COMPRESSOR STATION AHEAD! by Brian Brock

The Newsletter of Franklin Local Vol. VIII, No. 3 Franklin, New York FALL 2014 ‘INDEPENDENT, FEARLESS AND FREE’ WARNING: COMPRESSOR STATION AHEAD! By Brian Brock

Franklin residents may have not imagined that a fin- ished Constitution pipeline would be much of a problem – unless they are landowners along the route. It would be just a hundred foot wide clear-cut stretching ten miles across Franklin from Route 357 west of the East Sidney Dam to Route 28 up on Franklin Mountain. Those opinions may change now that a second pipeline, the Northeast Energy Direct (NED), has been proposed alongside the Constitution with a compressor station in Franklin. The recent request by Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP) for pre-filing of NED with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission included detailed route Kinder Morgan’s Mexico compressor station on the Rockies Express pipeline. Two Titan 130 tur- maps, which located their station somewhere between bines are housed in large building, upper right. Photo: Alliance Wood Group Engineering, L.P Bissell and Chamberlin Hill Roads. An affected landowner reports that a dozen or so sites are under consid- FEEDING A HUNGRY WORLD: eration. Constitution has yet to locate their mid-stream The Wonders of Bio-Char compressor station. The TGP booster compressor station would speed the By Bob Miller daily flow of the 500 million cubic feet of gas. It would be Chemical and oil companies, and busi- powered by a gas turbine – similar to a jet engine. The nesses that genetically modify food claim Solar Turbines Titan 130 would provide 20,500 horse- they have the only solution to reversing power. This turbine and the compressor would run day the growing problems of world hunger. and night, 365 days a year, except for maintenance and We at Enviro Energy think there is a better See WARNING, con’t on Pg 15 way, by bringing back the use of carbon (biochar) to the soil. I would like to tell you FRANKLIN about what we have been doing towards Yes, you guessed it! The broccoli on the left was this problem for the last six years. grown with bio-char. Photo: The Millers EMS: We started a business making pellets a weed control mulch and soil conditioner. from the weeds and grasses sold to us by Grass pellets have proven to be very suc- SIXTY YEARS farmers. This material, harvested from fal- cessful in improving the fertility and work- low lands, would otherwise have no use. ability of soil. OF SERVICE Putting this material to productive use has Food was grown for hundreds of years the added benefit of keeping land open with manure, compost and carbon without By Joan Cronauer for future food growing. Also, weeds and depleting the soil. This method largely native grasses need no plowing, planting, went by the wayside with the discovery Sixty years ago, a group fertilizer or spraying. They are harvested of petroleum based chemicals and fertil- of wise and caring men in INSIDE at full maturity; hence there is no “mining izer made from cheap oil. Because of this, the town of Franklin real- THIS ISSUE... of the soil.” most topsoil has been depleted of carbon ized there was a need for REGULAR FEATURES: Our original goal was to produce fuel and organic matter. The soil no longer ab- emergency care in the Neighbor’s View Pg. 2 pellets from this otherwise wasted mate- sorbs or holds rain water well. Fertilizer community. The Franklin Church Directory Pg. 4 In The Kitchen Pg. 5 rial, soon discovering a secondary use as See BIO-CHAR, continued on Page 5 Emergency Squad was or- Pet Talk Pg. 6 ganized by charter mem- hanced, its agricultural, his- Murder at the FFM Pg.18 bers John Burgin, Richard Real Estate Sales Pg. 20 REMEMBER ME? toric, and natural resources Johnson, Kenneth Simmons, OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN protected, and its social and Edward Slawson, Walter FRANKLIN LOCAL: economic vitality ensured Park News Pg. 2 By Andy Bobrow will be. Stilson, Hubert Worden, and for years to come The Mayor’s Corner Pg. 3 Yes, the Town of Frank- twin brother high school Recently, I pulled out a Landing in Treadwell Pg. 3 It is hard to say whether lin has undertaken this po- students, Richard and Rob- copy of the Comprehensive Christmas Stroll Pg. 3 the ability to see into the tentially painful exercise ert Underwood. Plan and read it through. I Holiday Market Pg. 3 future might be a gift or a and has developed a plan The first meeting was Town Board Powers Pg. 6 was impressed. It is a sub- curse. I, for one, am not so for its future. In fact, the held on August 12, 1954. stantial document, weigh- FOCUS ON ENERGY: sure I would want to know Town adopted a Compre- See EMS, con’t on Page 4 ing in at some one hundred Grass Pellet Misfire Pg. 8 with any certainty what I hensive Plan back in 2007 pages. The plan is thought- Solar Makes Sense Pg. 8 will be facing – or when. to “...guide future growth ful, detailed, and forward Tuesday, No Revenue Fracking Pg. 8 Yet, it is essential that, in- and development within the looking. It incorporates November 4th, Pipes and Power Pg. 9 dividually and collectively, Town of Franklin in a man- Compressor Horrors Pg. 9 historical context as well as is Election Day. we try to envision the pos- ner that respects the Town’s DCEC Debate News Pg.17 a careful catalogue of con- sibilities and determine rural character so that its temporary issues. Some of Meet this year’s what our course of action unique sense of place is en- AGRICULTURE: the concerns we face today candidates for Markets are Crucial Pg.15 PRSRT STD PRSRT have presented themselves, Franklin Town albeit in slightly different Council LOCAL ARTS: ECRWSS form, in the past. Dana Matthews photos Pg. 7 U.S.POSTAGE The plan is the result of View Sample Ballot 6th Extinction Review Pg. 9 PAID Local a concerted effort to deter- Jim Mullen Reviews Pg.12 EDDM Retail EDDM Customer Postal Pages 10 & 11 Bright Hill Riddles Pg. 12 See PLAN, con’t on Page 18 Arts with Jane Carr Pg. 13 Page 2 The New Franklin Register Fall 2014 Onto the ballot Bet- influencing looming town Your Neighbor’s View... ter Franklin went, and into issues, and would rather campaign mode I went. relinquish their elected au- TURNING TIDES posed for the past several An introvert at heart, I was thority to denial or victim- elections. During this same uncomfortable but luck- hood than make a stand. I By Patricia Tyrell period, I began to drop in ily prepared enough for am confident I am not the on the monthly Town Board the four month onslaught only person who figured 2013 Franklin Town Coun- meetings, Board of Educa- of public outings, engage- this out that night. cil Candidate tion meetings, and meet- ments, and a lone speaking Moving forward, friends ings of the group respon- event. Against the advice and colleagues helped me My political career, sible for the publication of of several people, I was to raise funds for signs and still in its early stages, be- the newspaper you are now openly against fracking. I ads, conducted campaign gan about four years ago reading –Franklin Local. also supported, and contin- phone calls, and told their when I finally registered to Over the next couple of ue to support, a strong local friends and families. The years, I did what I do: work, Patricia Tyrell comments on economy by way of locally support was phenomenal. vote. Up until then, I had let the pipeline route map myself believe that voting family, meetings, reading, Photo by Dana Matthews created and distributed en- I even received a donation ranting, cooking, rallies, ergy and agriculture. from Yoko Ono and Sean doesn’t matter, especial- a political party – which I ly as we are increasingly writing, learning, rabble- A turning point in the Lennon. In the end, we all rousing, enjoying, thinking didn’t have to do in order to campaign was an open know who won the elec- faced with an oligarchic vote. Independent by that society. I had never trusted and breathing…all the while forum meet-and-greet in tion. But now it seems my entertaining the notion of time was the only option Treadwell, hosted by the campaign may have been government or corporate available, and that was fine superpowers, with their someday running for local Treadwell Community Club. the first leg in a much larg- office. Meanwhile, friends for me. This was the only event er race. So many people shared tendency to bypass More difficult was cre- and assault life, liberty and pressed me to consider the where all the candidates voted in the last election idea seriously and soon. ating a name for my politi- were present, and where that they ran out of ballots the pursuit of happiness. cal party. What did I stand Suddenly, likely as a Now, let me share the those citizens in attendance and had to have more de- terror I felt in deciding to for? What did I want to do? had an opportunity to ask livered. Since the election, result of life experience, a How to convey this in just a couple of graduate classes, run for office, especially questions. Bright-Hill Press I have had people who I small town political office. few words? “Better Frank- was packed! While I could would never have guessed and a burning desire to ef- lin” was the best I could fect change upon issues Am I smart enough? Am I feel my pulse in my throat, tell me they voted for me. strong enough? What will do. Franklin is my home, I was pleasantly surprised Many have suggested that I felt to be an immediate where I grew up, where I threat to my life, home, and it mean for my family? My with the turnout, as it told because I went out on a privacy? If I win, can I ac- chose to return to raise my me that people actually do limb against an ingrained family, I realized that if any family. A place of beauty, real change is to be accom- complish my goals? What care. Apathy had not yet system, others have been the hell am I thinking? history, sanctuary, and ru- won out. encouraged to do the same. plished, it needs to start on ral aesthetics. In a world the local level. Once I publicly con- Despite this new hope, The tides are turning firmed my intent to run for on the brink of destruction it soon became clear that and I am humbled, honored So I registered to vote – all I wanted was for it to – with allegiance declared Town Council, the game my opposition had no vi- and simply happy to have was, as they say, on. Filing be better, for the people of sion of the future- good, been, and to continue to be, to no party, sovereign and Franklin to become their empowered – and that year for petitions to be signed bad or indifferent. They a part of the process. to get on the ballot was an own champions, and be a showed little interest in To a Better Franklin, voted in a local election for example of how better is persons who had run unop- experience. As an aspir- taking control of or even indeed! ing candidate, I had to pick possible.

of our commercial district new residents, businesses served. We would like to and preservation of Frank- and visitors to our com- see our downtown area PARK NEWS lin’s historic character. We munity. We desire to work rejuvenated with viable hope to encourage improve- with and encourage orga- enterprises.” By Kim Hyzer Nancy Cloonan and Kathy ments that will create a posi- nizations that already do so We are always looking Campbell, we were able to tive effect on our economic much for our community. for new members. If you You may have noticed meet the requirements. conditions and quality of “We have such a wealth would like to come to our that we had a lot of work done We had a stone patio life in Franklin. We hope to of beautiful architecture in next meeting, give Kim a in the park this past June. put in around the monu- help our community to grow our village that has been call at 829-8820 to find out Around the middle of ments. This gives them a and prosper for generations well maintained and pre- where. May, Mayor Tom Briggs cohesive look and makes to come. We hope to attract learned of streetscape mon- them more pleasant to ac- ey that was still available. cess, as well as making that Franklin We had to move quickly as area easier to maintain. we needed plans and es- A mix of evergreens Alternative timates to get approval for was planted along one side the grant. In addition, all the to offer a visual demarca- to Violence work had to be done by the tion at the edge of the park. end of June. Stop by and check it out! Cmmunityo Fortunately, Jack Si- The park is a project of Workshop man had volunteered to be the Franklin Improvement Society whose mission our park curator just a few By Noelle Granger months before. With his statement reads: “Our Society endeavors experience and expertise, The first Alternative to to encourage revitalization along with a lot of help from Violence community workshop was held in Franklin in early August. The work- Participants in this summer’s AVP workshop shop was a huge success. The workshop proved or would like more informa- We had seven participants that there is great wisdom tion regarding future work- who are currently students in communicating with shops, please call Noelle at Franklin Central School people across age groups. Granger at (607)343-3904. and seven adult partici- It also showed us that peo- pants from Franklin and ple of all ages are able to surrounding communities. come together in a safe set- The group collaborated ting to learn together and through discussions and have fun! We look forward experiential activities to to having more community explore different areas of workshops in the future. conflict in our everyday If you are interested in A new stone patio graces the village park’s memorial site. lives and conflict resolution learning more about AVP strategies. Fall 2014 The New Franklin Register Page 3 FRANKLIN LOCAL Local News Local Issues Local Events Local Concerns

