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PART ONE: DOWNTOWN UPGRADES

Trash Cans With Computers

Enhance Downtown Security

By JIM KEVLIN • Special www.AllOTSEGO.com

Resident Merrilyn O'Connell asked whether the space-age trash cans might topple on passersby. No, the mayor assured her, they are fastened to the sidewalk in the event one would get knocked over by a car. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com_

COOPERSTOWN – "How big are they?" asked the dimunitive Merrilyn O'Connell on learning computerized trash cans to be installed in downtown Cooperstown this summer will have to be attached to the sidewalk to erase any chance they will fall over on someone.

Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch sought to reassure O'Connell – it seems they aren't as tall as Deputy Mayor Cindy Falk – during the first of two public briefings in Village Hall's Ballroom this evening, dealing with the final $2.2 million pieces of a multi-year upgrade to the Main Street neighborhood.  Work began this week. (A second briefing dealt with $5.8 million in Doubleday Field renovations.)

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