COVID Case Shuts CCS For One Week COOPERSTOWN – Cooperstown Central’s new superintendent, Sarah Spross, announced yesterday that a junior-senior high school student tested positive for COVID, and that school will be closed beginning today through Friday, March 26. Students will shift to remote instruction, and volleyball practice and games have been suspended through next Saturday. “While many of our staff have received the vaccination,” Spross said, “they are not considered fully vaccinated because they are not two weeks past…
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IN MEMORIAM: Wade Tex Austin Seamon, 42 RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Wade Tex Austin Seamon, 42, died on March 8, 2021. He was the beloved son of Tex L. and Bette R. Douglas Seamon; brother of Katie Hamdadi, Gwen Alvear and Amelia Chandler; grandson of Marie Seamon; and uncle of two nieces and three nephews.…
IN MEMORIAM Christy Schiele, 83 Feb. 16, 1938-March12, 2021 ONEONTA – Christy Schiele passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 13, 2021, with her loving family by her side. Christy was born in Brooklyn on Feb. 16, 1938. She lived for a time in The Bronx and Carmel, N.Y., and then spent her early years in Briarwood, a section of Jamaica, N.Y. After high school, her desire to see the world led her to employment as a stewardess with Capitol Airways…
CLICK TO READ TEXT OF ARTICLE Audubon Magazine Features Cooperstown Nature Writer Susan Fenimore Cooper’s Reputation Rising COOPERSTOWN – This month’s edition of Audubon magazine features Susan Fenimore Cooper, whose “Rural Hours” (1850) was mentioned by Henry David Thoreau his journals prior to the publication of his famous “Walden” (1854). Credited simply as “by a lady,” her “Rural Hours,” while praised by such giants at Charles Darwin, prevented Susan from even approaching the fame of her father, James Fenimore Cooper.…
THOMAS WOLF STEPS ASIDE Executive Director, 2 Trustees Join CSO ONEONTA – Cassandra Miller, a lecturer in the SUNY Oneonta Communications Department, has joined the Catskill Symphony Orchestra as acting executive director, Kellie Bean, who chairs the CSO board, announced. She succeeds Thomas Wolf, a past opera performer, who was executive director during the 2019 search for the new conductor, Maciej Żółtowski.…
IN MEMORIAM: James Decker, 77; Oneontan Farmed In West Winfield WEST WINFIELD – James Decker, 77, an Oneonta native who farmed here for 40 years, passed away on March 10, 2021. He left behind his wife of 48 years, Betty (Prouty) Decker, six children, Janet (Howard) Daniels, Mark (Shellianna) Decker, Michael (Lynnette) Decker, Matthew (Laurel) Decker, Martha (Scott) Doty, and Mary (David) Pushlar, 29 grandchildren, and I great grandchild.…
Governor Gives Blessing To Site At Dewar Arena Opening Delayed A Day, Until Friday By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The opening of the COVID-19 mass-vaccination site has been delayed a day, until Friday, but Governor Cuomo today confirmed the initiative is a go. “We have a wide network of COVID vaccination sites and the state is moving full steam ahead opening even more,” the governor said today in announcing nine state-run sites and the 10th, at…
MASS-VACCINATION CLINIC TO OPEN AT SUNY-O THURSDAY It Will Be Open 7 Days A Week, Aims To Give 1,000 Shots A Day By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERTOWN – Bassett Healthcare Network announced a few minutes ago that a COVID-19 mass-vaccination clinic will open Thursday at SUNY Oneonta’s Dewar Arena. It will be the first such clinic in the state operated by a healthcare network, along with nine new state-run sites announced by Governor Cuomo today. It will…
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IN MEMORIAM Roger J. Skinner, 72; Raised In Richfield, Ran Auto Dealership RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Roger Jay Skinner, 72, of Whitesboro, who was raised in Richfield Springs and operated the Skinner & Damulis Chevrolet and Jeep auto dealership here for decades, passed away on Tuesday, March 9, 2021, at Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse. Roger was born on March 28, 1948, in Herkimer, son of the late Hiram J. and Leanor (Helmer) Skinner. On July 27, 1968, he married Mary…
