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No. S8 Vbtum& P.o. Box 1097. Oneonta. N.Y. 13820 Aprils. 1^95 Complimentary . , j M b r n t M e e m g FteeRaSeMBfc B Honeer St^ Coopa^wB. t o c o n i i n i t t e e coaeE R S rbw i) -B a s e u tm aiu»Bi!!^ file adkliBon of fcmr new membeis to the Coopststown Community Advisoty Committee. Hie Committee, whicti has beat meeting mmnhly for mme than wo yearn, hriap public titles ond emusmns ID the aoen- ttonof Bassett administraium and pnnddes the public with accurate inftBiirakin atwot B o ^ t New members to the commit tee include Cathe Ellsworth, Vwa Talevi, R o l ^ Snytto and George ColUns. tbey join msmbers James Beniogger, Gendd Bushnell. Niles Curds, Paula DiPeraa, Richard Fletther. Marpret McGown, Dr. WttUaro H. Moek ami Cics Russell, os wen as Bassets smff Jane h to io and Jane Schle^er. The ariilmittee is c t e M by Jane Patrick. Ito Cempemtown Comunity Mvisory Commimte welsomes ttqnii 6om aU toco! r e c i t e . Poqtle can conu» the commit- tse mm^ters diiecily to eaprea ai^ ideas, concmis or qu^tiems they may have tepnling Bassets. School board to discuss budget COOPIRSTOWN . The C ^ m s tow o Cmitral School Bisect BoaidOf EdiKaiion triill hoMs itsiegnlar r i l i n g ol7:30 P4S. today in middle/hlgb scto o lcafe^. Hie B o ^ will (mndnoe dis* Cttssion on die I9PS<96 Budgei siiid wUfhave ao t i ^ t e m ihe Bqss^.Mlow - iNStoE - Anto^ Totti!s«.»»m»<»«J flinSng St Rtitflrt^towgnt ------- ft Obitn8ries...».«««»»«»..»a>»12 Rr^fosal news J , 3 © p e i r t e f t . Bassett facility moves to new office Sharon Springs office expands Dy DAN SHERIDAN Editor SHARON SPRINGS - The Sharon Springs ofTice of Bassett Healthcare has moved to a new building on Route 20 in Sharon Springs. The move was required, said Bob McCann, nurse petitioner at the Sharon Springs focility, b ^ u s e they Just outgrew their former residence. The health care office includes a Qiaiges filed in incident Witnesses state buoys free o f ice By DAN SHERIDAN Editor COOPERSTOWN • While wit nesses told police that there was no ICC endangering docks or boats when employees of the- Lake front Motel allegedly cut private buoys, the lawyer for the two claim the buoys were Lron Preston, 53, of Hartwick and Steven D. Rundblod, 38, of Worcester have both been ch a rg e by the CoofKfstown Village Police with second-degree criminal tam- |Knng and will appear in village coun Thursday. Paula Wikoff, vice president of the Cooperstown Marina and Lakefrom Motel, said la^ w ^ k that she gave Preston the okay to cut the buoys. She said diat employees from the motel annually cut ice from the bay to protect their own docks as well as those of the Leatherstocking Country Club and the village. The buoys, she said, w o e under ICC and could not be seen, and one of them popped up when the ice was cut. causing ap[UOximately $4,(X)0 in damage to the boat's motor and prop. Wayne Granger, employed by the county Sheriffs C^paitment and the owner o f one of the buoys, said that staff of four: McCann, Dr. Joseph Sellers who supervises the office, receptionist Cathy Delaney and licenses practical nurse Ardyth Kutzscher. The new office opened on March 14, said Delmiey. “It’s a generm family practice,” she said. “We do suturing, but no X- rays or casting. W e'll do wart removal, as long as it doesn’t require nitrous oxide, and we can do minor surgery. “We just outgrew our other build ing. It was in practice in 1945, and we just outgrew it. It only had two small examining rooms.