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Volume 6, No. 31

City of The Hills

HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST CIRCULATION NEWSPAPER2010 WINNER OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD

Veterinarian’s New ClinicIncluding Animal Rescue

Charter makersreturn to Fray

MAYOR SEEKS INPUT IN JUNE

THE HEIGHTOF FASHION

Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTAProfessor Falk at Smith lecture.

County Roadwork

They See AdviceAs Way To HelpCity Governance

ChairmanZimniewicz

potholes, potholes,potholes, and newBridge on rt. 11C

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Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTAThat’s one way to get going in the morning! Here, Meg Perez models a dress made of coffee filters and bright beads.

NY Barns Inspire, Prize-Winning Professor DeclaresBy LIBBY CUDMORE

Dr. Cindy Falk’s 20th annual Su-san Sutton Smith Prize lecture, “Barns of New York,” drew a

bigger crowd than anyone was antici-pating.

Students and public packed SUNY Oneonta’s Morris Conference Center Thursday, April 17, sitting on piano

benches and coffee tables as staff tried to pack more chairs into rows. “It’s a thrill to see this many people here,” said SUNY Oneonta Presi-dent Nancy Kleniewski. “We’ve never had a crowd like this be-fore.”

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The expanded Oneonta Vet-erinary Hospi-tal has wildlife rehabilitation services for little ones like Squirley at its East Main Street locale/SEE A3

At the SUNY Oneonta Human Ecology Depart-

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By JIM KEVLIN

Here they come to save the day...

The Charter Commission, which brought the city’s 100-year-old founding document into the 21st Cen-tury, is headed back into the breach.

“They only have the best in mind for Oneonta,” said Laurie Zimniewicz, a former commission member who ac-cepted Mayor Dick

Miller’s invitation to chair a commit-tee to review the new charter in the wake of City Manager Mike Long’s resignation. “They want Oneonta to succeed in all ways. I’m looking for-ward to working with them again.”

The “they” Zimniewicz is Please See CHARTER, A7

By LIBBY CUDMORE

Travelers trying to take Hartwick Seminary’s Route 11C bridge across the

Susquehanna will find that the bridge saga is not over yet.

Completing repairs to the former truss bridge damaged March 20, 2013, when a 13-foot, 4-inch tall truck carrying bottles bound for Ommegang became entangled in the 10-foot, 3-inch structure, tops county Highway Supt. Ron Tiderencel’s to-do list for 2014.

In January, temporary approaches were laid down to get the bridge reopened for traffic, but with spring

Please See COUNTY, A6

Ioxus PlansSecond Plant,30 New Jobs

Ioxus is planning a second production site in Pony Farm Industrial

Park in the Town of Oneonta and will hire 30 new people, the company announced.The news follows the company’s announcement that the Long Island Railroad plans to use Ioxus ultraca-pacitors to provide wayside traction power in its system.The Pony Farm building had previously been used by Covidien for storage.

$300 SCHOLARSHIP: The Reminiscers’ Car Club of Oneonta is offer-ing a $300 scholarship to a graduating senior planing to pursue further education in automobile repair/restora-tion. Application forms at ONC BOCES or from Dick Powell, 431-9029. Winner to be announced at Reminis-cers’ 40th Annual Car Show on Fathers’ Day, Sunday, June 15, at Neahwa Park.

FUNDING FUN: Apply by Friday, May 20, for Arc Otsego Summer Wishes Fit & Fun Recreation Grants, up to $250. Applications are www.arcotsego.org

Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTAOneonta’s Andrew Stanton and his sister Jennifer pick up trash around the viaduct Saturday, April 19, part of a neighborhood clean-up organized by the Oneonta YMCA Teen Center in honor of Earth Day. The group collect-ed seven bags of trash from the embankment leading to the railroad tracks.

A Grandmom’s JourneyMOLLY SWAIN TRAVELS 6,612 MILES TO MEET NEWBORN/B1

A-2 HOMETOWN ONEONTA FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2014HOMETOWN People

IN JAPAN: Mason Tif-fany of Worcester is one of 38 SUNY Oneonta stu-dents studying abroad this semester. Tiffany, a junior majoring in economics, is at Seinan Gakuin University in Japan.

