REPORT: Common Core Task Force Suggests Teacher-Assessment Delay Governor Cuomo’s Common Core task force draft report is calling for a moratorium on using test scores for teacher evaluations, according to POLITICO New York, which obtained a copy.…
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BULLETIN NO $1/2 BILLION FOR OUR COUNTY ALBANY – The Cuomo Administration announced a few minutes ago that Otsego County’s economic development region won’t receive $1/2 billion from the Upstate Revitalization Initiative. The Finger Lakes, Southern Tier, and Syracuse-centric Central NY Region will share the $1.5 billion. The Mohawk Valley region was named a “top performer” among the REDCs and will receive $100.3 million in state economic-development funding, more than any of the first four years of the program.…
SOUTHERN TIER REGION IS 2ND TO RECEIVE $1/2 BILLION …Finger Lakes Region Is First…
Governor Speaking Now On $1/2 Billion Awards…
COUNTY LEARNS TODAY IF $1/2 BILLION ON WAY Municipal and business leaders from across New York State have gathered at The Egg in Albany at this hour to learn which three of seven Regional Economic Development Council’s will share $1.5 billion from Governor Cuomo’s Upstate Revitalization Initiative. Otego County is in the six-county Mohawk Valley REDC, one of the seven contenders, and local officials attending include Cooperstown Mayor Jeff Katz and Caroline Lewis, SUNY Oneonta’s economic developer. The winners of…
Oneonta’s Erik Miller Named To National Board ONEONTA – Erik Miller of Oneonta, director of the Southern Tier East Regional Planning Development Board in Binghamton, has been elected to the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) for 2015-16. The action came at NADO’s Annual Business Meeting at the association’s 48th Annual Training Conference in New Orleans this fall.…
Cooperstown Chamber Applauds Executive’s ‘Ugly Sweater’ Success…
Mayor Shares Compliments He’s Heard About City Police…
SCOOPS! Cooperstown Mayor Katz Seeks Third Term Oneonta Charter Originators Ready To Fight THIS WEEK’S EDITIONS AVAILABLE AT THESE FINE ESTABLISHMENTS…
Groff’s ‘Fates, Furies’ Obama Favorite For ’15 COOPERSTOWN – “Fates and Furies,” the third novel by Lauren Groff, who was raised in Cooperstown, is President Obama’s favorite book of 2015, The New Republic is reporting. “It’s a special day,” declared Lauren’s mom, Jeannine. She and Dr. Gerry Groff are the novelist’s parents. For her part, the novelist tweeted on hearing the news: “That’s it! I retire.” “Obama’s pick is a popular one,” the New Republic reported. “‘Fates and Furies’ is currently…
