COMPLIMENTARY Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, December 13, 2013 FREE! HOMETOWN ONEONTA & The Otsego-Delaware Dispa tch HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST CIRCULATION NEWSPAPER 2010 WINNER OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD Volume 6, No. 12 City of The Hills Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Janice Curry rings a bell to attract grad Cheryl Parisian’s at- tention to her cheer- ing section at SUNY Oneonta’s December Candidate Recognition on Sunday the 8th in Dewar Arena/ MORE PHO- TOS, A4 IF YOU GO: Take a look at the Bresee’s Christmas decorations 3-5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16, during a holiday open house at St. James Manor. BRESEE’S CHRISTMAS SPIRIT LIVES ON AT ST. JAMES MANOR Seward Ec-Dev Strategy Adopted Plan: Consultant To Oversee Shift To ‘Pro-Activity’ G overnor Cuomo will an- nounce the next round of successful CFAs (consolidat- ed funding applications) Wednes- day, Dec. 11, at The Egg in Albany. For a list of local economic-devel- opment grant winners, go later in the day to: WW.ALLOTSEGO.COM CUOMO WILL ANNOUNCE LOCAL EC-DEV FUNDING Seward By LIBBY CUDMORE S anta Claus isn’t the only Father Christmas. In Oneonta, at least, there was also Charles Vechtold. Vechtold, the display manager of Bresee’s Department Store in 1942-65, was responsible for build- ing and mechaniz- ing the stores famed Christmas window displays. “People used to come from everywhere to look at those windows,” said Elaine Bresee. “Just like they did Macy’s down in New York City.” “If you grew up here, you remember seeing them in the window,” said Kathy Clarkson, manager of St. James Manor, Town of Oneonta. “I used to like seeing the girl with the iron; she was always in the window, ironing away.” Since 2004, St. James Manor has decorated its lobby with the mechan- ical carolers, reindeer and elves that once filled the Please See BRESEE’S, B6 A smiling Santa’s helper from Bresee’s. An Oneonta Christmas YULETIDE CHEER PHOTO ALBUM, A3 • SHOP LOCAL GIFTS, A7, B2-3 Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Kathy Clarkson, St. James Manor manager, surveys decorations from the former Bresee’s that grace the retirement home’s dining room. Jerry Reed, Whitesboro, who was raised in Oneonta, provided this photo of his years-ago visit to Santa at Bresee’s. By JIM KEVLIN T he economic-development com- munity is about to go after and seek to bring home jobs from out- side Otsego County’s boundaries. That newly “pro- active” stance came out of a Thursday, Dec. 5, morning-long meeting in Old City Hall between state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, and key economic-development players. They included the boards of the county IDA (industrial development agency) and OCDC (Otsego County Development Corp.), as well as Kathy Clark, R-Otsego, chair of the county Board of Representatives, and Mayor Dick Miller and Town Supervisor Bob Wood. Please See EC-DEV, B6 Can YMCA Help City Hall? Decision May Come Dec. 17 34 Pioneer St. · 547-9611 www.tunnicliffinn.net HAPPY HOUR LUNCH 11 to 4pm $ 4 .95 each. Six great entrées:, only $4.95 each Soda and coffee $1 each. Unwrap Our New Winter Menu...All Winter Long! FRI AND SAT SPECIALS 4 to 10 pm $ 14 .95 each Lobster, Filet Mignon & Scampi or Prime Rib 1 /2 off ALL DRINKS DINNER MENU ENTREÉS $ 7 .95 to $ 16 .95 each $ 22 .95 each Surf & Turf Fri. & Sat. 1 lb whole lobster and your choice 8 oz filet mignon or 10 oz prime rib with baked potato TUESDAY SPECIALS 4 to 10pm $ 6 dinners. Six entrees to choose from Fri. & Sat. 4 to 10pm In “The Pit”, under the Tunnicliff Inn Craft Fair Saturday, December 14 9 am to 4 pm 5006 State Highway 23, Oneonta 607.432.5478 Skateboard Shop Is Part Museum, Too Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Anthony Robinson sells skateboards and promotes the sport’s history. By LIBBY CUDMORE T he sign in the Main Street storefront read: “The Museum: Don’t Skate Bored. Coming soon.” You may have wondered what that was all about. The mystery is solved: Monday, Dec. 9, Anthony Robinson cut the ribbon – actual- ly, a hiking cord – at 200 Main St. on what Please See SKATES, B6 By LIBBY CUDMORE W hen Mayor Dick Miller approached the YMCA in mid- October about the possibility of sharing recreation services, the Y’s Frank Russo and Kristy Lawson began putting together a proposal. “We wanted to of- fer what we could do best,” said Lawson. “And that’s aquatics and childcare.” “We’ve been discussing shar- ing services for a few years,” said Russo, executive director, Please See YMCA, A6 D ue to illness of two of its members, the Manhattan Trans- fer concert scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 8, at Foothills Performing Arts Center, has been rescheduled for March 9. Ticketholders will be able to simply keep their tickets for March 9, or get a refund by contacting Foothills at 431-2080. MEANWHILE... Foot- hills’ “Day of Giving,” planned in conjunction with the concert, went on, and two trucks plus a stationwag- on of non-perishable food were collected and donated to St. James’ and St. Mary’s food pantries/ SEE PHOTO, A3. ONLINE STAR: SUNY Oneonta, with five gradu- ate programs with online components, is No. 7 on the list of the 37 “Most Afford- able Online Colleges in New York” compiled by AC On- line. According to AC Online founder Dan Schuessler, the rankings recognize colleges that offer students “quality, flexibility and affordability.” FREE PAINT: Five-gal- lon pails of remixed exterior latex paint are available to non-profit agencies and county residents, first-come, first serve, including light tan, dark tan, light green, grey, white and cream. Call 547-4225. Illness Delays Transfer Show Until March 9
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HOMETOWN ONEONTA& The Otsego-Delaware Dispatch
HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST CIRCULATION NEWSPAPER2010 WINNER OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD
Volume 6, No. 12
City of The Hills
Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTAJanice Curry rings a bell to attract grad Cheryl Parisian’s at-tention to her cheer-ing section at SUNY Oneonta’s December Candidate Recognition on Sunday the 8th in Dewar Arena/MORE PHO-TOS, A4
IF YOU GO: Take a look at the Bresee’s Christmas decorations 3-5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16, during a holiday open house at St. James Manor.
