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 has raised $2 million toward Housing Works.  The riders are due to stop in front of the state Capitol in Albany tomorrow morning, and continue through the Catskills Sunday, the ride’s final leg.