LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP It’s Right To Close Schools; Dreams Park Must Be Next To the Editor: Schools are the absolute best places to transmit airborne diseases, almost as effective as cruise ships. In the average size high school, there are over 750,000 contacts a day at less than 10 feet that can potentially transmit an airborne disease such as the flu or COVID-19. And that does not include making out behind the stadium. The fact that children don’t get…
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THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta March 19-20, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK CORONAVIRUS EDITION 1000+ PLUS CALLS TO BASSETT HOTLINE SCHOOLS: What About SATs, Sports, More? GOVERNMENT: 50% Of Workers Sent Home BUSINESS: Merchants Look For New Niche POLITICS: Governor Cancels Village Elections Baseball Hall Of Fame Closes ‘Indefinitely’ Hall of Fame Classic Weekend Canceled Local Food Banks Bracing For Onslaught Non-Profits Take Hit From Cancellations Distillery To Distribute Free ‘Cooper’s Clean’ EDITORIALS Rah, Team! Beat…
HOMETOWN History March 20, 2020 150 Years Ago Shooting Affray – Nobody Killed: A disgraceful affair occurred in Shafer’s Store at Pepacton last Saturday evening. It appears that two men, James Frazier and Ad. Shafer, proprietor of the store, got into some dispute which brought on a war of words, when Frazier struck Shafer on the nose with some instrument which proved hard enough to break the said nose, and necessitate the sending for a medical man, who reconstructed it…
CORONAVIRUS EDITION Schools Closed, But What About SATs? What About Sports? By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Families across Otsego County are working to adjust to a new normal of “social distancing,” and for many that includes having their school-age children at home. Fears about the COVID-19 virus and its contagion have brought a massive and rapid change to how we live, and it isn’t yet clear what impacts that will have on routines students and families have lived…
CORONAVIRUS EDITION 1,000+ CALLS TAKEN HERE Some Tests Will Be Positive, Streck Expects By JIM KEVLIN & ELIZABETH COOPER Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Dr. Bill Streck, Bassett Healthcare Network CEO, told the county’s Emergency Task Force Tuesday, March 17, that there’s still a shortage of Coronavirus test kits available locally. Nonetheless, a lot of people have been swabbed at the testing tents set up outside Bassett facilities. “They are out there, and coming back slowly,” reported county Board Chair Dave Bliss,…
TENDING THEIR FLOCKS Protect Over-60 Members Who Are At Highest Risk By JOHN A. MACHOLZ • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com In Luke, Jesus calls his followers to be as innocent as doves and as wise as serpents. It is now time for us to be wise as we follow the One who brings hope and healing to our lives and world. I am announcing the cessation of “in person” worship in this synod beginning March 15 and continuing for at least…
LETTER from CINDY FALK, DAN CROWELL CGP Helps Guardsmen Save Historic Resources To the Editor: Earlier this month, the Cooperstown community welcomed a group of soldiers from the 403rd Civil Affairs battalion for their monthly training. The visit is part of an ongoing partnership between this unit and SUNY Oneonta’s Cooperstown Graduate Program. CGP students develop a program about the protection of cultural heritage (think of the Monuments Men during World War II), and the soldiers learn about museum collections…
CORONAVIRUS EDITION Merchants Seek Niche: From Videos To Takeout By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – For Serenity Hobbies’ proprietor Nate Roberts, the game must go on. “We have weekly games that people still want to play,” he said. “But we have an account with Roll20, which is software that creates a virtual tabletop and has a voice chat.” It’s free for players, who will be invited by their Dungeon Masters to join as each game is set up.…
LETTER from TIMOTHY GIBSON Flippant Headline On Serious Topic To The Editor: I find it unruly that Tom Morgan would headline his column (“Nothing to Fear but Flu Itself”) attached to the coattails of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (a man crippled by the polio virus and consistently polled as one of America’s five greatest Presidents) in an attempt to attract reader attention to a very deadly and communicable virus and at the same time disparaging legitimate responses to it. Mr. Morgan…
LETTER from GERRY WELCH Let’s Focus On Most Vulnerable To the Editor: In the case of the Coronavirus, governments are opening a multi-front war by initiating massive quarantines that are inadvertently weakening the entire system. Suggestion: Governments focus attention on protecting the elderly and people with weakened immune systems. Do not, however, defeat the economic support system that feeds and supports us by not allowing life to continue as close to normal as possible. Other than the aforementioned resolve, treat…
