Fox Hospital President Now Bassett COO Too By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – As Fox Hospital president, Jeff Joyner, new COO of the Bassett Healthcare Network, brings people together. “Jeff knows that things get done when you work with other people,” said Laurie Zimniewicz, president of the Fox Hospital Board. “And he realized that Fox Hospital, standing alone, wasn’t going to be effective unless the network was effective.” Joyner, who succeeded longtime Fox Hospital President John Remillard, who…
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THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Sept. 3-4, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE ‘No More Classes’ Likely SUNY Outcome Fox Hospital President Now Bassett COO CCS Chief Crankshaw Returns To His Roots AllOTSEGO.life COVID Turns Downtown ‘A Ghost Town’ Reopened, ALDI Thrills Oneonta Fans EDITORIALS Let’s Stay Flexible, Collaborate, Decide Public, Private Colleges Both Must Thrive HISTORY COLUMNS BOUND VOLUMES: Sept. 3, 2020 HOMETOWN HISTORY: Sept. 4, 2020 COLUMNS WHELAN: What Happened To Freddie Gray?…
With COVID Outbreak, Oneonta ‘A Ghost Town’ By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – In 23 years with the Oneonta Police Department, Lt. Christopher J. Witzenburg had never seen a Saturday night like Aug. 29. “It’s never been this quiet,” he said. “It’s a real departure from last weekend, where we just had a ton of house parties. It’s like a switch flipped.” With more than 200 students sickened with COVID-19 following “several large parties” last weekend, SUNY Oneonta…
Crankshaw Returns To His Roots By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – When he was in first grade in the Greater Johnstown School District, young Bill Crankshaw counted to 100, and Mrs. Ruby Walter, his teacher, celebrated by singing “How Much Is That Doggy in the Window.” In second grade, Mrs. Greco made sure his samples of cursive writing were submitted every time there was a contest. His penmanship usually won. In third grade, Mrs. Ramsay enrolled him…
Let’s Stay Flexible, Collaborate, Decide To Move Forward 20-20 hindsight is easy but… Aug. 21-23 was critical. That was the first weekend back for SUNY Oneonta’s 6,500 students. For Hartwick College 1,200; but, as it turns out, that was less impactful. For Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig and Common Council, the focus had been on bars and gatherings on Main Street, but that turned out to be under control. Yes, there were students there, but the heightened public concern, and tavern…
State Appellate Court Overturns Callahan Murder Conviction By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – District Attorney John Muehl doesn’t see how overturning Casey Callahan’s guilty verdict is in the interest of justice. “This ruling was made ‘in the interest of justice,’” he said. “But their interest of justice is for a murderer, not a victim, who was a loving mother and a member of a close-knit family.” The Appellate Division, Third Department, overturned Callahan’s 2017 conviction for murder…
MANY GETMANS IN LAW, MEDICINE Local Roots Run Deep For New County Judge By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Getmans and Otsego County go back a long way, in law and medicine, too. “In the Laurens cemetery, there are a lot of Getmans,” said Michael F. Getman, who will be sworn in Jan. 1, 2021, as the newest Otsego County judge. Norman Getman, a cousin of Damon Getman, the incoming judge’s grandfather, was county coroner during the…
Feared Quagga Mussel Invades BFS Researchers Locate Invasive Worse Then Zebra, Researcher Says By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com SUNKEN ISLAND – At 2:41 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 22, just north of here, one of Sarah Coney’s worst fears was realized. There in a sieve that was straining a bucket of mud from Otsego Lake’s bottom was a tiny mussel the SUNY Oneonta biology master’s candidate immediately recognized. It was a quagga mussel, even more feared than the zebra mussel that…
COVID BREAKS OUT AT SUNY ONEONTA City Police Bust Party, Noise Violation Issued By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Walking downtown at 1 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 23, Mayor Gary Herzig saw exactly what he’d hoped he wouldn’t see. “There were significant numbers of young people congregating in groups and not wearing masks,” he said. “I had high expectations, and I am very disappointed we did not achieve them.” And on Tuesday, Aug. 25, SUNY Oneonta announced…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Aug. 27-28, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE COVID-19 Breaks Out At SUNY Oneonta Feared Quagga Mussel Invades Otsego Lake New Judge Getman’s Local Roots Run Deep Callahan’s Murder Conviction Overturned Cooperstown Hosts ‘Say Their Name’ Exhibit Clark Gym To Reopen Thursday, Aug. 27 AllOTSEGO.life CAN IT! New Packaging Helps Microbreweries Challenged, ‘Operation Warm’ Plans To Expand COLUMNS BERKSON: The Perils Of Puffball Hunting? SORENSEN: Reject 2nd Amendment Sanctuary STERNBERG:…
