoming civic leader, won her hand and her heart, for they were married a few years after she came to our village. They had two beautiful children, Bobby and Neil, both of whom were students of mine when I came to teach here.
Nick Sterling, another teacher, was a special person in my life. He became principal and superintendent of our high school when I was a sophomore. While I never took a class from him, he always treated me with kindness and respect. I was on the ski team at the time and Mr. Sterling became our coach.
When I was teaching art in Worcester and Schenevus, I chaperoned a group of students to a basketball game in Cooperstown. I met Nick again for the first time since I was in the service. He had become superintendent of Cooperstown’s schools by then. After asking me how my teaching was going in Worcester, he said that he was looking for a high school art teacher and asked if i might be interested.
After talking it over at home, I decided to accept his offer. And so for the next eight years I taught at my old alma mater. Besides teaching, I coached junior high baseball, was adviser to the Student Council, taught ski lessons at Mount Otsego and collaborated with Bob Squires, another teacher, on high school theatre productions. I did sets, lighting and costumes while Bob directed and took care of the drama end.
As well as working on high school theatrics, Bob and I were instrumental in starting a community theatre group called “The Back Stagers.’’ Both in high school and the community we managed, in just six or seven years, to stage many productions ranging from musical theatre to Shakespeare. (Nick Sterling gave us a free hand to do all these things.)
I need to say at this point, Nick Sterllng was the finest educator and energetic community leader that Cooperstown has ever had.
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I’ve mentioned these people because they stand out in my mind. There were others, as well, who were not quite as central, but nevertheless played a role in my life within this village.
To name a few: Greeny (I do not know his real name), Smith Tolmie, Harold Wall, Bob Wright, Jake Schaffer, Ellamae Hanson, Mrs. Denton Stillwell, Angelo Pugalese, etc. Not all were teachers. All helped me through my difficult years as a polio kid. After my mother and father separated, all acted as friends and mentors.
The cliché, “It takes a village to raise a child,” was certainly true in my case, at least.
NEXT WEEK: A Disabled BoyLabels: 12-05-08, Bob Lettis, Front Page |
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Profit Vs. Environment Debated at Gas Hearing
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By GLENN LINSENBARDT
ONEONTA
Drilling for natural gas may be profitable. But the environmental impacts are imponderable, and perhaps devastating.
That is a synopsis of the testimony offered Tuesday evening, Dec. 2, when 250 people gathered at the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s one local hearing on regulations it is devising to guide exploration for natural gas in the Marcellus shale formation that undergirds Otsego County.
State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, captured that dichotomy in his testimony.
“The financial benefits associated with natural-gas drilling …could be enormous,” he said. “In addition, the benefits from an energy supply perspective are also important. We must ensure, however, that the utmost consideration is given to protecting our environment as we move forward in capturing the benefits of this resource.”
When last summer’s spike in oil prices generate intense interest in exploring for natural gas all along the Marcellus formation, which ranges from Utica to Tennessee, debate soon focused on a process called “hydrofracking,” where chemicals, water and sand are pumped into the ground from a single point far below the surface.
The DEC was operating under a Generic Environmental Impact Statement that had not been revised since 1992, so Gov. David Paterson ordered a Supplemental GEIS that would take hydrofracking into account.
The session in SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom was one of several “public scoping sessions” on the new rules, which may be issued as soon as next spring, which should trigger action on what may be as many as 140 wells planned for Otsego County.
Several speakers mentioned that the GEIS is old and not relevant to current conditions. The statistics concerning population and farming are 20 years old or more and the study is irrelevant considering current drilling methods. One supplement to a 20 year old GEIS is not adequate.
The DEC must consider what has happened in other states where horizontal drilling has taken place. For example, in western Colorado a resident’s drinking water well exploded like a geyser, spraying mud and gray fizzing water into the sky. Fractures can run diagonally and vertically as well as horizontally. This can lead to potentially dangerous situations that were not expected.
The visual, noise and air quality issues must be considered. When the drilling rig goes away, the compressors come in and run 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Noise is heard well beyond 1,000 feet.
There will also be a sharp increase in truck traffic for bringing in the water needed for drilling. Many county roads were not built with this volume of traffic in mind.Labels: 12-05-08, Front Page, Natural Gas Drilling |
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Obituaries
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Louis A. Oblak, 87; Welder, Farmer, Hunter, Beekeeper
BURLINGTON – Louis A. Oblak, 87, welder, hunter, beekeeper, farmer and a long-time resident of Snowdon Hill in the Town of Burlington, died Monday evening, Dec. 1, 2008, at Bassett Hospital.
