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CORNING - Incumbent Corning City Councilman Kate Paterson, D-2, has announced she will seek re-election to rep-resent Corning’s 2nd Ward.

“It’s been my honor and priv-ilege to represent my friends and neighbors on the City

Council,” Paterson said. “If re-elected, I will continue to work tirelessly on behalf of my con-stituents and all the residents of Corning.”

Paterson was first elected to the City Council in 2017. In her two years on City Council, she has chaired the Parks Improvement Committee,

which is cur-rently working on a long-term strategic plan for the city’s parks.

S h e a l s o s e r v e s o n

the Code Committee, which recently worked with the

city’s staff to update Corning’s 20-year old zoning laws.

“If residents of the second district return me to the City Council, I will use my experi-ence to continue to improve our city’s parks, streets, side-walks, and housing,” Paterson said.

Paterson said she has lived in

Corning for 20 years. She has volunteered in the Corning-Painted Post School District and other civic groups, and cur-rently serves on the Southeast Steuben County Library Board of Trustees.

The election for the Corning City Council will be held on Nov. 5.

Paterson announces re-election bid

Paterson

By Jeff Smith jsmith@the-leader.com

BATH - The majority of a large crowd that recently attended a Bath Village

Planning Board meeting seemed to be against the con-struction of a 64-unit low income apartment complex at 7181 State Route 54.

Jeffrey Eaton, president and Chief Executive Officer at Arbor Housing, told the board that Arbor has discussed pur-chasing the site and building eight apartment complexes

and a community center at the site.

To do that, Arbor would need the property, which for-merly housed a grocery store and another smaller business, rezoned  from commercial/retail to residential.

“We’ve been looking for a site to provide workforce affordable housing in the Bath

area for a while,” Eaton said. “We have looked at a number of different sites and we were recently made aware of the site on State Route 54.”

Arbor officials just pre-sented their potential plans to the Planning Board but did not submit a site plan approval.

Apartment item draws crowd

A large crowd fi lled the Bath Village Planning Board meeting at the Municipal Building last week to hear the details of Arbor Housing’s potential apartment proposal. [JEFF SMITH/THE LEADER]

Bath Planning Board hears from Arbor Housing

By Jim Mustian, Michael R. Sisak and Michael BalsamoThe Associated Press

NEW YORK — Investigators have long been digging into allegations of sexual abuse and conspiracy against Jeffrey Epstein. The financier’s appar-ent suicide brings another mystery to investigate: How did he end up dying in jail?

An additional federal inves-tigation was launched Saturday after the Federal Bureau of Prison said Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell at a high-security jail in Manhattan. He was later pronounced dead from an apparent suicide, the BOP said. His abrupt death cuts short a criminal prosecu-tion that could have pulled back the curtain on the inner work-ings of the high-flying financier with connections to celebrities and presidents, though prose-cutors have vowed to continue investigating.

Epstein had been placed on suicide watch after he was found a little over two weeks ago with bruising on his neck, according to a person familiar with the matter who wasn’t authorized to discuss it pub-licly. But he was taken off the watch at the end of July and therefore wasn’t on it at the time of his death, the person said.

Attorney General William Barr, calling for an investigation

Epstein abuse probe goes on

In this July 30, 2008, photo, Jeffrey Epstein appears in court in West Palm Beach, Fla. [UMA

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By Michael HillThe Associated Press

BETHEL, N.Y. — Woodstock will be celebrated on its 50th anniversary, but it won’t be your hippie uncle’s trample-the-fences concert.

W h i l e p l a n s f o r a b i g Woodstock 50 festival col-lapsed after a run of calamities, the bucolic upstate New York site of the 1969 show is host-ing a long weekend of events featuring separate shows by

festival veterans like Carlos Santana and John Fogerty.

But officials concerned about traffic jams and crowd-ing are strictly limiting access to the famous field now main-tained by the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. Visitors will need “travel passes” to drive to the site Thursday through Sunday, and only people with tickets for evening events can get those passes. There will be checkpoints.

