TEDxOneonta announces speakers, opens ticket sales STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The widely acclaimed TED talks are coming back to Oneonta with the theme of “Changing World.” The event will be at 2 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 24 . Rebecca Ahmed speaking about the need to eliminate bias in zoom office culture. Rachel Kornhauser will be giving a talk called “Climate Change and Sustainability in the Age of COVID.” Gohar Petrossian will be speaking on “Why Justice for Wildlife…
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Cooperstown nursing home closed to visitors for 14 days due to employee testing positive for COVID By KEVIN LIMITI • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The Cooperstown Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing is closed to visitors for 14 days due to an employee testing positive for COVID. Due to the Delta variant of COVID, cases are on the rise throughout the country. As of Thursday, July 29, there are 26 active cases in Otsego County with a 1.5% seven day average, according…
Coop Chamber announces return of Artisan Festival STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The Cooperstown Artisan Festival will be returning to Main Street on Labor Day Weekend, the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce announced Friday, July 30. The two-day, family friendly festival takes place outdoors on the lawn of the Otsego County office complex on Saturday, Sept. 4, and Sunday, Sept. 5, and is free and open to the public. The event is rain or shine. This year’s festival will be…
Cuomo signs bill to make baseball New York’s state sport Gov. thanks Cooperstown students for the law’s inspiration, creation STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation Friday, July 30, to make baseball the official state sport. The bill had originally been sponsored by state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, after a lobbying effort by the fourth grade class of Cooperstown Central School teacher Anne Reis. The effort began in 2017; those students will enter the tenth grade…
Wenck named Milford interim superintendent STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MILFORD — Milford Central School has named Romona Wenck as its interim superintendent of schools through Dec. 30. The school’s Board of Education approved the hire at its meeting Wednesday, July 7. Wenck had served as superintendent of neighbor Laurens Central School for 23 years, retiring in 2020. In October, she took over as interim superintendent at Cooperstown Central School, serving until the spring, when Sarah Spross was hired…
Editorial Let’s get out of the fog Something remarkable happened last week, Wednesday July 21, in Otsego County. It happened in other places, too — New York City, Philadelphia, Albany, Ontario, Boston — in fact in the entire northeastern part of the country. Most people thought it was a heavy fog, typical of all the other heavy fogs that are apt to enshroud us in the mornings this time of year, only to disappear before noon when the sun burns…
Baseball Hall of Fame has new elected Board of Directors STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Jane Forbes Clark, chairman of the Baseball Hall of Fame, announced on Thursday, July 29, the new elected Board of Directors. Craig Biggio, Tom Glavine and Ken Griffey Jr. have all been elected to serve as Board of Directors. “We are thrilled to welcome Craig Biggio, Tom Glavine and Ken Griffey Jr. to the Board of Directors of the National Baseball Hall of Fame…
Department of Health: COVID cases on the rise in Otsego County STAFF REPORT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COVID-19 is on the rise in Otsego County with 12 cases being reported in the past two days. Eight new cases have been reported in first three weeks of July but since Friday, July 23, there have been a total of 20 new cases. The Otsego County Department of Health urges people to get vaccinated if they haven’t already done so, with the…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta July 29, 2021 PHOTO OF THE WEEK A Glimmerglass welcome FRONT PAGE Tick season brings vigilance against Lyme Fly Creek firemen make dramatic lifesaving rescue Cooperstown & Around and City of the Hills Inside The Paper Chamber forum seeks solutions for workforce shortage Village delays action on site, licensing fees after more pushback In other business: COVID $ disapoints; Glen project gets permit Cooperstown Summer Music Festival to open with free…
Life Sketches Fighting the burdock seems to be my mission Burdock is an enemy I’ve been trying to eradicate since we moved to the farm. It was growing thick all around the barn, so, first I weed-whacked it and later mowed it and now there’s only grass where there once stood a Velcro-like mob waiting to take hold of your pants, socks and bootlaces. When these sticky weeds are at the edge of a hayfield or in a hedgerow it’s…