Of Austrian descent, Louis was born Oct. 29, 1921, in Somerset County, Pa., a son of Anton and Agnes (Servel) Oblak. In 1928, Louis and his family moved to Hartwick, where he attended Snowdon School in the Town of Burlington.
He married the former Columbine McLean on Sept. 1, 1946, in Hartwick.
For many years Louis was a member of the Laborers’ Union, based in Oneonta, and was involved with construction projects at Hartwick College, SUNY Oneonta and Bassett Hospital. Over the years, he also tended to the family farm and was a member of Dairymen’s League.
At one time Louis was a member of the Farmers’ Independent Benevolent Society in Fly Creek. An avid beekeeper and hunter, he also liked trapping, wood cutting and inventing things using his expertise as a welder. Most of all he enjoyed family gatherings and just being on the farm.
Louis is survived by his wife of 62 years, Columbine; two daughters and sons-in-law, Beverly and Donald Rice of West Hurley and their son Jason, and Barbara and Richard Havlik of Cooperstown and their children, John, Andrew and Beth; three sisters, Agnes Reed of Walton, Julia Bruce of Hartwick and Dorothy Kelly of the Town of Exeter; five sisters-in-law, Edna Ruland of Binghamton, Betty Crockford of Indiana, Marjorie Snyder of North Carolina, and Elaine and Dorothy McLean of Hartwick; two brothers-in-law, Edward L. Kirn, Sr., of Cooperstown and Harold Scrivener of Garrettsville; and many nieces and nephews.
In addition to his parents, Louis was predeceased by two sisters, Mollie M. Kirn, who died June 2, 2005, and Mary Pernat, who died May 21, 2002, and two brothers, Anton Oblak, Jr., who died in infancy and Frank Oblak who died at a young age.
A private family funeral service will be held at the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home in Cooperstown with the Rev. Douglas Deer, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Cooperstown, officiating.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Edmeston Emergency Squad, Box 111, Edmeston NY 13335-0111.
Arrangements are under the direction of the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home in Cooperstown.Labels: 12-05-08, Obituaries |
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WEEKEND’S BEST BETS
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Christmas Celebrations Everywhere
Have a great time and support the The Brookwood School at the 11th Annual Holiday Evening & Benefit Auction at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6. Admission is free and there will be complimentary cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. Preview auction items at 6 p.m. The evening is oriented towards adults, childcare is available at a reasonable cost. The Brookwood School, 687 County Hwy 59. Information, 547-4060.
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Take a drive to Milford and enjoy a ride on a Christmas Train. Trains leave the Milford Depot at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, and 2 p.m. the following day. Enjoy the decorated train, depot, and light displays.
Santa can be found making his way through some of these trains and will arrive at the Depot in style at 5 p.m. on Sunday and will travel up the street for a small celebration at the Milford Historical Association.
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Don’t miss Saturday night’s performance by the Catskill Choral Society! Starting at 7:30 p.m. the Choral Society presents “Choral Songs of the Season,” featuring music celebrating the coming of winter, Chanukah, and Christmas. The performance will be at Saint Mary’s Church, 39 Walnut St. in Oneonta. Visit www.catskillchoralsociety.org or call 431-6060 for more information. Also 2 p.m. Sunday.
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It’s time for the Annual Children’s Christmas Party, hosted by the Cooperstown Volunteer Fire Department 2-4 p.m. on Saunday including an afternoon of caroling, trolley rides, a magic show, games, photo booth, refreshments and popcorn. Participate in the “Safe Child” ID program, conducted by Otsego County Sheriff’s Department. Questions, 547-1073.Labels: 12-05-08, Glimmerglass, Weekend's Best Bets |
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Jazz For The Holidays
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EVAN JAGELS
NIGHT LIFE
I had a chance to sit down with jazz pianist David Leonhardt’s new holiday album, “I’ll Be Home For Christmas.”
Promoted as a holiday jazz concert, these will likely be the tunes called when he and his band, with vocalist Nancy Reed, perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5, at The Otesaga, sponsored by the Cooperstown Concert Series.
Let me first say, as a lifelong jazz fan and musician, I am wary of the Christmas theme in jazz. Not that it can’t be done well, but there is a large gap between what one might hear in a storefront in mid-December and Coltrane playing “Greensleeves” with McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, and Jimmy Garrison.
