Katz Plaint In Times: ‘Everyone Makes More Money Off Cooperstown Than The Village’ When the New York Times interview Mayor Jeff Katz in conjunction with the Baseball Hall of Fame’s 75th anniversary, he repeated a now-familiar plaint: “Everyone makes more money off Cooperstown than the village of Cooperstown does.” READ FULL NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE…
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Democratic Primary Firms Up For Oneonta Town Board Seat ONEONTA – A contest is heating up for the Oneonta Town Board seat vacated when Republican Janet Hurley Quackenbush joined the county Board of Representatives Jan. 1. Democrat David Rowley, the retired school superintendent, submitted petitions to run on both the Democratic and Republican lines this fall. And Republican Patricia Riddell Kent, whom the town board appointed to fill Quackenbush’s seat, did the same. Both of Rowley’s petitions were challenged, however…
Crowd Gathers To Cheer Stars Of NBC’s ‘Today’ At The Otesaga VIEW TODAY SHOW FROM COOPERSTOWN COOPERSTOWN – About 100 fans gathered at 6 a.m. today and were ushered onto The Otesaga’s back lawn to participate in NBC’s “Today” Show, scheduled to begin at 7 on the veranda of the hotel, with Otsego Lake and the famous “Sleeping Lion” (Mount Wellington) as a backdrop. In all, 200 fans could be accommodated. “Today” show correspondents Natalie Morales and Jenna Bush Hager were…
CBS News Profiles ‘The Woman Behind Iconic Cooperstown’ COOPERSTOWN – “Fifty thousand people are expected to pour into Cooperstown this weekend to help celebrate the induction of six legendary names into the National Baseball Hall of Fame,” CBS This Morning reported today. “But as CBS News travel editor Peter Greenberg reports, the chairman of the Hall has a unique history of her own, and she doesn’t even work for the major leagues,” it continued. “‘I hope someday that some of…
Water-Main Work To Close Church Street, Oneonta, Thursday ONEONTA – Church Street will be closed to through traffic from Center Street to Walnut Street from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday while the city’s Department of Public Service completes a water main tie-in. Questions, call the City Engineering Department, 432-6465.…
Cooperstown To Close Streets Friday, Saturday COOPERSTOWN – The village Police Chief Mike Covert announced the following street closures during Hall of Fame Weekend: • Doubleday Field Parking Lot, 3 a.m. Friday through 9 p.m. Saturday. Any vehicles in the lot after 3 p.m. will be towed at owner’s expense. • Main Street between Chestnut and Fair, 9 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday and 7 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday. • Pioneer Street, from Lake to Church, 9 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday, ad 7 a.m.-11 p.m.…
2 Catholic Charities Offices Put Under Oneonta’s Administration ONEONTA – Offices in Oneonta, Delhi and Cobleskill have combined into a single agency called Catholic Charities of Delaware, Otsego, and Schoharie counties, based in Oneonta. The change took place July 1, but was announced by the diocese today. Lynn Glueckert, the Oneonta director, has been named executive director of the three-county effort. She said the merger will make the smaller Delaware and Schoharie operations stronger by allowing Oneonta to handle their…