HERZIG: OPD ALREADY HAS AUTHORITY Cooperstown Plans Mask Crackdown Village Will Require Face Covering On Main, Pioneer Business District By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Village Attorney Martin Tillapaugh is preparing a law requiring everyone to wear a mask in Cooperstown’s business district. He expects to have a draft ready for the Village Board by its Monday, July 27, meeting, and the law in place by mid-August. Tillapaugh was moving forward at the request of Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh,…
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TRUSTEES MEET MONDAY Cooperstown Has One Case, Mayor Reports Officer Walking Main Street To Ensure Masks Are Worn By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – With one report of coronavirus in the village, complaints about people not wearing masks and lenience in places of business, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch has called a special meeting of the Village Board at 8:30 a.m. Monday. There, she will be seeking trustee approval of a FAQ (frequently asked questions) to be posted…
AT COOPERSTOWN VILLAGE BOARD: Require Masks On Main Street, Trustee Declares Sternberg Says ‘Punitive Steps’ Required; Trustees OK ‘Masks On Main’ Promotion By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – This morning’s special Village Board meeting, called to approve a “Cooperstown Outdoors” promotion and “Masks on Main” signage, spun off into a larger discussion of the need for masks, with Trustee Richard Sternberg calling for “punitive measures” against people not wearing masks. “I certainly think we need to go…
COOPERSTOWN REDO NEARS END Entrance Arch Rises At Doubleday Field…
VILLAGE VOTING MORE COMPLICATED Campaign Signs To Go; Polling Issues Remain By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In light of Governor Cuomo’s decision to postpone Wednesday’s village elections statewide due , the Cooperstown candidates have said they are pulling up their lawn signs for the time being. Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch is unopposed. MacGuire Benton, Joe Membrino and Mary Margaret Robbins Sohns are competing for two Village Board seats. The terms of Benton and Membrino, the two…
LETTER from ELLEN TILLAPAUGH KUCH Mayor Tillapaugh: Vote So Work Can Get Done To the Editor: Since 2011, I have been honored to serve my hometown community in village government. First elected as a trustee in 2011, I was appointed deputy mayor in 2014 and served in that capacity until my election as mayor in 2018. Over the past nine years, I along with fellow elected officials have worked to stabilize the village’s finances. We are proud that for seven…
INCUMBENTS RUN; SO MAY INCUMBENTS Rare Races Possible For Mayor, Trustees By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh says she’s running for a second term in next March’s village election, adding that first-term Trustee MacGuire Benton is likely to as well. And Joe Membrino, also in his first term, said he’s planning to run again, too. But for the first time since the GOP debacle in 2011, the Republican Party may be running a slate as…
EDITORIAL Will Improvements To Main Street Ever End? No, Shouldn’t Begun inauspiciously in March 2014 with the felling of 37 trees on Main Street, a remarkable series of successes has followed in the reinvention of downtown Cooperstown for 21st century tourism. The environmentally sensitive rain gardens, new sidewalks, streetlights, replacement of 19th century water mains and sewerage – even a new flag pole, embroiled in controversy as it now is – have followed in quick succession. • But it’s not…
IN 8 YEARS, EVENT RAISED $2M ‘Braking AIDS’ Cycle Ride Takes Off At Cooperstown Cooperstown Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, inset, was on hand at 6:45 a.m. today at the Clark Sports Center to launch 300-mile Braking AIDS, the three-day, 150-rider bicycle trek from here to Manhattan to benefit Housing Works, an organization that has housed and provided life-saving services to thousands of people living with HIV or at risk of infection since 1990. Now in its eighth year, Braking AIDS…
With Downtown Upgrade Resuming, Coop Mayor To Brief Public Tonight COOPERSTOWN – With the Village of Cooperstown’s downtown upgrade due to resume after Labor Day Weekend, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch will brief the public at 6 p.m. this evening in the Village Hall’s third-floor ballroom on that project, Doubleday Field renovations, and other initiatives.…
