Event Meets Expectation: Those Sweaters Are UGLY! Just before the 10 a.m. start at the the flagpole, Cooperstown Chamber Executive Director Tara Burke, right, top photo (green sweater), instructs this morning’s participants in the sixth annual Ugly Sweater Run/Walk through the historic downtown, ending up in Lakefront Park. Center foreground is Frankie Panzarella, one of the younger participants. Inset right, Emily Whipple, right, of Davenport, joined two friends from Roxbury, Kendall Darling, center, and Melissa Peters; the three drove up…
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ROB ROBINSON • 1952-2019 Thrice Struck Down By Misfortune, He Rose To Inspire Others Everyone’s a hero in a rising market. It’s when inevitable hard times hit that people show their mettle. That certainly was the case with Rob Robinson, a central figure in the Otsego County business community for 16 years as Chamber of Commerce president. Abruptly, that came to an end in November 2011 with his arrest – handcuffed, as if he posed a threat to anyone –…
Sun Smiles On Cooptoberfest, And Crowds Throng To Coop Channeling Spiderman, Cooper Ruffles, son of incoming county treasurer Allen Ruffles, clambers up the inflatable obstacle course this afternoon at Cooptoberfest, the street fair and fall celebration convened in Cooperstown for the fourth Columbus Day weekend in a row. A right, the band Hanzolo, (from left, Jack Loewenguth, Carl Loewenguth, Joey Katz, James Matson and Nate Olmstead; Nick Summers is back there somewhere), which is becoming something of a local phenomenon, performed…
4 COOPERSTOWN ISSUES UPCOMING Chamber Exec To Members: Make Sure Your Voices Heard COOPERSTOWN – At the request of the village trustees, Cooperstown Chamber Executive Director Matt Hazzard is alerting his membership to attend upcoming meetings to express their views on four issues: paid parking changes, snow emergencies, trolley stops and flood-damage prevention. Two public hearings on related laws are planned, at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 23, and 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6, and “the public is strongly encouraged to attend…
3 Final Bumps In Road, But County Budget OK’d COOPERSTOWN – Otsego County’s 2017 budget was approved today, but not before three final wrinkles were ironed out: County Rep. Kay Stuligross, D-Oneonta, objected to a $700 allocation to help the Otsego County Historical Society erect one historic marker next year. Lacking a policy on such requests, the veteran representative said, she was unable to approve the money. However, a vote of the full board overruled her. On the motion of…
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Hazzard’s Can-Do Attitude Wins U of R Hospital Honors COOPERSTOWN – Matt Hazzard’s can-do attitude while fighting cancer has resulted in his selection as one of 29 “Wilmot Warrior Walk” honorees to be recognized Sunday, Sept. 11, at the Highland Park Bowl in Rochester. Being suddenly and unexpectedly diagnosed with a severe type of lymphoma meant Hazzard, now 34 and executive director of the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce, didn’t have time to plan, said Ruth Harper-Rhode, University of Rochester Medical…
‘Into The Streets’ Students Prepare Chamber For 100th COOPERSTOWN – SUNY Oneonta’s “Into the Streets” program was in evidence all around Cooperstown (as well as Oneonta) today, particularly at the Chamber of Commerce on Chestnut Street, where students were ripping up the rugs and clearing out the first floor in anticipation of 100th anniversary renovations. From front to back are Andrew Jensen, Sandy Hook, Conn.; Amanda Barcia, Somers; Connor Day, Bellmore, L.I., and Shane Irwin, Westbury, L.I. The students are members…
Henrici Elected President Of Cooperstown Chamber 100 At Annual Meeting At Otesaga This Evening…
Chamber Polls Its Members On Paid-Parking Expansion COOPERSTOWN The Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce has alerted members the Village Board is holding a public hearing at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan 25, on expanding paid parking five weeks from the Labor Day Weekend to Columbus Day Weekend. And the chamber is again surveying members on how they feel about expanding paid parking, and to e-mail the survey to hanna@cooperstownchamber.org “This is an opportunity as a business owner and/or resident of the Village…