BRESEE’S CHRISTMAS SPIRITLIVES ON AT ST. JAMES MANOR
Governor Cuomo will an-nounce the next round of successful CFAs (consolidat-
ed funding applications) Wednes-day, Dec. 11, at The Egg in Albany. For a list of local economic-devel-opment grant winners, go later in the day to:
WW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
CUOMO WILL ANNOUNCELOCAL EC-DEV FUNDING
SewardBy LIBBY CUDMORE
Santa Claus isn’t the only Father Christmas. In
Oneonta, at least, there was also Charles Vechtold.
Vechtold, the display manager of Bresee’s Department Store in 1942-65, was responsible for build-ing and mechaniz-ing the stores famed Christmas window displays. “People used to come from everywhere to look at those windows,” said
Elaine Bresee. “Just like they did Macy’s down in New
York City.”“If you grew up
here, you remember seeing them in the window,” said Kathy Clarkson, manager of St. James Manor, Town of Oneonta. “I used to like seeing the girl with the iron; she was always in the window, ironing away.”
Since 2004, St. James Manor has decorated its lobby with the mechan-ical carolers, reindeer
and elves that once filled the Please See BRESEE’S, B6
A smiling Santa’s helper from Bresee’s.
An Oneonta ChristmasYULETIDE CHEER PHOTO ALBUM, A3 •SHOP LOCAL GIFTS, A7, B2-3
Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTAKathy Clarkson, St. James Manor manager, surveys decorations from the former Bresee’s that grace the retirement home’s dining room.
Jerry Reed, Whitesboro, who was raised in Oneonta, provided this photo of his years-ago visit to Santa at Bresee’s.
By JIM KEVLIN
The economic-development com-munity is about to go after and seek to bring
home jobs from out-side Otsego County’s boundaries.
That newly “pro-active” stance came out of a Thursday, Dec. 5, morning-long meeting in Old City Hall between state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, and key economic-development players.
They included the boards of the county IDA (industrial development agency) and OCDC (Otsego County Development Corp.), as well as Kathy Clark, R-Otsego, chair of the county Board of Representatives, and Mayor Dick Miller and Town Supervisor Bob Wood.
Please See EC-DEV, B6
Can ymCa Help City Hall?Decision may Come Dec. 17
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Unwrap Our New Winter Menu...All Winter Long!Fri and Sat SPecialS 4 to 10 pm$14.95eachlobster, Filet Mignon & Scampi or Prime rib
1/2 off all drinKSdinner Menu entreÉS$7.95 to $16.95each
$22.95each Surf & turf Fri. & Sat. 1 lb whole lobster and your choice 8 oz filet mignon or 10 oz prime rib with baked potato
tueSday SPecialS 4 to 10pm$6 dinners. Six entrees to choose from
Fri. & Sat. 4 to 10pm
In “The Pit”, under the Tunnicliff Inn
Craft FairSaturday, December 14
9 am to 4 pm
5006 State Highway 23, Oneonta
607.432.5478
Skateboard Shop Is Part Museum, Too
Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTAAnthony Robinson sells skateboards and promotes the sport’s history.
By LIBBY CUDMORE
The sign in the Main Street storefront read: “The Museum: Don’t Skate Bored. Coming soon.”
You may have wondered what that was all about.
The mystery is solved: Monday, Dec. 9, Anthony Robinson cut the ribbon – actual-ly, a hiking cord – at 200 Main St. on what
Please See SKATES, B6
By LIBBY CUDMORE
When Mayor Dick Miller approached the YMCA in mid-
October about the possibility of sharing recreation services, the Y’s Frank Russo and Kristy
Lawson began putting together a proposal. “We wanted to of-fer what we could do best,” said Lawson. “And that’s aquatics and childcare.”
“We’ve been discussing shar-ing services for a few years,” said Russo, executive director,
Please See YMCA, A6
Due to illness of two of its members, the Manhattan Trans-
fer concert scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 8, at Foothills Performing Arts Center, has been rescheduled for March 9.
