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Work begins on Chestnut Crossing as project clears village boards

Work begins on Chestnut Crossing as project clears village boards By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Two months after getting its special-use permit from the Cooperstown Board of Trustees, the Chestnut Crossing apartment complex at 10 Chestnut St. is mostly finished at the municipal level. According to village documents, the project has had public hearings and gotten approvals from the village committees that must approve various parts of the project, including its architecture, fencing, parking, sidewalks, streets, lighting and…

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Village Board Approves Girl Scouts’ Inclusive Vision

Cherry Valley Board OKs Girl Scouts’ Inclusive Vision By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com CHERRY VALLEY – Girl Scouts, Bailey Thayer and Zola Palmer are making a difference in their community. When brainstorming service project ideas, the fourth and fifth-grade juniors suggested improving the village playground behind the Cherry Valley Community Center – formerly the Cherry Valley School – by adding more equipment. Specifically, Zola is excited to add spinners to the current equipment. “I like to spin,” she…

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Mary-Margaret Robbins Has Brains, Courage, Kindliness

LETTER from PATSY SMITH Mary-Margaret Robbins Has Brains, Courage, Kindliness To the Editor: I feel strongly that I do endorse the candidacy of Mary-Margaret Robbins for village trustee. I have known Mary-Margaret for a long time, and I admire her brain power, as well as her kindness to others and her guts. Most of us knew her when she was a pharmacists at CVS. Unfortunately, she had to retire from that job to take care of her health. Today she…

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Trustees Consider Requiring Masks On Main – Always

CLICK HERE FOR ZOOM MEETING Trustees Consider Requiring Masks On Main – Always Special Meeting Deals With Multiple COVID-19 Issues By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – At a special meeting that ended just few minutes ago, the Village Board directed Trustee Richard Sternberg to confer with the village attorney on a law requiring people to wear masks at all times in the Main Street area. The law would be effective on Main between Chestnut and Fair streets,…

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Village Board Attendees Can Sit 6-Feet-Plus Apart

Village Board Attendees Can Sit 6-Feet-Plus Apart Monthly Meeting Moved To Ballroom COOPERSTOWN – The Village Board’s monthly meeting is Monday, and Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch announced it will proceed as scheduled, but – adapting to the Coronavirus threat – will be moved from the basement meeting room at 22 Main to the second-floor ballroom. This will allow attendees to space themselves 6 feet apart, as recommended by “social distancing” guidelines.  While the trustees and Village Administrator Teri Barown will…

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Public Hearing Tonight On Bassett Parking Lot

Public Hearing Tonight On Bassett Parking Lot COOPERSTOWN – The Village Board is planning a public hearing on Bassett Hospital’s proposed 150-space parking lot at Susquehanna and Walnut at 7 p.m. this evening during its January meeting. The plan will require demolition of the four homes now on Riverside Drive.…

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Village Trustees:  Keep Cooperstown Cooperstown

EDITORIAL Village Trustees:  Keep Cooperstown Cooperstown A sitting-room-only-on-the-floor crowd Monday, June 24, at the Cooperstown Village Board’s monthly meeting had a point: Why put an apartment house in the middle of one of the village’s finest single-family-home neighborhoods? There it is. That said, who doesn’t have some mixed feelings, given that the developer, Josh Edmonds, intends to build a complex that is supremely energy efficient, as is his new home at 45 Delaware St., and to price it so young…

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Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

Now through March 30, new annual subscribers to “The Freeman’s Journal” and AllOtsego.com (or subscribers who have lapsed for two or more years) have an opportunity to help their choice of one of four Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice:

Cooperstown Farmers’ Market, Cooperstown Food Pantry, Greater Oneonta Historical Society or Super Heroes Humane Society.