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The Freeman’s JournalToddsville’s John Finch was among hundreds of bidders drawn to Otego Thursday, April 4, when Hesse Gal-leries auctioned off artifacts from Stevens’ Hardware, Oneonta’s oldest downtown store/DETAILS, B1

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Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s JournalThe regulars are back at the former TJ’s in downtown Cooperstown, which reopened Thursday, April 4, as Batter’s Up. Jim Dow, left, provided proprietor Barbara Melnichenko with the first dollar. At right are Mike Welch and Jimmy Tongue.

Barb is partnering with her dad, Vladimir Melnichenko. Son Nickolas is waiting tables.

18-Year Waitress Reopens Restaurant As Batter’s Up

The Freeman’s JournalAssistant Village Clerk Jennifer Truax shows off the new parking permits.

Local ChapterBreaks PlannedParenthood Tie

Planners Scout Broad-Band Towers Marcus

By LIBBY CUDMORE

The local chap-ter of Planned Parenthood has

disaffiliated from the national organization and is now Family Plan-ning of South Central New York.

But its Title X fund-ing is assured for at least the next 2½ years – and well past that, Family Planning CEO Debra Mar-cus anticipates. And it will continue to offer the same services – STD testing, birth control, cancer screenings, HIV testing, as well as pregnancy tests and counseling – that its 10,000 patients a year, many uninsured, in four counties

Please See MARCUS, B4

THINK RINK: A “Think Rink” forum for skating enthusiasts to assess their experiences at the Badger Park rink is at 2 p.m. Sun-day, April 14, in the upstairs room at 22 Main. Ques-tions, call Debbie LeCates at 547-7151.

...AND HOW! Cooper-stown’s Got Talent, featur-ing K-12 singers, dancers, piano players and acrobats, is 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 12, at the high school, spon-sored by the Cooperstown Foundation for Excellence in Education. Questions, call Jan Kerr at 547-9365.

By JIM KEVLIN

COOPERSTOWN

To Barbara Melnichenko, who has opened Bat-ter’s Up in the former

TJ’s Place, a restaurant is like home.

“You know all the people,” she said the other day, sitting next to her father and business partner, contractor Vladimir Melnichenko of Fly Creek. “They come into see you

every day.”Case in point: A group

of regulars – Jim Dow, Jim Tongue, Bill Murdock, Keith Addison (and recent arrival Mike Welch) among them – had just finished their morning cup of coffee, pick-ing up a ritual that lapsed when Ted Hargrove, who ran TJ’s for 22 years, closed it last fall.

“It’s like ‘Cheers.’ This is what it is,” she said.

Barb worked for Ted for Please See BARB, A7

By JIM KEVLIN

COOPERSTOWN

You can foil paid parking in the Village of Cooperstown. But it will cost you $25. Per car, that

is.The $25 permits are now on sale,

8 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays, at the Village Clerk’s Office in the base-ment of 22 Main. Bring your car’s registration.

Village Trustee Cindy Falk bought the first one on the first day, April 1.

Today, if you can find a space down-town, you can park for two hours. With a permit, you can continue to do so from Memorial Day to Columbus Day weekend, just as you can now. (Paid parking lapses over the winter.)

Paid parking downtown will be in force on Main Street between Pine Boulevard and River Street, and Pio-neer from Church Street to the vicin-

Please See PERMITS, A7

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The system that will deliver broadband Internet service to Otsego County’s every

nook and cranny will piggyback on 10-15 existing towers.

But CompDirect USA’s signal will also be using some 70-80 church steeples – or perhaps even the tallest building in town, from Decatur to Laurens to Roseboom – to connect localities to the world.

Mike Stagnola, CompDirect’s president, county IT Director Bri-an Pokorny and county Highway Superintendent Ron Tiderencel began the reconnoiter Wednesday, April 3, examining two towers near Cherry Valley and one each

Please See BROADBAND, A3

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The village’s 2012-13 budget, which includes a range of

new revenues from parking-related fees, goes to public hearing at 6:30 p.m. Thurs-day, April 11, in 22 Main.

The budget includes first-time revenues from on-street paid parking, parking per-mits and a hand-held com-puter parking-fine system.

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SUNY Oneonta will re-ceive the Community Part-nership Award and Poletta Louis is this year’s recipient

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The annual benefit will be themed “Motown Comes to O’Town” and will feature a silent auction, “Big Chuck” D’Imperio as emcee and live performances by Blues Maneuver, D.J. Wooden, Wendy Slicer and Tamiko Williams.

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CompDirector USA has part-nered with the ION Network, which is laying fiber-optic cable throughout Upstate. Spagnola’s dishes will connect individual customers with ION, which will then connect them with “the cloud,” the Internet’s ubiquitous access points.

Pokorny reported “a few sur-prises” after the outing. A couple of towers Spagnola thought

would be promising turned out not to be; but the maps were from 2008-9, and the team discovered new towers that will serve the new system’s purpose.

They planned to end the day in Oneonta, but Stagnola said popu-lation centers like the city and Cooperstown are already pretty well served: “Our intention is to light up areas that need it most.”

The “last mile” high-speed Internet initiative, announced March 5 by state Sen. Jim

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effort to attract new businesses and jobs to the county.

“Some people think the Inter-net is a luxury,” said Spagnola, whose Cassville-based company has completed similar projects in the Mohawk Valley and North Country (including Star and Cranberry lakes). “But more and more, it’s a necessity.”

The planners hope county resi-dents will see CompDirect crews on their local church steeples within 90 days.

Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s JournalCounty IT Director Brian Pokorny, left, points out tower sites to CompDirect USA President Mike Spagnola, center, and Highway Superintendent Ron Tiderencel.

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LETTERS

Oneonta needs to get seri-ous, for the benefit of all who depend on that

regional center, for jobs, for shop-ping, for entertainment.

It’s time for City Hall to reclaim neighborhoods lost to blighted student housing and prevent that blight’s spread.

