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With Otsego Lagging, Census Staff Available To Help Fill Out Form Worker Assigned To Cooperstown Farmers Market This Saturday, Next COOPERSTOWN – A U.S. Census worker will be at the Cooperstown Farmers Market to help citizens fill out Census forms online 9 a.m.-2 p.m tomorrow, July 18, and next Saturday, July 25. The Census is used, among other things, to determine how many Congressional District each state receives, and to allocate federal funding for schools and social services, as well…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 Ask Your Local Governments: Take Care Of Us By RICHARD STERNBERG • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com On Sunday, a friend of mine was talking to a family from South Carolina. They told him how bad it was down there now and how great it was up here and how we had beaten the virus. They talked for a while, then walked away down Main Street. None of them were wearing masks, nor knew if they…
Union Contractor In Dispute Over Project Prevailing Wage By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Ian Williams didn’t call the demonstration outside of the Susquehanna SPCA building site a protest. The Council Representative for the North Atlantic States Council of Carpenters Local 227 called his sign, an “informational banner.” He and two other union representatives, Mark Hopper, Wells Bridge and Bob Wilmott, both from the union office in Syracuse, stood in front of the shelter site on Tuesday,…
Is Governor Requiring $1,000 Fine For People Who Don’t Wear Masks? Oneonta Will; Cooperstown Unsure By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Mayor Gary Herzig said a few minutes ago that Governor Cuomo yesterday directed municipalities to enforce a state Department of Health directive allowing localities to fine people who do not wear masks up to $1,000 per violation. Fearful of what 7,000 college students may bring with them this fall, Herzig said, “I don’t think the state…
Guilty Of Arson, Murder, Truitt Sentenced Friday COOPERSTOWN – Gabriel Truitt, who was found guilty of the arson and murder of John Heller in December 2018, will be sentenced on Friday, July 17 as in-person court appearances resume at the Otsego County Courthouse. “He’s facing life without parole and that’s what I’m going to ask for,” said District Attorney John Muehl. “He should be in jail from now on.”…
New Bassett CEO, Tommy Ibrahim, On The Job Today COOPERSTOWN – Dr. Tommy Ibrahim began his tenure this morning as president and CEO of Bassett Healthcare Network. He succeeds Dr. William F. Streck, who served as president and CEO from 1984 through 2014, then returned on an interim basis in 2018 after the resignation of his successor, Dr. Vance Brown. Ibrahim comes to Bassett from Integris Health, the largest not-for-profit health-care system in Oklahoma, where he was executive vice president…
SQSPCA Needs Volunteers To Help Socialize Kittens COOPERSTOWN – It’s a tough job, but someone has to help these kittens learn to cuddle. “We currently have 28 feral or unsocialized kittens on-site, with more arriving daily,” said Stacie Haynes, Executive Director. “Our new ‘Feral to Friendly’ program is designed to give volunteers the opportunity to meet and help socialize these kittens, and also to lighten the load for staff as the shelter enters its busiest season.”…
Village Hoists Banner Encouraging Wearing Masks, Social Distancing…
STOPS AT DOUBLEDAY FIELD Schumer Promises Help For Local Governments Against a backdrop of pure Americana – the Stars & Stripes, Doubleday Field and the Sandlot Kid – U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, the state’s senior senator, this afternoon pledged federal support that would go directly to local governments in the support package now being negotiated in Congress. He appeared with county board Chairman David Bliss, left, and Treasurer Allen Ruffles, who have been pleading for that kind…