Public, Private Colleges Both Must Thrive It’s been reported that SUNY Oneonta’s volunteer quarantining was a SUNY-wide policy. If so, then we can expected similar COVID explosions at Cobleskill, Delhi, Binghamton and across the 64-campus system, unless the campuses can quickly apply SUNY Oneonta’s new regimen of 100-percent testing and a two-week hiatus. Throughout the pandemic threat, there have been calls for uniform policies and instruction from Washington D.C. (or the CDC in Atlanta), so a nation of 320 million…
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Fox Hospital President Now Bassett COO Too By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – As Fox Hospital president, Jeff Joyner, new COO of the Bassett Healthcare Network, brings people together. “Jeff knows that things get done when you work with other people,” said Laurie Zimniewicz, president of the Fox Hospital Board. “And he realized that Fox Hospital, standing alone, wasn’t going to be effective unless the network was effective.” Joyner, who succeeded longtime Fox Hospital President John Remillard, who…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta Sept. 3-4, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK FRONT PAGE ‘No More Classes’ Likely SUNY Outcome Fox Hospital President Now Bassett COO CCS Chief Crankshaw Returns To His Roots AllOTSEGO.life COVID Turns Downtown ‘A Ghost Town’ Reopened, ALDI Thrills Oneonta Fans EDITORIALS Let’s Stay Flexible, Collaborate, Decide Public, Private Colleges Both Must Thrive HISTORY COLUMNS BOUND VOLUMES: Sept. 3, 2020 HOMETOWN HISTORY: Sept. 4, 2020 COLUMNS WHELAN: What Happened To Freddie Gray?…
With COVID Outbreak, Oneonta ‘A Ghost Town’ By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – In 23 years with the Oneonta Police Department, Lt. Christopher J. Witzenburg had never seen a Saturday night like Aug. 29. “It’s never been this quiet,” he said. “It’s a real departure from last weekend, where we just had a ton of house parties. It’s like a switch flipped.” With more than 200 students sickened with COVID-19 following “several large parties” last weekend, SUNY Oneonta…
Crankshaw Returns To His Roots By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – When he was in first grade in the Greater Johnstown School District, young Bill Crankshaw counted to 100, and Mrs. Ruby Walter, his teacher, celebrated by singing “How Much Is That Doggy in the Window.” In second grade, Mrs. Greco made sure his samples of cursive writing were submitted every time there was a contest. His penmanship usually won. In third grade, Mrs. Ramsay enrolled him…
Let’s Stay Flexible, Collaborate, Decide To Move Forward 20-20 hindsight is easy but… Aug. 21-23 was critical. That was the first weekend back for SUNY Oneonta’s 6,500 students. For Hartwick College 1,200; but, as it turns out, that was less impactful. For Oneonta Mayor Gary Herzig and Common Council, the focus had been on bars and gatherings on Main Street, but that turned out to be under control. Yes, there were students there, but the heightened public concern, and tavern…
CLICK TO HEAR SUNY PRESIDENT ‘Super Spreader’ Caused Outbreak, Morris Tells Reps DOH’s Bond: ‘It Spread Like Wildfire’; SUNY Cases May Hit 450, Lapin Says By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The “super spreader” did it. There have been large parties, even larger, at other SUNY campuses, campus President Barbara Jean Morris told the county Board of Representatives this morning. The difference here was the one individual – a “Typhoid Mary” of COVID-19, as county Rep. Danny…
44 More Cases Raise SUNY Total To 289 ONEONTA – Forty-four additional students tested positive overnight, according to test results received by SUNY Oneonta this morning. The college will share another update later today. That increased the total number of cases in the campus community to 289. A total of 125 students are in isolation, and 54 are in quarantine on campus, the college reported.…
SUNY Oneonta RAs Threaten Strike Over Fair Pay Amid COVID ONEONTA – Asking for minimum wage, an increase in board compensation and payment when forced to isolate, Resident Assistants at SUNY Oneonta have posted a series of demands on the social media site Instagram. “We call on SUNY Oneonta’s president , Dr. Barbara Jean Morris, who made $275,000 in 2019, to guarantee fair payment for RAs that work during the COVID-19 pandemic,” the group wrote in a post that went…
IN MEMORIAM Henry Brevoort Cannon III, 81; Deep Family Ties To Cherry Valley CHERRY VALLEY – Henry Brevoort Cannon III died on March 21, 2020, at a Nashville, Tenn., hospital of delayed complications from a heart-valve replacement surgery on Jan. 30. A funeral service at Grace Episcopal Church in Cherry Valley was envisioned for 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020, followed immediately by interment of ashes at the Cherry Valley Cemetery, in conjunction with an annual Labor Day family reunion…