WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER The Question Of Out-Of-Towners By LARRY BENNETT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com FOR: First is the idea that all have the right to remove their family from a place of apparent danger to a place seen to be safer. Second is the economic idea that second-home owners have the absolute right to relocate to those homes, which they own and pay taxes on. Presumably that is also true if a city resident can afford to rent…
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County Pastors Contemplate: WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Editor’s Note: The coronavirus has closed churches, but via the Internet and other means, pastors continue to preach. Over the next few weeks, we will share their words here. Out Of Pain, Grief, Find Understanding Ralph Waldo Emerson, a Transcendentalist Unitarian, wrote, “There is a crack in every thing God has made.” In 1992, Leonard Cohen, singer, musician, and song writer, sang in his song “Anthem”, “There is a crack, a crack, in…
EDITORIAL A Charming Couple, Shocking News – And A Warning To All That Otsego County’s first couple, state Sen. Jim and Cindy Seward, contracted coronavirus is a wake-up call for the rest of us. If it can happen to them, it can happen to any one of us. By the nature of their public roles, the Sewards inevitably come into contact with a wide range of people, one, it turns out, who was carrying COVID-19. It’s the rare Otsego County…
EDITORIAL County Avoids ‘Reactive, Emotional’ Measures Here Visitors Asked To Take Sensible Steps To Protect Themselves, Us By now you’ve heard about Rhode Island: Last Friday, it had state police stopping cars with New York license plates at the state line, and instructing passengers they must self-quarantine for 14 days if they planned to stay in Ocean State. The next day, National Guard troops went door to door in coastal areas, advising any Empire Staters who had gotten out of…
HOMETOWN History April 3, 2020 150 Years Ago Death of Bees – During the past few weeks, mortality among the bees about Portlandville has been very great. One gentleman having 48 hives has lost 43 out of the number, and others have lost in nearly the same proportion. The cause is attributed to a scarcity of the store laid up last season, which may be true, and if true, makes neglect on the part of the owners the more culpable.…
BOUND VOLUMES April 2, 2020 200 YEARS AGO Advertisement: Saddlery and Harness Shop – The subscriber feels grateful for that countenance and patronage from the public which he has received for many years, and respectfully informs them, that he continues the business in the Shop near the post office in Cooperstown, where all orders in any branch of it will be faithfully attended to. He keeps on hand an assortment of saddles, bridles, Harness, &c, &c. which he warrants of…
SQSPCA Animal Shelter Prepares For Challenges If Owners Must Abandon Pets, Pet Food, Kennel Space Ready By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Stacie Haynes, executive director, Susquehanna SPCA, doesn’t want anyone’s pet to go hungry during the COVID-19 crisis. “We have a very well-stocked pet food pantry,” she said. “People can call or email us (info@sqspca.org) and tell us what they need, and we will leave it out front with a note for them to pick up.” Delivery…
ONEONTA’S GEORGESON PRAISED Expecting Little Excitement, Health Officer In Maelstrom By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – When Dr. Diane Georgeson took a call from Mayor Gary Herzig at the beginning of the year, she had no idea what awaited her. “Gary asked me if I would be interested in being the city’s health officer,” she said. “I was honored, but I did not anticipate a pandemic!” Georgeson, a recently retired Fox Hospital physician and the medical director of…
BASSETT HOLDS OWN – SO FAR Numbers Climb, But More Tests Available, Beds Not Lacking Yet By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Nine days ago there were no Coronavirus patients among people who called Otsego County home. As of Tuesday, March 31, there were 16. And one of those, Brenda Utter of Morris, has died. Patients range in age from 20 to 75, county health officials said. There are 53 people more on mandatory quarantine because they have…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta April 2-3, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK CORONAVIRUS UPDATE First Victim ‘A Good, Kindhearted Person’ Bassett Hospital Holds Its Own, So Far Animal Shelter Prepares For Challenges Health Officer’s Job Suddenly Demanding Doing What They Can To Lift Community AllOTSEGO.COVID-19 Green Earth Stars Delivering Meal Kits Green Toad Brings Books To Your Door Your Neighbors Recommend These Books EDITORIALS We’ve Avoided ‘Reactionary, Emotional’ Steps A Charming Couple – And A Warning…
