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he vote on the 201819 Cooperstown Central School budget and to fill three school board vacancies is planned 7 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday, May15, in Room 305 at the middle-high school. The $19.7 million budget is up 3.4 percent, and raises taxes 2 percent. Incumbents Marcy Birch and Tony Scalici, and Matt Schuermann and Nancy Areliusson are seeking to fill the vacancies. TOURISM SUMMIT: Destination Marketing of Otsego County planned to outline its plans at a Tourism Summit at 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 9. For details, check after the event at
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MEMORIAL DUE: Eileen Anania will speak to Cooperstown Rotarians Tuesday, May 15, on the Amy Stock Memorial Trailer, carrying the wreckage of a van where her sister was killed when it was hit by a drunk driver. GARDENERS HERE: Regional chapters of the Garden Club of America’s conference is next week at The Otesaga/SEE B5
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Henry Michaels escorts Ashley Wood through the lobby of The Otesaga and into the 60th annual Cooperstown Ballroom Dance Cotillion Friday, May 4. Upper right, little Elise Ingalls gets a taste of her future Cotillion, posing with, from left, sister Sofia Ingalls, Jeana Geertgens and Monica Kenney. Lower right, Theodore Ignatovsky pauses in front of the famous view of James Fenimore Cooper’s Glimmerglass with parents Vitaliy and Irena before the festivities begin.
ames Seward, R-Milford, Otsego County’s state senator for 31 years, is being challenged by a political newcomer from Delaware County who says she’s looking to looking to “clean up Albany.” Joyce St. George, a Democrat from New Kingston, near Margaretville, said she spent most St. George of her career after graduating from NYU with the state Attorney General’s Special Prosecutor’s Office to investigate police corruption. “We handled cases that had to do with the criminal justice system in New York City,” said St. George. “We dealt with judges, police officers; some pretty high ranking people. I really cut my teeth on some very interesting work early on.” Now, she said, she wants to do the same in the state Capitol. She kicked off her campaign on April 7, St. George planned to be in Otsego County Wednesday, May 9. The election is Nov. 6. “What can I say, I met her, and I liked her,” said Democratic activist Richard Sternberg, the village trustee. Please See CAMPAIGN, A3 Hartwick Professor Laura Elder has just published “American Presidential Candidate Spouses.”
First Ladies Can Help, Hurt Presidents By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA
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