EDITORIAL The Downtown That Was, And The Downtown That Might Be In The Future First and foremost, welcome back! The half-million or so visitors who will be coming to Greater Cooperstown over the next 13 weeks – for Dreams Park and Cooperstown All-Star Village, for the Baseball Hall of Fame, for The Fenimore Art Museum, The Farmers’ Museum and Hyde Hall, for Glimmerglass Opera, for fishing and boating and summering on Otsego Lake, for hiking and canoeing. While our visitors…
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Simple Integrity Plans Net-Zero Apartments 2 Stories, 12 Units On Chestnut Street By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www. AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – For Josh Edmonds, the lot at 10 Chestnut St. represents a chance to solve two problems in the village – adding housing and reducing energy consumption. “The village needs long-term rentals,” he said. “And I see a need for more energy-efficient construction.” Edmonds, a passive-house consultant through, Simple Integrity, his contracting company, has proposed a two-story, 12-unit building on…
BOUND VOLUMES May 30, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Land for Sale – The subscribers offer for sale Two Hundred acres of Land it being part of the Farm formerly owned by Jacob Ten Broeck, late of the Town of Edmeston, deceased, and is the southeast part of said Farm – through which passes the Cayuga Turnpike Road. The whole is well watered – about sixty or seventy acres only are improved with a small orchard on the same. They will…
FINE FOOD • FUN FOOD Try Treats From Clam Strips To Steaks With Blue Cheese Editor’s Note: SUMMER DREAMS writers are reporting weekly on some of their favorite dishes in local restaurants. Remember clam strips from Howard Johnson’s heyday? You don’t find them many places these days, particularly of a quality that bring back long-ago memories, but you’d run across such an offering at The Farmhouse Restaurant in Emmons, just off Interstate 88’s Exit 14. They’re clam strips are sweet,…
from CARL SEELEY Nothing Is Perfect, But Green Movement Is Looking For Answers To the Editor: I don’t always catch Mike Zagata’s column, but every time I do, he’s revisiting the same two themes—one right, one wrong. Theme One is that even “green” technologies have negative environmental impacts. This is true, and it’s important to understand and keep in mind. When we get electricity from photovoltaics rather than coal or gas, we reduce our CO2 emissions, but we increase other…
Funding Denied, But RSS Says It Will Press Ahead On Riverside Apartments Altamont Developer Will Reapply, Despite Neighborhood Opposition By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – RSS didn’t get the state funding for its controversial Riverside Apartments, but that doesn’t mean it’s giving up. The state Office of Homes & Community Renewal didn’t approve the 64-unit complex for low-income housing, but Altamont-based Rehabilitation Support Services still plans to move forward, said Ed Butz, RSS managing director. “There are…
NEW AT THE HALL OF FAME ‘Shoebox Treasures’ Tells You Everything About Baseball Cards By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to SUMMER DREAMS COOPERSTOWN – In looking through the Baseball Hall of Fame’s 200,000 baseball cards, curator John Odell happened upon his childhood favorite. “I had a 1968 card for Cookie Rojas, who played second base for the Phillies,” he said. “He wore glasses and his name was ‘Cookie’ – I thought that was the funniest thing in the world. All…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta May 30-31, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE For Calif. Baseball Family, Dream Come True Milford UM Awaits ‘Starkly Beautiful’ Church Net-Zero Apartments Planned For Cooperstown Unfunded, RSS Still Bullish On Riverside Project Son Succeeds Mom/Business Partner On MCS Board Village Adopts Noise Ordinance Just In Time SUNY-O’s College Foundation Praised Again EDITORIAL The Downtown That Was … And Might Be Again COLUMNS KUZMINSKI: Can Only Small Business Save Us?…
SUNY-O Foundation Among Best, Charity Navigator Says For 4th Time ONEONTA – The SUNY Oneonta Foundation has again received a four-star rating from Charity Navigator, making it only one of two foundations for educational/scholarship support in New York State with such a distinction, and the only one in Central New York. It is the College Foundation’s eighth consecutive four-star rating. Only four percent of charities evaluated in the U.S. received a four-star rating eight consecutive times.…
Saratoga Developer Looks At Griffiss If In Rome, Why Not Cooperstown? Editor’s Note: Last week, a BBJN.com article was excerpted here on a downtown developer building an apartment complex in Johnson City. This week, BBJN.com’s Eric Reinhardt reports on a Saratoga developer with a more ambitious project near Rome. ROME – A Saratoga Springs firm plans to develop a new, mixed-use apartment community with office and amenity-oriented space at Griffiss Business and Technology Park in Rome. Bonacio Construction Inc. will purchase 4.2…
