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Election Inspectors Les Rathbun, left, and Tom LeBeau print out the results of CCS balloting from the voting machine Tuesday, May 15.
Schuermann Tops Scalici In CCS Vote COOPERSTOWN
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att Schuermann outpolled 24-year veteran Tony Scalici, but both – plus school board president Marcy Birch – won seats in the Tuesday, May 15 Cooperstown Central School Board of Education election. Birch led the balloting with 433 votes, followed closely by Schuermann with 419. Scalici received 364, and Nancy Areliusson, 149. The school and library budgets passed easily. EMILY’S BLESSING: Emily’s List, which describes itself as the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, has endorsed Cooperstown’s Erin Collier for the Democratic nomination in the June 26 primary. The winner will run against U.S. Rep. John Faso,R-19, in November. AGENCY REVAMPED: The Southern Tier Central Regional Planning & Development Board has been rechristened Southern Tier 8, and will announce its new name, brand and economic development strategy Wednesday, May 16, at Otsego Now’s office at 189 Main St., Oneonta.
Some Work On Baseball Shrine Might Begin In Fall
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nticipation is building in Village Hall: Word is expected, perhaps as soon as the next few days, on a $5 million grant from the Empire State Development Corp. Tillapaugh to largely rebuild Doubleday Field on its 100th anniversary in 2019. “We’re excited things are moving along,” said Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch, who briefed the Village Board Monday, May 14, on the particulars. The trustees, not all of whom were involved Please See PLAN, B8
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CCS Senior Jack Odell puts his hands in the air like he just don’t care, as Cameo had it in “Word Up,” dancing to the music of math teacher Mike Toulson’s band, Flux Capacitor, at the school’s senior prom Friday, May 11, at The Otesaga/MORE PHOTOS, A3
Zhexembayeva, ’01, At Hartwick
Russian ‘Ambassador’ Speaker At Graduation By LIBBY CUDMORE ONEONTA
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r. Nadya Zhexembayeva says her career as “the Queen of Reinvention” started at Hartwick College. “I barely spoke English when I arrived,” she said. “But I was surrounded by people who helped me make sense of it all. These profes-
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Bobcat Cubs Rescued, To Be Released In Fall
OFO CONFERENCE ATTACKS POVERTY
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ore than a dozen financially struggling families were linked with community “navigators” Saturday, May 12, as part of the Oneonta Opportunity Conference at the Holiday Inn Southside. The daylong session was part of Opporunities for Otsego’s effort to combat poverty, funded by the Cuomo Administration after it discovered Oneonta was one of the poorest small Upstate cities. ►Photos, full story on B4
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all them the Barnyard Swing bobcats. On Friday, May 11, Marcy Birch, owner of Parker Fish/The Freeman’s Journal Barnyard Swing Mini The four bobcat kittens at Golf, found four bobcat kittens in a nest in one of Barnyard Swing said. “Thank God they had the course’s outbuildings. the common sense to not “The kids came running pick them up.” up to me saying that we had Please See BOBCATS, B5 kittens in the barn,” Birch
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