POET HONORED: Hartwick College senior Elizabeth Greco has won the English & Theatre Arts Department’s Anna Sonder Prize of the Academy of American Poets for the second year for the sonnet, “Fire and Stars.”

Logan PondolfinoThird In States,Next, Nationals

Logan Pondolfino of Oneonta placed third in the carpentry

category at the 14th annual state Postsecondary (college level) SkillsUSA competi-tion March 29-30 at SUNY Alfred’s School of Applied Technology, Wellsville.

Pondolfino will represent SUNY Delhi in the National SkillsUSA Championship at the National Leadership and Skills Conference in Kansas City in June. The champion-ship is the showcase for the best career and technical students in the nation.

More than 12,500 students, teachers, education leaders, and representatives from more than 1,000 national cor-porations, trade associations, businesses and labor unions attend the event.

HITE HONORED: Alys-sa Hite of Morris has been named a member of SUNY Delhi’s Hotel Management Society for the 2013-2014 academic year. She is majoring in Hotel & Resort Management.

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The Oneonta Veterinary Center hadn’t even cut the ribbon on

their new expansion yet, and already, they had a new patient.

two girls had found a baby squirrel lying in the middle of Chestnut street by Motel 88 and had taken two buses across town to bring it to Dr. Joan Puritz, who recently received her wildlife rehabili-tation license. “It’s a good omen,” Puritz said as she mixed a tiny bottle of kitten formula to feed the squirrel. “But I’ll be up all night with this girl.”

the vet clinic, which moved into the former Polar scoops Ice Cream Parlor at 525 Main st. in December 2012, on Wednesday, April 16, opened its new expan-sion, adding five new exam rooms and a downstairs with a kitchen, shower and futon. “Our doctors are on call 24/7,” said stacy Long, practice manager. “this way, they can cook for themselves or they can catch a nap before they drive home.”

the expanded space will allow them to continue practicing more holistic forms of pet medicine. “We do a neoplasene herb treatment for dog cancer,” she said. “It’s not widely used. It kills all the cells, bad and good, but we used it to treat a dog with bone cancer, and a year and a half later, he’s still alive. He had only been given six months to live before that.”

The office also offers veter-inary acupuncture for animal pain management, as well a stem-cell therapy. “We’ve made dogs who can’t walk walk again,” she said.

Puritz is also a certified Level One Reiki healer. “I use it a lot in diagnosis,” she said. “I can tell where an ani-mal is hurting. there’s more than one way to diagnose and treat, and I’m open to those avenues.”

It’s all a part of the larger holistic movement, she said. “People are taking better care of themselves, so they want to take better care of their animals.”

Wildlife rehabilitation is another specialty of the clinic. they’ve rehabilitated squirrels, strays, even baby pigeons. “they were very cute,” she said.

Puritz, who also owns Crescent Pet Lodge on Win-ney Hill Road, was one of the vets called in to take care of dogs seized in the January

2012 raid on southside Ken-nels, where 22 malnourished dogs were removed from the property.

“If someone finds some-thing, they can bring it to us, day or night,” said Puritz. “We work with a lot of other rehabilitators, so we’ve got a nice network.”

“squirley” as Puritz named her, will soon be strong enough to be released outside, first in a nesting box, and then out into land behind her house. “I haven’t done that part before,” she said.

Vet Clinic Adds Wildlife Rehabilitation, Acupuncture

Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTADr. Puritz cuts ribbon on expanded clinic.

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HOMETOWN ViewsFRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2014

EDITORIAL

LETTERS

From the New York State ArchivesFamily members pause from their labors at Hop City, south of today’s Otsego Manor, that was so big it included stores and a municipal court dur-ing the crop’s heyday in the late 19th century.

Cooper

Even Welcome was a wasteland.

