CLICK HERE FOR LIST OF ALLOCATIONS BIDEN ALLOCATES $23 MILLION IN AID TO OTSEGO COUNTY President Signs Bill Today; All Municipalities To Benefit By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Otsego County’s government and its municipalities will share $23,336,987 through the federal $1.9 trillion aid bill President Biden signed this afternoon, County Treasurer Allen Ruffles confirmed a new minutes ago. County government itself will receive $11,628,479 of the total. The City of Oneonta tops the list of municipalities,…
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT ‘Zoom Towns’ Beckon, Including Hudson Valley A year ago, just before the start of pandemic lockdowns, some 10% or less of the U.S. labor force worked remotely full-time. Within a month, according to Gallup and other surveys, around half of American workers were at distant desktops. Today, most of them still are. And surveys of employers and employees alike suggest a fundamental shift. While forecasts differ, as much as a quarter of the 160-million-strong U.S. labor force…
Campus Cases Up C-19 Rates Still Outstrip Rest Of County By MICHAEL FORSTER ROTHBART • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COVID-19 cases have continued to rise among students at Hartwick and SUNY Oneonta, despite best efforts by both colleges, even while the rate of infection has declined elsewhere in Otsego County. The campuses have been the source of one third of all cases in the county in 2021, and rose to 47 percent of cases in one 10-day period, the county Health…
LETTER from RICHARD STERNBERG Neighbors Helping Neighbors Get Shots This past weekend Bassett performed an amazing feat of vaccinating a large group of people, more than 1,100 over two days. The confirmation of vaccine availability only came though on Wednesday, March 3, leaving but two full days to prepare. Nevertheless, I visited on Sunday and it had the appearance of a military operation (which in a sense it was). The Bassett community, from Dr. Tommy Ibrahim on down should be…
CLICK FOR DAILY UPDATES To Homebound: County Will Give You Shot At Home COOPERSTOWN – The county Health Department announced today it is able to vaccinate people who are homebound and unable to get out of the house and travel to a vaccination clinic. If you or someone you know is homebound and physically unable to leave the home to be vaccinated, please email contact information to covidvaccine@otsegocounty.com.…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for TUESDAY, MARCH 9 Hall Marks Women’s History Month VOICES OF THE GAME – 2 p.m. Celebrate Women’s History month. Join Jenny Dalton on Zoom to discuss her baseball career, and her experience in the Colorado Silver Bullets as well as her part in the 2010 USA Women’s Baseball team in Venezuela when they brought home the Bronze medal. Free, registration required. Presented by Baseball Hall of Fame. 607-547-7200 or visit baseballhall.org/events/virtual-curator-spotlight-starting-nine-al-west?date=0…
At Woodside Hall, Not One COVID Case In Year The Rules Are Clear, Says Proprietor, But They Must Be Enforced Every Day By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ‘When I was a child, a classmate was one of the last Americans to have polio,” said Woodside Hall proprietor Stephen Cadwalader. “What if COVID-19 is like polio? That’s what went through my mind.” So here we are, a year since the coronavirus arrived – Governor Cuomo reported Tuesday was the…
LETTER from CHARLES HYMAN It Looks Like It’s Only Going To Get Better It’s time for hope. The fact that we now have two incredibly effective COVID vaccines approved by the FDA (with more on the way) is amazing and heartening to me. Those responsible for that speedy development with such fantastic efficacy deserve high praise, and our thanks. Let’s talk about what comes next. • Understanding the Shot The remarkable speed of development of these COVID vaccines makes some…
Baseball Camps Wait For Albany Guidance Quarantine Rules Also Turn Off Some Families By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Health and wealth. Those are the two concepts people in government and the tourist industry are using in discussing the news that the two youth-baseball camps, Dreams Park in Hartwick Seminary and All Star Village in West Oneonta, are seeking permission to open someway, somehow, in the 2021 season. “If they can conform to the state’s requirements and…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Mar. 4, 2021 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE Baseball Camps Wait For Albany Guidance Glimmerglass Plans 4 Shows On Lawn Life’s Goal Accomplished Pidgeon Retires Campaigns Off To Fast Start In ’21 New CCS Superintendent Arrives AllOTSEGO.life From Oneonta To Fame At Woodside Hall, Not One COVID Case In Year THE DOG CHARMER EDITORIAL Vaccines Are Here. Keep Trying. You’ll Get Your Shots For The Love Of Boating FOOD FOR…