212 COVID Cases Reported In Week, Bond Announces At This Rate, Herd Immunity Long Way Off, She Declares By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – With 28 new cases of COVID reported today, 212 new positives have been reported in the past week, county Public Health Director Heidi Bond announced a few minutes ago. Every day for the past two weeks, active cases have been over 150, she said. “We continue to see elevated number of new cases…
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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, APRIL 1 Farmers’/Fenimore Museums Reopen! REOPENING – Museum exhibits reopen for visitors. Fenimore Art Museum, Farmers’ Museum, More. …
Wallers’ Granddaughter Kira Joins National Soccer Team COOPERSTOWN – United States Soccer has announced yesterday that Kira Waller, granddaughter of former Mayor Carol Bateman Waller and her husband Bill, has been selected as a member of the Woman’s Under 16 National Soccer Team. This puts Kira, daughter of Cooperstown High School graduate and soccer player Scott Waller, on the road to her participation in U.S. Woman’s National Soccer.…
Retired Teachers Celebrate On Ginger Heitz’s Birthday Retired teachers and friends of Ginger Heitz, herself a retired Cooperstown Central elementary school teacher, surprised her yesterday at her Fly Creek Valley home with honking horns, birthday songs, banners and a blow up birthday cake in her yard. Husband Tom Heitz and daughter Kelly with her husband Peter and daughter Ava were there to celebrate with her. (Judy Steiner-Grim photos)…
Democratic Challenge Takes Sheila Ross Off County Ballot COOPERSTOWN – Sheila Ross, the former Republican county elections commissioner, announced this evening that a Democratic Party challenge has knocked her off the Nov. 2 ballot for county board. Ross was challenging incumbent county Rep. Andrew Marietta, a Democratic, for the District 8 seat, representing the Village of Cooperstown west of the river, and the Town of Otsego.…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31 3-Course Russian Dinner At Otesaga INTERNATIONAL NIGHT – 5 – 8 p.m. Enjoy 3-course meal from abroad. This week enjoy dinner from Russia. Cost, $20/person. Reservation required. Take-out available. The Otesaga, Cooperstown. 607-544-2524 or visit www.otesaga.com/dining/seasonal-dining…
Vaccination Age Dips To 30 Today ALBANY – Starting today, all New Yorkers age 30 or older will be able to be vaccinated, Governor Cuomo announced yesterday. And all New Yorkers age 16 or older will be eligible on April 6, well ahead of the May 1 deadline set by the White House, he said. Eligible New Yorkers can make an appointment at ny.gov/GetVaccinated or by calling the NYS COVID-19 Vaccine Hotline at 1-833-NYS-4-VAX (1-833-697-4829). He called the announcement “monumental,”…
Democrats Ask Catan To Accept Endorsement If So, She Would Appear On GOP Line, Too By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The Democrats are asking Michelle Catan, a registered Democrat who filed as a Republican to run for county Rep. Andrew Stammel’s District 3 seat, if she will accept their party’s endorsement as well. Stammel, who decided not to run again after Catan filed her GOP petitions by last Thursday’s deadline, said today that he filed his…
IN MEMORIAM: Wanda Joan Noyes, 98; Secretary To Bassett’s Chief Of Surgery COOPERSTOWN – A wonderful mother and beloved friend, Wanda Joan Filipski Noyes, 98, secretary to Bassett Hospital’s chief of surgery for 30 years, passed away peacefully on the morning of Wednesday, March 24, 2021, in Cooperstown. She was 98. Born on April 4, 1922, Wanda was the middle of three daughters of Michael and Michelina Filipski, immigrants from Poland who raised a family of six children in a…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for TUESDAY, MARCH 29 Women Business Owners In Round-Table Discussion BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE – 8:30 a.m. Women business owners gather online to discuss their adventures in entrepreneurship. Includes how they got started, resources they used to get off the ground, what they had known beforehand, and how they pivoted during the Pandemic. Free, registration required. Presented by Otsego County Chamber of Commerce. 607-432-4500 or visit otsegocc.com…