Ticketholders will be able to simply keep their tickets for March 9, or get a refund by contacting Foothills at 431-2080.
MEANWHILE... Foot-hills’ “Day of Giving,” planned in conjunction with the concert, went on, and two trucks plus a stationwag-on of non-perishable food were collected and donated to St. James’ and St. Mary’s food pantries/SEE PHOTO, A3.
ONLINE STAR: SUNY Oneonta, with five gradu-ate programs with online components, is No. 7 on the list of the 37 “Most Afford-able Online Colleges in New York” compiled by AC On-line. According to AC Online founder Dan Schuessler, the rankings recognize colleges that offer students “quality, flexibility and affordability.”
FREE PAINT: Five-gal-lon pails of remixed exterior latex paint are available to non-profit agencies and county residents, first-come, first serve, including light tan, dark tan, light green, grey, white and cream. Call 547-4225.
Illness DelaysTransfer ShowUntil March 9
A-2 HOMETOWN ONEONTA HOMETOWN PeopleELSBECK HONORED: Leah Elsbeck of Oneonta has been inducted into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. Elsbeck is pursuing a degree in social work at Syracuse University.
PERRY HONORED: Rachel Perry of Laurens was one of 15 students inducted into SUNY Oneonta’s Beta Eta Chapter of the Chi Alpha Epsilon national honor so-ciety during a ceremony on Nov. 14.
Hartwick College has received a
$2,000 grant from the Corning Founda-tion to implement an immunochemistry biology course.
Dr. Anthony (A.J.) Russo, visiting as-sistant professor of biology, will lead the effort, assisted by assistant profes-sors Dr. Eric Cooper, biol-
ogy, and Dr. Andrew Peifer, chemistry and Dr. Stanley Sessions, biology professor.
Immunochemistry involves the produc-tion, characterization and use of antibod-ies in research and medicine.
This is the second grant from the Corning Foundation in two years, totalling $10,000.
Hartwick’s A.J. Russo Will Create Biology Course With Corning Grant
A.J. Russo
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2013
Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTAJosh Flynn presents his mother, Jennifer, with an Eagle pin. A member of Troop 23, Oneonta, he was installed as an Eagle Scout Saturday, Dec. 7, in a Court of Honor in St. James Episcopal’s church hall. As his Eagle project, he installed a ramp at the Family Y.
ONEONTA HAS NEW EAGLE SCOUT
Open HouseSunday, Dec. 15th- 3 to 5 pm
• Featuring the a cappella sounds of Eight is Eneuf, singing music from the early 1600s and the do-wop era of the ‘60s to The Beatles and Billy Joel.
• Jack Stahl will be at the piano with all your favorites!• Big Chuck will be here with a live remote!
• We will be collecting non-perishables for the St. James Food Pantry• Refreshments will be served!
• We will have an open apartment if you would like to take a look!
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OHS Art Club Takes Top Prize In MSO’s Gingerbread Contest
‘Peter Pan’s Christ-mas,” a ginger-bread creation by
the Oneonta High School Art Club took first place in the youth category of the Main Street Oneonta’s “Merry Fairy Holidays” Gingerbread contest.
Mayor Miller announced the winners just before the Tree Lighting ceremony on Thursday, Dec. 5, in Muller Plaza. They will be on dis-play in the windows of Key Bank, Stevens Hardware and the History Center until January.
Other winners included:Youth Category
• 2nd Place, “Ice Queen Castle- Frozen, Sarah Han-sen and Emma Goff
Household Category• 1st Place, “The Steadfast
Tin Soldier,” Michel and Matthew Dankievitch
• 2nd Place, “Under the Sea,” Walnut IRA
• 3rd Place, “The Fairy Hotel, Malena and Amanda Scimeca
Adult Category•1st Place, “Old Woman
Who Lived in Shoe,” Jen-nifer Zachow
• 2nd Place, “Rapunzel,”Katie Marvel• 3rd Place, “It’s A Won-
derful Life,” LEAF CouncilBest in Show: • “Hither and Thither
Cottage: A Fairy Retreat,” SUNY Delhi Gingerbread Team
At the His-tory Center, Quinn Nowa-kowski, 6, and Maria Griswold, 7, both of Oneonta, admire Cathy Wise’s gingerbread creation, “A Fairy’s Holi-day Forest” after the Community Tree Light-ing ceremo-ny Thursday, Dec. 5.
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CHRISTMAS CHEER ABOUNDSPiper Hurd, 3, and her
brother Ray-lan, 7 months,
weren’t too sure how they
felt about the Clauses
at Southside Mall Saturday,
Dec. 7. The kids are from
Oxford, but dad works in
Oneonta.
SUNY students downtown in Christmas rega-lia Sunday, Dec. 8, included, from left, Lau-ren Tierney, Jen Sullivan, Kelsey Dulmovits, Hannah O’Neil, Kelly Ann Callahan and Lauren Pennino.
Soloist Kasey Stewart, mezzo-soprano, sings “Esurientes im-plevi bonis” (“The hungry he has filled with good things, and the rich he has sent empty away”) during the Catskill Choral Society’s performance of Bach’s “Magnificat” Saturday, Dec. 7, before a full house of 300+ at First United Methodist Church.
