The Newsletter of Franklin Local Vol. IX, No. 3 Franklin, New York FALL 2015 ‘INDEPENDENT, FEARLESS AND FREE’ ROUNDABOUT HELP IS NEARBY REVISION Family Health & Community Staff Report Walk-In Opening in Franklin The New York State De- partment of Transportation By Patricia Tyrell has revised the plan for the roundabout at the inter- The onset of the school year heralds the section of state highways start of cold and flu season, with the kids 357 and 28. This came bringing more from school than home- in response to concerns work - sniffles, coughs, upset stomachs, FNP Gregg Kujawski Photo by the author from the Howland family leading to more frequent visits to a medi- provided health care within a number of who live just north of the cal practitioner. For too long, residents of communities, beginning in Monticello and intersection. Franklin have been required to seek even Revised plan of intersection Kingston and, working his way closer to his The change moves the basic medical care outside town limits. hometown of Franklin, at thriving practices transfer lane of Rt. 28 South be completed no later than Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) Gregg in Norwich and Walton. He has also affili- to Rt. 357 West (the dark spring of 2017. This work Kujawski is working to change this, now of- ated with several area hospitals, provid- gray band on the plan) so could overlap the construc- fering quality and affordable community ing emergency medical services, includ- that a vehicle speeding tion of the Constitution health care just outside the village, with ing: Delaware Valley Hospital, Chenango without brakes might pass pipeline, which would use care focused on the patient. A graduate of County Memorial Hospital, Catskill Re- by the circle on the west- both routes to supply the SUNY Delhi’s Registered Nursing program, gional Medical Center, and A.O. Fox Me- ern side and continue into project. Syracuse University’s MSN program, and a morial Hospital. the fields to the south. The cost is estimated board certified FNP since 2001, Gregg has With his diverse experience and dy- The current schedule is at $850,000, which is to be been providing medical care to individuals namic personality, Gregg has committed for bids to be let in June of paid by the Federal High- near and far for more than fourteen years. See HELP, continued on Page 5 2016, with construction to way Safety Improvement For more than a decade, Gregg has begin in the fall of 2016 and Program. 2015 ELECTION SPECIAL SEE PAGES 6 AND 7

VOTE NOVEMBER 3RD PILOT PRETENSE By Brian Brock line be built, Franklin INSIDE might receive substantial THIS ISSUE... Property taxes are the property taxes on the mid- primary support for local stream compressor station. REGULAR FEATURES: governments. In the Town The Constitution pipeline Neighbor’s View Pg. 2 of Franklin, the 2014 bud- would eventually need a Letters to the Editor Pg. 2 Don and Louise Hebbard in their sun-warmed dining room get of $1.85 million was similar facility to boost ca- The Mayor’s Corner Pg. 3 supported by $1.29 million pacity, although not nec- Pet Talk Pg. 4 LIVING LIGHTLY ON THE EARTH of property taxes – seventy essarily in Franklin. Not In the Kitchen Pg. 5 Murder at the FFM Pg.18 percent of total. surprisingly, these taxes Real Estate Sales Pg.20 By Carole Marner Photos by Eugene Marner Should the Northeast are cited as the principle Energy Direct West (for- FRANKLIN LOCAL: We are all deeply embedded in a society that thrives merly Supply Path) pipe- See PILOT, con’t on Page 17 by exploiting resources while polluting the environ- “Apocalypse Now?” Pg. 2 Christmas Stroll Pg. 3 ment. This is not something we can change overnight nor THE CofC Harvest Dance Pg. 3 even in a few decades. Our industrial revolution devel- Upcoming Elections Pg. 6 oped within a history where scarcity was a certainty and Equalization Rates Pg. 9 abundance a rare blessing. This is still true for most of LUCKY DOG mankind but we, the fortunate benefactors of the plenty FOOD HUB FOCUS ON ENERGY: produced by the scientific innovations of the last couple Gas Ponzi Scheme Pg. 8 of hundred years, are finally becoming aware, thanks to By Alexis Greene Town Comp. Plan Pg. 8 that same science, of the perils and the high price of the Pipelines and Power Pg. 9 path we are on. We are learning that we can gradually The name Lucky Dog came about because we like to Heating with Wood Pg.10 slow the pace of our pillaging of earth’s riches -- without take in strays, says Richard Giles, who, with his wife, Hol- Water Care Booklet Pg.10 going back to living in caves -- by continually deepening ley White, owns the certified organic Lucky Dog Farm in National Water Grid? Pg.11 our knowledge of the ways things work in nature. Hamden. They also like challenges. LOCAL ARTS: So what can each of us do? Giles hails from the farms of Mississippi; White comes Jim Mullen Reviews Pg.12 With every decision, we must consider the destructive from Texas. But they met in New York City, and in 2000, Teens on Stage Pg.12 impact of the way we live, how it is caused and how it can following a yen to leave the metropolis, they bought a 45- UpState Arts Pg.13 be mitigated, so that the impact of our lives can achieve acre dairy farm in the valley that borders the West Branch Jason Starr on Music Pg.13 greater harmony with nature. of the Delaware River. The cows were long gone. Poet’s Choice Pg.14 See SOLAR, continued on Page 11 See LUCKY, continued on Page 15 “The Ouleout in June” Pg.17 Page 2 The New Franklin Register Fall 2015 Your Neighbor’s View... TO OUR out of state, in Canada or in trying to convince New Mexico, a country with the Yorkers that this project GOVERNOR AND least environmental and will benefit us, when it is re- MY NEIGHBORS worker safety protections. ally an example of greed, Empire State Development land theft (over a hundred Sidney is the “industrial gave Amphenol $750,000 to twenty properties served hub” of Delaware County, stay in Sidney after floods in with condemnation orders) says the IDA. Three of our 2006 and 2011. and an arrogant industry four Superfund sites are at- With money Amphenol dictating terms to our DEC. tributed to Amphenol. The is not paying in US corpo- If this sales pitch is suc- federally regulated Super- rate tax, and money they cessful, we lose our green- fund program is designed are not paying US workers, field status and will live to remediate the worst why do they still have their with sickening fracked gas cases of pollution nation- hand out to cash strapped infrastructure for the rest wide that local municipali- Delaware County? CEO of our lives. If fracked gas ties cannot pay for. Indus- Rick Aiken said it is wages makes a mess in Sidney or try has been putting bread not fuel costs that make Franklin, which might get a and poison on the table in working in the states un- Compressor Station, the oil Sidney for generations. economic. Later, that same and gas industry is exempt Amphenol’s jobs are $750,000 was supposed to from EPA Clean Air And repeatedly and singularly be used to “tap” Consti- Clean Water regulations cited as the reason to al- tution Pipeline. Perhaps and from Superfund clean- low Constitution Pipeline Leatherstocking’s four taps up protection legislation. through NY. Amphenol em- were never economically Small towns like ours ploys possibly seven hun- feasible and this gas is for will be on their own. APOCALYPSE NOW? dred workers, down from the export? Constitution Pipe- nine thousand of fifty years line spokespersons have Cathy McNulty Then what? ago. Most workers now are been backpedaling and Sidney Center NY By Patricia Tyrell

ON CARE FOR is handed over to the blind consumerism, which prior- Originally, this article was to examine apocalyptic be- forces of the unconscious, itizes short-term gain and OUR liefs among “thirty-somethings” and the impacts of such of immediate needs, of self- private interest, can make thoughts upon behavior and society overall. Being a thir- COMMON HOME interest, and of violence.” it easy to rubber-stamp ty-something, I have observed my cohort generation (in- The reader is given inex- authorization or conceal cluding myself) as being particularly invested in apoca- Stock markets and pensive suggestions on information.” lyptic fantasy and anticipation: a generation raised upon economists are closely how to become a happy, Will Pope Francis’ the precipice of pre-apocalyptic probability. We have, af- watching how consumers sustainable consumer. This words of love for our com- ter all, survived at least five major apocalyptic predictions will respond to the land- way we can show a convic- mon home and its inhabit- in our relatively short life spans. mark encyclical letter from tion and attitude to protect ants fall on deaf ears, or will But as I looked more closely, I saw that a looming Pope Francis, Encyclical on Earth and the environment. his words move us to do our doomsday is on the minds of many people of all ages, and Climate Change and Equal- Many references are part to make a difference? for many reasons. Religion has always provided a signifi- ity: On Care of Our Com- made to developing re- “Obstructionist attitudes, cant source of apocalyptic beliefs. Contributing to Arma- mon Home. newable energy globally, even on the part of believ- geddon angst for nearly as long as religion are politics The seventy-eight year- from community coop- ers, can range from denial and class struggle. old Pope sees first hand eratives to transportation, of the problem to indiffer- New to the apocalyptic stage is The Great Grief, a the effect a global econ- and the need for adequate ence, nonchalant resigna- term coined to describe pre-traumatic stress disorder. omy is having on Earth. storage technologies of tion or blind confidence in Symptoms of The Great Grief include anxiety, depression, His insightful and informa- this clean energy. More technical solutions. We re- fatalism, hopelessness, and the loss of a sense of control tive words are grounded emphasis is placed on in- quire a new and universal in the face of climate change. Persons directly affected in scientific data. The let- forming the reader than on solidarity.” by climate change may actually experience trauma and ter is an appeal to the ethi- browbeating the fossil fuel shock, and so exhibit these symptoms more severely. (1) cal side of humanity and is industry, presuming that Tammy Reiss These days, religion, politics and climate change all meant to unite and incite people know that coal, oil Otego, NY contribute, independently or in lock-step, to a feeling of action from us and politi- and natural gas are highly being imprisoned in an immutable destiny. As with reli- cians alike, of all faiths and polluting forms of energy The Reiss family reduced their gion and politics, any real discussion of climate change is a no faith. We’re asked to and need to be replaced yearly fossil fuel consumption social faux-pas, often eliciting accusations of fanatic envi- by eighty-five percent. use science and religion to immediately. ronmentalism and/or anti-capitalism. But though its roots start a fruitful and intense Though gas is men- may rest in religion, politics or climate change, we can talk dialogue: “As often occurs tioned as a lesser polluting about apocalyptic dread in periods of deep crisis fossil fuel, the Pope doesn’t more easily in our daily which require bold deci- let the industry off the lives, perhaps because we sions, we are tempted to hook! Many paragraphs think of The Apocalypse think that what is happen- speak directly to industry in mythic terms, much like ing is not entirely clear.” and our wastefulness. The Santa Claus or the boogie The 246 numbered letter also thanks all those man - as something that paragraphs read like a working to protect the en- Kenneth L. Bennett will never really happen, roadmap and final wake- vironment from human ex- a prediction favored only up call for preserving hu- ploitation, for instance, the Funeral Home by “whackos.” man dignity and quality of work being done to slow Perhaps as a result, life. It speaks to all gen- the oil and gas industry’s our culture is super-satu- erations, from this gen- ever expanding infrastruc- rated in apocalyptic fan- eration’s “disconnected” ture and horizontal hydro- 425 Main Street tasy. Movies and television youth to Baby Boomers. fracking: “When a project Franklin, NY 13776 shows, video games, web- We are asked to face real- may lead to a greater use sites, radio stations and the ity and take an honest look of natural resources, higher media are often dedicated at ourselves and how our levels of emissions or dis- to our imaginary or immi- consumerism, bereft of so- charge, an increase of re- 607-829-2272 nent struggle to survive cial and ecological aware- fuse, or significant changes against some cataclysmic ness, will be our undoing to the landscape, the habi- event. Daily conversations if we don’t act immediately. tats of protected species include statements such as: “Our freedom fades when it or public...The culture of See NOW, con’t on Page 16 Fall 2015 The New Franklin Register Page 3 FRANKLIN LOCAL Local News Local Issues Local Events Local Concerns FRANKLIN FALL FEST LOCAL WOMAN By Brian Brock 50s, 60s, and 70s. HONORED Female lead singer A good old favorite re- Terri Whitney was born Staff report turns: the fall dance at the and raised in Franklin. She CHRISTMAS STROLL 2015 Franklin firehouse, hosted now lives up on Frank- Vivian Groat of Frank- by the Greater Franklin lin Heights. Other mem- lin was recognized by the Plans are well underway for this annual day of holiday Chamber of Commerce. bers of the band hail from Delaware County Office of celebration in Franklin - Saturday, December 12th. Mark it on your calen- Andes, Halcottsville, and the Aging for making the Grandma’s Pantry at the Methodist Church from 11:00 dar for Saturday, November Walton. 2015 Outstanding Contri- – 3:00 PM. Craft and Rummage Sale, Soup and Sandwich 7th, from 6 to 10 P.M. Come If you work up an ap- bution by a Senior Citizen. Lunch. and catch up with friends petite, the Fire Department This award has been given Farmers’ Holiday Market at the Fire Hall from Noon – and neighbors, and dust off will be serving hot and annually since 1983 to a 4:00. If you would like to have a table at the market, con- your dancing boots. cold foods all evening. Delaware County senior tact Jan Mulroy or Betty Fischer. The band will be Coun- You can also bid at a si- citizen who has contributed Franklin Community and Railroad Museum will be try Express, which makes lent auction of thousands of to improving the quality of open with many differently themed decorated trees Delaware County its home. dollars worth of local goods life for the county’s elder throughout. It is known for its classic and services, with winners residents. Senior Class Dinner and Chinese Market 4:00 – 7:00 country sound of the greats to be announced before Mrs. Groat’s contribu- PM in the FCS Cafetorium. such as Patsy Cline, Merle the end of the festivities. tions include: twelve years Santa and Mrs. Claus will come to the Fire Hall at 6:00 Haggard, Tammy Wynette, If you get foot sore, then as president (current) of P.M. Free pictures taken of children with Santa and Mrs. and Hank Williams. Mix in- you can take a break to bob the Franklin/Treadwell Se- Claus, plus hot chocolate and cookies, and a craft gift. cludes newer country art- for apples. You can record nior Club, member of the Mayor Tom Briggs has agreed to organize the Christ- ists such as Faith Hill and your evening at the selfie Washington Reading Club mas Stroll house tour. We are looking for homeowners George Strait. Also includ- booth. (the oldest such club in the willing to open their decorated house for viewing. The ed is classic rock from the Tickets are $5 in ad- United States), president tour is run in an open vance and $6 at the door. and past vice president of house, self -guided format. They are available from the Delaware County Se- If interested, call Tom at Rich’s Auto Body, Bur- nior Council, treasurer of 829-6885. If you would like gin’s Auto Service, and the the Franklin United Meth- to be on the tour but need Chambers website. And odist Club, 30 years on the help getting your house if you haven’t got your FCS Board of Education, ready, we might be able to Thanksgiving decorations, Chief Election Inspector, get volunteers to help. theirs will be for sale. member of the Franklin Ro- If you have an event you For more details, check tary Club, and overseer of would like to add to the day, out the Chamber’s website: the Inner Church Thanks- please contact Kim Hyzer franklinny.org/fall-festival-2015 giving Dinner. at 829-8820 or khyzer@ Donations to the auc- Today she resides at frontiernet.net for inclusion tion are welcome. Please the Groat Homestead Farm in the advertising. call Rebecca at Rich’s, off County Highway 21 in Country Express will play at the Franklin Fall Fest Nov. 7th 607-829-3583. Franklin.

