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COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND
CCS Nets Top Scores In Physics, Geometry
‘Ode To Joy’ Celebrated With Film, Lecture, Song COOPERSTOWN
Powers, Gigliotti’s Students 100% On Regents By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN
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Retiring Bassett President/CEO Bill Streck and wife Karen accept good wishes after he spoke to his final Friends of Bassett breakfast Friday, May 2/SEE APPRECIATION, A4
Public Hearing On CCS Budget Scheduled 5/14 COOPERSTOWN
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board had subscribed the School Meter, a tool developed by the Putnam/Northwest Westchester BOCES to help make sense of all the The Freeman’s Journal data. CCS teachers’ PowThe other day, the subers and Gigliotti’s Please See SCORES, A7 students excelled.
com or ashleywalt@hotmail.com) by week’s end.) “It’s a live performance on the stage where the opera was born,” said Kate Roth Knull, referring to CCS’ Sterling Auditorium, where the Please See ODE, A6
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t’s film. It’s a Q&A with the film’s producer. In between, it’s a performance of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” by singers who simply want to participate. (E-mail tarr.wager@gmail.
SUNY-O, Hartwick Pick 7 Sites For Start-Up NY Anticipating Win, Library Funds Halved
public hearing on CCS’ proposed May 20 Ballot Item Seeking 2014-15 budget is at To Split Costs With 2 Towns 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 14, in the junior/senior high school budget. By JIM KEVLIN The total budget is $17.75 million, a 2.8 percent or COOPERSTOWN $50,000 increase over this year’s budget of $17.25 milhe Village Library of lion. Cooperstown is performing Polls will be open 7 a.m.without a safety net in ask8 p.m. Tuesday, May 20, ing CCS resiwhere the public will vote dents to assume on the document and on four responsibility candidates -- Tim Hayes, for “proportionDavid Petri, Jean Schifano, ate” funding the and Theresa Russo, for two library budget. school board vacancies. At the request To review the proposed of the Vilbudget, visit lage Library’s WWW.ALLOTSEGO.COM board, none of the $90,000 INTO HISTORY: The annual allocaFarmers’ Museum is acA two-lition it received cepting applications for this brary colfrom the Village summer’s Young Interpreter laboration Board has been program. Boys and girls, works can included in the work, Waterages 12 to 14 on May 1, are ville Library 2014-15 village invited to apply by May 15. Call Gwen Miner, 547-1457, Director Jeff budget, according to Mayor Reynolds or e-mail 547-1457. reports. Jeff Katz. If voters – all BOOKSIGNING: Homer school district residents are eliOsterhoudt will be augible – approve the new arrangetographing copies of his ment when they go to the polls 7 “Baseball Fantography,” a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday, May 20, the 9:30-11:10 a.m. Saturday, second-half $45,000 needed in the second half will be paid through the school tax levy. Please See LIBRARY, A7
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Entrepreneurial Center Among Tax-Free Plans By JIM KEVLIN ONEONTA
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Kendall Lifgren’s hummingbird won one of 18 awards to students at the 2014 CCS Student Art Show that opened Friday, May 2, and may be view at the CCA through the 25th/DETAILS, A2
t looks like Otsego County may soon be ready to fully participate in Governor Cuomo’s plan to use higher education to attract new business and industry to revive Upstate New York’s long-flagging economy. SUNY Oneonta has identified six sites, and Hartwick College, a seventh – and Lewis the biggest: 24 level acres atop Oyaron Hill – that would qualify for the program. Sites identified in SUNY’s application include “the Susquehanna Regional Business Center for Entrepreneurship” on the fifth floor of 189 Main St., where the county’s “single point of contact” Sandy Mathes moved the county IDA (Industrial Development Agency) as of Monday, May 5. The center for entrepreneurship is envisioned as a collaboration Please See START-UP, A8
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THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA, OTSEGO COUNTY’S LARGEST PRINT CIRCULATION 2010 WINNERS OF The Otsego County Chamber/KEY BANK SMALL BUSINESS AWARD