Talent show, lip syncing to be featured

Community News

Discussion

COMMENTING ON STORIES:

Welcome to our story comments feature. We welcome your thoughts and your opinions, including the unpopular ones. We only ask that you keep your conversations clean, civil and on the topic of the story you are commenting on.

Coinciding with our websites redesign, we launched our new story comments feature through Disqus.

Disqus gives users the ability to log into our story comments feature so that they may be able to track their conversations, receive emails when their comments get a reply or to even have your comments update onto your Facebook or Twitter accounts.

For the time being, our story comments feature will continue to have the ability to post comments anonymously. We reserve the right to require registration in the future using your name and verified email address.

Not all comments are deemed printable. Some are disqualified at the newspaper’s discretion for a number of different reasons. Please follow our Online Rules of Conduct at all times.

RULES OF CONDUCT:

We reserve the right to remove comments that are unacceptable, to wit:

1. False and inacurate statements.
2. Personal attacks. Explicit name-calling.
3. Harassing, harmful, vulgar, obscene and defamatory language.
4. Threatening statements or statements that suggest violence.
5. Hate speech of any kind.
6. Intolerant comments on religion, race, age, gender, sexual preference or disabilities.
7. Accusations of criminal activity.
8. Content that is harmful to children and minors in any way.
9. References to any type of sexual activity and other private matters.
10. Random and inflammatory statements that are off topic.
11. Advertising of any kind.
12. Typing in all caps.

WE ENCOURAGE REASONABLE AND COURTEOUS COMMENTS THAT:

1. Create conversation on issues of interest and concern to fellow readers and local community members.
2. Express opinions and contrarian views.
3. Stimulate debate with respectful language.
4. Stay within the boundaries of these rules.

WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SUSPEND OR TERMINATE ACCESS FOR:

1. Violating any of these Online Rules of Conduct.
2. Deliberately disrupting discussions with repetitive messages, meaningless messages or spam.
3. Misrepresentation of identity or impersonating another user.

WE WELCOME:

1. Flagging violations of these rules that you observe to our attention.

MONITORING:

We monitor comments regularly Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Approval of comments outside of this time (including weekends) will be sporadic.

comments powered by Disqus

January 26, 2011

Talent show, lip syncing to be featured

Anonymous Daily Star The Daily Star Wed Jan 26, 2011, 02:30 AM EST

On Feb. 12, TJ's Restaurant will host Cooperstown's Got Talent and the return of lip sync, presented by the Glimmerglass Festival, as a part of the Cooperstown Winter Carnival.

The talent show, from 6 to 8 p.m., will offer 12 acts to highlight the creative skills of the local community. Space is limited, so those who want to perform should e-mail cooperstownsgottalent@yahoo.com.

The return of a Winter Carnival tradition, the lip sync contest, will follow from 8 to 10 p.m. This contest will allow those 16 and older to compete for prizes. First-, second- and third-place finishers for both contests will receive iTunes gift cards of $50, $25, and $10 respectively.

Tickets for the combined event are $12.50 per person, which includes dinner and one drink, or $5 per person to attend without dinner. Additionally, attendees can reserve a full table for $100 _ which includes dinner and one drink for eight individuals. Reservations may be made by e-mailing cooperstownsgottalent@yahoo.com.

In addition to the Saturday evening entertainment, Carnival-goers can take advantage of a wide range of activities all weekend long. At 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will offer a free showing of the film "Lilo & Stitch" as part of the Cabin Fever Film Series, sponsored by the Hall, the Fenimore Art Museum, and the Glimmerglass Festival.

The Clark Sports Center will host a bowling tournament for adults and children ($3 for members, $6 for non-members) on Friday.

On Saturday, the Children's Disco will be offered by Brookwood School from 11:30 to 2:30 p.m. at the Cooperstown Fire Hall. From noon to 2 p.m., the TREP$ Marketplace will be open for business at the middle/high school gymnasium.

Sunday's offerings include the "Surf's Up" sled races at Lake Front Park at 10:30 a.m., the Bob Smullens 5k and 10k runs starting at Pioneer Park at 12:30 p.m., and Kids' Karaoke from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Masonic Lodge Building.

A complete schedule of the weekend's events, and registration forms for the activities, are available at www.cooperstowncarnival.org.

For more information, call Samantha Carr at 547-0326 or Sarah Purdy at 435-2657, or e-mail cooperstownwintercarnival@gmail.com.