Single COVID-19 Case Reported In Past Week COOPERSTOWN – One new COVID-19 case was reported today in Otsego County, according to county Public Health Director Heidi Bond. While the numbers keep diminishing, Bond reminded the public the threat is still here. “Please remember to practice social distancing and if you are sick stay home,” she said. “Wear a mask when you are unable to maintain a 6-foot distance from others.”…
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IN MEMORIAM Giles E. Russell, 86 March 14, 1934-June 17, 2020 COOPERSTOWN – Giles E. Russell, 86, of Cooperstown, died on Wednesday, June 17, 2020. Born March 14, 1934, and raised in Eagle Bridge, N.Y., Giles was the son of Giles Sr. and Kathryn (Mahar). He graduated from RPI in Troy with a degree in electrical engineering in 1955. He was an IBM engineer in Poughkeepsie from 1955 until his retirement in 1991.…
STATE ISSUES GUIDELINES Hartwick Plan Aims To Return Students To Campus Aug. 22 ‘Social Compact’ Will Require Healthy Community Practices In a Sunday video, Hartwick College President Margaret L. Drugovich announced students will begin a phased-in return to campus Saturday, Aug. 22, with classes reopening Monday, Aug. 31. The state issued guidelines for college reopening on Saturday afternoon, she said, and plans are for Hartwick to release its full reopening plan in the next week, to be discussed in detail…
50 Vehicles Participate In ‘Ride For Black Lives’ WALTON – A 50-vehicle “Justice Ride for Black Lives” traversed Delaware County Friday evening, in solidarity with nationwide protests since George Floyd’s death, travelling through Margaretville, Andes, Delhi, Hamden and Walton. The caravan of vehicles decorated with Black Lives Matter messages stretched out for two miles. The ride highlighted three locations: SUNY Delhi, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Delaware County (whose 4-H Program is central in county fairs) and the Delaware County Fairgrounds.…
OPEN TODAY UNTIL 2 P.M. Milford Farmers’ Market Open For Third Season This summer, don’t forget the OTHER farmers’ market – Milford’s, from 10 to 2 each Sunday off Route 28 at the north end of the village. Today, Kelly Morrissey, Goodyear Lake, at right in top photo, expresses satisfaction at the gluten-free cookies offered by Becca Hopkins, left, and her husband Vince, of Worcester. (Friend Oscar Carpenter, right, is visiting from the Albany area.) Morrissey recommends the Whoopie Pies…
Car Hits Pole, Reducing Route 28 To One Lane…
IN MEMORIAM: ‘Teddy’ Whitford; Longtime Waterville Times Columnist SOUTH BROOKFIELD – Evelyn “Teddy” Whitford, formerly of South Brookfield, a longtime columnist for the Waterville Times, passed away June 19, 2020, at the Waterville Residential Care Center. Born in Ilion in 1930, the daughter of David D. and Lucy (Young) Singer, Teddy received her education at Mohawk Central School. On Oct. 14, 1947, she married John K. Stillman in the Jenks-Stillman family homestead in South Brookfield.…
Clark Sports Center Shut Until ‘At Least Sept. 8’ COOPERSTOWN – The Clark Sports Center announced today it will remain closed “at least until Sept. 8.” “We have been closely monitoring the guidelines from the CDC, Governor Cuomo, the state Department of Health, and the Otsego County Department of Health,” the message to members reads. “Although the Sports Center is eligible to open on July 1 as part of Phase Four, the guidelines issued by the State of New York…
CCS GRADS CELEBRATED 79 Banners Rising Along Main Street At this hour, volunteers Rose Crane, right, and Nancy Potter, in top photo, hoist banners along Main Street, one for each of the 79 members of the Cooperstown Central School Class of 2020, who are graduating on June 28 in three separate ceremonies on the high school’s sports fields. Mike Donnelly, inset, one of the organizers along with wife Colleen and CCS school board member Wendy Kiuber, said there are enough…
FINAL DAILY BRIEFING/June 19, 2020 Cuomo Signs Off: ‘We Went From Worst To First’ ALBANY – Declaring “we went from worst to first,” Governor Cuomo today ended 111 daily briefings in a a row since declaring a State of Emergency on March 13.…
