HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SUNDAY, APRIL 26 Virtual Spiritual Fair SPIRITUAL FAIR – Join live virtual summit featuring holistic practitioners from upstate New York walking participants through techniques including emotional freedom, meditation, yoga, much more to help relive the anxiety of the current historical moment. Join the Institute for Spiritual Development through Zoom or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/isdoneonta/…
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In 3 Days, Foundation Achieves $30K Target, Has $80K In COVID Aid Ohio Foundation Offers $20K In A Dollar-For-Dollar Match COOPERSTOWN – By yesterday afternoon, less than 72 hours after the Community Foundation of Otsego County formally announced the COVID-19 Relief & Recovery Fund, community members sent in checks and used credit card payments that succeeded in meeting the $30,000 challenge match. “Good news,” said Harry Levine, foundation board chairman, in announcing the response, adding, “We now have $80,000 to…
Second Man Arrested With Ruple Not Just Gas Stations, Oneonta Man Allegedly Hit Losie’s, Dollar Tree ONEONTA – In addition to his arrests for allegedly robbing the Taylor Mini Mart and attempting to rob the Kwik Fill in the City of Oneonta, Bryan Ruple, 41, also allegedly tried to rob Losie’s Gun Shop in Davenport and the Dollar Tree on Southside in Oneonta, according to Trooper Aga Dembinska, State Police Troop C public information officer. Additionally, Derrek Gray, 41, Laurens,…
Oneonta Man Arrested After Robbery Spree By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Following four gas station robberies, including one where a clerk was stabbed, an Oneonta man has been arrested and charged in the five-hour spree across Oneonta and Otego overnight and into Friday morning. “I called Mayor Herzig after we made the arrest,” said Oneonta Police Chief Doug Brenner. “I told him, ‘we got him, you can sleep well tonight’.” Bryan Ruple, 41, Oneonta, was arrested…
ADMIN COMMITTEE ASKS: Let Counties Like Otsego Be 1st To Normalize Full Board May Act May 7 By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The county board will be asked to ally itself with similar counties – Schoharie, Delaware and Chenango, for instance – to be first in line to phase out of the coronavirus shutdown, county Rep. Meg Kennedy, R-Hartwick/Milford/New Lisbon, said this evening. When it met earlier this month, Kennedy said, the county board’s Administration Committee,…
No New Cases In Past 2 Days COOPERSTOWN – No new cases of COVID-19 have surfaced in Otsego County since Wednesday, county Public Health Director Heidi Bond reported a few minutes ago. Local confirmed cases remain steady at 57, deaths remain steady at 4 (since March 13) and three people remain hospitalized locally with the disease.…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, APRIL 25 Virtual Cider Run For SPCA 5K/10K RACE – 10:30 a.m. Virtual Cider Run 5K/10K race to benefit the Susquehanna SPCA by Fly Creek Cider Mill. Registration extended through May, 2. Cost, $25/adult, $15/child. Call 607-547-9692 or visit sqspca.org/8th-annual-cider-run/…
GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING, Friday, 4/24 Absentee Ballots Issued To All New York Voters ALBANY – Governor Cuomo today said he will direct the state Board of Elections to automatically mail every New Yorker a postage-paid application for an absentee ballot. Earlier this month, he issued an executive order allowing all New Yorkers to vote absentee in the June 23 primary In his daily 11:30 a.m. briefing, the governor also said state revenues are expected to decline 14 percent, or $13.3 billion,…
INCIDENTS IN ONEONTA, OTEGO Suspect Sought In 4 Stick-Ups At Quick-Stops In One Case, Clerk Stabbed In Hand By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Four gas-station robberies were reported between 1:20 a.m. and 6:20 a.m. today in the city and town of Oneonta, and in Otego, city police and state troopers report. In one case, the clerk was stabbed in the hand; in at least two of the other cases, the suspect said he was armed, but…
Assemblyman Salka Donates Masks To Oneonta Police Dept.…