You’ll Have It TO GO! From Emergency, Novelty: Folks Around County Pick Up Dinners By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – At Brooks House of BBQ, the staff can’t answer the phones fast enough. “We’re going to add additional phone lines,” said owner Ryan Brooks. “They’re just ringing constantly. With Governor Cuomo’s order that all “non-essential” businesses be shuttered, restaurants can no longer accommodate dine-in customers. “When the quarantines started happening last week, I walked into work and there…
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COOPERSTOWN’S JOYCE; ONEONTA’S BETTIOL County Ex-Pats Report From COVID Hot Spots By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – The city that never sleeps has become a “ghost town.” Ask Carleigh Bettiol. “As of 8 p.m. Sunday evening, the city was on lockdown,” she said. “People are not allowed out unless for essential trips such as grocery, pharmacy, or medical visits.” Bettiol, daughter of Patricia Bettiol and the late Gene Bettiol Jr. turned Broadway star, is holed up in…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta March 26-27, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK CORONAVIRUS UPDATE Coronavirus Halts Dreams Park 2020 Jobless Claims Soar; Sales-Tax Slump Expected It’s Here: First Otsego Case Surfaces (Since Presstime, Second Case Surfaces) County Ex-Pats Report From Hotspots TEXT OF ANNOUNCEMENTS SHATTERED DREAMS … One Park Shuts ALL-STAR HOPES .. Another Stays Open AllOTSEGO.COVID-19 Dinner? You’ll Have It TO GO Methodist Sewing Club Making Face Masks EDITORIALS Job 1, Beat Coronavirus. Joe 2,…
LOCAL FALLOUT FROM EMERGENCY Jobless Claims Soaring; Sales-Tax Dip Expected By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – In an average week, Alan Sessions, CDO Workforce disability resource coordinator, might field 25 calls about unemployment insurance. “In the last week, we’ve received 25 calls a day,” he said. “Sometimes the wait to talk with someone is an hour.” The majority of the calls, he said, are waitstaff, kitchen help and retail workers suddenly jobless as Governor Cuomo ordered stores and…
BOUND VOLUMES March 26, 2020 200 YEARS AGO Married on the Ninth Inst. at Washington City by the Rev. Mr. Hawley, Samuel Lawrence Governeur, Esq. of New York to Miss Maria Hester Monroe, youngest daughter of the President of the United States. Editor: To Patrons – This number completes half a year since the resumption of our editorial duties; and we should be unmindful of our obligations to the public, were we to refrain from expressing our thanks for the…
HOMETOWN History March 25, 2020 150 Years Ago The Technologist – The second number of this journal has reached us and is fully up to the promises held out by the first. It contains a very fine full page engraving on tinted paper, giving the details of the East River Bridge Caisson. Other articles of great interest serve to render this number valuable, both to the practical man and to the general reader. Amongst them may be mentioned the “Manufacture…
IT’S HERE! 1st Otsego Case Surfaced; 35 Quarantined By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com There is still only one positive case of the COVID-19 virus in Otsego County. But don’t let your guard down, because that number doesn’t tell the whole story. With confirmed cases skyrocketing above 25,000 in the state and testing supplies dwindling, there may be many here who have the virus but remain unidentified. In Otsego County alone, there are 35 people on quarantine – either…
Front-Porch Perspective Avast, Maties! Editor’s Note: Only a partial version of Front Porch Perspective was published March 12-13. Here’s the full version. By JIM ATWELL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Nope, I’m still not sitting on my front porch, laptop frozen to my lap. Maybe after I spot a first crocus, I’ll try writing out there again. Hey, I’m old and a bit ditsy – but not nuts. Meanwhile, last week some whimsical friends did find a way to distract themselves…
MOSHIER REPRESENTS NATIONAL CLUB Richfield Man Keeps Antique Trail Makers In The Public Sphere By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com RICHFIELD SPRINGS – In the early 1960s, as Bob Moshier tells it, if you bought three snowmobiles, you qualified to be a dealer. Looking for a year ’round use for the family’s Otsego Lake marina just north of the Otsego-Springfield town line, William Thayer picked up three Trail Makers. “The first time someone passed Willie on a Ski-Doo, he bought…
Helping World In Need Cooperstown Living Waters Team Visits Plant, Builds Chicken House By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – It’s easy to take clean water for granted in Upstate New York, but Susan Jones knows that’s not so everywhere. “In Honduras, most of the water comes from mountain springs fed through plastic pipes,” said Jones. “But it’s often contaminated from wildlife and cattle, so people are drinking raw, not treated water.” Jones, who has headed up the…
