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Special CCS Meeting To Create Head Custodian Post

Special CCS Meeting To Create Head Custodian Post COOPERSTOWN – Cooperstown Central school board has scheduled a special meeting at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, to create a head custodian position and appoint a head custodian. The action follows the retirement of Wick Bennett, CCS director of buildings and grounds since 1998. Bennett had been with the district for 25 years.…

Tax Abatements Will Be Considered To Repair Deteriorating City Homes

Tax Abatements Will Be Considered To Repair Deteriorating City Homes ONEONTA – Common Council, meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, will consider adopting a local law providing tax abatement to those seeking to rehabilitate deteriorating housing in the city. Local regulation was enabled by a state law, initiated by Mayor Dick Miller, that was shepherded through the state Legislature by state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, and signed by Governor Cuomo. The proposal was an outgrowth of Mayor Miller’s 2012 Housing Summit…

‘AN OLD FASHIONED THANKSGIVING’

‘AN OLD FASHIONED THANKSGIVING’ Editor’s Note: Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), celebrated for the classic, “Little Women,” was the prolific author of 14 novels, dozens of short stories, and many other essays and tracts. Here, for the holiday, is “An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving.” By LOUISA MAY ALCOTT SIXTY YEARS AGO, up among the New Hampshire hills, lived Farmer Bassett, with a houseful of sturdy sons and daughters growing up about him. They were poor in money, but rich in land and love,…

IN MEMORIAM: Shirlene Ouimet, 66; Retired From Job Corps

IN MEMORIAM:  Shirlene Ouimet, 66; Retired From Job Corps ONEONTA – Shirlene M. Ouimet, 66, who worked for the Oneonta Job Corps for 34 years, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014 at the Chestnut Park Nursing Home. Shirlene was born on May 12, 1948 in Oneonta, the daughter of the George W. and Ann M. Oliver. She married Alfred H. Ouimet on Aug. 3, 1996, in Oneonta.…