Village Board Attendees Can Sit 6-Feet-Plus Apart Monthly Meeting Moved To Ballroom COOPERSTOWN – The Village Board’s monthly meeting is Monday, and Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch announced it will proceed as scheduled, but – adapting to the Coronavirus threat – will be moved from the basement meeting room at 22 Main to the second-floor ballroom. This will allow attendees to space themselves 6 feet apart, as recommended by “social distancing” guidelines. While the trustees and Village Administrator Teri Barown will…
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Helping World In Need Cooperstown Living Waters Team Visits Plant, Builds Chicken House By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – It’s easy to take clean water for granted in Upstate New York, but Susan Jones knows that’s not so everywhere. “In Honduras, most of the water comes from mountain springs fed through plastic pipes,” said Jones. “But it’s often contaminated from wildlife and cattle, so people are drinking raw, not treated water.” Jones, who has headed up the…
CORONAVIRUS EDITION Cooperstown Distillery To Manufacture, Give Away Hand Sanitizer COOPERSTOWN – Gene Marra, the entrepreneurial founder of Cooperstown Distillery, has found a need and plans to fill it. Hand sanitizers. He’s ordered 200 four-ounce bottle – they arrived today – and plans to fill it with a 160-percent alcohol mixture. “Essentially vodka,” he said. On Friday, he should be distributing them at no cost and see how it goes. And the producer of Cooper’s Legacy Bourbon has come up…
CORONAVIRUS EDITION CSO Loses $47,000; Helios Hit For Now, As Events Cancelled By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – In 2019, The Catskill Symphony Orchestra brought in record $47,000 with their annual Cabaret Concert, where guest conductors vie for contributions to conduct “Stars and Stripes Forever” at the show’s conclusion. But on Thursday, March 12, the CSO announced that its biggest fundraiser and the debut of new music director designee Maciej Zoltowski would be cancelled with no plans to…
LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP It’s Right To Close Schools; Dreams Park Must Be Next To the Editor: Schools are the absolute best places to transmit airborne diseases, almost as effective as cruise ships. In the average size high school, there are over 750,000 contacts a day at less than 10 feet that can potentially transmit an airborne disease such as the flu or COVID-19. And that does not include making out behind the stadium. The fact that children don’t get…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta March 19-20, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK CORONAVIRUS EDITION 1000+ PLUS CALLS TO BASSETT HOTLINE SCHOOLS: What About SATs, Sports, More? GOVERNMENT: 50% Of Workers Sent Home BUSINESS: Merchants Look For New Niche POLITICS: Governor Cancels Village Elections Baseball Hall Of Fame Closes ‘Indefinitely’ Hall of Fame Classic Weekend Canceled Local Food Banks Bracing For Onslaught Non-Profits Take Hit From Cancellations Distillery To Distribute Free ‘Cooper’s Clean’ EDITORIALS Rah, Team! Beat…
CORONAVIRUS EDITION Schools Closed, But What About SATs? What About Sports? By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Families across Otsego County are working to adjust to a new normal of “social distancing,” and for many that includes having their school-age children at home. Fears about the COVID-19 virus and its contagion have brought a massive and rapid change to how we live, and it isn’t yet clear what impacts that will have on routines students and families have lived…
LETTER from CINDY FALK, DAN CROWELL CGP Helps Guardsmen Save Historic Resources To the Editor: Earlier this month, the Cooperstown community welcomed a group of soldiers from the 403rd Civil Affairs battalion for their monthly training. The visit is part of an ongoing partnership between this unit and SUNY Oneonta’s Cooperstown Graduate Program. CGP students develop a program about the protection of cultural heritage (think of the Monuments Men during World War II), and the soldiers learn about museum collections…
LETTER from GERRY WELCH Let’s Focus On Most Vulnerable To the Editor: In the case of the Coronavirus, governments are opening a multi-front war by initiating massive quarantines that are inadvertently weakening the entire system. Suggestion: Governments focus attention on protecting the elderly and people with weakened immune systems. Do not, however, defeat the economic support system that feeds and supports us by not allowing life to continue as close to normal as possible. Other than the aforementioned resolve, treat…
CORONAVIRUS EDITION Local Governments Send 50% Of Staff Home By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Following Governor Cuomo’s directive, Otsego County’s government and Oneonta’s City Hall took steps Tuesday, March 17, to send half of their workforce home. Cooperstown Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch said, because of the size of the village’s workforce, only “One or two” employees will be sent home. “We’re required to do this,” said county board Chairman David Bliss, R-Cooperstown/Town of Middlefield. “We’re not…
