The Smithy to present first exhibition of the gallery season STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The Smithy art gallery at 55 Pioneer Street in Cooperstown is opening for its first showing, running through July 27. The exhibition, entitled ‘Air’, will feature artwork by both members and guests of the Smithy. The theme of ‘Air’, as the title suggests, is all about capturing the “invisible force in our daily lives” the Smithy wrote in an email. “Apart from its literal…
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Trustees Agree To Remove Sign That Angered Residents By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The village of Cooperstown will remove a controversial solar-powered speed limit sign from Pioneer Street. The village’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously Monday, April 26, to remove the sign, which was in front of 100 Pioneer Street and told motorists heading south on Pioneer if they were exceeding the village’s 30-mile-per-hour speed limit. The meeting was held in person in the village ballroom at 22…
LETTERS from CATHE ELLSWORTH A Bad Sign I Placed On Pioneer To the Editor: Having lived on Upper Pioneer Street for some 36 years, it was indeed distressing to read John Webb’s “Letter to the Editor” in last week’s paper. The very idea of placing a solar-powered speed sign in one of Cooperstown’s residential neighborhoods is beyond the pale. It is made even more reprehensible given the fact that not only was the sign a gift to the village by…
Pioneer Returns To Parallel But Not All Residents Are Pleased…
Again, Trustees Seek Input On Pioneer Street Parking By PARKER FISH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Village residents will have to wait at least another month to see the Pioneer Street parking issue come to a close. At their meeting tonight, village trustees set a public hearing for their September meeting on the proposed parking layout for the northernmost section of Pioneer Street. The layout, proposed by the street committee, returns the street to parallel parking, and would create…
Trustees May Shelve Diagonal-Parking Idea By PARKER FISH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Parking on lower Pioneer Street may soon be back to where it was. The Village Board’s Street Committee this evening planned to recommend “return to parallel parking” after two months of heated debate over installing diagonal parking there. A couple innovations in the proposed diagonal plan remain: One, designating the northernmost spot for handicapped parking. Two, reducing all-day parking to three-hour parking. The village streets committee,…
Trustees Can’t Decide Pioneer Parking Issue Pioneer Street neighbor Rick Hulse urges the Cooperstown Village Board to restore parallel parking on the northern section of Pioneer Street at this evening’s trustees’ meeting. The trustees decided in June to re-evaluate parking on the section of Pioneer Street closest to the lake, and conducted trial periods for two different parking schemes involving angled parking on the east side of the street at Lakefront Park. Residents living on the street immediately voiced displeasure,…
2 PUBLIC HEARINGS TONIGHT Trustees May Act On Diagonal Parking, Hotel COOPERSTOWN – The Village Board will hold two public hearings at 7 tonight at 22 Main, and perhaps act on one or both of the plans under consideration, according to Trustee Cindy Falk: Diagonal parking on lower Pioneer Street. Option 3, which resulted from neighbors’ objections at last month’s meeting, would shift diagonal parking to the north. Under the previous plan, headlights would be shining into the livingroom of…
Noise, Parking Spark Cooperstown Debate FULL STORY IN THIS WEEK’S FREEMAN’S JOURNAL…
IT’S OVER! Pioneer Street Paving Completed Today…