MacGuire Benton Joins

Village Board Veterans

Sean Miller, top photo, right, looks admiringly at MacGuire Benton after nominating him for a one-year term on the Cooperstown Village Board at the Democratic Caucus this evening in the top-floor ballroom at Village Hall.  Two incumbents, inset, Jeanne Dewey and Richard Sternberg, were nominated for the two three-year terms that are open in the March elections.  The village Republicans failed to caucus this year, so the three are assured reelection, absent a write-in candidacy.  Newcomer Benton is a graduate of Cooperstown Central School and has studied at Cazenovia and SUNY Oneonta.   Most recently, he has been a staffer for such candidates as Brian Flynn, who ran for the Democratic nomination for Congress in the 19th District.  His parents are Mark and Marianne Benton of Cooperstown.  (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)