Realtors: It’s Becoming More Common Visiting California Couple With Son At B-Ball Camp Buys A Retirement Home By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – When P.J. Mellana spent a post-graduation week in Cooperstown with his dad in 1997, he never imagined that, one day, he would own property in the land that baseball built. “We love it here,” he said. “Last summer, my son PJ was on a traveling team, and he played at All-Star Village. We just…
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Son Returns, Succeeds Mother, MCS Mainstay That’s On School Board. Will, Susan Ward Also Plan Joint Venture On Brewery, Catering By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MILFORD – A Milford family dynasty is born, in both politics and business. In the political sphere, Susan Ward is retiring 18 years on the Milford Central school board, the past eight as the board’s president. Tuesday, May 21, her son Will, 22, won the seat in a five-way race three days after he…
HOMETOWN History May 31, 2019 150 Years Ago On Sunday afternoon last, Mark Hemstreet, a small boy, went into the barn of Harvey Baker with matches, and soon after the barn was discovered to be on fire. The flames spread with such rapidity among the hay and other combustible material as soon to place it beyond rescue and it was totally consumed with the corn house adjoining. A barn belonging to D. Rose, another to Abner A. Walling and a…
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…
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…
