YMCA teaches water safety to children By Kevin Limiti • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA — The Oneonta YMCA, along with the Lyden family and the city of Oneonta’s Wilbur Pool, hosted a four-day, free workshop for kids on how to be safe around the water. The workshops, which were held between Monday, Aug. 2, and Thursday, Aug. 4, taught children some essential lessons on how to be safe in the water, with the intent of preventing drowning. The history of…
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Cooperstown & Around and City of the Hills August 12, 2021 Lost letter has town looking for ‘Nana’ A letter addressed only to “Nana, Springfield Center,” from her relative “Graham” has the town of Springfield searching. According to officials at the Springfield Center Post Office, attempts to locate Graham’s Nana have been unsuccessful so far and their hope is a larger audience will help ensure letter delivery. Art Garage to host Black Lives Matter project from N.J. An East Orange…
Schools prepare for delta variant By Kevin Limiti • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com With the delta variant of the coronavirus virus causing jumps in cases across the county and the country, some Otsego County school districts are gearing up to welcome kids back to classes with masks on. This is based on recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control, which has labeled Otsego County as a “substantial transmission” area where, in theory, masks are recommended indoors regardless of vaccination status. COVID…
The Baseball Lifer A recognition long overdue for one of the game’s good stewards Legendary comedian Groucho Marx once famously quipped, “I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.” Perhaps the most reluctant inductee among the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s 333 members, Marvin Miller, former executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association (1966-1983), gained election to the Hall posthumously. Miller, who died in 2012 at the age of 95, previously…
Views From Around The State August 12, 2021 From: The Albany Times Union Editorial Board One could almost detect a faint “nyah-nyah” between the lines of last Thursday’s announcement that, now that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has lost his sweeping pandemic emergency powers, school districts are on their own when it comes to reopening in September. So there. Health Commissioner Howard Zucker didn’t put it quite that way, of course. Instead, he couched his abdication of duty in more bureaucratic terms,…
Alum, SUNY Oneonta grad take CCS jobs By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Cooperstown Central School has new leadership in its middle/high school again. The school’s Board of Education has made two hires in the past month, picking Karl O’Leary as the new principal and Shirley Tyler as the new coordinator of athletics and extra-curricular activities. O’Leary started his career as an English teacher and served as principal of Moravia Central School for two years and most recently as…
Life Sketches Learning to sink or swim at Perkins On my way home, while passing over the Elmer Sitts Road that links Monticello to Hyder Road, I always note a sign that marks “The Stauring Retreat,” which amounts to several small camps situated in the woods. Invariably, I think, “what ever happened to Chick Stauring?” I haven’t seen him in more than 50 years. I don’t even know if he uses the retreat or if he lives anywhere near Richfield.…
LETTER from JOHN A. RUDY State should mandate vaccinations for its employees The unions representing New York state troopers and public school teachers oppose a mandatory vaccination requirement for their members. At the same time, more and more private employers are requiring vaccination by their employees as a condition of continued employment. Conservatives regularly argue that government should emulate the private sector in its employment practices. A vaccination mandate is a good place to start. For those state troopers and…
Staff Dining Picks August 12, 2021 Diners, good Chinese food top picks Tara Barnwell Publisher Roma’s Ristorante and Pizzeria A friend invited me for lunch a little further south than I usually go, but I’m so glad I did! Roma’s Ristorante and Pizzeria was well worth the drive to Sidney. The staff, as well as the owner, Mike Barone, are genuine and so is the food. It’s a relaxed atmosphere, very Italian motif, and all of the ingredients are fresh.…
Editorial Playing Russian roulette with kids Just as the country thought it was safe to get rid of masks, COVID-19 has made a sudden, startling comeback. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the seven-day moving average of new cases for the week ended Aug. 6, stands at nearly 123,000 per day. The Associated Press has reported more than 44,000 people were hospitalized in the U.S. last weekend, a 30% increase from the prior week and four times the number…
