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A CCS Grad Herself, Principal ‘Dynamo,’ Superintendent Says Kristin Butler Just What’s Needed At High School, Crankshaw Predicts By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In second grade, Kristin Butler already knew what she wanted to do. “I wanted to be just like Mrs. Kiser,” the new CCS junior-senior high school principal said in an interview this afternoon. Deborah Kiser “was one of the kindest, most compassionate people I’ve ever known.” Butler, CCS ’99, a SUNY Geneseo graduate,…
5 Division III-Bound Seniors To Be Celebrated At Signings COOPERSTOWN – Cooperstown High School is planning an NCAA Celebratory Signing Day Friday, May 3, including a 3:15 p.m. event in the library for students heading off to college sports careers. They included Upstate Sportswriters’ “Player of the Year” Jack Lambert, co-captain of the school’s first-ever Class C state championship basketball team, who will attended the Division III University of Scranton. Other honorees, all headed to Division III teams, are Baileigh…
Cooperstown Central Names Kristin Butler High School Principal Veteran Teacher, Administrator Succeeds Lucy COOPERSTOWN – Kristin Butler, veteran Cooperstown Central School teacher and administrator, has been appointed junior-senior high school principal, effective July 1. She will succeed Donna Lucy, who resigned last summer. In the interim, Jim Brophy, retired Edmeston Central School principal, has filled the role. A 1999 CCS graduate, Butler has served the district for the past 13 years in both instructional and administrative roles, most recently as…
RETHINKING OH-FEST In Rapper Sean’s Wake, SUNY Students Seeking More Vigorous Vetting By JENNIFER HILL Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – While most SUNY Oneonta students were at OH-Fest festivities today, eight students, a faculty member and a staff member met gathered at 5 p.m. to discuss ways to avoid selecting musical performers that did not match “the values of SUNY Oneonta.” SUNY junior Eric Battista scheduled the meeting after he emailed students early about a resolution he drafted, proposing to…
OH-Fest Concert Out, But Street Fair Enjoyed Tonight’s Rapper Sean Kingston concert in Neahwa Park was cancelled over gang-rape allegations from nine years ago, but despite warnings of rain, the 13th annual OH-Fest Street Carnival went off without a hitch today as Main Street was filled with throngs of locals and students alike gathered to enjoy music, food and festivities. Above, Oneonta’s Yussef Romeo and Fay Pikul, played one of the carnival games, while Paige Stewart, right, hugs Tiny Tim,…
Egg Hunters Undeterred By Rain, Pack Hyde Hall Mira Aramini, 12, above, of Middlefield Center, was fast off the mark at 10 sharp this morning at Hyde Hall’s annual Easter Egg Hunt on the grounds of the National Historic Landmark above Otsego Lake. Undeterred by the rain, the Clements family of Hartwick, inset right, was first in line at 9:30, waiting on get onto the grounds: mom Fanny, dad Jonathan and, from left, Emma, 4, Xavier 10, and Lucas, 11. …
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Herzig Revokes OH-Fest Permit For Park Concert If Protest Breaks Out, OPD Lacks Resources To Control It, He Says By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – City Hall revoked OH-Fest’s Neahwa Park permit this morning after Mayor Gary Herzig learned on www.AllOTSEGO.com overnight that large numbers of students might protest concert headliner Sean Kingston after learning last week he and his bodyguard were accused of a gang rape in 2010. The city’s decision throws into doubt whether the Saturday night…
Sportswriters: Jack Lambert ‘Player Of Year’ Co-Captain, Guard Led Team To CCS’ 1st Class C State Title COOPERSTOWN – The New York State Sportswriters Association today gave its Class C “Player of the Year” designation to Jack Lambert, the co-captain and star guard of the 2018-19 CCS Hawkeyes Boys’ Varsity Basketball Team. A seventh-team selection last year, Lambert led Cooperstown to the school’s first Class C boys basketball championship. The senior scored 24 points per game and set a new…