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December 14, 2023

135 YEARS AGO

Local: It is suggested that the Literary Society of Cooperstown take the initiative in organizing the Otsego County Historical Society.
The law against coasting on the sidewalks should be enforced. If those who have icy walks in front of their premises will take the proper means to do away with the danger often resulting therefrom, they will do a good deed.
It is suggested that when the Cooperstown railroad orders new locomotives, they may be of the kind that uses crude petroleum instead of coal for fuel. They are pronounced a great success.

December 14, 1888

85 YEARS AGO

The Baseball Centennial celebration in Cooperstown next year will have an official emblem. The insignia was shown for the first time at a meeting of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues in New Orleans. It is a red, white and blue square with a background of four red stripes, symbolic of the four balls in baseball and three white stripes to represent the three strikes. A blue diamond is superimposed on the stripes and a white baseball set in the center of the diamond. On the baseball, a sketch of a player in uniform completing a swing brings in graphically the action of the game. The date of the founding of the game here—1839—is balanced with the Centennial Year numerals on the opposite side. Across the base appear the words “Baseball Centennial.”

December 14, 1938

60 YEARS AGO

Republicans continue to outnumber Democrats in Otsego County by a little better than two to one according to enrollment figures released by the Board of Election Commissioners. Enrolled Republicans number 13,191 compared with 13,715 a year ago while Democrats total 5,973 this year, only three fewer than the 5,976 enrolled for 1962. The Liberal Party has 101 enrolled members. The Conservative Party, which became a recognized party during the 1962 election, has 23 registered voters in Otsego County.

December 11, 1963

35 YEARS AGO

Year-round woes from increased salinity levels in Otsego Lake have caused village officials to pass a resolution to reduce salinization this winter. The resolution was spearheaded by Cooperstown Trustee Hugh C. MacDougall, who drafted it after he heard the issue discussed at the Otsego 2000 Conference at Cooperstown High School last summer. MacDougall said a number of people expressed concern to him about the runoff from snow which the village takes off its streets and stores in a parking lot above Fairy Springs Park. “That runoff, including the salt, is possibly going into the lake,” MacDougall said.

December 14, 1988

20 YEARS AGO

The CCS Elementary School Grade 4 Honor Roll: Alexandra Bayes, Kayleen Campbell, Harrison Clinton, Jeremy Denmeade, Samantha Devenpeck, Haley Hohensee, Linda Kenison, Matthew Kennedy, Jack Loewenguth, Shannon McManus, William Murphy, Margaret O’Handley, Hamad Sagheer, Patricia VanKampen, Alexis Merritt, William Derouin, Kathryn Evans, Jerimiah Ford, Sarah Millea, Benjamin Bauer, Jaina Ghandi, Jarrett Hotaling, Olivia Morris, Benjamin Pierson, Grace Livermore, Amber Rumberger, and Meghan Vann. Grade 4 Honor Roll: Victoria Anania, Jenna Bloss, David Bonderoff, Samantha Borgstrom, Christen Dutkowsky, Erica Freund, Davin Gaviria, Natalie Grigoli, Laura Harmon, Robert Katz, Cynthia Kent, Anna Kramer, Julia Levandowski, Noble Mattson, Shyah Miller, Joshua Olmstead, Molly Pearlman, Samantha Race, William Reis, Anna Sams, Emily Senif, Jessica Shelton and Caitlin Soraci.

December 12, 2003