son It has been de- deflated, depending on the school are a significant part tury and our culture hasn’t cades since I was outcome of the game, and of the stuff that keeps our yet developed the tools to THE MAYOR’S able to throw a ball lessons would be learned little community alive. respond effectively to pa- without pain. The regardless. Then summer The real value here is rental abuse, violent video CORNER coaches demon- would yield to soccer. The not whether the kids win games, drugs and alcohol, strate hitting and same scenario would un- championships or whether never mind a society that throwing dynamics, fold, with coaches running they go on and compete seems to have lost its abil- With Tom Briggs situation strategies, various drills, discussing in a larger theater. It’s the ity to take the high road and teach the kids strategies, blowing whistles training, discipline, self- when faced with major the same fundamen- and keeping kids focused sacrifice, team building and challenges. We have a picture win- tals of the game that I was on the activity at hand. positive behavior that these But we cannot disre- dow in the rear of our Main taught when I was their young people are learning gard the importance of fac- Street house that provides age. That was in the fif- that will help them to be ulty members maintaining my wife and me with a ties and there seemed to contributors to the greater a high level of engagement great deal of cheap enter- be an abundance of World good as adults. There is with at risk students. It is tainment. In the winter I War II vets who, after re- equal virtue found in the this rapport that could very service a birdfeeder that turning from whatever hell school’s music program, well dissuade a young per- seems to be popular with a they had been through, and the elementary recitals, son from retreating to some large variety of birds, plus were happy to be back and the academic program dark place where gun vio- three or four crafty squir- home volunteering their in general. What is remark- lence might become an rels. In the warmer weath- baseball savvy and using able about our little school option. er we can peer through the “America’s game” to craft Scrimmages would follow, is that most of the staff tru- I take my hat off to all leaves and see the Franklin another (what they had then games. ly care about these young those who help to make athletic field, which gets hoped would be) “great Now as the leaves re- people and are putting out Franklin Central School a significant use. School chil- generation.” lease themselves to cover great effort to keep them safe, caring and learning dren of all ages report to Games would follow my back yard, I can see engaged and mindful of the environment for the chil- the field as soon as most of spring practice and the most of the soccer field community around them. dren of our residents. As the snow melts. cheers from camp-follow- again: cheers, groans, The school is not per- long as we have a school Being a former small ing parents and friends that whistles, words of encour- fect, mind you. Not all and as long as we have car- town baseball star, I watch would erupt after a signifi- agement, swift judgement students will end up as ing, engaging faculty mem- with envy as boys and girls cant action would race up served on the officials successful adults. There bers serving the communi- fluidly toss baseballs and and down the Ouleout Val- when an unfavorable call is are just too many factors ty at large, the quality of life softballs back and forth, ley and up on to Main Street. made. This is Franklin, and in play for that to happen. in this beautiful community limbering up for the sea- Kids would be elated or its young people and the This is the twenty-first cen- will be sustainable. Page 4 The New Franklin Register Fall 2015 WILBER HONORED U.S. Capitol building. Over few sacrifices, I believe, POSTHUMOUSLY 5,000 attended, including just like having children. families, friends, firefight- There are many local Staff report ers, members of Congress, organizations that have and Administration offi- PET programs to help, some lo- At the thirty fourth an- cials. Firefighter Honor cally. Here are a few. nual National Fallen Fire- Guards and Pipe & Drum TALK 1. Greater Oneonta fighter Memorial Service, units from across the U.S. Fund for Animal Responsi- honored was James C. Wil- participated in this national with Dr. Joan Puritz bility (GOFAR). They give ber of the Franklin Volun- remembrance. vouchers to local vets to as- teer Fire Department, who This memorial service I am (as most of you home with a family. sist with the cost of a spay died from a heart attack on was preceded by a candle- know) a veterinarian in All this is pretty won- or neuter, and run monthly February 9, 2014 while re- light service Saturday eve- Oneonta, NY. At 6:50 PM on derful, right? But if vets did clinics for low income pet porting to a motor vehicle ning as part of Memorial a Friday night, I was wait- this all the time, we would owners, offering inexpen- accident on State Highway Weekend. ing for a person who found go out of business, our staff sive spays and neuters: 28. He had been a volun- Link to his page at the a very sick and injured kit- would not get paid, nor 607-436-9546 teer in Franklin since 1975. National Fallen firefighters ten in her back yard. This would the other bills for 2. Love and Hope Ani- Assistant Chief Wilber Foundation: http://www.fire- person doesn’t want this medications, supplies or mal Sanctuary, Franklin NY: hero.org/fallen-firefighter/ was one of the eleven fire- kitten, has no money, but hospital maintenance. 607-436-9546 james-c-wilber/ fighters from New York and can’t just leave it there to So, what’s my point? I 3. Alley Cat Allies, seventy three more nation- die. Earlier today, I saw an- believe if we all took re- Bethesda MD: 240-482-1980. ally who had died in the line other sick cat. That owner sponsibility for having our Lastly, Oct 16th was Na- of duty in 2014 and three in didn’t want to bring the cat cats spayed or neutered, tional Feral Cat Day, pro- 2013 so honored on Sunday in because she didn’t have and so decreased the over- moted by Alley Cat Allies October 4th at the National the money to cover its care. population problem, we to try to raise awareness Fire Academy in Emmits- It wasn’t her cat to begin would not have all these for feral cats everywhere. burg, MD by the National with, so why should she stray cats and kittens. If To do our part, last Sunday Firefighters Foundation. have to pay for it? I agree, only people who feed fe- GOFAR had a feral cat sale, Their names were added to but how does a veterinar- ral or untamed cats would to spay or neuter the first the bronze plaque, and the ian pay her own bills while trap them, take them to twenty feral cats brought family received a flag that taking in these animals? their veterinarian to be to the monthly October had been flown over the Asst. Chief James C. Wilber So, it’s a week later. The neutered and vaccinated. spay/neuter clinic for only injured kitten’s leg had Farmers who keep cats $10.00. All volunteer run, been mangled to the point in the barn to control the we performed forty spays MOVING TO TREADWELL: that there was no way to mouse population should and neuters, on mostly feral Setting Up Camp repair it. It had to be am- also take the responsibility cats. Thank you, GOFAR. putated. A brave little guy, of having those cats spayed though. As I examined or neutered. By Magali Veillon READERS! him, he gave me a look: “I I know that having a cat If you have a A year after I received the deed to the house in am at your mercy, do what spayed or neutered is not Treadwell, most people would drive by and say, “You’ve you will to me,” then butted inexpensive. But I want to veterinary ques- done nothing.” Indeed, the outside of the house has been my hand for a rub on his point out that vets charge tion you’d like Dr. untouched, and since the structure is safely protected head. He was emaciated, as little as possible for this Puritz to answer in with a roof, I don’t have to rush. I have made the deci- and stinking like dead procedure, as we know a future column, sion to approach the project slowly and reserve time to flesh, but I was sold. Now, how important it is to have please email her observe and research, and so I acquired a camper trailer he is dewormed, tested for this done. Comparing it to care of this news- to live on the site, be close to the house, and live in the feline leukemia and feline human medicine, an hys- paper at: village, finally. aids, has that rotting leg off, terectomy costs thousands is vaccinated, and best of of dollars! Keeping a pet What little that has been done put me through my first [email protected] experience of construction. An excavator, an electrician, all, has found a wonderful means having to make a and a plumber worked to bury lines as part of the project to set up the camper in the back of the garage with buried lines for water and electricity. This ordeal has confirmed for me that nothing should be done without much prior planning and discussion. Paul Gray, born and raised in Treadwell and now a resi- dent of Hamden, was the excavator, working for Frank Maduri, and it was a wonder to see him operate the ma- chine that looked like a toy under his control. But as good as he was, I was not ready and had to scramble to discuss materials and other details at the last minute. The experi- ence left me feeling foolish and cost more than it should have. How typical! Let’s hope that part of the investment is that I am learning my lessons. I am now moved into my camper trailer. Life is de- nuded of the luxury of space, central heating, hot water, Internet, or phone. We are so dependent on all the con- veniences of modern life, yet being in such a small space, twenty by eight feet, makes some things convenient—to heat it takes no time and less energy; everything is so close, and putting things away becomes easy and quick; cleaning only requires the twist of a wand. And it forces me to reconsider life’s necessities versus life’s luxuries. Ironically the camper was built for vacation, a great luxu- ry, and now it is turning my life as bearably bare as possi- ble. Having everything used, every spaced filled, teaches me not to waste. It is an important lesson for thinking of the space of the house that is fifteen times the size of the trailer. How can each piece, each nook make sense and not be wasted? Now that the cold and winter are around the corner, I start feeling so much more vulnerable to the elements in my small shell. Space where you can feel safe and warm, where you don’t have to worry about frozen pipes and See TREADWELL, continued on Page 14 Fall 2015 The New Franklin Register Page 5 HELP, continued from Page 1

IN THE KITCHEN With Sue Avery

Zucchini Crescent Pie

Franklin’s new health facility, under construction 1 Unbaked Pie shell (home made or bought) his energies to serving the Franklin community. The con- 4 cups thinly sliced zucchini struction of the Franklin Family Nurse Practitioner Servic- es, PLLC (FFNPS) is ongoing but Gregg has already be- 1 cup chopped onion gun his practice by providing medical care through home 1/4 cup butter visits. He will continue to offer this service to the medi- 1/2 cup fresh parsley cally fragile (homebound infants and the elderly) when he opens his office, at 12080 County Route 21, by the end 1/2 tsp. salt of November 2015. 1/2 tsp. pepper Gregg emphasizes the importance of providing per- 1/4 tsp. garlic powder sonal care in an open and confidential environment, tak- 1/4 tsp. dried basil ing the time to answer questions and provide clear expla- nations, while also saving time for everyone by offering a 1/4 tsp. dried oregano variety of additional medical services on-site, including 2 eggs, beaten sutures, vaccines, blood-work, dermatology, and other 8 oz. shredded Munster or mozzarella minor procedures. Herbal education will be available by appointment. On-call services will also be offered for after-hours questions and necessary appointments. In butter, saute zucchini and onion for 10 The newly-built medical office will feature a children’s minutes. Stir in parsley and seasonings. exam room, an adult exam room, and a procedure room. Combine eggs and cheese. Beyond providing medical care, FFNPC will also create and maintain a patient data portal, where individuals can Combine all. access their medical records, receive electronic prescrip- Spread 2 tbsp. of the mixture over unbaked tions, lab results and other information on-line. This ser- pie shell. Pour in remaining mixture. vice is similar to those currently used by Bassett and UHS Bake in 375 degree oven for about 20 min- providers. The Nurse Practitioners Modernization Act, effective utes. January 1, 2015, allows for highly experienced NPs (more Enjoy! than 3,600 hours) to practice autonomously, while requir- ing collaborative relationships with qualified physicians for the exchange of information needed to provide com- prehensive care or to make referrals when necessary. As one of a handful of practices in Delaware County that does not have a physician, FFNPS will offer all the tradi- tional medical services of a doctor’s office. Wise Guys Pizza It’s a very special opportunity for our small town of Franklin to have its own medical provider. 226 Main St. Basically, a board certified Nurse Practitioner who has always had the post-graduate education and extensive Franklin, NY experience to provide general primary medical care and treatment of common diseases, is now allowed to do so independently. (607)-829-5566 Gregg admits that this change in NYS legislation will not lead to any major changes in the traditional hierarchy of medical professionals, but he stresses that it does not in any way detract from the delivery and quality of the medi- Tuesday- Thursday: 11-7:30 cal care received by patients. Friday-Saturday: 11-8:30 In fact, Gregg feels this change will help small com- munities, such as ours, that have trouble attracting qual- ity medical practitioners due to a lack of population and small salary packages. As a FNP, Gregg just hopes to make a living helping others live healthier lives. New Delivery, Dine in, and Takeout Franklin Family Nurse Practitioner Services, PLLC, will have office hours Monday-Friday, with Saturdays Specials Daily available as needed following the opening of its location. Home visits are currently available by appointment. Most medical insurances accepted, with discounted self-pay rates available. For questions or to schedule an appoint- Tuesday: Buy 2 large cheese pizzas for $22 +tax ment, please call (607) 829-6544. (carry out only) Buy 2 cheese slices + soda for $4.50.

