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Thursday, December 21, 2000
Springfield faces suit over camp
Ross Valenza, owner of the Diamond Tee Golf Range in Springfield, is poised to sue the Town of Springfield over a baseball camp planned for his Route 31 property.
Valenza said that a lawsuit will happen "sooner or later, probably sooner," to follow up the notice of claim sent by his attorney Burton Dorfman of Nyack, if Springfield chooses not to exclude his project from the new site plan review law.
Einhorn releases more plan details
HARTWICK SEMINARY - Chicago White Sox co-chairman Eddie Einhorn last week announced some additional details about his revised plan for a youth baseball facility on Route 28, in the town of Hartwick.
Trustees predict gridlock with no time limit
The village board of trustees was not receptive to the mayor's suggestion of eliminating two-hour parking limit in the business district.
Last week Mayor Wendell Tripp told the police committee that he thought it might be time to revisit the perennial parking problems in the village. A problem which he readily admitted had no solution.
Thursday, December 14, 2000
Area named to `endangered' list
Six months ago the Preservation of League of New York State honored the Glimmerglass Historic District with one of its annual statewide preservation awards. Now, the district and region surroundign it have been named to the league's annual Seven to Save list of endangered historic places.
Officials mixed about listing
The announcement that the Glimmerglass region has been named to the Preservation League's annual list of "Seven to Save" endangered historic sites drew mixed response from local officials.
"If they are concerned, they have good reason to be. A lot of us in the region are concerned about the affect of rapid development on the rural area," said Cooperstown mayor Wendell Tripp.
Hall attendance down slightly
After drawing over 380,000 visitors in 1999, the National Baseball Hall of Fame is on pace to draw around 346,000 in 2000, according to John Ralph, the Hall's executive director of communications and education.
Time for 2-hour parking expired
Drivers will no longer have to play musical chairs with downtown parking spaces every two hours if the board of trustees approves a proposal from mayor Wendell Tripp.
During Tuesday morning's police committee meeting, the mayor asked the members to consider examining the parking problem, which he said boils down to too many cars and too few spaces.
Springfield adopts plan law
The Springfield town board decided to toss out proposed revisions to a model site plan review law and instead adopted the original version during its meeting Monday night.
Passage of the law prompted the threat of a lawsuit from Dreams Park-style baseball camp developer Victor Alfieri, a Rockland County attorney.
Thursday, December 7, 2000
Town closer to new law
HARTWICK - The Hartwick town board listened to comments Monday night regarding a proposed local law governing reimbursement of consulting costs in regard to the planning board's review of development proposals. The law, entitled Reimbursement of Fees and Expenses to the Town of Hartwick, would require developers, or applicants to deposit money in an escrow at the time they submit their application to the planning board.
Einhorn has new players
HARTWICK SEMINARY - Eddie Einhorn will have two new players on his Cooperstown Youth Baseball team when he submits his new application to the town planning board.
But whether the planning board will accept his application at its December 12 meeting is still in question.
Coalition and town at odds over bill
Developers are not the only ones Hartwick has been after for reimbursement of consulting fees.
During Monday's public hearing, the Glimmerglass Coalition's unpaid bill came up briefly when developers mentioned the group's failure to pay.
Thursday, November 30, 2000
GEIS wants residents' vision for the future
People should begin thinking now about what their vision is for the future of the area because in January Nan Stolzenberg is going to ask them to tell her about it. Stolzenberg, the consultant hired to complete a generic environmental impact statment, or GEIS, plans to seek out residents' idea of what they want to see for their community in the coming years.
Therapist offers help with transitions
Esther Miller specializes in helping people through pivotal moments in their lives.
Transitions, her counseling center on Main Street in Cooperstown, serves not only adults and couples, but adolescents as well. Working with young people has become a big part of what Miller does, partly because adolescence itself is layered with transformations.
2001 Hall of Fame ballot is set for vote
NEW YORK -Kirby Puckett, Dave Winfield and Don Mattingly are among 17 first-time candidates on this year's ballot for the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Kirk Gibson, Lance Parrish, Dave Stewart and Andy Van Slyke also appear for the first time on ballots, which were mailed this week to 10-year members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
Springfield social tradition still alive
EAST SPRINGFIELD - A small town tradition that once drew as many as 40 people each week to play cards is still alive in East Springfield.
