No Phone, No Internet Stymies So. Worcester Couple By MICHAEL FORSTER ROTHBART • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com As Margaret Wolff waited during the recommended 15-minute observation period following her inoculation Saturday afternoon, Jan. 30, Rita Tetenes was at her home here. Tetenes was not one of the lucky ones. Although she and her husband Leo are in their 80s, they still live independently in a far, hilly corner of Otsego County. Schoharie County begins across the narrow valley from their home,…
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT Fear Not, Help IS On The Way As of 11 a.m. (Monday, Feb. 1), 90 percent of first doses allocated to the state have been administered. This represents 1,393,064 first doses administered of the 1,554,450 first dose allocations received from the federal government. So far, 307,662 second doses have been administered out of 725,050 second doses received. from GOVERNOR CUOMO’s Daily COVID report. View COVID-19 New York State Vaccine Tracker Here.…
LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP Many Owe Their Lives To Muslim Immigrants To the Editor: The COVID vaccine I got today was invented by a husband and wife team of Turkish Muslim immigrants. They live modestly in an apartment and ride their bicycles to work at their company, BioNTech. They were the first to decode the C-19 virus and developed the vaccine made by Pfizer. So, like many people the world over, I owe my life to a Turk. Maybe you…
HOMETOWN HISTORY February 4, 2021 150 Years Ago Home and Vicinity – Donnati’s Great Comet will be again visible in the year 3858. Those who wish to see it may cut out this paragraph for reference. (Ed: 1,837 years hence as of 2021) H.P. Skinner has done another good thing. This he has placed a large and attractive street lamp in front of his store door. Call in for he won’t skin[er] you on a deal. Morris Brothers pay more…
Trump ’24 Billboard Redebated Planning Board Isn’t Proper Forum, ZEO, Town Attorney Find By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com It’s unclear whether a Town Planning Board effort to have the “Trump 2024” billboard on Route 28 removed is going anywhere. The town Planning Board was expected to take the issue up Monday, Feb. 1, but the meeting at the town hall in Portlandville was cancelled due to the snowstorm. Meanwhile, Town Zoning Officer Barbara Monroe drew a line in…
LETTER from RICHARD STERNBERG J&J Comes To The Rescue! And What About That NFL On Friday, Jan. 29, Janssen/Johnson & Johnson announced its vaccine had proven effective in Phase 3 studies. This brings a third vaccine on line in the fight against COVID-19 and potentially increases the pace of vaccinations by 50 percent. Additionally, the J&J protocol is for a single dose and the storage requirements are much less stringent than those of the two vaccines already available in the…
EDITORIAL ‘Who Cares?’ Asks Cuomo, But COVID-19 Answers Needed We’ve seen it happen here. On Dec. 28, Cooperstown Center – the former Otsego Manor, now in private hands – advised its Family Council that two residents had died – not necessarily OF COVID, but WITH COVID. Officially, one died of a bleeding hernia, the other of sepsis, at Bassett Hospital, NOT at the nursing home. The Cuomo Administration’s Health Department took this kind of parsing a step further: Statewide, if…
Living Happy Facing Breast Cancer, Zoe ‘Always Has Smile On Face’ By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com After a year and some happy months on the other side of neglect, 10-year-old German Shepherd Zoe has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Zoe first captured the hearts of people across the region – and beyond – when rescued from her home on Nov. 15, 2019, after a UPS driver spotted a dog that appeared to “have had its leg blown off.”…
310th Out Of 310 Persistence, Luck Wins Margaret Wolff Vaccination By MICHAEL FORSTER ROTHBART • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Margaret Wolff was one of the lucky ones. She was one of the first 310 members of the general public to receive their first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at Bassett Hospital’s first public clinic Saturday, Jan. 30, at the Clark Sports Center. For three weeks she’d tried to get a vaccine appointment. Some days she got online at 6 a.m.,…
Back To the Old School 10 Rent-Subsidized Apartments Now Available For 62+ Tenants By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com CHERRY VALLEY – A high point for Richard Saba was the teen café, where up to 130 young people would gather at the old Cherry Valley High School to create art and play music. “It expanded their cultural landscape,” said Saba, himself a noted artist, who has been involved in reinventing the 1913 former central school here since he helped co-found…