“We’re trying to encourage

people that are not interested in the concert-side of things, and just want to come and sort of breathe the air and feel the vibes... to come on other weekends,” said Bethel Woods chief executive officer Darlene Fedun.

Some would argue that Woodstock’s five-decade legacy belongs to the 400,000 or so people who attended the weekend festival, or to anyone inspired by the peace and music that came out of

that anarchic weekend. But, as the anniversary approaches, in practice, it belongs to the separate groups that control the Woodstock music festival name and the concert site 80 miles (130 kilometers) north-west of New York City.

And their actions make clear that 2019 is way different from 1969.

Woodstock co-founder Michael Lang was part of a

Woodstock concert site preps for 50th

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An artist’s rendering of Arbor’s proposal to build an eight apartment complex and a community center at the State Route 54 site. (Provided/The Leader)

by the FBI and the Justice Department’s inspector general’s office, said he was “appalled” to learn of Epstein’s death while in federal custody.

“Mr. Epstein’s death raises serious questions that must be answered,” Barr said in a statement.

Epstein, 66, had been denied bail and faced up to 45 years behind bars on federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges unsealed last month. He had pleaded not guilty and was awaiting trial.

The federal investiga-tion into the allegations remains ongoing, U.S. A t t o r n e y G e o f f r e y Berman said.

He noted in a statement Saturday that the indict-ment against Epstein includes a conspiracy charge, suggesting others could face charges in the case.

Epstein’s death raises questions about how the Bureau of Prisons ensures t h e w e l f a r e o f s u c h high-profile inmates. In October, Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger was killed in a federal prison in West Virginia where had just been transferred.

N e b r a s k a S e n . B e n S a s s e , a R e p u b l i c a n member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, w r o t e S a t u r d a y i n a scathing letter to Barr that “heads must roll” after the incident.

“Every single person in the Justice Department — from your Main Justice headquarters staff all the way to the night-shift jailer — knew that this man was a suicide risk, and that his dark secrets couldn’t be allowed to die with him,” Sasse wrote.

Epstein’s removal from suicide watch would have been approved by both the warden of the jail and the facility’s chief psychologist, said Jack Donson, a former prison official who worked for the Bureau of Prisons for more than two decades.

On Friday, more than

2,000 pages of docu-ments were releasedrelated to a since-settledlawsuit against Epstein’sex-girlfriend by VirginiaGiuffre, one of Epstein’saccusers.

T h e r e c o r d s c o n -tain graphic allegationsagainst Epstein, as wellas the transcript of a 2016deposition of Epsteini n w h i c h h e r e p e a t -edly refused to answerq u e s t i o n s t o a v o i dincriminating himself.

Giuffre, in an inter-view with The New YorkTimes, said she’s grate-ful Epstein will neverharm anyone again, butis angry that there wouldbe no chance to see himanswer for his conduct.

“We’ve worked so hardto get here, and he stolethat from us, too,” shetold the newspaper.

S i g r i d M c C a w l e y ,Giuffre’s attorney, saidEpstein’s suicide lessthan 24 hours after thedocuments were unsealed“is no coincidence.”

M c C a w l e y u r g e dauthorities to continuet h e i r i n v e s t i g a t i o n ,f o c u s i n g o n E p s t e i nassociates who she said“participated and facili-tated Epstein’s horrifyingsex trafficking scheme.”

Epstein’s arrest drewnational attention, par-ticularly focusing on adeal that allowed Epsteinto plead guilty in 2008to soliciting a minor forprostitution in Floridaand avoid more seriousfederal charges.

Federal prosecutors inNew York reopened theprobe after investigativereporting by The MiamiHerald stirred outrageover that plea bargain.

His lawyers maintainedthat the new charges inNew York were coveredby the 2008 plea dealand that Epstein hadn’thad any illicit contactwith underage girls sinceserving his 13-monthsentence in Florida.

