Local officials praise New York’s next governor, Hochul By Kevin Limiti • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Kathy Hochul, New York’s governor-in-waiting, has made a favorable impression on Otsego County officials the past few years. Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig said Hochul had visited Oneonta at least a half a dozen times. “She has been very supportive of Oneonta’s effort to revitalize and restore our economy,” Herzig said. “I think she’s a true friend of Oneonta. I hope to get her to visit…
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AllOtsego people: In Cooperstown, a female majority forms By PHOEBE SMITH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN — When Hanna Bergene decided to run for a village trustee position and Jim Dean announced he would step down to make way for her, it inadvertently led to a local first: a female majority board of trustees. Cooperstown Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh, who was first elected in 2018, and is the second female mayor of the village, Deputy Mayor Cindy Falk and trustees Bergene…
Photos: Rep. Antonio Delgado visits Cooperstown Distillery By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com…
Delgado visits Otsego County to tout American Rescue Plan By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN — Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-NY19, appeared in Otsego County on Thursday, May 28, to speak about the money the county will receive from the American Rescue Plan, which he help shepherd through Congress. Otsego County receive about $11.5 million, he said, half of which has already been delivered, with the other half to follow within a year. Other county towns and villages will…
Hundreds Attend Rally In Rain To Protest Crimes Against Asian People By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com About 250 people attended a rally Sunday, May 2, at the Otsego County Courthouse, to support the community’s Asian American and Pacific Island residents. The “Otsego Rally for Solidarity with Asian Americans” was organized and run by a group of Cooperstown Central School freshmen, including 15-year-old Cate Bohler, who said she wanted to speak up to support her friends or anyone who…
Trustees Agree To Remove Sign That Angered Residents By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The village of Cooperstown will remove a controversial solar-powered speed limit sign from Pioneer Street. The village’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously Monday, April 26, to remove the sign, which was in front of 100 Pioneer Street and told motorists heading south on Pioneer if they were exceeding the village’s 30-mile-per-hour speed limit. The meeting was held in person in the village ballroom at 22…
Rally Sunday To Protest Crimes Against Asians In response to the rising number of hate crimes directed at Asian Americans since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, local teens are planing a Solidarity Rally for Sunday, May 2, according to a media release. Otsego Solidarity Rally for Asian Americans will be held at 2 p.m. in front of the Otsego County Courthouse at 197 Main Street. May is Asian American and Pacific Island Heritage month, according to the release. Students…
EDITORIAL ‘Reefer Madness’ Goes Mainstream Maybe when marijuana vendors appear at Disney World, or when the venerable theme park comes up with a Marijuana Mile theme ride, or maybe Marijuana Maelstrom. Then, perhaps, the Village of Cooperstown – “the pinnacle” of youth baseball camps, according to Lunetta Swartout, Cooperstown Stays proprietor, (and she ought to know) – should approve pot shops, or a “recreational cannabis dispensary,” or whatever, along Main Street in Baseball’s Mecca. Maybe then, but now the debate…
Pot Shops Becoming Issue Here By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Before reacting, the Village Board is waiting to see what the marijuana-legalization bill due to pass the state Legislature April 1 looks like. But Trustee Mac Benton, who brought the issue before the trustees at their monthly meeting Monday, March 22, is determined to push for pot-selling “storefronts” in Baseball’s mecca, seeing it as an economic-development opportunity too good to ignore. If the new law doesn’t give the…
Baseball Camps Wait For Albany Guidance Quarantine Rules Also Turn Off Some Families By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Health and wealth. Those are the two concepts people in government and the tourist industry are using in discussing the news that the two youth-baseball camps, Dreams Park in Hartwick Seminary and All Star Village in West Oneonta, are seeking permission to open someway, somehow, in the 2021 season. “If they can conform to the state’s requirements and…
