CCS Girls Win States, 61-34…
LADY HAWKEYES TOPPLE CHAUTAUQUA LAKE, 59-50 Cooperstown Team In Finals Sunday In Troy TROY – The Hawkeyes were 47-47 with 2:30 to go, and baskets by the Noto sisters, Liz Millea and Jen Flynn helped give the CCS team the winning edge of 59-50. The girls return to Troy at 11:45 a.m. tomorrow for the finals. Pine Plains and Northern Adirondack are now battling it out in the Troy arena for the right to play Coop in the finals.…
Body That Of Sharon Springs Woman; Death May Be Accident, Sheriff Reports CHERRY VALLEY – The body found Thursday in Canajoharie Creek is that of a 54-year-old Sharon Springs women, Diane S. Cummings, Otsego County sheriff’s deputies report. After the autopsy, county Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr.’s office reported investigators were reviewing statements and medical evidence, and they indicated the death resulted from “unintentional circumstances.”…
CCS Students To Present Petition To Seward ONEONTA – State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, will be meeting with Cooperstown Central students at 1 p.m. Friday in his Oneonta office at 41 South Main St. to discuss education concerns and accept a student-initiated petition expressing opposition to Governor Cuomo’s proposal Common Core reforms.…
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SANSEVERE FALLS SHORT, BUT BRINGS VOTERS BACK TO POLLS Falk, Dean Win 3-Year Terms, Keep Majority Intact COOPERSTOWN – The first Republican challenger since 2011 fell short of claiming a seat on the Village Board in today’s elections, but John Sansevere brought increasingly absent local voters back to the polls. Sansevere garnered 131 votes against the Democratic incumbents: Cindy Falk, who led the ticket with 198 votes, and Jim Dean, with 164 votes. But 284 villagers went to the polls,…
COMMON CORE DEBATE Formal Presentations By Teachers, Hebert Critical Of Governor’s Proposed Reforms COOPERSTOWN – This evening’s Cooperstown Central school board meeting moved from the library to the middle/high school cafeteria to accommodate the largest turnout of teachers and parents so far – 120 or more – since concerns arose locally two weeks ago about Governor Cuomo’s proposed Common Core reforms. The 7 p.m. meeting began with presentations, by teacher association president Ann Olmstead, Sandra Bliss, a retired teacher who listed long…
MANNO SEEKS TO RAZE ALL, PART OF EX-AGWAY COOPERSTOWN Property owner Mike Manno is asking the village Historic Preservation & Architectural Review Board for permission to demolish all or part of 28 Railroad Ave., the former hops barn he renovated at the corner of Glen Avenue. H-PARB chair Teresa Drerup said the application, delivered at the Feb. 10 H-PARB meeting, called for “full or partial” demolition, but contained no additional details. “He didn’t come to the meeting,” she said of…
Oneonta’s Hemlock Road Neighbors Upset; Cooperstown Hops Barn Might Be Razed OUR NEWSPAPERS AVAILABLE NOW AT THESE FINE ESTABLISHMENTS…
Already, Turnout Almost Doubles Over 2014 Cooperstown Election…