Before his legal trou-bles, Epstein led a life ofextraordinary luxury thatdrew powerful peopleinto his orbit.

He socialized withprinces and presidentsand lived on a 100-acreprivate Caribbean islandand one of the biggestmansions in New York.

group that failed this year to pull off a multi-day Woodstock 50 festival. Organizers faced a series of setbacks, including the loss of their initial upstate New York site. Then they were denied a permit at an alternate site about a month before the show.

Woodstock organiz-ers were denied permits a month before the ‘69 show, too — that time in Wallkill, New York. Lang found the Bethel site with weeks to go.

No such kismet this time. Eleventh-hour plans to stage a free concert in Maryland fizzled.

“It’s as foolish to think you can recreate a 1969 rock event like Woodstock

in 2019 as it would be to try and persuade people to go back to old-fashioned telephones and operator-booked long distance calls,” said Simon Napier-Bell, a veteran rock manager who has worked with acts including the Yardbirds and Wham!.

The Woodstock era was a time of amateurism and idealism, Napier Bell wrote in an email, and this is a time of professionalism and realism.

The actual concert site in upstate farm country has attracted tie-dyed pilgrims for decades. Famous for becoming a muddy mess on Woodstock weekend, the old farm field is now a tidy greenspace.

Visitors can wander the trimmed grass and make peace sign poses by the waist-high Woodstock monument in a corner.

“ I t ’ s l i k e h a l l o w e d ground for us rock-and-rollers,” said 56-year-old Bill Murtha, of Troy, New York, during a visit this week. “It’s like Gettysburg. You can feel the vibe of what happened.”

The site went estab-l i s h m e n t a f t e r t h e not-for-profit Bethel Woods center bought up the hillside and surround-ing land in the late ‘90s.

A W o o d s t o c k - a n d -’60s-themed museum sits atop the fenced-in field and there’s an out-door amphitheater over the hill where Santana and Fogerty will play on sepa-rate nights.

“When they first built it, I had mixed feelings about it,” said 66-year-old Bill Bokesz on one of his regular visits to the site. “But there’s not condos here. It’s still here. They preserved the field....

They did a really good job.”The Somersworth, New

Hampshire, resident will come back to see Arlo Guthrie perform Thursday before an outdoor screen-ing of the Woodstock documentary on the festi-val field. He’ll hang out with campers nearby and, yes, he has tickets.

Though access to the field is usually open, Bethel Woods is setting restric-tions next weekend to avoid any whiff of Woodstock-style chaos. Fedun said the site already expects big crowds of ticket holders and the country roads can only handle so much traffic.

Local officials expect up to 100,000 visitors in the area from Thursday through Sunday.

“This time, we’re going to get it right,” Town of Bethel supervisor Dan Strum told reporters this week.

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“This is still evolv-ing,” Eaton said. “We just wanted to get (this idea) on (the planning board’s) radar.” The proposed plan would only take about 7.5 acres of the near 19 acre site, Eaton said. Arbor officials have considered building a large three-story low income apartment

complex, similar to the building Arbor had con-structed in 2017 in North Corning, at the site so the remaining sections could be used as commercial/retail space.

Eaton said Arbor has also looked at a site in the Town of Bath, which was too cost prohibited, and a site near the Bath VA entrance.

Jim Deats, village plan-ning board chairman, said it doesn’t set a good precedent of change to go

from commercial/retail to residential.

“It’s kind of spot zoning,” Deats said.

Jody Allen, an Engineering Consultant representing Arbor Housing, disagreed.

“It really wouldn't be considered spot zoning,” Allen said. “It’s an exten-sion of an existing medium density residential zone. The property immedi-ately adjacent to the site (Clyde F. Simon Lakeview Apartments) is already

zoned medium density residential. So it’s not spot zoning.”

The Village Planning Board took no action on the proposed zoning change and Eaton did not know when Arbor would submit for the change.

Deats said the planning board would just make a recommendation on a pos-sible zoning change to the full Village Board which would make the ultimate decision.

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