LETTER from RICK HULSE Sr. HULSE: Village Trustees Urged – Listen To the Editor: “Because they can” Cooperstown is someplace, not anyplace. As residents read in last week’s editorial about running for a seat on the Village Board, the reasons to do so are clear. Incumbents running unopposed has contributed to board decisions with little concern for their consequences. Recent examples of this are placing red flashing stop signs in residential neighborhoods, proposed zoning changes for village houses, and, in…
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Too Many Home Alone, She Opens Senior Center By JAMES CUMMINGS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Too many elderly folks here were staying home too much, Carol LaChance concluded. “When they go home, they’re just kind of there,” said LaChance, director of the village’s new Senior Center. “There are seniors who are isolated and lonely.” In late summer, that began changing, as LaChance, an active member of St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Catholic parish, got permission to…
BOUND VOLUMES Nov. 28, 2019 200 YEARS AGO From the Boston Recorder – Mr. Willis – Although my circumstances do not allow me to do much in the way of spreading the glorious Gospel, yet, taking the hint from the plan for doing good by having a “Missionary Field” on one’s farm, I reserved a spot, nine feet square in the corner of my garden, which is all the land I cultivate, and on the afternoon of election day, planted…
$5K Raised For Zoe As Biopsy Results Await By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – At first glance, you wouldn’t know Zoe was a miracle. “When I went to visit; she was jumping and playing like any normal dog,” said Stacie Haynes, Susquehanna SPCA executive director. “If you didn’t look at her leg, you wouldn’t think she was any different.” Just two weeks ago, the 9-year-old German shepherd was found chained outside of 605 County Highway 22, just…
Unilaterally, SSPCA Planning Fees By JIM KEVLIN • Special To AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Richard Sternberg, saying he was acting on behalf of the Susquehanna SPCA, told what appeared to be a partly surprised county Board of Representatives this evening that the Shelter will begin unilaterally levying fees Jan. 1 on county entities and towns that require its services. “We will be initiating a billing system,” said Sternberg, the retired Bassett surgeon and Cooperstown village trustee, who said he was acting…
DETAILS IN THIS WEEK’S JOURNAL Zoning Code OK’d To Divide Houses Into Apartments Dean Votes Nay In Split Vote By JAMES CUMMINGS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – After a 90-minute public hearing this evening, the Village Board voted, with one nay vote, to approve a zoning code that would create more housing by easing the conversion of single-family homes into apartments. The sole nay vote was Trustee Jim Dean, wh0 said, “I don’t know the answer” to creating more…
VOTE POSSIBLE LATER TONIGHT Villagers Debate Zoning, Dunkin’ Lot Moratorium FULL DETAILS IN THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL, ON NEWSSTANDS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON …
Last Month, Dorm Provision Removed Public Hearing Tonight On Village Zoning Code COOPERSTOWN – A second public hearing on the village’s proposed revised zoning code is at 7 this evening in Village Hall, 22 Main St., during the trustees’ monthly meeting. A vote could take place after the hearing. The first hearing was Oct. 25, when, due to community input, a provision was removed that would allow homes to be converted into dormitories. If there is no vote this evening, it…
SANTA ARRIVES AT 5 P.M. FRIDAY Cooperstown Is Beginning To Look Lot Like Christmas Barbara Cannon, chairwoman of the 4Cs, the Cooperstown Community Christmas Committee, helps volunteers Roxanne Murray (left) and Cathy Raddatz (right) to trim pine branches for Santa’s Workshop in Pioneer Park Sunday afternoon during the annual downtown decorations event. “I’d like to think we bring the magic to Cooperstown,” said Cannon. “A lot of families have been doing this for generations–the community comes together.” The event includes…
ALL INCUMBENTS RUNNING AGAIN MacGuire Benton Seeks Full Village Board Term COOPERSTOWN – Trustee MacGuire Benton has announced he plans to seek a full term on the Village Board to make sure Cooperstown “continues to be a vibrant and quaint community for all.” That means all three Village Board incumbents, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch and Trustee Joe Membrino, plan to seek reelection in March 2020.…
