Question: Who created the first alternative education program in a city in southern Otsego County, with a nickname of "City of the Hills."?
Context: West Edmeston is a hamlet on the Unadilla River on the border the Town of Brookfield in Madison County, New York and the Town of Edmeston in Otsego County, New York.  On August 24, 1898, the new First Day Baptist Church building was opened in West Edmeston.  First conceived in January 1897, the church was formally organized in February 1898 and admitted to the Otsego County Baptist Association. Upward Bound High School in Hartwick, New York was the first alternative education program in Otsego County, New York.  Created by English teacher Mike Newell and principal Mark Rathbun, the school was first located in the basement of a Unitarian church in Oneonta, New York. The Schenevus Creek is a river located in southern Otsego County, New York.  The creek flows through Worcester and Schenevus before converging with the Susquehanna River in Colliersville, New York. Spectrum Alternative School is an alternative education middle school of Toronto's Mount Pleasant west district that was established in 1978.  Its original teachers included Ellen Dorfman, Brian Taylor, and David Clyne who all came from Deer Park Senior Public school in a program called Spectrum.  It was the first alternative school for grade 7 and 8 students.  The school was proposed in 1978 but was strongly opposed by the Toronto Area 6 superintendent.  Due to intense parental lobbying of the TDSB the school was later created. Boyle Street Education Centre (BSEC) is a public charter high school (secondary school) in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.  The Boyle Street Education Centre opened as a charter school in September 1996.  The Education Centre grew out of six years of Boyle Street Co-op experience providing an alternative education program.  The students range in age from fourteen to nineteen years and have a history of not succeeding in mainstream education programs.  Many of the students at the school have experienced trauma through their early years and this has affected their success in school.  The purpose of the Boyle Street Education Centre is to offer programs that engage high risk/out-of-school youth in the learning process and provide each student an opportunity for successful attainment of the learning expectations as established by Alberta Learning. Morris Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Morris in Otsego County, New York.  The district encompasses 287 contributing buildings and 3 contributing sites in the village of Morris.  The buildings date from about 1800 through the 1960s, and include representative examples of popular architectural styles.  Located in the district is the separately listed Zion Episcopal Church Complex and Harmony Cemetery.  Other notable buildings include the Otsego County Fairgrounds complex, First Baptist Church (1869), Methodist Church (1870), former Universalist Church (1841), former Post Office (1883-1884), Community Bank (c. 1820-1830, 1929), Kenyon Library (1845), and Town of Morris Highway Department (c. 1920). Otsego Lake Township is a civil township of Otsego County in the U.S. state of Michigan.  The population was 2,532 at the 2000 census.  The township takes its name from Otsego Lake (Michigan), the southern half of which is within the township.  Otsego Lake State Park is on the southeast shore of the lake in the township. The Lincoln Center for Family and Youth (TLC), headquartered in Audubon, Pennsylvania, is a nonprofit alternative education and social services agency that provides supportive interventions for at-risk students and families.  TLC was established in 1970 as a community-based services division of the Eagleville Hospital in Eagleville, Pennsylvania.  In 1976, TLC opened its first alternative school to serve at-risk public school students.  TLC incorporated in 1983 and became an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization.  Today, TLC provides an experiential problem-based learning alternative education program for students in grades 7-12, in-school individual counseling services for public school students, and at-home counseling services (e.g., mental health, drug and alcohol prevention, victim abuse) for students and their families. Otsego Lake is located in northwest Michigan at , south of the city of Gaylord in Otsego County.  The lake spans the boundary between Otsego Township to the south and Bagley Township to the north.  Otsego Lake State Park is located on the southeast shore of the lake and Otsego County Park is on the northwest shore.  The lake has many private cottages and homes with direct access to the lake and parks. Oneonta ( ) is a city in southern Otsego County, New York, United States.  According to the 2010 U.S. Census, it had a population of 13,901.  Its nickname is "City of the Hills."  While the word "oneonta" is of undetermined origin, it is popularly believed to mean "place of open rocks" in the Mohawk language.  This refers to a prominent geological formation known as "Tablerocks" at the western end of the city.
Answer: Mike Newell and principal Mark Rathbun