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What Should Future Of Cooperstown Be? Village Board, IDA Plan Citizen-Based Community Vision
The Freeman’s Journal
Library patron Eileen Schatzel, Burlington Flats, passes under the banner gracing the front entrance of the Village Library of Cooperstown. It was placed there by the village Library Board and the Friends of the Village Library after voters June 8 approved a dedicated source of funding for the library by an 80-20 margin.
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Susan Bruce hopes that Olli’s at Chestnut and Main will be a community gathering place as well as a restaurant and pastoral market.
CCA’s “What’s In Our Water?” program has found, one, drinking water is “very good” locally and, two, there is now a “legally defensible baseline” of data that allows contamination to With Summer, Starts-Ups be detected. Multiply On Main Street OCCA contracted with Community Science InBy LIBBY CUDMORE stitute in August 2013 to conduct the study. Findings will be released at COOPERSTOWN the Otsego Lake Festival Saturday, July 12, in Lakeor Alex Webster, owner of Alex & front Park. Ika here and Cantina de Salsa in Cherry Valley, the taste of a cornVOICES HEARD: The dog was the taste of Village Board Monday, June vacation. 23, moved to allow park“I grew up in ing on Beaver Street and England, where they expand notification of zondidn’t have corndogs,” ing changes after residents he said. “I would go complained. visit my grandma in California, and I have INJURED VETS: World very strong, happy T.E.A.M. Sports Can-Am memories of getting a Veterans’ charity ride is in corndog.” Cooperstown Wednesday, Beginning in July, June 25, en route to march Webster will share Jessamee in the Fourth of July parade Sanders those happy memories in Washington D.C. paints Omme- with other vacationing gang’s logo at families with the the brewery’s Please See pop-up shop DOWNTOWN, A6
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he future of Cooperstown may include offices, restaurants and hotels around Railroad Avenue, a green swath leading through what is Jeff Katz now a parking lot to historic Doubleday Field, and a vibrant waterfront, part of seven redevelopment nodes being comtemplated by the village’s Economic Sustainability Committee and the county Industrial Development Agency. Whether it does – or another vision emerges – will grow out of a “Comprehensive Plan & Economic Development Revitalization Strategy” to be launched perhaps as soon Please See VISION, A7
Final Piece Completes Circle On Revival Of Historic Crop By JIM KEVLIN Alex Webster, above, polishes the window at Cooperstown Corndog Co., 149 Main. At left, Lucy Townsend’s Farmhouse Market has expanded at 29 Pioneer.
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wo flatbeds from Harbor Freight Transport, Port Newark, N.J., arrived at the Cooperstown Brewing Co. here shortly before noon Monday, June 23, with the final pieces of the foundation needed to revive the crop that created Otsego County’s greatest period of prosperity. Hops, that is. Please See HOPS/A7
THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST PRINT CIRCULATION 2010 WINNERS OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD