The Newsletter of Franklin Local Vol. VIII, No. 2 Franklin, New York SUMMER 2014 ‘INDEPENDENT, FEARLESS AND FREE’ DOUBLE TROUBLE! Just one #&$!! pipeline -- only to abandon this after another… Northeast Exchange proj- ect a few months later. TGP By Brian Brock never would say why they The market for natural abandoned the Brooklyn/ gas in the northeastern U.S. Wright line, but it was be- is out of balance. There is ing bought by Kinder-Mor- too much supply in north- gan Energy Partners, LC. At ern Pennsylvania and too any rate, Williams Partners, much demand in New Eng- LP took over that route by land. As a result, those proposing the Constitution producers are being paid project (see NFR, Summer much less than their con- 20122). sumers are paying. One In the fall of 2012, TGP solution is to add pipeline proposed the Northeast capacity, in order to ship Expansion project, a gas the gas east. pipeline from Wright NY to In the fall of 2011, the Dracut MA. In the recent so- Tennessee Gas Pipeline licitation to suppliers (Feb- Company, LLC proposed ruary 13 to March 28), TGP proposed a capacity of this a new thirty-sux inch gas pipeline to run between Wright/Dracut line of 0.6 Map of a distribution system for natural gas showing regional pipelines, including the proposed Northeast two of its existing pipe- to 2.2 billion cubic feet per Energy Direct or “Proposed Pennsylvania to Wright, NY Route” (broad dashed gray line) and “Constitution” lines, from Brooklyn PA day (Bcf/d). Because they (narrow solid black line). Where the two would be co-located, only gray line of NED is shown. Compressor are going forward, presum- stations are shown along the pipelines, including existing (light gray squares, labeled “STA. #”) and proposed through Franklin to Wright (medium gray squares labeled “New C/S” or “Head Station”). A color version is available on line @ franklinlo- NY (see NFR, Spring 20121) ably TGP signed up enough cal.org.nfr. See DOUBLE, continued on Page 9 NEW LIBRARIAN SETTLES IN By Jim Mullen ence at Buffalo in 2012. After starting at the Omaha native Carrie Franklin Free Library this Fishner, Franklin’s first new March, Ms. Fishner seems librarian in thirty years, to have settled in comfort- took the long way here. Af- ably, doing traditional li- ter graduating from North- brary duties, but also add- west Missouri State, she got ing some modern touches. a job as a residence direc- “I think books are tor at SUNY Cobleskill in something that will never 2002. She moved to Delhi disappear, but I do see INSIDE in 2009, when her hus- ways we can increase the THIS ISSUE... band took a job as assis- use of technology. We have tant director of housing at a Kindle on order that will REGULAR FEATURES: SUNY Delhi. While there, be available for check out, In the Kitchen Pg. 5 she earned her Masters in we’re on Facebook now, Church Directory Pg. 5 Higher Education Admin- we have a new website Neighbor’s View Pg.19 istration at Albany. She got that has a lot of new, up-to- Real Estate Sales Pg.20 Student and adult facilitators at Franklin Central School her Masters in Library Sci- date information on it. I’d Photo by Debbie Valentine See LIBRARIAN, continued on Page 2 FRANKLIN LOCAL: Town Board Meets Pg. 2 Alternatives to The Mayor’s Corner Pg. 3 Eminent Domain Pg. 4 Rt. 357 Intersection Pg. 6 Violence Project: Franklin Hawkwatch Pg.16 August workshop scheduled FOCUS ON ENERGY: By Noelle Granger Peak Oil Results Pg. 8 I have been coordinating and running the Alterna- Pipeline to Frazier Pg. 8 tives to Violence Project (AVP) at Franklin Central School Pipes and Power Pg. 9 for three years. This program enables people of all ages Electric Co-op Snag Pg.10 to learn strategies that will help them handle situations in their everyday lives that may lead to conflict. AGRICULTURE: See AVP, continued on Page 2 Franklin Heights Pg. 3 Edible Forest Pg. 4 Too Many Markets? Pg. 6

LOCAL ARTS: Gou-Gou Pg. 4 Book Reviews Pg.12 UpState Arts Pg.13 FFL librarian Carrie Fishner Photo by Jim Mullen Poem Pg.15 Page 2 The New Franklin Register Summer 2014 LIBRARIAN, con’t from Page 1 AVP, continued from Page 1 like to do some classes This learning is done through experiential activities on the library’s Overdrive that help develop community and empathy among the system for downloading participants. It is the goal of the AVP student facilitators at eBooks. Our magazine Franklin Central School to help build community not only collection is barcoded in the school district, but also in the larger, surrounding now, so we can analyze it community. and maybe add some new This program is not only for people who experience subscriptions. violence in their lives, but also for anyone who is inter- “We had a very suc- ested in community building and in helping with conflict cessful Pajama Story Time resolution. last week, so we’ll prob- We are holding our first community workshop on Au- ably start doing that once gust 7 and 8. a month. I’d like to look at If you are interested in attending or receiving ad- doing movies on Saturdays, ditional information, please call Noelle Granger at The Franklin Free Library Photo by Steve Monosson cartoons or family movies, 607-343-3904. New Library Hours something that parents can Tuesdays: 9-noon, 1-5pm, & 7-9pm sit through, too. Wednesdays: 10am - 2pm We’re constantly updat- Thursdays: 9:30am-noon & 1-5:30pm ing the Children’s Books Saturdays: 10am - 2pm section and I’ve added a few new Young Adult Summer Events Schedule: books and graphic novels July 8th at 10am – Joel Smales BOOM! Percussion to see if there’s any inter- Concert est in that. For adults, the July 10th at 3pm – Bubbles! Story Time 100th Anniversary of the July 15th at 10am – Ira McIntosh’s Wild About Water beginning of World War 1 July 17th at 3pm – Let It Snow! Story Time is coming up and I’m hop- July 22nd at 10am – Robert Rogers’ Puppet Company ing to set up a four week presents Little Leonardo and the Fantastic Flying Machine program combining books July 24th at 3pm – Leo the Great Story Time and lectures sometime in July 29th at 10am – Jesse & Rebecca’s Monkey and October.” Other Animal Songs Carrie wishes to thank July 31st at 3pm – Reading Through the Ages Story Linda Burkhart for all her Time help during the transition, August 5th at 10am – Merry-Go-Round Youth Theatre especially for her work presents Alice In Wonderland on this year’s Summer August 7th at 3pm – It’s Alive! Story Time Program. August 12th at 10am - The Awards Party for everyone Please note the chang- who registered for the Summer Reading Program! es in the library hours. FRANKLIN TOWN BOARD MEETINGS

At this time this is the schedule for meetings remaining in 2014..

7/1/14 8/5/14 9/2/14 - Held in Treadwell at the Fire Station 10/7/14 (Budget workshop) 11/7/14 (Budget workshop) 12/2/14 12/30/14 (Organizational)

Meetings start at 7:30 p.m. and are held at the Franklin Town Garage unless otherwise indicated. To confirm, call the Town Clerk: 607-829-3440

Matt Terry and Courtney at the 2013 Delaware County Fair Photo courtesy of The Daily Star 2014 Farmer of the Year

By Brian Brock

Congratulations to Franklin native son Matt Terry for his well-deserved selection by The Daily Star as 2014 Farmer of the Year. Matt has been running his own dairy in Franklin since before he graduated from SUNY Cobleskill in 2000. From two 4-H project cows, his herd of Jerseys has grown to Franklin, NY about a hundred and sixty. Of those, Matt is milking eighty-five in the grand old gray barn at the corner of Oak Hill Road and County Highway 21 (Franklin/Walton Road), Cabinets and Millwork owned by the Steely family. And these are not just any cows. Matt’s cows have consis- Kitchens Baths tently taken home ribbons from the Delaware County Fair. Last year, his entry Courtney Media Walls Home Offices was awarded Supreme Champion. He farms over a hundred and twenty acres on the Libraries Paneling flats opposite the barn and on three hillside properties up Oak Hill, owned by the Mas- Mantles siminos, Steelys, Spatolas, and Lipovacs. Matt comes from a farming family. Both his parents are life residents of Franklin. His Specializing in local, reclaimed wood father Matthew grew up on a farm in Freer Hollow, and his mother Karen on a farm in Will install downstate and in Connecticut Treadwell. They now live on Dunk Hill. Many congratulations, Matt! Summer 2014 The New Franklin Register Page 3 FR ANKLIN LOCAL Local News Local Issues Local Events Local Concerns

WHAT’S UP ON FRANKLIN HEIGHTS?