The Thursday night "pitch" tournament, which runs for 12 weeks beginning on the Thursday after Labor Day and another 12 weeks beginning on the Thursday after New Year's Day, has been around for as long as local residents can remember.
Wednesday, November 22, 2000
Triple-A wants Cooperstown series
Triple-A Baseball is still interested in bringing its World Series to Cooperstown's Doubleday Field.
Randy Mobley, the President of the International League of Professional Baseball Clubs and Triple-A Baseball, was in town last week with two other league representatives to continue the discussions about playing the series here in September.
Clark builds new Little League field
After seeing the number of players in the Cooperstown Little League diminish significantly in recent years, Jane Forbes Clark is hoping if she builds it, they will play.
Clark, president of The Clark Foundation, announced Tuesday that construction to create a new Little League Baseball field in Cooperstown has been completed at the Clark Sports Center.
Author pushes for self-reliance
Author Michael Shuman brought his message of community self-reliance to Cooperstown last week.
Shuman, the co-director of the Institute for Policy Studies in Arlington, Va., addressed a lunch-time gathering at the Peppermill Restaurant sponsored by the Otsego County Conservation Association, Otsego 2000 and the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce.
Thursday, November 16, 2000
Springfield closer to land use law
The Springfield Town Board met in front of a packed house Monday night to field concerns about the proposed site plan review law and suggested changes to the law stemming from a public hearing held last week. "We'll take questions and comments for about two minutes," Supervisor Tom Armstrong said.
Springfield resident John McGlynn asked if the baseball facility proposed by developer Vincent Alfieri at the current site of the Diamond Tee Golf Range would be classified as a tax-free educational facility.
"I got no idea," Armstrong responded. Councilman Gary Sikkema said that the purpose of the meeting was to discuss changes to the proposed site plan review, not specific projects.
Board sees details of expansion plan
HARTWICK - The Hartwick town planning board had its first look at the details of the Cooperstown Dreams Park's $3.7 million multi-year expansion plan Tuesday evening.
When complete, the expansion will boost the number of players and coaches visiting the park each week from 950 to 1,160, a 22 percent increase.
Medicinal herbs present opportunity for farmers
Medicinal herbs may be the cure for profitability problems faced by Otsego County farmers.
Barry Graham, owner of Graham Development in Oneonta, produces a line of medicinal herbs called Scientific Herbals. According to Graham, many of the herbs, such as valerian, feverfew, echinacea, astragulas and ginseng can be grown locally.
New plans for CBW next month
HARTWICK - Eddie Einhorn has gone back to the drawing board and will return with a new plan for Cooperstown Baseball World to submit to the planning board, here, next month.
Thursday, November 9, 2000
Dick White to be presented Fetterman Award today
Former Cooperstown basketball coach Dick White walked into Clark Sports Center Director Brad Feik's office Friday evening with two scorebooks from the 1976-77 and 1977-78 Cooperstown basketball seasons under his arm. Those were the years Feik played for White, and were the midst of the "Golden Years" for Cooperstown basketball.
"Look at these games," White said to Feik. "You had 15 points, and we had three other players in double figures and almost everyone else was in the scoring column."
The last part was most important to White, who will be honored with the sixth Patrick C. Fetterman Award at a luncheon at the Otesaga today.
Springfield residents want land use law
SPRINGFIELD CENTER - An overwhelming majority of the more than 100 people who attended the Springfield town board's public hearing Monday night about site plan review were in favor of adopting the local law. Spurred by the recent announcement of plans for a Dreams Park-style baseball camp on County Route 31, residents and property owners have banded together as the Advocates for Springfield with an aim to protect and enhance the quality of life in the town, according to a letter distributed in the town by 20 individuals.
Railroad eyes village tracks
COOPERSTOWN JUNCTION - The Leatherstocking Railway Historical Society plans to use part of a state grant announced last week to acquire a right-of-way which could eventually allow them to deliver excursion train passengers inside the village and not at its outer edge, as it does now.