Friday: Earn a free dozen garlic knots with a purchase of over $30, after 4 pm. (delivery only)

Saturday: Buy any 2 cold subs for $10 +tax From 11-4 pm Page 6 The New Franklin Register Fall 2015 THE CANDIDATES FOR TOWN SUPERVISOR FRANKLIN EPIFANIO “PETE” BEVILACQUA TOWN

Pete writes:

“Our family, like most, is one generation from the land. I decided with my wife to raise my family in the beautiful Catskill Mountains, raising food and animals on our small farm. I have four children and one grandchild, all still living close to home here in Franklin. I was employed for twenty-six years in a union and became Shop Steward of my Local 79. Coming together as fellow workers helped us jointly face safety, job secu- rity, and other issues of mutual concern. “Here in Franklin, I hope to work together with my neighbors to face the challenges before us. We must have a say about the safety and security of our homes, about pre- serving the beauty and bounty of this rich area we share where we now enjoy peace, clean water, and air. These are great gifts that we hope to give to our children. I ask for your support to bring together new and old residents to promote and protect our beau- tiful town. “As Town Supervisor, I would like to establish citizen committees to advise the board on specific issues, so the burden of research is shared among more residents, leading to clearer communication and better decisions. Every board member has one vote, including the Supervisor, and that vote should reflect an informed decision that benefits the whole community. “ Specifically, I would like to promote and preserve our farms, supporting them with local sales, in such venues as the new local foods store on Main Street, local restaurants like The Tulip and the Rose, as well as initiatives through Cooperative Extension and food hubs that truck local produce to NYC. “ I would like to encourage additional services to locate in town, such as dental and medical clinics, perhaps hardware and grocery stores, creating jobs and a more com- plete and self-sufficient community. “ I see the preservation of our lovely and historic homes as essential; as nearby com- munities become more industrial, we will offer a bedroom community to those larger towns like Oneonta and Sidney. “To sum it all up, I want to keep Franklin rural, and I promise to do my best for the interest of all the residents here. Thank You.”

JEFFREY “JEFF” TAGGART

Jeff writes:

“A lifelong Franklin resident, I have been married for forty-one years, have four grown children and eleven grandchildren, all living in the area. I am a self-employed dairy farmer, which is always a challenge. “I first became involved with government and the community in 1987 when I was on a committee to establish the zoning board for Franklin. From the Zoning Committee, I became a planning board member in 1992, and served as chairman until my appointment to the Franklin Town Board. I served as a Town Board member until Don Smith retired and at that time, I decided to run for Town Supervisor. Franklin was financially sound at that time, and I wanted to keep it a strong, united community. “During my involvement with local government, I learned a great deal about Franklin and the people who live here, and move here. The Franklin community is strong and supportive. They also work together for the best interest of everyone. I value the importance of open face-to-face communi- cation, and the need for respect for one another. I do NOT have a personal agenda in this election. “ My main goal for the taxpayers is to get Franklin safely through the pro- posed pipelines, compressor station and added power lines, while keeping everyone’s health in mind, keeping land and road disturbance at a mini- mum, and keeping extra financial expenses low and if possible, get some income for Franklin taxpayers to help with taxes. “Most of all, my goal is not to let any of these issues destroy the commu- nity by the loss of friendship, neighbors not working together, and to close the division the pipeline and compressor station is causing. “I would greatly appreciate your vote on Tuesday, November 3, 2015.”

VOTE TUESDAY NOVEMBER 3RD 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Town of Franklin Highway Garages at the intersection of State High- way 357 and County Highway 21 Fall 2015 The New Franklin Register Page 7 ELECTION THE CANDIDATES FOR TOWN COUNCIL

2015 DONALD HEBBARD

Don writes:

“ I am married to Louise Whitney Hebbard and we live in Franklin. We have four grown children and fourteen grand children. “I was raised on a dairy farm in Franklin and gradu- ated from Franklin Central School. I attended North- eastern University, Boston for three years. Transfer- ring to Cornell, I received a BS in Agricultural Business Management. Louise and I owned a sixty-five cow dairy farm near Treadwell DWIGHT BRUNO, DMV for thirty years. After my farming career, I worked as a manager in the food industry for twelve years at DVM, Fraser, NY and seven years for Flavors of North America in Carol Editor’s Note: Dr. Bruno declined our invitation to Stream, Illinois. I was last employed by the Watershed Agricultural Council, Walton, NY submit his personal history or policy statement to be as an Engineering Specialist, designing and inspecting the construction of Best Man- included here. agement Practices [BMPs] on farms to protect and improve water quality in the NYC watershed. Retiring in March 2014, I formed Hebbard Fence LLC, where we install all types of livestock fencing on all size farms. I consider myself a “generalist,” believing it is better to know a little about many things, rather than know everything about one thing! “ I have always believed in participating in community service. While living in Treadwell, I was active in the Treadwell United Methodist Church. I served on the Coun- cil for Troop 8 of the Boy Scouts of America. I am a member of the Franklin Community Education Foundation, the Board of Directors of the ChenDelO Federal Credit Union, and the Franklin Chamber of Commerce, and President of the Franklin Rotary Club. I am also active in Compressor Free Franklin, a grass-roots organization formed to research the possible health, economic and social impacts of a compressor station proposed to be located in Franklin, to provide a forum for citizens to discuss and express their natu- ral gas infrastructure concerns, and to bring those concerns to the Town Council for discussion. “ If elected, I will discourage the large-scale industrialization of Franklin, such as the proposed compressor station and natural gas pipelines. Big business projects such as these bring very few permanent jobs or monetary benefit to the area, while causing ir- reversible damage to the local environment and rural way of life. I will encourage the adoption of a Road Use Ordinance aimed at large-scale development, and work with Delta Engineering to protect Franklin’s roads. “I will also encourage the startup and growth of small businesses in Franklin by working toward better broadband and cell service for the area. In today’s market place, every business relies on electronic connectivity for daily operations. Small, family-run DONALD T. SMITH businesses can provide jobs that bring back the youth who have had to leave the area to seek employment and a living wage. Improved connectivity will attract professionals to the area who prefer to life in a rural area while competing in a global economy. Editor’s Note: Mr. Smith declined our invitation to “ If elected, I will serve for the complete term, seeking to provide a positive, proac- submit a personal history or policy statement to be in- tive perspective on the Town Council. I will listen and respond to all Franklin residents. cluded here. I will use my experience in farming, big business, environmental protection, and as a small business owner, toward maintaining the quality of life in rural Franklin.”

The attentive crowd at the Franklin Candidates Fo- rum, held on October 19th at the American Legion Hall, sponsored by Franklin Local. All five candidates were present and all had a chance to state their goals if elected, and to answer questions from the floor. Great thanks are due to Mayor Tom Briggs, who act- ed as moderator of the dis- cussion, and to the American Legion for the use of their comfortable and convenient space. Page 8 The New Franklin Register Fall 2015 FOCUS ON ENERGY

FRANKLIN’S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN THE GREAT GAS PONZI SCHEME A Decade of Official Neglect What supporters of pipelines and compressor are missing... By Donald Hebbard By Eugene Marner oil peaked. Put that way, it result of two centuries of sounds like a technical mat- cheap and abundant en- The Comprehensive Plan for the Town of Franklin Recently at a local town ter for the appropriate pro- ergy supplied by first coal, was prepared in 2006 and adopted by the Town Board in meeting, I presented a fessionals to look after but, then oil and gas. Burning October of 2006. This Plan represents a coordinated ef- Pennsylvania report: Sum- in fact, it should have been those fuels transformed the fort by Franklin’s citizens and elected officials, with the mary on Compressor Sta- the biggest news of the last world, giving enormous guidance of Planit Main Street. The result is an impressive tions and Health Impacts*. two hundred years. The In- power to those who had hundred-page document. Two members of the current I mentioned some of its dustrial Revolution that got or could acquire them. To- Town Board, Donald M. Smith and Jeff Taggart, were mem- findings: compressors emit rolling at the beginning of day’s population is more bers of the steering committee for the several months of benzene and formalde- the 19th century was en- than seven times greater hard work that created this roadmap for Franklin’s future hyde which are implicated, abled by fossil fuels––first than the one billion esti- development. respectively, in childhood coal, then oil and gas. Until mated to have been alive The following specific goals for the Town of Franklin leukemia and asthma as then, humans relied for en- in 1800. In the industrial are included in the Plan. These are goals that the resi- well as in adult cancers. A ergy upon their own mus- world, even the poor live in dents of Franklin selected, and the Town Board adopted, member of the audience cles and those of domestic relative ease and comfort, as we moved into the 21st Century. challenged me, saying that animals, all fed and fueled compared to our ancestors. Preserving the rural character of the Town; children were already dy- by the plants that har- With little effort of their Preserving prime farmland; ing of cancer even though Protecting natural and historic resources; we have no compressors. Maintaining quality of the school district; I’m not sure what her point Enhancing recreational opportunities; was but I suspect she meant Protecting scenic views; that there is a natural back- Restricting large-scale retail and industrial uses; ground level of kids getting Keeping farming as the major industry in Town, pro- cancer and asthma and that tecting the right to farm, and diversifying agriculture; we opponents of compres- Ensuring good design of new commercial or light in- sors are just a bunch of ner- dustrial developments; vous nellies standing in the Allowing for small-scale retail uses; way of progress and pros- Identifying where new industrial uses should be perity. Let’s ignore for the permitted; moment the possibility that Allowing for growth while maintaining rural character we can do something about of the Town; and children getting cancer. In- Used by permission of the artist: Frits Ahlefeldt Protecting private property. stead, let’s look at the pur- nessed the energy of the own, most people can keep The Comprehensive Plan was developed to be the guid- ported economic benefits sun through photosynthe- warm, decently clothed ing resource for future development in the Town of Frank- of the proposed gas infra- sis. That, plus wind for sail- and fed, thanks to the tre- lin. Its Introduction notes that the Comprehensive Plan was structure that supporters ing vessels and wind-mills, mendous energy content being prepared in accordance with Section 722-a of NYS expect will follow along as well as water-mills, was of fossil fuels. Everything Town law, which states that the with the pipeline. the energy budget of life about our daily lives and plan will “iden- tify the goals and They are, I fear, going on earth. The annual cycle the infrastructure that sup- objectives, prin- “It is time to ciples, guidelines, to be sadly disappointed. of seasons provided just so ports us is dependent upon policies, stan- take the Plan down dards, devices, The Constitution Pipeline much energy and no more, readily available supplies and instruments off the shelf, dust for immediate and and the NED pipeline and so population and eco- of cheap and abundant long-range pro- if off, and enforce tection, enhance- its compressor stations nomic activity were held in fuel, especially oil. ment, growth, the recommenda- and development that have so bitterly divid- check by physical limits. Fossil fuels also in- of the Town… tions that citizens While the creation ed our communities are a Discovering and burn- troduced a new concept: of a Compre- of Franklin chose hensive Plan is not big story in Franklin and ing fossil fuels changed economic growth. Before required under for Franklin.” NYS Section 722-1, neighboring communities that. Very quickly the in- the Industrial Revolution, once one is ad- opted, all subse- but are really nothing but a dustrializing world learned the only way for an econ- quent land use regulations must footnote to a much bigger to use not only the energy omy to grow was by war- be in accordance with the community’s adopted Compre- story with global implica- provided by the annual fare––by invading another hensive Plan.” tions. The new gas infra- cycle but also the energy country and stealing their So what has been implemented since the Compre- structure is one small part stored up in the earth for stuff. Think of the Roman hensive Plan was adopted? What programs and initiatives of a desperate attempt to hundreds of millions of Empire or the British and have been proposed, promoted, and adopted by the Town keep a party going that has years. The complex, glo- Spanish Empires. The vic- Board? What has been done to advance implementation? already ended. balized, industrial world tor’s economy would grow The first recommendation, on page two of the Intro- Ten years ago, global that we now inhabit is the but the defeated would be duction Section, is that the Town Board appoint a Compre- production of conventional See PONZI, continued on Page 16 hensive Plan Subcommittee, to spend time each month re- viewing progress on the implementation of this Plan and coordinating efforts with other entities where necessary. It has been nine years since the Comprehensive Plan was adopted. If a Comprehensive Plan Subcommittee does exist, it is time for a report on the progress of implementa- tion of the 2006 Comprehensive Plan. It is time to take the Plan down off the shelf, dust if off, and enforce the recom- mendations that citizens of Franklin chose for Franklin. Pipelines and compressor stations were not recom- mended in the 2006 Comprehensive Plan! Large-scale development was to be restricted. It is time for the Town Board to take action to resist and restrict large-scale industrial development. It is time to preserve the rural character of the Town of Franklin, to protect private property rights, to implement the wishes of the citizens reflected in the Comprehensive Plan and Compressor Free Franklin rally on the Otego Road Photo by Tony Breuer required under Section 272-a of New York State Town Law. Fall 2015 The New Franklin Register Page 9 PIPES AND POWER Compiled by Brian Brock

