ITEM GIVEN AWAY IN ONEONTA Crochet Club Makes 1,750 ‘Mask Mates’ By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special To AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Wearing a mask is that much harder if it doesn’t fit, said Emily Phillips. “I got masks for my partner and I, and mine kept falling off my face, and his was pulling on his ears,” she said. “I reached out to a crochet group on Facebook, and they had patterns for ‘mask mates’.” The crochet band is designed to…
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AUTOMOBILE SHOWROOMS OPEN AGAIN Appointments, Social Distancing Convince Cuomo They Can Be Safe By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Happy days are here again at Otsego County’s automobile showrooms. At noon today, a press release arrived from the New York State Automobile Dealers Association breaking the news: From County Club Motors to Five Star Subaru, Oneonta’s Southside and everywhere in between, auto dealers, severely limited by Governor Cuomo’s March 13 emergency declaration, can again do what they…
GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING/Thursday, May 7 Cuomo Extends Moratorium On Evictions, Fees ALBANY – Governor Cuomo today extended the state’s moratorium on COVID-related evictions for an additional 60 days, until August 20. The state is also banning late payments or fees for missed rent payments during the eviction moratorium, and allowing renters facing financial hardship due to COVID-19 to use security deposits as payment, and repay the deposit over time. The governor also announced:…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for FRIDAY, MAY 8 Baseball Park Discussion With Baseball Hall Of Fame BASEBALL DISCUSSION – 1 – 2 p.m. Join Baseball Hall of Fame for discussion with Los Angeles Dodgers’ Senior Vice President of Planning and Development, Janet Marie Smith, best known for work on Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Will include discussion of her career which has set the standard for baseball park design for the past 30 years. Q&A available through chat function. Free, Registration required. Visit…
3 Lady Hawkeyes NYSSWA All-Stars Oneonta’s Eichler, Buzzy Honored, Too The New York State Sportswriters Association today named three CCS Lady Hawkeyes to the girls all-state basketball team. Cooperstown senior Piper Seamon, the hard-driving guard who was leading the Cooperstown girls to the state championship when play was ended by the coronavirus, reached the highest ranking, named to the third team Class C all-state girls basketball team. Her Hawkeye teammate Kate Donnelly was named to the 10th team, and Meagan…
Perfect Game League Pulls Plug Damaschke Field Season Cancelled ONEONTA – The Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League, which includes the Oneonta Outlaws, has cancelled its 2020 season, PGCBL President Robert Julian announced today. “We recognize this is a great disappointment to our collegiate players, to our fans, our host communities, and the dedicated staff and owners who have spent so much of their lives making the league a vibrant part of collegiate baseball and the American baseball fabric,” said Julian. …
Cavalcade Of Cars Salutes Dotty Phillips On Birthday A cavalcade of cars driven by friends of Dotty Phillips drove up Cooperstown’s Westridge Road a few minutes ago to celebrate and surprise their friend on a special birthday. Top photo, Sue Street attaches balloons to the light on the Phillips’ front lawn; in the background is Maryann Dietz. Inset, the birthday girl poses with husband Hank, the retired Withey’s Drug Store pharmacist. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)…
Jobless Aren’t Getting Benefits, Seward Says; Calls For Investigation 4 Legislators’ Focus: Labor Department ONEONTA – State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, has joined a bipartisan group of state legislators urging an investigation of why jobless New Yorkers can’t get benefits to which they’re entitled. “While some of the millions of the state’s unemployed have begun receiving benefits, millions more have not only not received benefits but can’t get through to the Department of Labor by phone or email,” according to…
Bassett, Fox Allowed To Do Elective Surgery COOPERSTOWN – Bassett Medical Center and Fox Hospital in Oneonta have been given the go-ahead to resume elective surgeries (outpatient) and non-urgent outpatient procedures, it was confirmed today. A news conference is planned at 10:30 a.m. next Tuesday, May 12, to outline plans for resumption of those services. Elective surgeries were put on hold after Governor Cuomo’s emergency declaration Friday, March 13, as Bassett and Fox reorganized to focus on the anticipated challenges…
AllOTSEGO.com E-EDITORIAL Why Not Plan Locally To Un-PAUSE Here? On second thought, it’s an intriguing idea. County Rep. Peter Oberacker, R-Schenevus, who is also running for state Senate, suggested yesterday that, instead of waiting for Governor Cuomo to tell us when and how to reopen, we in Otsego County should put together our own un-PAUSE plan, present it to the governor, and act on it. Hmm. That would follow the model the Cuomo Administration is applying to factories and construction…