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Crowd Debates Bullying By JENNIFER HILL COOPERTOWN
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e’re asking you to take better care of the students and then we’ll trust you more.” Crankshaw Cooperstown Central School’s PTA listens to Co-President Tabetha remarks. Rathbone’s remarks to school board members and administrators echoed Please See BULLYING, A11
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Ed Leone, Oneonta, scrutinizes one of Stephen Joseph’s 113 panoramic photos in “Broadway Revealed,” which the photographer brought up from Lincoln Center and opened Sunday, June 9, in Hartwick College’s Foreman Gallery. The exhibit will run through the summer.
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Lola Rathbone, who chaired the Milford Methodist Church Building Committee, shares a laugh of joy and relief with Jim Weir. The organ in the new church was dedicated to Jim’s mother, Dot Weir, who played organ at the church for 67 years. She passed away Feb. 18, 2018, confident a new church would rise.
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nstead of being sold, it looks like Old City Hall at 242 Main St. will become a “one-stop shop” for social services and criminal justice in southern Otsego County. That was county Rep. Peter Oberacker’s conclusion after a round-robin discussion with county reps and staff Friday, June 7, at the Oneonta landmark. The county board considered selling the building because of the cost of upgrading security, but – after study – concluded it would be worth the investment.
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►A BILL PASSED at the state Assembly to allow financially troubled Schenevus Central School to borrow up to $500,000 against future allocations of state aid. The Senate and Governor Cuomo must still act on the legislation. ► BEAR SIGHTINGS are peaking, and Lou and Brigitte Priem of Lakeview Lodge, Town of Middlefield, have the photos to prove it. ► SOUTHSIDE CINEMA has completed year-long renovations of all its theaters, outfitting them with plush, push-button powered seats.
2 Years, 2 Months, 28 Days After Inferno, A New Church Annabel Wu, Erica Eggleston and Savyn Mazzarella were confirmed at the church dedication by Pastor Sylvia Barrett and District Superintendent Everett Bassett.
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Historians Say Literary Mecca Out Of Danger But P.I. Oughtn’t Rest Easy By LIBBY CUDMORE
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here once stood a towering, Romanesquein-miniature brick sanctuary, now resides a little white country church, its interior “starkly beautiful,” as John Wesley would want it. “When I met with the committees, they were insistent that they wanted a little country church,” said Jim Please See CHURCH, A7
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he River Street birthplace of detective Philo Vance may still be saved. On Monday, June 10, Bob Brzozowski, Greater Oneonta Historical Society executive director, went through the 31 River St. home where William Huntington Wright – aka Please See PHILO, A7
CCS Baseball Team In Final 4 Hawkeyes Grind Down Tioga Star Pitcher For Nailbiting 8-7 Win In Seventh Inning By LIBBY CUDMORE BINGHAMTON
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or Coach Matt Hazzard, the Cooperstown Hawkeyes hard-won 8-7 victory over the Tioga Tigers was “surreal.” “You can’t make that stuff up,” he
said. “It was just incredible.” The win – it came after a 4-7 deficit into the seventh inning – puts Cooperstown in the Class C Final Four for the second time in three years. At 5 p.m. Friday, June 14, the Hawkeyes play at MaineEndwell in the Final Four. The state championship game will be Please See HAWKEYES, A11
Star pitcher Chris Ubner had jitters in the first inning against Tioga, but came back strong to clinch a ticket to the Final Four in the seventh inning.
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