July 6th: NYS Public Service Commission (PSC) Trial Staff files interim report Compara- tive Evaluation of Alternating Current Transmission Upgrades. July 10th: PACE Environmental Litigation Clinic (PACE) request NYSDEC release to the public information in its consideration of Joint Application for a 401 Water Quality Cer- tification and four water related permits that have been withheld and re-open the comment period. July 16th: Board of directors of Kinder Morgan (KM) approves TGP to proceed with East segment (Market Path) of NED pipeline from Wright NY to Dracut MA. West segment (Supply Path) through Franklin goes unmentioned. July 24th: Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, LLC (TGP) files revised draft Resource Reports and maps with FERC. July 31st: TGP opens a new website for NED pipeline. August 4th: In weekly compliance report to FERC, CPC acknowledges that three out- standing documents from NYS (DEC Water Quality Certificate, DEC Storm water Discharge Permit, and OPRHP-SHPO Historic Preservation Act Consultation ) will not be issued until August. August 4th: Franklin Town Board (FTB) hires Delta Engineers to proceed with their Road Protection Program and hires Cheryl Sacco of Coughlin & Gerhart to write a road protection law. August 28th: Advisory Council on Historic Preservation requires CPC to submit a formal Memorandum of Agreement with PA and NY State Historic Preservation Offices (SHPO) instead of a quicker programmatic agreement. September 1st: In weekly compliance report to FERC, CPC acknowledges that three outstanding documents from NYS will not be issued until September. September 1st: FTB releases draft of Franklin Road Use and Preservation Law. September 15th: Constitution Pipeline Company, LLC (CPC) submits to US Army Corps of Engineers additional information for its joint application to USACE and NYSDEC, its fourth update. September 17th: US Fish and Wildlife Service advises that it expects to respond with its biological opinion on the Constitution project no later than December 31st. September 18th: PACE requests that FERC include the information detailed in its request to NYSDEC of July 10th in a supplemental Environmental Impact Statement. September 18th: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) permits Constitution to mobilize equipment at the spread yard 5B (Guilder- land, Albany County) but not to begin coating pipe in concrete. September 22nd: PSC Trial Staff files final report Comparative Evaluation of Alternating Current Transmission Upgrades. September 23rd: PSC extends comment period for final report to November 6th and staff replies to November 23rd. September 28th: Williams Companies Inc., the largest partner of CPC, announces plans to merge with Energy Transfer Equity LP. Merger is expected to close in first half of 2016. September 29th: TGP executes it first agreement for 0.63 billion cubic feet of capacity in the NED West pipeline with producers, Local Distribution Companies, and end users in New York State. October 6th: In weekly compliance report to FERC, CPC acknowledges that three outstanding documents from NYS will not be issued until October. October 6th: FTB tables Franklin Road Use and Preservation Law and returns to negotiating an agreement. October 13th: In weekly compliance report to FERC, CPC acknowledges two acts of non-compliance with regulations in its preparation of spread yard 5b. October 15th: KM delays filing of NED pipeline with FERC until November 20th, the Friday before Thanksgiving.

LOCAL DELAWARE COUNTY 2015 These rates are necessary to equalize taxes among towns when calculating the tax bills for jurisdictions that GOVERNMENT EQUALIZATION RATES cross town boundaries, such as school districts. Each year, ORPTS calculates equalization rates for 1,200 towns WEBSITES By Brian Brock and other assessment units to be used by the 4,000 taxing Delaware County: jurisdictions. Equalization rate is the ratio of the assessed value of co.delaware.ny.us Typically the lower the rate, the longer it has been all property in a town to its market value. These rates are since a town-wide reassessment has been done. For ex- calculated by NYS Department of Taxation and Finance, Andes: townofandes.com ample, Hancock, with an equalization rate of 12%, last held Office of Real Property Tax Service (ORPTS). Below are Bovina: bovinany.org a town-wide reassessment in 1968 – almost fifty years ago. the equalization rates adopted by the Delaware County Colchester: For a town, the equalization rate is an average for the townofcolchesterny.com Board of Supervisors at their meeting of August 26th. whole town. Individual parcels of property will vary con- Davenport: No Website siderably from this average. There will be a greater dis- Delhi : townofdelhiny.com Andes 100 % parity between assessed and market values of long-held Deposit : No Website Kortright 100 properties as compared to newly purchased properties. Masonville 100 Franklin: No Website Therefore, some long-time residents (whose property is Meredith 100 under assessed) are not in favor of reassessment. Middletown 100 Hamden: hamdenny.com ORPTS encourages town-wide reassessments at 100% Roxbury 100 Hancock: hancockny.org market value at least once every four years by offering Franklin 93 Harpersfield: No Website Aid for Cyclical Reassessments at five dollars per par- Sidney 83 Kortright: No Website cel. A few towns in Delaware County benefit from that. Masonville: Davenport 74 masonville-ny.us For Franklin, with over 2,200 parcels, that could be over Meredith: Delhi 56 $11,000 towards costs. townofmeredith.com Harpersfield 28 Within Delaware County, towns with the greatest dis- Middletown: middletown- Stanford 27 parities are in the southwest corner. Those with middle delawarecountyny.org Walton 26 Roxbury: rates are down the center. Those with the least disparities roxburyny.com Bovina 23 Sidney: No Website are in the eastern corner and along the northwest border. Hamden 18 Stamford: Hancock 12 townofstamfordny.us Deposit 4 The rate for Franklin is not 100%, but 93% Tompkins: Tompkins 4 is not bad. townoftompkins.org Colchester 3 Walton : townofwalton.org Page 10 The New Franklin Register Fall 2015

