Published: January 01, 2010 01:11 pm      

New year will bring change

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.