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Public Hearing Positive On Bassett 150-Car Lot

TRUSTEES PLAN FEB. 24 VOTE Public Hearing Positive On Bassett 143-Car Lot James Connors, principal engineer at The Chazen Company, explains changes to the proposed Riverside Drive parking lot, including a three-way stop, expanded crosswalks and sidewalks, and a reduction in parking spaces from the original 170 to 143, eliminating the spots to ensure stability of the slope, during a public hearing at the Cooperstown Village Board this evening. The project, which will be gated employee parking, was met with generally…

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Cooperstown Asks For Proposals For Study Of Downtown Parking

Cooperstown Asks For Proposals For Study Of Downtown Parking COOPERSTOWN – A Feb. 22 “pre-bid” meeting is planned in Village Hall on a study, approved Monday by the Village Board, to determine Cooperstown’s parking needs and how to fill them, including how on-street paid parking should be adjusted in the future. Issues to be studied include what to do about parking for Bassett and Otesaga employees, how to craft a proposal for a residential permit system around the Business District, and…

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On-Street Parking Settled, Residential Permits Await

On-Street Parking Settled, Residential Permits Await COOPERSTOWN – Villagers whose heads may still be spinning over on-street parking, P&D machines and downtown parking permits, now have another concept around which to wrap their brains. Residential parking permits. The Village Board has scheduled a “workshop meeting” for 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 20. Mayor Jeff Katz anticipates a free-floating discussion to see if there is any consensus on the matter. The public is welcome, but no public comment.…

TRUSTEES TAKE 2 STEPS BACK ON EXPANDING PAID PARKING

TRUSTEES TAKE 2 STEPS BACK ON EXPANDING PAID PARKING COOPERSTOWN – The trustees tonight unanimously took the first step backwards – two steps back, in fact – after years of what seemed to be the inexorable forward march of paid parking in the Village of Cooperstown. On a motion by Streets Committee chair Cindy Falk, seconded by Deputy Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, the Village Board removed Church Street, and River Street between Main and the Bassett Clinic, from the paid-parking expansion list.…

Falk Proposes Adding Chestnut To Streets With Paid Parking

Falk Proposes Adding Chestnut To Streets With Paid Parking COOPERSTOWN – Trustee Cindy Falk, who chairs the Streets Committee, this evening proposed adding Chestnut Street between Main and Lake to three other streets where paid parking may be expanded this summer. The Village Board, at its monthly meeting at 22 Main, unanimously concurred (Trustee Joan Nicols was absent), and set a public hearing for its February meeting on the 23rd for Chestnut and the three other sections where Pay & Display…

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Hospital, Community Leaders Must Confer On Bassett’s Future

Hospital, Community Leaders Must Confer On Bassett’s Future Editorial For the Edition of Thursday-Friday, Dec. 11-12, 2014 The future of hospitals is murky, certainly to the general public (and general newspapers), perhaps even to the experts at One Atwell Road, Cooperstown, who are paid to think about it and react to their best estimations. We may reach a point where hospitals struggle to find enough talented doctors capable of doing the most skilled work. However, as long as there are…

Village To Expand Paid Parking To Parts Of Fair, River, Church

Village To Expand Paid Parking To Parts Of Fair, River, Church COOPERSTOWN – The Village Board, at a noontime work session today, reached consensus on expanding downtown paid parking to three more streets: • Fair Street, between Main and Lake • The length of Church Street, behind the Baseball Hall of Fame • River Street, between Main and the Bassett Clinic The trustees aim to be prepared at their January meeting on the 26 to set a public hearing for…

Bassett To Shift 40 Jobs To Downtown Utica

Bassett To Shift 40 Jobs To Downtown Utica By JIM KEVLIN • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014 Bassett Healthcare has located a five-story building in downtown Utica, and plans to move 40 “non-treatment” tech-support positions there from Cooperstown in the next year. That may expand to 125 over the next five years, according to Bassett’s spokesperson. The 50,000-square-foot M&T Bank annex was part of a complex that includes the landmark “Gold Dome” building, but that’s not…