EDITORIAL With Facts As Guide, Let’s Start Reopening As the headline has it, that’s what Governor Cuomo is doing. And he’s convincing. When on April 16, Cuomo announced he was extending NY PAUSE from April 29 to May 15, most of us probably thought that it would then be extended to the end of May, then mid-June, and so on. Upstaters, given the daily reports of New York City’s spiraling death code, were in that frame of mind. So it…
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LIBBY’S BEST BETS Tour The Rock Hall, A Virtual Talent Show And Learn Photography See Michael Jackson’s sequined glove, Slash’s top hat, some great guitars and other rock & roll memorabilia with a virtual tour of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. www.rockhall/your-tour • Tune in for a talent show of Shakespearean monologues, short fiction, opera and original songs, presented by the Fenimore Art Museum. Thursday evening, April 30. And on Saturday, May 2, check out a virtual play…
With Elective Surgery, Bassett Normalizing By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – As COVID-19 cases slow and the virus appears more contained, Bassett Hospital is beginning to start the process of returning to a new version of normalcy. “We realized that things that could be put off for a few weeks can no longer be deferred,” said Dr. William LeCates, hospital president. “What was elective for a week or two is often not for two to three months.”…
Week 1, Donors Give Foundation $127K COOPERSTOWN – In less than a week, the fledgling Community Foundation of Otsego County raised $127,000 towards its “COVID-19 Relief & Recovery Fund for Otsego County.” The original $30,000 challenge grant, announced Tuesday, April 21, was matched in 72 hours. A second $20,000 challenge, announced Friday the 24th, was met over the weekend. “The community is really coming on like gangbusters to support their neighbors and fellow community members,” said Harry Levine, CFOC board…
NO DEREK JETER INDUCTION UNTIL 2021 By LIBBY CUDMORE & JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – As many as 90,000 fans were anticipated in Cooperstown for this year’s July 26 Induction of Yankees’ superstar Derek Jeter. But instead of a potential record-breaking crowd, USA Today revealed this week, the Clark Sports Center field may be empty. “With the COVID-19 pandemic raging across the country – with 292,000 cases in New York – there is little choice but to…
The One’s Still The One – Later Jeter’s Celebration Lives, Only In 2021, Hall President Says By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Just because Derek Jeter’s induction has been postponed for a year doesn’t mean that we’ve missed out on the big one. “His induction will still be the one,” said Tim Mead, president, Baseball Hall of Fame. “Instead of focusing on it for five years, we’ll have to focus for six. But it will still be…
JETER TO JOIN CLASS OF 2021 BOARD MEETS, CANCELS HALL’S 2020 INDUCTION By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Derek Jeter will have to wait another year to get into the Baseball Hall of Fame. “Being inducted into the Hall of Fame will be an incredible honor, but the health and safety of everyone involved are paramount,” said Jeter. “I respect and support the decision to postpone this year’s enshrinement and am looking forward to joining current Hall…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta April 30-May 1, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK CORONAVIRUS UPDATE BEGINNING OF THE END? NO JETER INDUCTION UNTIL 2021 Week 1, Donors Give Foundation $127K With Elective Surgery, Bassett Normalizing Seward: Prayers Helped Me Through COVID-19 From Edmeston Comes NYC Angel Of Mercy ‘Bad Batch’ Cause 4 Oneonta Overdoses AllOTSEGO.COVID-19 Masks – Necessity Or Fashion Statement? Garden Club’s Daffodils Brighten Oneonta Libby’s List Of Virtual Things To Do EDITORIALS With Facts…
LETTER from MICHAEL WHALING And by The Way, Pesticides Still Used On Lakeside Links To the Editor: As spring slowly approaches, golf season will begin and pesticides applied to the Leatherstocking Golf Course on the sloping west shore of Cooperstown’s drinking water source and Susquehanna River headwaters. While this practice has been previously challenged by this writer and others, the Biological Field Station has been silent. Their only comment was: “Nothing was found” in their testing. While this is good…
LETTER from GERRY WELCH Expecting COVID Will Go Away Is Magical Thinking To the Editor: Authorities seem to believe the coronavirus is going to behave like SARS. Here today and probably gone tomorrow. Magically disappear. They are simply not preparing for the potential long haul, that of the virus again and again rearing its ugly head. They also don’t seem to be willing to think that immunity is gained by surviving the disease. I think out of the box, both…