LANDING IN TREADWELL IS IT CHRISTMAS ALREADY?? By Magali Veillon HOLIDAY

We might as well start with the obvious: I am the ste- EVENTS reotypical urban dweller who found a calling to return to IN a simpler rural life, attracted by the romantic image of the perfect old house with a beautiful barn on land that would FRANKLIN provide for a productive farm. Yet this thought seems preposterous. Looking at properties, I quickly realized that picture-perfect did not nec- essarily mean a place would provide for the new life I had Join your neighbors for... chosen. Farming is not picture perfect. Yet after work- TeC h hRISTMAS Stroll ing on nearly twenty farms to learn, I still fantasized about landing in a beautiful farmstead just waiting for renewed By Kim Hyzer activity. My first lesson was to cultivate patience, because Mr. and Mrs. Claus at the 2013 Holiday Market Saturday, December 13th things generally don’t land in your lap. The search for a place where I would both live and work lasted much lon- House tours, Farmers’ Holi- ger than expected. The country teaches one to slow down TeH h oLIDAY Market day Market, Grandma’s Pantry, after years in the city. Hopefully, the uphill slant of settling Christmas Trees and Trains at the in a new, different environment will keep reminding me Franklin Railroad and Communi- to put the brakes on. In the end, it took three years for the Saturday, December 13, 2014 ty Museum, Dinners, Santa, Chil- wholesomely imperfect property to reveal itself, and in an 12:00 – 4:00pm dren’s Nativity Play, and more! unexpected way. Franklin Firehouse I grew up in a little village of 300 people in the Jura We’ve started our planning! Mountains of Switzerland. We had chickens and rabbits If you would like to have your that stayed with us for the warm months and made it to the On December 13, 2014, from 12 noon house open for the tour, please freezer sometime in the fall, thanks to my father who would to 4:00 PM, the Franklin Holiday Market call Kim at 829-8820. The tours never hurt a fly except when it comes to pet manage- will be held at the Franklin Firehouse on Institute Street. are done in an open house self- See TREADWELL, continued on Page 14 This community bazaar will feature guided format for a few hours in baked goods, homemade chocolates, the afternoon. holiday breads, yarn, handicrafts, goat If you would like to donate to- milk soaps and lotions, note cards, paint- wards the community Christmas ings, ceramics, jewelry and accessories, trees that line Main Street, call as well as local cheeses, maple syrup, Nancy Cloonan at 829-3703. If and honey. we get enough donations, may- This year’s market will sell wreaths be we can put some on Center and holiday table arrangements created Street, too! by the Franklin Garden Club to benefit If you or your organization their college scholarship program. have anything else you would Start your holiday shopping close to like to offer for the day, call Kim. home. You’ll find a wide variety of items It is already shaping up to be to satisfy all your holiday gift needs. a great day in Franklin!

Magali Veillon’s house in Treadwell. Photo by the author

to grow up in. From the porch of the Post Of- Much like the brilliant flare of colors and ensu- THE MAYOR’S CORNER fice, one can still capture a faint but comforting ing stark winters that we experience here every glimpse of the halcyon years of the 1950s. It’s fall, boom towns have their heyday and once With Tom Briggs just a darned shame that all is not well in this the mother lode is exhausted...well, the reader little piece of heaven. can draw his own conclusions. Travel any back Like much of upstate New York, or even ru- Another side of this issue is that Franklin road in Delaware ral America in general, Delaware County could faces sustainability challenges whether gas County at the end of sure use a brush of prosperity. This is especially wells are drilled in the vicinity or not. If you September and be so for young working class families. There are take a gander around town, you’ll notice that prepared to witness jobs, but WalMart, Home Depot, and fast food most of these beautiful 19th century homes are the quintessential au- restaurants offer only slightly more than mini- inhabited by people from my generation or tumn. This is the one mum wage. Factor in all the costs related to get- older. There are few young people who live in time of year that you can actually ingest nature’s ting to and from work, and there’s not much left this area now who will be able to afford to heat delicious colors. Fall has its own scent, a sort for managing a household. You can say the same and maintain these homes without additional of sweet but slightly acid quality. One can en- about young farm families, whose fortune rests income in the future. Franklin may never be the vision the collective flora releasing the last of on fluctuating monthly milk checks. It’s no won- same one way or another. its fragrance in advance of nature’s big sleep. der then that when representatives from corpo- I would hope that individuals and organi- And there’s nothing like standing quietly in the rate gas interests fan out across the countryside zations in this lovely community take it upon woods and listening to the soft tapping sound of promising fat times ahead to besieged property themselves to engage in discussions to identify falling leaves as they locate their places below. owners, that they create a committed fan base. the positive qualities of life that define Franklin This part of the world is a well-kept secret. Add this to the accompanying promise of high living. I would also hope that from this conver- If it weren’t, we would be deluged with immi- paying employment and peripheral profit mak- sation a strategy would be developed to main- grants seeking refuge from a hectic and dispir- ing opportunities for small businesses and you tain and enhance these attributes, so that future iting world. Franklin may not be the busiest see the pot being stirred more briskly. generations will be able to benefit as well. For burg and it may not have all of the conveniences From my perspective, if fracking comes to those of us who have enjoyed this community, it of metropolitan living, but this little community upstate New York, the Village of Franklin will would be a shame if we leave this plane with- is easy on the spirit. We have clean air, access likely never be the same. Even if the gas could out being mindful of our responsibility to pass to wholesome food, plenty of fresh water, no be extracted safely, there will be winners in the along the gift our predecessors left us to those traffic jams - and a safe place for our children short run followed by losers in the long run. who will follow behind. Page 4 The New Franklin Register Fall 2014 EMS, continued from Page 1 calls. Members contrib- FRAN KLININ ute many hours of service, An ambulance was donat- CHURCHES ed through the efforts of the but also devote as many or Franklin Fire Department. more to classes and train- Kenneth L. Aldrich Soon the Squad was able ing. Call volume has more to purchase other needed than doubled along with Bennett Baptist Church equipment and, with the the addition of more rigor- Route 28, North Franklin help of voluntary contri- ous training and certifica- Funeral Home Phone: 607-829-5502 butions from civic organi- tion requirements. Proto- Pastor: Pat Judd zations, grateful patients cols are frequently added § Sunday Service: 9:30 A.M. and interested community or changed, and must be Location: 1/2 mile east of members, it was possible implemented. the Ouleout Golf Course to meet other necessary The Squad sponsors 425 Main Street expenses. the Red Cross Bloodmo- Through the years, oth- bile, presents CPR classes Franklin, NY 13776 Franklin Unit- er ambulances have been to Health Classes at Frank- ed Methodist purchased. In 1957, a pan- lin School, the Franklin Pool § el truck costing $1450.00 Life Guards and the Frank- Church was bought and converted lin community. Collecting Main and Water Streets food items for the Food 607-829-2272 Franklin Bank is a yearly project as Phone: 607-829-2956 well as educational presen- Pastor: John Hill tations to Head Start and EMTs, a school aide, a col- and comfort a trauma pa- Sunday Service: 10:45 A.M. Morning Program at FCS. lege student, a nurse, a tient, from seeing a patient Coffee hour following The most important code enforcement officer, a regain consciousness due Sunday School for children asset to the Squad is its semi retired social service to their action, and just following Children’s Time members. If not for them, worker, and an assistant to knowing that they have Holy Communion, first Sun- Jack trains ‘em Early no amount of equipment the Disabled/Challenged. made a difference in someday of each month. to an emergency vehicle. or highly equipped am- They are the ones who get one’s life. In 1962, a Pontiac Supe- bulance would be of any out of bed at 2 AM to an- Now Franklin Emer- rior Coach demonstrator use. They are the heart swer calls, then hurry to Treadwell Unit- identical to the vehicle and backbone of the or- be at work by 7 AM, who ed Methodist that transported President ganization. Who are these miss a doctor’s or dental John Kennedy on his fateful people? They are some of appointment, who miss a Church trip in Dallas was added. the most committed, car- child’s school party or play, 68 Church Street, In 1981, a Modular ambu- ing, determined, selfless and who may have a family Treadwell lance was purchased for citizens you will ever meet. member at home with a se- Pastor: John Hill $30,000.00 from funds ob- They come from all walks rious illness. Sunday Service: 9:15 A.M. tained from Squad fund- of life. They are a retired These people receive school bus driver, a farmer, Naomi Buel takes Gary Schiff- raisers, an anonymous no monetary compensa- ner’s blood pressure. St Paul’s donation and generous a retired school teacher, tion. Their compensation St Paul’s townspeople. The present an electrician/plumber, comes from the joy of hear- gency Squad along with Episcopal ambulance, purchased in a truck driver/carpenter, ing the cry of a newborn other agencies in this area 2001, was paid for by fund- a retired police commis- delivered at home, from and throughout the coun- Church raising events, donations sioner, retired professional having the ability to treat try, is facing a difficult chal- 307 Main Street, Franklin and grants. No bond issue lenge. Our Department of Phone: 607- 829-6404 was necessary. Health representative has All faiths welcome Franklin Emergency said that in five years, EMS Service every first Sun- Squad has kept up with the may not be as we know it day of the month at 1:30 latest trends and modern today. One of the greatest P.M. followed by fellowship equipment used in emer- challenges is recruitment dish-to-pass dinner. gency care. A state of the art and retention of members. Service every second stretcher, automated blood The demands of increased thru fourth Sunday at 8:15 pressure monitor and defi- requirements in curricu- A.M. brillator, AEDs, stair chair lum and skills has become First Thursdays Soup and scoop stretcher have overwhelming. Becoming Dinner every month, by been added to the equip- an EMT requires more time donation, to benefit roof ment list. Franklin EMS and skills than ever before. replacement fund. 5-7 has been among the first Franklin Emergency P.M. Join your friends for to add BLS epi pens, nebu- Squad needs your help homemade soups, chili, lizer treatment, glucometer now. Join your local Squad. salad and conversation! reading, and Narcan for Training is available. Help opioid overdose. your community. Community Franklin’s ambu- Front (left to right): Joanna Jones, Sierra Jones, Joan Cronauer, Call Joan Cronauer, lance travels thousands of Peg Budine, Jack Early Captain Franklin Emergen- Bible Church miles each year, answer- Back: Audrey Archibald, Jerry Valle, Naomi Buel, Tom Buffing- cy Squad at 607-829-5092. 89 Center Street, Franklin ing fire and emergency ton, Bob Deeb, Bob Cronauer, Gary Arndt Pastor: Dr. Walt Schlundt Phone: 607-829-5471 P hEASANT Release Sites for 2014 Sunday School (Sept. BETTER THAN EVER. Through May): 9:45 AM AGAIN. Annually, about 30,000 adult pheasants are raised on the Morning Worship: 10:45 AM Richard E. Reynolds game farm in Ithaca and released just prior We are a church that to and during the fall pheasant hunting season. Releases occur faithfully teaches the word across the state at over one hundred sites on both state and pri- of God and seeks to glorify vate lands open to public hunting. In our wildlife management Him through worship, ser- FOKISH district, O4, pheasant season began October 1st and continues vice and in all that we do. until February 28th. Bag limit is two birds per day, with no sea- We seek to fulfill the great FRANKLIN – TREADWELL son limit. commission through evan- Among the sites are five in Delaware County: Colchester, gelization, missions and WORLD TOUR Harpersfield, Stamford/Bovina, and two in the Town of Franklin: training. We offer two La- WINTER 2014-15 * County Route 16 at the Franklin/Delhi line on NYCDEP prop- dies’ Bible Studies and one erty. (Please respect property and nearby private residences.) Men’s Bible Study. order at 829-2721 * State Route 357 across from Merrickville Road on Town of on the road at 353-5541 Franklin property. Hunters must obtain permission to hunt This space sponsored by surrounding private land. Handsome Brook Farm. Fall 2014 T he New Franklin Register Page 5