By Betsy Babcock away from the plants. And, on May & Markets, so we can open it up to want it to be a place that is shared 2nd, with the help of 130 friends and people in the community to use. with the community. Our plans What’s going on up the hill? neighbors – we planted 13,000 We also hope to have this kitchen include developing a food hub, Rest assured it’s not condos or a new blueberry plants. Thanks to area become a place where folks where produce can be bought and wild game park (those were ac- everyone! can stop by for a cup of coffee and sold, and a place for meetings and tual rumors floating about). If you In addition, we transplant- a cookie, a blueberry crumble or special get-togethers. look up the hill from the village of ed 600 more mature plants (old piece of carrot cake. If you see our car there, please Franklin, you’ll see a new barn with enough to have blueberries this We feel blessed to have this feel free to stop by and say hi, sit a dark green roof. If you drive up year!) from our Handsome Brook special place in our care, and truly outside, and enjoy the view! Franklin Heights Road, you’ll see field to Franklin plenty of activity for sure. Last year, Heights. Stay tuned Bryan and I were blessed with the for pick-your-own opportunity to purchase a portion hours later this sum- of the property on Franklin Heights mer! Call us at (607) that had been owned by Walter 829-2587 in early Rich, and his family for years. The August and we’ll let Rich Family was beloved by the you know. Franklin community and we feel The big build- a deep commitment to honor his ing you see as you legacy. drive past is a barn. We purchased the property The bottom floor last fall, with its incredible view of has three sections: the hills and village. Our goal is to a walk-in cooler keep it agricultural. We have been for our blueberries growing certified organic blueber- and a center sec- ries for some time on East Hand- tion for the packing some Brook Road, and decided to area. The third sec- add new fields on Franklin Heights. tion is a kitchen that Last year and first of all, we put in we hope to have li- deer fencing – to keep the deer censed by NYS Ag The new Handsome Brook Farm barn on Franklin Heights Photo by Bryan Babcock

enduring the hard times that often accompany stocking area. We have a wonderful library, a The Mayor’s Corner living in a remote area. I grew up in Deposit, left good school system, a top notch theater, a well- to go to college, returned in the mid 1970s and trained and organized fire department and By Tom Briggs located an administrative job at the Delaware emergency squad, a museum complex that has County Office for the Aging. tremendous potential, a well-kept historic Main Last February, I was approached by my In 1983, I became the Director of the agency Street, a thriving farmers’ market, an active faith neighbor and Village Trustee, Paul DeAndrea and in the following year moved to Treadwell in community and a nucleus of bright, creative, to see if I would consider running for Mayor of the Town of Franklin, where my wife Donna and hardworking and positive people. Franklin. John Campbell had served six years I raised our family. In 2006, we relocated to the Of concern is our capacity for sustainability. with distinction in this position and after taking village of Franklin. During my thirty-four years Without an influx of young people with means on many pressing village issues, including a of public service, I served on the boards of sev- and families, our Main Street will fall into disre- major public works project, was not interested eral organizations at the local, state and nation- pair, our school system will be in jeopardy, our in serving another term. I had been on a com- al levels. I was fortunate enough to rub elbows volunteer organizations will experience sig- mittee three years ago to review the state of the with people whose vision and drive helped nificant under-enrollment, and this quaint little village and its viability at a time when other me to understand the qualities that define true village will face the same hard times that many small municipalities were being encouraged greatness. I was also fortunate to befriend of the other upstate communities are already to merge with their respective towns, and I had many people who acted in a supportive role experiencing. become aware of and impressed with the ef- to whatever cause was being pursued. These In the months to come, I hope to meet with ficiency with which the village conducted its were the unsung “worker bees” whose collec- representatives from the various community business. tive efforts were essential to growing ideas into organizations to discuss their perceptions and Because of the success of the water system accomplishments. to explore strategies that might be employed upgrade and the sense that Franklin wouldn’t My vision for Franklin might be considered to have a positive impact on this village. I will need to undertake another project of this mag- by some as modest, by others as almost unat- also keep an open ear to the ideas of individual nitude in the near future, I felt fairly comfort- tainable. It would bring me great joy to see the residents about how to recapture the sense of able that I could have the freedom to enjoy my people of this community work together in har- promise that fueled that quality of life in this retirement and still fulfill my self-imposed civic mony to create a living environment that match- community in days prior. responsibility by throwing my hat in the ring. es the social dynamic that prevailed in the not I look forward to the next two years, as I be- Because there was no opposition to my candi- so distant past. Youth programs, fraternal orga- come better acquainted with village residents. dacy, I was elected unanimously by the thirty- nizations, the fire department and emergency I have great confidence that we have the ability plus civic minded village residents who took squad, village improvement, library, the theater, to make good things happen. the time to vote, whether there was a contested the museum and other organizations election or not. are all in need of volunteers. People For those who might suppose that I’m just with ideas, whether they be local or another person from parts elsewhere, inserting “city folk,” should be welcomed and myself into the affairs of the village without pay- encouraged to share their percep- ing my dues, I’d like to share some back ground. tions. We should all be sensitive to the My forebears came to Delaware County as part marketing concept that private enter- of a post-Revolution population surge in the 18th prise attaches to its products and ser- century, settling along the Delaware River be- vices: to engender in the customer a tween Deposit and Hale Eddy. Most of my rela- sense of meaning and belonging. tives were born, raised, and buried in this gen- To our advantage, Franklin is eral area, enjoying the bounty of its beauty and one of the real jewels of the Leather- Page 4 The New Franklin Register Summer 2014 food forest, about to com- F RANKLIN EDIBLE FOREST? WHAT’S THAT? plete its first phase of cre- By Patricia Tyrell it does occur, and help fil- except you the human ation this September. Food CHURCHES ter out toxins that are often standing within it, are self- Forest Farm in Holyoke MA In case you have not carried by floodwaters. An maintaining, complimen- provides forest tours and Aldrich heard, there is a lot of excit- community edible forest tary partners. That’s what consults with aspiring food Baptist Church ing stuff going on in neigh- has also been included in makes it an ecosystem - it forest managers. The Rah- Route 28, North Franklin boring Sidney NY. Specifi- the plan. works on its own and once ma Free Health Clinic Ed- Phone: 607-829-5502 cally, through the efforts of An “edible forest” is established, requires little ible Forest Garden, in Syra- Pastor: Pat Judd local leaders and govern- about working with Nature. intervention to thrive and cuse NY, will provide both Sunday Service: 9:30 A.M. ment officials partnering It is an agricultural model become bountiful. And nutrition and medical care Location:Sunday Service: 1/2 mile 9:30 east A.M. of with State authorities, the based on the principles of food is just the beginning to the community it serves. theLocation: Ouleout 1/2 Golf mile Course east of New York Rising Communi- a forest ecosystem. Imag- of edible forestry’s value. Motivated by recent and the Ouleout Golf Course ty Reconstruction (NYRCR) ine yourself standing in You or I, or in this case the devastating losses due to planning committee has a woodland area, except people of Sidney, stand to two floods, Sidney has stra- Franklin Unit- secured over $3 million in there is hardly a thing there gain a myriad of benefits tegically worked to become edFranklin Methodist Unit- State funding. that you can not eat. The not limited to satisfied ap- the “progressive, dynamic ed Methodist The Executive Summary tallest trees have fruit and petites and better nutrition. and resilient place” that it Church of Sidney’s plan, developed nuts on them, the shrubs Other edible forests in claims to be, and stands to CMainh urchand Water Streets by the NYRCR committee, FranklinMain and Water Streets states: “Sidney is a small Phone:Franklin 607-829-2956 community with big plans, Pastor:Phone: John607-829-2956 Hill turning challenges into SundayPastor: John Service: Hill 10:45 A.M. opportunities through… Coffee hour following consensus around climate Sunday Service:School for 10:45 children A.M. change, a commitment to followingCoffee hour Children’s following Time work with nature and its HolySunday Communion, School for firstchildren Sun- sheer determination to dayfollowing of each Children’s month. Time keep residents safe and Holy Communion, first Sun- make businesses resilient.” day of each month. Sidney’s mission has Treadwell Unit- been viewed favorably by ed Methodist State authorities, includ- Treadwell Unit- ing Governor Cuomo. The edCh urchMethodist funding awarded to Sidney 68 Church Street, is due to the tremendous ef- CTreadwellhurch fort and all-too-rare-these- Pastor:68 Church John Street, Hill days foresight of all the par- TreadwellSunday Service: 9:15 A.M. ties involved on the NYRCR Pastor: John Hill committee. Among other are full of berries, and the USA play host to edu- become a leading vision of Sunday Service: 9:15 A.M. projects, the money will there are vegetables and cational and recreational success for the county and St Paul’s be used to relocate homes herbs growing along the activities, tourism and en- region. Perhaps, other lo- Episcopal out of flood-prone locations ground and on vines climb- tertainment, as well as new cal areas will take notice St Paul’s and create a new residen- ing to the sky. There are local industries such as nat- and begin their own devel- EpiscopalChurch tial area on higher ground. bees, butterflies, birds, and ural medicine and edible opments, including edible 307 Main Street, Franklin A 140 acre “green plain” or other wildlife that call these landscaping. Beacon Food forests, to ensure the future CPhone:hurch 607- 829-6404 wetland will be established woods home. Forest in Seattle WA, boasts vitality and sustainability of 307All faiths Main welcomeStreet, Franklin to mitigate flooding when All of these things, about its seven-acre public their own towns. Phone:Service 607- every829-6404 first Sun- dayAll faiths of the welcome month at 1:30 P.M. followed by fellowship dish-to-passService everydinner. Sunday FRANKLIN RABIES CLINIC at 8:15Service A.M. every second thruFirst fourth Thursdays Sunday at Soup 8:15 PET A rabies vaccination clinic will be A.M.Dinner every month (ex- ceptFirst July 3rd), Thursdays by donation, Soup offered in Franklin on Wednesday Dinnerto benefit every the interior month, resto- by TALK August 6th, 4 to 6 p.m. at Franklin donation,ration fund. to 5 -7 benefit P.M. roof Fire Hall, replacement Join your fund.friends 5 for-7 with Dr. Joan Puritz P.M.homemade Join your soups, friends chili, for courtesy of the Delaware County homemadesalad and conversation! soups, chili, Spring into summer is a busy time for Dr. Puritz, so Health Service she could not write for this issue. But she’s waiting to salad and conversation! 607-832-5200 hear from YOU, dear Reader. If you have questions about C ommunity animal care for Dr. Puritz, please email them c/o nfr@ delawarecountypublichealth.com BibleC ommunity Church franklinlocal.org. We look forward to hearing from you! Bible89 Center CStreet,hurch Franklin Pastor:89 Center Dr. WaltStreet, Schlundt Franklin Phone:Pastor: Dr.607-829-5471 Walt Schlundt SundayPhone: 607-829-5471 School (Sept. ThroughSunday May): School 9:45 AM (Sept. MorningThrough Worship:May): 9:45 10:45 AM AM Morning Worship: 10:45 AM We are a church that faithfully teaches the word of God and seeks to glorify Him through worship, ser- vice and in all that we do. We seek to fulfill the great commission through evan- gelization, missions and training. We offer two La- dies’ Bible Studies and one Men’s Bible Study.

