http://www.coopercrier.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:32:00 +0000 http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_234093306.html http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_234093306.html I haven’t had a bird report in awhile, but we are still enjoying our summer birds around the area. Bill and Marsha Mabie have had numerous finches, some orioles, flickers, a pair of cedar waxwings, busy little hummingbirds, among other birds. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:26:00 +0000 http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_234092632.html http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_234092632.html I’d been sprawled on the couch, watching the Olympic swimming, contrasting the athletes’ grace, skill, and stamina with my own splashand- splatter style at the Clark Center. Suddenly I heard the back door slam and Anne’s voice at a shout. “Get out back quick! Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:16:00 +0000 http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_234091804.html http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_234091804.html Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:15:00 +0000 http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_234091558.html http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_234091558.html The village board is looking at undertaking another streets project and another bond. The project is a comprehensive $3 million job that would include work on water lines, sanitary and storm drains and street resurfacing in the South End of the village. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:11:00 +0000 http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_234091242.html http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_234091242.html Just when we had decided that Cooperstown was being recognized for more than just baseball, we started reading an article on bromeliads, of all things, only to stumble on the comparison of a given garden being to bromeliads “... what St. Andrews is to golf or what Cooperstown is to baseball: a living shrine.” Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:27:00 +0000 http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_227082821.html http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_227082821.html I’ve blundered into a metaphysical problem again, or perhaps the Twilight Zone. Perhaps you’d like to help. Like many gents of my age, during the night I take a constitutional or two the bathroom. I stand for a while in quiet rumination and then return to bed. The other night, around one, I shuffled barefoot onto the cold tile but paused by the basin. In it, halfway up the side, was a water beetle. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:23:00 +0000 http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_227082609.html http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_227082609.html Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:21:00 +0000 http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_227082211.html http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_227082211.html This morning’s chill in the air is a reminder that summer is waning and flannel shirt days are just around the corner. As is summer’s wont, we will experience some hot dog days now and then. We have certainly had quite enough of lightning and thunder. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:20:00 +0000 http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_227082104.html http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_227082104.html Roses to Marc Connor, who graduated from Cooperstown Central School in 1988, for winning the top award at the New York State Historical Association “Taste of the Sublime” exhibition held on the lawn behind the Fenimore Art Museum Saturday. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:16:00 +0000 http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_227081654.html http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_227081654.html During the past week, the Northeast got the coolest weather in the nation. That’s because of a series of low pressure systems that rotated around a large upper-level trough in place over eastern Canada. This provided unusually cold air aloft, and a very unstable atmosphere. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:15:00 +0000 http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_227081520.html http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_227081520.html Over the years, we have always been interested in what various publications say about our fair corner of the world. And while we suspect that most of what is written specifically about Cooperstown revolves around baseball, this summer we have noted several articles about Cooperstown which emphasize that there is more to Cooperstown than baseball. Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:52:00 +0000 http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_220095504.html http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_220095504.html Our garden this year is doing well, but last week was surely hard to do much in it with all the rain we received and the constant thunderstorms off and on throughout the week. Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:31:00 +0000 http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_220093210.html http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_220093210.html Last week, friends, I told you the bittersweet story of old Brother Azarias, a monk in the order to which I belonged for 13 years. Azarias was long dead when I did my novitate as a Christian Brother, but stories of his bizarre behavior still hung in the novitiate’s air, a quarter century after his death. Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:27:00 +0000 http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_220093004.html http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_220093004.html Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:26:00 +0000 http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_220092712.html http://www.coopercrier.com/opinion/local_story_220092712.html In the immortal words of Clint Eastwood: ``A man’s got to know his limitations.’’ Cherry Valley’s Tim Horvath certainly knows his own.