COVID-19 Vaccine Due; Drugstores Prepare By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – When the COVID-19 vaccine is available, Otsego County will be ready. “Before the pharmacies could give the flu shot, we used to do a lot of the vaccinations,” said Heidi Bond, county public health director. “We are well aware of what needs to be done when we go into communities that may not have a lot of options for vaccinations.” With the announcement that Pfizer, whose…
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COVID-19 Cases Triple In County By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Last Tuesday, Nov. 17, there were 37 new cases of COVID-19 reported. In the seven days since, that number tripled to 126 by Nov. 24, with hospitalizations up two, from four to six, since last week, according to Heidi Bond, Otsego County Public Health Director. That makes the highest number of community cases – that’s not counting the 700-plus SUNY Oneonta outbreak – since the pandemic…
EDITORIAL Pilgrims’ Energy, Ambition Lives On Today ‘Tribute to the Entrepreneurial Spirit.” That’s what the Otsego Chamber of Commerce called its annual awards program on Nov. 12, conducted this year largely via Zoom. That rallying call couldn’t have come at a better time, given this year’s challenges – a pandemic, a particularly divisive Presidential election, and riots in cities and challenges to the very idea of policing. The stories the Otsego Chamber’s honorees were a tonic. Liberty lives, and a…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Nov. 26-27, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE COVID-19 Cases Triple In County COVID-19 Vaccine Due; Drugstores Prepare Vacant-Seat Controversy May Go On After Downturn, Sale, Ioxus Returns Community Foundation: Apply For 2021 Grants EDITORIAL Pilgrims’ Energy, Ambition Lives On Today COLUMNS BERKSON: Chickie’s Greatest Gift NAYOR: Give Thanks For Cooperstown NYS SHERIFFS: 10 Per Table? A Step Too Far AllOTSEGO.life So Long Rocky! Tiny Owl Flies Free Chiropractors: Lose…
LETTER from TERRY BERKSON Chickie’s Greatest Gift When I was 8 years old, the hero in my life was my cousin Chickie, who drove an oil truck and often took me with him on deliveries. The job led him all over Brooklyn and, being somewhat of a scavenger, he often came home with a bike or a wagon or some other discarded contraption he thought would be useful. We lived in Bensonhurst, in a 12-room Victorian that had been divided…
HOMETOWN HISTORY November 26, 2020 150 Years Ago Highway Robbery – Early last Wednesday morning Mr. Moak, driver of the Schenevus Stage, was accosted by a suspicious looking individual near the Russel Bridge who asked for a tobacco chew. Mr. Moak said he did not use the weed, whereat the robber demanded of Mr. M. his money and the mail bags. His request was not acceded to by our modern John, who dismounted from his coach and struck the would-be…
After Downturn, Sale, Ioxus Returns To Expand Building And Workforce By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Ioxus was going strong, with manufacturing plants here and in Japan, and a growing reputation as producer of the best ultracapacitor in the world. Then, in 2019 it hit a bump: Its best-selling product, uSTART, a “smart power system” that “dramatically increases the starting reliability of trucks and heavy machines,” had to be recalled. “That set us back,” said Walton-born Chad…
Community Foundation: Apply For 2021 Grants COOPERSTOWN – Our COVID Fund has now secured $220,000 to address many needs arising out of the pandemic. We issued 25 awards to date and have about $40,000 remaining to distribute. Next Up is our plan for 2021. Our board has authorized allocation of $200,000 to the 2021 Awards Round. “We need community input on how to focus our investing these funds,” said Harry Levine, foundation board president. Twenty-five non-profits have received funding so…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Nov. 19-20, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK SUNY-O REOPENING Plan: Catch Virus Before It Can Spread 75 Faculty Sign Petition Challenging Plan EDITORIAL: Unite In Making Plan Work FRONT PAGE CCS’ COVID Outbreak Quarantines Herzigs SQSPCA Animal Shelter Dreams Coming True Zakrevsky: Otsego Now Seeks To Keep Ioxus LETTERS KUZMINSKI: Sanctuaries Recipes For Anarchy TALLMAN: CFD Foregoes Donations In Pandemic COLUMNS BERKSON: With A Slice Of The Shovel STERNBERG: One Word…
LETTER from JIM TALLMAN CFD Foregoes Donations In Pandemic To the Editor: On behalf of the Cooperstown Fire Department, I would like to let you know we will not be doing our annual Equipment Fund Drive this year. Due to COVID-19 and the economic impact it has had on us all we feel that we should forgo asking for donations. Through your generous past donations we have been able to purchase the most necessary equipment we needed to replace. Although…