that all wood should be split and expense of setting annals of sustainability and air dried under cover a pile under cover a full for at least a year to allow it year before you need it to reach what is called equi- are not small, the benefits HEATING WELL WITH WOOD librium moisture level. In are greater than you might Part One: It’s got to be dry! our climate that’s a bit over realize. Seasoned wood fifteen percent moisture has more usable heat in By Norm Farwell can give uneven comfort. There is good news, content. Different wood it. Think of it this way: you In the shoulder seasons it is however. We now under- species start out with dif- probably get at least ten Heating with wood has easy to overheat, and in the stand how to burn wood ferent moisture levels and percent more heat out of a lot of advantages in our depth of winter, when the well, so it is possible to use dry at different rates, so the your fuel by simply let- region. It is the cheapest the chimney draws hard, it it efficiently and cleanly. only way to be completely ting it sit for a year. That’s fuel source there is, espe- can be a challenge to keep In order to maximize effi- sure whether wood is dry ten percent more heat for cially if you cut and split the stove loaded while at ciency and minimize harm- is to buy a wood moisture your money if you buy the your own. Wood stoves the same time being care- ful particulates, we need to meter which, at a hundred wood and ten percent more (and wood boilers) put out ful not to over-fire it. optimize two factors: the dollars, is a small expense for your time if you harvest comfortable radiant heat. To me the benefits out- dryness of the wood and in the scheme of things. your own. Better still, there Also, unlike other fuels, weigh the disadvantages, the quality of the stove. Heat content also de- will be much less pollution wood is a sustainable local and I am happy to cut, split Research confirms that pends on the species of going up the chimney. resource, and it works even and stack my own fuel in burning green wood is wood. A stick of poplar has All of which is why the when the power is out. In order to be able to heat my much more wasteful and less than half the heat en- old timers made sure to theory, it is mostly carbon drafty old colonial house destructive than we knew. ergy of a stick of hickory keep wood stacked a year neutral because instead of for around $300 a year. When wood is green, a sig- or locust, as well as a much ahead. In Part Two, we’ll removing concentrated fos- But even though wood nificant fraction of the heat higher amount of moisture look at recent advances in sil carbon from the ground heat has a lot going for it, from the fire gets used up to start with, which makes wood stove design. Where and adding it to the atmo- it is probably a good thing in boiling the water out of it generally a poor choice older obsolete wood stoves sphere, burning wood (or more people have not the wood. This is like a self- for firewood. Ash trees have combustion efficien- pellets) simply uses carbon jumped on the wood band- imposed “tax” on your heat. start out with a low mois- cies typically in the forty that is already in circulation. wagon. When I heard about It gets worse-- the pres- ture content and the wood to sixty percent range, new For all those reasons, I have recent research showing ence of moisture combined tends to dry quickly and ones approach eighty per- been heating with wood for that pollution from burning with lower temperature easily. Maple and beech cent and boast remarkably the last ten years. wood is much more dam- combustion produces have more moisture and low emissions. In spite of those advan- aging than we thought, I large amounts of unneces- tend to dry more slowly, tages, wood is not widely suddenly didn’t have such sary smoke and therefore and red oak has a reputa- Look for Part Two of popular. Wood stoves, a warm feeling about the those damaging soot par- tion for being most ornery. BURNING WOOD WELL in though affordable, can be twelve face cords I was run- ticles. Creosote buildup When green, red oak is at our Spring 2016 Issue inconvenient in several ning through my wood stove is also a problem with wet something like eighty per- ways. They require con- each year. It turns out that wood, because the volatile cent moisture content and stant attention—lighting, extremely small soot par- unburned gases condense because it is slow to dry, it damper adjustments, re- ticles (“PM emissions,” or in the chimney. All this can needs more like two years loading etc. And handling particulate matter, in the be avoided by adequately to finally settle down. If firewood can be a chal- technical jargon) turn out to drying wood, so not only is your wood sizzles and hiss- lenge—it is heavy, takes up be very damaging to human it more efficient, but health- es when lit, you know it’s space, and brings dirt into health, and burning wood ier and safer as well. not dry enough. the house. Also wood stoves can release a lot of PM. A good rule of thumb is Although the trouble PROTECTING OUR MOST PRECIOUS RESOURCE By Vicki R. Davis keep light trash and debris from traveling further downstream. Your Water, a booklet from the Sidney Water travels from the tiny streams Center Improvement Group (SCIG) will in local backyards to Willow Brook and soon be available in the Sidney Center, Carr’s Creek, then flows to the Susque- Sidney, and Franklin public libraries. Res- hanna River. From there, it journeys on idents with property in the Carr’s Creek to the Chesapeake Bay. The watershed Watershed will receive booklets directly is home to eastern brook and brown trout in the mail. populations. Endangered species found In response to the devastating 2006 here include the dwarf wedge mussel and flood, with a generous grant from the Na- northern monkshood. Imperiled species tional Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the include the hellbender (an amphibian), services of KCI Technologies, SCIG creat- the bald eagle, the yellow lamp mussel, ed The Carr’s Creek Watershed Manage- and the green floater, another critically ment Plan to protect and enhance Carr’s imperiled mussel. Creek and its tributaries including Willow Written by Michael Sellitti, SCIG presi- Brook. The watershed plan was conceived dent, and edited by Carol Behan, with sup- to address the following community goals: port from Wink Hastings of the National Parks Service, the booklet provides a snap- 1. Preserve and restore natural re- shot of the watershed and the 450-mile sources and working lands journey of a single drop of water. Invited 2. Reduce the risk of future severe to the Chesapeake Watershed Forum on flooding September 26 & 27, Mr. Sellitti made a well- 3. Improve environmental functions to received presentation about the project. ensure ideal conditions for the health of Visit www.SCIGNY.org to view the full the trout fishery version of the watershed plan and the Your 4. Reduce bacterial contamination and Water References Page for the resources excessive sedimentation and erosion used to create the booklet. The Sidney Center Improvement Group is a registered Projects currently happening in our 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicat- watershed include stream monitoring for ed to beautification, quality of life issues, water quality and flood monitoring, wet- and free community-focused events in and land restoration, education and outreach around the hamlet of Sidney Center. The Sidney Center Improvement Group’s new full-col- programs, and trout fishery protection. or booklet offers information about natural resource pro- Annually scheduled Street and Stream Vicki R. Davis is a set and costume designer. tection in the Susquehanna watershed. Team Clean-up events canvas the area to She lives in Sidney Center NY. Fall 2015 The New Franklin Register Page 11 PASSIVE SOLAR, continued from Page 1 A NATIONAL WATER GRID: IT’S TIME! Case in point: a place to live. Can we provide year round comfortable housing for ourselves that will not By Jack Litweka the idea, let’s recall a few humongous deepen the abyss between man and nature by using fos- projects from which the United States has sil fuel to heat or cool…especially with our sub-zero win- Reprinted by permission from the Huffing- reaped enormous, decades-long benefits: ter temperatures? ton Post Green Hoover Dam and Grand Coulee Dam. The Recently the New York Times reported a new trend: Posted: 08/31/2015 Transcontinental Railroad. The nation- young people preferring smaller houses. It has been al highway system. The Panama Canal. dubbed “the tiny home” movement. The Times referred California is in the fourth year of a NASA’s space program that put humans to the new small houses as cabins, evoking the log homes very serious drought. Water restrictions in orbit around Earth, placed them on the that early settlers built. The era of the McMansion would are being imposed. Agriculture is being moon, and allowed humans to live in space seem to be ending. significantly affected, which will result in stations for months at a time. When Donald and Louise Hebbard retired and sold their rising prices across the United States for Each of these is an amazing example of dairy farm in Treadwell, they needed a new home. Don’s vegetables, fruits, nuts, and so forth. The how human ingenuity, applied science and older brother Rodney and his wife Sally had already built Sierra snowpack is minimal or nonexistent technology, grit and gumption, and a na- an energy efficient house based on the passive solar de- in some places, so the spring snowmelt tional vision combined to overcome seem- signs of Bruce Brownell, founder of Adirondacks Alternate will not result in the drought-ending refill- ingly insurmountable odds. Imagine if our Energy, who was inspired by a natural physical property ing of reservoirs, which are at about thirty nation could channel enormous volumes of heat: that it rises. (See article in NFR Vol. II No. 3 https:// percent of capacity. of water to the locations that desperately archive.org/details/TheNewFranklinRegisterFall2008) When will the drought end? need it...and in the process, limit the dam- There are 3 major No one age that floodwaters wreak while ensuring components to Brownell’s knows -- but that agriculture will continue to flourish. Low Energy Requirement there is no ev- It would be a win-win for the nation. It Home system: idence that it would be a win-win for the states suffering 1. HOUSE ORIENTA- will end soon. from drought and for those suffering from TION: One long house Some experts floods, for all of us who buy vegetables, wall is orientated to face are saying fruits, and nuts, and for all the homes and south. It has the most that this is the businesses that would not be destroyed. glass facing south so “new normal” Will this be costly? Of course. (But that the sun streams in for California, not as costly as decades of drought and through the windows, and perhaps flooding.) Will there be unintended con- while the east and west for Oregon sequences? Of course. (That’s always the walls have considerably and Washing- case with ambitious projects.) Will there less glass, and the north ton, which are be technological challenges and glitch- wall very little. The Hebbard house, with its south-facing windows this year also es? Of course. (We learn from our mis- 2. HIGH PERFORMANCE CONSTRUCTION: R38 Insu- experiencing drought conditions. takes...and move forward nonetheless.) lated walls. As these states experience water Will there be intelligent nay-sayers offer- 3. HEAT CAPTURE: The sun warms the air which rises shortages, Texas and other states have ing strong counter-arguments? Of course. and collects at the peak of the house. A small fan draws been awash in water this spring: severe (When has this not been the case?) the warm air down to a heat storage mass of several feet of floods have caused billions of dollars in Why not desalinization of Pacific Ocean sand in the cellar and which then rises to the rooms above damage, lost revenue for farmers, thou- water? For a number of reasons. Desalini- through ducts. A small wood burning stove assists in very sands of homes demolished or severely zation requires an enormous expenditure cold, cloudy weather. damaged, cars trapped in deep water, of costly and often polluting energy. If pri- And then there is nature’s other gift: the below-surface schools closed, top-soil being washed vate companies build the desalinization temperature of the earth - how deep depends on where away, and so on. (Note: In one month in plants, there is a private-public conflict you live - is always above freezing. Continuous circula- 2015 the amount of rain that fell in Texas over who controls the desalinization effort tion of air maintains the two Hebbard houses above freez- would cover all of the state of Rhode Island and prevents abuses of desalinized water. ing temperature no matter how cold it is outside in ten feet of water.) The intake of ocean water to cool down the Inspired by his brother’s home, Don began to plan his Summary: California, one of the largest desalinization process would kill billions house and how he would build it himself. Always fasci- states, is in dire need of water. In Texas, an- of fish annually. Ergo, desalinization is an nated by the possibilities of efficiency - for Don, the “es- other of the largest states, large areas are option of last resort - and best-suited for sential component of any successful human endeavor” - overwhelmed with water being wasted. nations lacking excess water (say, one that he wondered if he could build a house even more simply Light bulb: What if the water from is primarily desert). and efficiently, moving warm air but without ducts, using Texas and other water-laden states could The bottom line: We, as a nation, can no only natural convection. Instead of a sand mass in the cel- be transported to California and other longer afford to do nothing major about lar with ducts running through, Don decided to use stones drought states? What if the United Stated catastrophic flooding or severe droughts without ducts so that the warm air could rise by natural Congress and the White House deter- that cause millions and billions of dollars convection through the spaces between the stones. mined that a National Water Grid was nec- of damage each year. We can no longer Don’s house has traditional post and beam framing essary to secure an adequate food sup- afford to allow potentially useful water to which supports the exterior siding and interior walls. On ply at reasonable prices for decades to be wasted in floods. It’s time to stop sitting the outside of the post and beam frame is what he calls come and to avoid severe damage to cit- on our fatalistic duffs and adopt a can-do the insulation envelope: two 4’ X 8’ x 2” Thermax panels ies, farms, and homes? We would have a attitude. It’s time for a National Water Grid. tightly packed together, joints staggered and taped. visionary solution to what is otherwise a A fan in the cellar draws warm air down from the peak terrible and ongoing waste of water. Jack Litewka is a lifelong student of history of the house to a heat storage mass of stones in the cellar. It’s easy to think of many reasons that a massive water-transport system would not and politics, poet, over-the-hill basketball play- The result is a structure that needs less than one-seventh er, three-cushion billiards player, management the heating or cooling energy of the typical new house. work and be very expensive. A water grid differs significantly from an electric grid: consultant, book doctor, husband, grandfather, What is the house like inside? Lovely, and full of light. and author of a forthcoming book on manage- electricity moves at high speeds through It is has both cozy corners and soaring spaces. You enter ment techniques in corporations. through a door on the north wall facing the road. On one wires, while water is heavy and would re- side of the door is a bedroom and bathroom, on the other quire large pipes, large catch basins and an office. Above is the floor of an open loft which runs reservoirs, and perhaps canals. Do you go the length of the house but only half the depth, creating around mountains or drill a double height living area, with kitchen, dining area and through them to keep the living room arranged along the wall of south facing win- water relatively level? Do dows. French doors open onto a long balcony overlook- you employ large and pow- ing the Ouleout Valley and the hills beyond. erful pumps or a system of It turns out that the foot print of this house is not unlike locks when it is necessary that of my own house, built in the 1820’s. Interestingly, its to move the water uphill? orientation is the same - kitchen and parlor sharing a long And how about the head- three-windowed wall facing south. A low energy way of ache of securing huge living is not so new after all. But our fossil fuel profligacy amounts of above-ground has allowed us to scorn - or just forget - a lot of what we’ve and underground rights of known for millennia. way? Before we give up on Page 12 The New Franklin Register Fall 2015

music fine arts literature poetry education ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT holiday fun TEENS IN GREEK DRAMA at the By Carmela Marner and Josh Santiago

This fall, the Franklin Stage Company received a library generous matching grant from the A. Lindsay & Olive B. O’Connor Foundation to create its first After School The- Jim mullen reviews atre Program for Teens. new books For this inaugural effort, director Josh Santiago, who helmed Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People with a cast of teenagers in FSC’s 2015 season, explores the mytho- HARD MAGIC logical landscape of Prometheus Bound, the final play By Larry Correia by the fifty century BCE Greek playwright Aeschylus (though some attribute authorship to his son). This is the first in an alternate history, three-volume The cast and crew are comprised of thirteen area fantasy series collectively called the Grimnoir Chronicles. It students in grades seven through twelve who meet four starts in the late 1930s with real life “Black Jack” Pershing, J. times a week. The project will culminate in three public Edgar Hoover and Buck- minster Fuller running around with fictional characters with magical powers. The series is a beautiful jumble of ste- ampunk, Raymond Chandler, The Walking Dead, Jack Reach- er, James Patterson, Stephen King, Marvel Comics and a few hundred other tropes in a conve- nient, all-in-one package. The action never stops, the guns never stop smoking. The audio book version is an extraordinary performance by, of all people, the comic actor Bronson Pinchot. This is the most fun you can have listening to a book without actu- ally laughing. Larry Correia has written several other fantasy series and he is the leader of a group that thinks he and other writers like him are being snubbed by the commit- tees that give awards to more “literary” fantasy and sci-fi books. A best-selling author now, he still has resentments. This year his Monster Hunter Nemesis was a Hugo finalist for book of the year. He declined the nomination. Student actors rehearse Prometheus Bound at FSC BOOK OF THE DEAD performances on Friday, November 20 and Saturday, No- By John Lloyd and John Mitchinson vember 21 at 8 PM and Sunday, November 22 at 5 PM. The play is based on the myth of Prometheus, the Ti- The Kardashians, Survivor winners, The Housewives of tan who defied the gods and gave fire to humankind, an Wherever, Duck Dynasty. Today it seems a rule that people act for which he was chained to a rock and subjected to with the least amount of talent become the most famous. In perpetual punishment. days gone by, you actually had to do something significant to “The punishment is not only for stealing fire, but also become a household word. Now all you have to do is be on for thwarting a plan by Zeus to obliterate the human race TV. One thing that hasn’t changed is that the unfamous tend to and start afresh on earth,” says director Santiago, who think that famous people have it made, that fame is a bowl of graduated from SUNY Oneonta in 2014 with a major in cherries, that fame inoculates you from pain and suffering. This Theatre and a minor in Philosophy. “Prometheus not only book chronicles the last days of some sixty high achievers and prevents the destruction of humanity but, in fact, saves proves otherwise. humanity at tremendous personal sacrifice. It’s interest- Hans Christian Andersen was a poor, awkward, teasable, lonely child who became ing to note that Aeschylus actually thought of himself as a rich, awkward, teasable, lonely adult. When he stayed with Charles Dickens, a writer a soldier first, rather than a tragedian, and thus this play he much admired, Dickens stuck a card above the guest bed after Andersen departed: challenges us to think in many layered ways about suffer- “Hans Andersen slept in this room for five weeks which seemed to the family AGES.” ing, fear, courage and hope.” If you thought that being the President of Mexico on eleven separate occasions, los- The students involved have come together from ing a foot in battle, and being responsible for chewing gum would make you famous, Franklin, Delhi, Laurens, Walton, Unadilla and Oneonta to you (as Donald Trump would say) are a loser. Americans only remember Santa Ana for create a community of thoughtful, artistic young people “winning” the battle for the Alamo. Kicked out of Mexico in the late 1860s, he lived on working collaboratively. Staten Island for a while. There an American inventor befriended him and wondered “I was right on board when Josh proposed Prometheus about his habit of chewing chicle, the gum from a tropical tree. The inventor bought a Bound,” says Artistic Director Carmela Marner. “FSC’s ton of it from Santa Ana, thinking he would make rubber out of it. That didn’t work, but mission to make classic texts relevant and compelling to adding sugar and selling it as chewing gum worked spectacularly well. Santa Ana never our audiences couldn’t be more thrillingly demonstrated. made a dime from chewing gum and he died one-legged and penniless in Mexico City Nothing warms my heart like a room full of teenagers ex- in 1876. Karma, baby, karma. cited about ancient drama, and that’s thanks to Josh.” Howard Hughes, Peter Stuyvesant, Sigmund Freud, Florence Nightingale and Salva- While the text of the play is composed almost entire- dor Dali all ended up after their glory days in various but uniformly depressing ways, ly of conversation and speeches, in Santiago’s produc- which has the marvelous effect of making the reader feel much better about their own tion the students are delving into the ritualistic roots of coming demise. We who never fly high, never have to worry about crashing to earth. drama, incorporating music, dance, masks, and costume into the art of storytelling. The teenagers are building the VULTURE PEAK instruments and the masks, composing and performing By John Burdett the musical score, choreographing movement, and de- signing costumes, as well as, of A lot of authors use a specific place as a character in their books, but there’s a trick course, performing the play! to using it well. The good ones understand that a city is an expression of a culture. Paris As always at FSC, admis- is an expression of French culture just as Las Vegas, Detroit and Washington, D.C. are sion is free (donations grate- expressions of ours. These places are the way they are because we are the way we fully accepted) and reserva- are. John Burdett’s place is Bangkok and in a fascinating series of books featuring Royal tions are recommended. Call Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, he writes about the Thai sex trade the way 607-829-3700 or reserve@ that someone from Detroit would write about making cars -- no big deal, this is what we franklinstagecompany.org. FSC do, here’s how it’s done -- and we do it in a city so deep in police and political corrup- is located in Chapel Hall at 25 tion that the only people who keep the drug, sex and patronage kingpins under control Institute Street in Franklin, op- are the drug, sex and patronage kingpins themselves. They police each other lest one posite Franklin Central School. become the king of kings. Vulture Peak, the fifth book in this series, is a detective story More details about FSC can be but it’s really an alt Lonely Planet guide to Thai culture, not just a guide to the cheapest found at www.franklinstage- beach vacation and the best noodle shop. company.org Fall 2015 The New Franklin Register Page 13