This said, I was pleasantly surprised. Leonhardt’s “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” is more on the mainstream end of jazz, but features skilled improvisers who know how to bend a familiar and favorite melody just far enough without breaking it; keeping its original warmth yet
bringing something new and exciting.
For me, this is the sign of something that’s made the cut – it is simply good jazz, not Christmas storefront music.
David Leonhardt plays piano with intelligence and warmth. Nancy Reed has superb vocal phrasing and a classic tone. Matthew Parrish and Taro Okamoto on bass and drums provide an excellent foundation, creating tasteful rhythmic ostinatos and a swinging groove.
Okamoto’s drumming is slightly minimalistic, yet hard hitting – certainly of the Jimmy Cobb school and Parrish has great pitch on the bass and a nice full tone which is heard over the entire instrument.
Larry McKenna is an accomplished improviser on the saxophone, and knows just how to support a vocalist with a melodic instrument.
In Leonhardt’s own words:
“I have wanted to do a Christmas CD for a long time. This group has played together for years and is my favorite band to play with.”
Regarding “deans” of instruments, the last promoted concert I attended at The Otesaga was Hank Jones, the dean of jazz piano.
Jones needs no introduction, but for those who may be a bit shady on jazz history, he is known for his tenures with Miles Davis (in his early years), Ella Fitzgerald, Charley Parker, and Coleman Hawkins.
I would certainly recommend this concert to all. The CD suggests that it will be the perfect blend of familiar holiday favorites and creative improvisation that should satisfy most palates.
Evan Jagels, whose column appears weekly, may be reached at evanjagels@yahoo.comLabels: 12-05-08, Columns, Evan Jagels, Glimmerglass, Night Life |
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Meeting Twain
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SAM GOODYEAR
ART BEAT
Foothills Performing Arts Center received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts this past year for the Big Read, an initiative intended to stimulate reading for pleasure and enlightenment among young adults.
Surprisingly enough, people between the ages of 18 and 35 do less reading of this kind than any other sector of the population. Although the project is intended for all members of the community, this one grouping is in most need of attention.
The Big Read provides events and activities focused on a specific book for a period of one month. In May 2008 the community centered its attention on Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the high point of which were the three performances of the trial scene from the stage adaptation in the courthouses of Chenango, Delaware, and Otsego counties.
The NEA has awarded another grant for 2009, this time for Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” Preliminary research on the book and how to engender interest has provided some wondrous discoveries.
Although Mark Twain resided primarily in Hartford, Conn., he did spend a good deal of time at a summer place in Elmira. His wife’s family made available to him Quarry Farm, overlooking the Chemung River with a stupendous view into the northern mountains of Pennsylvania.
It was at Quarry Farm that Mark Twain wrote “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” “The Prince and the Pauper,” “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” and numerous other stories and essays.
He penned these classics in an octagonal house built nearby the main house, an offering from his sister-in-law who recognized the man’s talent as well as need for a proper environment in which to concentrate.
Quarry Farm is now the Center for Mark Twain Studies administered by Elmira College.
The octagonal study has been relocated and sits modestly on the campus of Elmira College, open to the public. Also on the campus is a permanent exhibition of Twain memorabilia, interestingly and intelligently assembled by Barbara Snedecor, director of the center.
I came away from my visit feeling for all the world as though I had spent time engaged in personal conversation with the author himself. The Big Read will provide opportunity for others to have the same experience.
Sam Goodyear’s column on the arts in Otsego and Delaware counties appears weekly.Labels: 12-05-08, Art Beat, Columns, Glimmerglass, Sam Goodyear |
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Railroad Relic
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Local Historians Grieve Loss
As Blow To Oneonta Heritage
 Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
The dentil pattern on the end of D&H Shop #7 looms above railroad buff Dave Petri of Hartwick, who remembers the final days of the bustling Oneonta railyard from his 1960s boyhood.
By JIM KEVLIN
 The decision would assure the fortune of a single Susquehanna River valley town.
Maybe Sidney. Maybe Harpersfield. Maybe Oneonta.
The men who were making these decisions were no pushovers.
The year before, when “robber baron” Jay Gould’s toughs – in cahoots with the Broome County Sheriff Brown and a corrupt New York City judge – began seizing Albany & Susquehanna trains, tracks and depots from Binghamton north, the A&S directors sent R.C. Blackball to fix matters.