Carol Blazina, president of the Foothills Performing Arts Center board of direc-tor, stacks cans of food in the Atrium during the “Day of Giving” Sunday, Dec. 8. Behind her are volunteers Roxana Hurlburt and Mitch Lynch.
Dancer Rose Wake performs in the window of Tina Marie’s Salon after the lighting of the com-munity tree, as Isabella Giacomelli, 7, of Oneonta, watches in delight.
Amelia Mosher Campoli, 2, and Jamie Dono, 4, watch the toy trains spin at the History Center after the treelight-ing.
Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTAAll smiles, Alex Scheidelman of Oneonta carries son Christian, 3, from the Thursday, Dec. 5, Community Tree Lighting in packed Muller Plaza. Behind him, one of Santa’s helpers leads him back to his cottage, where he spent the rest of the evening listening to youngsters’ wishes. The evening was organized by MSO.
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HOMETOWN ViewsFRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2013
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Two of SUNY Oneonta’s five deans appointed during a reorganization announced in August lead the recessional: Susan Turell, left, head the School of Social Science; Ven-kat Sharma, right, heads the School of Natural and Math-ematical Sciences. Behind them are, respectively, Presi-dent Nancy Kleniewski and Provost Maria Thompson.
Assistant Professor Gwen Frank, lower left, poses with her elated students in the college’s Elementary Education & Reading pro-gram. They were among 335 Decem-ber grads honored at SUNY Oneonta’s Candidate Recognition Ceremony Sunday, Dec. 8, in Dewar Arena.
Oneonta grads included Cheryl Jean Parisian, pos-ing here with family members, from right, sister Lisa, mom and dad Cheryl and Steve, uncle and aunt Sid and Deb, boyfriend David Carman and grandparents Janice and Dave Currie.
Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
‘You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide
where to go.”JAMES JOHnSTOn, SUNY Oneonta Student Association presidentQuoting Dr. Seuss in during Dec. 8 address to December grads
POMP & ACCOMPLISHMENT
Sarah Anne Saggese, Oneonta, was among 15 master’s degree students honored at the ceremony.
Local members of the College Council, Joe Bernier, right, and David Brennan, were on hand for the ceremony.
Is it true that Samuel B. Morse noodled through his epoch-altering code in an upstairs
room at Cherry Valley’s Masonic Lodge?
That came to mind the other week, en route home from Phila-delphia and stopping at the I-81 Visitors Center just north of the state line, where there was a bro-chure, “Auburn’s Historic Home-town,” in the rack.
“The Mark of Mike Long” im-mediately came to mind.
The Oneonta city manager, before he was Poughkeepsie city manager, had spent 26 years in the City of Auburn, where his interest in historic preservation eventually flowered into history tourism.
Yes, he acknowledged later, many of the attractions in “Au-burn’s Historic Hometown” grew out of his tenure there.
•The flowering of history-related
tourism in The City on The Owas-
co began with then-First Lady Hillary Clinton’s 1998 visit, part of her “Save America’s Treasures” campaign, Long said.
Some 4,000 people were on hand when she appeared at Auburn’s Harriet Tubman home, where, pre-Civil War, the “Moses of Her People” plotted the free-ing of thousands from slavery and transporting them to Canada via the Underground Railroad.
Auburn built on that, promoting attractions that came to include the Willard Memorial Chapel (close to Long’s heart, it includes the only intact Louis Comfort Tiffany interior), a fancy Schine Theater, and the Seward House. (The lat-ter got a big boost last year from
Spielberg’s “Lincoln,” featuring a knockout performance by David Strathairn as Abe’s secretary of state.)
’Nuff said: If you picked up “Auburn’s Historic Hometown,” you’d likely want to visit.
•What does that mean for Otsego
County?Long pointed out the other
day that Binghamton takes credit as IBM’s natal place when, in fact, Big Blue’s origins were in Oneonta, where in 1900 Post-master Harlow Bundy raised the money from his neighbors for what became the International Time Clock Co.
When it eventually grew into
IBM, former congressman George W. Fairchild of Oneonta was first chairman of the board.
What’s more, the Fairchild mansion, (er, IBM Tourist Cen-ter), now the Masonic Temple at Grand Avenue and Main, is a time capsule: Fairchild’s books are un-touched in the sitting room, which also contains the original furniture.
Oneonta, “The Birthplace of IBM!”
•Another neglected opportunity
is James Fenimore Cooper Tour-ism, which used to be a big draw until Mark Twain sharpened his literary shiv. “Last of the Mohi-cans” can be a heavy read – how
Please See EDITORIAL, A6
Don’t We All Love To Visit ‘Birthplaces Of’? Look Around
Ian Austin/The Freeman’s JournalCity Manager Long takes trip to “Auburn’s Historic Hometown.”
ISSUE & DEBATE
Editor’s Note: This is a sequence of posts from the Sus-tainable Otsego listserve that followed the announcement of a repeat presentation of Lou Allstadt, Chip Northrup and others’ findings that there is insufficient natural gas in Otsego County for fracking to happen profitably.
