VILLAGE VOTING MORE COMPLICATED Campaign Signs To Go; Polling Issues Remain By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In light of Governor Cuomo’s decision to postpone Wednesday’s village elections statewide due , the Cooperstown candidates have said they are pulling up their lawn signs for the time being. Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch is unopposed. MacGuire Benton, Joe Membrino and Mary Margaret Robbins Sohns are competing for two Village Board seats. The terms of Benton and Membrino, the two…
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LOCAL VOTE POSTPONED Governor Delays Village Elections New Vote April 28, Same Day As Demo Presidential Primary Governor Cuomo early this evening delayed all village elections in New York State until April 28, the same day as the statewide Democratic Presidential Primary. “Delaying village elections will help ensure poll workers and voters are not potentially exposed to the virus and at the same time maintain integrity in our election system,” Cuomo said. Many such races are uncontested, but in the…
LETTER from JOE MEMBRINO More Needs Doing, Help Me Contribute To the Editor: On Wednesday, March 18, Cooperstown voters will elect our mayor and two trustees. Last year, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh appointed me to a vacancy on the Village Board and assigned me to chair the Finance Committee. I am now running for a three-year term as trustee for the following reasons. First, I want to continue the successful management and conservation of our Village’s fiscal resources. Auditors recently met…
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…
Debate Keeps Turning Back To Main Street 2 Democrats, GOP Challenger Joust As 3/18 Elections Near By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – It was the bluntest opinion of this evening, on what to do about the former CVS at 100 Main St., the downtown centerpiece now vacant for three years. “They never should have allowed CVS to leave Main Street,” declared village trustee candidate Mary Margaret Robbins Sohns in response to a question from Jay Bosley, a…
Joe Membrino Impressed By Village ‘Stewardship’ By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In Washington D.C., getting appointed to a municipal board takes connections and a lot of lobbying. So when Joe Membrino, who is running for a three-year term on the Village Board March 18, and wife Martha retired to Cooperstown in 2013 and he considered ways of getting involved in the community, public office didn’t come to mind. That is, until his sister, Milford Town Board…
Candidate Robbins Can Attend Thursday Debate League Event 7 p.m. In Village Hall COOPERSTOWN – Village trustee candidate Mary Margaret Robbins Sohns today said she will be able to attend the League of Women Voters’ debate at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Village Board’s meeting room at 22 Main. A Republican, she will join the two Democratic candidates, Joe Membrino and MacGuire Benton, sitting trustees who are running for their first full three-year terms. Robbins, whose first anniversary of a…
Village Board Races Shaping Up 3 Democratic Candidates Seek Separate Independent Lines COOPERSTOWN – Joining Republican Mary Margaret Robbins Sohns, the three Democratic incumbents for Village Board filed for independent lines on the March 18 ballot by the 5 p.m. deadline Tuesday evening. In addition to having her name on the Democratic ballot line, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch will appear on the “Village United” line. Trustee Joe Membrino’s line is “Liberty Party,” and Trustee MacGuire Benton’s, “Many Voices, One Village.”…
Democrats Nominate Board’s Incumbents Mayor, 2 Trustees Seek Full Terms COOPERSTOWN – By acclamation, the Democrats caucused a few minutes ago and nominated the three incumbents – Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch and Trustees Joe Membrino and MacGuire Benton — to run for reelection in the March 18 village elections. “It’s not a given that productive government continues,” former mayor Jeff Katz said in nominating his successor for her second term. Patty MacLeish seconded the nomination. Lynn Mebust chaired the caucus,…
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…