Heading down the line from Albany, he recruited rail crews – mostly Irish immigrants at that point – and confronted the sheriff and several hundred of his men at Bainbridge in what became known as The Battle of Belden Hill. By morning, Brown was in jail and his forces were in disarray.
The events of Aug. 9, 1869, determined that when R.C. Blackball spoke, people listened.
So it was with delight a year later, on Sept. 10, 1870, when one of Oneonta’s four most prominent businessmen, Harvey Baker, received a “secret letter” – as former city historian Eugene Milener relates in “Oneonta: The Development of a Railroad Town” – from Blackball, saying he’d concluded the then-village was the optimum spot for the A&S to locate its roundhouse and “shops” – repair and construction facilities.
Blackball told Baker to be prepared to receive Thomas Dickson, president of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co., which the A&S had brought in as an ally after Jay Gould’s incursion.
By the time Dickson left the following Wednesday, he had agreed that – if the business community could provide him with 20 acres west and south of Chestnut Street, and raise money to start construction – Oneonta would be the place.
That Day of Decision, of course, determined Oneonta’s prime focus – and source of wide renown – for the next century, as one of the largest engine-repair and maintenance facilities in the nation. The yard housed the largest roundhouse in the world. At its height, the works stretched two miles.
 Today there is woefully little left to recall those glory days.
The smokestack from the old roundhouse stands like a lone sentinel, visible to travelers on I-88 and for miles around. The huge coal chute to the west looms mysteriously. That end of the property is owned by A. Treffeisen & Son, the plumbing and HVAC concern, which is located there and has partially developed the section as a business park.
The east end of the property, owned by CP Rail, contains the final recognizable remnants of what once was – now in the process of being demolished, with few regrets from the home office.
The regional spokesman for CP Rail, Michel Spenard, said Canadian Pacific would only be interested in participating in a restoration – or any undertaking – if there is “a business case for it.”
“We’re not in the museum business,” he said. “We carry freight.”
However, he said the company would consider any proposal from community groups, and he suggested interested parties e-mail community_connect@cpr.ca, the CP Rail’s Community Connect Line to see what might be done to sidetrack the razings until a plan can be developed.
Foremost among the relics is D&H Shop #7, which local railroad historians believe is one of the two original buildings that resulted from Thomas Dickson’s visit. Within days, Harvey Baker had convened a meeting of local businesspeople who bought shares to raise money for the new enterprise.
“Ground was broken on Oct. 4,” Milener wrote, “and eight days later the foundation of the roundhouse was nearly completed. The structure was finished by the middle of January 1871. Furthermore, as promised in Blackball’s letter, a small machine shop was attached to the roundhouse. By September 1871, about 100 men were employed at the new roundhouse and the attached repair facility” – Shop #7, presumably.
“The trusses are pretty amazing,” local history buff David Petri of Hartwick observed the other day as he examined the east end of the long brick building. You can tell it’s the original part because of the arched windows along the side; in a later addition, the windows are squared off, easier to build. “The dentil work” – the tooth-like brick pattern along the cornices – “is pretty amazing, too.”
As a boy growing up locally in the 1960s, Petri remembers the vast rail yards – stretching two miles to the west – and mourns that so little is left.
“That was the beginning of Oneonta,” he said of the D&H’s 1870 decision, noting that the city’s origins were in a community called “Milfordville,” an afterthought. “It represents Oneonta. It was Oneonta.”
Jim Loudon, author of “Oneonta Roundhouse” and “Leatherstocking Rails,” agreed.
“The railroad built Oneonta; that’s our heritage,” he said. The ongoing demolition is “a very sad commentary on Oneonta and its heritage.”
Efforts to save the roundhouse failed, as did efforts in the 1960s to bring Steamtown here from Bellows Falls, Vt. It eventually settled in Scranton, where it is a National Historic Site.
With regret, Bob Brzozowski, Greater Oneonta Historical Society president, said, “It’s looking more and more like there’s going to almost nothing left of the old railyards,” although he said there is interest in trying to save what remains of the smokestack.
For now, he said, the GOHS directors – a volunteer board – are fully occupied seeking to complete the restoration of society headquarters at 183 Main St. The GOHS is also selling bricks from the old roundhouse as a fundraiser for a scale model, about 6-foot wide, it plans to install on 183 Main’s third floor, an effort to memorialize the structure.
However, Brzozowski said he would welcome – and believes the GOHS directors would support – any effort by City Hall to establish a historical commission to protect local landmarks. (Please see related story, Page 1.)
