LETTERS from CATHE ELLSWORTH A Bad Sign I Placed On Pioneer To the Editor: Having lived on Upper Pioneer Street for some 36 years, it was indeed distressing to read John Webb’s “Letter to the Editor” in last week’s paper. The very idea of placing a solar-powered speed sign in one of Cooperstown’s residential neighborhoods is beyond the pale. It is made even more reprehensible given the fact that not only was the sign a gift to the village by…
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COLUMN WHERE NATURE SMILES Year After Moving To Ohio, Reflections On Cooperstown By CATHE ELLSWORTH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com It was a year ago last week that we left our home of 36 years in Cooperstown to move to a new home in Mount Vernon, Ohio. We left behind the house which the he-we’s grandparents built for $5,000 in 1912. Though the years, four generations of the Ellsworth family lived at 105 Pioneer St. But now the family has indeed…
Cathe Ellsworth Suggestion: Here’s An Ohio Option To Grove-Glen 4-Way…
LETTER from CATHE ELLSWORTH Can Four-Way Stops Reform Bad Drivers? To the Editor According to the article “4-Way Stop Sign Eyed For Glen, Grove Corner,” found at allotsego.com, a proposal is being made by the Village Board to help eliminate accidents at that location by making it a four-way stop. The article points out that Glen and Grove has the second most accidents of all the intersections in the village. It is also noted in the article that the intersection…
from CATHE ELLSWORTH Trustees Should Help, Not Hinder Downtown Revival To the Editor: In last week’s newspaper, Cooperstown Village Trustee Richard Sternberg penned a column in which he went to great lengths to point out all the various village projects that need to be completed. Included on the list such things as the roads, not to mention other infrastructure needs, and the wastewater treatment plant as well as the Doubleday Field upgrade. When added to this list of needed undertakings,…