THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Nov. 19-20, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK SUNY-O REOPENING Plan: Catch Virus Before It Can Spread 75 Faculty Sign Petition Challenging Plan EDITORIAL: Unite In Making Plan Work FRONT PAGE CCS’ COVID Outbreak Quarantines Herzigs SQSPCA Animal Shelter Dreams Coming True Zakrevsky: Otsego Now Seeks To Keep Ioxus LETTERS KUZMINSKI: Sanctuaries Recipes For Anarchy TALLMAN: CFD Foregoes Donations In Pandemic COLUMNS BERKSON: With A Slice Of The Shovel STERNBERG: One Word…
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LETTER from JIM TALLMAN CFD Foregoes Donations In Pandemic To the Editor: On behalf of the Cooperstown Fire Department, I would like to let you know we will not be doing our annual Equipment Fund Drive this year. Due to COVID-19 and the economic impact it has had on us all we feel that we should forgo asking for donations. Through your generous past donations we have been able to purchase the most necessary equipment we needed to replace. Although…
Otsego COVID Cases Double, 5 Delaware Ones Sent Here CCS Outbreak Hits Herzigs By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – In the past week, Otsego County doubled its November COVID-19, leaving Oneonta’s mayor and his wife among the newly quarantined. With 37 new cases of the virus identified from Tuesday the 10th to Tuesday the 17th, the number of cases for the month rose from 46 to 83 in just seven days. Two from Otsego County were hospitalized,…
SQSPCA Animal Shelter Dreams Coming True By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – At the Susquehanna SPCA’s new shelter, not only will you be able to see the difference, you’ll be able to smell it too. “Dogs communicate through smell,” said Andrew Schuster, principal architect with Ashley McGraw, Syracuse. “To keep stress levels down, every dog will have a separately ‘exhausted’ kennel to ensure odor privacy, so that you don’t have a lot of barking.” The new shelter…
LIFE SKETCHES With A Slice Of The Shovel Recently, a friend brought some spruce saplings up to the farm for planting. Luckily, my son was up for the weekend to lend a hand with the digging. We placed some near the house and then headed for the woods, which are thin on evergreens. No sooner did I open a hole for the first seedling than I was back to the spring of 1966, in the forest near Rothenberg, Germany, where…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 One Word Capture Mood: Sad The following were some of the definitions of the word “sad” from dictionary.com. “Affected by unhappiness or grief; sorrowful or mournful, expressive of or characterized by sorrow, causing sorrow; somber, dark, or dull; drab; deplorably bad, sorry.” Thesauraus.com lists 46 synonyms for sad. And I add an additional from other sources, pathetic. The following story is sad by almost all of these. This was originally reported by CNN. Jodi…
In Oneonta, Santa, Other Staples Virtual By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – For Common Council member Mark Drnek, it’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas. “We were in Brooklyn one time during the holidays, and all of a sudden, we heard music in the streets,” he said. “It was a game-changer.” A similar 16-speaker system, designed by Carrie Schmidt of Bitbybit Solutions, was put in place for the downtown dining event and, come Black Friday, will…
GUEST COLUMN Protect Your Family, Protect Everyone’s Editor’s Note: Milford Central Superintendent of Schools Mark Place wrote this Thanksgiving letter to the district’s families. Each of the last five years I have prepared a letter at this time of the year with a focus on the upcoming holidays. Today I write to you for the same purpose along with a message of hope and gratitude. As a part of the MCS family, my thoughts are with all of you. I…
75 Faculty Sign Petition Asking Leadership: Stop By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The evening before SUNY Oneonta issued its Draft Reopening Plan, some faculty members posted a 25-point manifesto and petition online: They’re against it. Addressed to “Dear Acting President Dennis Craig and Provost Leamor Kahanov,” it declares, “To regain our trust and confidence in your decision-making processes, shared governance at SUNY Oneonta must be restored.” Each of the 25 points begin with the word “stop,” and…
EDITORIAL Unite In Making Plan Work Doesn’t it remind you of what happened to Hartwick College President Margaret L. Drugovich? No sooner had she arrived in 2008 on Oyaron Hill, when the Great Recession hit. Within a few months, the fledgling president, with no chance to build a reputation or support among staff and faculty, had to begin laying people off. The faculty balked. Criticism abounded. Drugovich did what she had to do. Things settled down. The economy eventually rebounded,…
