Opt Out Organizers Urge Parents To Spurn Common Core Testing COOPERSTOWN – Seventy-some parents and teachers who are parents were told this afternoon to “opt out” of allowing their children to participate in the state’s Common Core testing this spring. “If you deny them access to the test scores,” said Jamie McNair, who with his wife, Jessica, is an organizer of Opt Out NY, “the whole thing falls apart.” The McNairs, both teachers in the New Hartford district, spoke to…
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IN MEMORIAM: Madalyn A. Cimino, 82; Dartmouth Administrator, Village Trustee COOPERSTOWN – Former village trustee Madalyn A. Cimino, who in 1972 the first woman to be named an administrative officer at Dartmouth Medical School, died yesterday morning at Bassett Hospital. She was 82. A native of Cooperstown, Madalyn was born June 14, 1932, at Bassett, a daughter of Jack and Maria née Falzarano Cimino. She first attended Cooperstown schools and later the Knox School for Girls, graduating from there in…
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TRUSTEES TAKE 2 STEPS BACK ON EXPANDING PAID PARKING COOPERSTOWN – The trustees tonight unanimously took the first step backwards – two steps back, in fact – after years of what seemed to be the inexorable forward march of paid parking in the Village of Cooperstown. On a motion by Streets Committee chair Cindy Falk, seconded by Deputy Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, the Village Board removed Church Street, and River Street between Main and the Bassett Clinic, from the paid-parking expansion list.…
Sponsorships Sought To Bring Wounded Warriors To County Council Rock Brewery’s Becky Davidson, former Coopertown Chamber stalwart, is heading up the committee to bring the Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team back to play on Doubleday Field and Damaschke Field during Memorial Day Weekend 2015. They will be playing at Damaschke Field in Oneonta on Saturday and Doubleday Field in Cooperstown on Sunday. Every player is a Veteran from Iraq or Afghanistan and has lost a limb. At least two of…
Bocca Osteria, Cooperstown Teachers Big Winners At Cooperstown Carnival COOPERSTOWN – The return of the Lip Sync brought victory to the CCS teachers, who took first prize with their performance of “Tootsee Roll” by the 69 Boyz, complete with Tootsie Roll costumes, in Cooperstown Winter Carnival competition. Bocca Osteria won the drink contest with their “Everlasting Gobstopper,” which was available for customization with green, purple, white or red. Other winners included:…
Biggest Manhattan Landlord Hartwick Graduation Speaker ONEONTA – Hartwick College has announced its 2015 Commencement speaker: Stephen L. Green, the founder and chairman of SL Green Realty Corp., New York City’s largest office landlord. The company holds interests in 96 Manhattan buildings totaling 44.1 million square feet of space, as well as properties in New Jersey. Manhattan has amazing properties up for sale for people who would love to live in one of the most famous areas. Some are looking…
Soup’s On, Chili’s On, Meaning Winter Carnival Now Underway COOPERSTOWN – You know when the Cooperstown Winter Carnival is officially underway when the aroma of chili and soup starts wafting from the basement of Cooperstown Baptist Church on Elm Street, as it did leading up to 11 a.m. today. If you missed the Soup ‘R Chili Luncheon today, it’s on again Saturday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. In what’s becoming a tradition, the gang from Glimmerglass Festival drove down the lake from the…
That Judges Returned 2 Homes Energizes 2 Trying To Save Theirs COOPERSTOWN – Two citizens’ efforts to buy back their homes sold off for delinquent taxes in last year’s tax sale were in the forefront again during public comment at the county Board of Representatives’ February meeting this morning, following a report that, due to irregularities, a judge had thrown out two other tax sales. Maria Ajello, who lost her home in the Town of Richfield, and Robert Force, who…
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