No New Cases In Past 2 Days COOPERSTOWN – No new cases of COVID-19 have surfaced in Otsego County since Wednesday, county Public Health Director Heidi Bond reported a few minutes ago. Local confirmed cases remain steady at 57, deaths remain steady at 4 (since March 13) and three people remain hospitalized locally with the disease.…
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SIRENS, LIGHTS, HORNS SOUND Fire Companies Salute Our Healthcare Heroes Fire trucks from Cooperstown area companies descended on the corner of Fair Street and Atwell Road – the middle of Bassett Hospital’s campus – at 6:30 p.m. this evening, sirens sounding and horns blowing, in tribute to Bassett Hospital employees who have been on the front lines of the fight against the coronavirus. About 100 staffers from the ER, security and other departments poured out onto the lawn, ignoring the…
Bassett CEO Says Scourge Declines, But Stay Vigilant By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Rates of positive COVID-19 cases in the Bassett Healthcare Network’s eight-county region, including Otsego, are starting to come down. In the past week, 6-8 percent of tests taken across the Bassett Network’s region were positive. That’s down from 10 percent the week before. In an interview Tuesday, April 21, Bassett Network CEO Bill Streck said there are several possible reasons, one being that the…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR from VERA TALEVI All Prayed, And Things Started To Happen To the Editor: Thank you all for the wonderful response to last Wednesday 3 o’clock prayers. I know our prayers have helped – two weeks in a row there was good news reported: On April 8, the good news was the CURVE WAS FLATTENING and then on April 16 – again, a day after our Wednesday prayers – the good news was not only had the…
GOVERNOR’S BRIEFING, Tuesday, 4/21 Low-Risk Hospitals Can Again Conduct Elective Surgeries Restriction May Be Lifted At Bassett ALBANY – In daily briefing, Governor Cuomo announced today that elective outpatient treatments can resume in counties and hospitals without significant risk of COVID-19 surge in the near term. Hospitals will be able to resume performing elective outpatient treatments next Monday if the hospital capacity is over 25 percent for the county and if there have been fewer than 10 new hospitalizations of…
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For More Details, See This Week’s Freeman’s Journal, Hometown Oneonta FOUNDATION FORMS, FIGHTING COVID-19 ITS FIRST PRIORITY Levine, Herzig In Leadership Roles; Public Asked To Assist Fundraising COOPERSTOWN – Local citizens face “an emergency need” to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the new Community Foundation of Otsego County. So at 2 p.m. today, the CFOC announced it has created the COVID-19 Relief & Recovery Fund. “Otsego County unemployment is rising and we are seeing growing numbers of potentially fatal…
Main-Chestnut Repaving Sets Stage For New Signal Flag lady Jetta Day of Otego, working for Upstate Companies of Mount Upton, directs traffic today around a major repaving job at the corner of Chestnut and Main in downtown Cooperstown, setting the stage for a signal replacement in the next several days that has been six years in the making. Inset, Upstate Companies Greg Peck, Sidney, disembarks from an asphalt truck to check when his participation is called for. The project, which…
IN MEMORIAM: Dr. Herbert A. Leupold, Honored Physicist Had Cooperstown Home COOPERSTOWN – Dr. Herbert A. Leupold, 89, a physicist at the U.S. Army Research Lab at Fort Monmouth, N.J., who maintained a second home in Cooperstown for many years, quietly exited this life on March 29, 2020. He was born in Brooklyn on Jan. 6, 1931,to Josefa Thalmayr and August Leupold. Herb’s education includes a B.Sc. in Physics from Queens College, an M.S. from Columbia University and a Ph.D.…
Hall Looks To Early May On Induction ’20 Decision COOPERSTOWN – The Baseball Hall of Fame is targeting early May for a decision on Induction 2020, according to Jon Shestakofsky, vice president/Communications & Education. “No decision has been made about Induction Weekend and conversations are ongoing,” Shestakofsky said today in response to a query. “All scenarios are being discussed, including the possibility of continuing as planned for this July.” With Derek Jeter in the Class of 2020 possibly drawing a…
