ENDORSEMENT EDITORIAL Membrino Adeptly Fills Key Role: Finance Chair Interviewing the three candidates, it was quickly clear: Three exceptional people – and exceptional in different ways – are running for Cooperstown Village Board. Mary Margaret Robbins Sohns is a trained and organized pharmacist, a wife and mother, and someone with an inspiring personal story: enduring misdiagnosed Lyme disease and emerging victorious from a heart transplant. Joe Membrino is a semi-retired D.C. lawyer with a specialty in Indian affairs, who is…
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INCUMBENTS RUN; SO MAY INCUMBENTS Rare Races Possible For Mayor, Trustees By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh says she’s running for a second term in next March’s village election, adding that first-term Trustee MacGuire Benton is likely to as well. And Joe Membrino, also in his first term, said he’s planning to run again, too. But for the first time since the GOP debacle in 2011, the Republican Party may be running a slate as…
Cooperstown And Around Both Mayors, Seward Weigh State Of State By: Ian Austin ONEONTA Christian Shaefer of Richfield Springs, who mounted a surprise write-in campaign to win a county coroner post in the Nov. 6 election, takes the oath of office Tuesday, Jan 1, at Foothills in Oneonta State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, and two mayors, Cooperstown’s Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch and Oneonta’s Gary Herzig, were due to address the Otsego Chamber’s annual State of the State Breakfast at 8:30 a.m.…
Sansevere Runs, Foils Coronation Of Trustees His Petition Ensures Competition, With 3 Seeking 2 Seats In March 21 Election By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – John Sansevere, who ran for Village Board in 2015 to ensure a race instead of a coronation, is doing the same in the upcoming March 21 village elections. Sansevere filed his petition in advance of Tuesday’s deadline, ensuring a place on the ballot as an independent. In 2015, he was endorsed by the…
In Uncontested Elections, Write-In Votes Multiply COOPERSTOWN – In uncontested elections like Tuesday’s in Cooperstown, perhaps the only way to cast a protest vote is to write in – for Donald Duck? Mr. Duck – it seems he doesn’t even live here! – was written in for mayor of Cooperstown, as were Cathe Ellsworth, the newspaper columnist; Joan Clark, the venerable grande dame of Main Street; former Mayor Carol B. Waller, and a John Hockenbach; no one seemed sure who…
SANSEVERE FALLS SHORT, BUT BRINGS VOTERS BACK TO POLLS Falk, Dean Win 3-Year Terms, Keep Majority Intact 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,…