As to what remains, the GOHS president said he would like to see the smokestack preserved, and Wayne Treffeisen, president of the company that owns the property, said he doesn’t oppose that idea, although stabilization is needed quickly: “It would have to be capped so ice doesn’t get between the bricks.”Labels: 12-05-08, D and H Railroad, Glimmerglass |
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Letters to the Editor
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Profit vs. Environment
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt of testimony state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, delivered Tuesday, Dec. 7, at the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s public hearing at SUNY Oneonta on its proposed General Environmental Impact Statement that will regulate natural-gas drilling in New York State.
The Marcellus Shale is one of the largest natural gas fields in North America and could provide a multi-billion dollar economic boost for the areas in and surrounding the Marcellus Shale formation. An economic boost we definitely need in our upstate region.
Skyrocketing fuel prices earlier this year have clearly demonstrated our need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Reducing consumption, increasing our use of renewable energy and alternative fuels, and increasing exploration will all help to further this goal. Utilizing the tremendous energy resources in the Marcellus Shale formation could play a significant role in helping us to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, it’s a domestic source, keeping energy dollars here at home.
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believe that it is important that environmental protections are in place to ensure that our beautiful area does not suffer environmental harm as a result of natural gas exploration.
I commend DEC for instituting this process to develop a Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) to address new issues and potential environmental impacts which may arise as a result of natural gas exploration and drilling in the Marcellus Shale formation.
I have reviewed the draft scoping document and have generally found it to be quite comprehensive.
Some issues which I find to be particularly important and I believe must be addressed in the Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement include the following:
• It is imperative the composition of fracturing fluids be known and that any additives to such fluids are reviewed and determined to be safe;
• Independent on site testing and verification of fracturing fluid contents must be conducted;
• Fluid handling both at the site and during transport to and from the site must be accomplished in such a manner so as to ensure that there is no environmental harm;
• Safe fracturing fluid disposal options and methods must be identified and approved;
• If recycled or reused for any purpose, must be environmentally sound;
• Water withdrawals must be ... regulated to ensure that such withdrawals do not negatively impact other current or future uses of a water supply;
• Adequate protections must be in place to protect ground water and wells;
• On-site well inspections are needed to ensure compliance;
• Local government notification and opportunity for comment should be provided for at the earliest stages – local governments should be given notice of the filing of drilling permit applications within their jurisdictions when such applications are filed not after they are granted, local impacts are best judged by local offcials;
• DEC must initiate coordination with PSC to regulate all gas gathering lines leading to transmission lines to ensure sound environmental practices.
...In summary, the financial benefits associated with natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale could be enormous. In addition, the benefits from an energy supply perspective are also important. We must ensure, however, that the utmost consideration is given to protecting our environment as we move forward in capturing the benefits of this resource.
Girls Have Dads, Too
To the Editor;
Quoting from Mr. Idelson’s speech announcing Hall of Fame Weekend: “...We’ll set up a system to let fathers and their children have a catch on famed Doubleday Field.”
Quoting from Mr. Kevlin’s front page article: “...dads and their sons will be able to play catch in Doubleday Field during the Saturday activities.”
Mr. Kevlin, what is your prejudice against daughters, may I ask?
JOHN PAULITS
Wind Power Is Great – But Not Everywhere
What are we missing?
Windpower is great. It’s renewable. It’s available.
But that doesn’t mean it’s great everywhere.
Take the City of Lackawanna, next to Buffalo.
The steel tide went out, leaving behind a pawed-over and polluted six-square-mile patch, a devastated tax base and few prospects.
Along comes wind power. Wind blows steadily off Lake Erie. For decades, turbine-like grain silos loomed large, storehouses for wheat from America’s bread-basket headed east.
Eureka!
It made perfect sense to build the Steel Winds Wind Farm there. The project’s Web site actually has a photo of wind turbines framed by looming (abandoned) steel mills.
Perfect.
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But get in your car and drive 3-4 hours east to lovely Jordanville and Holy Trinity Monastery peaceably nestled in a verdant valley.
Planting a forest of 400-foot-tall stainless-steel trunks, like 40 huge iron coconut trees with palms whirring around the top, is nutty.
The wind farm will simply create an eternal wisp, wisp, wisp sound and uglify the ridge line, to little effect, big picture.
Lackawanna or Bridgeport or North Dakota, Kansas or West Texas, great.
Jordanville and much of scenic and populated upstate New York, whose future is in its beauty and proximity to major population centers?