From: Darla M. Youngs <[email protected]>Date: Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 4:46 PM
Save the Date: January 17, 2014Presentation: “New York Shale Gas Potential”Time and Location: 7 p.m. at The Foothills Per-
forming Arts Center, 24 Market Street, Oneonta (doors open at 6 p.m.)
Moderator: Prof. Anthony Ingraffea, Cornell UniversitySpeakers:• “Geographic Extent of New York Shale Gas Potential,”
James “Chip” Northrup, private investor• “Geologic Variables in Shale Gas Productivity,” Brian
Brock, geologist• “Forecasting Marcellus Productivity in New York,”
Jerry Acton, retired aerospace systems engineer• “New York Shale Gas Potential,” Lou Allstadt, retired
executive vice president, Mobil Oil•
From: Anne Marie GartiSent: Sunday, December 08, 2013 9:58 AMTo: [email protected]: Re: [Unconstitutional Pipeline] Fwd: Save the Date: “New York Shale Gas Potential”
People should consider boycotting or picketing this event, not promoting it.
The presentation is very one-sided, and never mentions any of the contradictory evidence. It also under-mines what many of us spend countless unpaid hours trying to accomplish – that we need to ban fracking, and stop the build-out of gas infrastructure. As an industry spokesman said in response to the last presentation, and I paraphrase: if
Please See DEBATE, A6
Listen To Frack FindingsOr Boycott Presentation?
Cooperstown’s Lou Allstadt, left, and Chip Northrup at Cornell Oct. 30, where they present-ed findings that, except for a strip west of Bing-hamton, there is too little natural gas in Upstate New York to be profitably fracked.
HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-5
Compiled by Tom HeiTz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2013
HOMETOWN History125 Years ago
Maternal influence: Why do men mostly part their hair on the left side? – Because they are brought up to it from infancy. A mother facing her boy always holds the comb in her right hand, and it being easiest to comb the hair left to right, she parts it on the left. The boy, when he grows up and is able to comb his own hair, finds the part on that side, and follows the line marked out by his mother. The wet snow of Saturday night weighted the wires to the extent that many were broken, and communica-tions in nearly all directions cut off. The colored folks’ ball on the evening of December 27 promises to be a great success. Many visitors from other towns are looked for. The merchants of Oneonta are now displaying a fine assortment of goods for holiday presents. Never before was there so great a variety. It is a good plan to make selections early.
December 1888
80 Years agoOneonta school pupils to the number of 1,000 will
take part in the annual Christmas music festival at the Oneonta Theatre Friday morning at 10 o’clock under the direction of Mrs. Iva Shutts. Parents and friends will be welcome to attend. World friendship is the theme of the program. Carols and folk songs of other nations will be sung by groups from the various schools. Authentic translations of the carols are sung. Because the music is the primary interest, no costum-ing or dramatization is used. Placed in a file on Mrs. Hazel Foster Brady’s desk in her office at the Community House is a stack of cards containing the names of persons for whom Christmas will be just another day unless some Oneontan helps to trans-form it into a “red letter occasion.” There are Oneontans, the executive secretary of the Family Welfare Association, believes, who are particularly anxious to aid persons less fortunate than themselves, but do not know whom to help, or how to spend their money for this purpose to the best ad-vantage. If they will send their money, no matter how small an amount, to Mrs. Brady, she will be glad to use it to make Christmas happy for those whose names she has listed.
December 1933
60 Years agoThe Yellowjackets of Oneonta High School got off to
a good start in the Iroquois League last night, defeating Herkimer High School 76 to 53. Coach Hurley McLean’s boys were sharp in the first two periods, running the score up to 48 to 21. But, in the last two periods, they were hard-pressed to keep up and were outscored 32 to 28. In the first three minutes of the game, Pete Axhoj was put on Caution
Street with four fouls and was taken out for a breather. Dick Vroman, who replaced Axhoj, heated up the hoop with eight baskets and did some fine rebounding. Dick Jacobs had 19 points and Lambros had 15. The Oneonta Jayvees, however, dropped a close one 44 to 40.
December 1953
40 YeArS AgOThe Oneonta Savings & Loan Association has moved
into its new main offices in the remodeled building across Wall Street from its former offices. The new offices, in the building that formerly housed Montgomery Ward and S&H Stamps, opened for business Monday. The old building at 54 Chestnut Street will be demolished next year. The land, adjacent to Huntington Park, will be used to expand the Savings & Loan’s parking facilities. The new quarters have 11,000 square feet of floor space, about twice what the old building had.
December 1973
In a further effort to protect President reagan and the White House from terrorism, the Secret Service has the ability to use ground-to-air missiles to shoot down suspicious aircraft flying near the White House without authorization, a source said Monday. The disclosure follows a series of steps to insulate the White House from terrorist attacks. The source said the Secret Service monitors aircraft flying into and out of nearby National Airport from a control center in the Old executive Office Building across a driveway from the White House. The monitoring is done in conjunction with the Federal Aviation Administration. An attack on the U.S. Marine Headquarters in Beirut that killed 240 servicemen and an attack on the U.S. embassy in Kuwait that killed four people have prompted steps to further protect the White House. Since the Beirut attack, the Secret Service has brought in dogs to sniff all incoming cars for explosives, even those of White House aides who park in the driveway.