UpState MUSIC HERE with Edmond AT HOME Arts Rinnooy Kan By Jason Starr “One good thing about music/ When it hits you, Editor’s Note: Mr. Kan has graciously filled in for Jane Carr, who is retiring from this column. you feel no pain.” The NFR thanks Jane for her valuable contributions to these pages! - Bob Marley WHAT FALL COLORS lively portraits of people drinking, play- ing the flute, flirting, etc. They are having a CANNOT DO Music….hmmm…. on Van Tassel Road. The good time, so they smile or even laugh. musing on music….what beauty of that spot and The paintings are great, but the laugh- do I have to say? In writing, Yes, the fall colors are beautiful, but I many other spots in Frank- ter makes his characters look a little bit that is. don’t get inspired to paint them. They are lin are threatened by the shallow. Somehow a laughing face seems In my first column, I too beautiful, too perfect. There is nothing pipelines and compres- to be lacking intrigue or depth. If you had gave a little background I can add or change to make them more sor station proposed to be your portrait painted, would you want to on my experience of be- interesting. Nothing I can do to make built here. Hence the rally. be depicted laughing? Probably not. coming a musician. Now someone look at them in a new way. A That was the first public For the most famous painterly smile we I’ll write about my cur- painting of the fall colors is usually a poor performance of the song. have to turn to Leonardo da Vinci and his rent experience of things copy of the real thing, no matter how well It was the official kick-off unbeatable Mona Lisa. What to say about musical, from the Sum- executed. of the event. I was nervous this smile, this most captivating, intriguing, mer Issue up to today. Fall colors are not the only subject that about it, remembering mysterious smile in the world? Only that Last time, I invited people painters tend to leave alone. Other things the words especially, but I some painters can take on a no-no sub- to come to the Railroad are also too beautiful to paint. Claude knew I had a loving crowd ject and excel in it. But I doubt if Leonardo Museum to check out the Monet, the famous French impressionist, in front of me so it would would have done an equally good job with Musicians In Franklin. For once took a trip to Holland to paint the be OK no matter what. our fall colors. the record, there has been tulip fields. It didn’t work out very well; And it was OK. More than So what are painters inspired by? Ug- no MIF meeting since Au- there was just too much color to handle. OK. I got the words right. liness? Indeed, ugliness gust 24, mainly because I Monet was very unhappy People started clapping can be inspiring. Like Van have not scheduled one. with the results. Somehow along. The music served Gogh’s painting of a pair of Not due to anything tragic he could not get his fingers a great purpose by focus- dirty, worn out boots. “Oh, or even slightly dramatic, around it and that was very ing people, preparing but that is not ugly,” I hear but I mention this for Da- unusual for the maestro. I them to share their ener- you say. “Worn out boots can vid, who inquired about the don’t think he ever exhib- gies, their support for each be very beautiful.” That is meetings. ited the work. So, let’s add other, and to express their exactly the point. The paint- I had been asked some tulip fields to the no-no list. plight to the outside world. ing by Van Gogh makes time earlier to get some Sunset (or sunrise) is I could not have been more you look at them in a differ- musicians together to play another subject that paint- pleased with my role as ent way. They were just old for New Old Franklin Day, ers stay away from: incred- a musician for the cause. ugly clunkers but now you which I did. By the time ibly beautiful, but like fall colors and tulip And when it was suggest- can see the beauty in them. That is the August 29 came around fields, impossible to paint. Most painters ed I play the song again to artist’s eye at work, seeing the beauty (or however, other musicians don’t even try, with a few exceptions, most cap off the event, I happily the magic, or the intrigue, or the mystery) were enlisted. This was notably the British painter JMW Turner. obliged, becoming even in something very common, or even ugly. fine by me as I was able to He didn’t mind throwing a full-bodied sun more enthused as people The excitement is not in seeing the beauty enjoy the Day simply as a into his work every now and then, but I again clapped and, having in the beautiful, but seeing the beauty in Dad, seeing my daughter’s cannot say I am impressed with the result. heard the words the first the ordinary. That’s where the artist starts face painted like a butterfly The best example of how you can go time, sang along with me. to be inspired. That’s when they pick up and my forehead adorned wrong is his painting “Flint Castle.” We Folk Music at its finest. their brushes and start to paint. with a Blue Narwhale. see a group of innocent fishermen in the “Up On Hebbard’s Gerard Reve, a contemporary Dutch Come September, I was foreground, the castle behind them. At the Farm” can be heard on You- writer, used to say that there was noth- able to live out some folk horizon is a nuclear explosion of relent- Tube. A search for “Frank- ing inspiring about a good person doing singer fantasies. Perhaps less yellow with a whitish yellowish circle lin Collateral Damage” will something good or a bad person doing “fulfill folk singer job re- at its center to make sure that that we un- get you to a moving video something bad. The story starts when a quirements” is a better way derstand where all this yellow is coming shot the same day. good person is doing something bad or to put it. I put music to lyrics from. It is a disgusting painting, way over My next musical event the other way around. There must be some written by a fellow Frank- the top, grossly overdone. Leave the sun (aside from the minutes conflict, some imperfection to build on. lin resident. The resulting alone. Let’s put her on the no-no list. Like- carved out to practice), Good – on – good is death to the creative song is “Up On Hebbard’s wise, don’t paint Bambies. Yes, they are was performing on Sep- juices and leads to snoring in the room. Farm,” which I performed cute. I like very much to see them hopping tember 26 at the Cauli- Back to our beloved fall colors: too at a rally on September around in the fields, but not on a canvas. flower Festival in Marga- beautiful and too great to inspire, but thus, 12, held at a gorgeous spot retville. For me, the best And then there is the smile. even more special for me. I don’t have to See MUSIC, continued on Page 15 What’s more beautiful than a smile? take out my sketchbook and draw them, That’s exactly the reason why most portrait or take pictures or do color schemes. This painters stay away from it. An interest- beauty I can leave alone. I can just sit th ing exception to this rule is the Dutch 17 down, relax and enjoy the view. century painter Frans Hals. He made very

Some of the cast and crew of Prometheus Bound: Back, left to right: Jacob Glueckert, Felix Bridel, Angus Finn and Demitri Jaromack. Front, left to right: George Machala, Caroline Bagby, Lola Olson and Kyle Davidson Page 14 The New Franklin Register Fall 2015

NATURE RIDDLE-POEMS WRITTEN DURING BHLC WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS, SUMMER 2015

1. Tabor Reed, East Meredith, 8 years old

You can grow me anywhere, I am three different colors counting my stem, I can be taller than a baby, Some might call me Black and Yellow, I have one eye,

Who am I? Answer: Black-eyed Susan Black-eyed Answer:

2. Wraith Rodriguez, Franklin, 6 years old

I love to sing In a group. I have a big family. My house is in the forest. I have sharp teeth. My favorite food is meat.

What am I? Answer: Wolf Answer:

3. Samantha Gorsch, Delhi, 6 years old

I’m like a mirror in the ground. I’m full of sleeping animals. When summer comes I change form. I’m the same color as the summer sky. A change in temperature means certain death for me.

What am I? Answer: Frozen pond Frozen Answer: ADVERTISE IN YOUR HOMETOWN 4. Alyssa Jaromack, Franklin, 8 years old NEWSPAPER!

There are a lot of us. Some people hate me. THE NEW FRANKLIN REGISTER I was born in the sky. I cry a lot, PLEASE CONTACT OUR NEW ADVERTISING MANAGERS And go away at times.

Who am I? Manette Berlinger Answer: Storm cloud and rain and cloud Storm Answer: [email protected] 607-865-8488 Aron Berlinger [email protected] 917-698-6764 5. Risdon Reed, East Meredith, 8 years old

I live in the sky with many different friends. I have many brothers and sisters, tHE nfr THANKS but none of us are the same build. I am like a big room. JIM MULLEN I have no furniture in my room, FOR HIS NINE YEARS AND TWENTY SEVEN but I have electricity and friends that live with me. You can sometimes see me and sometimes not. ISSUES OF HUMOR AND HARD WORK. I look like a blown-up plastic bag. WITHOUT HIM, WE’D NEVER HAVE BEEN

