Joe Membrino Impressed By Village ‘Stewardship’ By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In Washington D.C., getting appointed to a municipal board takes connections and a lot of lobbying. So when Joe Membrino, who is running for a three-year term on the Village Board March 18, and wife Martha retired to Cooperstown in 2013 and he considered ways of getting involved in the community, public office didn’t come to mind. That is, until his sister, Milford Town Board…
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LWV EVENT IS 7-9 p.m. MARCH 5 At ‘1-Year-Old,’ Candidate Unsure She’ll Make Debate By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Tuesday, March 3 is “my first birthday,” Republican Village Board candidate Mary Margaret Robbins Sohns explained, when asked why she couldn’t yet commit to the League of Women Voters’ debate 7-9 p.m. Thursday, March 5 at 22 Main. “I lost my heart last year,” said the heart-transplant survivor, “and got a new one. So I will be…
Some Say Nay, But Bassett Parking OK’d Matt Borowski, 40 Walnut St., top photo, said, “I wasn’t particularly crazy about it at the bottom of my street, but I think Bassett has a comprehensive plan, and this is better than what is there now.” However, Andrew Armstrong, 34 Susquehanna Ave., at right, argued otherwise: “It would be great shame if a car, rushing to the parking lot, hit a kid. We’d have to tell him, ‘Public safety came second. Bassett…
TRUSTEES PLAN FEB. 24 VOTE Public Hearing Positive On Bassett 143-Car Lot James Connors, principal engineer at The Chazen Company, explains changes to the proposed Riverside Drive parking lot, including a three-way stop, expanded crosswalks and sidewalks, and a reduction in parking spaces from the original 170 to 143, eliminating the spots to ensure stability of the slope, during a public hearing at the Cooperstown Village Board this evening. The project, which will be gated employee parking, was met with generally…
Mary Margaret Robbins Breaks Democrat Lock She’s First Republican To Run For Village Board In A Decade By JIM KEVLIN • Special To www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Mary Margaret Robbins Sohns, whose years-long battle against Lyme Disease, culminating in a heart transplant last summer, inspired the community, was nominated this morning by village Republicans to run for the Village Board in the March 18 elections. The party’s sole nominee for the three open vacancies represents the first time in almost a…
Splitting Homes Into Apartments Upsets Village By JAMES CUMMINGS • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Nothing less than Cooperstown’s future evoked lively debate when, for a second time, the Village Board presented its proposed zoning law to the public. At debate’s end, the document was approved, 6-1, with Trustee Jim Dean the sole nay. Voting aye were Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, Deputy Mayor Cindy Falk, and Trustees MacGuire Benton, Jeanne Dewey, Joe Membrino and Richard Sternberg. The focus was a…
DORMITORY PROVISION REMOVED Facing Pushback, Trustees Adjust New Zoning Code…
Signal Installed After April Fatality Fair Street Neighbors Oppose Blinking Light FOR FULL REPORT, SEE THIS WEEK’S EDITION OF THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL…
12 Unit ‘The Grove’ Rattles Cooperstown Neighbors By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The 12-unit The Grove apartment complex – unprecedented in Cooperstown – just surfaced, but neighbors packed the Village Board’s monthly meeting Monday, June 24, to denounce it. “We are shocked and deeply disappointed that the village would consider a 12-unit apartment complex within a block of primarily single-family homes,” said Sherrie Kingsley, co-owner of The Inn at Cooperstown with husband Marc. “Is there really…
EDMONDS BRIEFS TRUSTEES ON ‘THE GROVE’ 12 Net-Zero Apartments Planned On Chestnut St. DETAILS IN FREEMAN’S & HOMETOWN, ON NEWSSTANDS THIS AFTERNOON…