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Cooperstown’s ‘Masks On Main’ Signs Vandalized Village Police Seek Suspects By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Cooperstown Police are investigating the vandalism of the Village’s three “Masks on Main” signs after they were found with a black X spray-painted over them. “We believe it happened last night,” said Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch. “We noticed it first thing this morning.” The vandalized signs were at the perimeters of the downtown where the mask ordinance is in place, including…
CCS DEFIES COVID THREAT Cooperstown Pupils Go Back To Classes Tammy Dingman, LTA, above, escorts Izabella Chase into Cooperstown Elementary School this morning, where a rotation system — half the students Mondays and Wednesdays, and other half Tuesdays and Thursdays — is in place to avoid crowding as the Walnut Street facility and the high school on Linden Avenue reopened for the 2020-21 school year. At left, Director of Facilities Matt Murphy kept the traffic flowing. Inset, Senior Officer Jim…
60 Applaud Delgado At Cooperstown Stop Some 60 Democrats hailed incumbent Congressman Antonio Delgado, D-19, on a campaign and sign-distribution stop a few minutes ago in Cooperstown’s Pioneer Park. Top photo, he chats with Layla Butterman, 8, of Oneonta, who attended with her dad Dan, who is running for state Assembly against incumbent John Salka, R-Brookfield. Others, from left, are party activists Melinda Harden and Richard Sternberg, both of Cooperstown, and former Cooperstown mayor Jeff Katz. Inset, Paula Diperna, who…
ONEONTA CLOSED UNTIL 10/15 CCS Students Returning On Monday, In Rotation By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Utilizing the hybrid model combining in-person and remote learning, students will return to Cooperstown Central School classrooms on Monday, Oct. 5. “Cohort A” will attend classes on Monday and Thursday, and “Cohort B” will attend on Tuesdays and Friday. Students can also opt to continue remote learning.…
It’s Beginning To Look Less Like Halloween By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Come late October, there will be no parade of ghosts and goblins haunting Cooperstown and Oneonta. The Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce won’t be seeking a parade permit, Chamber Executive Tara Burke told Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch. “But many businesses are going to continue giving out candy, as they have for the last decade,” the mayor said. For a second year in a row, Oneonta won’t have…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Oct. 1-2, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Trustee Mac Benton Wins Another Term 3 At Bassett Found COVID-19 Positive Bassett CEO’s Aim: Knit Network Together For Sheriff, Son’s Investigation Not Over Museum Hosts Safer, Longer Celebration Governor Appoints Casale To Election Board Repeat Offenders Have Oneonta On Edge It’s Beginning To Look Less Like Halloween EDITORIAL Trustees, Launch ‘Year Of Cooperstownian’ Was Polling Place Big Enough? LETTERS KLINE: Law-Abiding…
3 At Bassett Found COVID-19 Positive By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Three of the latest five cases of COVID-19 reported were Bassett Hospital employees, according to Heidi Bond, county public health director. “We don’t know where (two) employees picked it up, but they gave it to a family member, who also works at Bassett,” she said. The three cases are part of a five-day spike that saw an additional 18 cases throughout the county, nine at…
Bassett CEO’s Aim: Knit Network Together By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In his three months as CEO/president, Dr. Tommy Ibrahim is increasingly impressed by Bassett Healthcare Network’s local significance. “In our service area, we’re it,” he said in an interview Monday, Sept. 28. “We have an obligation to serve the people in it.” In the past two months, he has announced 10 members of his Executive Leadership Team, including Fox Hospital President Jeff Joyner as chief…
Museum Hosts Safer, Longer Celebration By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Every so often, Farmers’ Museum interpreter Deb Anderson will see someone sneaking a ride on the closed Empire State Carousel. It’s not a ghost or a straggler – it’s daredevil Sam Patch, one of The Farmers’ Museum’s scarecrows, atop Bucky Beaver, the first of the carousel’s hand-carved animals. Sam was created by the museum’s staff, part of the museum’s Celebration of Autumn, underway through Sunday, Oct.…