50-Car Parade Salutes Cooperstown Mainstay By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com In the midst of the 50-car drive-by celebrating Carol B. Waller’s retirement as Mohican Flowers’ proprietor, a customer stopped by looking for greens to decorate his home for Christmas. Carol and her 42-year assistant, Claire Satriano, who was also honored at the event, ducked into the store and got him what he needed. “They work until it’s done,” said Elaine Bresee, who spent three weeks organizing the parade…
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Cooperstown To Allow Outdoor Sales For Summer By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTESGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In an effort to help businesses and bring shoppers back downtown, the Cooperstown Village Board has declared June 1 through Oct. 12 as a Special Event, dubbed “Cooperstown Outdoors,” during their meeting this evening. Business owners in the Commercial District – Main Street – will be allowed to apply for a permit to hold sidewalk sales. “By establishing a special event, we can allow…
Salute To Service As $9.1M Project Begins, Village Thanks Ted Peters Editor’s Note: The guest of honor at the Friday, Aug. 16, groundbreaking on the Village of Cooperstown’s $9.1 million water treatment plant project was Ted Peters, retired Bassett Hospital researcher and longtime chair of the village’s sewer and water boards. A plaque honoring him will be placed on the expanded building. Here are Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch’s words of tribute. By ELLEN TILLAPAUGH KUCH • Mayor of Cooperstown Many…
PART TWO: DOUBLEDAY FIELD 3rd-Base Work Scaled Back To Preserve Historic Ambience By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Future brides, if you dreamed of taking your vows overlooking Doubleday Field and dancing in air-conditioned comfort until the sun comes up, set those dreams aside. A picnic might be more like it, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch suggested this evening at a public hearing on $5.8 million in improvements to Doubleday scheduled to begin this spring. Plans for a…
2019 COOPERSTOWN WINTER CARNIVAL Laughter, Good Spirits Open Annual Seasonal Celebration “Rich McCaffrey told me there are already more people here than there were for Jeff Katz last year,” Cooperstown Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch said amid general hilarity as she officially opened the 2019 Winter Carnival in the warming tent in Pioneer Park a few minutes ago. While this is her first winter carnival as mayor, having succeeded Katz last April 1, she confessed to having been present at the…
Third-Base Line Of Future Ready For H-PARB Review Saratoga Associates, the Village of Cooperstown’s architect in the $4 million redevelopment of Doubleday Field, have provided Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh with these rendering in time for the 5 p.m. Tuesday meeting of the Historic Preservation & Architectural Review Board. The H-PARB would have to issue a demolition permit for the project to move forward, and there are other step before ground is broken, Tillapaugh said. The current third-based bleachers, which, determined unsafe,…