Cooperstown’s Bill Crankshaw, Oneonta’s Joe Yelich and four other local school superintendents gathered to discuss the Parkland shootings, and found they agreed with the idea of hiring school-resource officers to protect local pupils; Senator Seward and Sheriff Devlin appear to be aboard, too. Meanwhile, it seems fear of school shootings will play a role in this fall’s sheriff’s race, plus letters on the topic dominated our editorial pages. All this and more in this week’s Hometown Oneonta and The Freeman’s Journal, on newsstands this afternoon.