Spend a couple of hours walk-ing the blocks between Clinton (the south end of the Hartwick campus) and Church, and Center and Chestnut. You will see con-demned house after condemned house. You will see some blocks that are rotting – they have tipped. You will see others that are headed that way – they are nearing the tipping point.

The good news is that most city neighborhoods are merely pock-marked. A blighted house here, a condemned house there among homes that are still generally well-

tended and pleasing.And, granted, some of the

student housing is maintained, although never as well as the best-maintained properties.

You will conclude all the city’s downtown neighborhoods are at risk, but you will also see it’s not too late to turn things around in a positive way – not immediately, it takes time, but over time.

•In this context, Newman Devel-

opment Corp.’s proposed 325-student Hilltop Commons, tucked away at the north end of Wood Ridge Apartments at the north end of SUNY Oneonta’s campus, presents an opportunity for the city at large.

There are fewer than a handful of homes on Blodgett Drive itself, although there are substantially more to the northeast. The goal isn’t to save one neighborhood

by sacrificing another, but if the highrise is well managed – New-man’s record suggests it will be – it would ease pressure in center city and perhaps redefine the way we think about appropriate student housing that is also community-friendly.

But sleepwalking through a growing mess – as an inspection of the Clinton/lower West/Church section dramatically emphasizes – is no answer at all.

•Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller’s

Tuesday, April 2, memo to Com-mon Council on the project was a wake-up call in other ways.

It was shocking to learn New-man’s prospective $15 million investment would be the largest private development in the city in a quarter century. It was distress-ing to learn total valuation has been stagnant for a decade.

These trends have to worry anyone concerned about the City of the Hills’ future – and its necessary role as Otsego County’s center in the nine months we are not a tourist mecca. Sustainabil-ity, sustainability, sustainability is all we hear about these days. The city’s dilemma, friends – stagnant revenues and dropping population as costs inevitably rise – is indeed unsustainable.

If the truth be divined, Oneon-ta’s dilemma is probably worse in all of our county communities, even Cooperstown. Housing appears stable, but the village has been striving to identify new revenues to address deteriorating infrastructure.

Happily, City Hall with a Syra-cuse consulting group, Housing Visions, is planning to buy blight-ed properties, renovate them, and return them to the tax rolls. But

a never-ending game of catchup isn’t plausible.

There are other reasons to sup-port Hilltop Commons – SUNY Oneonta’s need to compete with other SUNY campuses for top students is large among them. A more competitive SUNY Oneonta is better for all of us.

But it’s time to shift the city’s discussion. From no, no, never, to putting the controls and provisions in place to minimize any negative impacts from Hilltop Commons and maximize the benefits, from new and needed infrastructure to new tax revenues (and, heavens, perhaps even tax cuts.)

Countywide, we should follow City Hall’s proposed solutions. Can Housing Visions be recruited to fighting housing blight in all our localities?

Problems we know. Let’s all look to embrace new solutions.

VACANT, CONDEMNED HOUSES NEAR ONEONTA CAMPUSES DRAMATIZE NEED FOR ACTION.

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Successful Hilltop Commons Can Help Oneonta Back From Brink

To the Editor;After reading Ron Jor-

dan’s article that appeared in this newspaper’s March 21 edition, I am convinced that many segments of the environmental movement in this country are totally out of touch with the real world and the people who live in it.

The article claims that we can get all of our energy from renewables and that they can supply all the energy needed to power our infrastructure, including all forms of transportation. The gaping hole in this argu-ment is that 78 percent of this mix comes from wind and solar, two of the most unreliable and heavily sub-sidized forms of power on the planet. Geothermal, tidal and wave energy along with hydroelectricity round out the equation.

The big question here is what do we do when the wind stops blowing?

Wind turbines produce their rated capacity intermit-tently only about 30 percent of the time, less in summer

and on cloudy days and at night when there is no sun, well, you get the picture.

The cost of subsidizing these two perpetual wards of the state is a drain on

taxpayers and diverts money away from develop-ing new forms of energy that are clean, reliable and economical-ly feasible

as well as safe.That cannot be said of

wind energy.If you don’t believe me

you can ask 60 Fairfield residents who have filed a lawsuit in state Supreme Court against the develop-ers of a wind farm there for making their lives miser-able. The sound from these monstrosities are driving them out of their homes. Some are as close as 2000 feet away and that is much too close.

Imagine the legal ramifi-

cations if the 4,020 five-megawatt turbines recom-mended in Jordan’s article start cropping up all over Central New York with no meaningful state or federal regulations in place. The only people who would be happy would be the law-yers.

Another problem I have with this plan is that it implies that it’s up to the political sphere to institute these drastic changes. The truth is it is up to the people to decide whether they want these changes.

Do they want to be told that they must buy an elec-tric vehicle? Will they be able to afford one? Do they have the money to invest in residential solar rooftop systems or ground-source heat pumps?

And what about the loss of natural beauty that brings tourist dollars to this area? Will anyone come here to vacation in a turbine littered industrial junk yard? I don’t think so.

JACK PALMINTERICherry Valley

Numbers May Seem To Work,But Wind, Solar Power Erratic

LETTERS TO EDITOR WELCOME • SEND THEM TO [email protected]

To the Editor:Just curious, they (not

sure who they are) have taken away our noon whistle, taken away the Little League field, and now the Redskins.

I think it is pretty sad, but maybe it is a sign, since the Cooperstown Little League (which my brother and I played in, and there might have been a few times, my mom advised us to get home once noon whistle blows) now have to play in Hartwick (which in not a bad thing, they understand).

I was told that Hartwick’s teams were the Huskies, so maybe the Cooperstown Huskies would work.

GARY S. JENNINGSFormer CCS Redskin

Hartwick, It Seems,WILL Rise Again!

To the Editor:The CCS Board of Educa-

tion has stumbled through the process of changing the school’s nickname. It really sounded more like a personal agenda item, than something that needed to be done. But that’s another item for discussion.

What I would like to ad-

dress is the Oneida Indian Nation’s (OIN) offer to purchase new uniforms for the sports teams.

