Quarantine Lifted, Removing Obstacle To Tourist Season By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – One of the hurdles to ensuring a successful season for Dreams Park and All Star Village this season is being lifted, Governor Cuomo announced yesterday. Starting April 1, a three-day quarantine for domestic travel to New York State will no longer be required. (Mandatory quarantine will remain for international travelers.) Dreams Park is seeking state Health Department approval to open the season June 1,…
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Dreams Park Seeks OK For 2021 Opening With Tests, Reduced Capacity, NY State Asked For Go-Ahead Cooperstown Dreams Park will be submitting plans to the state Department of Health to allow it to field a 2021 youth-baseball season at its Hartwick Seminary campus this summer, it announced today. The plan asks the DOH to take “into consideration camp testing and reduced capacity,” according to the statement from Attorney Garo Gozigian, the company’s local lawyer. Dreams Park said it is awaiting…
Forces Combined, And All Star Village Had To Face Reality Crowd Regulations, Jobless Benefits, Caused Patton To Cancel 2020 Season WEST ONEONTA – From the beginning, Marty Patton, Cooperstown All Star Village proprietor, had concerns about being able to operate safely as the coronavirus swept the nation. “What if a coach comes in from out of the area, and the kids get infected?” he reflected the day after deciding it will be impossible to open his youth-baseball tournament venue on…
All-Star Village Cancels Season ONEONTA – Citing Governor Cuomo’s restrictions on overnight camps and other social-distancing measures, Cooperstown All-Star Village has announced that the remainder of the 2020 season has cancelled. “We feel it will not have the same wonderful feeling, filled with memories that will last a lifetime,” Patton wrote in a statement on the camp’s website. “It’s important for us to deliver a safe and memorable experience for all in attendance. After considering all the possible alternatives we…
4th Week Cancelled At All Star Village WEST ONEONTA – Marty Patton, Cooperstown All Star Village proprietor, has announced the fourth week of the season has been cancelled. In accordance to his plan to cancel the youth baseball season week-by-week a month in advance of the scheduled tournaments, Patton advised families and coaches scheduled to be here June 27-July 3 that there will be no play that week.…
Editorial For Good Of All, Hope Marty Patton Right It may turn out Marty Patton made the right call, delaying opening of his Cooperstown All Star Village, the youth baseball tournament camp in West Oneonta, in hopes of salvaging at least some of the 2020 season. Things are happening so quickly. With this week’s Glimmerglass Fest cancellation, pretty much all of the major summer activities have been cancelled or delayed – mostly notably, of course, Derek Jeter’s July 26 Induction…
All Star Village Holds On By JIM KEVLIN • Special To AllOTSEGO.com WEST ONEONTA – Cooperstown Dreams Park in Hartwick Seminary. Strike out. Derek Jeter’s prospective Hall of Fame Induction July 26 in Cooperstown. Strike out. Even the Baseball Hall of Fame is waiting in the dugout for now. For now, that leaves one Otsego County baseball institution in the game this summer: Cooperstown All Star Village on Route 205 here. “We want to play baseball,” is how Marty Patton,…
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…ALL-STAR HOPES Under ‘Patton Plan,’ All-Star Village Hopes To Declare ‘Play Ball’ To our Cooperstown All Star family of players, coaches, umpires, guests and employees The health and safety of Cooperstown All Star Village players, coaches, umpires, guests and employees is our highest priority. As we continue to actively monitor developments related to coronavirus (COVID-19) we want to assure you that Cooperstown All Star Village is taking all necessary health and safety precautions in accordance with the CDC (Centers for…
On WAMC’s ‘Morning Headlines’, Editor Says Baseball Families Buying Local Homes On this week’s “Morning Headlines” on WAMC/Northeast Public Radio, Jim Kevlin, editor/ publisher of www.AllOTSEGO.com (and Hometown Oneonta & the Freeman’s Journal), reports Dreams Park and Cooperstown All-Star Village families are falling in love with Otsego County and buying homes they plan to rent, pay off and move here on their retirements. The Mellanas of La Habra, Calif, are a case in point. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO WAMC REPORT…