\ . The new location, she said, “is huge. Our old office could have fit in the waiting room.”' There is^a lobby and reception area, and they can see about 40 patients every day when both Sellers and McCann are on duty. The team has been a part of Bassett Healthcare for about 10 years, she said, and it is Bassett which is leasing the new location. “W e’re part of the Bassett net work.” said McCann. “We have always been a full service operation, five days a week. We had to move because the town is growing and we needed more space.” Sellers is board certified in inur- nal medicine and pediatrics - an uncommon combination, according to McCann. McCann is a nurse practitioner with experience in obstetrics/gyne- cotogy and pediatrics. “We do primary care,” McCann said. “We suture lacerations and pret ty much address any problein, dep^ding on how c o m p iio ^ it is.” Because the office is affiliated with Basalt, they can refw patients with problems with which they can not deal to other Bassett offices. Said McCann o f the new loc^on. “It's beautiful. Ifs a comfortable building, and each of us has an office. There are four examining rooms, with one of them set up for minor surgery.\ A third of the building, he said, is unfinished and the office can be expiHledintothaiareaifdieitoedans- ra. O ik room is dedicated for lab work. The office is open 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, althou[though Sellers has conferences and meetings at the hospital in Cobleskill Wednesday mornings. he did not identify the occupants of the boat when he made out a com plaint, as rejKirted in an earlier story. He did ray. however, that he and other witnesses told poliiK that there was no ice mhuigering the d o ^ at ^ time dm buoys were cut Robert M olou^, in a letter to the Pieman's Jounral, statod ihoi he decided to chaige the mtttel employ ees. Earlier, police had stated t l ^ i» cbxiges weropenUng. Moionsck stated that this is not the first year buoys were allowed to be placed in the hay. Tfw attcBTCy for Rundblad and Ptision. however, as^ns differendy. “We’re gtsing to p le^ oat ©lilty,” said attorney Carl Scidisi of Hcridiner. “The tmoys were iUe^- lysetupandlthc^ werenotei^ved by the DEC. They were a menace to the channel and iar ice going (Wt of the channel.\ Matotisek could not be reached for comment Monday, and the could not remib buoy owner i ^ n Toltnie, who filed a lepoit wi police about the inc there was no tee around the buoys when they were cot Wikolf, meanwhile, said dial she has been,“^ioeked” 1^ the number of peoplo who have written in sup- po^ofthemoteL Sbe said that (HI McKiday mo of die Imt^s were pot back, but ihai the lilie s In tbs 1 ^ w m m ^ t n b - uig to gel (WO others replaced, aldiou^ the motel will do so. One biroy owner, Gerry Welch, cold Wikoff that be did not want the Bic^t to replies bis t e y . “Ii’8 intaredible,\ Wikoff said, “how many calls of sappoa wa have Cooperstown Postmaster Connie Teciesco looks over the postage stamp ca<d\ets with a line of customers during Saturday's event celebrating the post office's bicentennial. By DAN SHERIDAN Editor COOPERSTOWN - Greeting throngs of interested customers at a table set up in the lobby. Coopeistown Postmaster Connie Tedesco sold special cancellarion stamped envelopes and packages S a tu ^ y as the Coop^stown Post Office celebrated its bicentennial. “When the Post Office opened this morning. tiKie was a line going r i ^ t out the door.” said Tedesto about an hour later. Ihe Cooprstown Post Offke is dm settond oldest in Ot^go County. Chary Valley celebrat ed its 200ih year in the fall. “There aie only three past offitKS in the county which were established iKfore 1800,” said Dorothy Scott Fielder, postmaster of the Schsnevus P<Bt Office and author of a new took, “Otsego CcUBratw£ 200 years o f postal service County Postal HisTOiy.” She noted that, otter don Q tary Valley and COoi^town, the Mmiis P<Bt OffuK, which apaied as the Buttonuis Post Cffftce. was also established in the 1700s. ‘T h e r&ison Cherry Valley was first.” said Fielder, “is becaiose o f the Cherry Valley Turnpike. It was easier trans- poreation back then to Cherry Valley, even t h o u ^ Coo]rorstown is the county seat That d o esn't mean C o o p ^ o w n didn't get ira mail. They would d eliver it from C h e s^ Valley to here.