BOUND VOLUMES February 4, 2021 200 YEARS AGO Joseph Findlay Smith of Baltimore and Adolph Lacost of New York, commanders of the schooners Plattsburgh and Science, captured in April last, on the African coast, by the U.S. ship Cyane, Capt. Trenchard, and convicted before the Circuit Court of the United States, held in Boston last November, of violations of the laws prohibiting the slave trade, were sentenced on January 26 to five years imprisonment and to pay a fine of…
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Blockbuster REPORT: Nursing Home Residents Poorly Served Editor’s Note: Here are the recommendations in state Attorney General Letitia James’ report, “Nursing Home Response to COVID-19 Pandemic,” which also discovered nursing-home deaths may be 50 percent higher than the Cuomo Administration let on. For Complete Text Click Here. •Ensure public reporting by each nursing home as to the number of COVID-19 deaths of residents occurring at the facility — and those that occur during or after hospitalization of the residents —…
With Tests, Mandatory Masks, SUNY Takes Aim At C-19 Professors Deny They Were Pressured To Return To Classroom By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com They’re back! Monday, Feb. 1, SUNY Oneonta students began in-person, mask-to-mask learning following the start of the virtual spring semester one week prior. Last fall, the campus made national news for its more than 700-student outbreak that happened almost immediately after undergraduates returned in August.’ With comprehensive testing, mandatory masks and a new campus president,…
Survey Seeks Your Opinions Of Local Police The Otsego County commissioner directed by Governor Cuomo to assess local policing is seeking your opinion, according to county board Chairman David Bliss. Attitudes toward state police, sheriff’s deputies, and Oneonta and Cooperstown police will be sought. A Survey Monkey questionnaire will be activated through Feb.1 at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/otsego2021…
EDITORIAL We’ll Miss Roars For That Great American The passing of the great Hank Aaron last Friday, Jan. 22, at age 86, emphasized the death threats the future Hall of Famer received as he neared breaking Babe Ruth’s home run record on April 8, 1974. Death threats? Contemptible. But there’s a better perspective on Aaron’s 715th home run that broke Babe’s mark at a Braves’ home game in Atlanta. “A black man is getting a standing ovation in the Deep…
Winter Carnival Will Go On, With COVID-19 Precautions By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com This year, the Cooperstown Winter Carnival’s theme is “Around the World, but Safe at Home.” Scheduled Feb. 16-21, a couple of weeks later than usual, the carnival’s “Around the World” theme was intentionally broad to allow for more participation, according to Committee Chair Molly Myers. And, because of COVID-19, it sought to reflect the need to stay safe. In past years, all events were held…
BOUND VOLUMES January 28, 2021 200 YEARS AGO “Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.” The exemplification of this moral is perpetually occurring on the most common objects of daily attention. The very paper on which I am now writing, affords me an example. A little while ago it was clipped off from an old garment, a useless rag. Betty would have swept it to the door. But the industrious rag man took it up and gave…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Jan. 28, 2021 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Thank Heaven For Derek Jeter Pandemic Takes Down Fly Creek Cider Mill Working The System, Getting The Shot Winter Carnival Will Go On, With COVID-19 Precautions Survey Seeks Your Opinions Of Local Police AllOTSEGO.life GOHS’ Borzozowski Took Deep Dive Into Adopted City’s Past In Thriller, Frankenstein Born At Hyde Hall EDITORIAL We’ll Miss Roars For That Great American WHAT IF? Hosting MLB…
FOOD FOR THOUGHT To Vote For, Or Not Vote For CHRIS WALLACE: What about the argument that it would be useful, from the point of view of people who think that what the president did was wrong, to ban him from seeking public office again, which would be one of the results of holding this (Impeachment) trial? U.S. SEN. MARCO RUBIO: I think that’s an arrogant statement for anyone to make. Voters get to decide that. Who are we to…
LETTER from RICHARD STERNBERG Working The System, Getting The Shot I had my first COVID-19 vaccination Sunday, Jan. 26. To get an appointment, I went through all the protocols and algorithms that I discussed previously in this column. I was able to find an appointment Sunday in Plattsburgh. A day later I found an appointment for Utica on Feb. 3 and canceled the Plattsburgh appointment and then I kept looking for something closer and sooner. Lucky for me, some close…