December 1983
20 Years agoWith less than a month of fundraising left, the
United Way of Delaware and Otsego Counties has raised $237,839, almost 82 percent of its $290,000 goal. “Certainly we have the potential to make goal but we still need folks to get their pledges in before the end of the year,” said Kathy Lindberg, the agency’s executive director. employee campaigns, which make up 32 percent of the total campaign, have been very successful this year,” Lindberg said. All three of this year’s pace-setters – United Parcel Service, Deltown Specialties, and the 16 United Way membership agen-cies – met or exceeded their fund raising goals. Several employee campaigns, including Bassett Hospital, Fox
Hospital, and Hartwick College, will be coming in this month, according to Lindberg.
December 1993
10 Years agoThe efforts of an Oneonta third-grader to help those less
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DEBATE/From A4 there’s no gas in NY, then let us drill.
I was at a regional oil and gas summit a few weeks ago, filled with lawyers and fractivist leaders. It was almost unanimous that this road-show is a terrible idea.
If I had some free time I’d write a critique, but we have a pipeline to stop. That’s the pipeline that Cooperstown was ready to oppose until Lou Allstadt spoke, saying that the connection between pipelines and fracking is nonsense...
•From: rnied@ruralcom-
munities.orgDate: Sun, 8 Dec 2013
11:42:32 -0500
I agree with Anne Ma-rie. This presentation is highly flawed and
ignores historical evidence that geo-political instabil-ity can dramatically alter oil and gas markets, spike prices and make marginal fossil fuel sources attractive to those wishing to lever-age that instability for the sake of short-term profits. It wasn’t that long ago that the idea of shale gas extrac-tion was not considered feasible. I am not comforted or should you by claims that NY State is not a viable tar-get for fracking. It may not be this week but it certainly may be next year or the year after. Fracking is a reckless practice that is a real global threat...
Any presentation that claims fracking will never happen in Upstate NY while people are losing land to pipeline companies through eminent domain, or facing late night evacuation orders because of compressor station accidents can only be viewed as myopic and ignorant of any holistic un-derstanding of the gas/land exploitation scheme.
BoB NiED•
On Dec 8, 2013, at 9:37 PM, Ron Bishop wrote:
Friends, I have known Lou
Allstadt and Chip Northrup for a while now, and I have yet to see either of them ignore evidence (historical or otherwise) in any discussions or presen-tations. I haven’t known Jerry Acton as long, but his research approach is solid and his conclusions are ap-propriately conservative. I have never seen or heard
any of them suggest that we should relax our vigilance regarding the petroleum industry in any way, and I don’t share that part of your concern about their collec-tive message.
They have attempted to describe current realities to the best of their considerable abilities, now to face criti-cism from you and others who are inclined toward speculation about what could happen if... maybe....
I don’t find fault with anyone who is convinced of petroleum industry opera-tors’ nefarious intent (there is plenty of evidence for that), or those who are trou-bled by the many unsolved problems with petroleum transportation infrastructure – which, as I recall, Lou mentioned in his presenta-tion as an ongoing threat.
I find fault with the idea of boycotting an event dedi-cated to presenting current facts on the ground because they may be inconvenient truths for your cause.
RoN Bishop •
On Sunday, December 8, 2013, Carole Marner wrote:
Thank you. This divisive episode has been very troubling
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EDiToRiAl/From A4about a “translation” into the vernacu-lar? – but that Daniel Day-Lewis’ 1992 movie is an enduring hit demonstrates its modern-day power.
Bruce Shipman of Columbia’s emergence as senior spokesman for the many Natty Bumppo (David Shipman) descendants underscores how “The Birthplace of Natty Bumppo” lives, paradoxically, even in his Toddsville burial site.
There’s eternal Glimmerglass; there’s Natty Bumppo’s celebrated cave somewhere on its eastern shore; there’s Sunken Island of “Deerslayer” fame; there’s The Freeman’s Journal,
Hometown Oneonta’s sister founded by Cooper’s father. (Admission free; copies $1.)
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pletely ignored, (even though he, along with James Fenimore, was featured in David McCullough’s “The Greater Journey: Americans In Paris,” pub-lished just two years ago.)
Also a noted painter in his day, Morse’s most famous work, “Gallery of the Louvre,” hung first in Hyde Hall. And “The Birthplace of The Morse Code” is just a few miles up the road.
With the new year, Otsego County’s
tourism effort will be privatized under the mantra, “Heads in Beds.” The ef-fort, no doubt, will look to the Internet to fulfill its mission, but there’s work – content, it’s called these days – to be done at home.
Otsego County – with the Hall of Fame, Glimmerglass Opera, the NYSHA museums, Hyde Hall, Ommegang, etc., etc. – is already “sticky.” But our historic “birthplace of” headlines – of IBM, of Natty Bumppo, of the Morse Code – would make it even moreso.
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YMCA/From A1in a November interview. “It’s something we already do, and we thought we could help out.”
