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By LIBBY CUDMORE • for www.allotsego.org COOPERSTOWN – The law says that there is to be no standing or parking within 20 feet of a fire station driveway. But when Fire chief Jim Tallman tried to pull the aerial truck into the station on Chestnut Street after a call, he saw an OPT driver smoking a cigarette, waiting for his passengers. “He saw me,” Tallman told the Village Board Tuesday at its May meeting at 22 Main. “But I wasn’t able to get into the driveway until he left.” It’s been an ongoing issue – buses parking too close to the fire station driveway even being repeatedly asked to move forward. And now the Village Board has stepped in, asking the county to relocate the bus stop to the 197 Main St. entrance of the county office building. “This was addressed in 2010 and 2011,” said Trustee Cindy Falk. “We would ask buses to pull forward, and within weeks, they’d be parking on the apron again.” But the relocation, some feared, would cause more trouble. A letter from the Schlather & Birch law firm, located at 192, read, “We would call your attention to the extreme congestion on a daily basis, especially when court is in session,” and suggested that a bus stop be relocated to Railroad Avenue. “A bus stop between the Agway building and the railroad would work quite well,” they wrote. Paul Patterson, OPT transportation director, was at the meeting, and suggested that, instead, a cement pad be poured a few feet up so that the buses would park closer to the corner of Leatherstocking Avenue, but the shelter could remain in place. “People are familiar with that stop,” he said. “Putting it on Railroad Avenue or upper Main is away from where people congregate.” “Some people might have trouble walking up that hill to the County Building,” said Paul Clark. “The bus and fire companies should be able to solve this.” Trustee Jim Dean also had a suggestion. “The bus stop is in the wrong place,” he said. “Move it to the other corner of Leatherstocking. A straight line is the best line.” But Tallman brought up concerns that buses there might cause problems with people turning right off Leatherstocking, pulling out of the Doubleday Lot or off Fowler Lane. “You’re taking your life in your hands at that intersection,” he said. The board decided ultimately to table the vote and take it back to the county to continue looking for a solution. “We’re trying to encourage public transportation,” said Dean. “This stop is the face of public transportation in Cooperstown.”

Cooperstown Board Debates Whether To Move Bus Stop By LIBBY CUDMORE • for www.allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – The law says that there is to be no standing or parking within 20 feet of a fire station driveway. But when Fire chief Jim Tallman tried to pull the aerial truck into the station on Chestnut Street after a call, he saw an OPT driver smoking a cigarette, waiting for his passengers. “He saw me,” Tallman told the Village Board Tuesday at its…
May 27, 2015

John Dewey, MD, Jeanne Dewey, scholarship recipient Patrick Dewey, Robert Bassett, scholarship recipient McKenna Hage, Dawn Hage, Chris Hage.

Hage, Dewey Win $500 Bassett Foundation Scholarships COOPERSTOWN – Cooperstown High School Seniors McKenna Hage and Patrick Dewey have won $500 scholarships by the Charles H. Bassett Youth Foundation, in partnership with The Community Foundation for South Central New York. Hage received the Mary Augusta and Wilson T. Bassett Scholarship, which recognizes excellence in academics, balanced development and a willingness to overcome challenges and seize opportunities. Dewey received the Elizabeth and Benjamin Bassett Scholarship for excellence in scholarship, good character…
May 27, 2015

Visitation Today For Julia Levandowski, Who Died Thursday In Auto Accident

Visitation Today For Julia Levandowski, Who Died Thursday In Auto Accident COOPERSTOWN – Calling hours are this afternoon for Julia Alexandra Levandowski, daughter, sister, granddaughter, a CCS honors graduate and LeMoyne undergraduate,  who died unexpectedly in an early morning hours Thursday, May 21, 2015. She was 21. A visitation will be 4-7 p.m. today at the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home, when Julia’s family will be in attendance. Born Nov. 10, 1993, at Bassett Hospital, Julia was a daughter of…
May 26, 2015

Celebration On Glimmerglass’ Shores Opens Bunny Hamilton Amphitheatre

Celebration On Glimmerglass’ Shores Opens Bunny Hamilton Amphitheatre COOPERSTOWN – With a laugh-eliciting comment, “this could be dangerous,” benefactress Mrs. Lewis L. “Bunny” Hamilton cut the ribbon this evening on a lake-side amphitheatre named in her honor at “Otsego: A Meeting Place,” the Native-American-themed exhibit behind The Fenimore Art Museum. She used a pair of shears crafted especially for the occasion in The Farmers’ Museum blacksmith shop.  NYSHA President Paul D’Ambrosio presented the shears to Mrs. Hamilton as a memento of her…
May 22, 2015

Architectual Review Board Declines Hotel Proposal

H-PARB Rejects Hotel Application As Incomplete The Village of Cooperstown’s Historic Preservation & Architectural Review Board this evening declined to approve the application for the proposed hotel at 124 Main Street, citing shortcomings in the application, plans and materials. Here, architect Kurt Ofer, right, shows H-PARB members, from right, Liz Callahan, Ralph Snell and acting chair Roger MacMillan, the blueprints for the hotel. Next week, he and his wife, Teresa Drerup, who recused herself tonight, but only for this portion of…
April 14, 2015
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