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SANSEVERE FALLS SHORT, BUT

BRINGS VOTERS BACK TO POLLS

Cindy Falk and her husband, Glenn, right, and Jim Dean and his wife, Eileen, attend a celebration in their honor at Rich and Rosemarie Abbate's this evening after winning new terms on the Cooperstown Village Board. (Jim Kevlin/allotsego.com) Cindy Falk and her husband, Glenn, right, and Jim Dean and his wife, Eileen, attend a celebration in their honor at Rich and Rosemarie Abbate's this evening after winning new terms on the Cooperstown Village Board. (Jim Kevlin/allotsego.com)
Cindy Falk and her husband, Glenn, right, and Jim Dean and his wife, Eileen, attend a celebration in their honor at Rich and Rosemarie Abbate’s this evening after winning new terms on the Cooperstown Village Board. (Jim Kevlin/allotsego.com)

Falk, Dean Win 3-Year Terms, Keep Majority Intact

GOP County Chairman Vince Casale, left, congratulates his Democratic counterpart, Richard Abbate, after the tallies were complete a few minutes ago.
GOP County Chairman Vince Casale, left, congratulates his Democratic counterpart, Richard Abbate, after the tallies were complete a few minutes ago.

COOPERSTOWN – The first Republican challenger since 2011 fell short of claiming a seat on the Village Board in today’s elections, but John Sansevere brought increasingly absent local voters back to the polls.

Sansevere garnered 131 votes against the Democratic incumbents:  Cindy Falk, who led the ticket with 198 votes, and Jim Dean, with 164 votes.

But 284 villagers went to the polls, compared to a dismal 94 last year.  In 2011, the last time both parties fielded full slates, 650 voters cast ballots.

Single write-in votes were cast for Patti Ashley, Mike Trossett, Jeanette Weldon, Milo Stewart and John Lambert.

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