IN THE KITCHEN With Sue Avery

COLCANNON Comfort food for the chilly seasons Franklin, NY 1 lb. potatoes, peeled Cabinets and Millwork 1 lb. kale or cabbage Kitchens Baths 1/2 cup chopped onions or leeks or onion tops Media Walls Home Offices Libraries Paneling 1 cup cream or milk, plus some for the onions Mantles 1/2 stick of butter, melted Specializing in local, reclaimed wood salt Will install downstate and in Connecticut pepper mace

BIO-CHAR, continued from Page 1 Boil the potatoes and kale/cabbage separately. has leached out, contami- ing the nutritional value of nating ground water. the produce. Chop the kale/cabbage till fine. In the extra This history brings me Both grass and biochar cream, cook the onions/leeks until soft. to my central point. Envi- pellets return carbon to the roEnergy is moving into soil. Plants absorb carbon Mash the potatoes in the 1 cup of cream. Add salt, turning our mulch and soil from the air as they grow. pepper and mace to taste. Add kale/cabbage and conditioning pellets into There is some disagree- combine, beating until fluffy. biochar, which is essen- ment among scientists as tially pure charcoal. As I to whether carbon in the said, this is not a new con- atmosphere causes climate Traditionally, the butter is added in a well made cept. It involves a process change. It is not the point in the center of the mixture, and a bit included called pyrolysis; burn- of this article to debate that with each serving. Or you can add the butter to ing off the gas (syn gas), issue. the potatoes when mashing them. ending up with biochar. We are now working When biochar is incorpo- on a char maker that we rated into the soil, it is very hope will result in a more The Irish serve Colcannon on Halloween, some- stable. The carbon is se- efficient and economical times adding small prophesying objects, such as a questered for hundreds of way of making char. Future coin, a ring or a thimble. years. Moisture is retained hopes hinge on the best and if fertilizer is used, the use of the syn gas that is a Enjoy! amount can be reduced. byproduct of the pyrolysis With the help of friends, that turns pellets into bio- neighbors and master char. Syn gas may be used gardeners, we have been for producing liquid fuels. using biochar in at least There appears to be no twenty-three test plots over downside. Humans world- What would you do to help a period of three years. wide need food and clean The results have been far water, so everybody wins, FCS students if you had the better than we anticipated. including planet Earth. If We’ve had results of up to someone who reads this 100% more produce per can see a downside, please money? plant. Vegetables, plants let us know. We’d love to and root systems are seen hear from you. to be larger, earlier, and the Offer monthly incentive scholarships? color a darker green. Our Bob Miller can be Sponsor field trips? next step will include test- reached at (607)829-3183. Sponsor after school programs? Assist disadvantaged students? Buy school supplies for students? Write grants to support the school?

The good news is that you already do! By supporting the Franklin Community Educational Committee, you do all those things -- and we’re planning to do even more. Community Events in Treadwell Details? Contact Debbie Tuthill: [email protected]. Visit us at FranklinCommunity.org to join our email list and find out how easy it is to help. * 11/1 Masquerade Miles (Halloween) 5K Run * 11/10 Wool felt Craft Workshop * 11/15 Taste of Treadwell Cooking Demos * 11/22 Holiday Bazaar and Turkey Luncheon John Campbell, * 12/8 Cookie Exchange President * 12/13 Sweet Adelines Concert Page 6 The New Franklin Register Fall 2014

out. Yes, we sedate them. Few dogs let your dogs run at large. Walk them on a leash will gratefully acknowledge that we at night or early morning, so you won’t have a are trying to help them by sticking dog with a painful mouthful. our hands in their mouth and tug- For an interesting article about quills, PET ging on a painful quill attached to see the Journal of Chemical Ecology, March their tongue or lip. Often when we 1990;16(3):725-734; Uldis Roze; David C Locke; try to remove quills from awake ani- Nick Vatakis. It’s called Antibiotic Properties Of TALK mals, they break, because the quill Porcupine Quills, and says basically that there with Dr. Joan Puritz is not that sturdy. Often they break anyway and stay buried in the dog’s skin until they fester. Some quills Hello Readers, do migrate out, so we see them emerge days/ weeks/months later. It could be just the result This column’s topic is prompted by the num- of random movement, but I think the immune ber of dogs we veterinarians see every week of system has a role in ridding the body of foreign the Spring, Summer and Fall who’ve had a run- objects. Removing quills often take from ten in with porcupine quills. minutes to three or four hours, and that’s with Yes, dogs think they can eat porcupines, so sedation often late at night or early in the morning, they An interesting and common misconception return home with a face full, or body or legs and is that cutting off the top of the quill makes it eas- feet. We veterinarians get the call to pull them ier to remove. Not true! This actually can make removing it more difficult. Quills can penetrate parts of the body such as the eye, joint spaces or the chest cav- ity and do quite a bit of harm, even cause death. Reported deaths have been associated with migration into Dog with facial porcupine quills being treated the lungs. Lameness can be caused by quills in the joint spaces, and quills is an antibacterial agent in the outer portion in the eye have been associated with of the porcupine quill to assist porcupines in very bad outcomes. wound healing. I often give a dog an antibiotic Some breeds are more associ- when they have embedded quills, but maybe I ated with quill events than others. I should just let the quill give the antibiotic next see the worse cases in Huskies, pit time! bulls and boxers. These guys just can’t give up, no matter how much it Thank you hurts. Porcupines are mammals, and Joan Puritz DVM can carry rabies, but because of their quills, it is unlikely. They are noc- turnal (night travelers) and are her- Readers! bivores (plant eaters). They are not Do you have a veterinary ques- easily provoked and cannot shoot out tion for Dr.Puritz? their quills. Only when the quills are Write to her at nfr@franklinlo- touched will the barbs lodge in an at- tacking animal. My advice is if you cal.org, and she will reply in a fu- have porcupines in your area, don’t ture column. WITH POWER COMES RESPONSIBILITY By Brian Brock corporation. Town boards most all are positions re- such as fire prevention and board must be guided by are charged with securing quired by state law. Many building codes or flood the Plan. The town set out The several parts of the public health, safety, appointments are made at plain maps, or recommend- sixty-eight recommenda- our local government each welfare, comfort, peace, the annual organizational ed by Delaware County. tions, but few have yet been have their own powers and and prosperity of the town meeting, which is the sec- In the last fifty years, our implemented. responsibilities. The Board and its inhabitants. ond meeting in December, board has passed perhaps Town boards may re- of Education teaches our In evidence at every tucked between Christmas half a dozen ordinances on structure town govern- children. The Fire Depart- monthly meeting is their and the end of the year. its own initiative. ment somewhat, although ment and EMS aid us in greatest responsibility of This date may be a relic of Town boards have the many changes require a emergencies. The High- all: the budget. With the the requirement that towns power to enact zoning re- public referendum. Re- way Supervisor maintains power of the purse, the provide an annual account- strictions. Twelve of the cently, Franklin has waived and improves the roads. board exercises steward- ing between December nineteen towns in Delaware residency for the code en- The Town Justice judges the ship of the highway de- 28th and 31st – a require- County do not have zoning, forcement officer (2001) accused. The Town Clerk partment, the clerk’s office, ment eliminated in 1971. but Franklin enacted gen- and allowed the appoint- keeps records, collects tax- and the justice’s court. The Appointed officials are eral zoning in 1990. Since ment of an assessor (1996). es, and issues licenses. school and the fire depart- delegated with some of the empowered in 1964, zoning The Board has powers to Our town board com- ment control their own power and responsibility of has been the most com- regulate and license busi- bines the executive and funding. The limited re- the Board. For example, the mon subject of ordinances, nesses. Historically, our legislative branches of sources of small towns re- assessor is appointed to comprising half of those town has banned the sale local government, repre- quire boards to be thrifty, appraise property values, passed, including penal- of alcoholic beverages, un- senting the people. Four in order to minimize the in- which allows the property ties for violating subdivi- like any of the surrounding councilmen are elected for evitable annual increase of tax levy to be apportioned sion zoning (1986), and re- towns. Only since 1996 has four-year terms, two every property taxes. Each Oc- among land owners. strictions on mobile home beer been sold for home two years. The supervisor tober, the board reviews a Less frequently in evi- parks (1981), dumps and consumption. Our delis is the fifth member of the preliminary budget for the dence is the responsibility dumping (1987), and wind and restaurants are still board. He presides over next year, prepared by the to make law, a responsibil- turbines (2007). banned from selling beer monthly meetings and has financial officer (in Frank- ity of town boards since the In 2006 the board re- or wine for consumption on limited administrative pow- lin, the supervisor) and in New York State Constitution vised the Franklin Com- site. The licenses that our ers. He also represents November, after a public was revised in 1963. Most prehensive Plan with con- Clerk does issue, for dogs Franklin on the County meeting, votes it in. This years, our board passes not siderable input from we the and hunting, are authorized Board of Supervisors. sets the town property tax a single ordinance, and the people and aided by a con- by state law. In contrast with the oth- levy for the upcoming year. most ever passed in one sultant, Planit Mainstreet Elections at the local er branches, the town board The five elected board year were three. Many of [See article ???? on page polling station are over- has diverse responsibilities members appoint two the ordinances were ei- ??). By law, actions by the seen by the board. for running our municipal dozen town officials. Al- ther required by state law, See POWER, continued on Page 17 Fall 2014 The New Franklin Register Page 7 SPRING THAW

Photography by Dana Matthews. See more work at danamatthews.com Page 8 The New Franklin Register Fall 2014 FOCUS ON ENERGY