This space sponsored by Handsome Brook Farm. Summer 2014 T he New Franklin Register Page 5 COUNTY TAKES FRANKLIN LAND By Brian Brock up more of his limited road frontage. He suggested a The federal govern- property across Ed Klug ment requires that Dela- Road, owned by his mother. IN THE KITCHEN ware County replace its According to Supervisor emergency communica- Taggart, an agreement was tion system, having sold reached with the Leva fam- With Sue Avery the frequencies on which it ily to locate the new tower operates. The existing sys- on a half acre of Maria Le- tem was built in the 1970s va’s parcel, across from the BAKED ONIONS: and replacement parts are existing tower. But since no longer manufactured. late last year, he said, the 1 LARGE ONION per person Also, it reaches mobile owners have been involved WATER units in only 65% of the in a family squabble, and county, whereas the new have not responded to nu- BUTTER system should reach 95%. merous attempts to finalize Costs are estimated at $5 the easement. Preheat the oven to 250 0 F. Do not peel to 10 million, of which $5.3 It is unclear why only million has been covered a Leva family property is the onions. Set them, peel and all, in a bak- by grants to date. suitable. While they own ing pan. You may need to shave a little off the The required new com- four parcels that are above bottom so that the onions will sit flat. munication towers are to 2,000’ along Ed Kung Road, Add a little water, about an inch. be located near the exist- Scott Taggart owns others ing ones, of which there are nearby. The Leva family are Bake for two (2) hours. Remove from pan and remove the outer skins. Make a small well in the center of each top and insert a pat of butter, the size depend- ing on your taste and inclination - about a teaspoon. Salt and pepper to taste.

Vidalias are wonderful for this dish, but any nice, large onion will do. Delicious!

F RANKLIN CHAMBER 2013 AWARDS: Map showing Johnson Mountain and Ed Klug Road crONAUER AND COSTELLO twelve. Phase I includes nonresidents, whereas Mr. replacement of the four Taggart lives in Franklin. The Greater Franklin Chamber of Commerce, at the annual dinner in May, awarded towers in primary locations With construction now Business of the Year to Cronauer Plumbing and Electric, and Person of the Year to Rich- such as on top of Frank- on hold, the Delaware ard Costello. lin’s Johnson Mountain, County Board of Supervi- Cronauer Plumbing and Electric has been owned and operated by Bob Cronauer just south of Heathen Hill. sors voted unanimously at for over 55 years, a testament to “doing the job right.” He has served our community in Other primary locations their April 9th meeting to many ways, including 28 years in the Franklin EMS. Bob has the highest level of training are Houck Mtn., Walton; Mt. begin eminent domain pro- available in Delaware County Pisgah, Andes; and Mt. Ut- ceedings (Resolution 78). Rich Costello is a founding member of the Chamber and has helped with every sayantha, Stamford. The ex- But apparently there were Chamber project. Currently he is Chamber vice president. Rich has given to the youth isting facility must be kept problems with the wording. of Franklin as a scout leader (having been in scouting for 25 years), serves on BOCES operational until the new So, in their meeting of May consultant committees, and has coached sports. system is completed, and 25th, they rescinded that Organized in 1980, the members of the Greater Franklin Chamber of Commerce the new tower also requires resolution and voted for the work to improve the business and community environments of the Town of Franklin. an equipment shack. similar Resolution 114. Currently our website is being revamped and improved. Visit us at franklinny.org. On Johnson Mtn., the Seven of the twelve county had planned to put towers are planned for the new tower and its shack completion this year, and next to the old one, but the completion of the system is land owner, Mr. Leva, com- scheduled for mid-2016. plained that it would take

Rich Costello and Marc Burgin present Robert Cronauer of Cronauer/Brower Electric & Plumbing with Business of the Year Award Page 6 T he New Franklin Register Summer 2014 FARMERS’ MARKETS: Spread Too Thin? By Tom and Denise Warren town farmers’ markets is transportation, labor, mar- that a market creates a ket fees, market materials We have been sell- community, a space for and signage. All the while, ing our grass-fed meats people to gather and so- the farmers’ incomes are and eggs for twenty years cialize. It creates an oppor- shrinking. at three regional farmers’ tunity for added income So, while the growing markets. During that time, for small-scale or part-time number of farmers’ markets especially over the past farmers. But can this scat- may be good for communi- three years, there has been tering of farmers’ markets ties and customers, it may an explosion of interest in support the full time farm- not be best for farmers. buying local foods, mostly er, and will these markets Tom and Denise Warren due to a new awareness of survive as more participat- own and operate Stone and the importance of knowing ing farmers realize that he/ Thistle Farm. how our food is raised, har- she is not getting a reason- 1211 Kelso Road East vested and sold. able return on his/her in- Meredith, NY 13757 CONSTRUCTION Ten years ago, there vestment of time and mon- www.stoneandthistle- were three farmers’ mar- ey? Small farmers’ markets farm.com kets in our region: Coo- tend to host only a handful 607-278-5800 CONJUNCTION perstown, Pakatakan and of farmer-vendors, while Farm store open seven Oneonta. These centralized larger, centralized markets days year round 9 am to 6 By Brian Brock pm. Stone & Thistle Farm Reconstruction of the intersection of Routes 357 - grass fed beef, lamb, goat, and 28 by the New York State Department of Trans- pork, poultry and rabbit portation is slated to start in the summer of 2015 and Kortright Creek finish in the fall of 2016 – more than a year later. - grass fed goat Creamery Under the Statewide Transportation Improve- milk, goat milk yogurt and chevre. Be a LOCAL Hero. ment Program, the goal of this project is to reduce Invest in the Creamery. For accidents by creating better sight lines. DOT stud- details: http://www.stone- ied the intersection and published a report in June markets attracted custom- can support twenty to thirty andthistlefarm.com/ of 2007, concluding that it had ten times the accident ers from several surround- vendors. creamery.htm rate of similar intersections. ing counties and provided There is also an envi- Fable = farm + table Planning began in 2009, and a formal presenta- strong, consistent revenue ronmental cost. If a farm- dining experience on the tion was made to the town in August of 2011. Initially, for the participating farm- er travels twenty or thirty farm. Open for dinner on se- construction was to begin this year. Instead, this June, ers. Today, every town miles to a market to sell just lect Saturdays and for a farm DOT came to the Town Sheds to answer questions. At and hamlet is determined $200 to $300 of product, it tour and brunch on select that time, the choice between a roundabout and a T- to host a farmers’ market. becomes a carbon inten- Sundays May through Oc- intersection had yet to be made. The T-intersection In Delaware and Otsego sive endeavor. tober. Available for private counties, there are cur- An informal survey parties and events. would require additional right of way. rently twenty-one. In fact, conducted at the farmers’ Farm Stay and Bed & In the intervening years, estimated costs have ris- the number of farmers’ markets in which we par- Breakfast open year round. en from $800,000 to $900,000. The Federal govern- markets in New York has ticipate indicates that ven- Farmhouse Suite or Farm- ment will pay 80 percent and the state 20 percent. increased from 235 in 2000 dors have to sell at twice hand Cabin. In the current timeline, DOT construction would to 521 as of August 2012, as many markets as they FarmHands - consult- overlap the Constitution Pipeline project, creating according to the New York did five years ago, just to ing services for new and additional congestion. State Department of Agri- maintain the same level of beginning farmers seeking This project is #901858 in DOT district #9. Up- culture and Markets. revenue. And vendors’ ex- to establish or diversify their dates are available at dot.ny.gov/projects The good news is that penses are high, including farm business. there is growing interest in local foods, and it is handy for the customer to have “round the bend” access to farm fresh food. But maybe not such good news for the farmers. The number of custom- ers in our region who seek farm-fresh food at farmers’ markets is growing, but slowly, and the number of markets is outpacing the customer base. The rela- tively small number of ded- icated customers is now divided between a larger and growing number of farmers’ markets. New York City is home to 148 farmers’ markets. That’s about 56,000 people for every market. In Dela- ware and Otsego counties, there are 5,200 people for every farmers’ market. While there is no direct data to support this theory, we believe that a greater percentage of people in New York City shop year round at farmers’ markets than do locally. A great benefit of small Summer 2014 T he New Franklin Register Page 7

