THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta April 016-17, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK CORONAVIRUS UPDATE COVID Infestation Slows Down Locally Bassett Tests 3 Anti-Coronavirus Drugs After Ordeal, Seward Back Home In Milford Profile: Heidi Bond, General In C-19 Fight Need Grows, Food Banks Welcome Needy Superintendents Flummoxed: When To Reopen? AllOTSEGO.COVID-19 In Oneonta, Grinning And Bearing It Brothers-In-Law Serve People Who Serve Libby’s List Of Virtual Things To Do EDITORIAL Andrew Cuomo For President COLUMNS STERNBERG: A…
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WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER It Isn’t All Gloom And Doom By LARRY BENNETT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The title of this column is, “We are all in this together.” It’s a statement of a simple reality, but it’s also a dream about working together that I wish to be true for everyone – from our town, to our state, to our nation, to our world. Now that the world is all in this together with the COVID-19 nightmare, it’s…
BOUND VOLUMES April 16, 2020 200 YEARS AGO Information Wanted: Amos M. Draper, an orphan grandson of the Subscriber, left the service of Captain Henry Stockwell, book-binder, Troy, N.Y. sometime in August or September last, since which time his friends have not heard from him. He is aged about sixteen years, round favored, pretty large blue eyes, and rather small in stature. Any person who will give information of said Boy, by mail, addressed to Ezra Williams, Post- Master, Westford,…
COVID Slows Down In Otsego County By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – As state and federal officials debate when and how to reopen parts of the country, weekly increases to the number of local cases of COVID-19 are slowing down. But Otsego County’s Public Health Director Heidi Bond said it is too early to tell when restrictions will be lifted here. Governor Cuomo will be the one to make that determination, and so far he has not said…
LETTER from MONICA CALZOLARI In Crisis, Your Newspapers Are Rising To The Challenge To the Editor: I read your April 2-3 print edition cover to cover and I learned a lot of valuable information I have not seen reported anywhere else. The service you provide to our community is vital! I know that the newspaper industry has been struggling financially for over a decade. I am so impressed that you were proactive and built a following on www.AllOTSEGO.com that attracts…
HOMETOWN History April 17, 2020 150 Years Ago News Items – Ohio has 25 different female suffrage associations. Boston uses 7,646,020 gallons of milk annually. Nearly 700 Philadelphia girls were married to foreigners last year. Boston expects to pay $1,400,000 for its public schools the coming year. A farmer in Schuyler County lately lost a colt from bleeding at the nose. The new five-cent pieces will be ready in a few days. Ole Bull’s famous violin is said to be…
LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP While New York City Dithered, San Antonio Saw Threat, Responded To the Editor: In Texas, a city or county can issue and enforce stay-at-home health orders without the state’s permission. Some West Texas counties have prohibited out-of-county residents from staying in the county overnight, the landlords are fined $1,000 a day. In New York, only the state can issue such sweeping health directives, no such balkanization is allowed. This centralization of authority proved to be fatal…
LETTER from M.A. WHELAN With Crisis, We See World, And Dump, With Fresh Eyes To the Editor: Given our current situation, I find even a trip to the Northern Transfer Station – aka The Dump – an exciting occasion. I have looked at it with fresh eyes. And it’s not a pretty sight. OK, I know it’s a dump, but there are dumps and then there are dumps. This one is really awful. Fetid piles of trash, papers blowing everywhere,…
EDITORIAL Reprinted From This Week’s Hometown Oneonta, Freeman’s Journal ANDREW CUOMO FOR PRESIDENT He’s Ready For White House; Americans Ready For Him Andrew Cuomo for president. Already, he seems presidential, never more than this past Monday in announcing his collaboration with five other Northeast governors in a multi-state council “to restore the economy and get people back to work.” Let’s do it. In the five weeks of New York State’s fight against the coronavirus invasion, the governor’s shown all the…
Bassett Researcher Conducts Tests On 3 Anti-COVID Drugs Hydroxychloroquine, Lopinavir, Losartan Explored In Local Lab By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Bassett Healthcare Network is doing original research into finding a cure for COVID-19. “This is an opportunity to have residents of this area participate in a really rigorous and sound clinical trial to get these drugs with the most up-to-date and most recommended method,” said Dr. Daniel Frelich, an infectious disease specialist. The study, dubbed COVID…
