HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SUNDAY, APRIL 19 Learn To Reduce Solid Waste At Digital Earth Fest DIGITAL EARTH FEST – 10:30 a.m. – Noon. Celebrate our Earth from home, chat about how to reduce solid waste with OCCA executive director Amy Wyant. Visit occainfo.org/calendar/ CLICK HERE FOR THE LIST OF CANCELLED EVENTS CLICK TO LOOK AHEAD AT WHAT’S HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO…
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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, APRIL 18 ‘Strides For Safety’ Virtual 5K 5K RUN/WALK – 1 p.m. Support local non-profit SADD ‘Strides For Safety’ providing educational programs for students. Participate in virtual 5k run/walk. Sign up, then run or walk the 5k anytime between April 17-20 along route of your choice (just abide by social distancing and stay safe). Post of picture of you completing your run with hashtags #saddstridesfor safety and #clarksportscenterevents. Runners are encouraged to wear past SADD run t-shirts…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for FRIDAY, APRIL 17 Local Ecology With Biology Professor ECO PRESENTATION – 7:30 – 8:30 p.m. Digital presentation ‘Slogs Through Bogs’ with SUNY Oneonta biology professor Dr. Donna Vogler who completed a survey of the habitat of the Cranberry Bog of the Greenwood Conservancy, the focus of this talk. Join Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society to learn about the ecology of our local wetland at www.facebook.com/DelawareOtsegoAudubonSociety/…
Saying Thanks Brothers-In-Law Making Sure People Who Serve Are Served By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Call it brotherly love for the community. “When you get a meal, it brightens your day,” said Mike Joubert, who owns Wise Guy’s Sammy’s with his wife, Sheryl. “People are nervous, they’re scared, but food gives you a sense of normalcy.” The popular sandwich shop at Ford & Main has taken to surprising essential workers by showing up with sandwiches and pizza…
PROFILE FROM THE FRONT LINES Heidi Bond, General Leads Battle To End Coronavirus Attack By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In the past 20 years, as reports of H1N1, SARS, MARS and other viruses would surface on the news, most of us never gave them a second thought. Not so Heidi Bond, Otsego County’s public health director, and her half-dozen staff members in The Meadows Office Complex in the Town of Middlefield. “Since 2001 – after 911, the…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, APRIL 16 Give Blood, Save Lives BLOOD DRIVE – 1:30 – 6:30 p.m. Donate blood, help the hospitals to save lives. Franklin Methodist Church, 101 Main St., Franklin. 800-733-2767 or visit www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/dlp/coronavirus–covid-19–and-blood-donation.html…
IN TIME OF CORONAVIRUS Superintendents Ponder When, If Schools Reopen By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com With schools closed at least until April 29, Otsego County superintendents are planning for the possibility of a longer-term closure. “Everyone is trying their best under very difficult circumstances,” said ONC BOCES Superintendent Nicholas Savin. “You have that tension of planning and doing the best for the students, with the thought of, ‘When are you planning to…?’” Upstate, coronavirus cases have started to…
IN TIME OF CORONAVIRUS As Need Grows, Local Food Banks Welcoming Needy By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MILFORD – In an average shopping trip, Laura Eggleston, Milford Food Pantry director, might buy 1,100 pounds of food to serve their 39 households. On Monday, April 13, she placed an order for 4,300 pounds. “In these last two weeks, we’ve served 56 families,” she said. “That’s 193 individuals.” As the COVID-19 crisis deepens, food banks across the county are seeing “a…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 A Pearl Harbor Moment, Plus By RICHARD STERNBERG • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Two weeks ago, Surgeon General Jerome Adams made comments that last week would be a Pearl Harbor moment in the battle against COVID-19. Others picked up on the statement. I believe the President used that phrase at one point in a press conference. Others are calling this a 9/11 moment. This is nothing of the sort and is probably an insult to…
GRIN & BEAR IT Sheltered From Coronavirus, Teddy Hunt Adds Bit Of Fun By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Neighbors throughout Oneonta have found a way to make quarantine bear-able for children who are stuck inside. “I taught the book ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ when I taught elementary school,” said Sue Ploutz. “And I saw a post on social media about putting teddy bears in the window so that when kids go on walks with their…
