CCS students will rally to stop school gun violence Cooperstown Central School students will lead a protest and rally at the Cooperstown Junior/Senior High School on Wednesday, June 8, to raise money for and bring awareness to the issue of gun violence in schools. The public is invited; the event begins at the school on Linden Avenue in Cooperstown at 5 p.m.…
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CCS Superintendent is ‘Sunday Speaker’ at Library talk Friends of the Village Library in Cooperstown hosts Cooperstown Central School Superintendent Sarah Spross on Sunday, June 12, in the final Sunday Speaker program for this year’s series. Ms. Spross will answer pre-submitted questions from interested participants on a variety of topics and reflect on her first year as school superintendent. The program is free and open to the public, and begins at 3 p.m. in the Board Room on the lower…
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Food pantry gets money-management lift from CFOC As the Cooperstown Food Pantry marks 45 years of addressing food insecurity and poverty in the region, a new partnership with the Community Foundation of Otsego County will allow the organization to focus more on its core mission rather than investment management. CFOC Executive Director Jeff Katz said the new Cooperstown Food Pantry Fund “will allow CFOC to help the Pantry with financial oversight, and also create a new way to donate through…
This dog show is the ‘ultimutt’! The Susquehanna SPCA and the Rotary Club of Cooperstown have combined to hold the Ultimutt Dog Show, a family-fun event on Saturday, June 18, from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the SQSPCA, 5082 State Highway 28, Cooperstown, across the road from Kevin’s Royal Ford. Friendly, fun-loving dogs can be registered for one or two classes at a cost of $15 for one class or $25 for two. Each participant receives an Ultimutt Dog…
Harry Wilson talks crime, Matt Castelli talks security as candidates ramp up campaigns Two candidates, two different offices – neither complete newcomers to public service but each, in his own way, relative newcomers to political battlefields. The Freeman’s Journal / Hometown Oneonta spoke last week with Matt Castelli, a Democrat looking to unseat Republican Elise Stefanik in the 21st Congressional District, newly drawn to include the Village of Cooperstown and the northern half of Otsego County. The newspapers also spoke…
Editorial: Hall of Fame kudos All five out of a possible five stars to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and its expert staff for kick-starting Cooperstown’s first learning-how-to-deal-with-COVID summer with the return of its joyous “Hall of Fame Classic,” a holiday weekend gathering that brought some 4,000 fans to Doubleday Field last Saturday and brought the village to near-summer-strength life almost overnight. Visitors crowded Main Street until everyone seemingly decamped to Brewery Ommegang for the Avett Brothers and Lake…
Certified ‘passive house’ project in Cooperstown nears completion Chestnut Crossing reaches energy efficiency goals Josh Edmonds stood outside Chestnut Crossing – the 13-unit apartment building nearing completion at 10 Chestnut Street in Cooperstown – and described the construction process that will render the building a Certified Passive House, a concept manifesting renewable energy and environmentally-friendly designs that set standards for ‘green’ buildings everywhere. Mr. Edmonds’s company, Simple Integrity, is building the project. “I don’t know why every new construction isn’t…
“It’s Bobby’s park” as village dedicates Lakefront Park plaque The Village of Cooperstown marked Memorial Day as did villages, towns, and cities across the country – a parade up Main Street, a tribute to the fallen men and women who gave their lives in battle to protect freedom for all Americans. Some 200 village residents, area veterans, family, and friends gathered Monday afternoon, though, in a special, somber, and emotional ceremony dedicating a plaque in Cooperstown’s Lakefront Park to the…
Thoughts and prayers vs. hopes and dreams Commentary by Ted Potrikus I’m scared of guns. I’ve never held one and I don’t want to. With the dual murderous massacres in Buffalo and Uvalde still sickeningly fresh in what’s left of our nation’s conscience, I’m foursquare behind calls for more gun control. Governor Hochul and others are right, in my opinion, looking to prohibit the sale of automatic weapons to anyone under the age of 21. I’m nutty enough to go…