First, think about where the OIN gets its money: from the manufacture and sale of cigarettes, other tobacco products, and gam-bling. These ventures play on the addictions of people

who are lured in to the OIN ventures. These addictions ruin lives and family’s finan-cial security.

Second, the OIN pays no taxes. The local schools where the OIN owns prop-erty worth millions pay no school taxes. The OIN will,

Please See LETTER, A6

Source Of Tribe’s Largesse Is Ruined Lives

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MARCUS/From A1have received in the past.

But national Planned Parenthood isn’t accepting secession without a fight: March 29, it authorized its Ithaca-based chapter, Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes, to add South Central New York’s counties to its fran-

chise area.Marcus is concerned that

supporters of the local entity – Oneonta’s Karen Elting is the local co-chair, and it continues to be supported by Bassett Healthcare and Fox Hospital – will be misled by fundraising and other efforts by the new competitor from Ithaca.

According to Marcus, in 2010 Planned Parenthood’s national organization ad-vised all its 88 chapters they must perform abortions in at least one clinic, a sticking point locally. For years, the Otsego/Delaware/Chenan-go/Broome chapter referred termination procedures to Southern Tier Women’s Ser-vices in Binghamton, and wished to continue to do so.

“We’ve never had one of our patients say they had trouble getting a termina-tion,” Marcus said. “Why should we duplicate ser-vices that are well provided and take the risk that if we performed a few hundred abortions in our clinic, we would force that clinic to close, decreasing services in our area?”

Efforts to understand the national organization’s

point of view resulted in this statement from Eric Ferrero, vice president of communications: “Planned Parenthood affiliate leaders decided to offer a consistent set of services at all health centers so that patients can receive essential care wher-ever they live.” He declined to take any follow-up ques-tions.

Locally, a waiver was sought, but was denied. In November, the South Central chapter sent a letter withdrawing from the fed-eration. “We will continue to provide family planning and reproductive health and education services,” Marcus wrote.

Then national decided to take on the former local chapter. “In order to ensure the continuity of care in the Affiliate’s service area, PPFA will notify neighbor-

ing affiliates that the service area will be available,” wrote Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parent-hood, in a letter dated Dec. 18.

“We haven’t departed,” said Marcus. “We’re still here.”

But the Southern Finger Lakes put in an application to expand services into the area, and the application was approved by Juanita Francis, chair of the affiliate development and accredita-tion committee, announced in the March 29 letter.

“They claim they know the area so well, but they misspelled Chenango and Delaware,” said Marcus.

Southern Finger Lakes denied it is poaching. A Monday, April 2, statement issued by Maureen Kelly, its vice president of public affairs, stated: “Planned

Parenthood is not looking to establish a Binghamton office. In fact, the organiza-tion has no plans to open new offices anywhere in the region.”

The next day, Marcus sent a letter asking for an official denial of plans to expand services, but so far has heard no response. “We’re not opposed to competi-tion,” she said. “What we oppose is an entity that comes in to drive out two existing businesses. We see this as an attempt to damage our finances for abandoning the brand.”

Marcus says Family Plan-ning will continue provid-ing the same services and referrals it did as Planned Parenthood. “A month ago, our services were very high quality. Today our services are very high quality. New name, same great service.”

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Carol Blazina New Foothills Board President

The Freeman’s JournalCarol Blazina is new Foothills president.

By LIBBY CUDMORE

ONEONTA

Within moments of her election as president of the

Foothills Performing Arts Center board of directors, Carol Blazina was brimming with ideas. “We’re working on building our children’s programming,” she said. “It’s important that we listen to the needs of the com-munity and give them what they want.”

Blazina, retired SUNY Oneonta vice president for

community relations, has served on the board since 2010, including the market-ing & communication, fund-

raising and programming committees. “We want to satisfy a mosaic of needs for this community and region.”

“I’m honored to be elected,” she said. “Dick Miller did a fabulous job in his term as president.”

Mayor Miller, who as-sumed the presidency two years ago during a period of challenge, will continue on the board as vice president, a title also held by Arnie Drogen, a long-time board member.

“I look forward to the progress of Foothills,” said Blazina. “It brings good things to this community.”

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200 YEARS AGOAnother gratification – His Britannic majesty’s brig

Emu, of 12 guns, a prize to the privateer Holkar of New York, arrived on Sunday last at Providence, and saluted the town. She is an uncommonly strong and well found ves-sel, burthened upward of 200 tons; was fitted with a new patent defence surmounting her bulwarks, composed of spring bayonets, and had a great quantity of ammunition and provisions for Botany Bay, whither she was conveying a number of convicts. She was commanded by an arrogant Lieutenant of the British Navy who could not persuade his crew to fight the Yankees. The ammunition and provisions were taken on board the Holkar; the crew and convicts were landed on one of the Cape Verde Islands.

April 10, 1813

175 YEARS AGOA discussion upon the merits of the Anti-Slavery or

Abolition movements which at present so deeply agitate the Union, transpired at the Court House in this village, on Friday evening and Saturday, the 30 and 31 of March and on Monday, April 2. On Friday the lecture by Gerrit Smith, Esq. of Peterborough, New York, was presented upon the following propositions: 1. That slavery is a moral and polit-ical evil. 2. That we (this community) are bound to exercise our political power, to the extent of its constitutional limit, effect its immediate abolition. On Saturday morning, after a sort of random discussion, during which some reasons were offered by the mover why the resolutions should pass, separate motions were made, under which both resolutions were laid on the table, and the meeting adjourned sine die. Mr. Smith lectured on the same subject in the afternoon, which he did, and likewise in the evening. J. Fenimore Cooper, Esq. submitted a few brief remarks at the afternoon session. On Monday morning, a large auditory was in at-tendance. Mr. Cooper enchained the attention of the assem-blage for two and a half hours, in a speech characterized by great compactness and masculine power of thought, logical accuracy, and a great diversity of valuable information; and so perfect was his amenity of manner, his candor, and so happy the strain of genuine eloquence in which he clothed his arguments, that men of all parties freely expressed their high gratification at the intellectual feast to which the dis-cussion had introduced our citizens.

