EDITORIAL Fans, Cooperstown Spent $10-15 Million Preparing For You Welcome, Induction attendees! Will there really be more than a record-breaking 84,000 of us? Excitement. If you’re been here before, look around: You will see many changes and improvements to Cooperstown’s downtown that have occurred since the last record-setter, when Cal Ripken Jr. and Tony Gwynn set the record for attendance in 2008. If you came then, you might be astonished by what you see now. Then, all the sidewalks were…
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Unadilla Woman Hit By Car, Hospitalized In Critical Condition UNADILLA – A 69-year-old Unadilla woman was critically injured Saturday when she was struck by a Jeep that drifted into the shoulder where she was walking, Trooper Aga Dembinska, Troop C public information officer, reported. Susan Haney was walking southbound on the east shoulder of County Route 4 when she was allegedly struck by a 2007 Jeep Patriot driven by Nicole L. Wilber, 34, Unadilla, who was driving north. According to…
EDITORIAL Knocked Off Ballot, Brothers/Candidates Still Love Oneonta Oneonta’s Roberts brothers have a point. Actually, they have a lot of points. Walking down Oneonta’s Main Street sidewalk after an interview the other day, it was either Nate or Eric who pointed at the sidewalk and said, “That’s what we mean.” He was pointing at a trail of dog droppings. Four days before, someone had vomited in front of a nearby establishment. The vomit was still there. And cigarette butts –…
COLUMN Prosperity, Offerings About Cooperstown Editor’s Note: Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch delivered these welcoming remarks when NYCOM, the New York Conference of Mayors, convened Sunday, May 6, at The Otesaga, for its three-day annual conference. I have had the opportunity over the past year to welcome several groups to Cooperstown – but I have to say this is one of the more intimidating as I am facing a room of peers – elected officials who have all had to provide…
HOMETOWN HISTORY May 10, 2019 150 Years Ago Oneonta – Chief Engineer Wentz and a Committee of Directors were here this week to locate a roundhouse and other needed railroad conveniences. The extension of railroad operations brings quite a number of new citizens and families to the place. The railroad makes the town. Let the town welcome its people. Cope & Company’s new goods have come, a real old-fashioned stock as to variety, but entirely new fashioned as to style.…
DOT SURPRISES DRIVERS At Routes 205, 11 PAY ATTENTION! Long-time 2 Stop-Sign Junction Is Now A FOUR-WAY STOP!!! HARTWICK – Caution: Slow down – AND STOP! – on Route 205 through Hartwick hamlet. That means YOU! For decades, at the intersection of Route 205 and County Route 11 only east-west Route 11 traffic had stop signs. As of today, with no fanfare, the state DOT installed stop signs for drivers on north-south Route 205. TO MAKE THIS CLEAR: As of…
PART TWO: DOUBLEDAY FIELD 3rd-Base Work Scaled Back To Preserve Historic Ambience By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Future brides, if you dreamed of taking your vows overlooking Doubleday Field and dancing in air-conditioned comfort until the sun comes up, set those dreams aside. A picnic might be more like it, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch suggested this evening at a public hearing on $5.8 million in improvements to Doubleday scheduled to begin this spring. Plans for a…
TOMAINOS CONSIDER SHOPS TO SERVE WESTCOTT PLAZA Mysterious Project Linked To Artspace By LIBBY CUDMORE • HOMETOWN ONEONTA & The Freeman’s Journal ONEONTA – The mystery is clearing: A privately developed – and thus taxable – Artspace may rise above the Westcott Parking Lot, and Anna and Jim Tomaino’s “transformative” project may open perhaps related shops along the side of the building next door. Mayor Gary Herzig was interviewed from Australia, where he is vacationing, to provide details that had…
Trustee Dewey Outlines Credentials, Asks For Vote To the Editor: Twenty-four years ago, my husband and I were deciding where to settle to pursue our careers and raise a family, and in our search we found Cooperstown. This beautiful village, situated equidistant from my hometown of Rochester and John’s hometown of Worcester, Mass., felt like the perfect place to call home. We chose well – Cooperstown has indeed been a wonderful community to be a part of. Through the years,…
STATE OF CITY: ‘We’re Onta Something,’ Mayor Declares Editor’s Note: This is the text of Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig’s 2019 State of the City address, delivered Tuesday, March 5, at the Foothills Performing Arts Center. He also announced $2.3 million in grants through the city/state Downtown Revitalization Initiative. During the past year, some have questioned whether we have lost some of our momentum in revitalizing and reinventing the City of Oneonta. I want you to know that the answer to…