No.
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Our graphic artist, Andrée Baillargeon, went to work with Google and Photoshop to prove the point graphically and finally.
Three of the images accompanying this editorial are the result of her effort.
Who would ever think of putting a wind farm in St. Peter’s Square or on The Mall?
Yet Iberdrola Renewables, the subsidiary of the Madrid-based multinational that’s trying again to ruin the towns of Warren and Stark, issued that simulation of what the Jordanville project will look like – with a straight face!
Go figure.
Incidentally, since the last time, the state Preservation League put the monastery on its “Seven to Save” priority list.
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While the project has no more merit than it did when the state Public Utility Commission chopped it back and a state Supreme Court judge threw it out, Iberdrola’s new strategy is a canny one.
The company has limited the project to 80 megawatts, just below the limit that would kick in PSC review. (Although some believe the PSC has jurisdiction in this case, anyhow.)
A Supplementary Environmental Impact Statement is being noodled through by the lead agency, the Town of Warren.
The only improved aspect of the project is that visibility from Otsego Lake is almost erased, although not altogether.
With a Democratic-controlled state Senate, however, only three from upstate districts, there is concern the new majority may not have the same sensitivity to upstate’s charm that upstaters did.
Let’s hope it’s not so. Let’s hope this latest effort to create the Jordanville Wind Project is as futile as the last.Labels: 12-05-08, Letters to the Editor, Opinion, Perspectives |
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Paid-Parking Idea Well-Intentioned, Flawed. Clean-Sheet Look Required
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Maybe paid parking isn’t going to get any easier.
Niagara-on-the-Lake in the Province of Ontario has been held up as a model for Cooperstown to follow.
But Randy Berg, Niagara-on-the-Lake’s supervisor of bylaw enforcement, after ticking off a number of successes, could only muster this lukewarm overall assessment:
“I think we’re following along the path that we should. Purely by the decrease in complaints over the past 10 years, I would say it’s been a success.”
A lengthy interview with Berg the other day evoked that deja-vu-all-over-again feeling:
• Merchants will never be satisfied with anything less than free parking, even though Berg proved any particular parking space will turn over eight times during the business day.
• People who pick up their mail at the downtown post office can never find a parking place, period, and end up double-parking in the street.
• Residents can get a free-parking pass for $10 a year that allows them to park anywhere for an hour. Not everyone’s satisfied, “but that’s the best we can do,” Berg said.
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One unalloyed success: Except for buses headed specifically for the Shaw Festival’s downtown Royal George Theater – there’s one space there to drop people off – all buses must park outside the downtown at a lot leased from Parks Canada.
Buses – 60-70 a day at the season’s height – pay $10 to park, and passengers are shuttled back and forth on three shuttle buses at no charge.
It’s a money loser for the town, but it’s unclogged the downtown and eliminated the hazard of passengers disembarking onto busy streets.
This also made residents happy: Bus drivers had found creative ways of getting downtown by going through residential neighborhoods.
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While the town’s parking program generates about $1.3 million a year, that’s on a base of 13,000 residents and 3-4 million tourists a year.
Adjusted for Cooperstown’s 1,900 residents and 350,000-400,000 tourists, that would bring the take locally down to about $100,000.
When Cooperstown village trustees meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 8, for a work session to analyse what happening with the paid-parking experiment in the Doubleday Field lot last summer, they might ask themselves: Is it worth it?
Certainly, the amount of energy and ill-will engendered this year to generate $55,000 has to be disheartening.
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The root of the problem is profound: Using law enforcement to make money distorts and corrupts the system.
First, the goal of a parking plan in a tourist town should be to enhance the tourists’ experience and minimize the inconvenience for year-’round visitors.
Two, it should ensure smooth traffic flow to the degree possible and minimize traffic-related hazards.
Listening to Randy Berg, it’s a given that merchants will never be completely satisfied.
But the draconian aspects of Cooperstown’s plan – Helmut Michelitsch said his Metro Cleaners in the Doubleday lot lost many hundreds of dollars a day – need to be, not eased, but eliminated.
If all that should be done is done and a surplus results, great. But it should be a happy and unanticipated outcome, not a goal . (Listening to Berg, it’s possible the money’s not there for Cooperstown in sufficient amounts to matter.)
One thing Niagara-on-the-Lake did at the outset was to hire a consultant to help develop goals, measures to meet those goals, and a timetable to phase things in.