Lawson, operations man-ager, presented the proposal to four Common Council members on the Commu-nity Improvement Commit-tee Monday, Dec. 9. The proposal includes incorpo-rating the Wilber Park pool and Neahwa Park’s summer “drop-in” recreation pro-gram.
“We have childcare programs,” Russo had explained earlier. We give over 700 swimming lessons every year. We used to run a Y camp in Laurens. We have the experience.”
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The city would pay $65,000 to cover the cost of staffing and services for 2014.
To help with the cost, the YMCA also proposed the possibility of charging non-residents a fee for using the Wilbur Park pool. “We feel like the city’s taxpay-ers are footing the bill for non-residents to swim,”
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with expertise and a track record to re-structure the IDA with the new mission in mind, according to a press release from the senator’s office.
The consultant will also advise the IDA on the hiring of an economic-de-velopment director, and help train that new individual in what’s necessary to attract jobs, both from such in-state ef-forts as the nanotechnology initiatives in Albany, Utica and Binghamton, and elsewhere.
While that new director is being recruited and trained, the consultant will begin identifying future employ-ers to pursue and perhaps even start the pursuit, according to people at the meeting.
In his statement, Seward harkened back to his second “Economic Devel-opment Summit” Nov. 14 at Foothills: “One of the chief takeaways … was the need for a central point of contact that will serve as a vehicle to link outside economic entrepreneurs with internal Otsego County resources.
“The IDA, with some new person-nel, will take that lead role and I am confident we will excel,” the senator said.
The announcement resolves a debate that has been underway since Carolyn
Lewis, the county’s economic develop-er, announced in April that she would be resigning the job in August.
In a role that was described as “reac-tive,” the IDA, through its bonding authority, has enabled such projects as Springbrook’s $15 million expansion and the $15 million, 350-student Hill-side Commons housing complex near SUNY Oneonta.
While appreciating that role, county Rep. Betty Anne Schwerd, R-Ed-meston, the county board’s rep on the IDA, Miller and members of Citizen Voices, a pro-growth businesspeople’s group, argued for a more “pro-active” role in bringing jobs here.
“Now,” said Seward, “a definite course is established and we are pre-pared to embark on a new path toward future economic growth and prosperity in Otsego County.”
The interim IDA director since Lewis’ departure, Doug Gulotty, had argued for an inclusive economic-development initiative, and Seward embraced that as well.
“Along with the identified public agencies, I fully expect that other es-sential allies, such as the Otsego and Cooperstown chambers of commerce, Citizen Voices, the Greater Oneonta Economic Development Council (GO-EDC), (Mayor Miller’s) Oneonta
Community Alliance, and other groups will be integral to our ultimate success.
“Otsego County’s stakeholders are committed to working collectively for the greater good. There is bona fide energy, excitement and expectations coming together and I feel we are on the cusp of a true breakthrough that will pay long-term dividends,” the senator said.
Key players at the meeting also ex-pressed satisfaction at the outcome.
“I’m happy that people are stepping up to the plate, recognizing the need and working together for the common good,” said Clark, the county board chair who was reelected by a landslide Nov. 5 in her Otego-Laurens district.
Said Miller: “The IDA board, work-ing with Doug, moved a long way from their initial position from not wanting to be at the center to willing to be at the center … I couldn’t be more delighted. From my perspective, it’s exactly the right thing to do. We’re in a good place now.”
“I think the results are positive,” said Bob Harlem, Citizen Voices co-founder and new OCDC president. “I think everybody is starting to line up. Everybody’s working together. It’s very rewarding to see everybody pool-ing their energies.”
SKATES/From A1he describes as, yes, a skateboard shop and mu-seum.
Robinson, a 2007 SUNY Delhi grad, was inspired by Skatopia in Rutland, Ohio, and the Skatelab in Santa Cruz, Calif.
While the enterprise is a work in progress, Robinson said his collection of vintage skate decks, added to skate-boards and related apparel, gave The Museum Skate Shop its name.
“I want to show the his-tory of skateboarding,” he said. “It’s about bringing skate culture to Oneonta.”
It’s a passion that dates back to Robinson’s high school years, when a friend taught him to skate in their Brooklyn neighborhood. “My best friend, Patrick Chonas, he was THE skater,” Robinson said. “He
helped me buy my first board, taught me how to skate. I’m not the best, but I’m all right.”
He plans on using these skills to set up skateboard-ing clinics, where he’ll teach new skaters proper tech-nique and safety. “My plan is to start a skate team,” he said. “The skate park needs work, and I want to help fix it. It needs more obstacles, a better rail, a real half-pipe.”
Robinson is also working on finishing the downstairs workshop, where skaters can customize their boards with paint, stencils and stickers. “I want to help keep kids out of trouble,” he said. “I want them to be productive. They can come down here, hang out, work on their boards.”
And while he sets up the museum, he’s using the wall space to showcase work by local artists.
IDA Joins Seward In Pro-Active Ec-Dev StrategySkateboard Store Museum, Too
BRESEE’S/From A1department store windows. Twice a year, Vechtold would go down to a ware-house in New York City to purchase parts for the displays.
“He took my sister Lynne and I once,” said his daugh-ter, Sue Eliot, a 1962 OHS grad now living in Sequim, Wash. “It was 15 floors of fantasy land!”