In that Town of Pittsfield crossroads hamlet, James Fenimore Cooper’s grandson found only one sizeable home, occupied by a solitary widow, her chil-dren gone, who stayed there, it seems, only out of habit and memory.

Pick up and review your copy of “The Legends and Traditions of a Northern

County” by the younger James Fenimore Cooper, the 1920 memoir of Otsego County he wrote for his own grandchil-

dren, and mostly you’ll find decrepitude.

As Cooper, a partner in Cooper Erving & Savage, the Albany law firm, tra-verses the county in leisure hours, driving – or when, often, the roads are too far gone, on horseback – he finds overgrown fields, landscapes empty of hu-man activity, old mansions vacant, with unsecured front doors creaking in the wind. Oh my.

And this picture of failure and flight, almost a century ago, his founding great-grandfather’s dream shattered, was before the

national recession in agri-culture of the 1920s. What happened?

•After 108 pages of this,

the sun suddenly shines. “For years,” he writes, “hops made this country rich, and built many of the great farmhouses still stand-ing … Extraordinary profits were made and it was not unusual for a hop grower to make the value of his farm out of one crop.”

Happy hops, and Otsego’s “were considered the best-grown in the world.” It cost 12 cents to produce a pound, and prices rose to $1.60. Buyers came from “everywhere,” and thou-sands of pickers at harvest time who raised local fears of lawlessness. “Much hard liquor was absorbed and the usual number of free fights resulted,” Cooper writes.

Now largely forgotten, he describes Jimmy Clark’s “Hop City,” just south of Cooperstown where the Toddsville Road comes into Route 28, and stretching east to Phoenix Mills across those fields south of Otsego Manor.

Alas, “then the change

came; it was found that infe-rior hops could be grown on the Pacific Coast and else-where. Our Otsego growers were undersold and gradu-ally the hop industry shrank; the growers failed and the yards were plowed up.

“…The days when ‘Hops were King’ were the Golden Age of Otsego County. With the collapse came pov-erty to many. Farms were abandoned money loaned on them was lost.”

•Suddenly, though, a sec-

ond Golden Age of Hops is in reach.

The driver is the national trend toward craft beer – itself part of a consumer shift toward “artisanal food” and “value added” farm products. Not every-one can afford a $1 million one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan, but pretty much everybody can afford a high-quality glass of beer.

And rarely a week goes by without another piece of the local hops’ revival fall-ing into place.

Brewery Ommegang’s success and the national ex-pansion plans of its parent, the Belgian Duvel Moortgat,

is one much heralded piece. Ommegang began grow-

ing hops last year, and a half-dozen county farmers are doing the same, with more to follow. That piece is being driven by neigh-boring Madison County, where Cooperative Exten-sion Agent Steve Miller has become the expert for the historic six-county Central New York hops-growing region.

•Another driver is the

2012 state Farm Brewery Law, which requires that, by 2024 – just 10 years from now – in-state microbrewer-ies get 90 percent of their raw materials – hops, barley, wheat, yeast – from New York State farms.

Locally, GO-EDC, Albert Colone and Bill Shue’s Greater Oneonta Economic Development Committee, has led the conversation, bolstered now by a paral-lel effort by Mayor Dick Miller’s Oneonta Alliance. One outgrowth: Carly Ficano, the Hartwick Col-lege economics professor, is completing a master plan for hops’ local revival.

Ficano is coordinating with Rebecca Morgan, exec-utive director of CADE (the Center for Agricultural De-velopment & Entrepreneur-ship), who has focused on a dramatic figure: There is $1 billion in unmet demand for craft beer and artisanal

foods in New York City alone. Sandy Mathes, the county’s new “single point of contact” for economic development, is exploring a local “food hub” that will connect with a regional hub in the Hudson Valley that will feed into Gotham’s markets.

And to ensure an expert workforce for the hops re-vival, Hartwick College has launched a Center for Craft Food & Beverage.

