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December 20, 2012

The Cooperstown Carol for 2012

-- Cooperstown Crier

For a number of years now, we have faithfully penned, with apologies to any number of Christmas carols, a Cooperstown Carol in which we have included the seemingly important comings and goings of the village during the year. And this year will not be an exception to the tradition. Thus we offer the Cooperstown Carol for 2012.

This year at Christmas we think you just might get ...

Twelve Dreams Park weeks;

Eleven busloads of tourists;

Ten fewer county employees;

Nine bone-jarring potholes;

Eight demeaning comments;

Seven more CCS courses;

Six more zoning bans;

Five trillion more in debt;

Four sides of any issue;

Three local tax increases;

Two-hour paid parking;

And no whistle to blow at noon.

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and the Happiest of New Years.

PLEASE NOTE: Comments regarding this column may be made by mail at 105 Pioneer St., Cooperstown, NY 13326, by telephone at 547-8124 or by email at cellsworth1@stny.rr.com

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In These Otsego Hills
  • Imagine what might have been ... A while back we got a telephone call from a reader of this column wanting to know why we had not written a column in support of Otsego Manor continuing to be owned and operated by Otsego County. And even though we have followed the debate over this issue in the newspaper, we readily admitted we did not feel we knew enough about the situation to take a stand.

    May 16, 2013

  • Time, if not traffic, moves on ... It is with sadness we note the passing of two people who we have known since moving to Cooperstown in 1982.

    May 9, 2013

  • The importance of speaking up ... Over the years we have come to understand that, in writing a weekly column, it is not possible to always please everyone. And such was the case with our column that ran at the end of March in which we wrote about our experience as in inpatient following a total hip replacement.

    April 25, 2013

  • Easter brought plenty of dinners to attend We are most happy to report that we did very well this year in the "Easter Dinner" category. In fact, we managed to take in two such dinners, the first of which was a family get-together held on Saturday night at the Fly Creek home of Alice and Harvey Eckler.

    April 11, 2013

  • For everything there is a season ... It is with sadness that we note the recent death of Grace Welsh.

    April 4, 2013

  • Not just the cost of health care matters ... After last week's column regarding billing procedures within the health care industry, we have been asked if we have an opinion regarding the quality of health care regardless of its cost. And while we cannot speak to the overall quality of health care in the country, we can answer the question when it comes to our own experience, most particularly our inpatient experience, with the quality of the health care system locally.

    March 28, 2013

  • Healthcare exposé shocking, sick Written by Steven Brill, the article, "Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us," explains, in what we found to be rather grim detail, why the cost of medicine seems so very, very high.

    March 21, 2013

  • The Widge comes and the Redskins go We were delighted last week when the Ohio Ellsworths made a somewhat unusual mid-winter visit.

    March 14, 2013

  • 'This is Your Brain on Music' We note that the next meeting of the Literary Discussion Group, sponsored by the Women's Club of Cooperstown, will be held on Thursday, March 28, at 2:30 p.m. at the Village of Cooperstown Library. The book selection for the meeting will be "This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession" by Daniel J. Levitin. Vivian Steinberg will lead the discussion of the book. The meeting is open to the public.

    March 7, 2013

  • Winter is flying by ... We find it most difficult to believe that we have come to the end of February. Much to our delight, the winter months seem to be flying by in spite of the fact that we have basically been housebound since the end of December. However, we hasten to point out that we are breaking the bonds of the house and slowly getting back into the swing of things.

    February 28, 2013