Otsego Deputy On Leave After Gun Goes Off, Girl Injured By LIBBY CUDMORE• Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. wants to assure the public that the law applies to everyone – even cops. “Police officers are not above the law,” he said. “They have a responsibility as well.” A yet-unnamed Otsego County Sheriff’s deputy has been placed on administrative leave after state police reported a child and adult were injured when the gun he was carrying in…
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GUEST COLUMN from TERRY BERKSON Whistling Woodchucks! Back Again Not that they ever left. They just take a long winter nap while their heartbeat slows from 80 to an incredible five beats per minute and their body temperature drops from 99 to 37 degrees. Punxsutawney Phil projects a good productive image with his weather predictions but Digger Dan, the name I give to the critter whose been tunneling into my barn every year, is another story. One morning last spring,…
LETTER from P. JAY FLEISHER Vote In Election ’20 To the Editor: America is on the brink of an election that will have serious implications for the future of our Country, and indeed our democracy. I write this out concern for our immediate future, and also because I am equally concerned about the America my 6-year-old grandson will inherit. He deserves the same freedoms we all experienced growing up in a country that valued human dignity, clean air and water,…
MALLORY DELANEY MET CHALLENGE Helping People Captured ‘Distinction’ For Honoree By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – For certified Physician’s Assistant Mallory Delaney, medicine isn’t about talking to a patient. It’s about listening. “You want to get people to feel like they’re in the driver’s seat,” she said. “No matter what road they’re going to go down.” For example, she said, it was easier to get patients to wear masks if they knew it would keep a parent or…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 We’re Getting Closer To A COVID-19 Vaccine. Then What? It appears that we are getting closer to the development of vaccines for COVID-19. There have been some missteps in the process, including the development of an unexplained illness in one participant in the U.K. study of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine. This required a halt to the study for about a week while the data was being reviewed. The study is progressing again at this time.…
Orchard, Overlook, Sledding Hill Return To Huntington Park By LIBBY CUDMORE• Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – When she saw the new plans for Huntington Park, it was like falling in love. “I’m so head-over-heels for the fruit orchard,” said Tina Winstead, Huntington Memorial Library executive director. “That’s what Henry did,” Henry Huntington, the 19th century railroad magnate from Oneonta who donated the mansion and property that today makes up the library and grounds. On Thursday, Sept. 10, Stimson Landscape Architects,…
LETTER from ANDREW STAMMEL We Shouldn’t Walk Away From Educational System To the Editor: The prosperity of Oneonta is inextricably intertwined with the success of its colleges. The fact that SUNY Oneonta’s reopening did not succeed as planned and hoped is a tragedy for our community in a year that challenges us all. The shutdown is devas-tating for our students who have looked forward to their college experience; heartbreaking for the 1,000 SUNY employees who have worked since March to…
EDITORIAL Sterling Mayor’ Legacy Suggest: Are City Managers Needed? Maybe it’s apocryphal, but the story’s told of a former mayor of Oneonta who, elected decades ago, discovered some department heads were taking hour-and-a-half lunches to work out at a local gym. The mayor gave everybody raises, at the same time advising the department heads: Game over, be back at your desks in an hour. That worked for six months, then the particular department heads starting slipping, the story goes, and…
SUNY Infections Ebb, Bringing Crisis To End By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – As this week began, only 158 SUNY Oneonta students and residence assistants were left on campus. In a normal year, that would have been over 3,000 of the 6,000+ enrollment. “At present, there are only three SUNY students in isolation on campus,” Diane Georgeson, Oneonta Public Health officer, told Common Council during her report on Tuesday, Sept. 15. “There are 52 in isolation off…
AFTER DECADE, MAYOR HERZIG TO ASK QUESTION AGAIN Is City Manager Needed? By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA –Oneonta’s third city manager, George Korthauer, retired from City Hall on Feb. 7. A month later, on March 13, Governor Cuomo’s Executive Order 202 went into effect, declaring a state of emergency in New York State in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic threat. In the past six months, Mayor Gary Herzig, under a City Charter that gives him largely…