Let’s accept the Village of Cooperstown’s program was launched with all good will and the best intentions. It just hasn’t worked out.
The village would do well to scrap the current program and go back to square one.
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A final note: On taking the job 10 years ago, Berg sought to fill the four part-time summer parking-enforcement positions with “para-military types” – his words – would-be police officers and the like.
He’s changed his mind and now hires people from the hospitality trades, and emphasizes to them that they are “ambassadors on behalf of the community.”
Yes, they write tickets – “handicapped spots are a bugaboo of mine,” he says – but the prime goal is to solve problems, answer questions, make people welcome.
In the first summer of paid parking, that didn’t happen here.Labels: 12-05-08, Editorial, Parking |
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Bound Volumes
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175 YEARS AGO
NOTICE – E.W. Cotes, of Springfield; A. Temple, Athens; J.M. Cooper, Cooperstown; Aaron Gates, Hopeville; and T. Kilmer, Cobleskill, were expelled from the Philophronean Society on December 4, for neglecting to pay fines which were justly imposed for disorderly conduct, while attending the Society. N.B. George Washington Lewis has lately resigned from the Philophronean Society, after which he refused to pay a fine of 25 cents, which had been imposed upon him for improper conduct, after being several times admonished by the President. Other reasons might be assigned which would elucidate his character; but it is believed that a just opinion of his principles may be formed from the above and the Society deems it unnecessary to say more at present. Albert T. Holmes, Corresponding Sec’y.
December 9, 1833
150 YEARS AGO
The Poor of this town may need more help than usual this winter, from private sources – so keep your purse strings loosened a little, ye who have “enough and to spare.”
December 3, 1858
125 YEARS AGO
Briefs – Mr. James Bunyan is spending this week with his family in Cooperstown. The Edward Clark estate, of which he is one of the executors, is completing the erection of buildings in New York, which will cost, with the land, not far from four millions of dollars. Schuyler Cummings gives the following as his yield of hops this year, on David Wilbur’s home farm: 85 bales weighing 17,459 pounds, all choice quality; being two pounds, four ounces to every hill. This is a large yield.
December 8, 1883
100 YEARS AGO
Personal – The Home Talent Minstrels scored another success for Cooperstown. The entire cast was made up of young men of the Y.M.C.A., most of whom had no previous experience along theatrical lines. The end men were Percy Gould, Fritz Chrisler, Wm. Michaels, Ernest Tibbitts, Hanford Corwin, and Arthur Cobbitt. Their songs and jokes were roundly applauded. There were also songs by Lee Francis and Leon Ellsworth, a comedy act by DeForest West, Gould and Chrisler, a song and dance by Corwin, club swinging by Hugh Lippitt and the Drill of the Cavaliers by West and six young men. Judge Lynn Arnold is the owner of a new 48-horse power Winton touring car. Several intoxicated persons – Mat Burhans, Dan Webster and Billy McGhey were arrested on the streets of Cooperstown Sunday and stated they procured their jags at the Pioneer House. The proprietor, John Cronauer, was therefore arrested on complaint of Sheriff Wedderspoon.
December 3, 1908
75 YEARS AGO
Mrs. Kate Pomeroy Merrill, widow of Anthony French Merrill, died November 25 at the home of her daughter, Miss Katherine Merrill, in New York City, in her seventy-fifth year. Mrs. Merrill was the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Pomeroy, for whom Judge William Cooper built Pomeroy Place in 1804, the first stone residence to be erected in the village. She frequently visited Cooperstown during her lifetime. A few years ago, accompanied by her daughter, Miss Katherine Merrill, she paid a visit to Mrs, Charlotte Browning, on which occasion, Miss Merrill, who is a well-known New York artist, made some very fine drawings of local people and home.
December 6, 1933
50 YEARS AGO
The Freeman’s Journal begins its 38th annual appeal for its Christmas Fund for Otsego County’s 25 neediest cases. Case No. 5: Peter is a blonde, bright-eyed eight-year-old boy who is living in a foster home with three other foster children. The home is in the country where bike riding is a favorite activity. The three other foster children received bicycles last summer from relatives. But Peter’s family does not live nearby. He has gazed longingly at the other children’s bicycles. Peter’s foster father, who is a mechanic, has agreed to fix up a bicycle if Santa will drop one by the house on Christmas Eve. Peter would be overjoyed.