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1 Fall 2015 The New Franklin Register Page 15 MUSIC, continued from Page 13 part of this event was lis- environment. Most people tening to Mike Herman do are not there just to listen his amazing country blues, to music, so it felt special finger picking style, and when someone clapped then getting to talk to him after a song, or put money as a peer. I became aware in the tip jar, or said “Nice of Mike when I first moved job!” Or when a couple ELLIOT COHEN DESIGN here a few years ago, so to slow danced as I played a RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL/PROJECT MANAGEMENT now be sharing a bill with waltz tune…well, that gave him means a lot to me. He me a really good feeling. is always helpful, gracious, So here we are in Octo- and his music is particu- ber. This afternoon I have larly inspiring to me, as I practice with my band for a 5825 EAST HANDSOME BROOK RD FRANKLIN NY 13775 am primarily a strummer gig we have tomorrow. En- who dreams of being able joyable as that is, the most (607) 829-8559 [email protected] (607) 434-2345 to play finger-style like he exciting thing in my musi- does. cal present is my daugh- The second-best part ter’s interest in playing the of this event (maybe third, clarinet. She can get les- LUCKY, continued from Page 1 behind the History-of-Cau- sons at her school. I hap- Fifteen years later, they urally,” says Giles, “as an storage space. liflower-in-the-Catskills pen to own a clarinet, given lease an additional 115 outgrowth of our farm op- Farmers respond ener- information on offer) is I to me as a gift even though I acres, operate a food hub, eration. On a shoe string, getically. Shannon Mason, could play a bunch of songs know next to nothing about manage a Community Sup- with our own used trucks, whose family has owned a I don’t get much of a chance playing one. It is now at ported Agriculture (CSA) to go down to the city.” farm in Jefferson, in Scho- to perform in public. Songs the Walton House of Music, program, and run the Lucky Eventually the Center harie County, since 1817, from the American Song- being checked out and re- Dog Farm Store and Café for Agricultural Develop- wrote me that “Before the book. A few originals. In paired by Larry Jamieson, that is known, among other ment and Entrepreneur- Lucky Dog Food Hub, there short, I could stretch out a being made ready for…. tasty offerings, for White’s ship (CADE) brought the was a huge gap in local bit musically, in a beautiful the Future! crusty, tender “crocodile” area’s farmers together, food distribution in our bread. In 2011, White ac- and in 2013 Lucky Dog for- area. Lucky Dog has filled quired the Hamden Inn, mally became the nucleus that need.” Her family’s across from the farm on of a local food hub. 310-acre farm has forty-five State Route 10, and is bring- Tuesday and Thursday Jersey cows, which provide ing that pillared 1844 land- mornings find Giles load- butter, kefir, yogurt and mark back to life. ing a NYC-bound truck rich bottled milk under the It’s about “community,” with produce and products Cowbella label. says the soft-spoken Giles, from as many as twenty- “Twenty-five percent explaining the appeal of five farms, mostly from of what we make at Cow- small-scale, local farming Delaware County and a few bella is shipped downstate as we sat one morning last from Schoharie. Deliveries on the Food Hub trucks,” summer in the café. “Work- are made to downstate res- wrote Mason. “Lucky Dog ing with your neighbors, has become an amazing re- sharing transportation and source for local farmers as having a community where a place to congregate our you can talk about these products, to be sent either things.” downstate or with another Once upon a time, all producer on a delivery TREADWELL, continued from Page 4 food was local. We raised route they travel.” heat loss, becomes so much more essential during the or hunted or caught the Nick Fogliano, who long months of dark days. Will I have to climb out of one meat and fish we ate. Milk owns Dragonfly Pond Farms of the trailer’s windows if the snow piles up over three feet came from the cows in our on Route 23 in Walton, one night and I can’t open my door? pastures, and wheat was sends roughly thirty dozen Taking a moment away from pondering on how we ground into flour by a mill eggs to the city each week shelter ourselves, I read Geoffrey O’Brien’s review of Pat- at a nearby river. (and charges a bit more ti Smith’s books. He describes Just Kids in these words: But decades ago, long- than he does in the ‘hood). “What the book expresses supremely well is the tentative- distance industrial farm- “What I like,” says Fogliano, ness of every movement forward, the sense of following a ing replaced the personal “it’s very easy access get- Richard Giles path so risky, so sketchily perceptible, that at any moment touch. Vegetables and fruit, ting to Richard. He extends you might go astray…” The premise of Smith’s years as a often grown using non- taurants and wholesalers, his place. And it opens up young artist and my struggles are about as far apart as it sustainable methods, come and then it’s on to major a new market for us. That’s gets, but that description resonated for me while I stand from thousands of miles greenmarkets such as the about thirty percent of our with my empty house that is waiting to be re-imagined. away. The produce is engi- one in Manhattan’s Union egg sales.” Maybe it looks like I have “done nothing,” but the house neered to preserve “fresh- Square, which draws thou- Patrick Rider, who with has slowly crept under my skin, at any and every moment ness” and color during its sands of customers. his wife, Thanya, owns the making me feel like I might go astray. trek to the supermarket, “It’s quite a weekly ad- two hundred fifty-acre but usually arrives taste- venture,” says Giles. Greenane Farms on County less. You and I pay for the The Food Hub does Road 10 in Meridale, uses journey. present challenges. Farm- the Food Hub to sell his As Giles wrote in The ers must bring their goods pasture-raised Black An- New Franklin Register’s to Lucky Dog ahead of gus beef, goat and succu- Spring 2010 issue, “Trans- transport dates, and Giles lent heritage pork. Rider porters, oil companies, needs a place to keep calls Giles “a visionary and the distributors and them. He has more paper farmer” and “an innovative GET THOSE LIGHTS UP EARLY! handlers higher up the work now and not enough businessman.” food chain get most of [our storage room. Perhaps Mason of Cow- To encourage a brighter Franklin for the food dollar]. It is likely, in But CADE pointed bella sums up the Lucky holiday season, the Greater Franklin fact, that we waste more in Giles toward the Rudolf Dog Food Hub best: “There Chamber of Commerce will revive the the transportation of food Steiner Foundation, which is now a clear channel that awarding of cash prizes for exterior deco- than the food is worth. How last spring, with matching connects the amazing food rations in Franklin, both traditional and does this make sense?” grants from the Delaware produced in our area to the original. Answering that ques- County Economic Devel- masses of people who are tion helped birth the Lucky opment Office and oth- clamoring for it downstate.” Date of judging TBA Dog Food Hub. ers, awarded Lucky Dog “We started it quite nat- $40,000 to build additional Page 16 The New Franklin Register Fall 2015 NOW, continued from Page 2 “Well, that’d be a handy tool/skill in the apocalypse,” or “That wouldn’t/would work in the apocalypse.” Discuss- ing it, even with fourth grade children, is recommended in a parenting website’s article, titled “30 Questions to Ask Your Kid Instead of ‘How Was Your Day?’” There is little denying that we are a culture steeped in apocalyptic fervor. One might even argue that End Times are often romanticized, despite the numerous and obvi- ous tragedies that “the end” would likely bring. So, what does this actually say about us as a culture? One review of historical and current apocalyptic nar- ratives suggests that this epic fascination, stemming from numerous points of view and belief systems, all collec- tively represent a burning dissatisfaction with the world’s current affairs, and a deep desire to imagine something new. (2) It’s no surprise that people are preoccupied with the end because they are jaded with the present state of the world. Unfortunately, a globe-shattering event would be required to bring about an end of what is, to enable what will be. And, for all the apocalyptic fever out there, it is dif- ficult to find imaginings of a future beyond survival and the shadows of fallen civilizations. Doomsday preppers are celebrated on reality television for their caches of weapons and MREs. In fiction, nine out of ten times the post-apocalypse yields a dystopian society, where the problems of the past re-emerge to haunt survivors into the future. It seems that for all the progress of the human race, we can not easily imagine a future where we do not repeat the mistakes of history. We have failed to envision a future worth surviv- ing. Psychologist Rollo May wrote that “depression is the inability to construct a future.” Are we too depressed, too economic growth simply do, fracked wells produce to recognize that a bunch beaten down to imagine a better future? Perhaps. Sure, by increasing the supply lots of gas for a few months of Ponzi schemers paying most of us would say world peace, no hunger, no pollution, of energy. Starting in 1970, and then rapidly fall off, so each other bonuses is not a etc... But most of us would also have trouble describing when U.S. conventional oil that the companies must sound way to run an econ- what a brave new world would look like, or how it would production peaked, gov- drill many wells (at great omy, and something very work. ernments, corporations, cost) to keep up produc- bad is going to happen. This is distressing, if most people feel this way. Are and individuals began to tion. Because many drill- The Constitution Pipe- we just animals surviving the ups and downs of creation substitute debt for growth. ers have been losing mon- line is part of this mas- through time, like cockroaches? Until we can use our al- Everyone borrowed: Wall ey on their gas for years, sive international financial legedly evolved brains to imagine a new and improved Street invented financial they have been borrowing fraud. The export markets it world, and invest as much in the beginning as we do in the instruments to create ever millions in the junk bond is supposed to serve in Eu- end, then cockroaches we shall be. more fictitious money, gov- market at low rates courte- rope and Asia are all rapidly During this era of existential crisis for us as a species, ernments racked up enor- sy of the Federal Reserve’s falling on hard times but, as we should consider for a moment where we have been mous deficits, individuals zero-interest-rate-policy. long as CP and Kinder-Mor- and where we need to go, in order to get beyond a future lived beyond their means The financial frauds of gan can keep fooling new based on mere survival. If we do not choose to dream of with credit cards and home the housing bubble nearly investors, they will contin- the possibilities and imagine a way to be free of all that refinancing, the Fed blew brought down the world ue the charade. They may is wrong, if we do not choose to take the next step in our one bubble after another economy in 2008. Our gov- never ship gas but they will evolution, then the future will remain bleak, with or with- in high tech, then housing, ernment bailed out the big do as much damage as they out an apocalypse. and fracked oil and gas, as banks whose gambling can for as long as they can - our economy was increas- caused the disaster and left to land that does not belong References: ingly turned into the fraud- the rest of us on the hook for to them. (1) Clayton, S., Manning, C., and Hodge, C. (2014) Be- ulent casino it is today. their debts. Then the Fed The saddest part of this yond Storms and Droughts: The Psychological Impacts of Drillers used to shove a blew new bubbles, this time story is the bitter division Climate Change. Washington, DC: American Psychologi- pipe in the ground and out in extreme energy. Compa- in communities like Frank- cal Association and ecoAmerica. flowed abundant oil or gas. nies bought leases, drilled lin along the pipeline, sad (2) Hyong-jun (2014), “The Post-Apocalyptic Turn: A Today, they must spend wells, pumped oil and gas because the energy de- Study of Contemporary Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyp- millions on rigs to drill only to find that the custom- cline that is surely coming tic Narrative.” Theses and Dissertations. Paper 615. down miles, then drill hori- ers don’t have any money will bring our economy zontally and then blow up because all the good jobs very low and we shall all PONZI, continued from Page 8 layers of rock to release the have been shipped over- need each other’s help and ruined. With the advent of gold” of Pennsylvania, Texas, fuels. All that costs a lot of seas. Drillers in the Marcel- cooperation as never be- fossil fuels, however, econ- Oklahoma, Russia, and the money and a lot of energy. lus Shale need about $6/ fore to maintain a decent, omies could be made to Middle East. That oil was on- And fracked gas wells (like mcf to break even. Today, civilized, healthy life. It is grow by increasing the use shore, close to the surface, those in the Marcellus Shale the price is $2.50, so they a deep and sorrowful pity of energy. And oil, the main relatively cheap and easy that would provide the gas drill faster to keep produc- that, at this very moment, source of energy, was easy to get out of the ground. In- to fill the Constitution and tion up to pay the interest our communities have so to come by. Unhappily, we stead of recognizing that the TGP pipelines) deplete on their debts, while the in- painfully fractured. humans are not very good peak of conventional oil was very rapidly; instead of pro- creased production drives When the drillers blast- at looking ahead: in the a turning point in our civili- ducing abundant gas for the price ever lower. One ed the rock so far beneath exuberant and expansive zation, governments and oil years as conventional wells day soon markets are going the surface, they released race for wealth that has companies began a frenzied not only a temporary flush marked the industrial pe- search for ever more remote, of gas, but also demons of riod, we forgot that we live expensive, technically chal- discord and dissention. on a finite planet with only lenging and more polluting so much stuff on it––includ- sources of fuel, including *Summary on Com- ing coal, oil and gas. deep sea drilling, fracking pressor Stations and Health The year 2005 marked for oil and gas, mountain-top Impacts, February 24, 2015, the peak of global produc- removal, and tar sands. www.environmentalhealth- tion of what is called conven- After the peak, it was no project.org tional oil, the classic “black longer possible to generate Fall 2015 The New Franklin Register Page 17 PILOT, continued from Page 1 ed gain of $17.0 million for the local build a 680 mile long, forty-two inch The Ouleout in June reason to welcome the noise and air economy over the fifteen years of the diameter gas pipeline from Oregon pollution from such industrial facili- PILOT. Supporting this is Millennium to Wyoming. All are multi-billion dol- By Alexander ties into our rural countryside. Pipeline, Hancock Compressor Station, lar projects, a hundred times larger Hynd-Lindsay However, not all properties are General Economic Impact Analysis, than the Hancock project. Four con- prepared by Shepstone Management stants are unreferenced, justified as taxed. New York State requires total Sweet Ouleout! Thy Company Inc. and paid for by Millen- “reasonable.” exemptions for churches, govern- beauty charms nium. It is five-page report of which Thousands of compressor sta- ments, non-profit corporations, and The soul of one who the first page is a cover and the sec- tions have been built throughout the partial exemptions for farmers. Also has the eye. ond is a summary of the remaining United States. Why then did Mr. Shep- it allows towns to grant partial ex- The true deep sense of three pages. stone write his own equation for local emptions for some other groups. poesy. If true, then this gain would more economic impact, unique for this one This is seen as unfair when ‘Tis a delight to see than offset the loss of taxes, estimated station? wealthy organizations get substantial thee now by Millennium as $3.7 million. How- Is Mr. Shepstone qualified to ob- tax exemptions. As partial compen- Sleep on and dream ever, Jannette Barth (Ph.D in econom- jectively analyze the economics of sation, New York State created a con- among the grass ics, University of Maryland) of the this industrial project? On the web- tractual agreement, Payment in Lieu And flowers, soft- Pepacton Institute points to problems site of Shepstone Management, a list of Taxes or PILOT. breathing in the sun; with the assumptions underlying his of over sixty recent projects includes Many nearby compressor stations Kissed by its beams of analysis. only five economic impact analyses, are exempt from property taxes be- fire and gold. The analysis considers only the and those are all agrarian: deer farms, cause the companies have negotiated Ouleout! In thy pure benefits of the compressor station vineyards, and the foie-gras industry. PILOTs. For example, the Millennium face while ignoring all costs. For example, (The Hancock analysis is not listed.) Pipeline Company LLC avoids half of I see fairest of June- there will be losses of tax revenue Shepstone’s B.S. degree is in agricul- the property taxes over the next fifteen blue skies — from neighboring properties. On tural economics from PSU College of years for the Hancock compressor sta- Fleece-clouds from Na- Hungry Hill Road, three homes have Agriculture. Other reports by SMC tion on Hungry Hill Road. Under this ture’s finest loom- received twenty-five percent or fifty in Delaware County include: Town of PILOT, Millennium pays an average A livery fit for gods to’ percent assessment reductions be- Bovina Comprehensive Plan, Deposit of fifty percent of property taxes, but wear. cause of proximity to the station, and Area Community Needs Study, Upper the exemption is larger in the early And, when the twilight, the two nearest homes were razed, Delaware Ridgeline Project Hancock years. (This on a taxable value set by gray and still. one because of construction dam- Community Profile, and Town of Ma- the PILOT at $12.7 million, less than a Greets the faint blush ages to water and septic systems. sonville Comprehensive Plan. What third the cost of the project.) In addi- of fading day, The analysis also ignores the costs is more, the author is not a neutral tion, the project is exempt from sales I see all twinkling, glit- of any accidents. There was one dur- analyst, but a strident advocate for taxes, which saves Millennium nearly tering there ing construction, which resulted in natural gas, as is evident in his writ- as much as the exemption from prop- The diamond stars upon evacuations. ing posted to his website naturalgas- erty taxes. thy breast The analysis assumes an unreal- now.org. Millennium is a for-profit corpo- And, as they breathe istically large multiplier of 1.5 for the Economic justification of a PILOT ration, and therefore its properties their vesper hymns — payroll and spending going to Han- for a compressor station should not are not tax exempt. But the Dela- All turn to dreams with- cock. The town is rural with a lim- to be taken for granted. Earlier this ware County Industrial Development in my soul. ited supply of labor, materials, and year, the Montgomery County IDA Agency (DCIDA) is a government O Song-delight to thee services. Other counties that could did not proceed with such a PILOT for agency, and therefore is exempt and me! readily supply these are only a few Dominion Transmission, Inc., voting from taxes. By the DCIDA buying the Sweet Ouleout — my miles away from Hungry Hill: Sullivan five to zero, with one absent and one property from Millennium and leas- earth-born heaven! County NY and Wayne County PA. abstaining. Said director Rose, “If job ing it back, the property becomes Prized gem of Nature, According to a review by this numbers were higher and there was exempt from property taxes. And by pure, serene; newspaper, Mr. Shepstone’s equation more of a public benefit, obviously we the DCIDA appointing the contractor, Much would I give to for the local economic impact reduces would have taken the application.” In The Pike Company Inc., as its opera- know thy thoughts- tor or agent, the project becomes ex- to: addition, the lost taxes are made up by Impact = Payroll + Spending Thy speech primeval, empt from sales taxes. higher taxes for almost all landowners, Impact = $5.6 million + $11.4 million and thy dreams — Under the NYS law that governs whereas any gains go to a much small- The full equation appears to have How I would love to them, IDAs should en- er group. only two vari- make them all hance local economic The General Economic Impact ables, with val- My own, and in thy in- development. Any loss Analysis and other documents sup- ues supplied nocence of local tax revenues plied by Delaware County IDA do not by Millennium. Live as becometh Na- should be more than support the forecast of $17 million in (The analysis is ture’s child. offset by gains in local benefits to residents of Hancock Town cryptic in that Sweet Baby-stream so permanent jobs and and Delaware County, and therefore he does not beauteous! spending. do not justify the tax exemptions write-out his So simple and so inno- The DCIDA made provided to Millennium for the com- equation.) The cent, two claims to justify its pressor station. This raises questions one variable Alas! Too soon, lost granting a PILOT for about the approval of the PILOT by for payroll is wilt thou be this Hancock project, DCIDA. the number of In the dark river’s rest- which our IDA offered Regardless of the real economic jobs, given as less breast. up in response to a impact, none of the documents pro- 75 to 90, with But pray, loved Ouleout, Freedom of Information vided by DCIDA justified the neces- 82.5 used by sing on! Letter request from this sity of offering a PILOT to Millennium SMC. The oth- Thy song of sun-bathed newspaper. to locate the compressor station in er variable for hills, and dales. The first is to insure Delaware County. Of the six sites spending is the Of blowing flowers, and the local supply of natu- considered in the FERC Environmen- total cost of con- piping birds, ral gas. But given the tal Assessment, four are in Delaware struction given Or drowsy clouds, and modest consumption County. Millennium already owned as $43 million dreaming stars. of gas in southern Del- the Hungry Hill site, whereas it did – although else- When in the dark, aware County, it is hard to see how not even have options on the two sites where Millennium consistently cites strange, swirling depths an additional 15,900 horsepower for in Sullivan County. $40.2 million. Cost of materials and Sing on! As thou art compression is necessary. The use of a PILOT to encourage services, $36.8 million, is calculated whisp’ring now Indeed Millennium states that the development is inherently controver- by subtracting the estimated payroll Thy music through the purpose is to move more gas through sial because it trades the certain loss of $6.2 million. Analysis states $38.8 emerald way. the county from producers in Penn- of local taxes for the speculative gain million, but this appears to be a typo. sylvania to Algonquin Gas Transmis- in local employment and spending. This equation contains a few Editor’s Note: Mr. Hynd- sion interconnect near Ramapo NY, Critical to the approval is the sound- constants. Of these, two are refer- Lindsay’s poem, written in the and between Laser NE Gathering ness of the forecast of gains in excess enced to studies of projects to build early 1900s, was actually about interconnect in Windsor NY and Co- of losses. LNG export terminals at Cove Point, an Ouleout Creek in the Ad- lumbia Gas Transmission intercon- irondacks. But surely we can Maryland and Jordan Cove, Oregon. nect in Deerpark NY. adopt his sentiments as our Another is referenced to a project to The second reason is an estimat- own. Winter Page 19 2009 The New Franklin Register F all P age 2015 12

