Saying Thanks Brothers-In-Law Making Sure People Who Serve Are Served By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Call it brotherly love for the community. “When you get a meal, it brightens your day,” said Mike Joubert, who owns Wise Guy’s Sammy’s with his wife, Sheryl. “People are nervous, they’re scared, but food gives you a sense of normalcy.” The popular sandwich shop at Ford & Main has taken to surprising essential workers by showing up with sandwiches and pizza…
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THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta April 016-17, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK CORONAVIRUS UPDATE COVID Infestation Slows Down Locally Bassett Tests 3 Anti-Coronavirus Drugs After Ordeal, Seward Back Home In Milford Profile: Heidi Bond, General In C-19 Fight Need Grows, Food Banks Welcome Needy Superintendents Flummoxed: When To Reopen? AllOTSEGO.COVID-19 In Oneonta, Grinning And Bearing It Brothers-In-Law Serve People Who Serve Libby’s List Of Virtual Things To Do EDITORIAL Andrew Cuomo For President COLUMNS STERNBERG: A…
COVID Slows Down In Otsego County By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – As state and federal officials debate when and how to reopen parts of the country, weekly increases to the number of local cases of COVID-19 are slowing down. But Otsego County’s Public Health Director Heidi Bond said it is too early to tell when restrictions will be lifted here. Governor Cuomo will be the one to make that determination, and so far he has not said…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 A Pearl Harbor Moment, Plus By RICHARD STERNBERG • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Two weeks ago, Surgeon General Jerome Adams made comments that last week would be a Pearl Harbor moment in the battle against COVID-19. Others picked up on the statement. I believe the President used that phrase at one point in a press conference. Others are calling this a 9/11 moment. This is nothing of the sort and is probably an insult to…
LETTER from M.A. WHELAN With Crisis, We See World, And Dump, With Fresh Eyes To the Editor: Given our current situation, I find even a trip to the Northern Transfer Station – aka The Dump – an exciting occasion. I have looked at it with fresh eyes. And it’s not a pretty sight. OK, I know it’s a dump, but there are dumps and then there are dumps. This one is really awful. Fetid piles of trash, papers blowing everywhere,…
FROM THE FRONT LINES Crisis Tells Us: Be Prepared! By CHARLES HYMAN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com I want to thank Richard Sternberg for bringing up the difficult issue of triage. Fortunately, our area has not had to face this type of excruciating decision-making. But we may yet. His “elephant in the room” makes me think of yet another “elephant in the room,” and that is the one of advance directives and healthcare agents. April 16 is National Healthcare Decisions Day.…
Bassett Researcher Conducts Tests On 3 Anti-COVID Drugs Hydroxychloroquine, Lopinavir, Losartan Explored In Local Lab By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Bassett Healthcare Network is doing original research into finding a cure for COVID-19. “This is an opportunity to have residents of this area participate in a really rigorous and sound clinical trial to get these drugs with the most up-to-date and most recommended method,” said Dr. Daniel Frelich, an infectious disease specialist. The study, dubbed COVID…
Sheriffs, Code Enforcement Investigate COVID-19 Complaints By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – If you see something, Governor Cuomo suggests, say something. “We’ve been contacted about businesses having too many people in the store, people not wearing masks, that sort of thing,” said Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr. As part of Cuomo’s executive order, complaints can be lodged by citizens if they see non-essential businesses open, non-emergency private construction work, or gatherings where more than 10 people are…
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CLICK HERE FOR TEXT OF LETTER Glimmerglass Festival 2020 ‘Hopeful’ For Summer Season COOPERSTOWN – Though New York State remains under a state of emergency until the end of April, Francesca Zambello, Artistic & Creative Director, Glimmerglass Festival, is trying to stay optimistic that the season will open as scheduled. “We are still hopeful that we will see you this summer,” she wrote in a letter sent earlier this afternoon. With so much unknown at this time, and with all…