GRASS PELLET MISFIRE SOLAR By Brian Brock In a study funded by the Catskill Watershed Corpo- ration, locally made grass pellets were tried as fuel for JUST boilers at four town garages in Delaware and Greene counties for five and a half years. Two towns used in- MAKES door boilers (Andes and Franklin) and two used exterior (Hunter and Jewett). The corporation provided all boilers SENSE and grass pellets, as well as eight stoves for a total of almost $200,000. Results were generally positive except at A talk with Franklin. The Town of Andes will continue to burn pellets, Bryan Hickman but our town will be reverting to oil heat this winter. The towns of Hunter and Jewett are undecided. “We’re making some Advantages of pellets over oil include being half as power today,” Bryan Hick- Bryan Hickman with his new solar array on Rt. 357 in Franklin expensive, supporting the local economy, and reducing man says with a smile, no- this year, solar power has nary quote for the system global warming. But grass pellets are not without draw- ticing the brightness of the been Hickman’s predomi- that currently sits in Hick- backs. They produce more ash than wood due to a higher noon sun. He turns to his nant source of energy, and man’s roadside pasture. In silica content – as much as four times more. Much of this electric meter, reading the both personally and pro- that visit, Hickman began silica is dirt gathered during harvesting, and could be re- various numbers flashing fessionally, he’s on a mis- to see the potential for a duced with improved equipment. CWC also concluded across the dial that confirm sion to spread the word to relationship that went be- that the smoke from grass is more corrosive than that from his previous statement. all of New York State about yond just his system. wood. But Bob Miller, who supplied the grass pellets, said “Yup, the meter’s running the benefits and economic “John and I hit it off,” that his pellets analyzed as low in chlorine. He attributed backwards. For a lot of viability of going solar. Hickman recalls. “And the difficulties to poor design, resulting in higher labor people who go solar, it’s Two years ago, Hick- when he began talking costs for boiler maintenance. about stewardship of the man moved to Franklin about expanding his busi- environment. For others, it’s from Delhi, where he had ness into New York, the about owning your power, lived for twenty-one years, bells went off. The more or saving money. For me, bringing with him his fam- we discussed the incen- I’d say it’s a combination of ily, his small marketing tives, rebates and savings all three. agency, and a whole lot of associated with going so- “Solar just made sense entrepreneurial spirit. lar, the more I began to to me.” “It began as an adver- think ‘More people should If you drive through tisement in a magazine my be doing this, and I can Franklin on State Highway company, Brydan, is pro- help with that.’” 357 with any frequency, ducing,” Hickman says of Smucker’s has been chances are you’ve seen his business relationship designing and installing the large pasture, the Mor- with Smucker’s Energy, solar energy systems in gan Horses, and the farm the installers of his system. the Northeast United States stand on your right-hand “But the more I spoke with for almost a decade, and side just outside of town as the Smucker folks about their decision to take their you head towards Sidney. their advertisement, the booming business across And more recently, you’ve more I began to buy into the PA/NY border coincid- almost certainly seen the their product as a viable ed perfectly with meeting The second grass pellet boiler at the Franklin town garage in fifteen-kilowatt, sixty-panel alternative to standard en- Hickman. a shed built for it by the town. The water tank above the boiler is solar energy system that ergy suppliers.” “It was a perfect sce- part of the fire-suppression system. occupies the southeast cor- John Smucker, Presi- nario,” Hickman states. Photo: Catskill Watershed Corporation ner of that pasture, crank- dent of Smucker’s Energy “Solar companies have ing out the electricity that LLC, traveled up from the popped up everywhere For instance, the boilers used in the study were de- powers Bryan Hickman’s main office in Lancaster over the last few years, but signed for wood pellets. Boilers designed for grass pel- home, office and barn at County, Pennsylvania, last John and his team have lets have better ash handling, require less maintenance, the bottom of his winding summer to do a prelimi- been there from the begin- and should be more durable. driveway. Since March of The Town garage in Andes, using the same pellet-run See SOLAR, continued on Page 16 boiler as Franklin, had success. The building is newer and has radiant floor heating. The Franklin town garage was built in 1986 and uses forced air. This required the FRACKING AND REVENUE FOR boiler to be run hotter and resulted in two boilers burning up. The first, Maxim M250 from Central Boiler, cost $8,100 LOCAL GOVERNMENTS and the second, Bio-Burner 500 from LEI, cost $36,000. By Mike Bernhard of two gas-producing states that does not Heating the Franklin garage with grass pellets cost impose a severance tax (a state-level tax approximately $3,200 per year compared to oil at $7,800. Recently, fracking promoters in Afton based on the output of the well), which in Grass pellet heating can operate at substantial savings, circulated a reprint of a press release in other gas-producing states is available to but only if the hardware problems can be overcome. the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin. The fund education, health, infrastructure and The CWC report, Grass Bio-Energy Feasibility Study, headline, “Marcellus fee nets $22M for other social programs. The other state is available at: cwconline.org/linked/grass_bio-energy_ Pa. Counties,” intended to suggest that without a severance tax: New York. feasibility_study.pdf. gas revenues flowing to local government Second, drillers in Pennsylvania, ex- would reduce the tax burden of homeown- empted from paying severance taxes that ers here in Afton and/or provide funds for support public purposes, are happy to services that local authorities sought to trumpet the levels of impact fees going to provide their residents. That suggestion is local governments. But the impact fee fund a mirage. was front-loaded by law: the fee was ap- First of all, the funds at issue are not plied retroactively to wells drilled before taxes collected by the localities in ques- the law was passed1. The press release re- tion, but 40% of the “impact fees” collect- ferred to the Pennsylvania counties (Brad- ed by the state on a per-well basis, not on ford and Tioga) with the largest number of the well’s output. Pennsylvania is only one See FRACKING, continued on Page 17 Fall 2014 The New Franklin Register Page 9 PIPES AND POWER Compiled by Brian Brock

July 16th: Constitution Pipeline Company awards $350,000 in its fourth round of community grants, including $20,000 to Delaware County Fire- fighters Association and $20,000 to the Greater Maywood Rural Community Center, Sidney Center. July: CPC moves location of Main Valve #6 and its 100 foot tall antenna from Stewart Road to Van Tassel Road, from the Millers’ property to where there is a willing landowner. August 4th: CPC announces new location for spread yards including the yard for our area (3a, Sidney), which was moved from just east of the Village of Sidney off Route 23 to Union Church Road off Route 357. This yard would be supplied off I-88 via exit 12 (Otego), Route 48, and Route 44. August 5th: Franklin Town Board tables applying for intervener status with NYS Public Service Commission on power line projects and forgoes cash grants. August 17th: Stop the Pipeline holds first annual picnic and get together at Pine Lake in Davenport. A ugust 18th: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission announces a revised schedule for Constitution with issuance of the final Environmental Impact Statement on October 24th and a vote on certification by January 20th – the 90 day deadline. August 27th: New York State Public Service Commission grants extension deadline for comments on Edric to Fraser and Oakdale to Fraser power lines to September 2nd 2014. September 11th: CPC requests that FERC vote on certification by November 25th so that it can begin clearing trees along route by February 1st. September 15th: Tennessee Gas Pipeline requests pre-filing of Northeast Energy Direct project with FERC and includes detailed route maps. For Franklin, the route for NED closely follows the one for Constitution. Location for midline booster compressor station in Franklin has been shifted west to somewhere between Bissell and Chamberlain Hill roads. S eptember 15th: TGP announces a series of 17 open houses to be held along the route November 10th to February 28th. Open house for our area will be early in 2015. September 22nd: STP files objections to CPC request for expedited vote by FERC. Instead it asks for FERC to delay vote and prepare a second draft Environmental Impact Statement. October 8th: Army Corps of Engineers informed Constitution that they have not provided ACE with sufficient information to decide on issuing permits, and that while Constitution has requested a decision by January 22nd, ACE will not commit to a decision by that deadline. October 24th: FERC releases final EIS.

LIFE WITH A COMPRESSOR STATION A letter to FERC by Carl Berg, Ph D. Mr. Berg wrote to the Fed- environmental assessment compressor station with its quarter increased pressure The operation of the com- eral Energy Regulatory Com- process that ultimately lead strobe light during the day is being proposed. pressor station is all too mission about living a half to your issuance of a Cer- and a red beacon during The environmental apparent due to the noise, mile from compressor station tificate for this additional evening hours. It is located concerns that need to be vibrations and smell it gen- #254 on an existing Tennessee pipeline. immediately adjacent to brought to your attention erates from the compres- #200 pipeline in the town of It is imperative to put the Kinderhook Creek, a are fourfold and will be sor turbines. There have Nassau, Rensselaer County NY. The “compressor station this proposal into an envi- category one, public trout elaborated below. These been disturbing noises of proposed” is one planned for ronmental context. Pump- fishing stream. We reside concerns involve opera- sudden and loud gas dis- the NED pipeline in the near- ing station #254 in Colum- approximately one-half tion hours and seasons, charges and roars equiva- by town of Canaan, Columbia bia County, New York is mile due north of this com- noise, safety/security and lent to jet planes taking off. County NY, to the southeast. situated in an exclusively pressor station, perched on fuel burning emissions and When inquiries have been rural residential area in a hill elevated above the discharges made by phone, on a num- Although we are fully the pristine foothills of station. In fact, one border OPERATION HOURS ber of separate occasions, appreciative of the energy the Berkshire Mountains. of our property abuts the AND SEASONS: we have received respons- needs and limited resourc- There are absolutely no underground two pipelines We have resided in es ranging from: “We are es that this country faces commercial facilities or exiting the compressor sta- the area for approximate- required by the EPA to test and the additional need to structures in the immedi- tion. It is within this envi- ly thirty-five years. It has emissions which will last transport these resources ate area. By considerable ronmental context that the unfailingly been the case, a week”; “We are testing via pipeline across great margin, the highest struc- current compressor station until this past year, that the newly installed equipment distances, it is important ture in the surrounding exists and that the addition compressor station oper- and the operation is tem- that consideration be given countryside is the smoke of another compressor sta- ates twenty-four hours per porary”; to lastly, “We have to certain key environmen- stacks and radio tower tion as part of a pipeline day, twelve months a year. always operated twelve tal impact factors in your connected to the current with gas at a two and one See COMPRESSOR, continued on Page 16

Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History DISAPPEARING WORLD A Review by Alexis Greene

June 2014, and my vegetable garden is in ing the past half-billion years of life on Earth, razed forests and built up cities, so that many decline. A rainy, cold, mostly sunless spring caused by colliding asteroids and climate up- species do not have enough space in which has sent night temperatures plummeting, and heavals (the demise of the dinosaurs, around to thrive. We poach our largest mammals into my tomato plants are shaking their heads, say- the fifty million mark, is prob- oblivion and carelessly send ing “No way.” ably the most famous). Kolbert, invasive species and murder- Even if all were thriving and putting out along with numerous respected ous bacteria around the world. blossoms, there would be few fauna around to scientists, believes we are in the The fungus that killed off pollinate them. Bumblebees have been scarce midst of the sixth. the little brown bats, Kolbert on my Walton hilltop, and where my shed was An environmental journal- writes, was most likely “ac- once home to numerous little brown bats, now ist and staff writer for The New cidentally imported from Eu- it is a residence for squirrels and the occasional Yorker, Kolbert has dedicated rope.” Locally, the fungus pos- nosy porcupine. The bats, excellent pollina- herself to raising a red flag sibly migrated from one of the tors, have succumbed to white-nose syndrome, about climate change. But Sixth 200,000 tourists that annually a fungus that has killed them off in New York Extinction is not only about hu- traipse through Howe Caverns, and New England, and spread South, West and man-caused global warming, al- in nearby Schoharie County. to Canada. though that figures large in her “Without human help,” she My garden’s spring breakdown would be discussions of rising CO² levels comments, “long-distance trav- immediately recognizable to Elizabeth Kolbert, in the seas around us. el is for most species difficult, whose new book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnat- This wide-ranging book—a bordering on impossible.” ural History (Henry Holt and Company), is an il- kind of “unnatural” adventure Kolbert smoothly inte- luminating account of how we humans continue in thirteen meticulous chapters— also laments grates scientific history and contemporary re- to destroy our planet’s oceans and atmosphere, other ways in which we humans have eradicated search with first-hand observation. Traveling plants and animals, setting the stage for poten- flora and fauna. From the start of what the Dutch to Iceland, she connects with a fisherman who tially eradicating the most precious animal of Nobel Prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen calls takes her to the base of a towering rock called all – ourselves. the “Anthropocene” epoch (in his view, begin- Eldey Island, where the Great Auk made its last There have been five major extinctions dur- ning 11,000 or more years ago), humans have See KOLBERT, continued on Page 19 Page 10 The New Franklin Register Fall 2012 MEET THE CANDIDATES: The New Franklin Register wrote to each of this year’s candidates for Franklin’s two open Town Council seats, inviting them to send us brief biographical information and a statement of their positions and goals, if elected in November. We offer those statements exactly as we received them, uncut and unedited. Election Day is Tuesday, November 4th. Polls are open from 6 AM to 9 PM. DON’T FORGET TO VOTE! BRYAN BABCOCK Bryan Babcock believes that with sev- Handsome Brook Farm is a 75 acre eral major infrastructure projects on the farm overlooking the village of Franklin. horizon in Delaware County, it is essential Farm operations include 15 acres of or- that we protect our roads and utilities. To ganic blueberries, an agri-tourism bed do this, our Town Board needs to be proac- and breakfast, all natural fruit preserves, tive. Babcock feels that his experience as and pasture raised eggs (cage-free and a business leader will help the Board be organic). These products are available even more effective for Franklin residents. throughout New York at area Price Chop- Babcock, a professor at Hartwick College, per stores, Hannaford, Shop-Rite, Fresh is committed to keeping resident taxes Direct, and local health food grocers. Be- low and preserving the rural quality of life. ginning four years ago with 15 backyard One example of his commitment to chickens, Handsome Brook Farm eggs Franklin is his pledge to implement the are now sold in over 20 states along the Comprehensive Town Plan. Several years East Coast, Mid-West, and Texas. The bed ago New York State provided funding for a and breakfast specializes in orienting ur- Comprehensive Town Plan. Despite broad ban residents to a small farm operation based input into the plan, the town board utilizing sustainable practices for ener- has not taken action towards implementa- gy, ranching, and farming. In fact, Good- tion. Babcock believes it is time to imple- Morning America featured the farm as ment the aspirations and goals of Franklin one of four nationwide sustainable bed residents as expressed in the plan. and breakfasts. Another goal of Babcock’s candidacy Babcock’s business experience in- is to modernize town governance. He cludes being CEO of a multi-hospital sys- proposes that the town create a website tem, CEO and founder of an investment to post Board minutes, agendas, and ordi- ties of an agricultural community. As owner of firm, and owner/founder of varied busi- nances. This type of open and transparent pub- Handsome Brook Farm Bed and Breakfast, he nesses from a donut shop to an aviation supply lic facility would allow all Franklin residents the has brought tourism dollars to local Franklin retail store. He has a PhD in Ancient History and opportunity to have a voice in town decisions. businesses. Babcock intends to apply his busi- Languages, an MBA in Business and Healthcare Babcock operates Handsome Brook Farm ness experience to serve and protect Franklin Administration, an MA in Ancient Near East- (eggs, organic blueberries, sheep) and thus through objective decision-making and strong ern Language, an MTh in Theology, and a BA in understands the challenges and opportuni- negotiation with outside parties. Zoology. DONALD HEBBARD Don Hebbard is a graduate of Franklin Town Board. Franklin is facing many Central School and was raised on his family’s issues that threaten our rural envi- Franklin dairy farm. He studied Chemical En- ronment and the very way of life we gineering at Northeastern University in Boston have enjoyed and desire to maintain and graduated from Cornell with a BS degree for future generations. Threats to in Business Management. Don also completed water quality and supply, increasing a Business Management Certificate program at energy use that demands additional the University of Illinois at Chicago. high voltage power lines, high pres- After a thirty year stint as a dairy farmer in sure gas pipelines and compressor Treadwell, Don spent the next twenty years in stations, wind turbine towers, and the the food industry as a research scientist and specter of hydro-fracking are all is- Pilot Plant Manager at DMV (now known as sues challenging the Town of Frank- DOMO) in Fraser, and as Facility Manager and lin today, or will certainly arise in the Plant Engineer at Flavors of North America in near future. Carol Stream, Illinois. He then worked as an en- Addressing these quality of life gineering technician at the Watershed Agricul- and environmental issues, as well tural Council in Walton, gaining almost seven as road maintenance, public safe- years experience in environmental issues and ty, tourism, business retention and maintaining water quality. After retiring from job creation, all the while maintain- the Council in March 2014, Don started a new ing an equitable tax base, should venture, Hebbard Homestead Fence, which is be a continuing focus for the Town filling a niche for dairy, horse, beef, sheep, and Board. Many of these issues were ad- goat farm operations. dressed in the Comprehensive Plan, For the past 8 years, Don and his wife Lou- adopted in 2006 and supported by ise have lived near the Village of Franklin. a broad segment of the town’s pop- ulation. It is time to take that docu- Don Hebbard speaks: ment down from the shelf, dust it off, As a farmer, engineer, conservationist and and begin to implement some of the to represent the wishes of the people as we ad- now, an entrepreneur, I believe my varied edu- recommendations. dress these and other issues. cational and vocational experiences will pro- As a member of the Town Board, I will listen It is time to be proactive, and look ahead to vide a positive, proactive perspective on the carefully to all residents of Franklin and strive Franklin’s future with confidence. Fall 2014 The New Franklin Register Page 11 FRANKLIN TOWN council 2014

