COVID SURFACES AT RED JUG PUB ONEONTA – If you were at the Red Jug Pub, 196 South Main St., between 6 p.m. and closing last Thursday, Jan. 21, you may have been exposed to COVID-19, the county Health Department announced a few minutes ago. Monitor yourself for symptoms; if you develop any, get tested and isolate yourself, the health department recommends. If you have any questions or concerns, call (607) 547-4231…
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MALATRAS VISITS DEWAR ARENA Chancellor: SUNY-O Ready For Our Students To Return By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – “Testing is the secret sauce to our success,” SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras said today at a noontime press conference as students begin returning to SUNY Oneonta in advance of the Feb. 1 start of the spring semester. This coming semester, all students will be required to take a weekly swab test, “and we are using the number one saliva…
Hospitalizations Dip To 5 Per Day, Cuomo Reports ALBANY – Governor Cuomo had a lot of good news on the anti-COVID fight in his daily update delivered overnight. beginning with: “New York State is ready, willing and able to administer 100,000 vaccine doses a week.” Next week’s allocation is about to arrive, although the governor didn’t get into anticipated doses. “I’m hopeful that the Biden Administration will take steps to increase production and shorten the anticipated timeline,” he said. In…
RECORD SET THIS THANKSGIVING Lord’s Table, St. Mary’s Serve Up 800 Meals In a collaboration of St. Mary’s Catholic Church and the Lord’s Table, 600 meals – turkey with all the trimmings – had already gone out the door for delivery by noon Thanksgiving Day, when curbside pickup began. Above, Volunteers Rosemary Collie and Keton Kling, both Oneontans, shuttles bags of food to the Lord’s Table. “We were averaging about 10 meals a minute.” said event overseer Mary Southern, seen…
Flood Past At SUNY, But Cases Dribble In COOPERSTOWN – While the flood of COVID cases at SUNY Oneonta is past, new cases still are dribbling in: two involving students in the past three days, county Public Health Director Heidi Bond reported this afternoon. Before that, only two cases had been reported since Thursday, Oct. 8. So far, SUNY Oneonta accounts for 744 of 927 that surfaced in Otsego County since the start of the pandemic threat. At Hartwick College,…
First Hospitalization In 5 Weeks Reported ONEONTA – The first Otsego County hospitalization for COVID since Aug. 12 was contained in today’s report from the county Health Department. Daily reports remained in single digits, at four: two SUNY Oneonta students, one Hartwick student and one resident. That brings COVID totals to:…
SUNY Oneonta Tally Now 651 With COVID ONEONTA – After reporting no new cases on Sunday, SUNY Oneonta last evening reported another 54 COVID-19 cases had appeared Monday. That brings SUNY’s tally to 651 students, and no employees have yet tested positive, the college reported. Also last evening, the county Health Department reported 31 cases from the SUNY campus, and said the discrepancy has to to do with timing and double-checking. It reports 685 SUNY cases, 34 more than the…
One More COVID Case Locally, One In Hospital COOPERSTOWN – Another new local COVID-19 case was reported today, bring this week’s total to five, and one of the current cases was hospitalized. That brings us in Otsego County to 117 total cases since March, of which 106 have recovered. The five active cases and six deaths — none in weeks — round out the total.…
4 COVID-19 Cases Surface This Week Still, No New Hospitalizations Reported COOPERSTOWN – Another new local case of COVID-19 was reported today, the fourth this week, bringing the total since March to 116. Of those, the county Health Department reported one on Tuesday and two on Wednesday. However, there are no current hospitalizations.…
COLLEGE STUDENTS RETURN 3 Of SUNY Stances ‘Disappoint’ Mayor By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – As college students began to return to COVID-19 Era instruction, Mayor Gary Herzig praised Hartwick College’s collaboration with the city, but said SUNY Oneonta has fallen short in three area of concern. “We have a community here that established new norms over the past five months,” said Herzig. “There’s been much self-sacrifice in keeping our numbers low. It’s important to communicate directly…