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KATZ ERA COMES TO END
Transformative Tenure Fixed Streets, 22 Main By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN The Freeman’s Journal
Father John P. Rosson Monday, March 26, blesses 750 containers of oatmeal, 325 jars of peanut butter and the rest of the results of St. Mary “Our Lady of the Lake” Catholic Church’s Lenten Food Drive, to benefit the local food pantry.
As President, LeCates Will Lead Hospital COOPERSTOWN
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e has the job. Dr. William LeCates will “become president of Bassett Hospital when the network CEO transition is completed,” it was noted in last week’s press release announcing the resignation of Vance Brown as CEO of the eight-county healthcare network. LeCates was appointed to the post on an interim basis Nov. 3, when the Bassett trustees announced they were creating the position of president at the Cooperstown hospital so the CEO could focus more fully on managing the healthcare network.
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here actually is a drawer in the Mission-style table where Jeff Katz has presided as mayor for the past six years, containing his gavel and three ►IF YOU GO: Baggies. A reception In the Baggies are honoring retiring Mayor Jeff rocks – big ones in one, Katz, 5-7 p.m. middling in another, Sunday, April 8, and small in the third 22 Main. Public – sent to him by Charwelcome. lie Hill of Eagle Street. “The street was basically falling apart,” said Hill. “And I said, ‘If you haven’t been down Eagle Street lately, you will find it crumbling apart.’” Today, he said, “It’s 100-percent better.” Jeff Katz, who steps down as mayor Monday, April 2, after serving three twoyear terms (plus seven years as village Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal trustee), will likely be remembered as the Six-year Mayor Jeff Katz, who spent 13 years in all on the Cooperstown Village Board, Please See KATZ, A7 is retiring April 1.
ONEONTA MARCH, COBLESKILL RALLY
All 7 Democrats Students ‘March For Our Lives’ To Debate Here By LIBBY CUDMORE
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uring a March 14 walk-out at Cooperstown Central School, freshman Alex Bohler volunteered to read the biography of one of the students who was killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in RECORD SET: Jeff Parkland, Fla. Katz’s last Village Board “When reading, meeting as mayor Monday, I realized how hard March 26, took 95 minutes, a it must have been record for meetings that used on those who had to last until midnight. to write it,” he told REQUIRED TRAINING: CCS’ Josie a crowd gathered at Cobleskill’s Otsego County and the state Hovis Veteran’s Memorial are hosting required training addresses Centre Park during crowd. for new planning board and the “March For Our ZBA members 5-8:15 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, at Milford Lives” on Saturday, March 24. “No child should be murdered in what Central School. Register at should be a safe space just because 547-4225. our country does not have sufficient gun control.” The Cobleskill march was one of Please See RALLY, B7
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t’s likely to be a oneof-a-kind happening political season. The seven candidates (so far) seeking the Democratic nomination in a June 26 primary to run against U.S. Rep. John Faso, R-
Kinderhook, will be debating in Otsego County 7 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 12, at Cooperstown Central’s Sterling Auditorium. It is likely to be the only such debate in the 10county 19th Congressional District, according to its Please See DEBATE, A3
Drone Regulations Debated; Trustees Await Attorney OK By PARKER FISH COOPERSTOWN Kyle Taylor for The Freeman’s Journal
Jeannine Webster and daughter Cate Bohler await remarks by CCS student Alex Bohler during the Cobleskill rally.
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on’t expect to say goodbye to those buzzing drones
Meeting Monday, March 26, the Village Board opted not to vote on the proposed drone law, and decided to table it for further revisions, but not before hearing it debated at a public hearing. “This law is totally unPlease See DRONES, A3
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