NEAR-WORST STORM OVER Sheriff Lowers Travel Advisory By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Pretty much everything came to standstill in Otsego County today, after a snowfall that rivalled the worst dumped almost 30 inches on us overnight. The worst of the worst just missed us: “Endicott got a tad over 40 inches,” David Mattice, the National Weather Service observer in Oneonta, said a few minutes ago. “There were not a lot of accidents, but we got a…
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BILL INTRODUCED IN ALBANY Salka Proposal Would Let Citizens Refuse Vaccines Assemblyman John Salka, R-Brookfield, today announced introducing a bill, A.11172, that would allow individuals to decide whether or not they want to receive COVID-19 vaccine. Salka, who represents Oneonta, Cooperstown and Richfield Springs, introduced the bill in response to recent proposals that would make the. COVID-19 vaccine mandatory.…
Cooperstown Distillery Set To Open Store In Saratoga The Cooperstown Distillery is about to open a store in the heart of vibrant Saratoga Springs – 453 Broadway – Proprietor Gene Marra said this morning, with a “soft opening” perhaps as soon as the end of this week. “It’s a dream come true,” said Marra. Visitors from Otsego County will find a locale quite similar to the distillery’s Beverage Exchange at Main and Pioneer streets in downtown Cooperstown, he said. Along…
BOND GETS FLEXIBILITY All Aboard, Reps Okay Hiring Of 3 For COVID Fight By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The county Board of Representatives voted unanimously today to give Public Health Director Heidi Bond the resources she may need. Acting on a resolution from the floor presented by county Rep. Michele Farwell, D-Morris, the board approved three LPNs or three health workers, or a combination of the two, to ensure Bond has the resources she needs to…
Benton Is Planning Primary Challenge To Veteran Marietta 2021 County Board Dispute Shaping Up By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Democrat MacGuire Benton confirmed a few minutes ago he plans to challenge the dean of the county board Democrats, Andrew Marietta, for the Cooperstown/Town of Otsego seat in next June’s primary. “Primaries are the sign of a healthy democracy,” he said, adding he’s looking forward to “an exchange of ideas.” He added, “It’s early, and I look…
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CLICK FOR TEXT OF ANNOUNCEMENT ‘ONE BASSETT’ NOW A REALITY, IBRAHIM SAYS North-South Regions, Pay Cuts, Layoffs Open Way To Profitability By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – “OneBassett” is here, Network President/CEO Tommy Ibrahim announced yesterday. Ibrahim, who arrived in June from Integris Health Systems in Oklahoma, also announced the reorganization of the eight-county network is largely complete. It creates a North Region (Bassett and Little Falls hospitals) and a South Region (Cobleskill, Fox and O’Connor in…
Ooh, Ah In Oneonta, Starting 12/18 Decorating Underway For Festival Of Lights Brook Moser, 10, and her brother Caleb, 5, joined the gang from Oneonta’s Keller Williams Realty this morning to decorate the front lawn of the city’s Department of Recreation office in Neahwa Park. Mom Angela Moser, a KW real-estate agent, reports her children painted the figurines, which are new this year, in anticipation of the Festival of Lights, which is planned to light up the City of the…
IN MEMORIAM James S. Ainslie, 93; Farmer, Rural Carrier For Post Office RICHFIELD SPRINGS – James S. Ainslie, 93, of Ainslie Road, Town of Otsego, a farmer and longtime rural mail carrier, passed away Wednesday morning, Dec. 9, 2020, while being transported to the hospital. His family regrets they could not be with him due to COVID-19 restrictions; he will be greatly missed. A kind, giving man, loving husband, grandfather and dedicated father, he would do anything to help family,…