April 9, 1838

150 YEARS AGOOne year ago today there occurred the Great Fire of

Cooperstown. The spectacle which the eye rested upon, on the morning of April 11 was saddening in the extreme.

Dwellings, hotels, stores and shops had all been consumed in a night – that grandly awful sight! Who that witnessed it will ever forget it? Property to the amount of $100,000 had been swept away in a few hours and there were those who thought that Cooperstown could scarcely recover from the effects of so severe a blow. A brief year has passed by, and what do we behold! An expenditure of $10,000 has secured the widening and grading of Main Street from the old Eagle Hotel corner to the Court House; twelve new stores, two of iron, six of brick, one of stone, two of brick and wood, and one of wood, have been erected; also a large three-story brick dwelling house, and one large hotel.

April 10, 1863 125 YEARS AGO

Local – L.I. Burditt, Esq., has returned home from Florida, where he has spent about three months.

A very successful operation for cataract was recently per-formed on one of Mr. Marcus Field’s eyes, and he expects to be out again as usual in a few days.

April 13, 1888

100 YEARS AGOThe Prayer of Nelson Avenue: “Look down upon me, O

Village Fathers, and observe my many faults. I am homely and rough and uncouth, and am no more worthy to be called a thoroughfare in the beautiful village of Cooperstown. I am a useful street. Many visitors travel over me or along beside me and comment upon my neglected appearance. Teamsters swear at me and automobiles sputter. I am called a wart on the fair face of Cooperstown. I am a proud street, proud of the good people who have chosen their habitation beside me. Help me O Village Fathers, to rise out of the mire and create of me a clean and commendable thoroughfare.”

April 16, 1913 50 YEARS AGO

The Board of Trustees amended and replaced the village’s 21-year-old zoning code by voting in proposals contained in the village section of the Cooperstown Area Plan. The new ordinance takes the place of a code which was originally passed in April 1942, becoming effective on April 22 of that year.

April 10, 1963

25 YEARS AGOPittsburgh Pirates star Willie Stargell will be inducted on

July 31st as the 200th member of baseball’s Hall of Fame. Born March 6, 1940, at Earlsboro, Oklahoma, the big Bu-caneer spent 21 seasons on the Pirate ship raiding National League cities coast to coast and defending Forbes Field, the home port. Willie and the Bucs played for the National League treasure chest six times in that span, but made it to the World Series only twice – in 1971 and 1979. They won the World Series crown both times in seven games. Stargell’s 12 hits, three home runs and seven RBI’s earned him MVP booty in the 1979 fall classic.

April 13, 1988

10 YEARS AGOMike Staffin rolled a 780 – 290, 269, 221 to lead all other

bowlers in the Wednesday night Bowling League on April 2. Reid Nagelschmidt tossed a high series of 674 – 226 277, 171, followed by Jason Tabor, 652, Barry Gray, 646, Gerry Gage, Jr., 642, Jim Jordan, 625, Buddy Lippitt, 605, and Richie Anderson, 600.

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To the Editor:As to Bob Joyce’s Letter

to the Editor, I’m sure the tax code must be changed in places, but rates over 40 percent? What would be the incentive to start or run a business and create jobs. I think reading Adam Smith’s “The Wealth of Nations” and maybe taking Econom-ics 101 should be required for everyone, especially our government leaders.

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ing Bush, Reagan, The Tea Party, and maybe even The Wizard Of Oz for our economic problems exac-erbated by under-taxing the rich can be attributed to too much New York Times exposure along with the TV remote locked onto CNN and a copy of the writings of John Maynard Keynes as a bedside reader.

Reviewing the history of the marginal tax rates since the end World War II will reveal the error of that writ-er’s analysis of taxing the rich. Under both Republican and Democratic administra-tions, lowering the tax rate has always stimulated real economic growth and activ-ity.

I am really not sure of what was meant by “nation-al debt bonds,” unless that was an oblique reference to the arcane and nefarious actions of the Fed, Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac under a variety of political pres-sures.

As to the laundry list of remedies provided in the letter, one need only relocate to Spain, Greece or Italy to reap the benefits of such taxation.

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COOPERSTOWN – Su-san Peterson, 49, passed away surrounded by loving friends and family on March 16, 2013, at her home in Oakland, Calif., following a near year-long battle with cancer.

She was born May 10, 1963, and spent her child-hood in Metuchen, N.J., and Cooperstown.

Susan entered Cornell University as an inte-rior design major and later transferred into the School of Hotel Administration, graduating with a bachelor of science. She later gained a culinary certificate from Tante Marie’s Cooking School in San Francisco. Her love of cooking and interest in natural foods led her to gain a horticul-tural certificate from the UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology.

While at Cornell, she was a member and vice president of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, where she made caring and enduring lifelong friendships.

Susan was blessed with many talents and wove them into a diverse life rich in purpose and successes.

She had been a senior

buyer at Saks Fifth Avenue, New York City, where her success led her to be head-hunted for the position of buyer/merchandiser at Banana Republic, head-quartered in San Francisco. She next moved to Williams Sonoma and later ended her purchasing career continu-ing to travel globally in search of high-end collect-ibles of indigenous crafts for Cost Plus World Market in San Francisco.

Along the way she dabbled in interior de-sign and saw one of her residential projects gain acclaim from Architectural Digest and it still serves as a foil for many of Banana Republic’s catalog items. In recent years, she had consulted with Oakland-based Lowney Architecture on interior design of retail space.

Seeking a career change, she became a baker in a San Francisco French pastry shop and shortly thereafter moved on to become a veg-etarian cook at Green’s fa-mous vegetarian restaurant in the Presidio, where she was discovered and chosen by Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs to be his family’s personal chef. While in his employ, she prepared such tasty vegan meals that then-President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton had left-overs wrapped to go home on Air Force One. Susan

put the final touch on her ca-reer as a pastry cook at Al-ice Water’s world renowned Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley.

