THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta June 27-28, 2019 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Inventive Scams Entrap Otsego County’s Elderly Green Cow Features Local Grass-Fed Beef A Visit To Otsego County, Louisiana 12 Unit ‘The Grove’ Rattles Cooperstown Neighbors ‘It Couple’ As Wife, Husband Take Pulpits EDITORIAL Trustees, Keep Cooperstown Cooperstown COLUMNS KUZMINSKI: How To Waste $400 Million SEWARD: New Law May Bankrupt Farms LETTERS TO THE EDITOR DOWNEY: Gas Best Way To Decarbonize AINSLIE FAMILY:…
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EDITORIAL Village Should Buy CVS, Make It Downtown Hub Editor’s Note: This is reprinted from this week’s Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta editorial pages. Click here for related editorial. What do you think? Letters to the Editor welcome at info@allotsego.com In a couple of weeks, we won’t remember that Cooperstown’s Main Street is a ghost town from Columbus Day to Memorial Day. The 500,000 visitors will begin arriving in earnest with Dreams Parks’ June 1 opening. By the time we…
Private Life Beckons To Lou Allstadt He Leaves Cooperstown Village Board, But Stays Involved In Public Affairs By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN ‘It’s been my longest job – at the lowest pay,” former Mobil Oil executive vice president Lou Allstadt told his colleagues Monday, Jan. 28, in resigning from the Village Board. Resigning, but it doesn’t mean he’s exactly retiring.…
‘It Will Look Like It’s Always Been There’ Plan Would Blend Tower With Key Bank Architecture…
DECEMBER MEETING • COOPERSTOWN TRUSTEES Sewage Leak Smells, Taints Susquehanna, Quickly Fixed By PATRICK WAGER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – A sewage trunk line running near Council Rock leaked its contents into the Susquehanna River in recent days, Public Works Superintendent Mitch Hotaling told the Village Board last evening. While the leak could be smelled by neighbours, emergency plumbers were able to fix it in three hours, Hotaling said. This admittedly is an unusual occurrence and is not a…
Naked Main Street But Help Is On the Way, With New Flagpole And 10-By-15-Foot Stars & Stripes On Order By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Fueled by what they declared was a misunderstanding of their intentions, the village trustees acted promptly and unanimously this evening to bring back a bigger, better flagpole to downtown Cooperstown’s main intersection as quickly as possible. The Village Board OK’d three decisions proposed by Streets Committee chair Cindy Falk at its September…
‘Rash Of Applications’ May Spur 9-Month Moratorium At Issue: Year ‘Round Housing Vs. Dreams Park Rentals By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Faced with a “rash of applications” from homeowners seeking to rent to Dreams Park families, the Village Board will consider a nine-month moratorium on such approvals when it meets at 6:30 p.m. Monday in Village Hall. “We’ll have to discuss it. We want to discuss it,” said Mayor Jeff Katz, interviewed yesterday. The trustees have…
LAKEFRONT PROPRIETORS OBJECT, SAYING… Village Parking Restrictions Disadvantage Private Docks By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Parking regulations adopted by the Village Board last month put private docks at a competitive disadvantage to the public docks. Alex Zoeller, a member of the family that owns docks at the foot of Fair Street, raised that contention at this evening’s Village Board meeting, objecting to a trustees’ decision last month allowing all-day parking on Fish Road, but reserving it for the cars…
4 COOPERSTOWN ISSUES UPCOMING Chamber Exec To Members: Make Sure Your Voices Heard COOPERSTOWN – At the request of the village trustees, Cooperstown Chamber Executive Director Matt Hazzard is alerting his membership to attend upcoming meetings to express their views on four issues: paid parking changes, snow emergencies, trolley stops and flood-damage prevention. Two public hearings on related laws are planned, at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 23, and 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6, and “the public is strongly encouraged to attend…
Katz, Maxson, Sternberg Win Village Board Nods…