Editorial Looks Like We Made It Labor Day. The end of an exceptional summer in Cooperstown. Dare we say exceptional? Yes we can, despite the ominous glooms of COVID and recent blooms of algae. Our Main Street businesses are still here. They may not have had their best summer, and they may still be sadly short-handed, but they are proudly displaying their wares and energetically inviting shoppers into their establishments. The Hall of Fame reopened its doors for Induction Weekend,…
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Before they got to the World Series, they played at Dreams Park By CHARLIE VASCELLARO • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com For almost three decades, youth baseball players from all over the country have been chasing their big-league dreams all the way to Cooperstown’s Dreams Park, and this year’s 2021 Major League World Series represents the physical manifestation of those dreams coming true. More than 500 Dreams Park alumni have made it to the big leagues and seven of them are members…
Dreams Park update opens tourism season By KEVIN LIMITI• Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The summer tourism season begins Memorial Day weekend, with businesses and attractions getting set for a better year now that COVID is beginning to dissipate. After a run of team cancellations earlier in the year, the Dreams Park baseball camp announced new protocols Monday, May 24. The baseball camp in Hartwick Seminary will open Friday, July 23, with no restrictions on social distancing or mask wearing. However, they…
Cooperstown Dreams Park to open July 23 without masks or social distancing for vaccinated participants STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Cooperstown Dreams Park is set to open Friday, July 23, without masks or any guidelines on social distancing, according to the park’s website. However, a vaccine will be required for participating children and adults. The opening will include no restrictions on high fiving or other physical contact, as well as face-to-face pin and baseball card training. The 2021 baseball…
Quarantine Lifted, Removing Obstacle To Tourist Season By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – One of the hurdles to ensuring a successful season for Dreams Park and All Star Village this season is being lifted, Governor Cuomo announced yesterday. Starting April 1, a three-day quarantine for domestic travel to New York State will no longer be required. (Mandatory quarantine will remain for international travelers.) Dreams Park is seeking state Health Department approval to open the season June 1,…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Feb. 25, 2021 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Herzig To Retire Statistics Miss Victim’s Stories – Like Thom Parrotti’s Dreams Park Seeks OK For 2021 Opening Village, County, City Completing Review Of Police Procedures AllOTSEGO.life Lucky Recuperates With Koops, Set Free Oneonta Sculptors ‘Terrible Beauty’ Opens EDITORIAL In Time Of Pandemic Hope Blooms Chamber Looks Past COVID And So Should The Rest Of Us Probe Of Cuomo Administration Must Run…
Dreams Park Seeks OK For 2021 Opening With Tests, Reduced Capacity, NY State Asked For Go-Ahead Cooperstown Dreams Park will be submitting plans to the state Department of Health to allow it to field a 2021 youth-baseball season at its Hartwick Seminary campus this summer, it announced today. The plan asks the DOH to take “into consideration camp testing and reduced capacity,” according to the statement from Attorney Garo Gozigian, the company’s local lawyer. Dreams Park said it is awaiting…
CORONAVIRUS HALTS DREAMS PARK 2020 Merchants, Restaurants, Rental Firms Brace For The Summer That May Not Be By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Let’s start with some good news. As soon as the coronavirus threat is safely dispatched, Destination Marketing Corporation of Otsego County plans to launch a new promotion: “On Deck: Your Cooperstown Bucket List Getaway,” aimed at attracting fans from around the region whose lifelong dream is to visit Baseball’s Mecca. “Not now,” DMCOC Executive…
AllOTSEGO.com EDITORIAL Make The Call. Avert Disaster Please, Congressman, Senator, Convince Governor To Approach Dreams Park Owner Cooperstown Dreams Park’s decision to cancel the 2020 season was only announced Friday. Two days before, county Treasurer Allen Ruffles, who chairs the county Emergency Task Force, had called Mike Walter, Dreams Park COO, and received no inkling such an economy-shattering decision was in the making. It’s not locked in concrete. It’s not too late to turn it around. Four men may be…
FAMILIES ARRIVE TODAY Baseball Camps Open Tomorrow At noontime today, Maskot’s, across Route 28 from Dream Park’s entrance in Hartwick Seminary, had a full parking lot, and servers, from left, Josie Furnari, Cooperstown, and Ally Baker and Leeza Shultz, both of Oneonta, were greeting customers. That’s because Dreams Park and Cooperstown All-Star Village players and their families are arriving today, in anticipation of Saturday’s 7:30 a.m. opening ceremonies. By summer’s end, some 200,000 will be attracted by the youth baseball…