As COVID-19 Cases Rise; County Warns, Stay Home By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – With 46 cases of COVID-19 already identified in November, Heidi Bond, Otsego County Public Health director, has a warning for residents: If you have symptoms, stay home. “We’re getting lax in thinking that COVID is a possibility,” she said. “You get people thinking it’s the same runny nose they get every fall, and three days later, you lose your sense of taste and…
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COVID-19 Cases Dip; Hartwick Uptick Flattens By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www. AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Zero cases of COVID-19 were reported in Otsego County Monday, Nov. 2. Three cases reported Tuesday, Nov. 3. The spikes at Hartwick College and in Cooperstown following a 75-person wedding have, for now, quieted down. “It’s slowed down considerably,” said Heidi Bond, Otsego County public health director. Tuesday, Hartwick College and SUNY Oneonta both reported one case each. The other two cases were in…
COVID Cluster Traced To Oneonta Group Home ONEONTA – 10 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in a residential group home in Oneonta, according to a press release by Heidi Bond, Otsego County public health director. Six residents and four staff members tested positive today, and contact tracers are still working to determine how the cluster started.…
Otsego County Tops 1K COVID Cases Since Spring COOPERSTOWN – With 12 Hartwick College students testing positive for COVID-19 today, the county has reported 1,011 cases of the virus since the pandemic started this spring, according to Heidi Bond, Otsego County public health director. “We are busier now than we were in April,” she said. “We have more cases now. People are getting lax with social distancing, they’re gathering with friends and family and not wearing masks.”…
Facing COVID-19 Cluster, Hartwick Confines Students By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – With 12 cases at Hartwick College since Friday, Oct. 23, President Margaret L. Drugovich is asking students to stay in Oneonta for the next 27 days. “And if you choose to travel to a red or orange zone, you will not be allowed to return to campus for the remainder of the fall semester,” she said in a video posted on the college website, www.hartwick.edu.…
75-Guest Wedding Yields 19 COVID Cases By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – If you were at that 75-guest wedding in the Town of Otsego, you better get tested for COVID-19. According to Heidi Bond, Otsego County Public Health director, 19 people have tested positive for the virus following a wedding at a local home. “Our challenge with this wedding is that they have not been the best at cooperating,” said Bond. “We have not yet received the…
8th County Resident Dies After COVID Fight COOPERSTOWN – Otsego County has reported its eighth COVID-19 fatality, a man who had been hospitalized for more than two weeks with the virus, according to Heidi Bond, Otsego County Public Health director. “We know people over 60 are at most risk for severe illness,” Bond said in her press release. “We need to do all we can to protect our seniors.”…
COVID-19 Spike Traced To Wedding, Red’s Ale House 10 Cases At Hartwick; 18 From Nuptials By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – A weekend trip to Red’s Ale House. A 75-guest wedding in Cooperstown. These are the source of the two major outbreaks in the county, with 10 students testing positive at Hartwick College and 18 positives linked to the wedding, including three people living in a group home and a staff member at Cooperstown Elementary School.…
FARMER WHO ORGANIZED FEST UNDER ARREST As 1,500 Gathered On Hill, Knarich Ignored Warnings, Sheriff Alleges By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com NEW LISBON – The organizer of what’s been described as a pro-marijuana-legalization festival that drew as many as 1,500 people to a rural hilltop over the weekend was arrested this morning. George A. Knarich, 55, is charged with violating Governor Cuomo’s executive orders against COVID-Era mass gatherings on land, it is further alleged, that had been seized…
Health Department Issues Cease, Desist To Mount Vision Fest MOUNT VISION – The Otsego County Health Department is warning the public to stay away from the NY Harvest & Freedom Fair/Political Rally at 397 County Highway 15, just west of here, after it was declared a “nonessential gathering” and ordered not to take place. According to a press release from Public Health Director Heidi Bond, the county Health Department became aware of the event and issued a cease and desist…