COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND

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COOPERSTOWN

Beginning with the Fenimore Quilt Club show, which opens 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, extensive damage from a steam leak is requiring all Cooperstown Art Association exhibits to be held until further notice on the second floor of 22 Main.
“We are taking this unfortunate circumstance as an opportunity to re-assess the use of our space, to make it better and more professional as we go forward,” said Janet Erway, CAA executive director.

CAPITALISM LIVES! 48 middle school student-entrepreneurs will demonstrate products they developed through the new “TREP$” program at a marketplace planned 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, Feb. 6, in the CCS cafeteria.  The public is welcome.

FRICK WINNER:  The National Baseball Hall of Fame has announced that Jon Miller, the voice of ESPN’s national Sunday Night Baseball telecasts for 20 years, is 2010 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award. 

BIRD COUNT:  The National Audubon Society’s 13th annual Great Backyard Bird Count is Friday-Sunday, Feb. 12-15.  To participate locally, contact the Delaware-Otsego chapter’s John Davis at davi7js4@hughes.net or 547-9688.

NEXT BROWN?  Time magazine has listed Republican Richard Hanna of Cooperstown and Barnevelt, who is running again against U.S. Rep. Mike Arcuri, D-24, as one of its 10 best prospects for pulling another “Scott Brown,” the upset in Massachusetts’ U.S. Senate race.