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FOUR STORIES MAY RISE AT FORMER TJ’S
HOTEL PROPOSED
goal as “a nice, higher-end hotel.” According to the plan on file COOPERSTOWN in Village Hall, “The developers will create an upscale building erry V. Ferrara, propriwhose exterior will clearly reetor of the Heroes of flect the look and feel of ‘AmerBaseball Wax Museum ica’s Most Perfect Village’. The and adjoining Hard Ball Café, is added height of the building will Ferrara proposing a 22-unit, four-story be comparable to that of neighresidential hotel across Main boring structures.” Street at the former TJ’s Restaurant at It continues, “The first floor will The Freeman’s Journal 124 Main St. house a modern lobby, offices and an Having completed Mayor Jeff Katz described Ferrara’s Please See HOTEL, A7 Chestnut Street, you
The plans for a new downtown Cooperstown hotel are on file at Village Hall.
By JIM KEVLIN
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may see this apparatus from Pothole Killers of Fairless Hills, Pa., on Lake and River streets this week, part of a two-week, $18,000 experiment the Village Board is conducting to find a better, cheaper way to fix potholes.
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s planned, the second half of the village’s $2 million sidewalk project will resume the day after Labor Day on the south side of Main Street between Chestnut Street and Pioneer Alley. The Main Street entrance to Doubleday Field will also be affected. Weather allowing, the project will be finished this fall. SUMMER’S END: The National Baseball Hall of Fame’s regular hours resume Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 1. It will be open 9-5, seven days a week, closed only on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day. BILLS IN MAIL: CCS tax bills, reflecting a 1.72 percent increase in the levy, were due to be mailed out Monday, Sept. 8. DEBATES PLANNED: Congressional candidates Chris Gibson and Sean Eldridge have agreed to four debates in October. Details, WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
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By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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he boys of summer may be gone, but the party in Cooperstown is just getting started. “A lot of people think that Cooperstown is just a baseball community,” said Matt Hazzard, Chamber of Commerce interim executive director. “But Please See FEST, A7 Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal
Lisa Nagle, right, founding partner in Elan Planning & Design, Saratoga Springs, mans a table at the Cooperstown Farmers’ Market Saturday, Aug. 23, distributing surveys to tourists and summer residents, the beginning of a comprehensive planning project for Cooperstown. Sam Ross and friend Kate Seeley, Cherry Valley, partake.
Planning Underway To Envision Even More-Perfect Cooperstown Survey Starts Collecting Data; ‘Charrette’ Week Planned In October By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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harting Cooperstown’s road to the future began Saturday, Aug. 23, when 70 summer visitors and tourists answered a simply four-question survey.
“Many of the things that people want actually exist,” said Village Trustee Cindy Falk, who got a peek at early results. “We’re just not promoting them.” Foremost was different kinds of foods – a taco stand, in particular. But the first 74 surveys filled out – 155 at the Cooperstown Farmers’ Market; 19 at Pioneer Park – also asked for more variety of
stores; in particular, fewer baseball stores. But “it was a pretty select group,” she said, noting that 38 percent of the farmers’ market respondents were local. “They probably don’t shop at baseball stores.” Saturday’s canvas – Lisa Nagle, a principal in Elan Planning & Please See VISION, B8
Trustees: Village Employees Aren’t Above The Law By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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esponding to a citizen’s complaint that village employees are flouting parking laws, Mayor Jeff Katz and the trustees are telling them: Desist! “Village employees are not subject to a different law than everybody else,” the mayor said emphatically at the trustees’ monthly Please See PARKING, A2
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