•And, then, what happened

earlier this month can’t be celebrated enough. Lou Hager Jr., Town of Otsego, the Anheuser Busch heir, announced his Northern Eagle Beverage distributor-ship in Oneonta had pur-chased the Milford-based Cooperstown Brewing Co. from Chuck Williamson’s Butternuts Brewery.

Northern Eagle is about to break ground on a new building in West Oneonta, where it plans to add the county’s first pelletizer. That will allow local hops crops, including a sizeable tract Hager is about to plant in Pierstown, to be con-verted into stable pellets that can be easily stored for later brewing use.

That completes the circle, from farmer to brewer to customer. Sit tight, Wel-come: Cooper’s “Golden Age of Otsego County” is about to happen again.

To review Hartwick pro-fessor Carly Ficano’s “Greater Otsego Coun-

ty Hops Feasibility Report,” follow the link from:

WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM

Otsego County’s 2nd ‘Golden Age Of Hops’ About To Happen

To the Editor:On May 20, we will be

asked to vote on approval of the Cooperstown Central School budget.

This year there will be a second separate proposi-tion to be voted upon. The vote to approve funding for the Village Library of Cooperstown and the Kinney Memorial Library of Hartwick is somewhat confusing.

In the past, the towns of Middlefield and Otsego, the Village of Cooperstown and CCS have been the primary fund providers for the Cooperstown Village Library.

The Town of Hartwick has provided most of the support for the Kinney Me-morial Library.

Based on this proposition, the service area for the two libraries will be primarily the same as the geographi-cal boundaries of the school district.

This does not mean that the libraries are becoming part of the school system. They will both remain as independent municipal libraries.

It does mean that a new tax will be created and that the school district will be given the task of collect-ing that tax. In fact, very few new dollars are being requested.

The support that is presently coming from the towns, the Village of Cooperstown and CCS will no longer be needed, result-ing in tax saving for those entities. The end result of this proposition is a more equitable distribution of sup-port and more stable funding for both libraries.

I ask for your support for the Library Proposition on May 20.

TOM SELOVERMember

Board of Directors Cooperstown Library

Vote For Library Funding

Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTAU.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-19th, hosted a forum Monday, April 21, at Richfield Springs Central School, where the top issue to emerge was how the county’s Route 20 corridor might ben-efit from the state’s $1 billion nanotechnology investment at SUNY/IT, north of Utica. Attendees included state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, foreground, and at left, county Board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, and Sandy Mathes, the county’s “single point of contact” economic developer. Inset is Richfield Town Supervisor Fran Enjem.

NANOTECHNOLOGY FOCUS OF RICHFIELD FORUM

UUP Oneonta is concerned that serious and perhaps escalating challenges confront adjuncts,

part-time professionals and contin-gents. Fiscal matters, enrollment man-agerment and evolving decisions have the potential to reduce UUP employee numbers in those categories.

This is a time for vigilance and clarity. UUP strongly asserts that any reduction in the number of adjuncts, part-time professionals and contin-gents should come about only through attrition. Moreover, the union and its members must continue to advocate for respect, resources and fair compen-

sation for adjuncts, part-time profes-sionals and contingents.

This is the concern of all of us. Division between full-time and part-time UUPers or between academic and professional employees will fragment all of us. There is strength in solidarity, as was evident Wednesday, March 12.

UUP had issued a call for a meeting that day to its adjunct, professional, part-time and contingent employees – and their advocates. Due to the high numbers who responded, we moved from the UUP office to another room, and even that space filled to capacity.

In addition, others who were pre-

cluded from attending due to sched-ule conflicts either e-mailed, phoned or face-to-face articulated ideas and concerns both before and after the meeting.

It was agreed that a summary of the concerns and ideas would appear in the Sentinel (the UUP publication). However, no names or identifying in-formation about attendees would leave the room. Within a supportive atmo-sphere, significant issues were raised.

Bill Simons is president of the SUNY Oneonta chapter of the United

University Professions.

