Brewery Ommegang Celebrates 25 Years Friday, September 9Brewery Ommegang—Firepit Friday Finale Erin Harkes Band from 7-10 pm—Tap House Café will be open until 9 pm, food truck and patio bar open until 10 pm.—25th Anniversary Fireworks display at 10 pm.All events free to the public — all ages welcome. Tables are first come, first served, no outside food or beverages, please!…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 Find Vintage Items, Furnishing, More For Sale To Support The Greater Oneonta Historical Society ON-SITE SALE – Noon – 4 p.m. Find surplus furninshings, ephemera, and more ranging form vintage items like the Caprice Model organ by Conn, to a slab of marble, to extra display cases. All proceeds benefit the Greater Oneonta Historical Society. Held on the 3rd Floor of the Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. 607-432-0960 or visit facebook.com/OneontaHistory/ BLOOD DRIVE –…
Column by Dr. Richard Sternberg New COVID Vaccine Offers Broader Protection On Wednesday August 31 the FDA authorized, for emergency use, two new, bivalent, COVID vaccines. Bivalent means that each shot contains two variants of the vaccine. The following day the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP) recommended the use of those vaccines and the same day, CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, M.D., M.P.H., endorsed the committee’s recommendations for use of updated COVID-19 boosters from Pfizer-BioNTech for people ages…
Retiring Number 24: Mets Honor Willie Mays By Richard Sternberg, M.D. I am a NY Mets fan. I’ve been so since their beginning in 1962 when I was 9 years of age. I don’t know how that came to be, but I grew up in Queens and the new team in town fascinated me. My father was not a baseball fan but my mother showed an interest, maybe just because of me and my brother, or maybe she was a…
Money Left on the Table? By Carrie Thompson There has been a lot of chatter surrounding President Biden’s Infrastructure and Jobs Act and as opposed to the Build Back Better agenda, this legislation was passed by the house on November 5, 2021, and signed into law on the 15th. What does this mean for our country, states and local communities? It sure sounds like a lot of money is on the table. A successful outcome for any state is leaving…
News from the Noteworthy Algae Bloom Affects Lake Activities The summer of 2022 will be remembered as the year our beloved Lake Otsego first suffered a Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB). The conditions which allow a HAB to occur are known. This column reviews Village of Cooperstown public beaches, boat launch sites and most importantly, Village drinking water. The SUNY Oneonta Biological Field Station (BFS) has monitored lake conditions for decades. This summer, when Glimmerglass State Park first noted an algae…
Send Us Your Fall Photos Some of the trees are already thinking it is Fall and changing their outfits. Even though it is still early in September, you will surely see the pumpkins and apples starting to appear everywhere. Please send us your Autumn-inspired photos to go here in our newspapers and on AllOtsego.com. All submitted photos should be taken within Otsego County. It is the editor’s discretion as to which ones will be chosen. Please send your photo, and…
Otsego Lake Weather Buoy Needs Major Repairs; Raffle Held to Help Otsego Lake Association (OLA) board members have been working on a project to help fund the repair on the weather station buoy just beyond Five Mile Point. “The buoy is just north of Five Mile Point in the middle of the lake. It’s called a Continuing Lake Monitoring Buoy (CLMB),” Debra Creedon, OLA board member, said. “The CLMB is a computer that is encased and sub-merged that monitors wind…
Tree Inspection Complete in Cooperstown The Village of Cooperstown does a yearly assessment of all of the trees in the Village. “The assessment went well this year. We were fortunate to have five members of the Tree Committee able to attend. We did it with 5 sets of eyes which is fantastic,” Cindy Falk, Deputy Mayor and Chair of the Streets Committee. “We have a number of village trees where it’s clear that parts of them have either already dropped…