For The Birds, Try SSPCA Or Mini-Horses, A Mallard, 2 Chinchillas, Hedgehog By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In five years directing the Susquehanna SPCA, Stacie Haynes has never once had someone bring in a bird. Now, she has 30 of them. Lady Gouldens, to be precise. “We need volunteers ASAP to either foster them or come in and tell us how to take care of them,” she said. “They’re these absolutely gorgeous birds, but we have no…
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Village Trustees Promote Cavilieri To Police Chief COOPERSTOWN – The Village Board appointed a 27-year veteran of the Suffolk County Police Department as part-time police chief Tuesday, Sept. 8. He succeed Michael Covert, who retired on disability two years ago and passed away in February. Cavilieri has served as a patrolman since February 2019, and will oversee two fulltime officers, Jim Kelman and Terrence Silvera, and several part-timers. After his retirement from the Suffolk department in 2013, Cavilieri joined his wife…
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 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 board President…
OCT. 1, VETERAN TAKES CCS HELM Laurens’ Wenck Retired As Superintendents’ Dean From Start, Educator Solved Problems Editor’s Note: This profile was prepared after Romona N. Wenck’s retirement as Laurens Central superintendent after the 2019-20 school year. Ms. Wenck will take over Oct. 1 as interim superintendent in the Cooperstown Central School District. By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com LAURENS – When Romona N. Wenck began her first year as Laurens Central school superintendent in 1998, a challenge already…
COVID RETREATS Graduate Students Adults, Don’t Need To Be Babied Sorin Convinces SUNY To Keep CGP Open By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – There’s a difference between grads and undergrads, said Gretchen Sorin, Cooperstown Graduate Program director. “The graduate students are adults,” she said. “They know how to behave. The undergrads are less grown-up.” Following SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras’ announcement Thursday, Sept. 3, that the SUNY Oneonta campus would close for the remainder of the semester, students reached…
COVID RETREATS Drugovich’s Hard Line Contrasts With Morris’ By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Hartwick College Margaret Drugovich has a message for students unhappy with the school’s stringent COVID-19 code of conduct. “We’re asking the students who don’t want to follow our rules to volunteer to leave campus,” said Drugovich during a meeting of Mayor Gary Herzig’s Oneonta Control Room on Monday, Sept. 7. “As hard as it is to say, if you violate our rules, you have…
COVID RETREATS No Cases In City; SUNY Slows At 701 By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Finally, some good news in the COVID-19 outbreak. “From what I can see, there is no community transmission,” Heidi Bond, public health director, Otsego County Department of Health, said Tuesday, Sept. 8, as the daily infections on SUNY Oneonta dropped to 16 from the Friday, Sept. 4, peak of 134. Beginning Wednesday, Sept. 2, nearly 2,000 rapid tests were conducted at the…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta September 10-11, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK COVID RETREATS No Cases In Oneonta; SUNY Slows at 701 Drugovich’s Hard Line Contrasts With Morris’ CPG Students Adults; Don’t Need Babying FRONT PAGE Cavilieri New Cooperstown Police Chief SSPCA Takes Over Schenevus Menagerie AllOTSEGO.life Sample Fall At The Fenimore Museum Again, Pioneer Patio Wins Beautification Prize EDITORIALS Turmoil At Bassett, But Good Turmoil HISTORY COLUMNS HOMETOWN HISTORY, Sept 11, 2020 BOUND VOLUMES, Sept…
LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP Vote For Candidate With Integrity, Dignity, Veracity To the Editor: The first Presidential candidate that I supported was Barry Goldwater in 1964. That was not a popular position in Texas, where LBJ was revered. I got into a few arguments. I did so because of Goldwater’s integrity, his personal ethics, his honor. The second political candidate I supported was JFK – for the same reasons – compared to Nixon, JFK was a paragon of integrity. I…
LETTER from JAMES DEAN Germans Allowed Nazism; Don’t Allow Donald Trump To the Editor: I remember, as a child in the late1940s, sitting under a table listening to the radio, as I often did, before we had our first television. I never forgot the constant news reports, in real time, about the thousands of concentration camps and millions of mass killings found in and around Germany at the end of World War II. I never forgot. It was always with…
