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Following is just a small sampling of the plethora of businesses on Cooperstown’s Main Street and adjoining business district. From baseball to food, to candy and toys, to clothing and jewelry, from new tenants to seasoned pros, here is what store owners had to say.…
Cooperstown’s newest restaurant is a total renovation Not too many businesses opened during the past 18 months thanks, of course, to COVID. But welcome to Natty Bumppo’s, the newest restaurant to open in downtown Cooperstown. Owner and Cooperstown native Ian Porto has been a longtime fixture on Main Street. You may know him as the previous owner of Tin Bin Alley, or perhaps from Northern Eagle Beverage and Cooperstown Brewing Company. Maybe even from Brewery Ommegang. Now you’ll get to…
Phase 2 Opens Main Street Shops By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Kim Weekes, Oneonta, had been waiting for this moment for two months. “I feel giddy, like a school girl,” she said. “It’s like a first date!” Weekes, a client of Kelly Woessner at The Hair Studio in The Shops at Ford and Main, snagged a coveted appointment on Saturday, May 29, Oneonta, the first full-day retail and hair salons could be open under Phase Two of NY…
‘PHASE 2’ ALLOWS SHOPPING Sun Shines, Cooperstown, Oneonta Main Streets Open Kim Weekes, Oneonta, above, settles into the hairdresser’s chair Saturday at The Hair Studio, 179 South Main St., Oneonta for a much anticipated wash and cut from owner Kelly Woessner as “Phase Two” of NY Forward arrived Friday, enabling stores and “personal services” to restart, and offices to do so on Monday. Inset right, Sue Fink, Cooperstown, shows the hand sanitizer station, including sanitizer provided by Cooperstown Distillery, at…
Masks – Necessity…? Or Fashion Statement? By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com If you must wear a mask, it might as well express your personality, as is happening in Oneonta, Cooperstown and places in between. “I have made masks from fabric with emojis, Care Bears, My Little Pony and patriotic prints, and I just ordered some baseball fabric,” said Sarah Vandomelen, a supervisor at the Cooperstown Price Chopper. She started by making a few masks for her co-workers at…
Shopping Local With Libby: Vintage is So Today By LIBBY CUDMORE • allotsego.com Edition Of Dec. 12, 2014 COOPERSTOWN If Oneonta is where you go for the unique, Cooperstown is where you go for the antique. “It’s an old-fashioned kind of village,” said Kathryn Busse, co-owner with husband Rich of Christmas Around the Corner and the Silver Fox Gift Shop, 139 Main St. “It reminds people of a Victorian Christmas.” Living in Oneonta, I’ve never given myself the chance to…