December 3, 1958
25 YEARS AGO
What’s Cookin’ In Hartwick by Corinne Pollak – Well, the snow that the hunters were hoping for finally came, but it was a little more than what was necessary. The area saw many hunters trying their luck at bagging their trophy deer, but it appears that the first weekend saw more hunters than deer. Dean Marble’s 9-point buck, taken on opening day, behind Harley Kelsey’s took our contest. I’m sure he’ll tell you the story himself. All you have to do is ask. Reports of a 12-point buck taken in Hartwick were true. Lorraine Collar shot the big buck, which she had been watching for some time. I saw her little red car go by on the way to the butcher’s and the trunk was open and all I could see were antlers.
December 7, 1983
10 YEARS AGO
The Otsego County Conservation Association (OCCA) has received a $70,000 grant from the Clark Foundation to pursue the organization’s initiative, undertaken with the USDA in 1995 to encourage the installation of best management practices on dairy farms in the Otsego Lake watershed. To date, OCCA has committed $40,000 toward the completion of six projects. This award will help cover costs for projects on eight more farms in the sub watersheds of Shadow Brook and Hayden Creek.
December 4, 1998
Bound Volumes is compiled from resources provided courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library. Tom Heitz is the Town of Otsego historian.Labels: 12-05-08, Bound Volumes, Columns |
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Locals
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 NEW AT BASSETT: Brian Williams, M.D., has joined Bassett Healthcare’s Department of Family Medicine in the Prime Care Clinic in Cooperstown. He previously worked in a primary-care setting as a family physician for Kaiser Permanente in Colorado.
INTERIM PRINCIPAL: Cooperstown High School principal, Gary Kuch, will resign his position as of December 31, 2008 to assume the responsibilities as Superintendent of Schools for Worcester Central School. The Board of Education and Superintendent developed an interim plan for the remainder of the 2008-09 school year.
To facilitate as smooth a transition as possible, limit the amount of disruption for students, staff, and parents, and take advantage of an opportunity for cost savings, Mrs. Amy Kukenberger will serve as interim high school principal in Mr. Kuch’s place, effective January 5th.
Kukenberger possesses a School Building Leader Internship Certificate and currently serves as a high school science teacher.
BASSETT: Melissa A. Scholes, M.D., has joined Bassett Healthcare’s Department of Surgery as an otolaryngologist. Dr. Scholes recently completed an otolaryngology residency at the University of Colorado Health Science Center. She currently sees patients in the Ear, Nose, Throat clinic in Cooperstown and will begin to see patients at Oneonta Specialty Services. Dr. Scholes lives in Cooperstown with her husband Dr. Brian Williams, a Bassett prime care physician, and son Archer.
Amanda Heroux Weds Brian Lookadoo
 Amanda Heroux and Brian Lookadoo were married with a double ring ceremony on August 1, 2008 at St. Michael Church, Garden City, South Carolina.
The bride is the daughter of Roger and Maureen Heroux of Cooperstown, New York. The groom is the son of Stephen and Ramona Lookadoo of Conway, South Carolina.
The bride wore a white strapless gown, and carried a bouquet of white calla lilies. The maid of honor was the bride’s sister, Jennifer Heroux. Bridesmaids were Chantelle Heroux, the bride’s sister, Ashley Heroux, cousin of the bride, Jeannie Hansen, sister of the groom, Rebecca Schroyer, and Carly Griffiths, friends of the bride, and the flower girls Gracie Lookadoo, and Anika Ruff. The bridesmaids wore strapless mojito dresses, with the younger girls in white dresses with mojito sashes.
The best man was the groom’s father Stephen Lookadoo. The Ushers were Benji Lookadoo, brother of the groom, Drew Hansen, brother-in law of the groom, David Lewis, David Perry, and Jonathan Tansey, friends of the groom. The Ring Bearer was Sam Lookadoo.
Music for the ceremony was played by the groom’s brother, Dr. Stephen Lookadoo and the Hosanna Brass group.
The wedding was followed by a reception at the Litchfield Country Club, Pawleys Island, South Carolina.
The bride was a graduate of Cooperstown Central School, and State University of New York at Cortland, with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Elementary Education, and a Masters of Literacy Degree from Lesley University. She is employed with Horry County Schools at Ocean Bay Elementary School, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The groom graduated from Carolina Forest High School and the University of South Carolina with a Degree in Psychology and a Minor in Philosophy. He is pursuing his Masters Degree at Francis Marion University in Clinical Psychology.
The couple celebrated their honeymoon in Jamaica. They will reside in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.Labels: 12-05-08, Locals |
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