Familiar faces

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

PEAK OIL: The Repercussions SON OF CONSTITUTION By Gene Marner ey creation to function, there must By Brian Brock be continual growth in the econ- Over the past seven years, omy to produce the new wealth After repeated requests by the Franklin Town Board, Leatherstocking The New Franklin Register has that the new money represents. came to the May meeting to brief them on a possible natural gas distribu- offered articles that attempted to But without growing our supply of tion line to run from the proposed Constitution Pipeline through Franklin to help our readers to understand energy, there can be no growth. industry in Fraser, Town of Delhi. (Both Morningstar Foods LLC and Clark the relationship between energy Faced with the need to keep this Inc. could be large consumers of gas.) Probably this pipe would be low supplies and the economy. In our precarious system functioning, pressure ten-inch high density polyethylene, but medium pressure four- issue in Spring of this year (http:// everyone - producers, consumers, inch steel is an option. Either would be buried three to five feet deep. franklinlocal.org/nfr/nfr-index/), I bankers, workers, governments Leatherstocking Gas Company LLC is a joint venture between Corning laid out a brief history of energy - has resorted to ever increasing Natural Gas Corporation and Mirabito Holdings. It has started construct- use and tried to describe how levels of debt, rolling over old ing distribution systems in the townships of Bridgewater and Montrose, fossil fuel energy became essen- loans into new loans. Lending Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. tial to our modern way of life. In standards are relaxed in order to Mike German, president of Leatherstocking, showed two speculative this article, I’d like to bring the allow the borrowing to continue as routes. (See map on Page 9.) One would run 20.4 miles down County High- story up to date, with our present the real economy slows. Eventu- way 28 and State Highway 10 through North Franklin, Meridale, Meredith, predicament. ally the debt burden becomes so and Delhi. The other would run 19.6 miles down Chamberlin Hill Road, We all know that we use a lot great that interest payments take State Highway 357, County Highway 14, and County Highway 16 through of energy, most of it derived from up all the productive capacity of Leonta, Treadwell, and West Delhi. The latter is considerably different from fossil fuels. Until now, it has been a society. When that happens, the the one shown last year to the councilmen of the towns of Delhi and Mer- so abundant and easily available bubble bursts, for no one will ei- edith, and to the trustees of the village of Delhi. That would have run down that we take it entirely for granted. ther lend or borrow. Government Otego Road to State Highway 357. Unlike the old, this new version does not We walk into a room and switch on debt, corporate debt, student go through the village of Franklin, and therefore to supply gas to the village the lights. That’s using electricity, debt, credit card debt, underwa- a spur would have to be built from Leonta, a distance of 2.5 miles. much of which is generated by ter mortgages: we’re close to that Leatherstocking does not have the power of eminent domain and would burning coal or methane gas. All point already. have to negotiate for all easements. It could gain that power by becoming our transportation of goods and How does the debt crisis af- a utility. people, all mining of resources, fect energy availability? Leaving At the tap into the Constitution Pipeline (i.e. the station gate), there manufacturing of machinery and aside the urgent questions of cli- would be built a twelve foot by twelve foot utility building containing consumer products depend on mate change and environmental equipment to meter, reduce pressure, and odorize the gas. This distribu- diesel and other liquid fuels. Our damage caused by fossil fuel ex- See SON OF C, Continued on Page 9 workplaces are powered by fossil traction and use, let’s just pretend fuels; our vacations and amuse- for a moment that using fossil fu- ments are powered by fossil fuels. els is not irreparably damaging You see where I’m going with our life support systems, so we The Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company (TGP) is proposing this: there is virtually no getting can just drill, baby, drill. With the a second pipeline in Delaware County that would slash away from fossil fuel energy in our cheap and easily extracted fuels through many of the same properties already threatened very energy-intensive lives - un- already gone, what remains is by the “Constitution” pipeline. These corporations cannot less perhaps we go fishing. And deep under the sea or trapped in be allowed to destroy our rural communities by building even then, the fishing line is nylon deep rock formations that must be infrastructure that would help them frack our farms, (oil), the hooks are steel (coal), shattered at great cost by frack- and the fishing tackle came to ing to release the fuels. Deep-sea forests, and backyards. market in a truck (oil again). The drilling rigs cost between one fact that we cannot turn around and three billion dollars each to LANDOWNERS – YOU HAVE without seeing or touching some- build and as much as $500,000 a thing that arrived courtesy of fos- day to operate. That’s real money THE POWER TO STOP THIS! sil fuels might explain most peo- and must be financed. ple’s reluctance to contemplate At the same time, we’re try- a life with ever less oil and other ing to build so-called renewable REFUSE ACCESS TO YOUR PROPERTY! fossil fuels. It seems natural to energy systems. That means new SEND TGP A LETTER DENYING ACCESS think that things will continue as infrastructure, new machines like they have all our lives. wind turbines and solar pan- I have often written that the els. Factories must be built, ores If someone from the pipeline company knocks on your door, depletion of fossil fuels is not a mined and refined, equipment in- send them away without permission to survey. If pipeline matter of belief or technology but stalled. All of that requires large surveyors trespass, or harass your family, get their names a question of geology. If you keep amounts of energy and, equally, and license plate numbers and call the NY State Police. using something that comes out of large amounts of financing. the earth, eventually you use it up. Whether we’re talking about If you see something suspicious, call 1-800-795-1467. There’s another problem, drill, baby, drill or so-called re- however, and that has to do not newable energy, the debt burden We will stand with you and help you! with shortages of supply but with is just too great. We can see the debt. In our system, money is not evidence in the world around us. For more information and a letter to deny access, go to: created by the government but The oil majors are all cutting back StopThePipeline.org/tgp rather loaned into existence by on exploration and new projects banks. The bank does not have because the returns are not good the money it lends you; it creates enough to justify the investment. that money out of thin air when At the same time, the financial sys- you sign an agreement to pay it tem is seizing up as it chokes on back - with interest. You, the bor- more debt than can be serviced. rower, create the real value of that That leaves energy descent and money by going out and earning contraction as our certain future, it at some productive task. The whether we choose to embrace bank just collects the money you it and try to learn to live simpler, give them each month and pays less energy-intensive lives––or bonuses to their executives. simply wait for collapse to arrive In order for this system of mon- like a tsunami. Summer 2014 The New Franklin Register Page 9 PIPES AND POWER Complied by Brian Brock

M arch 10th: Constitution Pipeline Company takes delivery of first 500 lengths of pipe at Albany rail yards, months before expected certifica- tion and over a year before needed. M arch 10th: NYS Public Service Company awards Delaware County intervener funding of $50,000 for power line projects. Other awards made to Duchess County ($50,000); towns of Milan, Duchess County ($40,000) and Athens, Greene County ($40,000); and environmental nongovernmental organizations Scenic Hudson ($25,000) and OCCA ($65,000). March 21st: Town of Davenport submits to FERC its opposition to the pipeline. March 24th: Leatherstocking Gas Company presents to the Village of Franklin plans for a local gas distribution line through Town of Franklin. Later it presents to the Town of Franklin on May 6th – see article page 8. M arch 24th: NYS Department of Environmental Conservation requests extension of deadline for comments on Environmental Impact State- ment from April 7th to May 30th, citing insufficient information. This request is later joined by federal Environmental Protection Agency (4/7), De- partment of Interior(4/7), and Army Corps of Engineers (4/8); state Attorney General (4/16); local Town of Meredith (4/7); and environmental NGOs EarthJustice (3/25), and Trout Unlimited (4/2). March 26th: CPC announces a chain of towers, 100 feet tall, along the pipeline, including one on Van Tassel Road, less than two weeks before the end of comment period. Test borings for the foundations were begun last summer. Later, FERC requests more information M arch 28th: Tennessee Gas Pipeline ends Open Season solicitation of gas supply to its proposed Northeast Extension project. April 1st: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission holds a public hearing on their draft EIS at Oneonta High School, one of four such March 31st to April 3rd. CPC busses-in union workers from Rochester and Newberg to shore-up support and intimidate opponents. April 7th: CPC submits to FERC some “documents required prior to end of comment period” only hours before deadline. FERC does not post them until after the deadline. April 7th: Delaware County Board of Supervisors submits comments to FERC. April 7th:C FER denies all requests to extend the comment period beyond deadline of today. April 8th: CPC continues to submit to FERC requested documents after the deadline, and again on May 5th. April 14th: Treadwell Fire Department applies to CPC for a community grant for four new air packs and spare tanks. April 30th: NYSDEC renews request for additional information, and again on May 14th. M ay 14th:C FER requires additional information from CPC before EIS can be completed and announces that the deadline of Friday June 13th will not be met. May 22nd: Tennessee Gas Pipeline announces almost doubling the length of Northeast Extension project by reviving the Northeast Expansion project through Franklin (see article on Page 1).

SON OF C, continued from Page 8 tion system would not require a compressor. This distribution line is contingent on the construction of the Constitution Pipeline. Even if that is completed by March 2016, construction of this line would not begin until 2017 or 2018. Prior to the Franklin/Delhi line, Leather- stocking is planning to build distribution lines from Mil- lennium Pipeline to Windsor and then from Constitution Pipeline to Sidney. Other possible service areas are Bain- bridge and Unadilla.

DOUBLE, continued from Page 1 supply, but we don’t know chemicals. The compres- how many did. sors spin 24/7/365, and the For more than a year, it occasional venting sounds seemed as if TGP was con- like a jet taking off. The tent to plan for the Constitu- small leaks and huge vol- tion Pipeline to supply gas umes of vented shale gas to the input of this North- have been linked to a va- east Expansion Pipeline in riety of signs of chemical Wright. But the Constitution poisoning such as head- would supply only 0.6 to 0.8 aches, dizziness, nausea, Bcf/d. As a result of inter- nose bleeds and rashes. est from Pennsylvania’s gas Together, the Northeast the width of the easement an outline of the project to an adjacent easement be- producers, TGP has revived Exchange (southwestern corridor and at worst, cre- FERC (pre-filing) - Septem- ing proposed before the plans for the Northeast Ex- half) and the Northeast Ex- ate two separate parallel ber 2014, with the aim of first is even certified by change. Originally it was pansion (northeastern half) strips. Construction in 2015 beginning clearing brush FERC. to have a 0.6 Bcf/d capacity, is being called the North- and then in 2017 would take and trees from the route What does this portend but with no booster com- east Energy Direct or NED. twice as long. Wear and by January 2017 and start- for our future? pressor station. The southwestern half of tear on roads would dou- ing to ship gas to consum- Now, the recent plan this project, including the ble, as would traffic con- ers after November 2018. Archives of The New adds just such a station section through Franklin, gestion. Tax assessments Already along the pipeline Franklin Register are available somewhere in Delaware has not even been pre-filed of infrastructure and ease- route, affected landowners at franklinlocal.org/nfr. County, which would in- with the Federal Energy ment payments would like- are receiving letters from 1.“Pipeline Fever”: http://franklinlocal.org/ crease capacity. If built, Regulatory Commission. wise double, but this would the TGP subcontractor, The pipeline-fever/ such a booster compres- Of course the same was be offset by decrease in as- NLS Group, seeking per- sor would be located said about the Constitution sessments of affected par- mission for surveys. around the middle of Pipeline back in 2012. cels. Affected land owners At least TGP has the hon- the route. Currently it In New York, the new would be twice cheated of esty to admit that a booster is planned for the North TGP route is almost identi- fair compensation. And compressor is necessary, Franklin or west Davenport cal to the original one, but while there has been some unlike Williams. Also they area, east of State Highway both show some differ- talk of local distribution of are clear that possible us- 28. Additional compres- ences from the Williams gas, two pipelines would ers of this gas could be “de- 2.“Constitutional sion engines would have route of the Constitution. not make such a supply velopers of liquefied natu- Confiscation”: http://franklinlocal.org/ to be installed at existing All three take a very simi- twice as cheap. ral gas (“LNG”) projects in constitutional-confiscation/ compressor stations at the lar path through Delaware Currently the timeline New England and Atlantic input in Clifford PA and the County. is: taking bids from poten- Canada,” unlike Williams. output in Wright NY. If both pipelines are tial suppliers of gas - Febru- Once a utility corridor Compressor stations built, their ill effects dou- ary/March 2014; contracts is established, it is easier make poor neighbors, pol- ble. At best, a second strip signed by suppliers - Au- to co-locate more utilities luting the air with noise and of easements would double gust 2014; and submitting along it. But here we have Page 10 The New Franklin Register Summer 2014 annals of sustainability