And it’s time, friends and neighbors, for more fun with Jack, who might be you or you or...you. So hold on to your hats for another thrilling episode of... MURDER AT THE FARMERS’ MARKET A seismic explosion woke me up like a shot Later that evening, each member entered Well, we all walk on water when it rains. of wine gone bad. I rolled over to look out the my kitchen and laid their ‘friend’ on the table. window and saw a large black crater where my We had a Colt 45, a Ruger P94DC 9mm, a Smith Solutions no one can afford are not solutions. mailbox had been. Either Home Depot was & Wesson 357 Magnum, an Uzi 9mm, an AK 47, having another sale on mailboxes or someone a Glock 23, four sticks of dynamite, some plas- Two male hummingbirds were going at it, was trying to scare me. Wilson’s dog was run- tic explosive, two hand grenades, lots of fuse, a doing territorial loop-di-loops over the potting ning around in circles, leaping into the air try- bunch of M80’s, a Red Rider BB gun, two leak- shed. They moved to the back porch feeder ing to catch little flying bits of paper like snow- ing Super-Soaker water pistols, a crossbow, a and started jousting, flying at each other as fast flakes in winter. And I had really been looking slingshot, some balloons, a lasso, a boomerang, as they could, playing chicken. Neither of them forward to catching up on some of the latest car a couple of Frisbees, and a box of matches. was. They hit each other head on and both fell dealer bullsh**-a-thons at breakfast. I watered down the beer. to the ground unconscious. The cat raised her Later as I was reading fragments of mail eyebrows. I was raising bread. spread over the kitchen table, I noticed a few Multi-lensed cameras are creating an im- I picked one up in each hand. The first to pieces of identical handwriting were lining up. pressive virtual reality experience. Peripheral regain consciousness shot out of my hand and ‘Our agent Donn…imply...retaliat...watch vision is built in. People in the image seem to hovered about four inches away from my face, your bac…’ respond to the viewer. looking me straight in the eye, buzzing as they What tha? United Nations representatives have been do like a giant bumblebee. brought to tears viewing refugee camps around The other came to and off they went, at it again. After breakfast I had to give Wilson’s dog the world through this very realistic experience. another shave. He’d liked the attention he got But something’s missing. Beware the statistician, always working on the plane and besides I think he had a new Perhaps it’s the smell. within the parameters of not-quite-right. Sta- girlfriend. I wouldn’t see him for days, and my Vape liquids come in many flavors. Can the tistics without efficacy are worthless. There are best bowtie ever again. filmmaker’s olfactory locale be gathered, con- always exceptions and isn’t it the exceptional That cryptic message made me so ner- densed and spritzed on viewers? we need? vous, I confused the tubes in the bathroom and First there were the snuff films of the 80’s. brushed my teeth with A&D ointment. Now we have sniff films. Someone asked if I’d put in a new court- Coming soon to a theater near you. yard light. I said I didn’t have a courtyard light. Digital technology has final corrected an Invest now in dry cleaners. Well, nonetheless, it’s on, someone said. ancient problem. High-tech mirrors no lon- We rushed to the kitchen windows. ger present the viewer with a reversed image, The box of matches belonged to Danny and My eight-foot-high pole-mounted three thereby allowing one to see oneself as one ac- everyone eyed him with apprehension. A few story birdhouse was totally engulfed in flames tually looks to other people. The cosmetic in- years ago while lighting his fireplace with those throwing a quivering light up the side of the dustry is in shambles. Dyslexia is hot. cheap wooden Emerald matches, a fragment barn and down through the farmyard night. broke off, shot across the hearth and hit his cat Jeanie grabbed the super soakers, raced I called around to the seven, checking on who immediately burst into flames and took off outside, drew them like a gunslinger and in new developments and letting everyone in on across the living room lighting everything up three shots, doused the fire. my trip and what had happened this morning. along the way. The cat survived. Almost lost Everyone cheered. More than one person suggested a meeting the house. Now we’re getting serious, I said. and the consensus was that everyone bring a We wondered if this was the same box. They had no idea. friend. As in Al Pacino’s ‘Say hello to my little Thanks, Danny, I said. I had hidden something very important in friend.’ As far as the other stuff went I had to ask if that birdhouse. Okay by me. it was legal. Except for the Frisbees, somebody said. To be, as always, continued...

A RECORD OF RECENT VOTES BY THE FRANKLIN TOWN BOARD

MOTION VOTE

Supervisor Council Taggart Grant Huyck Sitts Smith 5/05/15 Sell motor from parts truck at auction Y Y Y Y Y 5/05/15 Accept bid for culvert from Chemung Supply at ? Y Y Y Y Y 5/05/15 Rent model 2007 excavator for two months at $3,490/month Y Y Y Y Y 6/02/15 Adopt Local Law 1-2015* Y Y Y Y Y 6/02/15 Accept Standard Work Day Resolution Y Y Y Y Y 6/02/15 Accept bid for Air-Flo dump box from M & C Truck at $45,105 Y Y Y Y Y 7/07/15 Appoint Dawn Ritz as Town Clerk Y Y Y Y Y 8/04/15 Rent excavator for an additional month at $3,500 Y Y Y Y Y 8/04/15 Buy 2016 Dodge RAM 4WD truck at $51,179 Y Y Y Y Y 8/04/15 Appoint Jan Schlafer as Deputy Town Clerk Y Y Y Y Y 8/12/15 Hire Cheryl Sacco of C & G to write road use law at $1,500 Y Y Y Y Y 8/12/15 Hire Delta Engineers to prepare RPP at $7,000 Y Y Y Y Y 9/01/15 Rent excavator for an additional month at $3,500 Y Y Y Y Y 9/01/15 Hire Delta Engineers to prepare RPP at $6,400 Y Y Y Y Y

* Local Law 1-2015, Governing the Sale, Application, and Disposal of Waste Associated With Oil and Natural Gas Exploration, Extraction and Storage Activities Note: Monthly motions to accept minutes and adjourn meeting are not included Fall 2015 The New Franklin Register Page 19

The Newsletter of the Franklin Citizens Commission on Peak Oil Editorial Board Ellen Curtis Carole Satrina Marner Eugene Marner Hank Stahler Associate Editor: Brian Brock Editor Marjorie Bradley Kellogg

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RECENT REAL PROPERTY SALES IN THE TOWN OF FRANKLIN

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4/3/2015 Poet Hill Rd 14.22 Rural vac>10 30,000 49,800 Lynch, Vincent A Vicole, Frank 5/6/2015 92 Bissell Rd 8 1 Family Res 150,000 204,000 Matthews, Dana M O’Loughlin, Gareth 5/15/2015 1405 Fleming Rd 3.25 Rural vac<10 12,000 10,000 Hunt, William A Snow, Eleanor M 5/27/2015 Ed Klug Rd 10.24 Rural vac>10 25,000 2,996 County of Delaware Foster, Kimberly A 5/27/2015 Ed Klug Rd 10.27 Mfg housing 25,000 3,192 County of Delaware Piacente, Angelo Jr 6/27/2015 512 Bookhout Rd 11.48 1 Family Res 144,000 0 Latoraca, Francis M Latoraca, Loretta M R,M 7/6/2015 6116 E Handsome Bk Rd 8.4 1 Family Res 150,000 170,000 Lavrik, Loretta Finnegan, Ralph K 7/7/2015 1405 Fleming Rd 3.25 Rural vac<10 12,000 7,500 Snow, Eleanor M Marciano, Sally 7/8/2015 Tupper Hill Rd 1 1 Family Res 52,000 0 Harvey, Cynthia County of Delaware 7/16/2015 82 Water St 0.25 1 Family Res 84,000 125,000 Mignier, Aimee E Orton, Gary W 7/22/2015 Frank Slawson Rd 42.5 Rural vac>10 68,000 26,000 County of Delaware Nowicki, Monika 7/22/2015 Tupper Hill Rd 1 1 Family Res 52,000 5,848 County of Delaware Harvey, Cynthia 7/25/2015 703 Thoroughbred Rd 44 Rural res 227,000 119,500 HSBC Bank USA Hegel, Robert M 8/8/2015 5094 County Highway 14 2.65 1 Family Res 100,000 47,569 Waldron, Charles W Lannert, Jason R 8/12/2015 223 Lintz Rd 9.07 1 Family Res 135,000 250,000 Bauder, Kathleen C Comodo, Marc M 8/18/2015 123 Main St 4.99 1 Family Res 142,000 175,000 Brown Estate, Heimbauer, Gary J

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