Cooperstown Centers Facility Removed From ‘Special Focus’ By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Following two successful surveys, increased staffing and enhanced training, Cooperstown Center has been taken off the list designating the facility, formerly known as Focus Otsego, off the Special Focus Facility list. “Morale is much better,” said Administrator Jeff Emhoff, who is leaving for a new job at Fox Hospital at the end of the week. The facility was put on the list in Jan.…
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Speaking Of Sports 95 Athletes Lauded At CCS Sports Banquet COOPERSTOWN – With nine league championships, five sectional championships, two regional crowns, a state title and a state runner-up, there was a lot to celebrate last night at the Cooperstown Sports Booster Club banquet. Jack Lambert, named Player of the Year by the NYS Sportswriters Association, received the John Terry McGovern Sportsmanship Award, while Kate Trosset won the Ann I. Pink Sportsmanship trophy. The Booster Club awarded four Lester “Red”…
Hawkeyes Fall 7-3 To Ticonderoga Sentinels Above, Chris Ubner, pitches for the Cooperstown Hawkeyes against a member of the Ticonderoga Sentinels this afternoon during the NYSPHSAA Baseball State Championships held at at Binghamton University earlier this evening. Ryan Lansing managed to make it home in the first inning, but the team didn’t score another run until the sixth inning, when Lansing brought in his second home run and Spencer Lewis grabbed a third. Although the points seemed to bolster the…
Hawkeyes Hold Back Pierson 5-2 HAWKEYES HEAD TO STATE CHAMPIONSHIP COOPERSTOWN – Following 5-2 win against the Pierson Whalers this evening, the Cooperstown Hawkeyes baseball team are headed to the state championship tomorrow afternoon, where they will take on Ticonderoga Sentinels at 4 p.m. at Binghamton University. Pierson started with a 2-0 lead until the top of the second, when Cooperstown’s bats and aggressive base running propelled the Hawkeyes to a 3-2 lead. With Erik Dysenroth brought in as middle…
Students Safe After Gun Threat At Cooperstown School COOPERSTOWN – All students are safe and law enforcement is present at Cooperstown Schools after Superintendent William Crankshaw received a tip that a student allegedly had access to a firearm. “During the early morning hours, I was notified by a community member that a student may have access to a firearm,” he wrote in an email to parents this morning. “Law enforcement was also notified, and conducted an immediate investigation. It was…
Crankshaw: New Document, Wellness Subcommittee Will Help Combat Bullying By JENNIFER HILL• Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Following up on last night’s PTA meeting, CCS Superintendent Bill Crankshaw plans to put together a document with information on the school district’s current programs and policies and future ones “to combat harassment, bullying and discrimination.” “Because of conversations with students, clergy, and parents on areas that they would like to see addressed,” he said. “I can assure you that moving forward, the…
Leonard, Brophy, Honored For Service To CCS Five Teachers Receive Tenure As Part of Afternoon Ceremony …
COLUMN Local Police Exempt From Mug-Shot Ban, State’s Expert Avers Editor’s Note: This is reprinted from the June edition of NewsBeat, a publication of the New York Press Association. One provision of the recently passed state budget has been interpreted by many as a “ban” on police agencies releasing booking photographs. But state officials have since clarified it’s not an outright ban, and local police retain a great deal of discretion in how they handle mugshots. The measure in question,…
BOUND VOLUMES June 13, 2019 200 YEARS AGO Illegal Slave Dealing – At a Court of Quarter Sessions held in April last for the County of Sussex (Del.), Lemuel Tam was convicted of selling for exportation, a manumitted slave, and sentenced by the court to pay the sum of $500, the penalty enforced by the Act of the Assembly. At the same term James Jones, who had been convicted at the November term last, was sentenced by the court to…
Cooperstown PTA Debates Bullying By JENNIFER HILL• Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN “We’re asking you to take better care of the students and then we’ll trust you more.” Cooperstown Central School’s PTA Co-President Tabetha Rathbone’s remarks to school board members and administrators echoed what 60-plus plus parents and students said in a packed Cooperstown Elementary School’s library Tuesday, June 11. However, School Super-intendent Bill Crankshaw said he isn’t sure what the school district will do next. The PTA meeting offered the…