Susan was a co-founder of the Greenwoods Con-servancy, a 1,200-acre nature preserve and SUNY research site near Cooperstown, and chaired its annual gifting commit-tee. She currently served on, and previously chaired, the board of directors of the Pie Ranch, an Alameda-based Land Trust. Susan also volunteered and taught at Edible Schoolyard, a pro-gram established and sup-ported by the Chez Panisse Foundation to teach urban middle-school children the values of organic farming, sound diet, land stewardship and community.

Susan ran cross-country in high school, rowed her freshman year at Cornell and was a lifelong endur-ance athlete and lover of

wilderness pursuits. She enjoyed gardening in small places and eclectically maintained a beehive at her home. She had a keen eye for design and where others saw objects, Susan saw art. She was a dedicated and devoted friend to many, and leaves hundreds behind who treasure their times together and are grateful for her example of a life well lived. Her spontaneity, zest for life, deep sense of personal integrity, sense of humor, thoughtfulness, creativity, positive outlook and her ability to find humor that was never at the expense of others, endeared her to all of those around her. Her personal philosophy was that “the school is life, the

lesson is love.”Susan is survived by her

partner, Kenneth Lowney, an Oakland-based archi-tect; her parents, Cynthia and Earle Peterson of Cooperstown and Metuchen, N.J., and brother James Pe-terson, sister-in-law Myrna Peterson and nephew Joseph Peterson, all of Fly Creek. Also, an uncle and aunt, Robert and Edith Tschorn of Newtown, Conn., and cousins David, John, Daniel, Donald Peterson, Melanie Ruff, Julie Seabury and Jen-nifer Stevens.

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LETTER/From A4however, give the school districts “grants.” If the school district has a particular teach-er, course of curriculum, or textbook they disagree with, the grants are withheld until the local district comes into compliance.

Look up the actions that the Vernon-Ve-

rona-Sherill school district had to take to get their grant.

Members of the CCS Board of Education should not stumble into the OIN trap. The money should, and can, be raised locally.

DAVID BURCH Sr.Hartwick

To the Editor:On Wednesday, March

20, I had the opportunity to attend a Town Hall meet-ing hosted by county Rep. Beth Rosenthal, D-7, at the Old School Café in Cherry Valley. Many of the refresh-ments were products made in the district, highlighting the economic engine of small businesses within the district.

Representative Rosenthal provided an understandable presentation as to the current major issues facing Otsego County. The presentation included an overview and

how the county representa-tives are approaching these issues.

Representative Rosenthal took questions from mem-bers of her district (District 7 includes the Towns of Cherry Valley, Roseboom and Middlefield) on a wide range of issues, including several about the status of the Otsego Manor and dif-ferent options available to the county in addressing the millions of dollars sub-sidy county tax payers are spending to keep The Manor afloat. While the issues were heated, the discussion

remained open and calm between Rosenthal and the audience.

I was very impressed at the depth of knowledge Rosenthal had on the issues and her ability to explain the issues in real terms.

I thank Representative Rosenthal for taking the time to bring to her district an opportunity to discuss the issues facing our county and her willingness to listen to the views of the members of her district.

DENNIS B. LAUGHLINCherry Valley

To the Editor:This is the text of a recent

letter to Governor Cuomo:A number of months ago

(Oct. 17, 2011) I sent you a coffee table book of Otsego County. You have made no response to that gift nor the letter I sent with it. My senator sent me a letter say-ing he had given it to you. I assume you got it?

The question about frack-ing in Upstate New York is not just a question of safety. Fracking is a symptom of far greater problems...

Do I have any control over my environment? I moved into a rural setting because that’s the way I want to live. And now I am being told that this rural area can be changed into an industrial area. When did people lose their rights?

How is it that a corpo-ration can take away my lifestyle of living in a rural area? Who gave the right

to corporations to be able to take the resources of the earth in order to gain a profit for them? Shouldn’t the resources of the earth belong to the people and not to a few that happen to have the resources to take away these elements in order to make money, with little regard to the inhabitants of the area where they want to take?

Corporations are destroy-ing democracy. They take away from the people with little concern. There are books and books that ex-plain this point and there is no reason for me to expand on it. It is time corporations get out of government and the government listens to the people.

Another issue that is covered by many people in many books is that it is long past the time that society and corporations start thinking in a finite way, as Mother Nature is not an

infinite storehouse of some elements that man deems important. It is time to think renewable. It is time to give up linear thinking and start thinking cyclically. Renew-able energy.

Fracking is about a few people making profits at the expense of many others. It’s about corporations trying to make money at the expense of the health and welfare of the people that inhabit the area.

If you do not see this then you are living in the past and should not be in politics. In politics today the people need dynamic leaders who can rebalance this greed for power and move us into time when quality of life and the health of the popu-lace is most important.

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IN POLITICSRICHARD S. DUNCAN

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To the Editor:For the past 27 years, I have

visited Oneonta three to four times per year, often with my family, to spend time with old and dear friends. Over that period I have come to consider Oneonta my second home.

I have always loved the unique and quirky mix of businesses your downtown area offers, like the Autumn Café and (in recent years) the Green Toad Bookstore, as well as established icons like Brooks and the Center Street Deli.

Moreover, I have always ad-

mired the Center City residential area because of the mix between student rental properties and es-tablished middle and high-income homeowners, creating unique and eclectic neighborhoods.

Clearly, the charm of your city for both college students and resi-dents lies in the vibrant diversity of businesses and people living and working in your downtown and Center City areas.

What makes Oneonta a great place to visit and live seems to be threatened, however, by the Newman Group, which proposes

a 325-bed student housing project on Blodgett Drive. If you have lis-tened to your neighbors involved in Save Oneonta, you already know many of the facts, probably better than I do.

The most important of these facts, however, is that Newman will not be paying property taxes for the first 10 years if they are ap-proved for a PILOT program. In-stead, you the citizens of Oneonta and Otsego County will be paying their taxes for them during that time.