\ The CcHJ^rstown Post Office was o p a t ^ April 1. 1795 with Joseph Oiifiin as peratntaster. Aoronting to F ielda’s Ixrok, “A p<Bt route had previously toen ^trriilirited between Albany and C a n a reda^, viaCheny Valley, to See POST O F F ICE on 6 County discusses solid waste options See BKOV on ^ g e 6 ‘ Iasi that Committee, haulers to talk about Mesa trash dumping fees ByDANSUERIDAN COOPEI^OW N , - Oeeg© Conniy officMs. toping to gain some insight as tt> ftow dmy emi avoid a $1.2 inQBoa psnidw iteu s e of fhitoe m meet their MOBA ^ lid tannage met widi vm local Iffii wttek, Prior © mealing, m c in to of the Solid Waste Comiidttee ssdf t e l there has been some discusslsR t o t hIriDg as atom ® , psssiMy to tsing a t e u l i aj^uisi die hsQiiso of wlai riisi oiiBi m b s m !p that ( q Haulm suggested ai .a tscstins fiaiMGSAIsiafSfftsrip* ping fees to bring the Authori^ more in line with other sites. Two hastera. Louis B n x toui of- Brosktnan Disposal of Richfield Springs, and Duane Matthews of Vet’s Sanhahon Service of Dueonta, have btssn Mnging »tltd waste to a she io Siteoy which charges about $20 per ten 1 ^ than MQBA’s ^ pertonilbPbBte, Qmniy’s quota Is 28,846 tote ftif this year, according to Kathy Battffli, pubuc sdarions dtoeior for M0SA. ARer two months. theccRm* ^ tod d e liv i^ tess t e n to *‘lf the tteod ei rite iirsi two mrnithd coarifluss,** sdd Bultoa,\te coan^ w8I have 24,162 tons, a Cortege of 4 |8 4 tons.” She noted that t e paafl& fbr rnis^HB the q s t e Is 01 j iw o n , whlsa to p s £ d ® to # e s p y m She SBri* howets?, IMI my te i has a slisriMl ctei sometimes coimt on the help of t e other two GOBiuies. “Another fitt:tor is that the penalty dmte't sio into effKt if tte cunaula- five guaranteed annual tonnage hs not short. In the {nst Montgomery County has toen a litoe short, but tite cumulative OAT was not.\ Button said. “If for some rKistm btontgomery and Schoharie have wteopping yearn, there would be ito paatty. O t ^ p Coimiy has dome t e t for Montgomery in the past \ She also n ts^ that rite ^ « x n tij^iog f<» a t M0SA covers moire tiissjimsQM waste. “We tove a ^ s tem of fees,” sfete said. “! f s S6I j £ i payhis for dump ing. tfs pj^ng for the siring o f new hnrifijfennd for recjrling.\ He totol cost comes to 4 \f2 ceios psseoad,^ saii cuid she ooted t e to no recycling oi Se|. loBa Ni^er, D-Oneoaia. a meiatoi' of the Solid Wasuc Coinmittoe, said that their continues to be discirasiem about importing solid waste from otiimr counties to Biafee up t e difference, and said die county is olsolooldng into litignting the matter, “We have a range of options,\ Nader aid. \We’ve telked about Bi- igating tecause the state peimits trairafer siatens. We've ralked about going into the ptoago b u s in g our selves to make sure that the ^ b a g e goes to MGSA, and we'r© lobl^Stg to oar predicamdni.\ He said i m p ^ g woidd save rite laspayem money “beesase evmy dollai MOSA saves is a dollar rite taxpayers don’t have to come up wiiti, Mr Brooknum vms not t ^ g the county garbege thae and be con tracted to do so. Vet’s was also undEs^ ixintincii** BrooSnum’s was uiuisr CDn&^ci U) See L A W Vl^ on SRageti ’■' . T S'' a‘ ' I ; r i ' , , ’ 1 ■ j ■ - ' 1
