IT’S UNANIMOUS Village Board OKs Mask Mandate For Anyone Walking Main Street The Cooperstown Village Board this evening unanimously approved a local law requiring everyone to wear a mask on Main Street sidewalks between Fair Street and Pine Boulevard, and on Pioneer Street from Lake to Church streets. Only 21 seats were permitted in the Village Hall’s second-floor ballroom, but they were mostly filled, primarily with citizens supportive of the law. In top photo, Marge Landers, Glen Avenue, commends the…
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PUBLIC HEARING SET ON MASKING One Business Already Cited For Failing To Require Masks By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – At the Village Board’s first in-person meeting since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Monday revealed that an unnamed Main Street business has already been issued a citation for failing to comply with the state’s mask requirements. “Our police have been walking Main Street, and so far, only one business has not been compliant…
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Cooperstown Village Board Planning To Go Live Again COOPERSTOWN – For the first time in months, the Village Board will convene in person at 6:30 p.m. Monday in the ballroom at Village Hall, with limited public attendance allowed subject to 6 feet of social distancing. A staff member will be outside the Fair Street entrance to advise members of the public when capacity is reached. The Main Street entrance will not be open. Masks will be required to be worn…
Trolley Service Suspended Until July 1 Paid Parking, Parks Remain in $3.8M Budget COOPERSTOWN – Though the Cooperstown Village Board had considered a late start or suspending it entirely, they voted that paid parking will go into effect on Memorial Day weekend as part of the $3.8 million budget approved during their monthly meeting. Trustee Cindy Falk estimated that revenues will only be $100,000 for the year, down from $463,000 last year. “It’s a huge punch in the gut,” said…
Cooperstown Corner Once Commercial, Now Residential Corner Of Walnut Now Safe From Developers COOPERSTOWN – The corner parcel at Walnut and Chestnut, which raised concerns after a Dunkin Donuts was proposed there last fall, has been changed from commercial to residential zoning with a unanimous vote by the Cooperstown Village Board. “This property is a bit of an anomaly,” said Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh. “There are two residential properties on Linden Avenue who didn’t know their back yards were zoned commercial.”…
Village May Put Off Paid Parking Until July By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Paid parking could be suspended into the middle of the summer, according to Village Trustee Cindy Falk, who proposed the idea during a budget hearing streamed live over YouTube this evening. “Our paid parking is closely aligned with visitors, and it’s a situation that’s impossible to predict,” she said. “I wonder if at this point, we should consider putting off paid parking until…
LETTER from JOE MEMBRINO More Needs Doing, Help Me Contribute To the Editor: On Wednesday, March 18, Cooperstown voters will elect our mayor and two trustees. Last year, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh appointed me to a vacancy on the Village Board and assigned me to chair the Finance Committee. I am now running for a three-year term as trustee for the following reasons. First, I want to continue the successful management and conservation of our Village’s fiscal resources. Auditors recently met…
MacGuire Benton Energized By Politics By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Laurie Pestar’s dilemma forged MacGuire Benton’s commitment to politics. Through political action, “you can change people lives,” the Democratic trustee said in an interview. He is seeking his first full term on the Village Board in the March 18 elections. In November 2016, Benton and friend Bobby Walker – Mac then headed the county’s Young Democrats; Bobby, the Young Republicans – circulated a petition supporting Laurie…
Mary Margaret Robbins Sohns Inspired By Controversy, Love By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Cooperstown was Margaret Margaret Robbins Sohns’ second home before, living on Pioneer Street, it is now her first one. Raised in Delhi, her family had a boat docked locally. “We’d come and stay,” she remembers. The Robbinses were New York Yankee fans – Dave Winfield and Don Mattingly, in particular. “I went to the Hall of Fame whenever I could.” On the way…