Wood regains popularity as fuel costs rise
With winter closing in like a vise, the skyrocketing costs of oil have people scrambling for alternative heating methods. The popularity of wood stoves is on the rise given the cost of home heating oil and natural gas and it has prompted David West, Codes Director of the Otsego County Code Enforcement Office, to issue a public service notice regarding the proper installation and use of wood stoves.
Thursday, November 2, 2000
Barnum plans research
Gary Barnum is expanding his roots.
After a quarter of a century spent creating botanical art for the streets and gardens of Cooperstown, Barnum is looking forward to a period of academic research. The mission: to visit a series of historic cities at the height of the holidays when the streets are steeped in deeply religious symbolism and historical traditions.
Milford students learn circus peformance skills
Milford Central School is turning into a circus.
The gymnasium is filled with stiltwalkers, jugglers and acrobats. Feathers are being balanced on the tips of noses. Plate spinners are refining the art of balance in motion.
Ros Devlin and Josh Gillis, fifth graders, tapped across the gym floor on stilts.
Series artifacts arrive at Hall
National Baseball Hall of Fame officials Jeff Idelson and John Ralph returned from last week's Subway Series with a variety of artifacts which will go on display Friday in the Hall's main lobby and be a part of a major Subway Series exhibit set to open Nov. 17.
Dreams Park plans $3.7M expansion
HARTWICK SEMINARY - The Cooperstown Dreams Park, the originator of the tournament-style baseball camp in this area which has spawned many would-be imitators, has announced plans for an almost $3.7 million multi-year expansion.
First GEIS workshops attract small crowds
Just over two dozen people attended the first two in a series of public participation workshops held so far as part of the development of the Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) being prepared for the area. According to Nan Stolzenberg, the consltant hired to conduct the GEIS, the workshops are important opportunities for the public to become involved and give people the chance to identify issues and/or locations in the area that they are worried about.
Trustees support paver proposal
The village board of trustees reaffirmed its relationship with the Friends of Doubleday following a special meeting Friday night.
The vote to continue the relationship did little to change the current situation beyond formally stating the need to formulate an agreement between the two parties.
Plan board OKs Hartwick motel
The Otsego County Planning Board unanimously gave their approval for a new, 76-unit Holiday Inn Express to be built on Route 28 in Hartwick Seminary.
CV-S fifth grader wins top national prize for invention
CHERRY VALLEY—Last year, fourth graders at Cherry-Valley Springfield Central School were given an assignment: invent something that will make life easier.
And one of the young inventors has won the national grand prize in her grade level.
Truck driver gives geography lessons
MILFORD — Students in Milford are catching glimpses of cities and towns across America, thanks to their Trucker Buddy.
John Cannon is a truck driver from Ocala, Florida. As he travels from one city to the next delivering everything from computer chips to styrofoam, his route is monitored in Jim Renckens fifth and sixth grade social studies class.
Hall to honor local Olympic hero, unveil new artifacts
The National Baseball Hall of Fame will honor a Cooperstown native on Thursday, Nov. 2, when Marc Cerbone, who pitched for the Italian national team in Sydney, Australia at this year's Olympic Games, donates his team jersey to the museum.
Thursday, October 19, 2000
Clark names new greenhouse head
In recent years residents and visitors alike have come to enjoy Christmas in Cooperstown because of the extensive decorations created by the staff of the Clark Foundation's Fernleigh Greenhouse. News earlier this week of a change in leadership at the greenhouse led to some concerns about the future of the decorating effort, but those fears are unfounded.
Trustees set meeting to resolve paver issues
The board of trustees has scheduled a special meeting to once-and-for-all make some decisions about the Friends of Doubleday's proposal to sell personalized paving bricks to pay for an estimated $1.2 million in renovations to the field and establish a multi-million dollar endowment to care for the field in the future.
GEIS workshops seek input from residents
The public is invited, and urged to attend, a workshop as part of the development of the Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) being prepared for the area by consultant Nan Stolzenberg.
Roseboom to honor Webb
For thirty-three years, Badgley Webb knew every man, woman and child in Roseboom. Now, his tremendous sense of civic duty is being recognized by the Roseboom Historical Association.
At 85, Webb lives alone in a house across the street from the home where he was born.
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