Drought conditions have affected the water supply throughout the county and therefore have increased the risk of wildfires. This State of Emergency will remain in effect for 30 days or until rescinded by a subsequent order, according to officials.…
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Editorial Water Worries With the exception of the boisterous and breezy thunderstorm that ran through here last Friday, Otsego County has had little to no rain for the last several weeks, a relatively new problem for us here in what has long been touted as one of the wettest counties in the state. Though the storm was occasionally scary—downing trees, exuding earsplitting thunder and bursting with lightning—it was welcome, as our bright lime spring fields and meadows were on the…
Tree Inspection Complete in Cooperstown The Village of Cooperstown does a yearly assessment of all of the trees in the Village. “The assessment went well this year. We were fortunate to have five members of the Tree Committee able to attend. We did it with 5 sets of eyes which is fantastic,” Cindy Falk, Deputy Mayor and Chair of the Streets Committee. “We have a number of village trees where it’s clear that parts of them have either already dropped…
Editorial Our Gathering Storm Until this past week, we were just settling into a summer of weather that seemed almost perfectly “Goldilocks” — not too cold, not too hot. It reminded us of the summers of old, when there would be one or two days in early July that were considered hot — somewhere between 85 and 90 degrees. No one had air conditioning and very few had a swimming pool. But last week the heat was intense and somewhat…