COUNTY HITS NEW RECORD: 30 INFECTIONS Daily Tally Sets New Mark; 5 Patients Now Hospitalized By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Thirty people tested positive for COVID-19 today, setting a new record for the number of cases reported in one day, according to Heidi Bond, county public health director. Additionally, a fifth person has been hospitalized with the virus, bringing the county’s total to five, up one from last week. The spike comes less than a week…
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28 COVID-19 Cases Surface On Weekend COOPERSTOWN – COVID-19 numbers continue to climb in the county, with 28 cases reported over the weekend, according to Heidi Bond, Otsego County Public Health Director. 11 cases were reported Saturday, Nov. 21 and 17 were reported today, Bond noted in her daily press release. According to the NY Forward Dashboard, Otsego County currently has a 1.1 percent average positivity rate, with 600 people tested yesterday.…
CSO Conductor’s Funeral Will Be Streamed Online ONEONTA – The funeral services for Maestro Charles Schneider, the longtime music director of the Catskill Symphony Orchestra, will be streamed online from the New Hartford Presbyterian Church at 1 p.m. this afternoon, according to an email sent out by the CSO. Schneider died Friday, Oct. 9, at age 84, at his Frankfort home. Tom Morgan, Janet Nepkie, Carlton Clay and Rayna Schneider will be among those who give words of tribute, and The Rev.…
22 Cases Tied To Copper Fox, First Responders Sick Too 4 Hospitalized As COVID Rampages Through County COOPERSTOWN – Four people have been hospitalized as COVID-19 numbers rise throughout the county, bringing the total number of infections to 90. One of those hospitalized, Bond said, is a resident of a group home, where outbreaks began two weeks ago, although the others are not related to any particular cluster. In the last two days, 29 cases have been reported, with 20…
Sheriff: Kansas Man Intentionally Struck Pedestrian With Car Attempted Murder Charge Levied By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com HARTWICK SEMINARY – A Kansas man has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly drove off the roadway and intentionally struck a pedestrian, according to Otsego County Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr. George K. Wang, 23, Lawrence, Kansas, was driving a 2013 Hyundai on Route 28 in Hartwick when he allegedly drove onto a grassy area at the front of…
Otsego COVID Cases Double, 5 Delaware Ones Sent Here CCS Outbreak Hits Herzigs By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – In the past week, Otsego County doubled its November COVID-19, leaving Oneonta’s mayor and his wife among the newly quarantined. With 37 new cases of the virus identified from Tuesday the 10th to Tuesday the 17th, the number of cases for the month rose from 46 to 83 in just seven days. Two from Otsego County were hospitalized,…
SQSPCA Animal Shelter Dreams Coming True By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – At the Susquehanna SPCA’s new shelter, not only will you be able to see the difference, you’ll be able to smell it too. “Dogs communicate through smell,” said Andrew Schuster, principal architect with Ashley McGraw, Syracuse. “To keep stress levels down, every dog will have a separately ‘exhausted’ kennel to ensure odor privacy, so that you don’t have a lot of barking.” The new shelter…
LIFE SKETCHES With A Slice Of The Shovel Recently, a friend brought some spruce saplings up to the farm for planting. Luckily, my son was up for the weekend to lend a hand with the digging. We placed some near the house and then headed for the woods, which are thin on evergreens. No sooner did I open a hole for the first seedling than I was back to the spring of 1966, in the forest near Rothenberg, Germany, where…
In Oneonta, Santa, Other Staples Virtual By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – For Common Council member Mark Drnek, it’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas. “We were in Brooklyn one time during the holidays, and all of a sudden, we heard music in the streets,” he said. “It was a game-changer.” A similar 16-speaker system, designed by Carrie Schmidt of Bitbybit Solutions, was put in place for the downtown dining event and, come Black Friday, will…
75 Faculty Sign Petition Asking Leadership: Stop By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The evening before SUNY Oneonta issued its Draft Reopening Plan, some faculty members posted a 25-point manifesto and petition online: They’re against it. Addressed to “Dear Acting President Dennis Craig and Provost Leamor Kahanov,” it declares, “To regain our trust and confidence in your decision-making processes, shared governance at SUNY Oneonta must be restored.” Each of the 25 points begin with the word “stop,” and…