each kilowatt hour their renewable the symposium learning of many other issues. This year, three of the SETBA CK FOR energy systems produce. This ar- exciting advances in local renew- seven board seats are up for elec- rangement, called net-metering, able energy, wanted to know the tion. Perhaps changing the make- LOCAL GREEN has been in effect since 1998. In rationale behind DCEC’s policy. up of the board of directors is one stark contrast, DCEC’s new mem- They described the negative im- way to coax the cooperative to- ENERGY ber-owned distributed generation pact the policy change would ward policies which promote clean policy will credit members at the have on members’ ability to add energy, local economic develop- By Tom Martone coop’s wholesale cost of energy, economically viable renewable ment and enhanced resiliency on which is under 3 cents per kwh. As energy generation to their homes. the cooperative’s electric grid. Members of the Delaware the energy flows back and forth Those members were not satisfied This year the cooperative County Electric Cooperative across the meter, to and from the with what they heard from their holds its annual meeting on Fri- (DCEC) interested in local green grid, the member loses much of CEO/General Manager. day, September 19 at the Delaware energy were in for a bit of a sur- the value of the Since then, sev- Academy in Delhi. All members prise when the cooperative an- energy produced eral members have concerned about guiding the co- nounced in its Jan/Feb 2014 news- by the system they ...the new policy been trying to get operative towards policies which letter that it was abandoning its have invested in will virtually ensure the CEO and the support local green energy and long standing net-metering based as the energy is that DCEC mem- board of directors to economic development in Dela- agreement with its own members bought and sold reconsider the poli- ware County should seriously con- who had installed grid-tied mem- bers will be unable throughout the cy. They have attend- sider voting to install three new di- ber-owned distributed generation, to install economi- day. The effect of ed board meetings, rectors this year. such as rooftop or ground mounted this is so dramatic cally viable solar generally held on Members can also exercise solar systems or small residential that several mem- and wind systems in the fourth Tuesday their vote through the absentee wind turbines. bers’ yearly elec- the future. of every month, and ballot procedure. The first step is DCEC, which has about 5,200 tric bill will more have spoken for their to obtain an absentee ballot by fill- members, is one of four small than triple under the new policy. allotted five minutes about their ing out a request form and sending electric cooperatives in New York, In fact, the new policy will vir- concerns, trying to understand it to the cooperative by August 20. founded in the early 1940s as part tually ensure that DCEC members the cooperative’s position. At this You can find further details of the Rural Electrification Admin- will be unable to install economi- point, the board seems fully com- and a link to download the request istration which brought electricity cally viable solar and wind sys- mitted to this policy, even though form at https://cooperativeener- to unserved rural areas. The vast tems in the future. they have been made aware of its gy.club/2014/06/dcec-election/ majority of New Yorkers are cus- DCEC CEO/General Manager potentially negative effect on its tomers of investor-owned utilities, Mark Schneider participated in a own members and on the growth such as NYSEG and ConEd. Cus- panel discussion closing out this of local green energy in Delaware Tom Martone lives in Bovina, tomers of investor-owned utilities year’s Delaware County Sustain- County. and is a member of the Delaware in New York State who install dis- able Energy Symposium at Delhi Each year, the cooperative County Electric Cooperative. tributed generation systems re- College in March. Some DCEC holds an annual meeting to elect He says about 150 co-op mem- ceive full credit at the retail rate for members, having spent the day at directors to the board and vote on bers live in the Town of Franklin.

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ROOTING FOR IDEAS: By The Rewards of Gardening in Real Time Don Statham mer the majority of plants Perhaps one of the best “Time is the wisest coun- have grown into each other. aspects about being pres- selor of all.” – Pericles By high summer, I discover ent in the garden is the way well-camouflaged weeds one’s intuitive abilities be- I was in my late twenties standing 6 to 8 feet tall in come sharper and louder. and living in Scotland when the borders. I have no idea The environmentalist and I made my first garden and how I let this happen, and writer John Hay said, “It by the time my wife and yet it occurs every year. would never occur to most of I decided to return to the The garden is one of us that ‘plants’ say anything states it had grown in size to the only things where you at all, except in terms of what a couple of acres. After we can be both in it, making it, we read into them, or try to left, our cottage was rented and editing it at the same use them for. Yet in their re- to a man who professed to time. While planting a tree sponses to this wonderfully be a gardener, but that did I might catch myself fanta- rhythmic and varying earth not turn out to be the case sizing about the tree as a they are the most expressive and the garden, in large mature specimen and, thus, of all forms of life.” (A Begin- part, went back to the wild. place it accordingly. But I no ner’s Faith in Things Unseen) Seeing the “garden” again, longer feel dissatisfied with I also believe my plants years later, was a shock. It the young tree or wish it to express what they need if was a hard but very valu- be mature already. Garden- I am ready to “listen” with able lesson to learn: that it’s the journey not the end re- sult that’s important. I have now been gar- Your Locally Owned dening for 24 years and I have a very different at- Farm, Feed, Garden, titude towards garden- ing than when I started. 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The black-beard- don’t get out there and put a funny things to my sense disappeared, others have the idea of perfection and a ed irises “told” me to get stop to it. The big gorgeous of time. With the additional multiplied or escaped and love of the mysterious plea- rid of the bishop’s weed ones get lots of attention, daylight comes the ability planted themselves, and I sure of being with things as that’s choking it to death! but then one comes along to break ground and the have photographs to prove they are in real time. The lilacs are clearly beg- that looks almost dead all garden is made again. Rav- it; a sort of free-for-all! When the clocks leap ging for a little wood ash season and suddenly, almost aged by winter there seem forward in spring it to be worked into the soil overnight, blooms splen- to be a million chores and feels like we have around their feet. Plants, didly forth. Never write any- it’s easy to be caught up in more time on our like children’s needs, are body off completely. You just the mad rush of “doing.” I hands. While remov- quite straightforward. Gar- don’t know.” have to remind myself to ing leaves and debris dening is perhaps a com- As I write, I suppose I take a deep breath and see from the beds, we see bination of intuition and am thinking about time be- what is - and to forget about life pushing out of action. After a while you cause I have been cooped what it should be. the soil; spring bulbs, just know when it’s time to perennials, as well as prune and shape that over- buds on the shrubs grown shrub. When we slow Don and dogs hard at work and trees, show so much down and allow the garden promise! But let’s face it: to speak that’s when our The wonderful thing this does not last long. By faith in the process allows about gardening in the late spring an intense suc- magic to happen. spring is that the plants cession of plants come into As Barbara Cawthorne are just beginning to grow bloom one after another Crafton, Episcopal priest, and you have a clear vision and don’t stop until late au- spiritual director and au- of each individual plant. tumn. With so much change thor, wrote, “…so much care Early in the season I have doesn’t it make sense to and feeding. Such competi- a sense that I am in control grab the moment and enjoy tiveness among the plants — of things, but by midsum- what is in front of you? some of them literally choke Page 12 The New Franklin Register Summer 2014

music fine arts literature poetry education ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT holiday fun THE CATSKILL MOUNTAIN at the FILM FESTIVAL 2014 By Tony Breuer carpet entrance and photo library opportunities for the win- “Films are conta- ners of the competition, af- Jim mullen reviews gious,” concluded Acad- ter which festival director new books emy Award nominee and Jessica Vecchione opened Roxbury resident David the awards ceremony by France as he ended an in- thanking the generous DAVID AND GOLIATH spiring keynote address at sponsors, the dedicated By Malcolm Gladwell the Catskill Mountains Film volunteer committee mem- Festival. And film-lover fe- bers, and the talented film- M alcolm Gladwell has become his own genre -- any well ver was at an epidemic makers. David France’s written, well researched, easily absorbed piece of nonfiction on level on May 2, 3, and 4, as keynote speech empha- a random but interesting topic is now called Gladwellian, as if creators and enthusiasts sized the vital role films that’s a bad thing. It is not. Atul Gawande, Michael Pollan and of the motion picture arts play in shaping and in- Michael Lewis are all Gladwellian, but they stick to their fields -- gathered for the festival’s forming public opinion, as medicine, food and high finance. Like John McPhee before him, first big year. exemplified by his Oscar- Gladwell does not. He is all over the map, writing about science, T he three-day event nominated film How to Sur- pop culture, crime, whatever strikes his interest, and he makes proved a resounding suc- vive a Plague. The festival’s us interested in it, too. He doesn’t write about hot topics in the cess and established itself honorary chairperson was news but his subjects often become hot topics. The premise of as a promising new cul- SUNY Delhi graduate and “David and Goliath” is that in many cases, including the title story, if you dig deep you’ll tural institution in the cen- Hollywood star Bill Pull- find the real, counter-intuitive-lesson of the tale. His subjects are as diverse as girl’s tral Catskill region. More man, who appeared on vid- basketball, three-strikes-and-you’re-out laws, the disadvantaged children of the wealthy than a hundred of the films eo (being unable to attend and a few more. As Way Bandy, the late make-up artist used to put it, “When you scratch submitted were shown at in person because of pre- the surface, there’s always more surface.” It could have easily been the title of this book.

