While many will spend the next few days
reminiscing about 2009, we at the Crier are
already looking forward to next year.
We are ready to ring in a new year and look
forward to the events to come.
Just last week, Hall of Fame President Jeff
Idelson had us looking forward to the summer
with the announcement of the addition of a Hall of
Fame Parade to Induction Weekend 2010.
The parade may feature as many as 50 Hall of
Famers riding in open cars down Main St. to the
Hall of Fame on Saturday evening, July 24.
The parade will give fans the chance to see their
baseball heroes up close and personal and perhaps
interact with them on some level, Idelson said.
We think this is an excellent addition to the
Hall’s biggest weekend, and should help draw fans
to Cooperstown for the entire weekend.
Also, the annual Winter Carnival will be here
before we know it. The Cooperstown Winter
Carnival Committee has announced that the
popular 44th annual festival will take place Feb.
5-7, featuring a western theme — Wild, Wild,
Winter.
The popular event attracts young and old, and
is full of new and old favorite activities. We always
count on the Carnival for some mid-winter
entertainment.
Fireworks will begin festivities on Friday, Feb.
5, and the annual parade will be held on Saturday
morning, kicking off a weekend full of activities.
We hope that our readers will be happy with
the changes in our paper beginning with the first
issue in January, when we will unveil a redesign
to the Cooperstown Crier.
The hope is that the redesign will give us a
cleaner, easier to read newspaper which will also
be more aesthetically appealing as well.
We hope readers will let us know what they
think of the changes by calling us at 547-9493 or
emailing crier@csdsl.net.
We at the Crier look forward to many other
traditional events held in Cooperstown each year,
such as the Farmers’ Museum’s Junior Livestock
Show, the Hall of Fame’s Father’s Day Classic and
Induction Weekend, the Pumpkin Festival and
Regatta, and much more. We also look forward to
telling you about new people and events that make
the news in the village and surrounding areas in
2010.
