2014 CONTROVERSY RECALLED Revised Zoning Law Would Allow Dorms By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – “I haven’t heard anything about a dorm?” said attorney Linden Summers, who lives at 1 Elk St., a half-block from Bassett Hospital, as this evening’s hour-long presentation and discussion on the village’s proposed revised zoning code neared an end. He recalled that five years ago, the Village Board’s effort to adopt a “hospital zone” to give Bassett flexibility collapsed over whether the…
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HUDSON ON THE JOB K-9, Handler Join Bassett’s Security By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Hudson may just be a dog, but as part of Bassett Hospital’s first K-9 team, he has a lot of responsibilities. The hospital announced the new security team today. “The presence of a K-9 team is shown to be extremely effective in promoting safety,” said Harold Southworth, director of Public Safety and Transportation, who along with Andrew Zuk, manager of Security Operations,…
Research Into Retinal Damage Wins E. Donnall Thomas Award COOPERSTOWN – Dr. Konika Sharma, a Bassett Hospital internal medicine resident in her third year of training, earned the 2019 E. Donnall Thomas Research Day Outstanding Research Presentation award for a finding that could improve detection of damage to retinas caused by diabetes. Sharma addressed the question: “Is a hand-held non-mydriatic (no dilation required) fundus camera superior to the referred dilated eye exams for the screening and detection of diabetic retinopathy…
IN MEMORIAM: Mabel Graham, 88; Worked With Nobelist Donnell Thomas MIDDLEFIELD – Mabel (Dubben) Graham, 88, who worked at Bassestt Hospital with Nobel Prize winner E. Donnell Thomas, M.D., died peacefully of natural causes early in the morning of April 2, 2019, in Bellevue, Wash. She began her life Dec. 3, 1930, in Cooperstown. She was the second child of Dorothy and George Dubben, Middlefield dairy farmers. Mabel started her schooling in Middlefield, graduated from Cherry Valley Central and finished…
IN MEMORIAM: Elaine More, 87; Farmed In Pierstown, East Springfield EAST SPRINGFIELD – Elaine More, who farmed with her husband in Pierstown and East Springfield, passed away early Saturday morning, April 13, 2019, at Cooperstown Center following a short illness. She was 87. Elaine was born Nov. 15, 1931, in Cooperstown, a daughter of J. Emory and Wilma (Curry) Bloomer. Raised in Hyde Park, Town of Hartwick, Elaine attended Cooperstown Central School, graduating with the Class of 1949.…
Bassett’s DeLong Chairs National Doctors’ Group American College of Physicians Elevates Cherry Valley Resident PHILADELPHIA – Bassett Hospital’s Douglas M. DeLong, M.D., was elevated to chairman of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians during Internal Medicine Meeting 2019, ACP’s annual scientific meeting held here Thursday through Saturday. The Board of Regents is the main policy-making body of the ACP, which is the largest medical specialty organization in the United States, and had members in more than…
HE FEARED FOR BASSETT’S FUTURE Zakrevsky: I Was Told, Don’t Pipe Any Gas To Cooperstown By JIM KEVLIN • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – When Otsego Now CEO Jody Zakrevsky arrived a year ago, he was told not to bring natural gas to Cooperstown, he said to a Cooperstown audience Monday, April 9, in one of several “Town Hall” meetings he’s convening around the county. Asked afterward who told him, he said the leadership of Otsego 2000, board…
In Memoriam James Stearns, 69; Dairyman With Wide Interests RICHFIELD SPRINGS – James J. Stearns, 69, of Hugick Road, a retired dairy farmer whose interests ranged widely to include Percherons, raising unusual chickens, growing roses and day lilies, and playing the organ, passed away on Thursday morning March 21, 2019, at Bassett Hospital.…
IN MEMORIAM Barbara Atwell Roberts, 87; Retired OR Nurse At Bassett RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Barbara Atwell Roberts, 87, formerly of Richfield Springs and a retired operating room nurse at Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, died Feb. 21, 2019, of heart failure at Concord Hospital in Concord, N.H. She lived at Havenwood Heritage Heights in Concord for the past nine years. Raised in the Baptist church, Barb’s unshakable faith guided and strengthened her throughout her life, in happy times and sad times.…
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