CLICK FOR 2020 WINTER CARNIVAL EVENTS Annual Soup ‘n’ Chili Kickoff Not Deferred By Today’s Snow The First Baptist Church of Cooperstown’s annual Soup ‘n’ Chili Luncheon, the traditional kickoff of the annual Winter Carnival, went off today as scheduled despite 3-4 inches of wet snowfall and occasional short power outages. Above, Pastor Joe Perdue and wife Julie, right, chat with Jan McGraw, a member of the 21 Elm St. congregation. In the background is Gail Sliter, overseeing the voluntary…
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COOPERSTOWN ECUMENICAL VIGIL Charlottesville Tells Us, Resist Evil, Pastors Say The Revs. Tom LeBeau (United Methodist), foreground, and Joe Perdue (First Baptist) help Linda Kosmer, right, and others of the 50-some attendees light candles at a noontime vigil called today in Cooperstown in the wake of yesterday’s fatal confrontation in Charlottesville, Va. Pastor Perdue, who hosted the gathering on his church’s front lawn on Elm Street, said, “I was horrified, but not surprised. It’s 2017, and there are Nazis on…