GUEST COLUMN from GRACE KULL Free For 98 Years, Now In Confinement This month marks the first anniversary of my move to Woodside Hall, One Main St., Cooperstown. Half of that time has been spent in lockdown due to the coronavirus. And oh my, has my life changed! In my 98 years, I have never been restricted in any way as to where I can go. Now the extent of my travelling is a few blocks to Bassett Hospital for…
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First SUNY-O Employee Tests Positive For COVID ONEONTA – One month after a COVID-19 outbreak infected more than 700 students, the first SUNY Oneonta employee has tested positive, Kim MacLeod, Associate Director of Communications, announced this evening. According to MacLeod, the affected employee was last on campus yesterday and is now isolating at home. Per its Fall 2020 Re-start Plan protocol, the college has performed enhanced cleaning in the affected employee’s workspace and all communal spaces the employee recently occupied.…
Bond: Wedding Party Latest COVID Cluster COOPERSTOWN – Seven members of a wedding party came down with COVID-19 following the weekend event in Oneida County, according to Heidi Bond, public health director, Otsego County Department of Health. According to Bond, there were only 45 people at the wedding, under the state’s maximum cap of 50 people, and precautions were put in place. “This shows that in the wedding setting, sometimes people get closer either when they’re eating or celebrating, and…
LIFE IN TIME OF COVID-19 Medical Needs, Politics Guide President As He Battles Case Of COVID By RICHARD STERNBERG • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com I have been trying to keep up with the fire hose of information that is being produced about President Trump’s case of COVID-19. On top of that, consider the NFL’s “crisis” with the Tennessee Titans Open – how dare anyone refer to that as a crisis? – and the latest press conference from Governor Cuomo, which was…
CCS DEFIES COVID THREAT Cooperstown Pupils Go Back To Classes Tammy Dingman, LTA, above, escorts Izabella Chase into Cooperstown Elementary School this morning, where a rotation system — half the students Mondays and Wednesdays, and other half Tuesdays and Thursdays — is in place to avoid crowding as the Walnut Street facility and the high school on Linden Avenue reopened for the 2020-21 school year. At left, Director of Facilities Matt Murphy kept the traffic flowing. Inset, Senior Officer Jim…
3 At Bassett Found COVID-19 Positive By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Three of the latest five cases of COVID-19 reported were Bassett Hospital employees, according to Heidi Bond, county public health director. “We don’t know where (two) employees picked it up, but they gave it to a family member, who also works at Bassett,” she said. The three cases are part of a five-day spike that saw an additional 18 cases throughout the county, nine at…
WEEKLY TALLY • 9/23-9/30 SUNY Still Source Of New C-19 Cases ONEONTA – New COVID-19 cases over the past week have continued to emanate mostly from SUNY Oneonta, according to a tally of reports over the past week. Between Sept. 24 and today, the county Department of Health has reported 23 new cases countywide, and SUNY Oneonta has reported 15 cases. An additional two cases surfaced at Hartwick College. While the three entities’ reports are not completely in sync, this…
Nursing Homes Struggle To Accommodate Visitors Cost Of Tests Among Hurdles To Contact By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – For months after Governor Cuomo’s March 13 executive order on COVID-19, many families in Otsego County, as around the state, were unable to visit their loved ones in nursing homes, except perhaps through a window. “Our first obligation is to keep our residents healthy,” said Levi Lazar, director at the Cooperstown Center, operated by the Centers Health Care,…
Three Bassett Employees Test Positive For COVID-19 COOPERSTOWN – Three of the five cases of COVID-19 reported in county residents were employees at Bassett Hospital, according to Heidi Bond, public health director, Otsego County Department of Health. “We don’t know where the employee picked it up, but they gave it to a family member, who also works at Bassett,” she said.…
15 Cases of COVID Spike Over Weekend COOPERSTOWN – Nine SUNY Oneonta students, one Hartwick College student and five county residents have tested positive for COVID in the past four days, according to a press release from Heidi Bond, public health director, Otsego County Department of Health. Of the nine SUNY students, she said, five of those are new infections, with the other four students having already recovered, but had not been reported as being positive to the health department…