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HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-5 FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2014

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

60 Years ago125 Years agog.H. st. John, representing a.C. Couch, president of the

Oneonta and Richfield Springs railroad company, made Oneonta a visit in the interest of the proposed railroad on Tuesday. It is a singular fact that notwithstanding both from the name of the company and the commercial importance of Oneonta the town would naturally be supposed to be one of the first places the projection of the line would visit. How-ever, this was the first time a representative of the company had been to Oneonta, the plan being to work from Richfield down. However, the newspapers have been alive to what has transpired along the route of the proposed road. Mr. St. John was agreeably surprised to find such a hearty interest mani-fested in the project on every side. Contrary to what was half-suspected, he found the Delaware & Hudson Company were in no wise opposed to the new line, and he also found the citizens of Oneonta ready to lend substantial encouragement.

April 1889

100 Years agoMrs. George W. Fairchild, wife of Representative

Fairchild of New York has a business ability, which if she had been a man would probably have made her a captain of finance. With characteristic modesty Mrs. Fairchild overlooks this fact whenever she is asked for information regarding her. But the truth concerning her may always be had upon the good authority of her husband who gives her credit in a large measure for his success as a businessman. He advises and consults with her on all business matters and does not hesitate to say that he values her sagacity and her judgment as highly as those of any man of his acquain-tance. Before her marriage Mrs. Fairchild was Josephine Mills Sherman, niece of the late Joseph G. Mills of New York. Executive and business ability in a woman are usually arguments for woman suffrage. Mrs. Fairchild is anti-suf-frage in her sympathies. She believes a woman’s influence will in no wise be strengthened by the right of franchise and that woman’s sphere is full of undeveloped opportunities for all woman kind.

April 1914

80 Years agoA fast six-inning game featured the Oneonta High School

baseball drill yesterday afternoon at Neahwa Park. Scoring five runs in the final inning gave the “A” squad a close vic-

tory over the “B” group. The winners lined up with Barry, first base; Mastro, second base; Ritchko, shortstop; Cerra, third base; Nader, left field; Bertuzzi, center field; Munson, right field; Munson, catcher; Genberg and Piper, pitchers. Team “B” consisted of Lorraine, first base; Super, second base; Swart, shortstop; Goodrich, third base; A. Nader,

Bockes and Gardner, outfielders; Brown, catcher; Reynolds and Hebert, pitchers. During the workout, Coach Harold Hunt shifted players on each squad. Labrit, the flashy Cuban, suffered a badly sprained finger in practice Monday afternoon and was unable to participate. Labrit, who is ex-pected to win a regular position in the outfield, will be back in uniform by the end of the week.

April 1934

40 Years agoTuesday was a good day for Oneonta High School track and

Field competitors who met STAC rival Susquehanna Valley and posted an 85-55 victory. In the mile relay – Mike Pidgeon, Steve Parisian, Mitsu Iwanag and Tim Clapp – were timed at 3:56.8. Iwanaga was first in the 880 with a time of 2:15.2. Oneonta’s John Wertam won the pole vault with a 10’6” mark. Craig Tirrell was first in the long jump with a leap of 16’11” plus. Jim Fruscella heaved the discus 151’ 10”. Fruscella was also first in the triple jump at 36’ 2.5”. Rich Walling won the 100 yard dash in 11.2 seconds. Paul Laymon topped the high jump bar at 5’6”. Stu Gardner won the two-mile heat in 10.52. Brice Nichols took the 440 in 55.9.

April 1974

30 Years agoFrom the Shui Mai to the fortune cookies, Joe Poon

provided a memorable meal for Oneontans Wednesday evening. It was his way of saying thank-you to the people, the church, and the college that helped him when he was a struggling SUNY undergraduate. Poon now operates the Sang Kee Peking Duck House in Philadelphia, Penn. but he has kept close ties with Oneonta.

April 1984

20 Years agoEric Goddard, recently named Oneonta High School’s

Student of the month for March, approaches his future dif-ferently from some of his peers. “I’m confident God will put me in the best position to help people that I can,” he said. Goddard was cited for his work as a volunteer line judge in the Susquenango League for volleyball games.