LAWRENCE IN ARABIA By Scott Anderson

This is a spectacular addition to the large and ever-growing pile of Lawrenceania and it reveals his multi-faceted genius without all the conjecture about his sexuality and motives. It’s just the facts, ma’am, and what facts they are -- Lawrence only spent only a year and a half “in theater,” yet changed the course of WWI. He became famous because, unlike the troops trapped forever in Flanders Fields, he was the only Brit winning battles, the only one moving, the only one advancing. But he was also the real deal, not a publicity stunt (though he wasn’t above using them). He invented what we now call guerilla war and prosecuted it almost flawlessly despite (or because) he had no formal military training. He led the Arab re- L to R, Festival Director Jessica Vecchione, filmmaker David volt even though the idea of a foreigner, an Englishman, doing such France and Franklin graphic artist, Joe Williams a thing was laugh- able. Until he did it. For a hundred years, Eu- ropeans and Ameri- cans, the CIA and giant oil conglomerates three locations — SUNY vious commitments). Pull- have tried to shape the Middle East with no success, and yet tiny, Delhi, The Open Eye The- man acknowledged the im- 28 year-old T.E. Law- rence did it almost single handedly. He won ater in Margaretville, and portant role festivals play his war but lost the peace to the same “military geniuses” who got their own troops The Walton Theatre. Many in affording filmmakers a slaughtered by the thousands in the trenches, the same people who called him “odd.” of the films were shot and chance to exhibit their new Their sort lives among us still. produced locally in the works. Catskills. Academy Award–win- SYCAMORE ROW On Friday evening, at ning director and Roxbury By John Grisham the VIP reception held at resident Roger Ross Wil- SUNY Delhi, University Pro- liams then presented a total A rural, white Mississippi multi-millionaire leaves the bulk of vost John Nader welcomed of nineteen coveted “Cat- his fortune to his part-time, African-American housekeeper and the festival sponsors and ty” awards. Awards were not to his rapacious grown children. His children sue the house- dignitaries who mingled presented in four divisions keeper. How do you turn that little plot into a 500 page thriller? with the multitude of film- — Open, College, High W ell, the will is hand-written without witnesses. The housekeep- makers in attendance. School, and Middle School er has only worked for him for a few years and there is an older will Among the local politicians — with each division con- floating around. Each page piles on new evidence, each page intro- showing their support for sisting of seven categories, duces new doubts and certainties. Is the housekeeper a charlatan the festival was State Sena- including feature-length or a sincere innocent? Will the grasping children win even though they don’t deserve a tor John Bonacic. and short narrative films, nickel? This is the old John Grisham writing the way that made him famous. My one com- During the day on Satur- feature-length and short plaint is that he tries to explain “Southern ways” to non-Southern readers. It’s like explain- day, the festival presented documentaries, music vid- ing a bagel to a Baptist -- it’s pointless. They already know, or they won’t care. a screenwriting workshop eos, animation, and “iPho- given by Mark Jaffe Cohen neography” (a novel film- INFERNO and a panel discussion by ing technique that uses By Dan Brown representatives from Up- cell phone cameras). Most state Independents, a non- of the winners were from Like everyone else, I read The DaVinci Code, and for all its inept dialogue and con- profit organization made the Catskills region, al- venient coincidences, it was a fun ride. After all, novels are entertainment first, works of up of film and other media though the best narrative art last. Dan’s trying to entertain, but sometimes it’s so awkward, it’s like watching some- artists. Both programs were feature film, Blackbird, was one on “American Idol” who can sing a little but can’t tell the difference between a good highly informative and in- from Scotland. Brothers of song and a bad song. Dan Brown is singing the hell out of Inferno but it’s a lousy song. spirational, especially for the Black List and Destiny’s It’s The DaVinci Code set in Florence. Someone is killing people you don’t care about in the young filmmakers in Bridge were tied for the a way that you don’t care about, linking them to the punishments in Dante’s “Inferno,” a attendance. best feature-length docu- book you don’t care about. Basta! The real crime here is that he’s murdered all the fun Saturday evening be- mentary. (For a complete of being in Florence. If you love that town the way I do, get Brunelleschi’s Dome by Ross gan with the requisite red list of the winning films, go King and prepare to be sad that you don’t live there. See FILMS, con’t on Page 15 Summer 2014 The New Franklin Register Page 13 UpState

Arts By Jane Carr

STAGECOACH RUN ART FESTIVAL IN TREADWELL JULY 5 & 6, 2014

Treadwell NY is a sleepy little coach Run Art Festival. Over fifty nationally. Over twenty-five years size Edgar Allan Poe to be cast in hamlet of less than 300 people situ- five artists will be showing their ago, along with artists Mila Macek, bronze and placed in Poe Square in ated on Delaware County Route 14, work at twenty-three venues, a free Barbara Scheck, Larry Engel and Boston. Elizabeth Nields and Mar- twenty minutes from Delhi in one tour running along the Old Stage- Roy Purcell, he formed an art- cus Villagran will also show their direction, half an hour from Oneon- coach Turnpike that connects Un- ists’ association, but it floundered large garden ceramics, including ta in the other, and only three hours adilla on the Susquehanna River to within a few years. When artist fountains, clay containers and hand from NYC. But it’s only “sleepy” Catskill on the Hudson. Jane Carr moved to Treadwell, Joe built statuettes. on the surface. Treadwell is actu- Sculptor and painter Joseph stopped by to welcome her as a The Fisher’s Barn and Long ally a thriving enclave of painters, Kurhajec, a founder of the Stage- new neighbor. Acre Farm, at the intersections sculptors, writers, musicians and coach Festival, has summered in He was saddened that his origi- of Warren Road and Warner Hill photographers, with the Treadwell Treadwell for over 35 years. His nal organization had not been suc- Road, will house over a dozen art- Museum of Fine Art, the Bright Hill studio is housed in the Oddfellows cessful. During conversations in ists, showing work and doing dem- Literary Center and the homes and Lodge, where his paintings, prints Jane’s vegetable garden, a new arts onstrations together for the second studios of dozens of artists. On July and sculptures draw on primi- organization was formed and the year. Down Route 14 toward Delhi 5 and 6, many of those studios will tive imagery and religious motifs. first Stagecoach Run was held in are two venues: the painting studio be open to the public from 10am to Kurhajec winters in Paris and the 1995. At the first planning meeting, of Susan Rochmis and her carriage 5pm during the 19th annual Stage- Yucatan and has exhibited inter- it was noted that New Hope, Penn- house and gardens where guest sylvania is known artists will show stone garden fur- for antiques, Coo- niture and up-scale lighting. The perstown is known Old Soul Vintage & Recycled Barn for the Baseball further down Route 14 will house Hall of Fame. Why re-conditioned furniture, upscale can’t Treadwell be crafts, and paintings by Cheryl the destination for Holtzman. Good Art? There are also venues in the In this nine- nearby village of Franklin. Patti teenth year, the Coyle, who has opened her barn Stagecoach Run for the past three years, will be Art Festival adds showing a new art installation en- several new ven- titled The Hungry Ghost - An Instal- ues. The latest is lation of Memorials. This instal- called The Snake lation looks at modern society’s Hill Loop, offering reaction to tragedy and the ways in a Sculpture Gar- which people pay tribute to the de- den and the East ceased. The Franklin Stage Com- Brook Studio on the pany on Institute Street will feature road of the same a group show of masks. name, where visi- To learn more about this year’s tors will meet art- festival, go to www.stagecoachrun. ists Kathleen Hayek com or check us out on Facebook: and GG Stankowitz, The Stagecoach Run Art Festival. and enjoy collage Maps for the self-guided studio and paper-making tour will be available at local stores demonstrations. and businesses as well as on the The sculpture gar- website. Numbered yellow signs den highlights the will identify the various locations. woodcarvings of Many of the artist participants have Hartwick profes- light snacks available for their sor Stefanie Rock- visitors. nak, who has just For more information, call Jane completed a com- at 607 829 3531 or Alan at 607 829 mission for a life- 2897 ISAKSSON SCULPTURE AT GLIMMERGLASS By Kelly Reller the region, creating a unique blend of local artistry. Isaksson’s “Reflection” includes glass Local artist Katarina Isaksson will have a shards—re-used from a display at the Whitney piece of artwork on display this summer at The Museum of Art—layered between tempered Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, New glass and steel. “Reflection” brings industrial York. Isaksson’s piece, en- elements to the rustic setting of the Glimmer- titled “Reflection,” is one of glass lawns. 10 benches featured at this Born in Gothenburg, Sweden, and now liv- summer’s festival in the in- ing in Franklin, New York, Isaksson earned her stallation “Take a Seat, Bring Master of Fine Arts at Hunter College, where she Isaksson’s work in place on the Opera grounds It Home,” which was curated currently teaches art. Her past work has been Photo by Jessica Kray by Cooperstown’s Sydney reviewed by publications including Sculpture Strauss’ Ariadne in Naxos and Tobias Picker’s An Waller and proposed by Magazine and New York Times, and has been American Tragedy. The benches will be for sale, Artistic & General Director featured in Elle Décor magazine. with partial proceeds benefiting The Glimmer- Francesca Zambello, who The Glimmerglass Festival season, as well as glass Festival. For more information, visit www. wanted to incorporate vi- the Take a Seat, Bring It Home installation, will glimmerglass.org. sual art on the company’s campus. run July 11 through August 24. The Festival will The benches, which are found all over the feature new productions of Puccini’s Madame Kelly Reller works in the Public Relations Depart- company’s 26 acres, are crafted by artists from Butterfly, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel, mentat The Glimmerglass Festival Page 14 The New Franklin Register Summer 2014