Consider this: Just the one

building currently in the works (and there are more to come if this one takes off) is projected to take about $3 million in student rental revenues and shift them to New-man.

Perhaps, if you are not in the student rental business, you don’t particularly care. But most of that $3 million is spent right in Oneonta, on things like building maintenance, marketing, staff pay and building renovations.

And at the end of the day, where do these landlords and their employees shop and eat? If they

own or rent property themselves, who are they paying for their own housing? What banks hold their mortgages? Where do they buy their business and personal vehicles? Who does their snow-plowing? Cuts their hair? Where do they go to the doctor? What schools do their kids attend?

Now if that money goes to Newman, Oneonta will see much less of that $3 million spent lo-cally. Two years ago, they couldn’t have found Oneonta on a map.

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PERMITS/From A1ity of Stagecoach Lane. (Check for signs.)

The permits allow all-day parking in the Chestnut Street lot, space available, but are not valid in the Doubleday Field lot.

No permit, and you will be required to use Pay & Display machines now on order, which will sell park-ing passes, $2 an hour, but in 15-minute increments.

While the $25 permit is a convenience for local drivers, it could also make a sizeable contribution to village coffers, according to Mayor Jeff Katz.

He points out there are 900 houses in the village, and you might expect every

household will buy at least one. The Katz family has three cars, and the mayor plans to buy three permits.

There are another 3,500 households in the neigh-boring towns of Hartwick, Middlefield and Otsego. “There are thousands and thousands of possibilities,” said Katz.

State law requires the permits be available to anyone from anywhere who wants to spend the $25. However, the village trustees put a provision in place so that permits pur-chased will be mailed to the purchaser’s home, so some-one who may be visiting for a week won’t recognize the bargain and buy one.

BARB/From A118 years, as a waitress who evolved into a waitress/manager, and the Mel-nichenko dad and daughter leased the restaurant space after the property was acquired by Tom Lagan’s BTP Cooperstown LLC on March 31. She opened Batter’s Up on Thursday, April 4; Lagan will continue to operate the souvenir shop part of the space as Vintage Collectibles.

When Barb was grow-ing up in Richfield Springs, she would accompany her dad when he had a job in Cooperstown, and she fell in love with the place. The

two would pick up dough-nuts at Schneider’s and share them while sitting on the rocks at Lakefront Park. When her dad’s crew shooed away the teen-ager, she would wander the streets – she particularly enjoyed Newberry’s (now the Cooperstown General Store) and Smalley’s, which was still operating.

“The town is beautiful. It’s gorgeous,” she said with an enthusiasm that still waxes all these years later.

On graduating from Richfield Springs Cen-tral, she walked the whole downtown until she got her first job, waitressing at the

Lakefront. She later moved to the Peppermill before joining Hargrove’s under-taking.

For now, she plans to shorten the menu, but will maintain such favorites as the hot turkey sandwich and the “signature steak burger.” She’ll be using Heidelberg bread and Stagecoach Cof-fee. “Everything is going to be fresh,” she said. “Fresh hamburger, not frozen. Fresh french fries, hand-cut.”

This is something of a family undertaking, as Nickolas Melnichenko will be waiting tables for his mother and grandfather. Vicky Stringer, a Bassett

RN, has been helping her sister during the startup.

Whereas you occasion-ally hear complaints about tourists around here (and in any tourist town), you won’t hear them from Barb. She loves the smiling faces and happy people experiencing a life’s dream of coming to Cooperstown.

She had considered renaming TJ’s “The Main Street Cafe,” but a friend told her, “You know, Barb, everyplace in town has a baseball name.”

She reasoned to herself, “Kids don’t say, ‘I want to go to ‘Main Street.’” And so, a new tradition was born. Batter’s Up.

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Saturday, May 4Reception 6 p.m. ~ Dinner 7 p.m.

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Christine Heller sketches part of her mu-ral “Constrained Man” as part of the 63rd Exhibition of Central NY Artists at Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art in Utica. The show, which features 29 artists, runs through April 28.

HEllEr’s MUrAl sTAr Of UTiCA sHOWSeward Helps Bassett Expand Regional School Program

PUTNAM TAKEs ‘MONsTEr BENCH’ TiTlE WiTH 900 lBsrichard Putnam, left, lets out a roar of celebration right after he bench pressed 900 pounds at the Clark sports Monster Bench Press Com-petition on saturday, April 6. last year, Putnam lifted 850, and took this year’s prize for “raw” lifting and the “most reps” prize for 40 reps at 225 pounds. Over 75 men and women competed in team, shirted and “raw” categories.

RICHFIELD SPRINGS

state Sen. Jim Seward (R-Milford) announced Friday, April 5 that the 2013-2014 state budget includes, at

his insistence, $150,000 to establish a Bassett Healthcare Network school-based health center (SBH) at Richfield Springs Central School.

“School-based health centers fill a great void in rural areas like those I serve,” said Seward.

Many children in rural areas don’t have health insurance, and working parents often struggle to take time off work to take their child to a doctor. School-based services help fill the gap, allowing children access to dental, medi-cal and mental health services. “This means the students are spending more time learning in the classroom. It’s also better for students with chronic conditions like asthma and ADHD, because we’re better able to manage those con-ditions by being where the students are, in the school,” said Dr. Chris Kjolhede, director of the program.

Bassett’s School-Based Health Program pro-vides care to nearly 7,500 students in 19 schools in four counties: Otsego, Delaware, Chenango and Schoharie counties.

Jeff Bishop Photosstate sen. Jim seward, r-Milford, discusses plans for an in-school clinic at richfield springs Central with students, from left, roman Hula, Veronica VanTassle, Vanessa Dykstra and William Hull.

flutist Caley Sky-Shrewsberry took a $150 prize for her

performance of “Siciliana and Giga from Sonata V” by Georges Friederich Handel at the CSH Concerto Com-petition.

