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Letter from Chip Northrup

Platform Is Old News

To its collective credit, the Village of Cooperstown has labored long and hard to plan, get permitted, get funded and build a wheelchair-accessible viewing platform at the foot of Pioneer Street in the village park.

Anyone that pays any attention to what goes on in Cooperstown—even from far away Texas—has known about this publicly publicized project for a long time.

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