lisa huyck

My name is Lisa Huyck. I am running for a tion in 1992. I have been an adjunct Town Board position in the Town of Franklin. I instructor in Accounting since the was appointed last spring to fill out a term of Fall of 2012 at SUNY Delhi. a Board member that had moved. I feel I am In 1991 I married Robert Huyck learning a great deal about the workings of lo- and moved to Treadwell, where he cal government, as this is my first official office is a partner in Huyck Valley Farms, I’ve held. I think it is important to have a fe- a working dairy farm. We have two male on the Town Board, as well as have some- children, Lindsay and Lynndon. one able to represent the hamlet of Treadwell, Lindsay aspires to become a welder which is a part of the Town of Franklin. Elect- at some point soon, and Lynndon ing me to the Board would fulfill both of these has starting his college career at important concepts. SUNY Delhi this fall. Occasionally I A little about myself. I was born in Walton, milk cows, when I am needed to (a and graduated from Walton Central School. I skill that is not forgotten, ever...). grew up on a dairy farm and had a great deal I feel it is important to give back of responsibility as I was attending school. I to the community. I have been a was active in music, sports, and did well aca- member of the Treadwell Fire De- demically. Upon graduation from high school, partment and Emergency Squad I attended Clarkson University, in Potsdam, NY. since 1991. I just renewed my EMT-B I received a Bachelor of Science degree in In- certification. I have served as a 4-H dustrial Distribution, a combination of a Busi- leader, Girl Scout leader, Boy Scout ness and Mechanical Engineering degree. Af- leader, Youth Soccer coach, and ter graduation I came back home and helped sat on the Supervisory Committee manage the family’s farm. I substituted at An- of Chen-Del-O FCU. Of course I stay des, Downsville, Walton, and Franklin Central busy with school activities too, as I Schools. In the fall of 1986, I was hired by Frank- have been the Advisor of Student lin Central School as a Business teacher, and Council, and 7th grade. I have also property owners, and honesty. I would appre- have been there since. I attended SUCO and kept score at soccer games. ciate your vote as I seek to win a seat on the received a Master of Science degree in Educa- I value clean water, farm land, rights of Franklin Town Board!

Mr. Smith declined our invitation to provide his bi- donald smith ographical information or position statement.

The ballot as you will see it on Election Day. Note that the Town Board candidates are listed on the very far right side of the ballot. Three proposals are on the flip-side.

FRANKLIN SAMPLE BALLOT 2014 GENERAL ELECTION nd 51st Senate & 122 Assembly

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music fine arts literature poetry education ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT holiday fun at the TWO RIDDLES From the Bright Hill Literary Workshops for Kids Sum- mer 2014 This summer, the Bright Hill Literary Workshops for Kids library Program explored different venues: we went to the Mun- Jim mullen reviews son-William-Proctor Art Institute in Utica, the Museum of Science and Technology in Troy, and the Cornell Ornithol- new books ogy Lab & Sapsucker Woods in Ithaca. More than 150 kids, with the help of junior interns, senior interns and teaching artists, built sculptures, dioramas, Why Bad Things Happen to Bad People... and artist books; they wrote puppet plays and performed them; and they wrote about their experiences, often in THE BLADE ITSELF riddle form. Below are two riddles by local children, writ- By Joe Abercrombie ten after visiting the Cornell Ornithology Lab & Sapsucker Woods in Ithaca In the fantasy genre, if the story you’re writing is not at least a trilogy, get out of the way, you’re going to be trampled by the likes of Patrick Rothfuss, George R.R. Martin, J.R.R. Riddle Tolkien, Diana Gabaldon, Philip Pullman, J.K. Rowling, Neil Stephenson and a few hundred others. The Blade Itself is the first book of The First Law Trilogy. Don’t ask me what the First A case of life, I might not reach my final state. Law is, because not explaining that kind of thing is part of the High up in a tree, I only ponder the thought of life. genre. Abercrombie will get around to it in volume seven or All day I am watched and sometimes sat on. eight. Another trope of Fantasy is that all the major characters Survival is over without these soft guardian feathers. must have some kind of comic book-like super power, a pow- If I am crushed, all hope is gone. er that is hard to control, a power which they are always the last person on their alternate As my case opens, it starts to shatter. earth to discover they have. Of course, no two characters can have the same superpowers, so they tend to cancel each other out. Rock, meet Paper and Scissors. Out comes my wet, gross physical form. The Blade Itself is also heavy on the other major meme in modern fiction: that the Soon I will soar through the skies. hero is not a good guy, just the least-bad guy in the tale -- see Cap’n Jack Sparrow, Dex- What am I? ter, Tyrion Lannister. This is the fantasy Treasure of Sierra Madre, not the next Lord of the Rings, but something tells me he could do it someday. You might as well start here. –Demitri Jaromack, Franklin, 7th grade GOING POSTAL Answer: Bird’s egg By Terry Pratchett

Going Postal is Pratchett’s 33rd Discworld novel, set on an alternate world that re- minds us of London in the 1840s, a world run by powerful Scrooges and peopled by a Riddle pitiable underclass with names like Moist von Lipwig, Tolliver Groat and Adora Belle Dearheart. If I didn’t know better, I would swear someone had found and published a I am like a tree long-lost sci-fi comedy written by Charles Dickens. There is no way to explain the wit, My ears are not ears charm and cleverness of this novel without, well, repeating I often live in tall houses every word in the book. I come out when the sky shines Ne’er-do-well con man von Lipwig, given the Hob- son’s choice of killing himself or running the city’s non-func- I love to sing tional postal service, reluctantly takes the job and discov- Who am I? ers that none of the letters coming into the huge post office building have ever left it. On a whim he actually delivers –Evelyn Potrzeba, Treadwell, 2nd grade a 40 year-old letter that starts a long, Dickensian chain of events. Once again, our hero is the least-bad person in the book. Pratchett uses his Discworld not just to parody our Answer: Screech Owl own, but also to explain it. I never realized what a small step for man but a giant leap for mankind was the invention of the simple postage stamp. It seems so obvious, so low-tech, until you realize that it wasn’t and isn’t. I’m going to read this again, after I read the first thirty-two.

