MORE LETTERS ENDORSE FOR CCS SCHOOL BOARD ST. JOHN: Jastremski Devoted To Youth KATZ: Jastremski Transformed Library ALLSTADT: Jastremski Intelligent, Worker WALKER: Markusen Will Communicate…
MORE LETTERS ENDORSE FOR CCS SCHOOL BOARD ST. JOHN: Jastremski Devoted To Youth KATZ: Jastremski Transformed Library ALLSTADT: Jastremski Intelligent, Worker WALKER: Markusen Will Communicate…
Katz: Allstadt, Tillapaugh ‘Incredible’ Trustees To the Editor: The Village of Cooperstown is incredibly fortunate to have Ellen Tillapaugh and Lou Allstadt run for re-election. They are two of the finest trustees to have ever served the village. Their dedication, intelligence, open-mindedness and knowledge of village government and issues have resulted in profoundly positive results. To have someone of Lou’s corporate experience and talent serve the village is almost hard to believe. On the Finance & Personnel Committee, his ability…
Greetings From World Series! Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz, a Chicago Cubs fan from his days at the Mercantile Exchange, sends greetings from Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio, where his beloved Cubbies are facing the Indians this evening in the World Series. If the Cubs win, it will be their first championship since 1908. In addition to serving as mayor, Katz is a published baseball writer with two books to his credit and an aficionado of America’s Pastime.…
On-Street Parking Settled, Residential Permits Await COOPERSTOWN – Villagers whose heads may still be spinning over on-street parking, P&D machines and downtown parking permits, now have another concept around which to wrap their brains. Residential parking permits. The Village Board has scheduled a “workshop meeting” for 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 20. Mayor Jeff Katz anticipates a free-floating discussion to see if there is any consensus on the matter. The public is welcome, but no public comment.…
HALL OF FAME WEEKEND 2015 Cooperstown Mayor Katz Fan Of Baseball & Village By JIM KEVLIN • for allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – Jeff Katz, the first mayor in a while who is both a fan of Cooperstown and of baseball, spent his first few years in Brooklyn, where it was all about the Mets. “In 1969, when they won the World Series, I was 7. It was huge,” he remembers. He adored Tom Seaver, who led their team to the pinnacle. …
Keith Olbermann To Interview Jeff Katz COOPERSTOWN – Mayor Jeff Katz will be interviewed on his new book, “Split Season: 1981 Fernandomania, The Bronx Zoo and The Strike That Saved Baseball,” on Keith Olbermann’s ESPN2 show at 5 p.m. Monday. Katz, whose book was published Tuesday, May 19, will be in ESPN’s studios in New York at 2:45 p.m. for a pre-taping of the interview. So far, the mayor said, the book, his second, has been very well received. The…
Katz: Our Own Rick Hulse Derailed Tourism Assistance Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 11-12, 2014 To the Editor: In the county budget vote of Wednesday, Dec. 3, a bipartisan group of Ed Lentz, Beth Rosenthal, Gary Koutnik, Linda Rowinski, Kay Stuligross, Craig Gelbsman and Janet Quackenbush voted to return $150,000 in bed tax revenues to the municipalities that generate it. They recognized, unlike our own Town of Otsego/Village of Cooperstown representative Rick Hulse, that the town and city of Oneonta, Town…
Hospital, Community Leaders Must Confer On Bassett’s Future Editorial For the Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 11-12, 2014 The future of hospitals is murky, certainly to the general public (and general newspapers), perhaps even to the experts at One Atwell Road, Cooperstown, who are paid to think about it and react to their best estimations. We may reach a point where hospitals struggle to find enough talented doctors capable of doing the most skilled work. However, as long as there are…