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parking tide ebbs as public objects After Hearing, Trustees Spare Church, River Streets, But Pay & Display Machines Expanded To 2 Others
removed Church Street, and River Street (between Main and the Bassett Clinic), from COOPERSTOWN the paid-parking expansion list. he trustees Monday, However, the same moFeb. 23, unanimously tion did expand paid parktook the first step ing, adding Pay & Display backwards – two steps back, machines to the Fair and in fact – after Chestnut streets years of what blocks between seemed to be Main and Lake an inexorable streets. forward march Prior to the of on-street meeting, trustees paid parking in had received a the Village of letter from Christ Cooperstown. Episcopal and On a moCooperstown tion by Streets Presbyterian Committee chair churches and the Cindy Falk, Cooperstown The Rev. Mark seconded by Food Pantry sayargues Deputy Mayor Michael ing paid parking against an “onerJim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal Ellen Tillaon Church Street ous burden”: Don’t cause Cooperstown Food Pantry clients to pay parking fees, Pantry paugh Kuch, the paid parking on Please See board president Sharon Oberriter asks the Village Board. Village Board PARKING, B8 Church Street. By JIM KEVLIN
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Fly Creek’s Victor Erway flips into Goodyear Lake Saturday, Feb. 20, during the 20th Polar Bear Jump, which raised a record $130,000 despite the record cold/DETAILS, A7
League Invites 3 Candidates To 3/9 Forum COOPERSTOWN
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he three candidates for two Village Board vacancies – incumbents Jim Dean and Cindy Falk, and challenger John Sansevere – are expected at a Monday, March 9, forum, sponsored by the League of Women Voters. The event will be 7-9 p.m. at Village Hall, 22 Main St. The candidates will explain their positions and there will be an opportunity for citizens to ask questions, according to the League’s Nancy Potter. The election is Wednesday, March 18. ENTRIES SOUGHT: Cherry Valley Artworks is inviting submissions for sculptures to be exhibited during the fifth Biennial Sculpture Trail, which runs June 13 through Oct. 17 in Cherry Valley. Details at cvartworks.org CLEAR HYDRANTS: Village Hall is encouraging homeowners to dig out fire hydrants in front of their homes, which would ensure faster response if a fire were to occur.
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Renters, Downtown Residents Struggle With Inconveniences COOPERSTOWN
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iving in parkingstarved Cooperstown is a pain, to hear people who are experiencing it. If you live on Main Street: “It’s an incredible challenge in the summer,” Jeannine Webster, who lives above Alex & Ika’s with her
restaurateur husband, Alex, told the Village Board’s Monday, Feb. 23, public hearing on paid-parking expansion. Trying to get her kids to and from the lake – or her groceries home – when there’s no parking anywhere, is a daily ordeal, she said. Trustee Falk, left, made a motion to spare If you rent in or around Please See HASSLES, B8 Church, River; Trustee Tillapaugh seconded.
Joan Clark describes her heart going ‘bang, bang, bang.’
Sansevere Describes Better Way Tabor-DeSantis Proposal Village’s Boards Should Be Help To Residents, Candidate Says By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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any of the 46 windows on John Sansevere’s Federal style home, with Victorian upgrades, leaked – as windows in older homes can – and he
went to the village Planning Board for approval of replacements. After listening to the debate back and forth, Sansevere, who is running for Village Board in the Wednesday, March 19, elections, the first challenger of the Democratic majority since 2011, said, “You pick out the windows. I’ll do whatever you want.” Please See CANDIDATE, A3
Captured On ‘Kiss Cam’
By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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etting caught on the Syracuse Orangeman “Kiss Cam” started as a running joke between Jason Tabor and
Emily DeSantis, but on Saturday, Feb. 21, that joke became a proposal. “I had the ring, but she had no clue,” said Jason, who represents the Principal Financial Group in Cooperstown. Jason and Emily, a Please See RING, A7
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