Perfect Game League Pulls Plug Damaschke Field Season Cancelled ONEONTA – The Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League, which includes the Oneonta Outlaws, has cancelled its 2020 season, PGCBL President Robert Julian announced today. “We recognize this is a great disappointment to our collegiate players, to our fans, our host communities, and the dedicated staff and owners who have spent so much of their lives making the league a vibrant part of collegiate baseball and the American baseball fabric,” said Julian. …
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Bassett, Fox Allowed To Do Elective Surgery COOPERSTOWN – Bassett Medical Center and Fox Hospital in Oneonta have been given the go-ahead to resume elective surgeries (outpatient) and non-urgent outpatient procedures, it was confirmed today. A news conference is planned at 10:30 a.m. next Tuesday, May 12, to outline plans for resumption of those services. Elective surgeries were put on hold after Governor Cuomo’s emergency declaration Friday, March 13, as Bassett and Fox reorganized to focus on the anticipated challenges…
Editorial For Good Of All, Hope Marty Patton Right It may turn out Marty Patton made the right call, delaying opening of his Cooperstown All Star Village, the youth baseball tournament camp in West Oneonta, in hopes of salvaging at least some of the 2020 season. Things are happening so quickly. With this week’s Glimmerglass Fest cancellation, pretty much all of the major summer activities have been cancelled or delayed – mostly notably, of course, Derek Jeter’s July 26 Induction…
Editorial COVID-19 War Not Over, But Let’s Take Victory Lap Let’s take a victory lap. As of Monday, May 4, the coronavirus threat in Otsego County had been reduced to one case. One case in the whole county. It’s a battle won, not the war. Testing for the coronavirus identified 62 positive infections once symptoms appeared, through the Bassett Hospital hotline (547-5555) and other means. In all likelihood, though, there is still coronavirus in our neighborhoods. Testing for antigens, which…
Oneonta Merchant Tells Story Of Local Business By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special To AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Though she calls it “Small Talk With Jill,” it could become anything but little. “I know a lot of incredible businesses, and I asked myself, ‘What can I do to help them?’” said Jill Morgan-Meek, owner of Transitions Consignment Boutique, 6 Dietz St. Morgan-Meek, who took over the store from Cindy Staffin in 2014, has launched “Small Talk With Jill,” a weekly video series…
Guest Column All Had ‘Adverse Childhood Experiences’ Research on the impact of what are known as “Adverse Childhood Experiences,” described in more than 70 studies over more than two decades, shows the potential long-term health and mental health consequences of unusually stressful childhood experiences. These contribute to the risk of developing diabetes, chronic obstructive lung disease, heart disease, obesity, liver disease, sexual victimization, depression, substance abuse, and a host of other issues. The impact of corrosive childhood stress can be…
1st Community Foundation Grant Goes To Helios Care ONEONTA – Just two weeks after going public, the Community Foundation for Otsego County has awarded its first grant: $5,000 to Helios Care for PPE – personal protective equipment. The money came from the foundation’s newly established COVID-19 Relief & Recovery Fund. “This award to Helios Care captures the goal of the fund to support first-line health care providers by supplying them with (PPE) they need to safely conduct home visits,” said…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta May 7-May 8, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK CORONAVIRUS UPDATE Only One COVID Case Left Locally Glimmerglass Festival Out All Star Village Holds On In COVID Era, Moms Salute CCS Grads Drive-In Graduation Out, But OHS Seeks Novelty 1st Community Foundation Grant To Helios AllOTSEGO.COVID-19 To Beat Blahs, Victory Gardens Return Oneonta Merchant Tells Story Of Local Business Libby’s List Of Virtual Things To Do EDITORIALS War Not Over, But Let’s…
All Star Village Holds On By JIM KEVLIN • Special To AllOTSEGO.com WEST ONEONTA – Cooperstown Dreams Park in Hartwick Seminary. Strike out. Derek Jeter’s prospective Hall of Fame Induction July 26 in Cooperstown. Strike out. Even the Baseball Hall of Fame is waiting in the dugout for now. For now, that leaves one Otsego County baseball institution in the game this summer: Cooperstown All Star Village on Route 205 here. “We want to play baseball,” is how Marty Patton,…
Letter From P. JAY FLEISHER No Future For Plastics To the Editor: Every few weeks I wait with wonder, “what flavor cool-aid is he drinking now?” And, sure enough, Mike Zagata brought me up to date. Last week’s column told me just how far out of touch he is on virtually all matters related to science. His latest entry (“Better Living Through Plastics”) touts the virtues of plastic and the petroleum industry that provides it, and wouldn’t you know this…
