LETTER from CINDY FALK ‘It Takes A Village Moment’ Inspires Candidate Falk To the Editor: Saturday I had one of those “It Takes a Village” moments. I offered a ride to a friend to the vaccination clinic at the Clark Sports Center. Sitting with her in a folding chair on the gym floor, I remembered just how special our community is. We have a teaching hospital right here in Cooperstown, we have an amazing recreational facility and, most important, we…
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Campus Cases Up C-19 Rates Still Outstrip Rest Of County By MICHAEL FORSTER ROTHBART • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COVID-19 cases have continued to rise among students at Hartwick and SUNY Oneonta, despite best efforts by both colleges, even while the rate of infection has declined elsewhere in Otsego County. The campuses have been the source of one third of all cases in the county in 2021, and rose to 47 percent of cases in one 10-day period, the county Health…
LETTER from RICHARD STERNBERG Neighbors Helping Neighbors Get Shots This past weekend Bassett performed an amazing feat of vaccinating a large group of people, more than 1,100 over two days. The confirmation of vaccine availability only came though on Wednesday, March 3, leaving but two full days to prepare. Nevertheless, I visited on Sunday and it had the appearance of a military operation (which in a sense it was). The Bassett community, from Dr. Tommy Ibrahim on down should be…
At Woodside Hall, Not One COVID Case In Year The Rules Are Clear, Says Proprietor, But They Must Be Enforced Every Day By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ‘When I was a child, a classmate was one of the last Americans to have polio,” said Woodside Hall proprietor Stephen Cadwalader. “What if COVID-19 is like polio? That’s what went through my mind.” So here we are, a year since the coronavirus arrived – Governor Cuomo reported Tuesday was the…
LETTER from CHARLES HYMAN It Looks Like It’s Only Going To Get Better It’s time for hope. The fact that we now have two incredibly effective COVID vaccines approved by the FDA (with more on the way) is amazing and heartening to me. Those responsible for that speedy development with such fantastic efficacy deserve high praise, and our thanks. Let’s talk about what comes next. • Understanding the Shot The remarkable speed of development of these COVID vaccines makes some…
Baseball Camps Wait For Albany Guidance Quarantine Rules Also Turn Off Some Families By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Health and wealth. Those are the two concepts people in government and the tourist industry are using in discussing the news that the two youth-baseball camps, Dreams Park in Hartwick Seminary and All Star Village in West Oneonta, are seeking permission to open someway, somehow, in the 2021 season. “If they can conform to the state’s requirements and…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Mar. 4, 2021 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Baseball Camps Wait For Albany Guidance Glimmerglass Plans 4 Shows On Lawn Life’s Goal Accomplished Pidgeon Retires Campaigns Off To Fast Start In ’21 New CCS Superintendent Arrives AllOTSEGO.life From Oneonta To Fame At Woodside Hall, Not One COVID Case In Year THE DOG CHARMER EDITORIAL Vaccines Are Here. Keep Trying. You’ll Get Your Shots For The Love Of Boating FOOD FOR…
EDITORIAL Vaccines Are Here. Keep Trying. You’ll Get Your Shots Elsewhere on this page, Dr. Charles Hyman, Bassett Hospital’s infectious disease specialist, says, “It’s time for hope.” Yes, indeed, all the signs are good. Earlier this week, Heidi Bond, Otsego County public health director, said, “I think it will open up pretty quickly with Johnson & Johnson,” a reference to the new one-shot vaccine approved over the weekend. It’s even encouraging to read the daily reports in the doom-and-gloom national…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Feb. 25, 2021 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Herzig To Retire Statistics Miss Victim’s Stories – Like Thom Parrotti’s Dreams Park Seeks OK For 2021 Opening Village, County, City Completing Review Of Police Procedures AllOTSEGO.life Lucky Recuperates With Koops, Set Free Oneonta Sculptors ‘Terrible Beauty’ Opens EDITORIAL In Time Of Pandemic Hope Blooms Chamber Looks Past COVID And So Should The Rest Of Us Probe Of Cuomo Administration Must Run…
Herzig To Retire Despite COVID-19, Much Let To Do, Mayor’s Decision Firm: It’s Time To Go By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com With would-be successors able to circulate petitions in the next few days, six-year Mayor Gary Herzig Tuesday, Feb. 23, announced what many expected and others anticipated with regret: He will retire when his term ends on Dec. 31, 2021. “During the past six years, by working together, the people of Oneonta have achieved remarkable progress,” he said…