FRANKLIN STAGE SUMMER SCHEDULE Saturday July 5th at 8 FSC Hosts “THE TARNATION OF Sunday August 17th at 5 RUSSELL COLVIN” FSC Presents ART by Yazmina Reza A reading of a new play written & An FSC rehearsed reading of the 1994 performed by Oliver Wadsworth hit comedy about the nature of art and the This mesmerizing solo show tells the dynamics of friendship. true story of an eccentric Vermonter of 1810 and the sensational trial that oc- Friday August 22nd, Saturday August curred after his murder. 23rd, Sunday August 24th FSC Presents JANE AUSTEN ON Friday July 18th at 8 STAGE FSC Hosts Mettawee River Theatre A festival of adaptations by Tim Company Luscombe “THE DANCING FOX: Wisdom Tales Friday at 8 - NORTHANGER ABBEY of the Middle East” Saturday at 8 - PERSUASION For the fifth year running, this extraor- Sunday at 5 - MANSFIELD PARK dinary company performs an exuberant Featuring a versatile and exciting en- adventure outside on the Franklin Cen- semble of actors, FSC presents rehearsed tral School Playing Field in their signature readings of three critically acclaimed ad- style - storytelling with live music and aptations of Austen’s novels on three con- masks, puppets and giant figure. A magi- secutive nights. cal experience for all the family out under the stars. (Rain location: Chapel Hall). Saturday August 30th at 8pm FSC Hosts: COLLISION ENSEMBLE Friday July 25th - Sunday August 10th, An unmissable concert event for 14 performances Collision Ensemble is an improvisa- FSC Presents “TARTUFFE by tional collective of musical and visual art- Why not Molière, translated into English verse ists made up of a quartet of SUNY-Oneonta by Richard Wilbur music department faculty: Engineers/ ADVERTISE IN YOUR HOMETOWN One of the most biting and hilarious Sound Manipulators Andris Balins and NEWSPAPER! comedies of all time, Molière’s devilish Brett Masteller along with Drummers/ satire about deception and misplaced Percussionists Blake Fleming and Julie Li- faith reverberates today as resoundingly cata. Together with guest visual artists, the THE NEW FRANKLIN REGISTER as it did when first performed in 1664. group weaves an exotic tapestry of poly- Friday July 25 at 8, Saturday July 26 at 2 rhythmic percussion amid layers of three CONTACT JIM MULLEN & 8, Sunday July 27 at 5; dimensional soundscapes. Compelling, 607-829-5044 Wednesday July 30 - Sunday August 3 visceral, spontaneous; an exhilarating cre- or & Wednesday August 6 - Sunday August 10 ative journey. (Wednesdays thru Saturdays at 8, [email protected] Sundays at 5) Summer 2014 The New Franklin Register Page 15 FILMS, continued from Page 12 to the CMFF webpage at the coming years. Screen- THE GARDEN SESTINA http://www.catskillmoun- writer Robyn Pete, who tainsfilmfestival.org.) traveled from Scotland to Yet it’s the films them- Delhi to receive the award By Zara Zeidman, Gilbertsville, New York selves — not just the awards for Blackbird, captured that and red carpet — that dis- sentiment perfectly: “After tinguish a festival. The such a promising inaugu- In my beautiful garden quality and variety of the ral launch, I look forward Upon my golden tree of knowledge sits an apple films presented were ex- to seeing what the future An unknown, strong desire traordinary. With so many holds for CMFF.” With my garden full of trickery filmmakers in attendance, But the final verdict Sit stupid rotten beasts enthusiastic audiences had should belong to Jessica Covering my Garden with human filth an opportunity to engage Vecchione, the inspiration- in a dialogue with the art- al spark for this venture. I’ll show him their filth ists at Q&A sessions. “Films are contagious, and They are not innocent in our Garden Student filmmakers had making them is downright God admires His proud Beasts a rare opportunity to inter- addicting. There is no doubt But allows them not an apple act with award-winning in my mind that CMFF stim- To show his hierarchy even he is full of trickery feature, documentary, and ulated the imagination and I know God’s desire music video professionals. the creative energy of cur- Will Schwartz, a student rent and future filmmakers, To be rid of hairless eyesores is my desire filmmaker from Walton, fulfilling our mission to pro- I fear my scales show marks of their filth commented, “Witnessing vide a platform for Catskill I show the girl beast that lovely apple, oh trickery other filmmakers’ projects filmmakers. The success of She’s so innocent she put little thought in the garden and having new experienc- our first festival means that she shows her beast the apple es with people who shared we will continue to expand and fears the thing she used to be, I whisper to the beast my interests was a dream our mission in 2015, begin- come true and a giant step ning with our Workshops Into her ear, she makes the beast for me professionally.” this coming September. We Find the apple’s desire Matt Kehoe, who won couldn’t be more excited and makes him take a large bite of apple the music video award for at the prospect of holding God, I told You they were filth Froggie Goes a Courtin’, re- CMFF for years and years Banish them from our garden marked that the highlights to come.” My life is trickery of the festival were “meet- The imaginative “Cat- ing new people, forging ty” award was presented to But God saw my trickery new relationships, and dis- winners of the CMFF film- He saw me whisper to the beast covering that the person makers’ competition. The I fear he will too banish me from the Garden you are meeting knows statuettes were fashioned For he saw all my desire three mutual friends in the by local woodworker John He said he would banish my filth industry.” Virga of Bovina Brown Bats to the ground with the fallen apples Festival-goers were (bovinabrownbats.com) to generally in agreement that reflect the festival’s striking I long to be in the trees of apples the Catskill Mountains Film logo, cleverly designed by But I miss my trickery Festival was a great suc- Joseph Williams of The De- He calls me filth cess, and they were enthu- sign District, Franklin, NY but did not banish me like the beasts siastic about attending in (thedesigndistrict.us). maybe he wanted them gone twas his desire Rid them from the garden

My trickery did what it intended, beasts are gone from the garden My apple’s core rotted to the ground But was my desire filth?

ANNOUNCEMENT For all you fans of MURDER AT THE FARMERS’ MARKET... As mentioned in the last issue, Jack is away on assignment and despite uninvited guests cannot provide for this month’s issue. A death, a dinner, an arrest, and Santa... but not necessarily in that order. Stay tuned.

CM O ING SOON... The Tulip and The Rose Café 435 Main Street Franklin, NY 13775 607 829-4040 These lovely girls above are all re- Open 7 days a week cipients of the Franklin Community Edu- Mon-Thu 6:00 AM – 3:00 PM: cation Foundation Scholarship Award: Breakfast and Lunch Madeline McLaughlin, Kristin Cronk, Zoe Fri 6:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Breakfast Warren and Valentina Temple, feted at the Sat 7:00 AM - 3:00 PM: Breakfast and Lunch home of Tom Morgan and Erna Morgan Sun 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM: Breakfast and Brunch McReynolds. Page 16 The New Franklin Register Summer 2014

est cover. Posted private land is preferred so entire Golden Eagle population passes through HAWKWATCH that hunters or trappers will not disturb birds our region twice each year. Movement of these attracted to the camera traps. Road-killed deer birds does not vary - migrating Golden Eagles By Carole Marner carcasses are used as bait. All carcasses are concentrate in a narrow thirty to fifty mile wide checked for the presence of bullet wounds be- corridor. The survival of these rare birds de- The town of Franklin is blessed in many fore being placed. Those with bullet wounds pends on responsible management of the habi- ways but over the past three years, it has been are rejected completely or in part because the tat they use and it is essential to research and discovered that we are home to a truly remark- use of lead bullets has proven lethal to scaveng- identify ways to mitigate prospective impacts able winter resident - the Golden Eagle. And ing birds such as eagles. on this and similar raptor species. Visit Hawk- not just passing through. The eagles actually In 2014, seventeen winter resident Golden watch this fall and perhaps you will see one. spend a few months here. This research has Eagles were photographed at eight sites and been documented by members of the Delaware three Golden Eagles were captured and tele- The Delaware Otsego Audubon Society Otsego Audubon Society, whose sanctuary on metered. Radio telemetry is now universally Sanctuary is located at 52 Grange Hall Rd which Franklin Mountain hosts Hawkwatch, one of the used to chart bird movements, in small local runs from the Town of Franklin into the Town of most important sites for observing and tracking breeding territories as well as the huge path Oneonta. migrating birds, most notably raptors, along the patterns of international migratory species. For detailed directions to the Hawkwatch as east coast of North America. Besides species conservation uses, radio te- well as to learn about their projects and events, Located on the north-facing slope of Frank- lemetry has important applications in the in- see their website http://doas.us/ lin Mountain, Hawkwatch provides an enor- vestigation of infectious diseases of migratory mous view of the Susquehanna River Valley. species. The capture, handling and Birdwatchers can watch the approach of the mi- marking of wild birds are activities grating birds flying down from the north from strictly regulated in most countries. miles and miles away. On any day during fall The radio instruments used are small migrating season, there will be a group of dedi- and very lightweight and amazingly cated volunteeers scanning the sky with bin- accurate over large areas and ex- oculars and trading bird stories. A bird count is tended time periods. The birds are kept here throughout the fall migration. I have captured briefly with rocket nets and frequently gone up there with my grandson af- the telemeters are quickly attached ter school and occasionally there have been so to the center of their backs between many birds that I’ve been unable to keep up the wings where they will not impede with the count. Hawkwatch is also a location movement. Undisturbed, they can for many activities year round, such as birding continue sending data for months, walks and lectures, a day camp for children in even years. the summer and a raptor banding station. Studies of bird movements are vi- Over the past few years, documenting the tally important for learning the inter- previously unknown presence of winter resi- actions between their migration paths dent Golden Eagles has become the most excit- and the development of renewable ing activity of the group. The Delaware-Otsego energy, especially wind power. The Audubon Society has been organizing baited mid-Atlantic region is becoming at- sites using wildlife cameras – motion activated, tractive for wind power development weather proof cameras - starting with six sites but it is also has the primary respon- in 2011 and increasing to ten sites this past win- sibility for the conservation of the ter, 2014. The sites, conducted under License eastern population of North Ameri- to Collect and Possess #1386, are set up after ca’s Golden Eagles. This population the close of deer hunting season and most con- is small, geographically separate, tinue operating into March. Eight of the 2014 and potentially genetically distinct baited sites were in Otsego County and two from western populations. Breeding were in Delaware, located on high ridges, pref- in northeastern Canada and winter- Golden Eagle being released Photo by Gerianne Carillo erably wooded, with small openings in the for- ing in the southern Appalachians, the

