Column by James Dean Saving Main Street USA As a non-retail small business owner and an astute observer of Main Street USA, I have great sympathy for the economic struggles of Main Street USA storefront retailers. Main Street USA, and its storefront retail businesses, can define their communities desirability and quality of life, by whether they look bright, attractive, welcoming, thriving, and growing, or dusty, dark, stuck in time, just holding on, or dying. The centuries-old, only game in town,…
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ACCOLADES, APPLAUSE FOR JIM DEAN Bergene On Ticket For Village Board Candidate, 29, Plus Deputy Mayor Falk Likely Unopposed In March Elections “I very excited,” Hanna Bergene, 29, above, said a few minutes ago as the Village Democratic Party caucused in the 22 Main ballroom and nominated her for one of two positions on the Cooperstown Village Board in the March elections. Also nominated for another term was Deputy Mayor Cindy Falk, at left. In the foreground is Henry Bauer,…
FOUGHT FOR LAKEFRONT, BUILT SANTA’S COTTAGE, PLAYED CARDIFF GIANT James Dean, Village Trustee, And Much More By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com James Dean, a Cooperstown village trustee since the Democratic sweep in 2012 began his party’s almost decade-long control of 22 Main St., is stepping down. While known today as a trustee, Dean has been part of the civic landscape long before that: • Since early 1981, when, recently arriving (in 1977) from New Jersey, he launched a…
LETTER from JAMES DEAN Germans Allowed Nazism; Don’t Allow Donald Trump To the Editor: I remember, as a child in the late1940s, sitting under a table listening to the radio, as I often did, before we had our first television. I never forgot the constant news reports, in real time, about the thousands of concentration camps and millions of mass killings found in and around Germany at the end of World War II. I never forgot. It was always with…
LETTER from JAMES DEAN Well-Intentioned Visitors May Spur Rebound In Corinavirus To the Editor: The best practice COVID-19 containment plans of Otsego County, and its residents, could be upset to an unknown degree this summer when well intentioned visitors may start coming in from all over the country. That will be the uncontrollable variable that could show up in possible increases of positive local cases, towards the end of the summer, in my view. Contact tracing would seem very difficult…
LETTER from JAMES DEAN Study Before Acting On New Zoning Law To the Editor: Sufficient affordable apartments, which the Village of Cooperstown needs, come from an efficiency of scale in single- and multi-building design and construction, lower cost of larger parcels of land, and lower operating expenses with the newest technologies. All of this comes with building new, planned developments, from the ground up. Newly built rental housing units, of all types, on sufficient land, are so important to the quality…
from JAMES R. DEAN As We Toil, Thanks For Nothing, Homer To the Editor: Regarding the ongoing New York Times articles about people moving up to the Hudson Valley and the Catskills: It cannot not come soon enough for me. I have driven back and forth through those areas for 50 years and I have seen the decline and loss of people and interest. It has gone from not being able to pass cars on the road in the 1970s,…
Column by James Dean, May 11, 2018 To Succeed, Otsego County Must Be Known Editor’s Note: James R. Dean, the Cooperstown village trustee, has been proprietor of New York Custom Curved Wood Stair Railings & Handrailings locally since 1973. In last week’s Part I, he analyzed out economic-development challenges we face. This week, Part II offers solutions. So what is the plan? Almost everything that has been done so far to increase our population and business base, while very good,…
Many Gather, Few Speak Up In Village Trustee Debate…