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MOTIVATED SELLER BRING ALL OFFERS! This home is one of the nicest properties offered in the town of Oneonta. Cedar-sided chalet offers 3 BRs—master BR has private ½ bath. Home also features Wood-Mode® kitchen, wood-burning fireplace in LR w/loft. Large finished walk-out basement is great for entertaining or could easily be converted to a mother-in-law apt. Basement is bright w/Andersen sliding glass doors leading to beautifully manicured lawn w/magnolia tree, apple tree, weeping willow. Large pond w/retaining wall and fish. Huge 2-car garage w/storage room underneath. Relax on the wrap-around deck w/views of the pond and Oneonta Country Club. With over 1½ acres of land there is plenty of room for a garden and outdoor activities. $169,900 MLS#92737

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Cottage with otsego Lake AccessThis very sweet cottage is in move-in condition w/most furnishings

being negotiable. Everything has been redone. Nicely renovated kitchen w/maple cabinets, pine breakfast bar leading into DR which has doors to the deck w/a privacy fence and lake views.

LR area has lake-view window and woodstove. 2 BRs and full bath. Lower level has a pine-paneled room for storage or perhaps extra sleeping space. Lake access is at Hickory Grove Point as well as a 5’ lake right-of-way on Lake Shore Drive. This darling cottage is

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COUNTY/From A1weather and summer traffic approaching, the bridge was once again closed Monday, April 21, for final repairs.

“We have to pave the approaches and cut grooves into the concrete,” said Tiderencel. “The grooves slow down drivers and keeps water off the bridge so cars don’t slide.”

Workers will then seal the bridge, put in the approach joints and clean the property for the road’s residence. Weather permit-ting, Tiderencel believes the bridge will be open again in two weeks.

The season’s second major job is a Hot-In-Place Recycling surface treatment on Route 34 in the Town of Roseboom, head-ing south from South Valley.

The process, which heats asphalt with a rejuvenating oil and stone treatment, is one of the annual ongoing restoration projects for the county.

“We can’t do all the roads in one year, so we do a little here, a little there, all over,” he said.

Every day, county highway workers will also be patching potholes. “The potholes are never-ending,” he said. “With the

constant freeze-thaw cycle, it was a rough winter for our roads.”

And when those projects are finished, Tiderencel said, the crews will be working on road shoulders, ditches and cutting down trees. “The normal maintenance we do,” he said.

With the exception of the 11C bridge project, Tiderencel says no roads will be closed.

NEXT WEEK: City of Oneonta’s street projects for this summer.

FALK/From A1trustee), said a guide to the state’s barns, suggested by The Farmers’ Museum, wasn’t one she would have chosen on her own.

But the winner of the $1,000 prize soon warmed up to the idea: “My family got used to me yelling, ‘Pull over, I need to take a picture of this!’ when we were in the car.”

Similar guides exist for New England and Pennsyl-vania, but not as much in New York. “These barns are such familiar sights,” she told the gathering in the Craven Lounge. “We need to bring more attention to them.”

For they are disappearing. In 2010, when her project was just beginning, Falk took a picture of a barn on Route 20 near Bouckville; in 2012, when she drove by it again, it was all but demol-ished.

With help from her stu-dents, who helped with re-search and photographs, she published “Barns of New York: Rural Architecture of the Empire State” (Cornell University Press, 2012).

Inside a barn in Tully, On-ondaga County, she found bins stacked to the ceiling. “I was stumped,” she said. “But one of my students found a book with illustra-tions of a ‘New York-style Cabbage House’ – it turns out we’re the third largest

cabbage producer in the country!”

In another barn she found a downstairs room (for pigs), an upstairs with slats for ventilation (to keep corn dry) and a front room with a chimney. “I figured out that they used the oven to boil the corn, which is what you do when you’re trying to fatten pigs for market quickly. It’s a very func-tional building.”

