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PROJECT YEARS IN MAKING

New Docks Open

At Lakefront Park

Emma Baldwin, left, and Rebecca Ward, visiting from Iuka, Miss., and, behind them, Kim Brandise of Cooperstown, on her lunch break, try out the just-complete floating docks off Lakefront Park. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)
Emma Baldwin, left, and Rebecca Ward, visiting from Iuka, Miss., and, behind them, Kim Brandise of Cooperstown, on her lunch break, try out the just-complete floating docks off Lakefront Park. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)

COOPERSTOWN – The new floating docks at the village’s Lakefront Park, under consideration since the Flood of 2011 damaged the traditional fixed docs, are complete, and Village Clerk Teri Barown reports slip renters may begin parking their boats there as soon as they wish.

The docks cost $120,000, but Village Trustee Ellen Tillapaugh, who chairs the Parks Committee, said the rates – now $500 a season for village residents; $1,000 for non-residents – were raised $50 to cover the expense.  “Our rates are still the best on the lake,” said the trustee.

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