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.…
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THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Nov. 19-20, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK SUNY-O REOPENING Plan: Catch Virus Before It Can Spread 75 Faculty Sign Petition Challenging Plan EDITORIAL: Unite In Making Plan Work FRONT PAGE CCS’ COVID Outbreak Quarantines Herzigs SQSPCA Animal Shelter Dreams Coming True Zakrevsky: Otsego Now Seeks To Keep Ioxus LETTERS KUZMINSKI: Sanctuaries Recipes For Anarchy TALLMAN: CFD Foregoes Donations In Pandemic COLUMNS BERKSON: With A Slice Of The Shovel STERNBERG: One Word…
Otsego COVID Cases Double, 5 Delaware Ones Sent Here CCS Outbreak Hits Herzigs By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – In the past week, Otsego County doubled its November COVID-19, leaving Oneonta’s mayor and his wife among the newly quarantined. With 37 new cases of the virus identified from Tuesday the 10th to Tuesday the 17th, the number of cases for the month rose from 46 to 83 in just seven days. Two from Otsego County were hospitalized,…
SQSPCA Animal Shelter Dreams Coming True By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – At the Susquehanna SPCA’s new shelter, not only will you be able to see the difference, you’ll be able to smell it too. “Dogs communicate through smell,” said Andrew Schuster, principal architect with Ashley McGraw, Syracuse. “To keep stress levels down, every dog will have a separately ‘exhausted’ kennel to ensure odor privacy, so that you don’t have a lot of barking.” The new shelter…
Cooperstown Readies For Virtual Christmas By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Cooperstown Community Christmas Committee isn’t going to let COVID-19 be the Grinch who steals the holiday. “It was clear by last summer that Christmas was going to be different,” said the 4C’s Peg Leon. “But we didn’t want to not decorate. It’s important to provide something for the locals and the children.” This Sunday, Nov. 22, at 2 p.m., the village’s Christmas season starts, as families…
Let Grand Old Flag Fly Editor’s Note: This message was dropped off anonymously at The Freeman’s Journal office at 21 Railroad Ave. I respectfully request the Village of Cooperstown return to raising our flag on Pioneer and Main to full staff. We have had the flag lowered for over a half-year to respect the sick and the deceased. That was good, and important to locals and visitors to our blessed town who travel here from around the world. Sadly, there…
Copper Fox Patrons Asked To Quarantine As COVID-19 Spikes, Bassett Closes To Visitors COOPERSTOWN – With COVID-19 rates rising locally, Bassett Healthcare is restricting visitors at their hospitals to “only individuals considered essential to the medical care of a patient,” effective Monday, Nov. 23. “The decision to limit the number of non-patients coming to our campuses is in the best interest of our patients, staff and the communities we serve,” explains Bassett Healthcare Network President and CEO Tommy Ibrahim, MD,…
Oneonta School District Goes Remote Until N0v. 30 ‘Highest Number of Cases’ Reported In 1 Day, Warns Bond ONEONTA – With 18 cases of COVID-19 reported today, Otsego County Public Health director Heidi Bond has warned that, with the exception of the college-based outbreaks, today’s total marks the highest number of single-day cases in the community since the pandemic began in March. Bond said that the health department is working to determine if there is a cluster, but that the…
Elementary Students Go Remote Until Nov. 30 CCS Teacher Tests Positive For COVID COOPERSTOWN – After being notified by the Department of Health that a teacher at the Cooperstown Elementary School has tested positive for COVID-19, students in grades K-6 will move to “emergency remote learning,” according to a message sent out to parents by Interim Superintendent Romona Wenck. A handful of students have been identified as being in close contact with the teacher, and have been asked to quarantine.…