COVID Cluster Traced To Oneonta Group Home ONEONTA – 10 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in a residential group home in Oneonta, according to a press release by Heidi Bond, Otsego County public health director. Six residents and four staff members tested positive today, and contact tracers are still working to determine how the cluster started.…
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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5 Glimmerglass Film Days Returns FILM FESTIVAL – Enjoy movies, videos on theme ‘A Road Less Traveled.’ Sign up to stream films to your home devices. Continues through 11/11. Cost, $50 for all-inclusive pass. Presented by Glimmerglass Film Days. Visit www.glimmerglassfilmdays.org for info.…
Council Approves Law Requiring Masks Downtown ONEONTA – Unanimously, Oneonta Common Council approved an ordinance requiring masks be worn at all times downtown and in any public space when social distancing cannot be maintained, such as crowded neighborhood streets or parks. Last month, Mayor Gary Herzig vetoed the city’s original proposed law, which codified the state’s public health law and required masks be worn in private homes when there was no social distancing.…
OBERACKER, SALKA FAR AHEAD Locally, It Looks Like GOP Romp COOPERSTOWN – It looks like Republicans Peter Oberacker and John Salka are easing to victory. With 175 of 255 districts reporting, Oberacker, who is running to succeed state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, in the 51st District, is ahead of Democrat Jim Barber, 59,866 to 38,514. With 52 of 95 districts reporting, In the 121st Assembly District, incumbent John Salka, R-Brookfield, is leading challenger Dan Buttermann of Oneonta, 26,625, to Buttermann’s…
REVISIT 2016 TREE IN ALL ITS GLORY Rockefeller Center Returns To Oneonta For Christmas Tree By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – It could be the biggest secret in Greater Oneonta – perhaps 100 feet tall. Crews from Lynn Warren Lawn Maintenance & Landscaping in Newburgh have been at the 3851 State Highway 23 property since Monday, prepping the tree owned by “Daddy Al” Dick. In much the same way, crews prepped Angie and Graig Eichler’s 94-foot tall…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4 Virtually Tour Exhibit ‘Hamilton’s Final Act’ VIRTUAL TOUR – 2 p.m. Zoom meeting featuring walk through of exhibit ‘Hamilton’s Final Act: Enemies and Allies’ with manager of arts education Kevin Gray. Free, registration required. Suggested donation $5. Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. 607-547-1400 or visit www.fenimoreartmuseum.org…
IN MEMORIAM: Annemarie Danielsky, 86; Native Of France Taught At CCS, Utica College COOPERSTOWN – Annemarie L. Danielski, passed away at home on Monday, Nov. 2, 2020. She was 86. The daughter of Jean and Yvonne Philippot des Miniѐres, she was born on Aug. 11, 1934, in Bavillier, France. Annemarie graduated from the Université de Nancy, France, in 1953, and later obtained a Master of Arts Degree in French from Middlebury College. She taught French to hundreds of American officers…
Annual Banquet 12/4 At Otesaga Boy Scouts To Honor Seward On Retirement COOPERSTOWN – The Boy Scouts of America Leatherstocking Council will honor retiring state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, at its annual Leadership Dinner Friday, Dec. 4, at The Otesaga. Due to COVID precautions, Senator Seward will be joining via a live and interactive video feed to receive the BSA’s Community Leadership Award. The BSA Community Leadership Award is presented to those who exemplify in their daily lives the ideals…
ELECTION DAY MESSAGE Pastor: Ask God’s Guidance In Time Of National Division Editor’s Note: The Rev. Paul Messner, pastor of the county’s Lutheran churches, including Oneonta’s Church of the Atonement and Hartwick Seminary’s Evangelical Luther Church, sent out this Election Day message to his flock. Today is Election Day. I hope you will be doing your civic duty and going to vote – if you haven’t already. The news companies are reporting that prior to today nearly 100 million Americans…
AT DOUBLEDAY, POLLING PLACES Rotary Pancake Feast Is Underway All Day Patrons Clyde Sanders and Stephanie Adams, above, chat with Barbara Boulanger, proprietor of Cooperstown’s Doubleday Cafe, which this year is hosting the Rotary Club’s Election Day Pancake Feast, which will be underway until 6 p.m. this evening. Inset, Rotarian Susan Miosek mans the “warming station” at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” church hall, where pancakes can also be picked up; (also at polling places in the Clark…