Caught In Insurance Bind, Chief Struggles To Survive GoFundMe Raises $14,720 After He’s Cut From County Plan Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal - Cooperstown Police Chief Mike Covert hold the medications and devices he uses daily to stay alive. By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN - When Mike Covert was in Bassett Hospital recovering from a heart attack in January, he had an unexpected visitor. A young woman from the “Angel” program, which Covert started in 2015 as the Cooperstown police chief to…
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Covert: Public More Likely To Report Bias, Hate Cases Cooperstown Sees Its First Two Cases Ever By LIBBY CUDMORE • for www.AllOTSEGO.com Chief Covert COOPERSTOWN – Although applied in the Village of Cooperstown for the first time this summer – twice – bias laws have been on the books for years, according to Cooperstown Police Chief Mike Covert. What’s changing is public attitudes toward possible racial and homophobic confrontations are changing, he said: “It’s very unusual, but people aren’t going…
Cooperstown Police Seek Purse Snatcher Chief Urges Residents, 'Lock Your Doors' COOPERSTOWN – Police are warning Cooperstown residents to lock their doors after a man walked into a Nelson Avenue home and stole a purse. Around 3 p.m. yesterday afternoon, a man in drove up to a home on Nelson Avenue in a green Dodge Caravan and walked into the house while the residents were upstairs. He allegedly stole a purse off a table, and the children saw him as…