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Editorial: It’s 2025. Do You Know Where Your GEIS Is?

Twenty-three years ago, “The Freeman’s Journal” was reporting on the Generic Environmental Impact Statement, or GEIS, on the capacities of the Cooperstown region. Developed by Community Planning and Environmental Associates of Berne, under the leadership of Nan Stolzenburg and in collaboration with other environmental science agencies, the 243-page draft of the GEIS was released for public comment in May of 2002.…
August 21, 2025

Students challenge CCS to confront racism, bullying in schools

Cooperstown Central School senior Amelia Williams Students challenge CCS to confront racism, bullying in schools Cooperstown High School senior Amelia Williams rose without hesitation when Board of Education President Tim Hayes opened the public comment portion of the panel’s December 16 meeting in the school’s media center. In the few minutes of time allotted to any such speaker, Ms. Williams delivered a personal message describing her experiences on the receiving end of racist and discriminatory behavior in the school’s hallways…
December 23, 2021

Laurens Superintendent To Fill Interim Position At Cooperstown Central

READ PROFILE OF CCS INTERIM SUPER Laurens Superintendent To Fill Interim Position At Cooperstown Central Romona Wenck Begins Duties On Oct. 1 By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Hayes Wenck COOPERSTOWN – Bill Crankshaw will be leaving Cooperstown's school superintendent post Sept. 30.  On Oct. 1, he will be succeeded as interim super by Romona N. Wenck, who retired last summer from Laurens Central as the longest-serving superintendent in Otsego County. “We’re very fortunate to have her,” said CCS…
September 17, 2020

Cooperstown, Oneonta Face Common Problem

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February 26, 2020

HAYES: Cooperstown Must Build

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February 26, 2020

Fears About Football, Tied To Drop In Pupils

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February 19, 2020

CROWD FEARFUL FOOTBALL GOING

NO PLAN YET, CCS BOARD SAYS CROWD FEARFUL FOOTBALL GOING CCS Board President Tim Hayes, standing at left, tells 200 people who filled the high school auditorium that the half-hour allotted to public comment was over.  Flanking him, from left, are school board members Tony Scalici and Matt Schuermann, Superintendent Bill Crankshaw, and school board members Marielle Ainsworth, the vice president, and Wendy Kiuber and Marcy Birch. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com) By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The football program has…
February 12, 2020

CCS Voters Pick Hayes, Spencer

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May 16, 2017

Polls Open For School Elections

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May 16, 2017

Short Shorts Show Candidates’ Divides

Short Shorts Show  Candidates' Divides Did Dress Code 'Shame Bodies,' Or Put Students In Frame Of Mind To Learn? Answering questions ranging from testing to personal traits to short shorts at this evening's League of Women Voters' candidates' forum in the Cooperstown Middle-High School library were, from left, Kim Jastremski, Bruce Markusen, Gillian Spencer, Jeff Woeppel and Tim Hayes. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com) By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com "What's enough?" citizen Richard Blabey asked candidates for the Cooperstown Central school board,…
May 3, 2017

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