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Old Street Signs New By LIBBY CUDMORE
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ith a painter’s eyes, May-Britt Joyce noticed that something was amiss in Cooperstown. “I saw that all the old street signs were rusty,” she said. “They looked terrible.” The 34 black-and-white street signs that marked intersections of Pine and Lake, Walnut and Linden, and Hill and Main Streets – among others – had fallen into disrepair. “And I thought, ‘I can do something’.” She consulted with Village Trustee Cindy Falk, who chairs the Streets Committee, Instead of something green like about repainting the signs this... herself. “We didn’t realize how bad they looked,” said Falk. Joyce began with the sign at the corner of Hill and Main streets, on Irish Hill. The village delivered the signs to her and in her basement workshop, she sands, primes and then repaints the signs with rustproof paint. The village then picks them up and erected the fresh signs. Please See SIGNS, B2
Oneonta Town Supervisor Bob Wood joins in the applause after conducting the CSO in Sousa’s “Stars & Stripes Forever” at the 2014 Catskill Symphony Orchestra’s annual Cabaret. This year, Dr. Anya Bitterman, Rachel Lutz Jessup and Barbara Roberts compete for the guest conductor slot.
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heer on your favorite guest conductor at the Catskill Symphony Orchestra’s annual Cabaret fundraiser, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 21. Jazz singer Hilary Kole headlines, radio host “Big Chuck” D’Imperio is emcee. “Battling” for the baton are: opthamologist Anya Bitterman; the Bank of Cooperstown’s Rachel Lutz Jessup, and realtor Barbara Roberts. Alumni Field House, Ravine Pkwy., SUNY Oneonta. Tickets $40 at (607) 436-2670 or www. catskillsymphony.net. OCA ‘TRIPLE PLAY’: Oneonta Concert Association presents Chris Brubeck’s Triple Play, 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 20. Trio includes Chris, son of jazz legend Dave Brubeck. Two OCA Young Artists open the show. Tickets $25 adults; $6 students Hunt Union Ballroom, Ravine Pkwy., SUNY Oneonta. Info, www.oneontaconcertassociation.org.
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MAGIC SHOW: Award-winning illusionist Jason Bishop hosts a familyfriendly show, 6 p.m. Friday, March 20. Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Tickets $20 at www.foothillspac.org
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Since last fall, artist (and citizen) May-Britt Joyce has been voluntarily repainting the Village of Cooperstown’s vintage street signs from the 1940s.
...May-Britt Joyce envisions something like this.
PET TALK: Veterinarian Francis Fassett brings some furry friends to the Cooperstown Village Library, 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 21, to talk to families about choosing and caring for pets. Free. 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, www.villagelibraryofcooperstown. org or (607) 547-8344.
Veterans, Get Choice Card – And Access To Healthcare VA Patients From County May Soon Be Treated At Bassett, Fox mentioned that he had been By LIBBY CUDMORE a POW after his plane got shot down over Germany,” hen the daughter of a he said. “We managed to get deceased Veteran came her mother an extra $1,500 a into Jack Henson’s ofmonth, tax-free. Those are the fice, he knew he had to help. rewarding stories. That’s who “Her mother was living on I do my job for.” $1,000 a month and her dad Henson, himself a Vietnam had served in World War II,” veteran, wants to make sure all Congresssaid Henson, director of the veterans receive the benefits man Gibson Otsego County Department of they have coming to them. “I co-sponVeteran Affairs. “I knew she work for the vets,” he said. sored the was eligible for $800 in spousal Choice Card “I’m their advocate.” benefits.” One of his latest informabill. But there was more. “She Please See CARDS, B3
‘LOST ONEONTA’ STORIES: Retired SUNY Oneonta president Alan Donovan and City Historian Mark Simonson invite the public to share and record collected memories of buildings featured in GOHS’ “Lost Oneonta” exhibit. 2-4 p.m., Saturday, March 21. Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Info (607) 432-0960.
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SPOOKTACULAR SHOW: Cooperstown High School drama club presents “Meet the Creeps!” 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, March 19-21, in Sterling Auditorium, 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown. Info (607) 547-8181.
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Veterans, who you gonna call? Jack Henson, director of the county Office of Veteran Affairs, wants you to call him – (607) 5474224 – if you don’t have your Choice Card.
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