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New Parking-Permit Law For Contractors Considered COOPERSTOWN – The village trustees are going back at a parking-permit law for contractors working within areas of Cooperstown where on-street paid parking is in force, a move that stirred controversy at a public hearing last month. Revised in light of contractors’ objections, the new version – it was discussed at this evening’s April village board meeting – would charge contractors $25 a year for each vehicle, trailers or piece of equipment, and they…
Red Sox’s Shestakofsky Succeeds Horn At HoF COOPERSTOWN – Jon Shestakofsky, Boston Red Sox manager of media relations & baseball information, has been named vice president/communications & education at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Beginning today, he succeeds Brad Horn, who is entering a fellowship program this summer at the University of Florida. A 2005 graduate of Wesleyan University and a native of Belmont, Mass., Shestakofsky joined the Red Sox in 2007. Most recently, he was liaison with media, players and…
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Online Poll Results These are the results for the question we asked, “Which minimum wage policy do you support?”…
‘No Major’ Trouble Reported At OH-Fest Brenner Puts Event ‘On Successful Side’ By LIBBY CUDMORE • for www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – With almost 4,000 people at the Kid Ink concert that closed out OH-Fest, police reported “no major arrests” and only a handful of misdemeanor tickets issued. “We can chalk this one up to the successful side,” said Lt. Douglas Brenner. Three high school students were arrested for public fighting after the concert let out at 9:30 p.m., he said, and…
‘Men of Morris’ Surprise Pioneer Park Passersby The Bouwerie Boys of New York City engage in mock battle a few minutes ago in Cooperstown’s Pioneer Park, part of an annual tour of Welsh dancers organized by the Binghamton troupe, The Men of Morris. At right, Madelin Bolton, 3, of Boston, visiting the Baseball Hall of Fame with her parents, tentative puts a $1 bill in a hat passed by Axel Naar, thus gaining herself a year’s good luck. The dancers,…
4th Annual Cider Run Aids Athelas Therapeutic Riding…
‘Partners In Preservation’ Attracts 22 History Groups “Partners in Preservation,” the second annual history fair organized by OCHA, the Otsego County Historical Association, attracted 22 historical societies that set up booths in the Springfield Community Center. New this year were Otego, Gilbertsville and Roseboom. In top photo, Caren Kelsey, president of the Hartwick society, holds up a memento of the old depot in Hartwick hamlet that is being sold this year as a fundraiser; upcoming projects include raising money to…
4 Store Windows Broken Overnight 25-Year-Old From Buffalo Charged ONEONTA – A 25-year-old from Buffalo was arrested overnight and charged with breaking a plate glass window at Tino’s Pizza and two other downtown businesses. Leonard P. Funderbunk was charged with three counts of criminal mischief, a class E felony. Officers responded to a 2:55 a.m. call from concerned citizen reporting a disturbance and arrived to find a man holding down the suspect. Windows were also broken at Tina Marie’s…