Marietta Challenges Hulse

For Seat On County Board

COOPERSTOWN – Andrew Marietta, regional director of the New York Council of Nonprofits for the past decade, announced a few minutes ago he is running for the county Board of Representatives in District 8, which includes the Town of Otsego and Village of Cooperstown west of the Susquehanna River.

At Democrat, he is challenge Rick Hulse Jr., the Republican incumbent.

“At the county, we have to go up a level and make more impact,” said Marietta, who was selected by an independent panel of judges earlier this year as one of The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta’s “20 Under 40” outstanding citizens.  “What’s the best way to connect the dots?” he asked.

Marietta, a Fly Creek resident, is currently a member of the Cooperstown Central School board.  He recently rejoined the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce board, where he previously served as president.

Raised in the Midwest, he enrolled in 2000 the Cooperstown Graduate Program in Museum studies after graduating from Creighton University in Omaha.  Even before obtaining his master’s in 2002, he was working fulltime for NYSHA in marketing and development.

In 2004, he joined NYCON, and estimates he has worked with 75-100 nonprofits in the past decades, with perhaps 60 in his portfolio at this time.   Among successes he cited the recently affiliation of the Cooperstown Art Association and Smithy Pioneer Gallery, where NYCON provided guidance.

He also owned three rental properties in Cooperstown for year ’round residents.

He and his wife, Melissa, have two daughters, Caroline, 8, and Charlotte, 5.