The village trustee meeting on Monday, July 22 begins. I read my request and the questions start. I had the representative from the banner company come to town to answer any questions the trustees had. I used the words “Hometown Heroes,” so they wanted to know why just veterans. My reply was that I was only working with veterans—that anyone else who wanted to take on others could.…
Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh was the lone vote in favor of amending the law. Read a full account of the meeting in this week's "Freeman's Journal" and "Hometown Oneonta," which hit newsstands on Wednesday afternoon.…
A pillar of Cooperstown’s economy is tourism. People come to visit our museums and experience what life was like in a less complicated past. Simply put, Cooperstown sells nostalgia.…