‘Unity Vigil’ At 5:15 At Cooperstown Central COOPERSTOWN – A school-sponsored “Cooperstown Unity Vigil” is planned at 5:15 p.m. at the flag pole in front of the middle/high school. All are welcome Principal Donna Lucy organized the event after being approached by students in recent days interested in expressing their patriotism after last week’s post-election Facebook complaint and subsequent rally, according to school board President Theresa Russo.…
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Former SUNY Oneonta Professor Wins 2016 National Book Award ONEONTA – Ibram X. Kendi, former SUNY Oneonta assistant history professor, just won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.” “In the midst of the human ugliness of racism, there was the human beauty,” he said in his acceptance speech when the awards were announced Wednesday in New York City. “There is the human beauty in the resistance to…
BULLETIN Offer Satisfies Family, CCS President Reports By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – The CCS Board of Education has arranged an accommodation that is satisfactory to cancer-fighter Laurie Pestar and her family, board President Theresa Russo said a few moments ago. The school board had been challenged at Wednesday’s meeting by Mrs. Pestar’s son, Jeremy Denmeade, for a brief and impersonal letter the 30-year elementary school secretary had received advising her a six-month unpaid leave she had sought…
SUPPORT STRONG FOR CANCER FIGHTER 600 Sign 2 Students’ Petition Seeking Leave For Mrs. Pestar COOPERSTOWN – Two CCS students report they have created an online petition urging the school board to grant a six-month unpaid leave of absence to Laurie Pestar, the 30-year elementary school secretary who is fighting cancer. Senior Bobby Walker said he and a friend, McGuire Benton, collected 655 signatures today alone, and plan to deliver the petition at the next school board meeting, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec.…
State OKs 4 Majors For Hartwick College Academic VP: Focus Is On Job Prospects ONEONTA –The state Education Department has approved four new majors for Hartwick College, the college announced a few minutes ago, beginning in fall 2017. They are: Criminal Justice (B.A.) Environment, Sustainability and Society (B.A.) Actuarial Mathematics (B.S.) Global Studies (B.A) “Hiring in these fields is trending upward nationally, and these new programs will help students achieve the success for which they are looking, while simultaneously helping to…
Traffic Flowing Smoothly Over Schuyler Lake Route 28 Bridge…
Cocaine, Heroin Seized In Raid At Townhouse Inn ONEONTA – Two men were arrested and more than $7,000 in heroin and cocaine were seized in a raid this morning at the Townhouse Inn on Main Street in Oneonta. Allen E. McMullen, 25, with no address, and Donald F. Starr 3rd, 37, Davenport Center were arrested after a joint investigation by the Oneonta Police Department Detective Division and the NYS Police Bureau of Criminal Investigations, along with K-9 Diff, served a search…
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Cancer-Fighting Secretary Served 30 Years Son Challenges CCS Board On Impersonal Note To Mom By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Friends, colleagues and the Marine son of Laurie Pestar, a 30-year elementary school secretary fighting cancer, confronted the Cooperstown Central School board this evening – not so much for rejecting her request for a six-month unpaid leave of absence, but by doing so in such a cold and impersonal way. “I will never forgive this board for this callous and…
IN MEMORIAM: Virginia Weaver, 86; Oneonta Native Longtime Nurse’s Aide SOUTH NEW BERLIN – Oneonta native Virginia Arlene Weaver, 86, a nurse’s aide for many years, passed away peacefully on Nov. 14, 2016, at her home in South New Berlin, surrounded by her family. Virginia was born on Aug. 5, 1930, in Oneonta, the daughter of Edward John and Amy Ethel Bugbee. She was raised in Oneonta and Laurens, attending Oneonta schools. On July 23, 1949, she married Donald Earl…
