Resident needs to stop making false claims
This letter is in response to a recent letter from a Worcester resident proclaiming to have the "facts" about recent events at Worcester School. I support this person's right to his own opinion but I cannot support his distortion of facts.
He claims that we have mismanaged the money at Worcester CSD, including the money surrounding our recent Capital Project. Fact: Like all schools in New York, we are required to be audited yearly. Each year Worcester receives the highest rating a school can receive and recently we received Moody's highest credit rating. These documents are available to the public.
He claims that the new driveway and parking lot are faulty. Fact: There is a problem with part of the parking lot that the installer has acknowledged and will be replaced in the summer at no cost to the district.
This resident claims I gave high praise to workers cleaning up after a leak and even quotes me. Fact: A pipe did freeze above the gym and was immediately taken care of by the contractors on site. I was not in attendance as I was attending a funeral; It's hard to praise someone when I wasn't even there.
He claims that a recent burglary of tile from our school took two years of investigation. Fact: I received a phone call about this issue Tuesday night, Nov. 8, from a local community member, alerted the sheriff's office Wednesday, Nov. 9, and the two suspects were charged Thursday, Nov. 10.
For three years this resident has disparaged the Worcester community and vilified me. I have repeatedly asked The Daily Star to live up to its own letters policy, which states in part "letters that make unverifiable accusations of behavior will not be published."
Gary M. Kuch
Cooperstown
Kuch is superintendent of Worcester school.
If we choose to drill for gas, make it safe
Hydrofracking the shale bank may cause an underground earthquake with the drilling for natural gas.
We are a huge island with two oceans _ the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans on both sides.
Let's think about gas drilling on a smaller scale.
Try it first to see if it works, then gradually expand.
See what happens and clean up as you go along. Don't leave a mess for our children to clean up.
We can be safe, plus productive.
Angeline D. Cooper
Worcester
