Cooperstown mayor to retire; Jeff Katz

COOPERSTOWN MAYOR RETIRING KATZ WON’T RUN AGAIN COOPERSTOWN – Jeff Katz, mayor of Cooperstown for the past six years – in many ways a transformational mayor – today said he won’t run for a fourth two-year term in village elections in March. “I’ve been mayor for six years, trustee for seven before then,” he said in an interview with The Freeman’s Journal.  “Thirteen years is a pretty longtime to do this.  And they were pretty intense years. I feel…