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COOPERSTOWN – Incumbent Tim Hayes was reelected to the Cooperstown Central school board today, joined by newcomer Gillian Spencer.
The tallies were Hayes 283, Spencer 280, Kim Jastremski 272, Jeff Woeppel 246, and Bruce Markusen 188.
The $19 million 2017-18 budget was approved, 577-211.
Leasing a new bus was approved, 584-85.
The budget for the Cooperstown library and Hartwick’s Kinney Library was approved, 526-146.
Killer Knapp Dies In Prison; Guilty In SUNY Coed’s Death ONEONTA – Ricky Knapp, the man convicted of the 1977 death of SUNY Oneonta student, has died in Mohawk Correctional Facility, according to prison records. Knapp, 66, died March 8, having served 40 years of a 25-to-life sentence for a 1978 manslaughter conviction in the death of 18-year-old Linda Velzy, a SUNY student from Long Island. According to reports, Velzy was last seen Dec. 9 1977, hitchhiking in downtown Oneonta.…
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Short Shorts Show Candidates’ Divides Did Dress Code ‘Shame Bodies,’ Or Put Students In Frame Of Mind To Learn? By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Short shorts enlivened this evening’s League of Women Voters’ forum. “What’s enough?” asked citizen Richard Blabey, referencing the in-school mini-furor when eight female students who showed up at the high school in short shorts on April 11, the first day when temperatures got into the 70s, and were taken out of class and counseled for a half-hour. “Or,” he continued, “it is anything goes?” Responding, the five candidates for two seats on the…