Dreams Park To Fight Reval

HARTWICK

Cooperstown Dreams Park has advised the Town of Hartwick it will challenge its new assessment in court.
Dreams Park saw its valuation quintuple in the just-completed assessment, from $3,229,546 to $16,917,700.
Seven property-owners’ disputes were resolved in small-claims court. The only one of the other 1,505 landowners to sue was another big one: Cooperstown Commons.

BACH’S BEST: Don’t miss two chances to hear the Brandenburg Concertos live, No. 5 at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, at Templeton Hall, and all of them 7:30 p.m. Sunday at The Farmers’ Museum. While you’re at it, join the 200 Club to benefit the Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival.

NO TRIATHLON: The Glimmerglass Triathlon, held at Glimmerglass State Park for the past two decades, has been cancelled this year. The park has a new administration with new priorities.

ART SHOW: “Through the Eyes of Others: African Americans and Identity in American Art,” curated by CGP Director Gretchen S. Sorin, uses art from the Clark Collection to explore blacks in 19th century America. It opens Saturday, Aug. 23, at the Fenimore Art Museum.

‘CODE’ CALLED OFF: Bassett Hospital declared a rare “Code Yellow” emergency Monday, Aug. 12 – signaling possible multiple injuries – after a report that a Birnie Bus carrying Pathfinder Village residents had been rear-ended in downtown Edmeston. Extra personnel were called in and 11 people were brought in to be examined, but just as a precaution.

MUSEUM BOUND: The New York Yankees have requested two editions of The Freeman’s Journal on Rich “Goose” Gossage’s induction, July 25 and Aug. 1, to include in the museum associated with the new Yankee Stadium due to open in 2009.

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