EDITORIAL Will Improvements To Main Street Ever End? No, Shouldn’t Begun inauspiciously in March 2014 with the felling of 37 trees on Main Street, a remarkable series of successes has followed in the reinvention of downtown Cooperstown for 21st century tourism. The environmentally sensitive rain gardens, new sidewalks, streetlights, replacement of 19th century water mains and sewerage – even a new flag pole, embroiled in controversy as it now is – have followed in quick succession. • But it’s not…
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County Considers Fee For Cast Off E-Waste Editor’s Note: For free disposal of e-waste while you can, the county’s Hazardous Household Wast Disposal Day is 8-11 a.m. Friday at the Unadilla Town Garage, and 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday at the county Meadows Complex off Route 33, Town of Middlefield. By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – It used to be free. But by this November, Otsego County will begin charging residents to recycle electronics – e-waste – because…
LETTER from TOPHER HAMMOND Stop Dunkin’/Baskin Incursion Into Town To the Editor: Cooperstown residents should stand up against the Baskin Robbins/Dunkin Donuts franchise proposed for the corner of Walnut Street and Route 28. Our town has consistently resisted the invasion of huge corporate franchises for decades, and we should oppose this incursion into our small village as well. So far, we have kept McDonald’s and Pizza Hut at bay, by keeping them several miles outside of town. Anyone who drives…
LETTER from JEANNINE WEBSTER Beleaguered CV Talent Scout Dedicated To Clients, Family To the Editor: I am writing on behalf of Victoria Pressly, who has been a friend of mine for the past 10 years. If I had to think of one word to describe Victoria, it would be “passionate.” She is passionate about life. She is passionate about her family. She is passionate about her clients and career. Victoria’s career has required a significant amount of travel, and yet…
COLUMN IN TIME OF TRUMP, DiPERNA ASKED: ‘How Did American Stray So Far From Its Ideals?’ Editor’s Note: Paula DiPerna, the author and global strategic environmental policy adviser who ran for Congress in 1992 for the 23rd District, which then included Otsego County, has a home in Cooperstown. This is an excerpt from her latest book, “Travels in the Time of Trump.” DiPerna will be giving a book talk at 2 p.m. this Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Green Toad…
$10K For Doubleday Baltimore Buddies Remember Friend Through Donation To Baseball Shrine By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Two weeks before his baseball buddy Richard Faust died, Steve Murfin and his pal were at the annual Baltimore Orioles “Dream Week” in Florida. “I was talking to my mother on the phone, and I handed the phone to him,” said Murfin. “He told her jokes and made her laugh for 10 minutes, and when she handed the phone…
LOVEABLE LAB PROFIT CENTER FOR MUSKRAT HILL GIFT SHOP Love Of Henry Creates T-Shirts, Stickers, More By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Most downtown stores were having a pretty soft Induction Weekend 2019, including Muskrat Hill, proprietor Neil Weiller reported the other day. Henry to the rescue! The first three boxes of new Henry T-shirts, based on Weiller’s loveable Golden retriever/shop mascot, arrived in the nick of time. “I sold four pieces as I was taking them…
THINGS TO DO Girls Of Summer, Harvest Festival, Garlic & Pottery By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Meet three of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players who inspired “A League of Their Own” at a Q&A at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, followed by the film at 7 p.m. Check baseballhall.org for The Hall of Fame’s annual film festival showings that continues through the weekend. Tickets free, reservations required. Bullpen Theater, Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown. Info (607)…
HOMETOWN History Sept. 20, 2019 100 Years Ago An Assemblage of “Fat Men” – A convention of fat men has recently been held in Norwalk, Connecticut at Gregory’s Point Hotel. One hundred and forty of the fattest men of New England and the adjoining states assembled. The names and weights of the various individuals are recorded. The weights ranged from two hundred to three hundred and fifty-eight pounds. The 358-pounder was John A.P. Fisk of New York who was elected…
Column FRONT PORCH PERSPECTIVE The ORIGINATING Sin By JIM ATWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com I’ve been driven out of the house to the peaceful shade of the front porch by television news. The programs are crammed with vitriolic volleys between this faction and that, one candidate and another. Pushing the mute button wouldn’t quell the stridence. It would still be there in the images – puffed up pols and preachers and pundits, each mouthing their one and only truth. There’s…