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MAXINE THE GOLDEN EAGLE: an update NOTE: The NFR is now delivered by mail to every household in the Franklin/Treadwell zip codes. By Helen McLean SUBSCRIBER NAME: In our last issue of the New Franklin Register, I in- troduced you to Maxine, a young female Golden Eagle ADDRESS: that was part of a project tracking these birds in our area. Since then, we’ve had the disturbing news that she is E-MAIL ADDRESS: likely dead from lead poisoning. Her body has not been recovered, but her telemetry unit did connect with a sin- DELIVERY PREFERENCE (circle one): DATE TO START (circle one): gle tower. This is not enough information to identify her E-MAIL U.S.MAIL Summer Fall Spring specific location, but all indications are that she was in or For mailed delivery, send this form with payment to: near the vicinity of a farm where invasive Eurasian boars Editor/ Subscriptions had been killed with lead ammunition. The New Franklin Register Some good news has come from this event – the issue P.O. Box 258 of lead bullets has been addressed with some communi- Franklin, NY 13775 ties and already some changes have been made. For a more detailed account of this incident, see the May issue (Checks should be made out to Franklin Local) of The Belted Kingfisher, newsletter of the Delaware-Ot- OR sego County Audubon Society (www.doas.us). For electronic delivery (free), email your request to [email protected] Summer 2014 T he New Franklin Register Page 17

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The 2014 poster for the Franklin Farmers’ Market, with art work by Judith Lamb. This and posters for past seasons, with work by local artists, can be purchased at the FFM. Summert 2014 The New Franklin Register Page 19 Your Neighbor’s View... To the Editor: is telling, in that issues far lized in the future. more reaching than cost If the improvements I am writing in re- savings are at play here. homeowners undertake The Newsletter of the Franklin Citizens Commission on Peak Oil sponse to a piece printed You note that “energy in order to save money on Editorial Board in the winter edition of the savings have exceed- heating, insulation, new Ellen Curtis Carole Satrina Marner Franklin Register ~ “Geo- ed expectations, at least windows, new boilers — Eugene Marner Hank Stahler thermal Green An Energy $125,000 in three years.” result in savings of up to fif- Associate Editor: Brian Brock Revolution at CVCS.” Now, what did this cost us? ty percent, why can’t school Editor I have included with l would say $8 million dol- districts do the same? Or Marjorie Bradley Kellogg my thoughts two other ex- lars plus the financing of how about this novel idea — cerpts from that issue — the bond issue. It seems change the school sched- n Have a opinion? Wrieo t t us! the “Coins for Kids” piece as though the revolution- ule so that classes are not At: The New Franklin Register along with the somewhat ary thinkers don’t include held in the depths of winter P.O. Box 258 humorous picture of the the 80% of that cost that and instead have more of Franklin, NY 13775 sign indicating the current was covered by state aid the schedule during milder or by email: [email protected] state of gas prices. (please refer to the “Coins months when heating the After reading through for Kids” piece - apparent- building and transport- What are we about? the article several times, I ly, if the state is paying such ing the students are not so must add to your answer to money in certain areas, it costly and troublesome? The Franklin Citzens’ Commission on Peak Oil was au- “What does it take to make comes up short in others.) Perhaps that would be thorized on December 6th, 2005 by a Town Board Resolu- change happen?” In addi- That notwithstanding, too revolutionary to the tion. Our purpose was to assess the needs and resources tion to “a forward gaze and when you include the cost entrenched patterns we of the Town of Franklin in the face of Peak Oil, and to report a lot of determination,” I of financing the remaining have grown accustomed back to the Town Board and to the people of Franklin. Renamed as Franklin Local Ltd., we are a not- must include a lack of fiscal $1.5 million, the math is still too. If we are truly con- for-profit corporation made up of Franklin residents. responsibility and a poor not very impressive. If that cerned with costs and the We meet once a month, at 7 P.M. in the Town Board sense of stewardship of fi- amount was included in the “sustainability” of our local Room. All are welcome, to offer questions and help us nancial resources. While bonds issued in 2009, the school districts, our think- answer them, to share thoughts and ideas. the objective of energy average rate of interest is ing should be turned to Please join us! savings is certainly a good 3.75%. On the $1.5 million developing budgets that fit We have a number of projects that we hope to move one, shouldn’t the math amount, that is a financing the district, that can be sus- from idea to action: of implementing any pro- cost of $56,250 a year, or tained locally, and are not • Local food production network gram to accomplish said $168,750 for three years. dependent on aid from the • Skills and services exchange savings be scrutinized? Whoops, we lost any savings same places that we blame • Goods exchange • Ride sharing bulletin board and/or website Let’s start with the figure in fuel oil costs. While those for unfunded mandates. • Farm to School Program for school lunches spent on fuel oil: 35,000 bonds do begin to mature I can only believe • Community Greenhouses gallons @ $2.80 is $98,000. and the interest costs will that the true believers in • Community Energy Production Today’s higher price of decrease, the district will the “gospel according to • Community Health Network $3.40 would put the total have to come up with prin- geothermal,” funded with In a nutshell, we propose to imagine a more energy ef- at $119,000. A budget line cipal payments ranging someone else’s money, ficient habit of living, and to put it to work here in Franklin, item of this magnitude does from $300,000 to $500,000+ have convinced them- for a brighter, more sustainable future.. require a close look, even to retire that debt. If cur- selves and others that costs more so in trying economic rent demographic trends do not matter. This is, quite We hope you will join us! times, and I applaud Mr. continue, I would expect frankly, a shameful use of Dupra for addressing the that amount to be paid for scarce financial resources. For local information, past issues costs associated with heat- a smaller student body. If We in the Franklin School of the NFR, and a calendar of local ing the school. However, his cost savings was the moti- District are fearful of a clos- events, visit our website at “revolutionary” solution, an vating factor here, I cannot ing of our school and yet $8 million geothermal heat see how this particular proj- applaud ridiculous finan- franklinlocal.org system boggles my mind. ect would be seen as mak- cial decisions such as that The use of the terms “revo- ing any sense. Rather, I fear made in Charlotte Valley. Printed in Syracuse, NY, by the Scotsman Press, Inc. lutionary,” and “the gospel a monument to geothermal Sincerely, according to geothermal” thinking standing underuti- Adam Niebanck The New Franklin Register is an independent entity funded by our local advertisers and contributions The NFR replies: from interested friends. We have no granting orga- • Oil prices are bound keep going up, possibly quite sharply when the fracking boom busts. nizations to answer to, and no taxpayer dollars come • Geothermal provides AC, for which there will be increasing need due to climate change. • Grants bring money into the community --- our tax dollars returning to do good at home. our way. • Uses of grant dollars are limited and may not be available for insulation or a new boiler. • Radically rescheduling classes is impractical in the foreseeable future. FOR INFORMATION ABOUT FRANK- • In addition to saving dollars and cents, geothermal reduces the carbon footprint. 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Date Acres Location Property Type Assess. Price Seller Buyer 2/20/2014 1 4110 State Highway 28 S 1 Family Res 110,000 $98,000 Drake, Ethel Zimmerman, Alan E 2/21/2014 5.1 12144 State Highway 357 1 Family Res 85,000 60,000 Tammac Holdings, Beaver Valley, LLC 3/05/2014 0.25 128 Center St 1 Family Res 73,000 65,000 Tilton, Alberta Lambrecht, Joshua 3/11/2014 10.35 262 Heathen Hill Rd Seasonal Res 75,000 90,000 Sandorf, Barbara Lima, Thomas 3/20/2014 4.8 994 State Highway 28 S 1 Family Res 106,000 75,000 Yetman, William Lynch, Roger P 3/25/2014 5 2312 Jackson Hill Rd 1 Family Res 74,000 60,000 Williams, Dorothy A Crane, John R 4/04/2014 6.17 365 Overlook Dr 1 Family Res 142,000 188,000 Barrett, Henrietta M Schwille, John R 4/10/2014 3 812 Rich Rd 1 Family Res 124,000 145,000 Byam, Floyd N Finch, Ralph 4/15/2014 0.54 2561 Sherman Hill Rd Mfg Housing 61,000 55,000 Traver, Betty Melabianakis, 4/15/2014 5.5 498 Olin Evans Rd Rural Res 130,000 110,000 Davidson, John L Lupo, Salvatore 4/16/2014 1.33 1113 State Highway 28S Mfg Housing 58,000 91,250 Collison, William Collison, Kimberly 4/17/2014 74.37 Olin Evans Rd Abandoned Ag 60,000 75,000 Davidson, John L Bellino, Joseph P 5/08/2014 State Highway 28 S Rural Vac >10 0 Numerous County of Delaware 5/23/2014 16.39 167 Thoroughbred Rd 1 Family Res 115,000 147,000 Warner, Andrew J Delgado, Marcos P

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