LETTER TO EDITOR from JUDITH PACHTER The Answer: Choose People Over Money To the Editor: As a former registered nurse and a retired financial adviser, I see both sides of this horrendous dilemma. But in my mind, there is no amount of money that is worth one death that could have been prevented. We sit in our isolated homes in rural Central New York and feel a bit sorry for ourselves because we cannot do or should not do what…
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Building A Foundation – Together Community Foundation Takes Aim At COVID-19 By HARRY LEVINE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COVID-19 has changed our world. Our community faces dire health and economic shocks that have disrupted our way of life and will continue to affect us for the foreseeable future. The Community Foundation of Otsego County was created in 2019 with the mission of improving the quality of life for all the Otsego County area. We were about to publicly announce our…
LIBBY’S BEST BETS Yoga, Art Together; A Brisk Road Race, And Poetry Galore! Take a few moments for spiritual development amid the stress of quarantine with the annual Spiritual Arts Fair, now in a virtual format! Saturday-Sunday, April 25-26. www.facebook.com/isdoneonta/ • What better way to relax than with art and yoga? Mary Murray leads an art talk about the Munson Williams Proctor galleries, followed by a yoga class with Lisa Gallagher. 10 a.m. Saturday, April 25, www.facebook.com/MWPAI. • Get outside…
At Virtual Animal Shelter, You Can …TEE A PUDDY TAT… Whenever You Feel Like IT By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Wylie understands the frustration and boredom of quarantine. “When Wylie came into our shelter, he had been attacked by either a fox or a coyote,” said Terra Butler, Super Heroes in Ripped Jeans director and founder. “Because we couldn’t find the animal that attacked him, we couldn’t get it tested for rabies. Most shelters would have…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR from VERA TALEVI All Prayed, And Things Started To Happen To the Editor: Thank you all for the wonderful response to last Wednesday 3 o’clock prayers. I know our prayers have helped – two weeks in a row there was good news reported: On April 8, the good news was the CURVE WAS FLATTENING and then on April 16 – again, a day after our Wednesday prayers – the good news was not only had the…
BOUND VOLUMES April 23, 2020 200 YEARS AGO To Agriculturalists – That valuable article SOOT, has hitherto been too much neglected. But the time has now come, that its use in some degree is understood. Although, for years past it has been used with great success in England, yet its valuable qualities have been but little known to American Agriculturalists. By my own experience it is found the best mode to preserve the Soot perfectly dry in large quantities. When…
SOCIALIZE AND MAINTAIN DISTANCE With Elena’s Michael, Dine Together – Apart By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Michael Tracy, who owns Elena’s Michael Catering, doesn’t want to see anyone eating alone. “The idea is this,” he said. “You call up five to seven of your friends, and I’ll deliver meals to all of them. Then you get online” – using Skype, Zoom or Google Hangouts – “and have a virtual dinner party.” With much of his popular catering…
POEM TO THE EDITOR from TOM HEITZ, SHARON STUART Stuck At Home Stuck at home Wrote this poem • Had some lunch With Captain Crunch Washed the dish Made a wish • Fed the cat Found my hat Broke a mirror Bad luck here • Made the tea Had to pee Sun went down Moon is round • Took a fall In the hall Bumped my head Went to bed • Drank some booze Took a snooze Up at dawn…
Saying Thanks Brothers-In-Law Making Sure People Who Serve Are Served By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Call it brotherly love for the community. “When you get a meal, it brightens your day,” said Mike Joubert, who owns Wise Guy’s Sammy’s with his wife, Sheryl. “People are nervous, they’re scared, but food gives you a sense of normalcy.” The popular sandwich shop at Ford & Main has taken to surprising essential workers by showing up with sandwiches and pizza…
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…
