10 CHESTNUT NEIGHBORS OBJECTED Developer Withdraws Application For ‘Grove,’ 12-Apartment Project By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The developer of “The Grove,” Josh Edmonds, said today he has withdrawn his application for the 12-unit apartment house at 10 Chestnut St. “It didn’t seem productive to keep the application in progress at this moment,” said Edmonds, a partner in Simple Integrity, the contracting and construction company. The project, located between Chestnut Street and Pine Boulevard, a half-block up…
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RECEPTION UNDERWAY THIS EVENING Gaviria’s ‘Rooster Study’ Opens At March Gallery…
FINE FOOD, FUN FOOD Plenty Of Food – Who’s That At The Next Table? At Morey’s Family Restaurant, your booth neighbor might be a man dressed in a brocade jacket, pajamas and bedroom slippers, smoking a pipe and sitting in a high-back chair next to a roaring fire, a dog sitting at his feet. A girl with long blond curls in a long frilly nightgown stands next to him. The room he is in looks like a parlor room in…
LIBBY’S BEST BETS • THINGS TO DO Get Ya Baseball Here! Induction Weekend Here By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com It’s the biggest weekend of the year, as the Boys of Summer return to Cooperstown for their Induction – the 80th – into the Hall of Fame at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, July 21, in the field next to the Clark Sports Center. The induction is free; bring a lawn chair or blanket for comfortable viewing. Info www.baseballhall.org • In the…
SUMMER DREAMS From 15, Wax Museum Has Expanded Roster To 50 Heroes Of Game By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – There’s only one place in the world where you can hang out with Ty Cobb, Derek Jeter, Shoeless Joe, Abbott and Costello and Marilyn Monroe. The Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum, 99 Main St. “We are the only baseball-themed wax museum in the world,” owner Perry Ferrara declares. The museum opened in 1994, the brainchild of Ferrara’s…
Friends Of Doubleday Present Doubleday Has A Friend MANY Friends Aim To Raise $800,000 To Complete Redo By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Where some people saw scraps, Jeff Katz and Quinton Hasak saw a fundraising opportunity. “When the demolition of the third-base bleachers started, the question arose about what we were going to do with them,” said former mayor Jeff Katz, now president of the Friends of Doubleday. “They’re not the original bleachers, but they’re still…
MAIN STREET LANDMARK Vacant 2 Years, CVS Up For Sale By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The most prominent available property in Cooperstown’s downtown – the former CVS pharmacy at 100 Main St., vacant for two years now – went on the market for $1.4 million in the past few days. “I’ve already shown it,” said Nancy Angerer, who has the listing with Lamb Realty. Back-up material prepared for potential buyers reports the building contains almost 1,000…
COLUMN FRONT PORCH PERSPECTIVE To Sell, First, Sell Yourself By JIM ATWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Many years ago, when Earth was still cooling, I was a young professor teaching rhetoric. That study had been greatly advanced by Aristotle. He was not long dead then, so the topic was still fresh. Aristotle said that rhetoric is “the art of effective, persuasive speech.” The crassest form is used by the used-car salesman who scuttles across the lot with wide…
Tim Mead New HoF President HAIL TO THE CHIEF! By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Tim Mead is anything if not approachable. Walking by that display board of standings in front of the Hall of Fame the other day, Glendaly Garcia of Hartford, Conn., called out to the new president of Baseball’s Mecca: “Can you take our photo?” Unhesitatingly, he did, then posed with the family, now thrilled at meeting the man who holds one of the…
AT FENIMORE MUSEUM: Rock, Roll Summer Peaks At Gala, Panel By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Even before the Herb Ritts exhibit arrived from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame to The Fenimore Museum, the institutions shared a commonality. “Ahmet Ertegun, who co-founded the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, was Gene Thaw’s roommate in college,” said Greg Harris, president. The Herb Ritts photography exhibit, on loan from the Rock & Roll Hall through Labor Day,…