Erik Mebust, tenor, tooks second place and the $100 prize with “Finish-ing the Hat” from Stephen Sondheim’s “Sunday in the

Park with George.” In third place, playing the bass clari-net was Jasmine Martinez performed “Andante from Concerto in B-flat Major” by A. Beon.

In the middle school divi-sion, the competition ended in a tie between Christianna Fisk, flute, playing “2nd Menuet de l’Arlesienne” by Georges Bizet. Tommy Knight, trumpet, playing

“Frolic” from Modern suite by Bernard Fitzgerald. Both were awarded $100.

All five of this year’s win-ners can be heard at upcom-ing concerts: the younger students will reprise their award-winning piece at the Middle School concert in May and the older students at the High School concert in June.

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LegaL notice NOTICE OF

BUDGET HEARING,

BUDGET VOTE AND ELECTIONCOOPERSTOWN

CENTRAL SCHOOL

DISTRICTTOWN OF OTSEGO,

COUNTY OF OTSEGO,

NEW YORK

NOTICE IS HERE-BY GIVEN, that a public hearing of the qualified voters of the Cooperstown Central School Dis-trict, Otsego Coun-ty, State of New York, will be held in the Middle/High School Cafeteria in said District on Wednesday, May 8, 2013, at 6:30 PM, prevailing time, for the presentation of the proposed 2013-2014 budget.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the an-nual meeting of the qualified voters of the Cooperstown Central School District, Town of Otsego, Otsego County, New York, will be held at the Middle/High School Auditorium in said District on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at which time said vote and election will be held between the hours of 11:00 AM and 8:00 PM, prevailing time, in the Middle/High School, at which time the polls will be opened to vote by voting machine upon the following items:

1. To adopt the annual budget of the School District for the fiscal year 2013-2014 and to authorize the requisite portion thereof to be raised by taxation on the taxable property of the District.

2. To elect two (2) members of the Board for 3-year terms commencing on July 1, 2013 and expiring on June 30, 2016 to succeed Mr. Andrew Mari-etta and Mrs. Mary Leonard, whose terms expire on June 30, 2013.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a copy of the statement of the amount of money which would be required to fund the School District’s

budget for 2013-2014, exclusive of public monies, may be obtained by any resident during business hours beginning Monday, April 22, 2013 at the District Of-fice, Middle/High School. Included in the detailed budget document are the following: Superintendent’s salary, benefits, and other remuneration, School District Report Card, State supplied compara-tive measures of fiscal performance for regular educa-tion and special education, a report on special educa-tion placement, a Property Tax Report Card, and the tax exemption report.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HERE-BY GIVEN that pe-titions nominating candidates for the office of member of the Board of Education shall be filed with the Clerk of said School District at her office in the Middle/High School, not later than Monday, April 22, 2013, not later than 5:00 PM. Each petition shall be directed to the Clerk of the District and shall be signed by at least 25 voters of the District, must state the name and residence of the candidate.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that applications for absentee ballots will be obtainable between the hours of 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM Monday through Friday, except holidays, from the District Clerk. Completed applications must be received by the District Clerk at least seven (7) days before the election if the ballot is to be mailed to the voter, or the day before the election, if the ballot is to be deliv-ered personally to the voter. Absentee ballots must be received by the District Clerk not later than 5:00 PM, prevailing time, on Tuesday, May 21, 2013.

A list of persons to whom absentee ballots are issued will be available for inspection to qualified voters of the District in the office of the District Clerk on and after Tuesday, May 14,

2013 between the hours of 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM on weekdays prior to the day set for the annual election and on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, the day set for the election, and said list will be posted at the polling place at the elec-tion. Any qualified voter present in the polling place may object to the voting of the ballot upon appropriate grounds for making his/her challenge and the reasons therefore known to the In-spector of Election before the close of the polls.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the qualified voters of the School District shall be en-titled to vote at said annual vote and election. A quali-fied voter is one who is (1) a citizen of the United States of America, (2) eighteen years of age or older, and (3) resident within the School District for a period of thirty (30) days next preced-ing the annual vote and election. The School District may require all persons offering to vote at the budget vote and election to provide one form of proof of residency pursu-ant to Education Law Section 2018-c. Such form may include a driver’s license, a non-driver identification card, a utility bill or a voter registration card. Upon offer of proof of residency, the School District may also require all persons offering to vote to provide their signature, printed name and address.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to a rule adopted by the Board of Educa-tion in accordance with Section 2035 and 2008 of the Education Law, any referenda or propositions to amend the budget, otherwise to be sub-mitted for voting at said election, must be filed with the Cooperstown Cen-tral School Board of Education at the District Office on or before Monday, April 22, 2013 not later than 5:00 PM prevailing time; must be typed or printed in English, must be directed

to the Clerk of the School District and signed by 5% of the number of voters who voted at the previous annual meeting or 25 quali-fied voters of the District, whichever is greater; and must state the name and residence of each signer. However, the School Board will not entertain any petition to place before the voters any proposi-tion the purpose of which is not within the powers of the voters to determine, or any proposi-tion which fails to include a specific appropriation where the expenditure of monies is required by the proposition.

Wendy L. Lansing, District ClerkMarch 28, 2013Cooperstown Central School DistrictTown of OtsegoCounty of OtsegoState of New York

LegaL notice Notice of

Publication

Notice is hereby given that a license, num-ber pending for a seasonal on premise liquor license has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in a retau-rant establishment under the Alcohol Beverage Con-trol Law at 4874 State Highway 28, Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York.

