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COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
2ND BIGGEST PROJECT IN VILLAGE HISTORY
This Isn’t Simple Sidewalk Repair
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Mr. and Mrs. Bunny lead Tara, Tess and Lincoln Dilorenzo and the rest of the kids in the Saturday, April 19, Easter Parade up Pioneer Street from Lakefront Park to a tea at the Tunnicliff.
Q&A Planned On Funding For Library
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question-and-answer session is planned at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 4, on the resolution to support the Village Library of Cooperstown that will appear on CCS’ ballot Tuesday, May 20, moderated at the library by the League of Women Voters. As recommended by the state Board of Regents, the library board is proposing that the village library and Kinney Memorial Library in Hartwick be designated school district libraries, to allow their funding to be approved annually on the district ballot. HELP AFTER FIRE: The Smithy Center for the Arts will host a benefit for the Tandle family of Hartwick, whose home was destroyed by February fire, 6- 8 p.m. Friday, May 9, featuring live music, a silent auction (donations sought until the event) and “Spring Clean” Art Swap.
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Syrstone Inc.’s Bo Shapley, Sylvan Beach, lowers a granite curb to be set in place along Main Street by John Harrison, center, Fort Plain, and Hans Oertel, Johnstown. Below, three of 17 concrete frames, which will soon house rain guards, line the block between Hoffman Lane and Mickey’s Place. Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal
One-Month In, What’s Going On? By JIM KEVLIN
4 Running For 2 CCS Vacancies COOPERSTOWN
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wo newcomers emerged as candidates for the CCS Board of Education by the 5 p.m. Monday, April 21, filing deadline: • Tim Hayes, Cooperstown, senior advancement officer in SUNY Oneonta’s Division of College Advancement. • David Petri, Christian Hill, the former candidate for Hartwick town supervisor. The two board members whose terms are up are also running: • Theresa Russo, Cooperstown, professor, SUNY Oneonta Human Ecology Department. • Jean Schifano, Beaver Meadow area, an admiistrator in Bassett Hospital’s Pediatrics Department. District Clerk Wendy Lansing said the League of Women Voters is planning a candidates forum. The polls will be open 7 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday, May 20, at Room 304 at the high school, when the $18 million 2014-15 budget will also be up for a vote. For a look at tentative budget, follow link from: WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM
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eed to redo a sidewalk? Hire a guy who jackhammers away the old concrete, 10 inches or so, and pours a new slab. Job done. By contrast, the Village of Cooperstown’s expensive sidewalk redo – an estimated $3 million by the time it’s done – is a major multi-stepped construction project that, when complete, “will become a showpiece for multiple people,” said Mayor Jeff Katz.
Mayor Katz leads Trustee Cindy Falk and engineers Jon McManus and Frank Novak on an inspection.
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11C Bridge Completion Being Done By LIBBY CUDMORE
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ravelers trying to take Hartwick Seminary’s Route 11C bridge across the Susquehanna will find that the bridge saga is Thursday, April 17, sitting on piano not over yet. By LIBBY CUDMORE benches and coffee tables as staff Completing repairs to the tried to pack more chairs into rows. former truss bridge damONEONTA “It’s a thrill to see this many people aged March 20, 2013, when KITES WILL FLY: A Kite here,” said SUNY Oneonta President a 13-foot, 4-inch tall truck Festival, the fifth, is planned r. Cindy Falk’s 20th annual SuNancy Kleniewski. “We’ve never carrying bottles bound for again this year, on Sept. 27, san Sutton Smith Prize lecture, had a crowd like this before.” Ommegang became enCherry Valley Artworks an“Barns of New York,” drew a Falk, Cooperstown Graduate Pro- tangled in the 10-foot, 3-inch nounced. bigger crowd than anyone was anticigram professor of material culture structure, tops county Highpating. (and a Cooperstown village trustee), way Supt. Ron Tiderencel’s Students and public packed SUNY said a guide to the state’s barns, to-do list for 2014. Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal Oneonta’s Morris Conference Center Please See FALK, A6 Please See ROADS, A6 Professor Falk gives Sutton lecture.
NY Barns Inspire, Prize-Winning Professor Falk Declares
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