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CATSKILL — Hundreds of people marched for racial justice in the village Thursday evening, adding Catskill to the list of locations across the globe to speak out against the actions of four Minneapolis police officers that resulted in the death of George Floyd. Catskill’s march was organized by six local women: Mercedes Brantley, Terrika and Teri Spears, Monique and Sylvia Chestnut and Chelsea Ivery. The Hudson community had a peaceful protest on Sunday at Promenade Hill Park. Thursday’s march began at 5 p.m. at the Catskill Middle School, continued over the Black Bridge to the police station, ending at the Greene County Courthouse
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with prayer with guest speakers at each stop along the route. The march came just two days after the 55th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act and 15 before the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth, when the Emancipation Proclamation was read to enslaved African-Americans in Texas. Catskill Central School District Superintendent Ronel Cook spoke of his experience as a black man. “As a man of color, I think it’s very important,” Cook said. “I live this every day. Many of you live this every day. It’s time. It’s time that we hold our government officials accountable. Each and every person that runs for office for change in policy,
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Hundreds of community members marched to the village police station on Thursday.
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NY ‘Say Their Name’ agenda to improve police relations By Kate Lisa Johnson Newspaper Corp.
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ALBANY — Two suspended Buffalo police officers should be fired after they pushed a 75-year-old protester to the ground, causing him to bleed from the head, said Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who announced a reform agenda Friday to improve New Yorkers’ trust and relationship with law enforcement following days of racial unrest in response to police brutality. The governor started his coronavirus daily briefing Friday by playing videos of two violent incidents that took place between peaceful demonstrators and police Thursday — one of New York City officers using pepper spray against protesters with their hands up and the other of riot cops in Buffalo pushing 75-year-old Martin Gugino to the ground after he approached the group of law enforcement on the sidewalk. The video shows two officers pushed Gugino hard in the chest, one using a baton, which caused him to tumble backward and slam the back of his head against the pavement. Gugino sustained a cut to the head and a concussion. He See POLICE A2
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Officials should fire two Buffalo city police suspended without pay for pushing down a 75-year-old peaceful protester, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said during a briefing Friday in the state Capitol.
Voters deciding school boards, budgets by mail By Raymond Pignone Columbia-Greene Media
Tuesday is election day for board of education members and school budgets. The date was moved up from May 19 to June 9 due to the COVID-19 outbreak. All voting will be done by absentee ballot.
CATSKILL Voters in the Catskill Central School District will decide Tuesday on a proposed $42.9 million budget for the 2020-21 school year. The proposed budget reflects a $240,283 increase, or 0.5%, over the current year’s budget. Three candidates are running unopposed to fill three seats on the board of education. Voters will be asked to elect newcomer Zebulun Haggerty and incumbents Deborah Johnson
and Ryan Osswald. Haggerty is running to fill the seat vacated by Michael Dedrick, who is not seeking re-election. Haggerty has been a resident of the Catskill School District for the last 15 years. He has two children attending Catskill elementary school and middle school. He is the stepfather of two Catskill graduates. He is the chief information officer for Columbia County. Johnson has been a teacher, principal, curriculum coordinator and director of curriculum in a 30-year career in education. She has two daughters who attended the Catskill school district from kindergarten to 12th grade. Both are college graduates. Osswald has lived in Catskill for 20 years with his wife Jennifer and their two children. He
has been an employee at MidHudson Cablevision for 22 years as a production engineer and director-producer of much of the local programming as well as local television commercials.
CAIRO-DURHAM In the Cairo-Durham Central School District, voters will be asked to decide on a $32.3 million budget for the 2020-21 school year, purchase of five new buses, the Durham building donation, Cairo-Durham Public Library appropriation and selection of four board of education members. Three seats on the board of education are up for election on the ballot. The terms of Stephen Brandow, Bernadette GavinPalmieri and David Infantino will expire on June 30, 2020. All three seats are three-year,
non-paid terms ending in June 2023. There are four candidates, who will be listed on the ballot in alphabetical order as follows: Stephen Brandow, Bernadette Gavin-Palmieri, Steven LaFever and Claudia Zucker. Voters will be asked to choose three. Gavin-Palmieri, an incumbent, is the mother of four children in the Cairo-Durham school district. She is the innkeeper of Gavin’s Irish Country Inn and co-owner of the Irish Tea Shop in East Durham. LaFever has been a resident of Greene County and the CairoDurham school district for more than 15 years. He is married and has three children. He is the operations manager at XPO Logistics. Zucker has lived in Durham since 1987. Both her children
graduated from the Cairo-Durham school district. She has had an extensive career in education as a high school history teacher in New Rochelle and a substitute teacher at all grade levels for Cairo-Durham. Brandow, an incumbent, has not provided biographical information.
COXSACKIE-ATHENS In the Coxsackie-Athens Central School District, the board of education adopted a $33.2 million budget plan for the 2020-21 school year. The estimated tax levy increase is 0.6% over the current year’s budget. Because the district will receive no additional state aid, four administrative and instructional positions will be See VOTERS A2
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