$1.25M Federal Grant OK’d For Developing Richfield Springs Site Funding Allows Andela Products Expansion RICHFIELD SPRINGS – The U.S. Commerce Department has approved a $1.2 million grant to establish the Richfield Springs Eco-Industrial Business Park, Otsego Now, the county’s economic development agency, announced today. The Economic Development Administration grant, to be matched with $325,000 in state funds and $875,000 in local funds, is expected to generate more than $10.5 million in private investment, the announcement said.…
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75 YEARS LATER, HE REMEMBERS Davis Helped Fly General To See Missouri En Route By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com OTEGO – Last Friday, Aug. 28, Bill Davis wasn’t thinking about the thunderstorm warnings for Otsego County. He was contemplating Aug. 28, but the one 75 years earlier, when he was aboard a B-29 bomber high over the Pacific Ocean with a special sightseer, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commander of the Southwest Pacific Theater, as World War II was nearing…
CLICK TO HEAR SUNY PRESIDENT ‘Super Spreader’ Caused Outbreak, Morris Tells Reps DOH’s Bond: ‘It Spread Like Wildfire’; SUNY Cases May Hit 450, Lapin Says By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The “super spreader” did it. There have been large parties, even larger, at other SUNY campuses, campus President Barbara Jean Morris told the county Board of Representatives this morning. The difference here was the one individual – a “Typhoid Mary” of COVID-19, as county Rep. Danny…
44 More Cases Raise SUNY Total To 289 ONEONTA – Forty-four additional students tested positive overnight, according to test results received by SUNY Oneonta this morning. The college will share another update later today. That increased the total number of cases in the campus community to 289. A total of 125 students are in isolation, and 54 are in quarantine on campus, the college reported.…
SUNY Oneonta RAs Threaten Strike Over Fair Pay Amid COVID ONEONTA – Asking for minimum wage, an increase in board compensation and payment when forced to isolate, Resident Assistants at SUNY Oneonta have posted a series of demands on the social media site Instagram. “We call on SUNY Oneonta’s president , Dr. Barbara Jean Morris, who made $275,000 in 2019, to guarantee fair payment for RAs that work during the COVID-19 pandemic,” the group wrote in a post that went…
SUNY President Morris Addresses County Board https://www.facebook.com/102347451408765/videos/345979603253734/…
IN MEMORIAM Henry Brevoort Cannon III, 81; Deep Family Ties To Cherry Valley CHERRY VALLEY – Henry Brevoort Cannon III died on March 21, 2020, at a Nashville, Tenn., hospital of delayed complications from a heart-valve replacement surgery on Jan. 30. A funeral service at Grace Episcopal Church in Cherry Valley was envisioned for 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020, followed immediately by interment of ashes at the Cherry Valley Cemetery, in conjunction with an annual Labor Day family reunion…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 Catskills Wooden Folk Art ART EXHIBIT – 10 a.m. Showing ‘Folk Art In Wood’ exhibit of contemporary Catskill traditional artists. Presented by Catskills Folk Connection. On view through 10/15 by appointment only. Free. Hanford Mills Musuem, 51 Co. Rt. 12, East Meredith. 607-278-5744 or visit www.hanfordmills.org/folk-art-in-wood/…
BULLETIN SUNY-O MAY RUN OUT OF ROOMS FOR ILL BY TOMORROW ONEONTA – SUNY Oneonta is expected to run out of space for quarantining students by tomorrow, a college spokesman said, and administrators will hold a planning meeting this afternoon to explore options. Already, the college has set aside three dorms with a total capacity of 137, where quarantining students, who have tested positive but aren’t necessarily showing symptoms, must remain for 14 days. Also, Mayor Gary Herzig confirmed this…
MOSTLY SPARED, HARTWICK WILL STILL GO REMOTE With Only 2 Cases, Drugovich Announces ‘Precautionary Step’ ONEONTA – With only two cases, compared to SUNY Oneonta’s 245 (as of now), Hartwick College President Margaret L. Drugovich nonetheless announced a few minutes ago the college is immediately switching to all-remote instruction for 14 days as a precaution, through Sept. 15. “Because of the sudden and steep increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the Oneonta community, we have decided to commence…