1st Community Foundation Grant Goes To Helios Care ONEONTA – Just two weeks after going public, the Community Foundation for Otsego County has awarded its first grant: $5,000 to Helios Care for PPE – personal protective equipment. The money came from the foundation’s newly established COVID-19 Relief & Recovery Fund. “This award to Helios Care captures the goal of the fund to support first-line health care providers by supplying them with (PPE) they need to safely conduct home visits,” said…
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THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta May 7-May 8, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK CORONAVIRUS UPDATE Only One COVID Case Left Locally Glimmerglass Festival Out All Star Village Holds On In COVID Era, Moms Salute CCS Grads Drive-In Graduation Out, But OHS Seeks Novelty 1st Community Foundation Grant To Helios AllOTSEGO.COVID-19 To Beat Blahs, Victory Gardens Return Oneonta Merchant Tells Story Of Local Business Libby’s List Of Virtual Things To Do EDITORIALS War Not Over, But Let’s…
Glimmerglass Festival Out By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special To AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – With the curtain on “The Sound of Music” scheduled to rise in just two months, the Glimmerglass Festival has announced it will not host any live performances this summer. “It was our hope this summer to gather at the Festival,” Francesca Zambello, artistic director, said Tuesday, May 5. “But it became clear that, for all our safety, we cannot gather together to perform the beautiful season we had…
All Star Village Holds On By JIM KEVLIN • Special To AllOTSEGO.com WEST ONEONTA – Cooperstown Dreams Park in Hartwick Seminary. Strike out. Derek Jeter’s prospective Hall of Fame Induction July 26 in Cooperstown. Strike out. Even the Baseball Hall of Fame is waiting in the dugout for now. For now, that leaves one Otsego County baseball institution in the game this summer: Cooperstown All Star Village on Route 205 here. “We want to play baseball,” is how Marty Patton,…
Letter From P. JAY FLEISHER No Future For Plastics To the Editor: Every few weeks I wait with wonder, “what flavor cool-aid is he drinking now?” And, sure enough, Mike Zagata brought me up to date. Last week’s column told me just how far out of touch he is on virtually all matters related to science. His latest entry (“Better Living Through Plastics”) touts the virtues of plastic and the petroleum industry that provides it, and wouldn’t you know this…
Watch For Birds Get In Shape, Or See A Photo Show If you went a little crazy buying seeds and now don’t know what to do with them, The Farmers’ Museum has got you covered with a video tutorial on seed starting. www.facebook.com/farmersmuseum/videos/657656571445914/ • What does a red cabbage have to do with acidity and the blue sky? The AJ Read Science Discovery Center will answer all these questions with a kitchen science lesson. BYOC – Bring Your Own Cabbage!…
HOMETOWN History May 8, 2020 135 Years Ago The Delaware & Hudson Canal Company held their annual meeting in New York, Tuesday. The old board of managers was re-elected with the exception that Thomas Cornell resigned in favor in favor of John A. Stewart, who was chosen as his successor. A set of by-laws, the first ever possessed by the company, was adopted. The leased lines of the company, the report showed, have shared in the general business depression that…
Drive-In Graduation Out, But OHS Seeks Novelty By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special To AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Superintendent Thomas Brindley wants to make sure that the Class of 2020 is celebrated, no matter what. “These students really deserve it,” he said. “It breaks our hearts that we might not be able to all participate in the graduation milestones, but our mission is to put something together so that they can enjoy it.” Since Governor Cuomo announced Friday, May 1, that New…
To Beat Covid Blahs, Victory Gardens Return By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special To AllOTSEGO.com MOUNT VISION – ‘V’ for vegetables – or victory. “A lot of the companies we buy from say the ‘Victory Garden’ is making a comeback,” said Ed Wilms, Mount Vision Garden Center, who opened his family’s 26 greenhouses Friday, May 1. “People are worried they won’t have enough vegetables, so they’re planting their own. Sales are up across the board.” “We’re starting a new garden,” said Sarah…
Letter From AL COLONE With Time On Our Hands, Let’s Revisit One Oneonta To the Editor: During this time of crisis, Governor Cuomo’s daily report on the coronavirus in New York State has brought me a sense of reassurance that we will “beat the beast!” He regularly talks of making something good come out of bad situations; he speaks of the positive outcomes which have resulted from past crisis. What will things look like in our lives after the COVID-19…
