Times Change, Village Cobbler Is Renamed LJ’s Sassy Boutique COOPERSTOWN – When Laura Jane and Wayne Alexander opened The Village Cobbler 15 years ago off Chestnut Street, it was a different downtown. At the time, Chamber of Commerce then-director Polly Renckens was promoting the concept of a “Victorian village,” the Alexanders recalled, complete with the Victorian stroll each Christmas season, where people would dress up in 19th century garb. In that context, the Americana tone of “Village Cobbler” made sense.…
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‘app’ In Hand, VIPs Take Inaugural Trolley e-Ride COOPERSTOWN – A press conference this morning on the Baseball Hall of Fame steps launched a new “app” that allows tourists to check how soon the Cooperstown Trolley will be showing up at any one stop. Mayor Jeff Katz, who was on the scene with trustees and county, City of Oneonta and Birnie Bus officials, gave credit to tech-savvy Village Trustee Jim Dean with proposing the app idea for the trolley system.…
Railroad Avenue May Host 22-Room Motel Public Hearing Set On Former Agway COOPERSTOWN – The Village Board this evening set a public hearing for its next meeting, Monday, June 27, on a 22-room motel planned at 28 Railroad Ave., the former Agway that, renovated, has been vacant since 2009. The project is being proposed by Perry Ferrara, owner of the Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum and a partner BTP Cooperstown, the partnership that proposed a four-story hotel on Main Street last…
IN MEMORIAM: Robert L. Joyce, 92 COOPERSTOWN – Robert L. Joyce, a man who had many interests and who was well-known as a prolific writer of letters to the editor, passed away peacefully Sunday evening, May 22, 2016, with family by his side at his home on Prospect Place. He was 92. A complete obituary will be forthcoming on www.allotsego.com and in The Freeman’s Journal.…
Smith Family Cuts Cake On Spurbeck’s 75th Anniversary…
SNAFU IN COOPERSTOWN Apparent Computer Glitch Mails ‘Hundreds’ Of Void Parking Fines COOPERSTOWN – Due to an apparent glitch by Complus Data Innovations, the village’s parking-ticket processor, “hundreds” of old citations – many to people who already paid their fines – have been showing up in the mail. “They ’fessed up,” said Mayor Jeff Katz of the White-Plains-based vendor. “But we’re kind of dealing with it.”…
Thorough Repair Completed On Cooperstown Post Office Steps COOPERSTOWN – Regular patrons at Cooperstown’s post office, across from the Hall of Fame, were met with a treat when they checked postal boxes this morning: The front steps, long patched and uneven, were almost as good as new. Yesterday afternoon, a crew from Mattoon Construction, Liverpool, completed what amounted to almost a reconstruction of the well-used entryway. In contrast to short-lived patching of recent years, the Mattoon crew cut the individual treds back…
CCS School Budget OK’d By Big Margin Bus, Library Resolutions Also Win Approval COOPERSTOWN – When the polls closed at 8 this evening, Cooperstown Central School District voters had approved the 2016-17 $18 million school budget, 388 to 102. It includes a .43 percent increase in the tax levy. Voters approved a proposition to acquire buses, 416-70. The budget for the Village Library of Cooperstown and Hartwick’s Kinney Memorial Library, also on the ballot, was approved 387-101. Two candidates…
IN MEMORIAM: Betsy J. Snyder, 81; Financial Manager For Medical Group COOPERSTOWN – Betsy J. Snyder, Latham, a Cooperstown native who pursued a career in the Capital District, died Sunday morning May 15, 2016, at her Latham home. She was 81. Born in Cooperstown on Oct. 18, 1934, Betsy was the daughter of Clifford and Genevieve (Knapp) Snyder. She graduated from Cooperstown High School in the Class of 1952.…
Polls Open Today Until 9 p.m. For School Budgets, Candidates Polls are open today until 9 p.m. in Oneonta, and 8 p.m. in Cooperstown – and in school districts around Otsego County and the state – to residents to vote on school budgets and elect school board candidates. Oneonta voting is at Foothills Performing Arts Center; Cooperstown voting is at the high school.…