As agriculture evolved, so did the buildings. “When there was an outbreak of typhoid, dairy producers had to get a certain num-ber of points from a dairy inspector before they could take milk to market,” she said. “The inspector gave points for adding a milk house to a barn, and if that milk house had windows, and if those windows had screens. It changed not only what farmers thought about their products, but also the

government’s place in pro-tecting their consumers.”

The restoration of historic barns is eligible for a tax credit under the Farmer’s Protection & Farm Preserva-tion Act.

“All of this is important because we still feel the effects of our agricultural heritage in the present,” she said. “The market value of our agriculture is $5 million. We’re second in the nation for apples and maple syrup, fourth for milk. It’s impor-tant to think of how these buildings can still work for New York.”

More than that, Falk said, it’s about the place of historic barns in our col-lective psyche. “We need to think about the value of these places,” she said. “They can inspire paintings and photographs, they have a nostalgic quality. They’re our emotional, our spiritual resources.”

Documenting Disappearing BarnsGains Professor Top SUNY Prize

County Crew Focused On Completing 11C Bridge

Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTAChad Fancher, New Century Con-struction, Watervliet, washes down new Route 11C span.

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CHARTER/From A1referring to are the original Charter Commission mem-bers, who soldiered through 2010 and 2011 in revising the city’s 1908 charter to include, among other innovations, the position of city manager. Miller has asked all of them to serve on the new charter-review committee, and nine of 11 agreed.

Voters approved the new charter in November 2011, it took effect Jan. 1, 2012, and Long, a veteran city manager from Auburn and Poughkeep-sie, was hired as City Hall’s first professional executive that October. At the end of March, however, Long an-nounced after only 18 months that he is retiring, sparking a round of City Hall self-scru-tiny.

In an interview, Zimnie-wicz was praiseful of Long’s accomplishments, but she, as well as Miller and others interviewed, said the challenge now is to ensure the city-manager position is structured correctly to help ensure the next city manager will succeed long term.

The mayor, at the Tuesday, April 15, Common Council meeting called to discuss the Long success, proposed the committee and since, Zim-niewicz said, the issued the invitation to the 11 Charter Commission members.

Two, Karen Geasey and Tom Kelley, citing other obligations, have demurred. But the other nine – profes-sors, businesspeople and civic leaders – have agreed to take on the task.

They are the original commission’s chair, Dave Rissberger, and Larry Malone, both now Common Council members. Also, John Du-dack, Martha Forgiano, Steve Londner, Sarah Patterson, Paul Scheele and Kay Stuligross.

Miller said he is convinced Zimniewicz is the right chair “by her demonstrated interest, and by her passion and energy, and longevity in the communi-ty, and being active in so many different ways – this was the person to take this project on.”

The new chair, who is returning to the city this week after a two week getaway, said she expects Miller will – or already has – asked Kathy Wolverton, City Hall’s HR director, to again act as liaison between the former commis-sion members and Common Council.

Zimniewicz, a one-time teacher, then a marketing and business consultant, now the principal in Z Solutions (and a recent appointee to the Fox

Hospital board), said she ex-pects to convene a first meet-ing the week of April 28.

Miller said he hopes the committee can report its rec-ommendations by the end of June, to have maximum influ-ence on the hiring of Long’s successor. Zimniewicz did not object to that, but said the process will take as long as it must to come up with the right recommendations.

After what he character-ized as a cursory review of the charter, Miller identified three areas for consideration:

• One, creating a deputy city manager position to help shoulder the responsibilities.

• Two, adjusting budget deadlines and responsibilities (now, the city manager, not the budget director under the city manager’s guidance, is primar-ily responsible for budget

preparation).• Three, renaming the Parks

& Recreation Department as simply the Parks Department to reflect a new reality: With the Oneonta Family Y, the Oneonta Outlaws and others assuming programming re-sponsibilities, the department’s new focus is maintaining facilities.

The two Council mem-bers who are on the charter committee, Rissberger and Malone, didn’t object to those areas of consideration. How-ever, both pointed out that the charter gives Common Coun-cil considerable leeway to make operational adjustments without having to take the document back to the voters.

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