AMAZING GRACE Former Cooperstown Trustee In New Home At 93 By LIBBY CUDMORE • Reprinted from this week’s AllOTSEGO.seniority ONEONTA – No matter where she goes, Grace Kull brings people together. “We were the first family in my neighborhood to have a television set in 1950,” she said. “My husband Al won it in a contest, and when Milton Berle was on, we’d have eight or 10 people over watching the small screen on that big box!” READ, LISTEN TO ORAL…
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Litmus Test: Will Adjustments Make Village Residents’ Lives More Pleasant? The Freeman’s Journal/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 25-26, 2014 To the Editor: We are all entitled to utter vapid statements now and then. Unfortunately, at least one of mine was made out-loud, in public: At the Village Board meeting in November, during the public comment segment, I made the suggestion that if the board wanted to help Bassett Healthcare it would remove the time limit on parking in residential…
Editor’s Note: This is the text of a letter Fair Street resident Mike Manno sent to the Village Board prior to its October meeting at 6:30 p.m. on the 27th at 22 Main. Eliminating tour buses from our quaint historic neighborhood and streets is my purpose in this letter and my ultimate goal. Tourism is a good thing as long as it stays within acceptable boundaries and everyone is served! If Cooperstown is going to live up to this…
CHARTING FUTURE: 90 Citizens Discuss What Might Be By JIM KEVLIN • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 When you hear “Cooperstown,” what one word comes to mind? The 90 people at the Design Charrette Monday, Oct. 6, answered: Beautiful, parochial, idyllic, struggling, lucky, tired, over-baseballed, jobless, pastoral, shrinking, safe. Asked what they hope to see their community become in 10 years, they replied (verbatim, as written on flip charts): vibrant but quaint, progressive in its energy use,…
More Local Laws? Instead, Let Us Reason Together Edition of Thursday-Friday, Oct. 9-10 Attorney Doug Zamelis, it’s become evident around here over recent years, is a guy you want on your side of any legal fight. That first inkling came when, representing opponents of Community Energy’s 70-75 Jordanville Wind Farm (later Iberdrola’s), he identified violations of the state’s Open Meetings Law to take things back to zero. The project – the towers would have been visible from Otsego Lake –…
Like Charleston, Offer Free Trolleys Edition Of Thursday-Friday Sept. 25-26 To the Editor: A modest proposal: I recently happened to visit Charleston, S.C., which, like Cooperstown, is a noted tourist destination. And, like Cooperstown, or any similar tourist town, they have a parking problem. Charlestown, however, has done something which Cooperstown might consider, namely, establishing a free trolley service. Being able to jump on and off a trolley making the circuit of the main local sites without having to dig…
TRUSTEES, 4-1, SIGNAL ‘NAY’ TO VILLAGE HOSPITAL ZONE By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – It was only a procedural vote, but the 4-1 tally made it clear: The village’s proposed hospital zone, in preparation since April 2013, is going nowhere. The vote, on Part One of a related SEQR application, was called tonight during the Village Board’s monthly, and turned out to be the only vote related to the Bassett Hospital neighborhood as trustees grappled with regulatory complexities. Only Trustee Cindy Falk,…
HOMETOWN HISTORY, December 13, 2013 125 Years Ago Maternal influence: Why do men mostly part their hair on the left side? – Because they are brought up to it from infancy. A mother facing her boy always holds the comb in her right hand, and it being easiest to comb the hair left to right, she parts it on the left. The boy, when he grows up and is able to comb his own hair, finds the part on that…
BOUND VOLUMES, June 21, 2012 200 YEARS AGO Comets doubtless answer some wise and good purpose in the creation – so do Women. Comets are incomprehensible, beautiful, and eccentric – so are Women. Comets shine with peculiar splendor, but at night appear most brilliant – so do Women. Comets are enveloped with a lucid nebula, through which their forms are visible – so are those of Women, through their light and elegant attire. Comets confound the most learned when men…
BOUND VOLUMES, September 19, 2013 200 YEARS AGO Bank Meeting – At a meeting of a number of Freeholders from the several towns of the county of Otsego, at the Court House, for the purpose of petitioning the Legislature for the incorporation of a bank in said county, Resolved, That David Little be Chairman, and John Russel, Secretary; Resolved that a Petition be presented to the Legislature at their next session for the incorporation of a Bank in the county…