IN MEMORIAM: Frances Foster Smith, 95; Helped Parents Run Fly Creek General Store FLY CREEK – Frances Marion (Foster) Smith, a Fly Creek native, retired banker and real-estate agent, passed away Tuesday. She was 95 and resided at the Presbyterian Home in New Hartford. Born on March 31, 1919, in her parents’ Fly Creek home, Frances shared her childhood with her older sister, Ferne. They helped their parents, Glenn and Florence (Williams) Foster, in operating the Fly Creek General Store.…
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Eileen R. Littell, 87; Editor’s Daughter-In-Law COOPERSTOWN – Eileen Reeves Littell, 87, daughter-in-law of Walter R. Littell, editor of the Otsego Farmer and an officer in the company that published The Freeman’s Journal, died Oct. 7, 2014, at Memory Care Living in Montville, N.J., after a long illness. She was born on July 7, 1927, in Buffalo, the daughter of Eric and Dearborn (Smith) Reeves. She grew up in Cooperstown, graduated from Cooperstown High School in 1944 and married W.…
Planners Suggest ‘Green Apron’ From Main Street To Doubleday By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – Having learned Monday evening that local folks consider Doubleday Field a major “icon” and “destination,” Elan‘s planners this evening proposed a “green apron” leading from Main Street to the front door of baseball’s foremost shrine, dissecting the 130-car parking lot. Instead of dodging cars pulling in and out of parking spaces, fans and tourists could stroll up to the “Home of Baseball” – as Doubleday…
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Copter Circles Cooperstown As K9s Acclimate To Flying COOPERSTOWN – Choppers have been circling Cooperstown all morning. Actually, it’s one chopper, landing and taking off and landing the taking off, getting K9s from the State Police Canine Unit on Chicken Farm Hill Road to overcome any fear of flying. Sgt. Jason Brewer, who has been with the unit for 13 years, explained that the K9s respond to situations around the state, and the training gets them used to the noise…
90 People Envision Future At Cooperstown ‘Charrette’ By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – Close to 90 people spent two hours at this evening’s “Design Charrette,” detailing and discussing the pros, cons, dreams and fears of “America’s Most Perfect Village,” as a community visioning effort got underway. “A lot of community happened around this room,” declared Lisa Nagle, a principal in Elan Planning, Saratoga Springs, when the session in the CCS cafeteria was over. The goal is to develop an updated…
Funding Renewed For CORE Training Program MILFORD – State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, this morning announced $273,000 in state grants, including $38,000 to support Milford Central School’s Career Opportunities in Rural Education (CORE) Initiative. “Our schools are faced with growing financial demands while, at the same time, student needs are also on the rise,” said Seward. “Districts are often searching for new and innovative ways to help students prepare for the future, and I am pleased to help support these…
Public Invited To Tonight’s ‘Charrette’ To Help Chart Cooperstown’s Future COOPERSTOWN – The public is invited to a “Design Charrette” 6-8 p.m. this evening in the Cooperstown Middle/High School cafeteria, guided by Elan Planning of Saratoga Springs. The goal of the structured discussion under the guidance of Elan principal Lisa Nagle will be to develop a number of consensus goals for Cooperstown’s future. Nagle and her team will report back on the outcomes of tonight’s meeting at another meeting, 6-8…