‘Critical race debate’ arrives in Cooperstown with a counteroffensive By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The “winner” in the first round of the “great” “critical race theory” “debate” was apparently masks, coronavirus rules and perhaps the ability of a Facebook post to inspire passions on both sides and not just with its intended target. The Fox News-style controversy over the teaching of American history to American students arrived at the Cooperstown Board of Education on Wednesday, June 16, in…
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Cooperstown Summer Music Festival to return, announces new concert dates STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The Cooperstown Summer Music festival announced in a press release Tuesday, June 15, that the summer concert series would be returning in August and September for live chamber music, after being on hiatus for more than a year because of the coronavirus pandemic. A free outdoor concert will be given at the Fenimore Art Museum Lawn by the CSMF Musical Kaleidoscope on Tuesday, Aug.…
Clark Foundation announces scholarship awards STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The Clark Foundation announced the scholarship recipients for 2021 in a Tuesday, June 15, media release. The scholarships were awarded to 188 students, with a total of $742,600. “The board and I are pleased to recognize the accomplishments of this distinguished group of graduating seniors by assisting them in their undergraduate studies,” Janes Forbes Clark said in the release. “Despite having to navigate and manage the impact of the…
Edmeston downed by SK in Section IV Class D baseball final STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Edmeston’s perfect season ended in South Kortright as the Rams battered the Panthers, 13-0, in five innings in the Section IV Class D baseball championship Saturday, June 12. SK, which got two runs in the second inning, took a 7-0 lead in the third inning with a string of extra-base hits, highlighted by Brandon Grommeck’s two-run home run. The Rams made it 7-0…
Hawkeyes lose section softball title to Pulaski, 18-0 By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Before Cooperstown would celebrate a section championship in baseball, it had to endure a crushing defeat in softball, as visiting Pulaski won the Section III Class C softball championship Saturday, June 12, beating top seeded Cooperstown, 18-0, at Cooperstown Central School. Pulaski took a 5-0 lead in the top of the first inning and then got out of a bases-loaded jam in the bottom of…
Cooperstown baseball loves a parade By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Cooperstown’s varsity baseball team got a firetruck parade on Main Street on Saturday, June 12, after winning the Section IV Class C1 baseball title earlier in the evening at Oneonta’s Damaschke Field. The Hawkeyes beat Port Byron, 4-3. Senior Alex Hage, who plays first base, got the title-winning RBI, scoring sophomore pinch runner P.J. Kiuber, after he stole a base to get into scoring position. Kendall Haney got…
Cooperstown wins section baseball title with extra-innings walkoff By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Alex Hage’s walk-off single to left field scored pinch runner P.J. Kiuber to give top seeded Cooperstown its third Section III Class C baseball title in five years, with a 4-3 eight-inning win over No. 3 Port Byron in the C1 tournament championship Saturday, June 12, at Damaschke Field. “Right off the bat, I knew. We won,” said Hage, a senior who plays…
Schenevus wins Section IV Class D softball title By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com SCHENEVUS – The Dragons broke open a close game with a four-run sixth inning and senior pitcher Cassie Snyder gave up one run on four hits as top seeded Schenevus won its first section title in softball in a generation with a 7-1 win over Marathon in the Section IV Class D championship game Friday, June 11. Snyder and her teammates, including fellow seniors Autumn…
Place resigns as Milford superintendent STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Milford Central School will be looking for a new superintendent after the school’s Board of Education and Superintendent Mark Place came to a “mutual agreement” to part ways, according to statements from Place and Milford BOE President Marion Mossman that were posted Thursday, June 10, on the school’s website. “This evening, the Milford Central School Board of Education and I reached an amicable separation agreement which will be effective…
Edmeston advances to Section IV Class D baseball finals STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Second seeded Edmeston won the rematch of the Tri-Valley League baseball finals, 18-1, over visiting Sharon Springs/Cherry Valley-Springfield, the six seed, Thursday, June 10, in the Section IV Class D baseball semifinals. Ronnie Hickling had two doubles among his four hits, with six RBI and four runs scored for Edmeston. Josh Martin had three hits and four runs scored. Hickling also got the win for…
