Seward On Conference Committee For Education, Higher Ed Budgets ALBANY – State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, has been named to the 10-legislator conference committee – five senators, five assemblymen – charged with negotiating budget differences between the two houses in the areas of education and higher education. In a statement, Seward said the senate version, if it can be largely preserved, will achieve “two of my primary goals, … ending the disastrous Gap Elimination Adjustment and significantly raising school aid…
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March 2015 - Page 5
Mary Iversen Wins CCS Poetry Slam…
CLICK HERE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE JAHNKE FAMILY RELIEF FUND Heavy Smoke Fills Sky As Milford Home Burns…
Cooperstown Faculty Association Asks Regents’ Chair Tisch To Quit COOPERSTOWN – The Cooperstown Faculty Association has passed a resolution calling for the resignation of Merryl Tisch, chancellor of the state Board of Regents, who has been an ally of Governor Cuomo in tightening teacher and school evaluations. “During her tenure,” reads a resolution that was passed on Monday, “the perception of the quality of education in New York State has been disparaged by the public comments and choices the Chancellor has…
IN MEMORIAM ‘Wonder Woman’ Lost Family Remembers Tifanne Wells Editor’s Note: Tifanne Wells’ family released this heart-felt obituary Tuesday. A celebration of Tifanne’s life is planned at 4 p.m. Friday at Foothills Performing Arts & Community Center, Oneonta. ONEONTA – The devastated family of Tifanne Kristin Wells, 44, announces with the greatest sadness that Tifanne died tragically on Saturday, March 7, 2015. She was born May 31, 1970, in Fort Bragg, N.C., but shortly thereafter became a lifelong resident of…
‘COMMON CORE’ FOES PACK 2 LOCAL FORUMS Parents Warn School Board About Atmosphere Of Fear COOPERSTOWN – Last year, only six families with nine children in all declined to take the state’s Common Core exams in the Cooperstown Central School District. But if the Cooperstown Central School District had mostly avoided protests about the testing-focused regimen, that abruptly and dramatically changed in the past few days. On Wednesday, March 4, more than 100 parents and teachers packed the school board meeting in the…
Oneonta Murder-Suicide, Village ‘Common Core’ Turmoil Detailed OUR NEWSPAPERS AVAILABLE AT THESE FINE ESTABLISHMENTS…
Lynch Confirms: He Won’t Run Again ONEONTA – Common Council member Mike Lynch reportedly announced this evening that he is sticking by his original decision: He won’t be running for another term in the November elections. Council members Bob Brzozowski, Chip Holmes and Larry Malone have already announced they aren’t running again, meaning there will be four new members on Common Council beginning next Jan. 1, plus a new mayor. So far, only Democratic Gary Herzig has announced a mayoral run.…
3 Candidates Raise Range Of Issues At Cheerful Forum At Village Hall…
Autopsy Confirms Murder-Suicide; Woman Shot Twice, Coroner Says ONEONTA – The autopsies on Tiffane Wells and George L. Jones revealed the two died Saturday afternoon, though their bodies were not discovered until Sunday morning. The autopsies showed Wells was shot twice, reported James Hurley, Otsego County coroner, who declared the manner of her death to be homicide. Jones’ death was ruled a suicide. Lourdes Forensic Pathologist Dr. James Terzian, who conducted the autopsy this afternoon, places the time of death Saturday afternoon.…