WORST. PERSON. EVER. By Douglas Coupland

Raymond Gunt is a snobby British cameraman on the crew of a “Survivor” type TV show on a remote Pacific Island. Ray has no filter and comments on his daily frustrations in a way that makes the most foul-mouthed, misogynistic rapper sound like Mr. Rogers. Like a Tourette’s syndrome Seinfeld, there is no First World problem too small to escape his bile -- children’s names, the Pacific trash vortex, Americans, sporks, Homeland Secu- rity, and women’s total lack of interest in having casual sex with him. Or any other kind. Yet it is shockingly funny in the way that Sam Kinison’s solution to Third World fam- ines was to yell at starving, desert-dwellers: “Move to where the food is!” Obviously, this is not for everyone and you may think yelling at the TSA is petty or old hat, but I side with Raymond on this. Since our institutions are run by people who look like us and wear suits, we think it’s normal to pay good money to be squeezed into a tiny seat for eight hours. If ISIS did this to us, we would slaughter them with glee and laugh about it. Yes, Ray- mond is offensive. But so is television, airlines, Homeland Secu- rity and all the other things he rants about. Why does his dirty mouth upset us more than institutions that are actually doing us the harm? This book easily could have been called The Way We Talk Now. It is Lord of the Flies with grown-ups. Fall 2014 The New Franklin Register Page 13 DESPITE VANDALISM... ARTS FESTIVAL UpState A BIG SUCCESS Arts By Jane Carr In early July, the art- munity during those two ists of Franklin/Treadwell, days. Most of that goes to supported by several local the artists, of course. The convenience. For that rea- level of respect and cooper- new people. Neither group sponsors, held the 19th an- Festival not only supple- son, I ask everyone in our ation as we go about trying can, by itself, make a small nual two-day Stagecoach ments our income (few of community to enjoy the Fes- to make a living in the arts. community work. Run Art Festival. us make enough from our tival, but if you can’t, please For as long as I’ve lived We’ve lost our general We had a very success- art to live on it) with sales put up with the inconve- in the Treadwell area -- store, our post office and ful festival in many ways. during the event, but allows nience that one weekend. thirty-five years now -- the our community center in Twenty-one art venues and us to make additional sales The Festival supports your community has fallen into the hamlet of Treadwell. It fifty-five artists participat- throughout the year to local artists, enabling us to two groups: those whose is vitally important that we ed, with twenty-seven local people who come to know do our share to support the sponsors. Thanks to a fol- our work by attending the community. low-up survey, we estimate Festival. And I believe this is im- THE BREADMOBILE that the festival brought in And by creating an art portant for the long term COMES TO TREADWELL over $25,000 in revenue event in Treadwell/Franklin, survival of our community. this year. This includes the the artists in our communi- Our area used to be sup- sale of art, plus purchases ty are able to draw visitors ported by dairy farming. at local shops, food venues from not only Delaware and But dairy farming can no and gas stations. Otsego counties, but even longer bear the entire bur- FOKISH We realize that some farther away. We now pub- den. The survival of our members of our communi- licize the event in towns in community depends on our Twists, Cinnabuns, Croissants, ty find the Festival inconve- the Hudson Valley. By open- opening the door to other Healthbread, 7-Grain, Oat&Flax, nient. For two days a year, ing our studios on the same people producing and sell- it does draw a lot of traffic weekend, and drawing so ing other kinds of things. Butter Rings, Baguettes, Rye, and, for some, upsets the many visitors, we are able to Why not art? It’s quiet. It’s Wholewheat, Cin-Maple-Raisin, etc. rhythm of the village. From introduce our art to a wider non-polluting. time to time, we’ve expe- audience and more effec- If the dairy farmers of order at 829-2721 rienced some backlash tively market it. Franklin/Treadwell orga- on the road at 353-5541 from a few people here in So the Festival benefits nized a Dairy Festival that Saturday evenings the community. Previously the artists. But because it drew hundreds of people the backlash has mainly benefits the artists, it ben- into our community for a taken the form of artists efits the community. These weekend, we’d anticipate families have lived here for form a single, solid com- being heckled. This year, artists making this money that all members of our generations, and the new munity: the town of Frank- however, we also experi- through their art are your community, however they people. As dairy farming lin, all of us. We don’t need enced vandalism. During neighbors. We spend made their living, would fades, and the community to have each other to din- the Festival weekend, signs much of that money in the enjoy the show. And even if becomes home to a larger ner. We don’t need to have directed visitors to various community. I will pay my they found it inconvenient, number of people support- warm and fuzzy feelings artists’ studios outside of local mower, snow plow- we would expect every one ing themselves by produc- for one another. But we the village, some of which - er, garbage pick-up, cord of them to put up with it. We ing other kinds of goods do need to tolerate one with the roadwork on Route wood supplier, and framer wouldn’t tolerate vandalism and services, we need to another, respect one an- 16 - can only be reached with the money I make from directed against the event. reduce that gap between other’s traditions, try to un- by a detour. Fourteen of selling the art I produce. The artists of this com- those who have lived here derstand one another, and these signs were smashed Furthermore, like many of munity ask for the same for generations and the most of all, work together. and thrown off the side of the artists participating in the road, in Treadwell, Ara- the Festival, I own a home bia and Franklin. Two ban- in the Town of Franklin, ners were also vandalized. and my income as an artist So it seems that it’s time to helps me pay my property talk about how the Festival taxes, which help maintain benefits the residents of and sustain our roads and Treadwell and Franklin. schools. Most obviously, there’s So at the most basic the more than $25,000 that dollars-and-cents level, the visitors spend in the com- Festival is worth a little in-

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TREADWELL, continued from Page 1 ment. My mom keeps a in hand. Buying property at beautiful and bountiful veg- the tax auction feels some- etable garden. Across the what like playing at a claw road was the laiterie where crane vending machine. the dairy farmers from the You sort of see what you surrounding countryside want, you make a cheap try would deliver their milk. As for it, and only if you get it kids, we’d have to carry two do you really understand metal jugs. I would do this what you got. contemplating an experi- And just like spending ment in centrifugal force: that quarter on the claw what if I spun my arms up, crane, the auction seemed back, down, and again? Of to happen quickly. It was course I was too terrified at a long list of properties, the possibility of the milk and Franklin Township was spilling and the conse- mid-way alphabetically, but quences that would fall on the suspense of not know- me. I never did try it and ing how much the desired now I wonder: which was property will go for and how more likely, the milk pour- many people you will try to ing out or my arms twisting outbid makes time seem to out of my shoulder sockets? stop and fly simultaneously. FRANKLIN ONLINE That village life, grow- The day before, I had been The Comprehensive Plan was devel- ing up in it, defines a con- given the result of the title By Helen McLean oped in 2006 by the Town Board, a group sequential part of who I search, and having been to of interested Franklin residents, with became. The other part of auctions previously, I knew The Franklin Local website has a rich help from the Delaware County Planning growing up, becoming an to put a mental limit on what assortment of information for residents as Department. adult, happened in the ur- I could spend. My real es- well as visitors to our town. Originally cre- The Mission Statement of the Compre- ban life of this country. One tate agent had kindly ap- ated as a project of Franklin Local, it has hensive Plan is: “To guide future growth might say that I am now peared at my side for moral expanded to be a vibrant information life- and development within the Town of Frank- trying to reconcile the two: support. I waved my num- line for the community. lin in a manner that respects the Town’s a village in a profoundly ber card until the other bid- A calendar lists all known events in rural character, so that its unique sense of American place. It is a der stopped, luckily under Franklin. Events of interest to the general place is enhanced, its agricultural, historic, country where someone my limit. A friend staying public can be submitted to the calendar and natural resources protected; and its so- might literally walk away with me had exclaimed at using the online contact form. cial and economic vitality ensured for years from a house, leaving piles breakfast, “Are you walking Two other major projects of Franklin to come.” [See article on Pg. 1] of belongings behind, and out this morning and com- Local, the Franklin Farmers’ Market and One of the plan’s recommendations that allowing someone else to ing back with a house?!” The New Franklin Register (NFR), are both has been successfully implemented is the grab an opportunity. That’s exactly what represented on the website. All recent is- creation of a Farmers’ Market to allow for A year after I had heard happened. sues of the NFR are online, with older is- the sale of local produce and other farm about the county auction of Happy to be in the ham- sues being added as time permits. products. Other recommendations have properties foreclosed on let of Treadwell which I’ve Of particular interest in this election been forgotten over the years. Perhaps as because of years of unpaid been visiting already for season is the section devoted to local gov- concerned citizens, we should all re-read taxes, my real estate agent, a few years, I have both a ernment. In the absence of an official town the Comprehensive Plan and work togeth- Rosalie Glauser, men- house and a community to website, we post essential information er to prioritize what we can do to maintain tioned a house that was on explore. Now that things such as a list of current town officials, local the character of this town we love so much. the list this year and might are in motion, I am hop- laws, the current budget, the Comprehen- You can download a copy here: be what I’d been looking ing that the milk won’t spill sive Plan and minutes of the Town Board http://franklinlocal.org/local/ for. We drove by the place and that my shoulders will meetings. comprehensive-plan/ in Treadwell, and it was. prove to be stronger. Three days later, I was in the Delaware County court- To be continued in our room with my number card Spring issue. Hare and Feather Farm The Freshest Eggs & Meats

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Neighbors down- wind of such stations have unexplained symptoms: respiratory, dermatological, and neurological. Turbines exhaust a continuous stream of combustion products. Blow downs release huge volumes of gas, which is mostly methane but contains numerous minor and trace chemicals. And there are persistent leaks, vis- ible only in the infrared. While methane is not toxic, it is combustible, creating a constant risk of explosions and fires. In February of 2012, TGP had a fire at its station #249 on its #200 pipeline in Carlisle, Schoha- Solar Turbine model Titan 130 turbine and C65 compressor producing 20,500 hp to rie County, which resulted in over $100,000 damage. The Wil- move 20,000 cu ft per min at 1,600 psi. The compressor is the cylinder in the cen- liams’ Dunbar station on the Laser NE pipeline in West Windsor, ter with 30 inch input and output gas pipelines. The turbine is the smaller cyl- Broome County, caught on fire in January of this year, the second inder upper right, between the air intake and exhaust. Photo: Solar Turbines, Inc. time in as many years. The certainty of noise and air pollution and the risk of explosion and fire make this industrial installation a very bad neighbor, bringing with it a substantial decrease in nearby property values. And certainly a compressor station is contrary to the goal of keeping the rural character of Franklin, as set-out in our 2006 Comprehensive Plan. The location of this station is not certain. In April, the TGP announcement of NED placed this mid-stream station east of Route 28. In September, its pre-filing request moved the station a few miles to the west. The proposed location could be moved again in its pre-filing (31st October) or filing (September 2015). The middle of the 135-mile pipeline is at mile 67.5, near Crane Hill Road, Sidney. Typically such stations are sited on parcels of a few tens of acres. Although a pipeline company could legally try to use eminent domain to seize a site, in practice it almost always locates a willing seller somewhere along the target zone. FARMERS’ MARKETS AND A SUSTAINABLE WAY OF LIFE By Carole Marner markets - Oneonta, Coo- sustainability? First and When we first moved to spending a winter after- perstown and Pakatakan foremost, sustainability is Franklin in 1971, the village noon going into the woods In the NFR’s last issue, - so that farmers selling at a condition of life. If some- still had every kind of busi- to find princess pine for Denise and Tom Warren these markets can thrive. thing is unsustainable, it ness and shop. Not as self- Christmas decorations. of Stone and Thistle Farm This also seemed to them to will go away. It will not sur- sustaining as a hundred Too expensive, you in East Meredith (which be environmentally sound. vive. Secondly, using this years ago, but thriving. Ev- say. But think about it. We produces excellent grass- But to me, it seems wrong definition, sustainability is ery week, grocer Palmer all have heard the statistic fed meat, eggs and milk) - for many reasons. Nowa- also frugality - not consum- Clark would go into Oneon- that seventy percent of the wrote that the prolifera- days I try first to consider ing more than you need ta to see what the super- money spent in a commu- tion of farmers’ markets in what is most sustainable. and thereby using every- markets were selling and nity stays in the commu- many towns in Delaware Sustainability has joined thing up. Thinking about at what price, so he could nity. Instead of exporting County is hurting certain our common discourse as a sustainability forces you to provide this food and mer- money to billionaires like farmers. Instead of patron- good thing. Often it is used think about how and what chandise at the same price the Waltons of Walmart, it izing a small village mar- as if it were merely a bet- you do and how you spend in his market in Franklin. would go to our neighbors ket, they asked, local resi- ter choice, rather than an your resources - your time We can lament that I-88 ru- who own their own busi- dents should drive to one inevitable condition of life. and money - so that you can ined all that but I-88 merely nesses. And all our farm- of the three large farmers’ For what is the measure of survive. facilitated it. The loss was ers, not just those at the big really our fault. There was farmers’ markets, would no reason to shop in the thrive. Some say you can- malls on I-88. In order to not turn the clock back. I save a bit of money on food agree. But that is not a jus- and merchandise and - tification for an impover- even worse - to be tempted ished future Just cleaning to spend much too much up the mess we have made on unnecessary purchases will be tough enough with- coming from other conti- out contributing to greater nents, we have committed desolation. Support your a kind of crowd madness. local farms and businesses If everyone in Franklin and now so that when things get other towns shopped at really tough, we will have local farmers’ markets as some local resilience to fall well as local businesses, back on, they would all still flour- So much that our parents ish. Instead of hundreds of did and that we continue to shoppers driving to a farm- do is simply not sustainable. ers’ market in Oneonta, as In fairness to us and to them, the Warrens prefer, twelve it was not until recent years farmers would drive to that we have learned the Franklin. And we would enormity of this fact. If we spend less time in cars and refuse to think about it, our shopping, and do more descendants will suffer con- enjoyable things. Like sequences far worse than See MARKETS, continued on Page 17 Page 16 The New Franklin Register Fall 2014 SOLAR, continued from Page 8 if it took you twenty-five years to ning. So not only were they experi- pay off your system, which it won’t, enced, but they have a tremendous you’ve fixed your energy costs for reputation for integrity and quality the next twenty-five years. And that I knew was not only great for do you think National Grid and ELLIOT COHEN DESIGN my system installation, but would the other guys will be charging RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL/PROJECT MANAGEMENT be very easy for me to stand be- the same rates they are now in five hind as a representative.” years? Ten years? No way. That’s Once things were set in motion, where you find the real savings.” it wasn’t long before Hickman took Hickman details that the av- on the responsibility of becoming erage home system is paid off in Smucker’s Energy NY—the Smuck- seven to eight years, while most 5825 EAST HANDSOME BROOK RD FRANKLIN NY 13775 (607) 829-8559 (607) 434-2345 er’s sales representative for the agricultural and some commer- southern half of New York State. cial systems are paid back as ter that short payback time, it’s all systems for customers as near as Solar’s biggest selling point, quickly as three to five years. He free energy.” Franklin and as far away as Syra- Hickman believes, is the combi- also shows that his electric bill has Hickman watches his electrical cuse. “Interest is everywhere,” he nation of savings and affordability been cut from about $200 a month meter cycle through one more time, says. “People are beginning to re- that people are beginning to real- to $30—the majority of which is satisfied with the results. “My goal alize the benefits, and there are few ize is available. hook-up fees. And with state and has always been to do well by do- areas of day-to-day life where you “With energy prices rising, national incentives that are avail- ing good,” he summarizes simply. can save this much money without solar costs dropping, and incen- able for virtually every system in- “I feel like I’m helping people take affecting the quality of your life- tives increasing, it is now more stallation, average system payback back a part of their lives that previ- style. Solar makes sense. It just economically beneficial to have a times have shrunk to less than a ously has been out of their control, makes sense.” system put in than to pay a power third of the system warranty. and for me, that’s a good thing.” If you want to know more about company,” says Hickman. “We tell “Most system components are In the short time he’s been sell- solar, Hickman invites you stop by everybody the same thing when warrantied at max production for ing systems in New York, Hickman or give him a call at (518) 944-6099. they’re asking about solar—even twenty-five years,” he says. “So af- has already quoted out over twenty

