Doubleday renovations on track for June finish Doubleday Field might be blocks away from the Baseball Hall of Fame but the two stand side-by-side as Cooperstown’s marquis attractions. The iconic field has seen its better days, and Village Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh continues to move forward with renovations she says will return the site to all its former glory. “Doubleday Field will have a lot more plusses for Village residents, tourists, and teams that rent the field,” she said in a…
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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7 Public Utility Open House OPEN HOUSE – 2 p.m. Celebrate the completion of a 3 year project to improve the local Waste Water Treatment Plant. The public is invited to meet the operators, tour the facilities, and hear remarks from Mayor Tillapaugh and representatives of the state funding agencies. Delaware Engineering representatives will be on hand to discuss the upgrades made by the project to protect the Susquehanna River and expand capacity for the…
Work begins on Chestnut Crossing as project clears village boards By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Two months after getting its special-use permit from the Cooperstown Board of Trustees, the Chestnut Crossing apartment complex at 10 Chestnut St. is mostly finished at the municipal level. According to village documents, the project has had public hearings and gotten approvals from the village committees that must approve various parts of the project, including its architecture, fencing, parking, sidewalks, streets, lighting and…
LETTER from JOHN B. WEBB Contribution, Not Good Governance, Resulted in Blinking-Sign Placement To the Editor, Upper Pioneer Street has been defaced by the installation of a large solar-powered speed sign, the kind usually found in commercial districts or at the entrance to municipalities. Around the clock, it flashes the speed of all approaching cars along with a digital display of praise or warning, depending on the car’s speed. It was placed there, NOT at the request of the police…
Trustee Jim Dean Hailed For 10-Year Job Well Done…
Our Flag Is Back! Mayor Announces COOPERSTOWN – Stars & Stripes forever! (At least for the time being.) Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh a few moments ago announced the state has eased CORONA-era requirements that all flags in the Empire State be flown at half staff in sympathy for people suffering from the disease or families of those who succumbed to it. “It turns out that New York State decided to return flags to full staff, but unfortunately never alerted all the…
Mayor Warns Staff Of ‘Phishing’ Attempt COOPERSTOWN – Village of Cooperstown employees’ emails are “phishing” targets, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch announced this morning. Phishing is defined as, “the fraudulent practice of sending emails purporting to be from reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers.”…
Mayor, 2 Trustees Sworn In After Long-Delayed Election…
Advisory Board Starts Study Of Village Police Department Small, Says New Chief, But Big-City Complexities Exist Here By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – At his first public appearance since being named yesterday to lead the Village Police Department, Chief Frank Cavilieri this evening made it seem simple. The most problematic area of policing, here as everywhere, is “use of force,” Cavilieri said this evening at the first meeting of the Police Community Advisory Board. A related issue…
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 –…