Bassett CEO Says Scourge Declines, But Stay Vigilant By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Rates of positive COVID-19 cases in the Bassett Healthcare Network’s eight-county region, including Otsego, are starting to come down. In the past week, 6-8 percent of tests taken across the Bassett Network’s region were positive. That’s down from 10 percent the week before. In an interview Tuesday, April 21, Bassett Network CEO Bill Streck said there are several possible reasons, one being that the…
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As Demand Dips, Farms Dump Milk For Pernat Family, This Is A First In 100 Years By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com FLY CREEK VALLEY – Since 1920, Mark Pernat’s family has sold milk from their Fly Creek Valley farm. “My dad always said, ‘If you make the milk, they’ll come buy it,’ said Pernat. But the truck didn’t come on April 5. “Our co-op called and told us we had to dump our milk and we would not be…
LET’S UNITE, FIGHT COVID-19’S THREAT Community Foundation Launches Countywide Relief, Recovery Effort By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The nation’s first community foundation, founded in 1914, is in Cleveland, Ohio, and in recent years it identified a lack of “capital wealth” as preventing the city’s blighted neighborhoods from rebounding. “With a consortium of business people, government organizations and charities, they’ve funded several hundred small businesses in those neighborhoods. “Funding entrepreneurship kept wealth in the community,” said Harry…
VIEW FROM WEST DAVENPORT Better Living Through Plastics By MIKE ZAGATA • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Governor Cuomo is about to extend the temporary ban on fracking in New York and make it permanent via his budget Bill. Some will cheer that action, but those who understand its unintended consequences won’t be among them. Indeed, they will live in fear of another pandemic where we don’t, as a result of his ban, have access to the materials needed to combat any…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta April 23-24, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK CORONAVIRUS UPDATE Community Foundation To Fight Threat As Demand Dips, Farms Dump Milk Streck: As Scourge Declines, Stay Vigilant Symbol Of Endurance Buoys Church AllOTSEGO.COVID-19 Tee A Puddy Tat Anytime, Virtually With Elena’s Michael, Dine Together Apart Libby’s List Of Virtual Things To Do EDITORIAL Now, We All Have Chance To Do Good COLUMNS LEVINE: Building A Foundation Together SEWARD: On Mend, He Turns…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 What’s All This Testing About? By RICHARD STERNBERG • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com At his Sunday, April 19, press conference, Governor Cuomo reported his 22-year-old daughter had asked him, “What’s all this testing about?” He seemed to be a little surprised by the question. He said he thought he was explaining this well during his previous press conferences but realized he had not been getting his points across to everybody. He went over this again.…
HOMETOWN History April 24, 2020 150 Years Ago News Items – The Buffalonians are taking 90 pound sturgeon. On April 4, a foot of snow fell at Scranton, Pennsylvania. There are over 250,000 Odd Fellows in the United States. Wyoming farmers plow with tame Buffalo. Rhode Island has abolished imprisonment for debt. Lotteries are not tolerated in Russia – not even for religious purposes. There are said to be 500,000 French Canadians in the United States. Steps are being taken…
EDITORIAL In Time Of Trial, All Of Us Have A Chance To Do Good Otsego County is blessed with generous foundations. The Clark Foundation and its spinoffs have, of course, been transformative, and continue to be, with supporting the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Fenimore and Farmers’ museums, Glimmerglass Opera and more than $10 million in college scholarships to top local students countywide since the 1960s. The Clark’s Scriven Foundation is focused exclusively within the county, and it’s the rare…
ALBANY PERSPECTIVE On Mend, Seward Turns Sights On Coronavirus I want to start this week’s column with a heartfelt THANK YOU to all who have reached out to me and my wife Cindy over the past few weeks as we both battled the Novel Coronavirus. Your well wishes and prayers meant a great deal and gave us both strength during our fight against this sinister virus. As the pandemic continues there are so many on the front lines that are…
LETTER TO EDITOR from JUDITH PACHTER The Answer: Choose People Over Money To the Editor: As a former registered nurse and a retired financial adviser, I see both sides of this horrendous dilemma. But in my mind, there is no amount of money that is worth one death that could have been prevented. We sit in our isolated homes in rural Central New York and feel a bit sorry for ourselves because we cannot do or should not do what…