The girls’ mother, Carol, also helped, sewing flannel nightshirts and aprons for some of the figures. “I’m sure she repurposed some of our old clothes,” said Sue.
Like so many others, she was dismayed when she heard Bresee’s had closed. “It broke my heart to think that those figures had been thrown away,” she said.
What she didn’t know was that Bob and Carol Whitling bought the figures at the auction that followed after Bresee’s 1994 closing and, after a time, donated
them to the manor. In 2010, Elaine and Marc
Bresee donated additional figures they had stored at their home. “I was holding onto them for sentimental reasons,” said Elaine. “It was hard to let them go — but when I saw how beautiful the ones they had looked, how much people enjoyed them, we donated ours.”
It was a chance en-counter with “Big Chuck” D’Imperio that helped reunite Sue with her father’s creations. “He told me where they were, and I was so excited, I just started crying,” she said. “They let me go down in the store-room to see them, and sent me pictures of the display at Christmas.”
“Those figures brought the windows to life,” said Elaine. “It makes me so happy to see people enjoy-ing them. I know they’ll be taken care of forever.”
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ONEONTA – Michael A. Swiderski, 45, who repre-sented the City of Oneonta’s Wards 5 and 6 on the Otsego County Board of Repre-sentative when he was in his 30s, died suddenly on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013, of a heart attack.
Mike was born in Oneonta on Feb. 9, 1968, to Janis R. Bigwood-Swiderski and Eliguisz Swiderski. He was educated in Oneonta schools, graduating from Oneonta High School and
attending SUNY Oneonta. He married Michelle
Shultis of Schenevus and to-gether they created a family with Andrew Michael and Jameson Edmund.
After running his fam-ily business, Country Club Liquors, Mike joined Opici Wine Co. of New York, East
Syracuse, as a wine and liquor consultant.
In addition to Andrew and Jamie of Schenevus and their mother, Michelle Shultis-Swiderski, survivors include his mother, Janis Swiderski of Largo, Fla., and two sisters, Emilia Borelli and her husband, Nicholas,
and their son, Cooper, and Dr. Marianne Soden and her son, Justin.
Calling hours were Wednesday, Dec. 11, at Grummons Funeral Home. A funeral mass was planned at 10:15 a.m. on Thurs-day, Dec. 12, at St. Mary’s Church in Oneonta.
ONEONTA – Robert W. Riddell Sr., 81, a retired chicken farmer and an or-dained deacon in the Baptist church, passed away Thurs-day, Dec. 5 at his home.
Born on the Ouleout in Meridale on Jan. 12, 1932, to parents Neil and Mary (White) Riddell, Bob moved away from home at age 11. He met his future wife, Mary Elizabeth Odell, at 15 while attending Frank-lin Central School. After graduation, they married on April 1, 1951. Their first child, Leta Mae, was born 10 months later.
Scrappy and hardwork-ing, Bob spent time as a butcher, carpenter, mailman, farmer, landowner and later milk-hauler and entrepre-
neur.In 1952,
Bob ven-tured into the chicken business, starting with 8,000 egg-laying birds. By 1961, he had grown the busi-ness more
than six times to 53,000 started pullets. With his own hands, he both built the chicken houses the new birds were caged in, and helped renovate his own expanding family’s home.
In 1963, Bob bought a Chevy truck, and with it a business delivering bagged shavings to area farmers.
That purchase laid the foun-dation for the milk-hauling firm Riddell Brothers. One of Bob’s greatest joys in life was working alongside his son, Robert W. Riddell Jr., so in 1981 he decided to leave chicken farming permanently, to help Bobby run the new company.
Bob gave his life to the Lord and was baptized in 1958 at the First Baptist Church in Oneonta. As his belief in Christ grew, he preached and taught God’s Word as a lay minister and Sunday school teacher.
Bob and Mary resided on Southside Drive from 1951 to 2003. In retirement, he and Bobby restored the old one-room schoolhouse on Southside.
He served on the Daven-port Town Board and was a trustee for the Oneonta Plains Cemetery. The Rid-dells were retired in In-verness, Fla., from 2003 to 2012. In 2004, Bob became an ordained deacon at Cor-nerstone Baptist Church in Inverness, where he served and taught an adult Sunday school class.
In 2012, the couple moved back home to Oneonta, where he served briefly at Wesleyan South-side Church. He taught his last Sunday school class and preached his last sermon on Labor Day Sunday 2013.
In addition to his wife of 62 years, Mary of Oneonta, he is survived by three children, Leta Newhart of
Whitehall, Pa., Robert W. Riddell Jr. and wife Carolee of Okatie, S.C., and Dorothy Iannello and husband Chuck of South New Berlin; a sister, Martha Edwards and husband Ted of Sidney, and a brother, Neil Riddell and wife Linda of Otego. Also,
seven grandchildren.The funeral was Tues-
day, Dec. 10 at the Baptist Church. Burial was in the Oneonta Plains Cemetery.
Arrangements were en-trusted to Lewis, Hurley & Pietrobono Funeral Home.
Robert W. Riddell, Sr., 81, Retired Farmer, Ordained Baptist Deacon
