Local Agencies Partner to Form Innovation, Acceleration Center ONEONTAOtsego Now, the umbrella organization of the Otsego County Industrial Development Agency and the Otsego County Capital Resource Corporation, is set to launch the county’s first Innovation and Acceleration Center, the primary focus of which will be bringing a booming tech and manufacturing industry to the region. According to a recent press release, during the COVID-19 Pandemic, the IDA witnessed a devastating economic loss due to the lack of tourism. The hospitality…
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Coop/Dragon star, Ford, starts new coaching season as a Judge By GREG KLEIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Cooperstown and SUNY Oneonta track champion Lucy Ford took a step up the coaching ladder this school year. Ford, a former state champion in high school in the high jump and a former SUNYAC champion in the high jump and heptathlon, accepted a coaching position at Brandeis University, a Division III school in Waltham, Massachusetts in November. Although the job began in the…
Views Around New York COVID Impatience Can Be Dangerous From: The Daily Gazette Editorial Board, Saratoga The return to normalcy has started. But we’re not there yet. And if you think we’re beyond the bad old days of seeing big spikes in cases, look no further than Saratoga Springs High School, where about two dozen students contracted the virus recently. Officials believe the outbreak was largely the result of a teen party in Lake George the weekend of April 10.…
Rally Sunday To Protest Crimes Against Asians In response to the rising number of hate crimes directed at Asian Americans since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, local teens are planing a Solidarity Rally for Sunday, May 2, according to a media release. Otsego Solidarity Rally for Asian Americans will be held at 2 p.m. in front of the Otsego County Courthouse at 197 Main Street. May is Asian American and Pacific Island Heritage month, according to the release. Students…
For Sale One Cider Mill In Fly Creek Fly Creek’s favorite tourist attraction is seeking new owners. The Fly Creek Cider Mill, which dates back to 1856 and has been owned by the Michaels family for two generations, closed in January. Co-owner Bill Michaels said at the time that the coronavirus pandemic had hurt sales to the point where it was no longer cost effective to remain open. “We’ve survived floods. We’ve survived hurricanes, tropical storms, the 2002 recession, the…
Looking Past COVID, Glimmer Globe Plans Season Glimmer Globe Theatre announced it will return to staging live performances this summer at Fenimore Art Museum and The Farmers’ Museum. Glimmer Globe founders Michael Henrici and Danielle Henrici and Fenimore/Farmers’ Performing Arts Manager Mike Tamburrino announced Saturday, April 3, that the company will stage outdoor theater this summer, following a year’s hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic. “If all the world’s a stage, for heaven sakes, let’s get back on it,” Danielle…
ISSUE & DEBATE POINT: Give Federal Largesse To You, Me Editor’s Note: This is citizen Bill Waller’s recommendation in a March 29 letter to the Cooperstown Village Board on how to spend its expected share from the $1.9 trillion Biden Stimulus Plan. Dear Mayor Tillapaugh and the Board of Trustees; I read with interest statements relating to the benefits coming to Cooperstown from the recently enacted American Rescue Plan (ARP). According to press accounts, this could be nearly $350,000. In…
EDITORIAL Uncle Sam, Font of Plenty, Thanks To Printing Presses Ain’t Uncle Sam great! At least his ability to print money. After the year-long COVID pandemic, which cost Otsego County government $10.6 million, the federal government is sending it $11 million. That’s $400,000 in profit, from the greatest pandemic in 100 years. The beauty of it is county government, under the guidance of brainy Allen Ruffles, the county treasurer, had already taken steps to stem the bleeding. The Ruffles Plan,…
32 Million From $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Headed Our Way Biden Makes Us ‘Whole’, Ruffles Says By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com After a year of hemorrhaging losses, the Biden Stimulus Plan will make Otsego County government “whole,” according to County Treasurer Allen Ruffles. “That’s what I would think,” Ruffles said, after reviewing the news he was planning to deliver when the county Board of Representatives met Wednesday, April 7, for its monthly meeting. “It would make us whole.” In…
The Pandemic Year • First Death On March 23, 2020 All Fall To Egalitarian COVID-19 By MICHAEL FORSTER ROTHBART • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com On Monday morning, March 23, 2020, Otsego County confirmed its first case of coronavirus at a Fox clinic in Oneonta. Just three days later, the county recorded the first COVID-19 death. Now, one year later, there have been over 3,500 positive cases here; 54 county residents have died from COVID-19 and related complications. At least eight former…