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  • Our Opinion: Roses

    Roses to Cooperstown sixth-grader Tom Knight, who once again might have the chance to compete in the state level geography bee. He won his school district’s competition for the second year in a row this year and will be taking a written test to see if he qualifies. One could wish him luck, but Tom said he feels more confident taking the test this time around the now knows what to expect. He also said he feels more comfortable answering questions on paper that out loud in front of an audience.

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  • Our Opinion: Buying locally is right

    We are happy to report this week that buying locally made products appears to be on the upswing in the Cooperstown area. We have long been a proponent of shopping locally. It stimulates the local economy, returns more sales tax to the county and is more environmentally sound. Buying locally made or grown products takes it one step further.

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  • Our Opinion: Confused much?

    As if figuring out one’s tax bill isn’t mind boggling enough. Now, with a two percent limit on property tax increases, there will be more brains flustered. It is not a simple calculation at all. In fact, the tax cap will affect each school district’s levy in various ways. So don’t think you will be able to take your bill from last year and just increase it by two percent. The process uses a much more complex formula eight steps, as a matter of fact.

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  • Our Opinion: We’ll miss Nicols

    Cooperstown Police Chief Diana Nicols will be leaving her job shortly and will be missed by the community. She is being retired by the New York State and Local Retirement System that notified her last week that she is “permanently incapacitated for the performance of duties.” The incapacitation is the result of a knee injury she received in 2008 during a training class.

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  • Our Opinion: Roses and Raspberries

    Roses to Cooperstown Central School graduate Molly Pearlman for putting off her college plans for a year to serve a 10-month term of service in the National Civilian Community Corps, an AmeriCorps program. She said her inspiration to participate in the program came from her father and brother.

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  • Thursday, December 29, 2011
  • Our Opinion: Looking forward

    While many will spend the next few days reminiscing about 2011, we at the Crier are looking forward to next year.  We are ready to ring in a new year and look forward to the events to come. Of course there are those events that  happen annually such as the Cooperstown Winter Carnival,The Goodyear Polar Bear Jump, the Farmers’ Museum’s Junior Livestock Show, The National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Father’s Day Classic and Induction weekend, the Pumpkin Festival and Regatta and many more.

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  • Thursday, December 22, 2011
  • Our Opinion: Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

    At this holiday season, we take great pleasure in reprinting one of the classic newspaper editorials of all time − perhaps the best Christmas editorial ever written. It has survived the test of time and seems particularly fitting and poignant this year.

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  • Monday, December 19, 2011
  • DEC should not dismiss findings

    Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the findings in a draft of a new federal report that links hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in Wyoming with groundwater pollution. Hydraulic fracturing is a process that pumps millions of gallons of chemically treated water into gas wells to fracture the rock and release the gas.

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  • Thursday, December 8, 2011
  • Our Opinion: Who would have guessed?

    Much has been revealed during the baseball winter meeting in Dallas this past week. The Miami Marlins seem to be in hot pursuit of all the big name players to fill their new stadium, Manny Ramirez announced he would like to return to Major League Basbeall, Pedro Martínez announced he plans to officially retire, elections have been held and it appears former Red Sox manager Terry Francona is swapping places with the franchise’s new manager Bobby Valentine.

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  • Thursday, December 1, 2011
  • Our Opinion: County board ignores village again

    In mid-November the county’s tentative $117.9 million spending plan for the coming year was unveiled by Treasurer Dan Crowell. It would cut spending by $4 million, raise property taxes by 1.81 percent and calls for cuts in foster care, emergency services, senior citizen programs and road repairs.

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