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GLOVERSVILLE A confirmed positive coronavirus case at Gloversville High School this week will require five staff members and 44 students to quarantine following contact tracing.
According to a letter to families issued on Wednesday by Principal Richard DeMallie and Associate Principal Dennis Bye, school officials were notified by the infected individual of the confirmed positive test when they received their results on Tuesday.
The individual who tested positive was last in the high school on Jan. 13 and was tested shortly after developing symptoms the following day.
Gloversville Enlarged School District officials worked with the Fulton County Public Health Department to complete contact tracing and notify the impacted individuals. The five staff members and 44 students currently under quarantine will be able to return to school on Monday.
Cooperstown School District Names New Superintendent
Cooperstown Central School District has named Sarah Spross as the new district superintendent. According to school district officials, Spross comes to Cooperstown from the State of Maryland Department of Education where she is an assistant superintendent. She succeeds William Crankshaw who left last summer to become superintendent of the Greater Johnstown School District. Spross is a Dutchess County native and has been an educator for more than 25 years. Her start date is to be no later than March 1.
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By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
Sarah Spross, right, confers with her boss, Maryland School Superintendent Karen Salmon, in this Herald Mail photo.
COOPERSTOWN – Sarah Spross, an assistant superintendent in the State of Maryland Department of Education, will become the Cooperstown Central School District’s new superintendent March 1 – or sooner.
“We hope sooner,” said school board President Tim Hayes this morning. He said it would give her more time to be introduced to her new responsibilities by the interim superintendent, Romona Wenck.
Spross, originally from Millbrook, Dutchess County, will succeed Bill Crankshaw,who resigned in August to lead the Greater Johnstown School District in his hometown.
The Cubby Faville Memorial Foundation donated the books
Dec 23, 2020
JOHNSTOWN Â Representatives from the Cubby Faville Memorial Foundation recently donated 950 books to elementary students at the Greater Johnstown School District, with each student in kindergarten through sixth grade receiving a book as a holiday surprise.
“We are beyond grateful to the Cubby Faville Memorial Foundation for their continued support of the students at The Greater Johnstown School District,” Warren Street Principal Bob Kraemer said. “Mr. Faville or “Namp,” as his grandchildren affectionately called him left an impression on every child that he met,”
Pleasant Avenue Elementary Principal Cory Cotter said. “This gesture is perfectly symbolic of the love that he had for the children in our community.”
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