Hickey Golf, Inc., d/b/a Kelli Jean’s Steakhouse4874 State Highway 28Cooperstown, NY 133262LegalApr18


FORMATIONof

188 BISSELL LLC

Arts. of Org. filed with the Sec’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/19/2013. Office Location: Otsego County. SSNY Desig-nated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 23 3rd St., Manhas-set, New York

11030. Purpose; Any lawful activity.6LegalMay16

LegaL notice OUTLAW

FAMILY FUN, LLC

Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 2/14/13. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Mr. Gary Laing, 5 Susquehanna St., Oneonta, NY 13820, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. 6LegalApr18

LegaL notice Notice of Forma-tion of HealthTV LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/5/13. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Stuart Schultz, 2624 State Hwy 80, Burlington Flats, NY 13315, also the registered agent and the principal office address. Purpose: any lawful activi-ties.6 LegalApr25


FORMATION OF

LIMITED LIABILITYCOMPANY

UNDER THENEW YORK

LIMITED LIABILITY

LAW

Name: ALMEDA CHANCE, LLCArticles of Or-ganization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on March 6, 2013. Office Location: Otsego County. SSNY shall mail copy of process to P.O. Box 602, Morris, NY 13808. Purpose: To engage in any and all business for which LLCs may be formed under the New York LLC Law.6LegalMay2

LegaL notice Notice of forma-tion of Simple Integrity LLC. Articles of or-ganization filed with SSNY on 2/14/13. Office Location: Otsego County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Simple Integrity LLC, 7613 State Highway 80, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose: All lawful pur-poses.6Legal May2


FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY.

Name: Mihulka Farms, LLC. Ar-ticles of Organi-zation were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on March 18,2013. Office Location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 210 Patterson Road, Richfield Springs, NY 13439. Pur-pose : For agri-cultural produc-tion and sales.6LegalMay2

LegaL notice

Americasxtreme, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/21/13. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 2898 County Route 8, Oneonta, NY 13820, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any law-ful purpose. 6legalMay9

LegaL notice

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF

LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY

The name of the en-tity is Home Farm at Leatherstocking Falls LLC, for which the Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State on February 6,

2013. The office of said entity is to be located in Otsego County, New York. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the limited li-ability company, upon whom process against it may be served, and the post office address within this State to which the Secre-tary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon her is P.O. Box 1171, Cooperstown, NY, 13326. The purpose of the busi-ness of such limited liability company is to engage in any lawful act of activi-ty for which limited liability companies may be organized under the Limited Liability Company Law.6legalMay9

LegaL notice

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF

LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY

The name of the en-tity is 010 Main St, LLC, for which the Articles of Orga-nization were filed with the Secretary of State on March 27, 2013. The office of said entity is to be located in Otsego County, New York. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the lim-ited liability com-pany, upon whom process against it may be served, and the post office address within this State to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon her is P.O. Box 431, Cooperstown, NY, 13326. The purpose of the busi-ness of such limited liability company is to engage in any lawful act of activi-ty for which limited liability companies may be organized under the Limited Liability Company Law.6legalMay9

LegaL notice

NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Sealed bids will be received as set forth in instruc-tions to bidders until 10:30 a.m. on May 02, 2013 at the NYSDOT, Con-tract Management Bureau, 50 WOLF RD, 1ST FLOOR,

SUITE 1CM, AL-BANY, NY 12232 and will be publicly opened and read.

A certified or cashier’s check payable to the NYS Dept. of Transpor-tation for the sum specified in the pro-posal or a bid bond, FORM CONR 391, representing 25% of the bid total, must accompany each bid. Bids may also be submitted via the internet using Bid Express (www.bidx.com). NYSDOT reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

Electronic docu-ments can be obtained from the NYSDOT Plan Sales Unit, 50 Wolf Road, 1st Floor, Suite 1PS, Albany, NY 12232, (518)457-2124); the Region of record; or Bid Express.

No Amendments are included on the CD. Amendments are posted at www.dot.ny.gov/doing-business/opportuni-ties/const-notices and Bid Express. The Contractor is responsible for ensuring that all Amendments are incorporated into its bid.

NYS Finance Law restricts communi-cation with NYS-DOT on procure-ments and contact can only be made with designated persons. Contact with non-designated persons or otherinvolved Agencies will be considered a serious matter and may result in disqualification.

Contracts with 0% Goals are generally single operation contracts, wheresub-contracting is not expected, and may present direct bidding opportuni-ties for Small Busi-ness Firms, includ-ing, but not limited to, D/W/MBEs.

The Contractor must comply with the Regulation rela-tive to non-discrim-ination in federally-assisted programs of the USDOT 49 CFR 21.

Please call (518) 457-3583 if a reasonable accom-modation is needed to participate in the letting.

BIDDERS SHOULD BE

ADVISED THAT AWARD OF THESE CON-TRACTS MAY BECONTINGENT UPON THE PASSAGE OF A BUDGET APPRO-PRIATION BILL BY THE LEGIS-LATURE AND GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

Reg. 09, Jack Wil-liams, Regional Di-rector, 44 Hawley Street, Binghamton, NY 13901

D262191, PIN 9806.63, Delaware, Otsego, Schoharie & Sullivan Cos., Job Order Contract for Culvert Main-tenance on Various Routes in Various Towns, Bid Deposit $75,000.00, NO PLANS, Proposals on CDs $10, plus $8 Postage. Goals: MBE/WBE 13 - 7%

D262186, PIN 9806.58, Otsego & Schoharie Cos., Job Order Contract for Bridge Maintenance Work on Various Routes, Bid Depos-it $75,000.00, NO PLANS, Proposals on CDs $10, plus $8 Postage. Goals: MBE/WBE 13 - 7%2LegalApr12

LegaL notice NOTICE

OFPUBLIC SALE

Public Notice is hereby given Under Sec. 182 NYS Lien Law, that prop-erty described as Contents of Storage Unit, will be sold at public acution at 12:03 p.m., on April 27, 2013 at South-side Self Storage, 7352 State Hwy. 23, Oneonta, NY. The sale of such prop-erty is to satisfy the lien of Southside Self Storage on property stored for the accounts of:

Unit # B-5: Melissa Bevins

United #I-1: Mary Cottone

Unite# G-1: Michael Jones

United # G-1: Theresa Bush

Unit # I-4: Carmen Parrish

Unit # B-3: James Langley

Unit # H-10: Theresa Bellissimo2LegalApril19

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