COMPRESSOR, con’t from Page 9 been informed of limited supply rather than the safety consid- developing renewable and months a year and these erations and plans unlimited energy sources operations are standard of this facility. An early seems short sighted and ill operating procedures and warning system alerting conceived. represents no change.” Has residents of danger to the We urge the commis- this operation been evalu- surrounding numerous sion to carefully consider ated for its environmental homes and its occupants the points and concerns impact? I have received no has never been established raised. notice or correspondence and an evacuation plan of its impact on this resi- never formulated and put Carl Berg, Ph.D. dential community. in place and tested. By vi- NOISE: sual inspection, the facility The noise and vibra- is surrounded simply by a Coalition Forms to Fight Fossil-Fuel tions from the running of chain-link fence and there the existing compressor appears to be no visual Pipelines Throughout Northeastern USA is quite apparent and dis- surveillance equipment or turbing. When running at security personnel patrol- On October 18th, representatives of more than three dozen groups from full throttle in the winter ling the area. This situation around the Northeast met in Albany to form an alliance to resist the huge pro- months the sound from the leaves one feeling in great posed build-out of fracked gas infrastructure that threatens to devastate ru- compressor can be heard jeopardy regarding person ral communities all over our region. inside my home with all and property. the double paned win- EMISSIONS: dows closed. During the The compressor tur- past year, even during the bines are operated by the summer months a constant burning of fossil fuels. The drone is heard twenty-four exhaust of the combustion hours per day. The com- is discharged by the nu- pressors are housed in a merous stacks on the facil- simple corrugated metal ity. I have no equipment structure with windows to measure this output, but and apparently no sound can report to the commis- reduction insulation. It is sion that a distinct odor is now proposed that an ad- apparent during the op- ditional high capacity and erating months. Since it high pressure pipeline be appears that operation is installed. That prospect is now twelve months a year, frightening and disturbing. there is a continuous pres- An investment in a sound ence of this exhaust. Why proof structure housing this hasn’t this facility been re- turbine is mandatory, along quired to install catalytic with something equivalent converters equivalent to to car “mufflers‚“ on the nu- those required in motor merous stacks that exhaust vehicle combustion? An the combustion material additional pipeline simply necessary to run the com- compounds the existing pressor turbines. problems. SAFETY & SECURITY: These are the concerns Given the volume and regarding this proposal. pressure of this highly The negative impact on volatile and explosive ma- the environment, health, terial being transported safety and property val- underground and in this ues on the community are above ground pipeline unquestionable and indis- compressor station, the is- putable. A further invest- sue of safety and security is ment in the infrastructure paramount. We have never to support a fuel source in Fall 2014 The New Franklin Register Page 17 FRACKING, con’t from Page 8 POWERS, con’t from Page 6 industry will show up are clearly illegal, gas com- The Board has the power fee-paying wells, but even years or decades after panies have consented to of eminent domain, which could be used to obtain ease- there, impact fee disburse- these revenues have been pay the fees for political ments for local roads. However it has not been used with- ments to local governments collected and spent by reasons: to reduce the call in living memory. have already declined in localities. for serious taxation of this Treadwell lighting and water districts are adminis- the three years since the In Afton, the three cur- super-profitable industry. tered by the town board because the hamlet lacks its own system was established, re- rent well applications paid The impact fee law, by its government. flecting the declining per- one-time fees, for a total of own terms, expires on the In conclusion, one must ask how well our town board well fee levels ($50,000 in $10,460. None of this trivial adoption of a state sever- has fulfilled these responsibilities. Did the board exercise year 1, $40,000 in year two, amount is forwarded by the ance tax. Thus, every local its powers for good or has it not done much at all? Has it and $30,000 in year three). state to our town. It can’t official who needs the im- carried out the recommendations provided in the Com- Third, the press re- even cover the administra- pact fee disbursements to prehensive Plan? Should a town board do more for its citi- lease says that “the money tive costs of the permitting, mitigate local road and oth- zens than clearing the roads and managing the budget? helps counties and local much less the cost of regu- er damages by the industry The answer is in the ballot box. communities address any lation and monitoring of has become a political op- impacts from the industry, the wells: another subsidy ponent of any level of state- FARMERS, continued from Page 15 such as the repair of local to the gas industry. level taxation. anything we have known. nitely available, my family roadways, environmental So revenues from gas Everyone hopes some mag- has tried to do just that. So protections and affordable drilling to New York town Interested in The Afton ic technological bullet will I suggest that if everyone in housing opportunities.” governments will be lim- Vision:? save us from having to be- Oneonta shopped at their That is, the fees are used to ited to their share of prop- It goes out to everyone have frugally and sustain- farmers’ market and every- undo the damage done by erty-tax revenues collected in the 13730 zip code and ably. Meanwhile, we distract one in Franklin shopped at the industry itself. They do on producing wells (the is available in hard copy at ourselves with fantasies of theirs, we would all have not contribute to the gen- share that does not go to many businesses in the area. space travel and mass evac- thriving farmers and sus- eral welfare as do taxes. the county). Naturally, lo- A digital edition is sent to a uation to other planets when tainable communities. But the main problem cal gas promoters will be list of about 100 subscribers. this one runs out. with all revenues from the trumpeting and exaggerat- If you would like an email I have this little man- shale drilling industry, be ing those tax prospects, so subscription, you can write to tra: Buy local, buy Ameri- they impact fees or sever- I will deal with them in the Don Gersch at Aftonvison@ can, buy second-hand or do ance taxes, is that the eco- next issue of the Vision. gmail.com, and he will add without. In the last fifteen nomic, financial and envi- Footnote: 1Since retro- you to his list. Past issues are years since discovering ronmental damage that is active (ex post facto) laws also available. that fossil fuel is not infi- part-and-parcel of the gas

GREEN ENERGY COMPLICATIONS: Running the Numbers in the DCEC Debate By Tom Martone lation date. The policy is clearly antagonistic to sis to support the claimed $8000 program cost, the promotion of local green energy generation but $8,000 spread across 5,400 cooperative The Delaware County Electric Cooperative by co-op members, today and into the future. It members equates to a mere $1.48 per year per (DCEC) held its annual meeting at the Dela- virtually ensures that DCEC members will be member. Currently, eighteen members have ware Academy in Delhi on Sept 19, 2014. In unable to install economically viable solar and installed local green energy systems: sixteen its most important matter of business, all three wind systems at their homes. solar and two wind. The first was installed in incumbents, one running unopposed, were re- Members concerned about this policy Andes in 2009, so it has taken five years to reach elected to their seats on the board of directors. change have been waiting months for an expla- the current level of penetration (0.33%). The Only 130 votes were cast - a 2.4% turnout in the nation. At the annual meeting, Mark Schneider $240,000 number which caused audible gasps approximately 5,400 member cooperative. shed some light on the rationale when he spoke in the auditorium is associated with a 10% pen- Three significant challenges facing the co- of the “burden on the general membership” at- etration level, which would take 150 years at the operative - high winter rates, a policy change tributed to the prior policy. current rate of installation. Note that there is a related to renewables, and reliability is- statewide cap of 2% penetration for dis- sues in two geographical pockets - were tributed generation on the investor-owned discussed by CEO/General Manager Mark utilities in New York State. Central Hud- Schneider in his annual meeting report. son Gas & Electric Corp. is the only one While cold winter weather and trees of the five major utilities in New York that falling on power lines are problems for all has reached that level and their President, electric utilities, the challenge of the re- James Laurito, stated at the New York Solar newables policy change was brought on Summit on June 3, 2014 that they want to by an initiative of the cooperative’s board move beyond that because that’s what their and management. Since 2009, DCEC mem- customers are demanding. bers who have installed renewable distrib- Couldn’t DCEC do something reason- uted generation systems at their homes able like institute a penetration cap of 1% (solar or wind, typically) have been cred- or 2%, thus keeping the door open for their ited with the full retail value of the energy members rather than shutting it complete- their system supplies to the cooperative’s ly? After all, Mr. Schneider stated that “the grid. This billing arrangement, referred to policy change was not made to respond to as net energy metering (NEM), is in effect an emergency that we face today.” for customers of investor-owned utilities How does the membership feel about throughout New York State and forms the this policy? No vote was called at the annu- foundation by which a household recoups al meeting, but perhaps this question from the value of a residential solar investment. a poll conducted in 2010 gives a sense of In this year’s Jan/Feb Catskill Hi-Line newslet- He explained, “Right now with eighteen how much they value renewable energy and ter, the cooperative announced that it had aban- members selling renewable energy back to what is an appropriate cost: among members doned net energy metering in a policy change DCEC’s grid, the program costs DCEC’s mem- who expressed an opinion, about 55% (179 of effective November 26, 2013. Following push- bers approximately $8,000 annually, buy- 326) think a rate increase of between 1% and back by the membership at public board meeting this energy at retail price as compared to 15% is appropriate. The claimed $8,000 pro- ings and a private negotiation through an attor- wholesale price. With this old policy, if one gram cost amounts to an increase of less than ney conducted in closed executive session, the percent or about 54 members installed solar 0.2%. cooperative again changed the policy, effective panels at home, DCEC’s program costs would It seems clear that the abandoned net en- July 22, 2014, to partially grandfather the exist- increase to approximately $24,000 per year. ergy metering policy is perfectly in line with ing installations while keeping the unfavorable Again under the old policy, if we had ten per- the intentions and values of the membership. policy for any new installations. cent of our members installing solar panels at Members can only hope that the management While the partial grandfathering can be home, the program would cost DCEC members and board of the cooperative address this chal- celebrated as a small victory, it creates a situa- approximately $240,000 per year. For many of lenge by reconsidering their recent policy tion which is even more complicated and unfair, our members on fixed incomes, this additional changes. and deciding to act in the interest of with different billing arrangements for mem- burden would be difficult.” their membership. bers based on their renewable system’s instal- The cooperative has not provided an analy- Winter Page 18 2009 The New Franklin Register F all P age 2014 12

