2 SUNY-O Students Hospitalized SantaCon Binge May Start Campus Drinking Debate By LIBBY CUDMORE Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – SantaCon was a life-changing moment for one young man, a SUNY student, 21, found unconscious and bleeding on a sidewalk outside a Grove Street house on Saturday, Dec. 7. “He admitted that he drank too much and that he had a problem with alcohol,” said Oneonta Police Chief Doug Brenner. “Waking up with a tube in his throat was a real…
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NEW CHALLENGE: HIRING MANAGER Bliss Anticipates Kennedy Will Lead Recruitment, Too By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – If – as is anticipated – Dave Bliss is reelected chairman of the Otsego County Board of Representatives at the organizational meeting Thursday, Jan. 2, one of his first acts will be to name a committee to recruit the first county administrator. In an interview, he said he sees no reason why county Rep. Meg Kennedy, C-Hartwick, who led the…
Dermot Shea Graduated In 1990 SUNY Oneonta Alumnus New NYPD Commissioner ONEONTA – Dermot Shea, a 1990 SUNY Oneonta graduate, became the 44th Commissioner of the New York City Police department by Mayor Bill de Blasio in a public ceremony held at One Police Plaza on Dec. 2. He was appointed by the mayor in November. In April 2014, he was appointed to deputy commissioner of operations by then Commissioner William Bratton. Prior to this appointment, Shea had been a…
Police, Fire Rescue Woman From Frigid Mill Race Waters By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Oneonta police officers and firefighters rushed to the spillway between the Oneonta Creek and Neahwa Park last evening to rescue a woman who had gone into the water in an alleged suicide attempt, OPD Lt. Christopher Witzenburg reports. The woman, 34, was reported missing by family members who told police she had threatened self-harm. She allegedly told her family that she was…
IN MEMORIAM: Geri Asp Scheele, 86; Teacher, Artist, Loved Gardens, Nature ONEONTA — Geri Mae Asp Scheele, 86, passed away Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019, during convalescence at Fox Nursing Home &d Rehabilitation Center from a late October fall. She was a resident for the past 10 years at The Plains at Parish Homestead, and had lived for 45 years before on Irving Place. Gerri was born on Sept. 19, 1933, in Holdrege, Neb., to Esther Marilla Jenkins Asp and Everett…
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3 Hospitalized During SantaCon ONEONTA – Three students were hospitalized for over-consumption of alcohol during the annual SantaCon on Saturday, Dec. 7. “Two of them were sent to the ICU to be intubated, both with a blood alcohol content level over .5 percent,” said Police Chief Doug Brenner. “.4 is usually fatal.” The first, a 21-year-old male SUNY student, was transported to Bassett Hospital by police after he was found unconscious on the lawn of a house on Grove Street…
Gingerbread Jubilee, Tree Fest At Foothills Home SWEET Home! Just because it’s Christmas doesn’t mean it can’t be a little spooky! Here, Henry Ahearn, 4, is dazzled by a gingerbread rendition of a scene from “The Nightmare Before Christmas” by the Amish Barn Company at the Gingerbread Jubilee at Oneonta’s Foothills Performing Arts Center this afternoon. “We like to come and see all the work everyone has put into it. This year is particularly amazing,” said mom Kim. This year’s…
IN MEMORIAM: Ann Lewis Enright, 79; Nurse Played Key Roles At Fox, Bassett ONEONTA — Ann Lewis Enright, 79, Fox Hospital’s former director of nursing services and a nurse anesthetist at Bassett Hospital for 20 years, passed away on Dec. 1, 2019, with her loving husband, Dennis, by her side. Ann was born on June 26, 1940, in Bainbridge, the daughter of Randolph and Helen Foote Lewis. She graduated from Bainbridge High School in 1958. After graduating, Ann attended the…
