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Mayor: Bassett, HoF Among Supporters

By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

Mayor Tillapaugh

COOPERSTOWN – The Village Board has received 19 emails or letters supporting the law that will require mandatory masks in the downtown, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch said a few minutes ago.

The law goes to public hearing at 5 p.m. tomorrow (Monday) in the Village Hall's second-floor ballroom.

Those 19 (representing 23 people) expressed "strong support" for the mandate, including one from Bassett Hospital, signed by President Bill LeCates, and the Hall of Fame, signed by Tim Mead, president, and Jane Forbes Clark, board chairman.

Two businesspeople wrote to oppose the law, she said.

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