Single COVID Case At Hartwick College ONEONTA – On Sunday, Hartwick College determined that a student has tested positive for COVID-19, the first confirmed case on the Hartwick campus. The student is isolating at home, the college reported today. The county Department of Health is responsible for contact tracing and will notify individuals with whom she/he may have had contact.…
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Virus SWAT Team Heads To SUNY-O As COVID Explodes Chancellor Hurries To Campus; Classes Cancelled For 2 Weeks By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras said Governor Cuomo is deploying a COVID-19 testing SWAT team to quell the worst outbreak of the disease in the 64-campus system. Three sites will be set up by Wednesday, where all students will be required to get tested, and members of the community at large can get tested for…
BULLETIN WITH 105 CASES, SUNY CLOSING FOR TWO WEEKS ONEONTA – As the COVID-19 cases climbed from two on Tuesday to 105 today, SUNY Oneonta has announced that they will close for two weeks, according to state reports. SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras moved his scheduled visit up a day, and is slated to give a press conference shortly. Presently, he is conferring in a conference room at the Netzer Administration Building with Barbara Jean Morris, SUNY Oneonta president, Mayor Gary…
Bond: ‘Now Is Not The Time To Socialize.’ 29 New COVID Cases At SUNY; 2 More Infected in Community ONEONTA – 29 more SUNY Oneonta students have reported positive COVID tests on Saturday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 56 at the college alone, according to Heidi Bond, public health director, Otsego County Department of Health. Additionally, a sixth teen from the reported gathering last weekend has tested positive, and another new case popped up, with no connection…
LISTEN TO JIM MALATRAS ON WAMC ONEONTA OUTBREAK WORST IN STATE SUNY CHANCELLOR DUE HERE MONDAY Plans To Meet With Herzig, Morris On ‘How Things Have Been Going’ By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – SUNY’s new chancellor, Jim Malatras, will be in Oneonta Monday, meeting with the mayor and the local college president to ensure everything is being done to stem the worst outbreak of COVID-19 – 29 cases – among the system’s 64 institutions. “We’re one…
MANY GETMANS IN LAW, MEDICINE Local Roots Run Deep For New County Judge By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Getmans and Otsego County go back a long way, in law and medicine, too. “In the Laurens cemetery, there are a lot of Getmans,” said Michael F. Getman, who will be sworn in Jan. 1, 2021, as the newest Otsego County judge. Norman Getman, a cousin of Damon Getman, the incoming judge’s grandfather, was county coroner during the…
COVID BREAKS OUT AT SUNY ONEONTA City Police Bust Party, Noise Violation Issued By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Walking downtown at 1 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 23, Mayor Gary Herzig saw exactly what he’d hoped he wouldn’t see. “There were significant numbers of young people congregating in groups and not wearing masks,” he said. “I had high expectations, and I am very disappointed we did not achieve them.” And on Tuesday, Aug. 25, SUNY Oneonta announced…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Aug. 27-28, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE COVID-19 Breaks Out At SUNY Oneonta Feared Quagga Mussel Invades Otsego Lake New Judge Getman’s Local Roots Run Deep Callahan’s Murder Conviction Overturned Cooperstown Hosts ‘Say Their Name’ Exhibit Clark Gym To Reopen Thursday, Aug. 27 AllOTSEGO.life CAN IT! New Packaging Helps Microbreweries Challenged, ‘Operation Warm’ Plans To Expand COLUMNS BERKSON: The Perils Of Puffball Hunting? SORENSEN: Reject 2nd Amendment Sanctuary STERNBERG:…
15 New COVID Cases Arise, 14 At SUNY-O ONEONTA – 14 new cases of COVID-19 had been confirmed at SUNY Oneonta, according to Heidi Bond, director, Otsego County Health Department. According to Heidi Bond, public health director, Otsego County Department of Health, all of the 14 cases are off-campus.…
IN MEMORIAM: Lorraine Dono, 79; Lived 9 Years Past Cancer Prognosis ONEONTA – Lorraine Dono passed away peacefully on the morning of Aug. 21, 2020. Let it not be said that she lost her battle with cancer, but rather with love and tenacity, she fought past her 2011 prognosis of only three to six months to live, to witness the birth of her fifth grandchild and continued to live life another nine years. When her beloved husband, Nicholas, was diagnosed…