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mine how the citizens of Franklin The plan also suggested that not currently provide any support promoting agri and eco-tourism, envisioned the future of their com- the Town of Franklin create pub- for the effort. Preserve historic buildings, munity. An initial public meeting lic access points along the Oule- In the realm of sustainable en- barns and other resources was held on March 9, 2006 at the out Creek, a DEC designated trout ergy, the plan recommends that Protect water quality and pre- Franklin Central School. Addition- stream that is stocked annually. the Town establish standards for serve open spaces al meetings were held throughout Trout fishing is a major attraction the development of wind farms, Better design of commercial & the summer of 2006. The respons- elsewhere in the Catskills, where it including noise levels, nuisance industrial development es to a survey mailed to all prop- provides sub- abatement, Maintain and improve transpor- erty owners in the Town and Vil- stantial sup- and appear- tation system lage of Franklin were also used to port for local ance. The plan Enhance recreational get a sense of the community. In stores, res- also suggests opportunities the survey, the main concern of the taurants and that develop- Retain agriculture and farmland citizens of Franklin was to preserve inns. ers of wind Improve the appearance of the the rural character of the Town. Almost energy facili- Town Other important issues included 90% of Frank- ties pay for en- Today, we have been presented protection of natural resources and lin residents gineering as- with a unique opportunity to recon- preserving farming as an industry. agreed that it sessments of nect Franklin to its natural and his- In keeping with the desires of is important to local roads as toric resources. Heritage, eco-and the townspeople to maintain their protect farm- well as cover agri-tourism can boost the local rural lifestyle while increasing job land and keep land in agricultural the cost of bringing those roads up economy without destroying our creation, the plan recommended production. However, it was also to the standards necessary to sup- most valuable asset – the natural that the Town actively support the agreed that the Town should work port heavy construction vehicles. beauty of our land. Creating val- developing arts and entertainment more pro-actively with farmers to Similarly, the plan recommended ue-added goods, such as cheese, industries as well as other small find ways to make it financially and that the town carefully monitor pro- maple products, honey, pastured businesses that were compatible ecologically sustainable to contin- posals for natural gas exploration meats, and other artisanal prod- with the Town’s rural character, ue to farm. Along these lines, the to assure that they do not adversely ucts will strengthen both the ag- including artist studios, antique plan proposed that the Town work affect the surrounding properties. ricultural and tourism sectors and shops, bakeries and cafes, as well with the Franklin Chamber of Com- In brief, the goals of the Com- allow for sustainable development. as agri-and eco-tourism. Cultural merce to establish a Farmer’s Mar- prehensive Plan, as adopted by the Our Comprehensive Plan is a resources, including the Franklin ket, which can serve as an attraction Town of Franklin, are: good plan, a healthy plan, a future- Stage Company and the Bright Hill to increase tourism as well as pro- Retain the rural character of the looking plan. But for it to be effec- Center in Treadwell, along with vide an outlet for local agricultural town tive, the Town of Franklin must be many local artists, provide an addi- and artisanal products. While a Revitalize hamlet business cen- willing to implement its recom- tional pathway to develop tourism, market has been established, it is a ters (Treadwell & North Franklin) mendations and use it as a frame- building on the demonstrated suc- project of the citizens’ group Frank- Enhance economic opportuni- work to guide our decisions going cess of the Stagecoach Run. lin Local. The Town of Franklin does ties by expanding agriculture and forward.

Okay, friends and neighbors - Jack is back and as confused as ever, and you are, too, right? So why not join him in another thrilling episode of... MURDER AT THE FARMERS’ MARKET Sorry, sorry, sorry. Sorry to be gone so long. Jeez, Ester Williams selling lawn sprinklers. But the capper, the demo derby, the country you’d think I was haulin your water by hand. The Adams Family selling weeds. music star of the festival is the slug race. Couldn’t be helped. Away on assignment. Galileo selling Fokichini. Built from one 8.5” x 11” sheet of paper, get Somewhere along the line Trooper Cooper and the A couple of Jimmy Carters selling for peanuts. ready, get set, ooooze. local paper decided to investigate not just our Farm- Ben Franklin selling baguettes. Come back in two weeks to see who won. ers’ Market murders but others as well. Apparently Paul Bunyan selling grass-fed Black Angus and Blue They took my shoelaces, belt, razor, and nail- there have been many across the country. Vendors and Ox meat. managers alike seem to be in danger. Some people And George Washington selling cherries. clippers. They took my CD player, my phone, and just disappeared but there were bodies. Lots of bodies. Another new vendor at the market! my tablet. They took my pencils and pens. They decided to embed a reporter at the Ascle- The local funeral home. Then they took my temperature. pius Rest Home for Mentally Tired and Physically I won’t attempt to describe their farmstand. I began pacing the halls in my jellybean hospi- Taxed Farmers Market Workers somewhere outside of Well, okay. Halloween in July. tal slippers trying to engage inmates in conversa- Higglerville. Unfortunately, they’re outrageously expensive. tion, probing for information. How could I refuse? Credit cards not accepted. I met the Doctor of Apology who wears two I flew out to Higglerville and caught a taxi. The ride But at least they’re organic. Ghoulash. watches because he needs more time. from the desolate pavements of the airport through the And their queue is always long. Depending on I glommed rhetorical rheumatism and explored defeated detritus of an industrial park was colored by your point of view it either goes a long way back the wide-open spaces of interiority complex. my five o’clock shadow and weathered by someone else’s overcast day. It was a truly American melting or a long way forward. Yes, I would rather have a bottle in front of me pot neighborhood of senior communities, mental in- Next week they’re giving out free fortune than a frontal lobotomy. stitutions, liquor stores, and strip joints. A sustainable cookies. But still I began to doubt my reality. I had to environment if ever there was one. Don’t know why the keep repeating my journalists’ mantra. word permaculture came to mind. I try to keep things within a reasonable dis- ‘Success in life is simply a matter of being in the The driver let me off a few blocks from the Rest tance of tidy. But my usual kitchen mess was not right place at the right time asking the right peo- Home saying he wouldn’t go near the place. I walked quite right when I returned home. ple the right questions when they’re not ready’. in trying to pretend I belonged there. I must’ve looked Didn’t appreciate someone breaking into my The devastating collateral damage of coerced like I was walkin the dog without one. house and writing in my journal while I was gone. institutionalization reinforced by pharmaceuti- The Director met me at the gate. Something was missing. cal intervention far exceeds cures determined Not a garden on the grounds. The inmates would never agree on what to grow, the right time to harvest, And where the hell was Wilson’s dog? through vacuous assessment and diagnoses the way to wash, or the price to charge. guided by stereotypical biases. But it doesn’t Various vagrants in vegetable-print pajamas and Initiating the first annual Slugfest Farmers Mar- come close to the greed of the pharmaceutical money aprons glancing askance and mumbling to ket Spectacular! companies working to establish lifelong custom- imaginary customers snuk by giggling into their palms. Nothing to do with baseball, but it’s crowd- ers caught in a cyclical trap, ever-returning for Just like home. pleasing, child friendly, lipsmacking good. every infraction. Between the hypos, typos and schizos this was no We start off with traditional recipes; deep-fried Committed for life; Kafka is not a dancestep. vacation. slugs, Slugs Parmesan, and candied slugs. We’ve I missed my Facetube. The cops called them the cereal murders. To me they got slugmuffins, slug-on-the-cob, and Old Slug- were Fruit Loops without the sugar. The fruit was moot. ger beer where one of our slimy friends floats in But a picture began to emerge. A pattern, a Marie Antoinette selling brioches. Joe DeMaggio selling coffee beans place like the worm in Tequila. method, a motive began to surface. There was a Michael Jordan selling flip-flops. We’ve got Slugs Benedict, Slugs-On-The-Half- link somewhere. Crazy Eddie selling stolen stereos. shell, Slugs Stroganoff, and Slugs Quarantine. A chill the size of an iceberg went down my Glassfed beef. Yummy. spine. That nurse. I recognized her. Flea-range chicken. Free deranged chickens. Then there’s the competition for largest and Cruella 101. Organic firewood with charcoal dressing. smallest. It was Donna. Cross-dressing Crusaders. ...to be continued. Fall 2014 The New Franklin Register Page 19 KOLBERT, con’t from Page 9 Yorker, where parts of chap- who suggested I buy Spicy stand in 1844. On One Tree ters of this book first ap- Lime Basil plants and let Island, at the southernmost peared. Perhaps that’s why them flower. Bees, it turns tip of the Great Barrier Reef, the book lacks the fervor out, can’t get enough of Kolbert observes reef- the stuff. But the little brown bats seem to be building coral, which has The Newsletter of the Franklin Citizens Commission on Peak Oil gone for good, while declined there by fifty Editorial Board percent in just the past Japanese beetles ar- rived in hordes - pests, Ellen Curtis Carole Satrina Marner thirty years. She joins up Eugene Marner Hank Stahler in Peru with a forest ecol- Kolbert writes, that first Associate Editor: Brian Brock ogist who studies global appeared in the U.S. in 1916, in New Jersey. Editor warming’s impact on a Marjorie Bradley Kellogg tropical forest. Kolbert provides no solutions to the po- The effect of Kol- ven Ha a opinion? Witeo r t us! bert’s wide-ranging ap- tential mass extinc- At: The New Franklin Register proach is to demonstrate tion she believes we P.O. Box 258 how global our predica- have set in motion. Franklin, NY 13775 ment really is, and why She leaves us on no- or by email: [email protected] it’s human-made. The tice that human beings auks vanished because now have an evolution- they were easy dinner ary choice: we can What are we about? continue to abuse the for seafarers and did not The Franklin Citzens’ Commission on Peak Oil was au- Elizabeth Kolbert natural world around breed fast enough to sur- thorized on December 6th, 2005 by a Town Board Resolu- vive their decimation - a us, potentially leading, tion. Our purpose was to assess the needs and resources biological challenge cur- and urgency of Rachel Car- centuries hence, to our own of the Town of Franklin in the face of Peak Oil, and to report rently facing elephants in son’s revolutionary Silent extinction. Or we can take back to the Town Board and to the people of Franklin. Africa and rhinos in south- Spring, to which The Sixth any measures still available Renamed as Franklin Local Ltd., we are a not-for-profit east Asia. Extinction has been com- to lower our carbon output, corporation made up of Franklin residents. We meet once a month, at 7 P.M, at various locations - see our website for Coral reefs are dying pared. Carson’s 1962 expo- preserve wildlife and pro- sé of the perils of synthetic tect the oceans and forests information. All are welcome, to offer questions and help because we humans burn us answer them, to share thoughts and ideas. too much fossil fuel, send- pesticides sent an easily on which we depend for grasped, forceful message: survival. Please join us! ing high levels of CO² into We have a number of projects that we hope to move DDT means death for birds, The choice is ours. the atmosphere which is from idea to action: absorbed by the oceans, fish and animals - including • Local food production network now thirty percent more humans. Alexis Greene is an au- • Skills and services exchange acidic than they were two But as Kolbert herself thor and editor. She lives in • Goods exchange hundred years ago. Ulti- recognizes, concepts such Walton, NY and New York • Ride sharing bulletin board and/or website mately, coral will no longer as mass extinction, climate City with her husband, Gor- • Farm to School Program for school lunches • Community Greenhouses grow, or calcify, in that acid- change and global warm- don R. Hough. ing are hard to personalize • Community Energy Production ic environment, and the • Community Health Network intricate reef ecosystem - and thus tough for the public to absorb. In a nutshell, we propose to imagine a more energy ef- including fish that appear ficient habit of living, and to put it to work here in Franklin, Which brings me back in our supermarkets - will for a brighter, more sustainable future.. vanish as well. to my Walton vegetable Kolbert writes in a more garden. Bumblebees even- We hope you will join us! laid-back style than she tually did appear, thanks to For meeting times, location and directions, email us at usually displays in The New Michelle Suozzo of Frank- [email protected] lin’s Meadowbrook Farm, You can also join our Peak Oil AwarenessYahoo Group. It’s [email protected]. That is, Peak Oil Awareness_Central NewYork. This group fosters discussion of local efforts, potential or ongoing, to deal with the effects of Peak Oil on our communities.

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