CLICK HERE TO REVIEW QUESTIONNAIRES ‘Affordable Housing’ Is Her Priority For Village, Tillapaugh Tells League COOPERTOWN – “Affordable housing” will be the priority of Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, who is running unopposed in the Sept. 15 Village Board primary, according to questionnaires posted today by the League of Women Voters, Cooperstown chapter, on the LWV’s “Vote 411” web site. “The village’s largest employer, Bassett Healthcare, employs 2700 people on the Cooperstown campus alone,” wrote Tillapaugh in response to the League’s…
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Chamber Chair: Reopening Chance For Growth, Creativity By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Though Phase One of “un-PAUSE” is limited to construction, manufacturing and curbside retail, Al Rubin, chair, Otsego County Chamber of Commerce Board, wants to make sure all businesses are ready to begin the process of rebuilding the local economy. “It’s exciting,” he said. “Now is the time for innovation and creativity. Now is not the time to be shy. We need to be sharing…
Wear Mask, Mayor Urges, And She Does So Herself • Review Bassett’s pattern for two-ply mask • Review Bassett’s pattern or video for three-ply mask…
Mr. & Mrs. Claus Arrive In Renovated Pioneer Park…
Trustees Votes to Strengthen Anti-Bigotry Proclamation By JENNIFER HILL• Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN –Two weeks after high school boys allegedly attacked another student and shouted homophobic slurs, the Cooperstown Board of Trustees voted in its meeting this morning “unanimously and loudly” to strengthen a 2016 proclamation that the village welcomes people of all backgrounds and does not tolerate acts of bigotry. “I think it’s important to reiterate how much we in Cooperstown deplore racist and homophobic behavior,” said Richard Sternberg,…
SANTA ARRIVES IN COOPERSTOWN “Welcome home to Cooperstown!” declares Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh, as – for the first time since her March election – she greets Santa and Mrs. Claus as they arrive at their Pioneer Park cottage in a horse-drawn carriage. The day afternoon Thanksgiving, good boys and girls came from all over the area to welcome the Jolly Old Elf, ushering in the Christmas season. At right, Brynlee Burr, 4, and her mom, Brittany, were decked out in their holiday…
Editorial for November 16, 2018 State Zigged To Democrats, But County Zagged To GOP The Wall Street Journal headline was sly: “Blue Wave Breaks Softly.” The article reported that, as of Nov. 6, Election Night, Democrats gained 27 Congressional seats in the midterms, regaining control of the U.S. House of Representatives. That pales compared to Democrats losing 63 in the first Obama midterms in 2010, and losing the House as well; still, even one-vote control is control. (As canvassing ensued,…
WOMEN RULE In Cooperstown, Ellen Tillapaugh Mayor; In Oneonta, 3 Trailblazers, Sivers Lauded AVAILABLE AT THESE FINE ESTABLISHMENTS OR TRY FREEMAN’S JOURNAL HOME DELIVERY…
FALK, DEAN WIN AGAIN Democrats Turn Back Republican Challenger COOPERSTOWN – The two Democratic incumbents on the Village Board, Cindy Falk and Jim Dean, emphatically turned back a challenge from the one Republican, Fred Schneider, in today’s village elections. Falk led trustee balloting with 218 votes, followed by Dean with 178. Schneider garnered 75. The three were competing for two open seats. Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, who was unopposed for mayor, garnered 230 votes.…
Becker, Boden Leave Village Board Races Tillapaugh Unopposed For Mayor; 3 Run For 2 Openings For Trustee By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Two candidates for Village Board in the March 20 election – Jon Becker for mayor and Art Boden for trustee – have left the race. Both have signed the “certificates of declination” required after receiving a party endorsement, according to Village Administrator Teri Barown, who oversees village elections.…
