This Christmas, Hope Should Be Foremost As We Count Our Blessings, Let’s Stay The Course Last Sunday, www.AllOTSEGO was able to trumpet the news: “VACCINE HERE! 350 Bassett Tier 1 Workers Getting Shots Over Weekend.” Within hours, thousands had clicked throughto read the good news. It – the COVID-19 pandemic – is not over, but it’s on the way to being over. This happy news comes at a time when, as the Gospel of Luke had it, humanity wishes for…
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6 PIONEERS GET SHOTS It’s Beginning Of End Of Virus In Otsego County By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Six Tier One Bassett employees elected to receive the Moderna vaccine in Bassett Hospital’s Clark Auditorium this morning. Housekeeper Eddie Cook, among the six, was “excited and a little nervous” about receiving the vaccine. “If it helps stop the spread and will keep his wife safe,” he said, “I am happy to do it – I will be…
28 COVID-19 Cases Surface On Weekend COOPERSTOWN – COVID-19 numbers continue to climb in the county, with 28 cases reported over the weekend, according to Heidi Bond, Otsego County Public Health Director. 11 cases were reported Saturday, Nov. 21 and 17 were reported today, Bond noted in her daily press release. According to the NY Forward Dashboard, Otsego County currently has a 1.1 percent average positivity rate, with 600 people tested yesterday.…
Infections Dissipate At SUNY, Elsewhere By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – With five days of zero COVID-19 cases, SUNY Oneonta is finally breathing a sigh of relief. “It’s the longest since the college’s first cases were reported on Tuesday Aug. 25,” said Hal Legg, chief communication & marketing officer. “We’re very encouraged.” With a total of 712 cases since the outbreak, including one employee, the Oneonta campus is seeing cases decline substantially. Between Thursday, Oct. 1, and…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg And Otsego County By LIBBY CUDMORE• Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – One summer, while visiting Cooperstown, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg had a request for her friend, Kay Pierro. “She wanted to go waterskiing!” Pierro said. “So I asked around for a friend who had a boat to take her on, but (federal marshals) needed to follow in a second boat, so I had to ask around for another. “She tried so hard to get up, but…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Sept. 3-4, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE ‘No More Classes’ Likely SUNY Outcome Fox Hospital President Now Bassett COO CCS Chief Crankshaw Returns To His Roots AllOTSEGO.life COVID Turns Downtown ‘A Ghost Town’ Reopened, ALDI Thrills Oneonta Fans EDITORIALS Let’s Stay Flexible, Collaborate, Decide Public, Private Colleges Both Must Thrive HISTORY COLUMNS BOUND VOLUMES: Sept. 3, 2020 HOMETOWN HISTORY: Sept. 4, 2020 COLUMNS WHELAN: What Happened To Freddie Gray?…
LOCAL COVID CASES SPIKE 9 New Infections: 5 SUNY Students, 4 High-Schoolers By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Nine new COVID-19 cases surfaced locally today, the county Department of Health reported at 5:35 this evening. Five were SUNY Oneonta students, bringing the total to date to seven, all living off-campus. The other four cases came out of a gathering of students from the same high school, but county Public Health Director Heidi Bond said she’s not ready…
It’s (607) 376-7453 Oneonta City Hall Announces COVID-19 ‘Tip Line’ Number ONEONTA – It’s (607) 376-7453. As SUNY Oneonta students begin arriving today, that’s the “tip line” number, the City of Oneonta’s dedicated hotline for citizens to report concerns over gatherings that are seen as jeopardizing public health doing this time of COVID-19 threat. You can call the number, which was announced today, or you can send a text.…
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COUNTY DOH SAYS COVID-19 HAS AWAKENED 15 New Cases In July; 4 In Hospitals, 3 On Ventilators By LIBBY CUDMORE & JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com After a quiet May and June, 15 cases since the beginning of July, nine in the past week, may mean we’re heading right back where we started from. “This increase is similar to what we were seeing in the beginning,” county Public Health Director Heidi Bond said Tuesday. “If we continue to see a…
