Week 1, All Agree: Masks Being Worn In Downtown Coop By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Kevin Kress, who was raised in Richfield Springs, brought his family from Little Falls to Cooperstown last weekend, and was neither surprised by the village’s new mandatory-mask law, or that most everybody seemed to be obeying it. “We were in Lake Placid last weekend; they had done the same thing there,” said Kress, who was aware – and undeterred by –…
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Cooperstown Law Requires Wearing Masks Downtown Approved By Trustees, Mandate May Be In Effect This Weekend By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Inn at Cooperstown proprietor Marc Kingsley started things off with a pointed critique of the Village of Cooperstown’s proposed mask-mandate law. “You are focusing only on mask wearing and an absolutely obscene fine if caught not wearing one,” he declared at the Monday, Aug. 10, public hearing in a steamy third-floor ballroom at Village Hall.…
ISSUE & DEBATE: NAY Mask Law, $1,000K Fine Unecessary, Overreach Editor’s Note: Marc Kingsley, Inn at Cooperstown proprietor, gave this testimony against at law requiring mask-wearing in downtown Cooperstown. Local Law 7 was approved by the Village Board after a Monday, Aug. 10, public hearing. By MARC KINGSLEY • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The proposed mask law. I don’t understand why the village is pursuing this. As I understand it New York State already passed a law requiring almost everyone to…
IT’S UNANIMOUS Village Board OKs Mask Mandate For Anyone Walking Main Street The Cooperstown Village Board this evening unanimously approved a local law requiring everyone to wear a mask on Main Street sidewalks between Fair Street and Pine Boulevard, and on Pioneer Street from Lake to Church streets. Only 21 seats were permitted in the Village Hall’s second-floor ballroom, but they were mostly filled, primarily with citizens supportive of the law. In top photo, Marge Landers, Glen Avenue, commends the…