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Cooperstown Village Board, IDA Plan Citizen-Based Vision For Community

Cooperstown Village Board, IDA Plan Citizen-Based Vision For Community Editor’s Note:  This article is republished from this week’s Freeman’s Journal, now on newsstands. By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – The future of Cooperstown may include offices, restaurants and hotels around Railroad Avenue, a green swath leading through what is now a parking lot to historic Doubleday Field, and a vibrant waterfront, part of seven redevelopment nodes being considered by the village’s Economic Sustainability Committee and the county Industrial Development…

Gelbsman To Replace Embattled Colleague

Gelbsman To Replace Embattled Colleague As County Board’s Liaison To IDA Board Editor’s Note: This article was edited for space in this week’s print editions. This is the complete version. By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com Given a colleague’s legal troubles, county Rep. Craig Gelbsman, R-Oneonta, is in line for appointment as liaison to the county IDA, the Industrial Development Agency that is spearheading redevelopment of Pony Farm Industrial Park. He would replace county Rep. Betty Anne Schwerd, R-Edmeston, who District…

Abner Doubleday Story Is True. And It’s Ours

Abner Doubleday Story Is True.  And It’s Ours The Freeman’s Journal/Hometown Oneonta, June 2014 During Stalin’s show trials – old-line Bolsheviks were brought to the dock in Moscow in 1937-38, accused of treason – a wide-eyed reporter for a Western news agency asked a hardened oldtimer, A.T. Cholerton of the London-based Daily Telegraph: Are the accusations true? As the story goes, Cholerton replied: Yes.  Everything is true, except the facts. Why does this bring the Abner Doubleday story to mind…

What Should We Do About ‘Doubleday Myth’?

What Should We Do About ‘Doubleday Myth’? COOPERSTOWN – Review three opinions on “The Doubleday Myth,” the story about baseball’s Cooperstown origins: • “The Man Who Didn’t Invest Baseball,” by Victor Salvatore, American Heritage, June-July 1983 • “The Creation Myths of Cooperstown,” by Stephen Jay Gould, Natural History, November 1989 • “Abner Doubleday Story True,  And It’s Ours,” Freeman’s Journal/Hometown Oneonta, June, 2014 What’s your opinion about the Abner Doubleday story?  E-mail info@allotsego.com  …

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