HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for WEDNESDAY, JULY 29 Virtual Escape Room With Huntington Memorial Library ESCAPE GAME – 7 – 8 p.m. Join resident Game Master and your friends for fun quest to escape imaginary Witches Hut. Solve puzzles to escape, cure the poison mushrooms you and your party have consumed. Available to 4 County Library System Users only. Presented by Huntington Memorial Library. Visit www.facebook.com/hmloneonta/…
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LifeNet, EMTs On Scene Of Exeter ATV Crash By LARISSA RYAN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com EXETER – Two teenagers were injured in an ATV crash in Exeter this afternoon, Robert O’Brien, director, Otsego County 911 has confirmed. According to John Seamon, his granddaughter Brooke McCord, 16, was riding a large ATV with her boyfriend, Robbie Brykailo, 16 on Dan Seamon’s property near the intersections of County Routes 23 and 24 in Exeter. When they attempted to go over a four-foot…
Film Days Goes Online For 2020 COOPERSTOWN – The annual Glimmerglass Film Days will be presented online this year, with a slate of films scheduled for Nov. 5-11. “Curator Peggy Parsons and the Film Days Steering Committee are building a slate of films you’ll want to watch, ponder, and discuss,” the committee wrote in a press release. “You’ll meet mavericks, pioneers, dreamers, and doers and hear stories of revival, perseverance, injustice, and the human spirit. We also plan to offer…
Tractor Fest, Candlelight Evening TBD The Farmers’ Museum Cancels Harvest Festival COOPERSTOWN – The Farmers’ Museum’s annual Harvest Festival has been cancelled, the museum announced today, citing the ongoing pandemic. The event, which was scheduled to take place Sept. 19–20, would have celebrated its 42nd consecutive year.…
Delgado Introduces Bill To Connect Small Farms, Schools Congressman Antonio Delgado, NY-19, has co-sponsored the bipartisan Small Farm to School Act, an eight-state pilot program where public schools would be reimbursed at a higher rate for sourcing school lunches from small farmers under the National School Lunch Program. “Our family farmers are essential to our way of life in upstate New York, and we should be looking for every opportunity to support our small businesses and farmers, while helping our…
Juvenile Arrested In Tire-Damage Spree ONEONTA – One juvenile was arrested and a second is awaiting charges following 29 incidents where car tires were punctured and other personal property items were damaged last week in Oneonta’s East End. In all, the juvenile, whose name was not released because of their age, was charged with 23 misdemeanors and six felonies after they allegedly slashed and punctured the tires of more than 20 vehicles on Fair Street, Hudson Street, Belmont Circle, North…
Cancer Center Installs ‘TrueBeam’ To Combat Disease More Quickly Director: Accelerator A ‘Game Changer’ COOPERSTOWN – The Bassett Cancer Institute today announced the installation of a TrueBeam linear accelerator that will treat complex cancers much more quickly. Dr. Alfred Tinger, the institute’s chief and medical director, called the TrueBeam “a game changer in terms of cancer treatment in this region.” “Some cancers can be hard to reach and precisely target,” he said. “The TrueBeam changes that. It is an advanced…
Fauci’s ‘First Pitch’ Mask Donated To Baseball Hall COOPERSTOWN – Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is now part of baseball history The Washington Nationals-themed mask that Fauci wore to throw out the ceremonial first pitch of the 2020 Major League Baseball season, ahead of the game the Nationals and the Yankees on Thursday, July 23, has been donated to the Baseball Hall of Fame.…
PUBLIC HEARING SET ON MASKING One Business Already Cited For Failing To Require Masks By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – At the Village Board’s first in-person meeting since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Monday revealed that an unnamed Main Street business has already been issued a citation for failing to comply with the state’s mask requirements. “Our police have been walking Main Street, and so far, only one business has not been compliant…
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